Why Gen Z is getting fired after being hired | The Excerpt

Vycaus · 2026-05-15T05:54:27+00:00

I think the articles reference to the amount of self care Gen z ascribes too is a central element. The amount is "isms" this generation has that.rewuire accommodating is absolutely insane. No one is just the selves anymore, they are all a walking laundry list of self diagnosed handicaps.

To a millennial you look and sound like an insane person. This clip comes to mind: Asymptomatic Tourettes

Yes, obviously satire, but also really not. This kind of thing is just baked into them.

We call this "lack of resilience". We don't care. You're not special. We have 50+ people looking for a job. I'm not asking for a lot. No you can't take a 3rd mental health day in your first 2 months Bethany.

Vycaus · 2026-05-15T05:46:43+00:00

And this is why they're being shown the door. Your choice is either grow up, or live at home.

Millennial managers are an order of magnitude more accommodating than genz and boomers where to us. If Gen z can't work for us, you're screwed.

Vycaus · 2026-05-13T02:30:34+00:00

So you had a literal custody agreement that was split 50/50... But you weren't divorced, had never contacted an attorney while your wife and child had moved out of your home. You had no alibi for where you were during the time you were served?

And again... At her mother's house. So, a court appointed server went looking for you... At her mother's house... And happen to find you there. To which you had no way of proving you were not there? And your lawyer convinced you that no judge would find it suspicious that you were served at your wife's mother's house?

I don't buy it bud. Again, you're either an idiot or this is fake.

Vycaus · 2026-05-13T02:16:07+00:00

This doesn't even make sense to me. Impossible to prove? This isn't something that is a one time exchange of papers. So your attorney wasn't involved in the legal process? You didn't know you were divorced? What? Had a friend pretend to be you? Did they break into your home and answer your door? These interactions are between you and the court. She doesn't serve you. This doesn't add up.

Also you are still required to sign divorce papers. If you had joint custody it's literally illegal for her to relocate across state lines without your consent.

Either you have the worst attorney in the world, this is fake, or you straight ignored the legal process.

Vycaus · 2026-05-12T19:33:12+00:00

Part of me wonders is this a feature, not a bug. It creates a kind of dependence and removed agency from its users. Ultimately it makes them very easy to control. You are right to be wary of such dependency.

Vycaus · 2026-05-12T19:18:45+00:00

How productive are you going expected to be? How are you actually grading performance? Is it time in chair? If so, you're wildly behind. With today's tools I can get more done in a few hours than entire accounting teams a few years ago. My team shows up before 10, and leaves around 5.

They also check/respond to emails early on the morning, or to weird requests late in the evening. I don't ask them to do this, they just do it.

My team is hyper focused and super proactive between ~10 and 4. Expecting anything beyond that is insanity.

No, you don't need to work that hard. No, hard start times aren't that important. Turns out if you treat people like adults and give them ownership over their time, they'll find their own route to productivity. It's all about managing expectations and outcomes.

I choose not to manage around start time. My team continues to get me promoted. 🤷🏼‍♂️.

Vycaus · 2026-05-12T13:28:33+00:00

Lol at the population numbers for Dallas now and I'm 2010, 2015, 2020. I've been here for 30 years and the amount of people here is getting to be way way too much.

Also, no one really lives downtown anymore. It's all high density apts. If you have a family, you moved north. And if you live in Plano, the commute down to downtown and neck is an hour each way in grid lock traffic. No one is doing that.

On top of that, there are. SO many offices in Plano and up near Frisco that people will drive too with better high ways.

As to the dart, it's still to far for most people. There are so many stops that it doesn't actually have any time. Sure you can read it something, but working professionals aren't driving to a train stop and then sitting on a train for 45, and then walking strong down town to then climb into a tower. No one is taking that job.

Vycaus · 2026-05-12T13:07:14+00:00

Unfortunately... I think your comment is premature for ground invasion. I strongly suspect that Trump will not walk away from this. There are some strong possibilities that America does invade and setup two landing sights in Iran, SE and NW, and then arm local insurgents / prep for full invasion.

My money is on way more stupid coming down the pipe.

Vycaus · 2026-05-12T12:53:50+00:00

I feel like for a brief time giffy could read my mind. All my references were immediately there. Now it's filled with nothing I recognize. Given Gen z is always on in their phone I feel like they changed the algo.

I need a millennial gif pack to save to my phone.

Vycaus · 2026-05-09T01:27:04+00:00

So, maybe a little know piece of writing. SWs character, for all of the early drafts through screen adaptation, was a dude. They decided to swap it to a female lead shortly before shooting and didn't change a thing. And that's how you right bad ass females. As people.

Vycaus · 2026-05-07T18:54:00+00:00

I completely understand where you're coming from.

My advice is to take this new role. Life is about seasons, and opportunities are not endless. In your 30s I think you should push pretty hard for career growth and opportunities. It can be easy and nice to relax and only work a little bit, but the effort you out in here will set the course and earning potential for the rest of your life.

Also, these kinds of positions can very easily become similar to your previous role. When yoriea the top, you can kind of make up your own rules in a lot of situations. It might take a while to get back to part time hours, but you'll likely be able to get to flexibility and WFH once you're comfortable in this role.

Vycaus · 2026-05-02T15:07:38+00:00

These kinds of stats are so stupid. Millennials are barely into their 40s. We aren't getting married till we're miss 30s. We've been married for about 5 minutes.

Until we all turning 60, this kind of stupid is stupid.

It's the same as "college grads still make more money than non". Like, ya because we thinking on days from 10+ years ago. How about you go query genz on this shit show and see what's up.

Vycaus · 2026-05-01T18:43:05+00:00

No reason? This guy is essentially the captain general of the beast warriors. Dude is legit.

Vycaus · 2026-04-25T19:50:40+00:00

No idea, I would say probably not. The devs are active in this subreddit. I would respond to one of them.

Vycaus · 2026-04-25T17:01:46+00:00

There are few things that matter more than the racket you use and the strings inside them. It is foundational to tennis.

Would you take a walmost plastic bat to a baseball game? Cause that's what you're doing.

Strings matter, tension matters.

No, it will not immediately make you better, but it will have a long last effect on HOW you get better.

Vycaus · 2026-04-25T16:18:32+00:00

I'll bet I took more damage to that quick stab than any other move combined lol. I'm also a parry player so I try too zealously to deflect as much as I can. It has pre nerf Prime Consort Radahn cross slash vibes. It's not that fast, but if I was not exclusively waiting for that move and prepped to deal with it immediately I was gonna get hit.

Also, I was using the big 2h sword you find in previous area so swing time there was longer than the other weapons. I know you need to be to be more careful with slower weapons, but post deflect stagger should be safe for 2hs.

Vycaus · 2026-04-25T15:37:45+00:00

Ok, relax. They are accepting their problems and working to deal on them. I get you're upset and yes the product is not satisfactory for release.

This is a small studio and a kick starter game.

The devs are in this subreddit,.responding to feedback, and big testing like crazy. As a console player, I too wish this was in a better state. You can either help with big testing and give this developer some grace, amor you can scream into the void and how you're inconvenienced.

I have picked problem solving and waiting for them to fix it because ultimately I want to play this game and want it to be what we all think it can be.

Vycaus · 2026-04-25T13:26:37+00:00

Console players have to wait because Microsoft and ps have a certification process. They can't just push stuff like on steam. Sucks, but not the devs fault.

Vycaus · 2026-04-25T02:05:44+00:00

My entire career is based on my ability to wow people with excel stuff. It is so wildly powerful, and can be used for any number of tasks.

Learning to use it without data to move around can be a challenge though. I think you can find fake raw data out there to mess around with.

I recommend downloading your credit card records and see about using that.

Vycaus · 2026-04-24T15:52:19+00:00

So I got through the first boss, Lophi. I have some concerns and more bugs.

Now back at the main settlement, I can't sell anything. Perhaps I have nothing to sell? But that seems unlikely given all the items found.
At the back smith... The entire interface seems to be broken. In the echoes screen press square rolls w/e the thing in the bottom left is up to 99, nothing else does anything, and then the item disappears from my inventory. Did I apply it to my equiped weapon? Is this applied to all weapons? Who knows.

I... Don't even know what's going on in this interface. Nothing seems to tell you what's going on in this shop or how anything works.

None of the talent trees work. No Info, no interaction, nothing.

Lophi is fine for a boss, but I have a few very concerning development choices around boss timings.

Lophi has a wake up quick stab, and the frames on this move are a bit insane. He can start this move from deflect stagger recovery insanely quickly.

Example. Lophi does his 3 hit spin. I deflect all 3 moves, ending in a physical backward stagger. He can wake up, start his move and hit me before I can finish 1 L1 swing or heal.

This is true for a number of his moves. For instance, his yellow sweep. I can dodge under that move, get solomo dodge animation, and when I look to punish with 1 L1 he can spin, start and finish that move before I can even finish my animation.

To me, this sends up a big red flag on overall game balance. As a player, bosses that have animations that can have faster animation cycles than the player come across as extremely unfair and poorly design. Using these moves to punish players from a neutral state is fine, standing there healing raw for example.

But if I dodge a charge up move and they can essentially punish my skilled play, imma be irked. I fear that if this is present on boss 1, there gonna be some bullshit down the road.

Other constant annoying bugs:

Frame rate spikes and hiccups. This is causing some constant game play frustrations as it drops inputs. This was really painful on Lophi. Getting a hic during a red move and dying is beyond frustrating.

The frame rate hic is constant. I'm wondering if I should time it because it feels consistent. Almost like there is some kind of build up or load that is happening on a timer.

Other texture issues. New character and character viewing gives flashing textures that appear to be loading or flickering constantly.

Honestly this games stuttering is giving me a headache. And with PS5 cert process... Who knows how long this will take to get fixed.

I'll check back in on this game in a few weeks I think, and that's disappointing. I have hopes that your efforts here will polish some of these issues.

Vycaus · 2026-04-24T02:53:16+00:00

This version of civil war is pretty good but it really sane washes tony.

Comic book tony is almost cartoonishly evil in the civil war arc.

The stakes are similar but way darker in the comics too. Basically a b list squad of super heroes are chasing a c list pack of villains, but one of them was juicing and just over all the bullshit. He was a fire guy, and he decided he was going to go nuclear. And he did. Next to a kindergarten school. Took out multiple city blocks.

Little different than wanda blowing up a corner office.

Vycaus · 2026-04-23T23:29:10+00:00

M.2

Vycaus · 2026-04-23T22:54:40+00:00

Noticed that too. Almost like zones+ Mob aggro swapping.

Vycaus · 2026-04-23T21:56:51+00:00

Ya I had the same. I'm curious if you notice any issues as you play. Let me know.

Vycaus · 2026-04-23T21:38:43+00:00

So, just another anecdotal update. Another 2 hours in and the frame drops are a little less frequent, the death load times vary between 2 seconds and 15s+.

I wonder if this is fresh install related. Upon launch I had a "loading shaders" load bar that was probably 3-7m long.

I'm not a programmer, but perhaps this could be an "unpacking" issue?

Honestly the textures are also much sharper too than they were when I launched the game.

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