CEO finds that young workers repeat what they have been told

https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/management/five-tips-to-manage-your-gen-z-workers-20240213-p5f4ij

The late middle aged female chief people officer of supermarkets operator Coles Group says that Gen Z want:

• to say what they think
• to work for a company that has a defined purpose and is inclusive
• to feel connected
• to be able to bring their “authentic selves” to work
• to learn new skills
• to feel they are being listened to
• flexibility

Another highly competent female was quoted as saying:

• an an environment-related purpose is important
• When Gen Z goes to interviews, they ask what the company’s purpose is. What are you doing for the community? What’s your progress on diversity and inclusion?

Let’s be clear, this is not about Gen Z in general. This is about a select group of graduate Gen Zs that big companies compete for. It’s not about the coles night shelf stacker or checkout chick.

Everyone young always wanted all the things listed in the first set of dot points. In the past, they learned that nobody cared much about their needs and they learned to serve. Now, with over 20 years in compromised education systems, they have been given all the flexibilty, patience and support, and so on, that they could have wanted. A small group of them are highly valuable. This is partly because the recruitment systems are heavily skewed toward universities, and the dictates of meritocracy require that “the best” person be chosen for the job, which effectively means that only a sliver of the top students can get those jobs. Hence, they are dictating terms.

The remaining dot points are mostly Gen Z women believing what they have been told about what is currently important (DEI) and echoing it back to the same class of elite women who taught it to them in the first place. Nearly all of those elite women got their position through the education system. More and more of them gain position through DEI quotas. DEI benefits women of all ages. It is no wonder they think that’s where it’s at, and that that is what young people (ie women) want. They become infatuated with the sense of belonging, purpose and power that comes with being a ladder climber.

A not insignifiant number of Gen Z males have been culturally castrated without even realising it. They try to believe this stuff too but eventually they find that it doesn’t work for them. A lot of healthy young people end up childless as a result….this is not new. My generation attached enormous importance to “friends”…hence the TV show…hence the Spice Girls…only to find that “friendship” is a poor substitute for family. What’s new is that competent young me, particularly white ones, are being shut out by DEI.

Somebody here shared this…I’ll share it again here: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1750849189834022932

“Diversity and inclusion” is not new. It is the new word for the old internationalism of the commmunists. As for environmentalism, Karl Marx himself complained about industry despoiling the environment. Universities, particularly in humanities subjects and related, were and are targeted by the communists, an effort that began in the 1920s. It was eventually called out by McCarthy and others but they were only partially successful in getting rid of it. Cells of communism remained, and they have festered and grown ever since as universities have taken the place of the church and communist articles of faith have become the new catechism.