Welcome to your worst nightmare. You've all become your parents. Except jaycee, the Champion of The People.
Low Morale
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You're the only one in this thread that acknowledges that every generation says the same thing about 'the youth'.
I agree with that wholeheartedly. My old man preferred to employee white Kiwi chippies/brickies etc over white aussies as in his experience white Kiwis were generally (but not always) harder workers and better tradies. The Kiwis were stoked to be making goood money (compared to sh%ty NZ wages), while the aussies had never known any different having always been paid decent wages.
Quite obviously, I am strange...
Unfortunately the above description is not just a generational thing, you have just perfectly described my direct supervisor who is in his late 40s! He regularly writes 1/2 page emails that could be 2 to 3 lines etc etc.
You and me both, my brother!
A bit of a generalisation on my part, but I can remember as a kid that very few people lived at home past 20.
I knew a coupla blokes who did, and they were seen as "under-achievers".
Nowadays, it seems that every second kid lives at home until they are 30 or so.
Now, I reckon they are smarter than us - the best deal you can get is to live at home, pay board and have yer parents doin' everything for ya!
I'm positive my two boys will be doing this.
Nowadays it seems you don't know very many people between the ages of 20 and 30.
A bit of a generalisation on my part, but I can remember as a kid that very few people lived at home past 20.
I knew a coupla blokes who did, and they were seen as "under-achievers".
Nowadays, it seems that every second kid lives at home until they are 30 or so.
Now, I reckon they are smarter than us - the best deal you can get is to live at home, pay board and have yer parents doin' everything for ya!
I'm positive my two boys will be doing this.
You're only 8-9 years old than me.
Growing up it was common and expected by a lot.
Of course the "You're out of here when you turn 18" mindset existed too. Each time I hear that I think of The Simpons episode where homer says it, but I digress.
Any 40 yr old's living at home now, are your & my generation, not Gen Y
I think Mark L's right, we lose touch and see things differently
I know plenty....
All the girls I date.
I often think about dating their mum as well. Is that wrong?
Being an Australian (though some may disagree based on skin colour, even though I pay more taxes than them), I'd have to agree with you. And I somewhat blame the system I grew up in.
I get my work done - on time and employers have so far seemed to be happy with what's done - but I don't for one second enjoy it and actually often think it's below me. Poor attitude indeed. Maybe we need a recession to get our act together, but hopefully I'll be done and have moved on from being employed by then. I like the zero employee model - my parents are businesspeople and they employ probably 200-300 people - the bulk are absolute nightmare.
My friend told me the other day, when you do a job, you always try to think of what's the quickest way and mos shortcuts I could take. When you work for yourself, you don't mind spending the time making sure everything works. I guess therein lies the difference - or maybe it's just Australia.
yeah man - agree with you delta. i too feel the same way.
why don't you join your parents businesses man? or create something yourself that can grow? besides you already got the creds and have 1st hand corporate world experience
why don't you join your parents businesses man? or create something yourself that can grow? besides you already got the creds and have 1st hand corporate world experience
Bayview, I ve been an employer as well, and unfortunately, my experiecnes werent as positive as you,
I found that giving your staff, lenience, bonuses or freebies or nice gestures did work sometimes but for a lot of the time backfired because they took advantage or took you for granted,
my line of business did hire many 18-25yr olds so maybe its just the nature of the beast,
I had huge turn over of staff (maybe I was a bad employer!, if thats the case im happy to accept it),
eg I had staff ask me if I could finish early at 9pm, my response would be, "we'll see, if its super busy, probably not" to which their response was "well I have to be somewhere at 9pm"
eg. boss, sorry I cant work tonight because ive been throwing up all day (its 550pm, for a 6pm shift) but can I pick up my pay tonight or tomorrow?
eg. I got offered that job that you recommended me to go for (yes I did recommend it as it was a great opportunity), so im giving you 2 days notice, they wanted me to start today but I wanted to give you the courtesy and finish out the week
eg. one guy I drove him home 4 days per week as he didn't have a car and taxi trips were killing him, and then when he quit he called me a tight a$$ to other staff
At the same time? Cause that's just known as 'awesome'.
I won't kiss and tell...I won't.
Pics or it didn't happen...
Not sure... don't want to join them yet - seems like a cop out, besides what comes my way will come one day. Am thinking about quitting and doing my own thing though
I was reading thru this thread again, and realised that no one had really addressed the issue of how do you turn around the culture of a company.
We have done a pretty job of turning things around in our company, so I thought I'd share some of what we did.
I work for a global company of around 4000 employees, but the aussie branch is less than 25. When I started, no-one cared whether we were successful or not (they just assumed we wouldnt be), no-one talked to anyone else, we were losing a bucketload of money.. it was a disaster. We have completely turned the aussie branch around and are gradually working our way out thru the company to change the culture.......
So, it takes time, but my suggestions are
start with a bite size chunk... you cant change everyone all at once. But find like minded people, work together with them and start to influence
Inevitably, change involves moving people on. There will be people who will lead change, those that will follow, those that will undermine, and those that will resist. The resisters need to go pretty quickly (many will go of their own accord, once you start making changes), the underminers also need to go, but this usually takes a bit longer, cause they are not so easy to see.
build accountability in the business. no-one cared about our sales numbers before this process began - they just assumed we wouldnt achieve them. The management began making a fuss towards the end of the month about whether we were close to target. We put in place performance targets/ bonuses. Pay rises became linked to performance (even for non sales staff.)
Recognise good performance, and help people to achieve their goals...
I'll have to finish later, because I'm being rushed out the door............ Mothers Day activities!!
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