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Do today's teenagers/20-somethings lack resilience?

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ToutesetBonne · 24/05/2025 08:57

Prompted by another thread, I'm reminded of the number of times, at work, when I shake my head in disbelief about the dramas some of the younger staff create out of nothing!

I work for a lovely organisation in beautiful surroundings, with some of the best 'perks' I've ever encountered. Our salaries are well above average and we have free lunches, parking, and private health care.

Despite this, so many of our younger staff throw complete wobblies if asked to do anything that they perceive to be outside their role description, and have close to a breakdown if a manager (I am not one - no-one reports to me) queries any aspect of their work or asks them to change something in a written paper, or suggests that they might need some help with a task.

Where is the resilience? I am a labour voter who cringes at the expression 'snowflake' but, gosh, I'm beginning to see where it comes from!

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WhenYouSayNothingAtAll · 01/06/2025 20:44

SquashPenguin · 01/06/2025 20:07

100% yes.

Of the last intake of people I worked with in their early 20’s, two asked for pay rises within the first month despite still being trained because they’d seen videos on Tik tok about being paid lots of money. Utterly pathetic. They both made countless mistakes in their work, they were late and moaned non stop.

So 2 out of how many?

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