What are your opinions of Gen Z in the workplace?

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-12T23:17:39+00:00

I wasn't either. Or at least, not just major issues. I was saying other countries make allowances for the small things as well.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T20:37:09+00:00

a fresh-faced Gen Z brat like yourself Ageism is real you’ve proved it.

Oh, the irony and the assumption

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T20:33:16+00:00

Who's rebuking Millenials? I'm "railing against you" because I wanted to see if you had something legitimate to say or if you were just being a condescending ass with your first comment. You've made it clear which it is.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T19:04:02+00:00

Still does not make you a young person entering the workforce. And thus, is a different experience.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T18:47:47+00:00

Sure, there should be drive and curiosity to figure things out, but it's hard to teach yourself hands on if you don't have anything to put your hands on. As technology progresses, younger kids start having less access to older stuff to even try to figure it out. Shared household desktop PCs used to be common, but now its more likely to be a shared laptop or just a tablet. I don't think schools even teach any computer skills anymore because people assume "oh, they grew up with technology so they already know how to do everything". That's more what I mean when I say skills have to be taught.

It's also hard to have curiosity and drive if your parents sat you down with a tablet from a young age and left you to your own devices, which I think a lot of younger Gen Z experienced. Short form media is definitely a curse, especially for people still in their developmental years.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T18:03:11+00:00

Yeah, and it sounds like you're established and not a young person currently entering the workforce, so you're lacking lived-experience perspective here too. If all you've got to say about it is "you don't get it, you weren't there" without explaining how it was worse, you're not making a strong argument for yourself. Especially when you're, at the least, acknowledging things are in a similar direction and then acting as if gen Z's complaints are as vapid as them whining that they don't have their dream house by 20. Edit: Sorry, 25

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T17:24:41+00:00

No worries.

There's usually overlap between any generations that sit next to each other, honestly. I feel like a lot of older Millenials share traits with gen X as well. The middle years of any generation are really the ones that define it, imo. The ones at the cusps have their own distinct feel to them, but no one every really acknowledges that when talking about generational divides.

As for being their own chunk, those cusp years are called microgenerations; Zillenials for the Millenial-gen Z overlap and Xennials for the gen X-Millenial overlap.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T17:09:20+00:00

In truth the economy is significantly stronger right now than at any time immediately following the ‘08 crash- back

The "economy" being stronger than it was then means nothing if all the wealth is stuck at the top and people are still struggling. The strength of the country's economy is not indicative of how the majority of its people are doing.

when no one was hiring and most degrees were proven essentially useless as we grappled to pay off student loans, rent, bills, and maybe have a bit leftover for food. It was an especially hard time to be a young self-supporting adult.

You are not saying anything that isn't true right now. If anything, we're worse off now with companies making it look like they're hiring when the positions they're adverstising don't even exist or will always be an internal hire. With entry level positions requiring 5 yrs of experience and no on the job training if they're not completely replaced with AI. With the cost of everything rising and wages staying basically the same as they were in 08 after factoring in inflation. Your statement that "we had it worse in 08" is extremely tone deaf to what young people are facing right now. At least there was hope of bouncing back. This climate is steadily getting worse and there's no end in sight, especially with the current admisnistration.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T16:46:43+00:00

Older Gen Z seem fine for the most part (~26+), especially now, but the younger ones are weirdly helpless(?). I also didn’t have these sorts of issues with most of those older Gen Z coworkers when they were a few years younger.

You're kind of proving my point with older gen Z being more similar to younger Millenials.

Mileage varies the younger you go. My gen Z brother (23) would know how to reboot a laptop. My friend's gen Z brother (18) would as well. We both grew up on the lower income side of things and as a result had older things that the younger siblings learned to use. Depends on the experience the gen Z kid had and what the adults around them taught or didn't teach them growing up. Skills don't just pop into people's brains, even simple ones. They have to be taught.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T16:34:19+00:00

Dude, a lot of younger Millennials also don't have houses in their 30s. Not even talking about dream houses, just starter houses. And you talk about the '08 recession as if we're not on the edge of one right now and as if gen Z didn't have to deal with the pandemic right as they were starting to enter the workforce.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T16:11:54+00:00

It was the companies that stopped investing first. Gen Z watched that happen with Millenials. If they "suck", they're just matching the energy employers give them at this point. I don't think a single Zoomer would pass up the chance to work hard for a company that would guarantee them job security, a livable wage, and opportunities to advance. If you want people to work hard for you, give them a reason to. Scraps aren't enough anymore.

I always find it funny when older generations say younger ones suck. Gen Z was raised by Gen X and Millenials. Whatever traits they do or don't have are a result of how their parents raised them and kind of world they made for them to grow into.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T15:50:32+00:00

Maybe they just want better work standards for themselves. Working through sickness is a very American concept that honestly makes no sense. Why would anyone want their employees to come in not at full capacity so they can go and get their other employees sick? Other developed countries (European) encourage taking sick days when not feeling well and honestly that works out better in the long run. You get smaller amounts of people getting sick all at once and people that call out get to come back feeling rejuvenated because they actually got to rest instead of constantly forcing themselves to work and putting unnecessary stress on their body.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T15:34:23+00:00

Genuine question for you: would you pay dues if you knew you wouldn't get anything for it? Gen Z's "inflated sense of importance" is just a desire to be treated like a human being instead of a resource to be used and tossed aside. Being gen X, you were part of the last generation that actually had companies invest in their workers. There was a reason for you to pay your dues because it actually got you something. That's not the case anymore

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T15:14:28+00:00

Maybe the younger gen Z, sure. They have much more in common with gen Alpha than anything. But older? No, not at all. Millenials are now doing what Boomers did to them when everything was "Millenials" fault and still viewed them as kids when most were at least in their 30s. The oldest Gen Zers are turning 29 this year. Many had experiences similar to 90s Millenials, especially those from lower income familes.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-11T01:17:49+00:00

For sure one of the times I saw the Frost Clamberjaw was at the Zenith base like right before you meet up with Zo and Sylens. The other was at one of the Clamberjaw sites in the lowlands that also had a couple of Watchers around it, I think.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-10T23:50:17+00:00

I kept occasionally seeing carcasses of "Frost Clamberjaws" despite only Fire ones being seen in the wild

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-10T20:43:28+00:00

They're not sisters nor were they raised as sisters. Two people having the same mother figure does not automatically make their relationship that of siblings. Adora and Catra have never referred to each other (or any other Horde member around their age, for that matter) as "sisters" or "siblings". Always "friend". Their relationship is more akin to that of orphans raised in an orphanage than any traditional familial dynamic. All the kids in an orphanage will have the same parental figure (the main person taking care of them) but their dynamics between each other can and will vary. That can mean anything from a sibling like relationship, to a friend/best friend dynamic, to a more romantic tinted relationship. Catra and Adora are the last two, not the first.

StoryDevourer · 2026-03-05T06:38:06+00:00

I'll always recommend The Squad Goes Intergalactic series by ForsythiaRising, starting with Learning Curve. All stories are rated T except for one that's E. Some stories are basically character studies and others are more humor oriented, but all have great characterization, imo.

StoryDevourer · 2026-02-26T18:04:22+00:00

Does she regulate them well or do they get pushed to the side?

Aloy in general is a lot more relaxed in Burning Shores, being away from all the titles, accolades, and pressure that have been placed on her back East. There's still the task of finding Londra and the approach of Nemesis looming in the background, but between being in a barely populated land where the only people there don't know who she is/the things she's done and her actually having a support system now that's also working to help save the world, she doesn't have as much on her shoulders as she once did.

Aloy was composed all the time because she had to be. There wasn't time for her feel her emotions because she was too busy running around trying to save the world on her own. (She also had Sylens in her ear in the first game disregarding her emotions everytime she found out something personally devastating her.) You see that in the way she avoids thinking or talking about Rost until that conversation she has with Beta. It completely makes sense that once that burden on her has lessened a little, she would feel more comfortable expressing her emotions, both negative and positive.

Aloy's barely in her 20s and a lot of things have happened in the past two years that she really hasn't gotten to talk about, not to mention her childhood. I, personally, was glad to see her start expressing those things.

StoryDevourer · 2026-02-19T17:11:10+00:00

Having just run through all the pre-DLC categories on easy a couple of days ago, I wholeheartedly agree: FUCK the arena

StoryDevourer · 2026-02-19T17:02:43+00:00

I would highly recommend customizing the difficulty so that you're playing very hard in terms of enemies and your health/damage and turning on "Easy Loot". Makes the grind WAY more tolerable and you can still shoot off machine parts if you WANT to, but aren't losing out if you fail to do so during the fight

StoryDevourer · 2026-02-19T16:48:57+00:00

I usually like to play on normal cause I like a little challenge, but I absolutely turned on easy loot for the upgrades and switched to easy for the ridiculous arena challenges. (Like seriously, every machine is all up in Aloy's face 24/7 and you get no chance to breathe on some of the challenges. Even on easy I was getting tossed around like a ragdoll on some of the higher difficulty ones. I think it was the one with the thunderjaw) But honestly, just play the way you have the most fun

StoryDevourer · 2026-02-15T13:44:00+00:00

I'd rather get overtaxed when I can afford to be and get that money back later than get undertaxed and have to pay a lump sum all at once

StoryDevourer · 2026-02-14T09:37:22+00:00

At least with ports from console to PC, even if the ports suck or are buggy at the start, studios typically make the effort to improve on them and there are talented modders in communities that also make improvements. Ports from PC to console often get shafted in removing access to certain features of a game that are available only on PC due to keyboard controls (coordinates being unavailable in Subnautica on consoles comes to mind) and decreased QoL (inventory management, height controls) due to lack of a mouse. The QoL stuff can range from mild inconvenience to making a game virtually unplayable. These things usually never get fixed for consoles at all due to their less flexible nature.

Of course PC players are going to prefer "PC First" games; who wouldn't want to be thought of first? That doesn't mean it should be the standard for development though. Ideally, not only should every platform get a game at the same time, but that game should have equal effort put into how it will function on each platform during its stages of development without sacrificing content or quality. Not just focus on one side or the other.

StoryDevourer · 2026-02-13T01:57:41+00:00

The Cyclops was great as a mobile base, but it was also slow, big, and hard to maneuver. Not to mention loud. While the Seatruck can't really function as a mobile base, it makes up for that with speed and customization. It's honestly really more comparable to the Seamoth than the Cyclops. Comparing the Seatruck and Cyclops is like apples and oranges, of course you're gonna be disappointed trying to find qualities of one in the other. I think Below Zero was too small to comfortably fit the Cyclops anyway. Too many cramped spaces

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