re: What having a mid 20s employee is teaching me about that generation

My father in law said that when a space capsule enters into the atmosphere there is a short period of time where no communication is possible, you just hope and pray you have programmed the capsule correctly.....................that equates to the period of time a young woman goes through

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Did you tell her that Trump made it possible for these entitled idiots to not have to pay literally any kind of loan during Covid? That stupid decision is made emboldened these brats to think they shouldn’t ever have to pay anyone back or pay for anything at all period.

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So tell her that her problems are Trump's fault?

That will cure her for sure!

That is not generational that is most women that aren't married or generally happy in life.

Is her name Veronika?

IYKYK

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So tell her that her problems are Trump's fault?

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Who made it possible to not pay:

Mortgages
Rent
Car payments
Student loans
Credit card payments
Personal Loans

For months on end all because a chest cold was killing a bunch of obese and old Americans? Do you not remember this along with the handing out Trillions in needless ‘stimulus’ money like it was candy that was rife with fraud and corruption?

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About a year ago I hired a 25 year old in my office. It was her second job and she was excited about the pay raise and the opportunity. She does good work but is generally difficult to be around.

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If I was to make an observation about younger Americans is their general belief to live for the day and spend what you got to make oneself happy.

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They don’t want to work. They don’t want to save for anything. They want the big house, the new car, the best toys

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And yet the men who mumble, "happy wife, happy life," seem to not understand how women and their children (male and female) became this way.

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So why does she still work for you?

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That was my initial thought as well.

OP indicated she generally does good work but sounds like most of what she contributes is drama and disruption.

OP could likely find any number of people out there who could “generally do good work” without the negative features.

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Another employee ( in his 40s) said “we all had to pay back our student loans” and she started crying.

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I had an employee, good worker, and she is a lesbian. Didn't care about that and she never made it some point we all had to care about. But she did make it a point to blame everyone for her money problems. She quit at one point because she wasn't making enough money as she had a masters degree! Worthless liberal art degree of course. She came back a couple years later as the Uber Eats driving wasn't exactly as good as she had hoped either. And yes, she was going off about Trump because of all her student loan woes even though she graduated many years before he became OMB. All this to say, while I agree some of the newer Gen suck, it's really concentrated with liberal white women of any age.

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What having a mid 20s employee is teaching me about that generation

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GenXer (irrelevant) checking in. Your phrasing is an exhibition of poor reasoning.

I have many examples of hiring people in their 20s who were outstanding, hard working employees that completely outperformed people in my generation with much more work experience in the job. You can bet the slackasses of other generations took issue when individuals with drive and broad understanding of the job were promoted into more specialized roles over older generation slackasses who seemed to think they were owed some form of loyalty based on tenure.

The lesson should be about the fallacies of generalizing. Even larger sample sizes lend themselves to fallacious thinking if you presume your observations apply to all/most people in a sub population.

Shouldn’t we judge people by their individual examples of behavior rather than the demographics they share with demographic based subgroups ? Some behaviors may occur at greater frequency, but that’s not really knowledge that can be applied usefully in the workplace.