Dollar Tree Manager fired for sign:"Don't hire Gen Z's. They don't know what work actually means."

[Leith]

45. Here we are on day 2 of this thread

And I gotta say that this is one of my pet peeves: pitting generation against generation.

When I was a teenager in the 1970s, all we heard was that our schools were substandard, we didn't want to do anything but be hippies & smoke pot, we didn't know how to work, wanted everything just handed to us, and so on. And now we're doing it to our children and grandchildren.

Younger people use the saying "okay, boomer" to make us feel stupid, marginalized, not "with it," and so on.

Everyone doing that is wrong. The young people that I talk to are wonderfully polite, knowledgeable about things, and a pleasure to be around. I don't know if that because it's how I treat them or if they are like that with everyone. I prefer to think it's because that's how they are.

I've read that people don't quit jobs, they quit managers. Actually, they do both. That manager forced those cashiers to leave - s/he proved that by putting up that sign. The reality of the situation is that this was most likely the first job the cashiers ever had, which means that they needed to be taught how to work in a professional setting. That is the job of the manager. This whole thing just sounds like the manager was the one who didn't know how to do the job.