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Life is tough…especially for Gen Z workers who were courted from childhood to expect and receive a participation trophy, rather than be rewarded for accomplishing something worthwhile.
Not Gen Z or Millennials. Gen Z is just the new generation to pick on and stereotype. They didn’t ask for participation trophys, they were given. By who? Probably your generation.
Actually, my generation (baby-boomers) wasn’t too keen on participation trophies. It was the next generation that decided everybody should get a trophy just for showing up. Yours is a valid point, however.
What’s not to trust from reporting by Bloomberg News? Like Rahm Emanuel, they “never let a good crisis go to waste.” Maybe this is just Microsoft employees that were surveyed. I sincerely hope we don’t get a really hard crisis … like WWII. Our culture has had things so easy for so long it takes very little to cause great “perceived hardship”. If Starbucks went away there would be people in counseling for the rest of their lives. Most everyone I know that is working feels very fortunate to have a job right now. Of course they are free to look for a better position/career, just as we always have been in this country. That’s the American way. I certainly feel bad for people that have lost loved ones. A job can be replaced with an improved outcome. Loved ones cannot. This is just another “garbage non-story” from a big data monopoly that has acheived great success by developing a product many believe they cannot live without. Shades of John D. Rockefeller. Where is Theodore Roosevelt and the Sherman Antitrust Act when you need them?
It wasn’t just Microsoft employees, but they did use data from the Microsoft application Teams used on their software and used the company as an example of employees going back if they want to. Maybe people weren’t meant to be stuck at home all the time, working all the time which is funny because we weren’t made to stuck in cubicles 8 hours a day either. While having a job is better than not for our mental health we can also sympathize with the new challenges of working from home for a lot of people. I think a reduced work day is the solution but we can only dream.
“Most everyone I know that is working feels very fortunate to have a job right now” <— and this is why people are miserable – because they believe they should be happy because someone has let them keep their job. They believe other companies are not hiring for their position and level of experience. And, even if they were, they are so busy trying to do "more with less" that they don't have time to really look for another job at the risk of losing their current position.
Upper management not knowing what front line workers are doing is nothing new. There's an entire television series about it.
“Most everyone I know that is working feels very fortunate to have a job right now” <— and this is why people are miserable – because they believe they should be happy because someone has let them keep their job. They believe other companies are not hiring for their position and level of experience. And, even if they were, they are so busy trying to do "more with less" that they don't have time to really look for another job at the risk of losing their current position.
Upper management not knowing what front line workers are doing is nothing new. There's an entire television series about it.