Jodie Foster: Gen Z can be 'really annoying' to work with

There were at least 3 people like that in my office over thew last 2 years. None of them are still with the company.

A lesbian after our bitter & cranky DL hearts.

I find that people only act that way in work environments that enable such behavior. My job’s starting pay is $85k for a fresh out of college graduate. That’s not even all that impressive these days in consulting, but it means we can replace those too good to put in an honest day’s work.

If that’s the energy Jodie has been receiving from her Gen Z coworkers, then she needs to have a discussion with whomever can be called the boss.

Run a tight ship and make an example out of an underachiever so people learn to respect professionalism in the workplace.

You tell em Jodie

I've worked with several over the past year and what they all have in common is a lack of communication. They just go silent until they need something. I hope they grow out of it.

I love her. I love her authenticity

Gen-Z’ers. They were screamin’!

They really do think their work days begin when they are optimally ready for them to begin

I so would have liked to stay at my job longer, but I couldn't work with the Millennials. I can't even imagine what the Zs are like.

Gen Z is too busy coming up with new disabilities and oppression to work.

Yep. In a way I appreciate their disdain for corporate culture. Hell, I’d love to never write another cover letter. But some of the ones working in my office are all blame game. One young lady complained she was being bullied when we show her how to do things …. so we stopped. Now she complains no one tells her how to do anything and that’s why she screws up. They’re all quick to gaslight but so inept going about it.

I manage a small team of Gen Z -- between 23-25 years old, first professional job out of college. One of them expected a raise after 3 months and was furious when we said we only do annual pay increases.

And when that time came, boy was she surprised to learn a typical raise is like 5%. She really thought we'd give her a $10,000 annual raise "just because."

I weep for our future.

" Gen Z can be 'really annoying' to work with but their pussies taste of spring dandelions"

Fixed for OP

More from Jodie:

In emails, I’ll tell them, ‘This is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling?’ And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’”

Immediately after Foster jokingly shaded Gen Z, the “Silence of the Lambs” actress faced backlash on social media.

“Ah the boomers moaning about laziness and can’t stand the idea that this gen are way ahead in their attitudes towards work and giving away too much of themselves,” one user on X (formerly Twitter) wrote.

“RUDEE!!” a third wrote, as a fourth added, “I agree but to be fair, aren’t the older generations to blame for raising them?”

That Bella Ramsey needs some makeup.

Such an attractive middle-aged woman. Are those cheek implants?

R16 = John Hinckley

Hilarious, R17!

[quote]In emails, I’ll tell them, ‘This is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling?’ And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’”

A-HA! She [bold]IS[/bold] a woman after my own heart.

Jodie looks fantastic @ OP's pic.

She hasn't gone overboard on the fillers and surgery. Everything looks just right.

This is how it's done WELL.

Work and showing up on time is over rated for these youngsters.

One could better spend their time complaining on line about living at home with mom, complaining that their elders need to die so they can afford a house, going on and on about no ability to get a down payment on a house, save for retirement, or have a career or future wort a fuck.

Success is hard and somewhat over rated. And our future leadership picture—-bleak bleak bleak.

[quote] More than half of employers surveyed said Gen Z candidates struggle the most with eye contact during interviews. (…) Even virtual interviews have posed issues, with 21% of employers reporting that some candidates refuse to turn on their cameras for the interview.

Jeeeesus. They are so extremely shy and anxious. The first generation to grow up entirely behind screens and avatars — no surprise.

I wear my sunglasses for camera interviews because I am so cool.

Fuck you too, Jodie!

the more interesting part of that interview was Jodie's observations on Bella Ramsey, the funny looking "non binary" woman from The Last Of Us.

Jodie clearly sees Bella as a young woman who doesn't conform to stereotypes, rather than a non woman. That's why Jodie asked Bella to introduce her at some "actress" ceremony.

But then Jodie's wife has made a documentary about that creepy Alok Vaid-Menon creature, a man who should be kept away from kids.

Once again, this is mainly Gen Z from liberals households that are being discussed.

Democrats have been raising their kids to be delicate flowers, who need safe spaces for everything and to shun hard work and punctuality, which they equate with 'white supremacy' and 'toxic masculinity,' because it is mainly white men who tend to be perfectionists and taskmasters and who demand that people show up on time for things.

Republicans reject 'woke-ness' and 'fourth-wave feminism,' thus are more traditional, raising their kids to value hard work and the good ol' American perseverance and know-how, which has often been successful.

[quote]I weep for our future.

Weep for the Democrats, who won't be able to compete in the real world in the near future, as the Republicans take over.

Limp magat fantasy meet reality

R20

I absolutely agree- she looks really pretty and healthy here. If she weren’t famous, she would still turn heads.

I saw her on the subway a month ago and she looked fantastic.

She's right, you know.

I actually read the article and the interview. She's fantastic. And she's not wrong.

(rolling eyes at R26)

Indulgent parents and easy money make for fat, lazy, amoral children. Wish us luck -- we'll need it.

Isn’t Foster GenX, not a boomer ?

Of course OP and the other idiots skip over the parts where she says she admires younger generations for doing the things she never could

[quote][The organisers] are very proud of themselves because they’ve got every ethnicity, and I’m like, yeah, but all the attendees are still wearing heels and eyelashes. There are other ways of being a woman, and it’s really important for people to see that. And Bella, who gave the best speech, was wearing the most perfect suit, beautifully tailored, and a middle parting and no makeup.”

[quote]As a mentoring relationship, it’s part of a pattern, says Foster. “I do a lot of reaching out to young actresses. I’m compelled. Because it was hard growing up.” When she looks at Ramsey, who told British Vogue earlier this year that “I’m not 100% straight”, does she feel a pang of sympathy for her younger self? “Yes.” It was so bleak. “But I had my mom, you know.” Foster’s late mother, Brandy, was a force of nature in the entertainment industry, who raised her four children in LA and stewarded Foster, from the age of three, when she first put her up for commercials, to stardom.

[quote]Could she have worn a suit and had a severe middle parting with no makeup when she was coming up as a young actor? “No,” she says. “Because we weren’t free. Because we didn’t have freedom. And hopefully that’s what the vector of authenticity that’s happening offers – the possibility of real freedom. We had other things that were good. And I would say: I did the best I could for my generation. I was very busy understanding where I fitted in and where I wanted to be in terms of feminism. But my lens wasn’t wide enough. I lived in an incredibly segregated world.”

Link to the full interview, though I doubt most will actually bother reading it

R26 is a schmuck who has to make this a Democrats are bad thing. No, it is the entire Gen Xers (my generation) that raised their kids to think they are perfect in every way and can do no wrong ever. And they are finding out the hard way that the world doesn't revolve around them. And that INCLUDES the MAGAts that are Millennial/Gen Z.

[quote]Democrats have been raising their kids to be delicate flowers,

As opposed to Republicans, who believe their children must be shielded from books as innocuous as Charlotte's Web.

[quote] Weep for the Democrats

Or just laugh

[quote] Republicans reject 'woke-ness' and 'fourth-wave feminism,' thus are more traditional, raising their kids to value hard work and the good ol' American perseverance and know-how, which has often been successful.

Yeah, right.

All the republican parents I know are raising fat slobby kids glued to iPads.

One won’t shut up about how HE had to get a job at 14 and knows the value of hard work. And eff liberals who went to college. But there’s his 14 year old son…no chores…can’t hold a conversation…seems to have no friends…and won’t even help his grandparents mow the lawn.

Gen Z is a lost case. You all failed them. They have no social skills and no common sense. No discipline. No critical thinking skills either.

R41 That is a gross overstatement, but enough of it is true. Clingy helicopter parents, kids spend most of their time online or playing video games. They almost never run free and socialize with other kids their age, so by the time they leave school and should be ready to go out on their own, they are social morons.

Ah here we go, the lament that tweens, teens and early-twenties aren't acting like fully matured adults yet.

Socialization with other kids is how they learn problem-solving skills. Sometimes you lose a game and you have to learn it's not the end of the world. You also learn that the world doesn't revolve around you.

She speaks the truth. I posted in another thread that I am looking towards retirement so I keep my mouth shut, the Gen Z at my work place are hard to work with, they offered me management and I don't want it because I don't want to deal with them.

Jodie is telling them now so she doesn't have to tell them then!

r45 You really don't realise that you're the one who sounds bad in that story?

Why is it bad to not want a management position? Even under non-Gen Z circumstances, you would still have to deal with a bunch of BS.

R47? Tell me you're a Millennial without telling me you're a Millennial.

Much as everyone likes to pile on Gen Z (and, yes, many were overparented in ways that will make adulthood hard for them, as well as make them challenging/annoying to manage)…

… they are right about work/life balance. Not wanting to work a zillion hours is smart, and our phones and the ability to work from anywhere has eroded boundaries to an extent that is quite unhealthy.

If your job is 9-5, it shouldn’t be standard that you’re at the office till all hours or perpetually on call.

In my final year of work, I was receiving texts at 10 pm with non-urgent work… then follow-up texts at 2 am asking where the work was.

That’s no way to live. We can be employed; we can’t be owned.

^ I take your point (and I agree) but they're not even able to show up between the hours of 9-5.

r48 you are correct. I just want to fly under the radar until I retire, I don't want to take on more responsibility because I like the job I have now.

R49 what do millennials have to do with this situation?

[quote]That’s not even all that impressive these days in consulting, but it means we can replace those too good to put in an honest day’s work.

I see. So you feel entitled to get away with paying the bare minimum, while expecting your underpaid analysts to go above and beyond?

Sure, you can replace that kid pretty easily. But I bet you dollars to donuts that kid doesn't give two shits about having been replaced.

When did Jodie Foster morph into Helen Hunt ? They look like twins.

Helen Hunt no longer looks like Helen Hunt, though.

Get a load of R26's bullshit on various other threads. What a delusional nutbag.

Hey R26, just to update you, the Republican candidate has won the popular vote in exactly 1 out of the last 6 presidential elections. And when you bigoted dipshits win, it's on a technicality.

Obama, Clinton, and Biden all cleared 50% EASILY.

You're not taking over a god damn thing. Bookmark this thread and come back to it in November. You don't get to decide what America is or is not. Now go back to sucking on your mom's titty.

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On Madonna's inability to show up on time during her current tour:

[quote]I wonder if she's trying to "be black"? Tardiness is often tolerated in African-American culture, who view punctuality as a "white people thing." Thus, many white ultra-liberals now equate promptness with 'white supremacy' and 'the patriarchy,' because it is mainly white men who tend to demand that people be on time for things.

On the American woman living in Paris who made a viral Tik Tok video warning visitors about the 'clear cup scam':

[quote]Only liberals would willingly move to Europe, especially France.

On the high school kid whose teacher body slammed him because he called the teacher the N-word:

[quote]Of course, 'woke' liberals would cheer such behavior. They excuse black people for ANY transgression. But stuff like this won't go over well with the general population. It will just make them turn away from Democrats. Wokes live in a their own little bubble, but they'll be in for a rude awakening come November 2024.

On the upcoming election:

[quote]We'll simply take control, as you disappear...

On Jewish influence in American society:

[quote]R56 Stuff like this is just going to blow up in Jews' faces. People are going to notice a pattern of Jews trying to silence/cancel people. American Jews (3%) are rich and powerful and part of the elite (1%). The common person won't support that. In fact, they'll fight back. If I were a Jew, I'd start worrying soon.

Helen Hunt now looks like Uncle Traveling Matt of Fraggle Rock fame.

[quote] Not wanting to work a zillion hours is smart,

Then let those smart people stop crying about being unable to afford buying a house

I think it's called nostalgia, Jodie. The idea that your generation was the best and hardest working and kids these days are awful. And back when you were 20 there were 60 year-olds bemoaning your generation and how lazy and hopeless they were.

The older workers were shitty to Gen X when we started working, they could never get away with that today.

I've got R26 blocked but from its quoted remarks above it needs to be reported to the FBI because it actually sounds threatening and dangerous.

r49 You admitted to leaving a job you liked earlier than you wished simply because you didn't want to learn how to treat younger people with respect. You're beyond pathetic.

r52 Too late to backtrack, you already specifically said you didn't want the promotion because of Gen Z. Meaning you avoided it for the same reason as r49 - the idea of treating a younger person decently.

Always interesting how the people like the above never provide specific examples of how Millennials/Gen Z are impossible to deal with. Because really it all comes down to the fact they allowed themselves to be treated like shit by their bosses, with the expectation one day they'd be able to treat others like shit. And are now pissed they can't

Then, Jodie, you should say, "Oh, in that case, by all means don't come in before 10:30. In fact, don't come in at all! Toodles!"

If only, R63! If [bold]they[/bold] had treated [bold]me[/bold] with any respect at all, I would have stayed! But I went back to work as a statistician (leaving academia) at 54, and my supervisors (30 and 35, respectively) treated me as though, because of my "advanced age," I was a doddering old fool who had to be led by the hand. The sad part was, my statistics skills were so advanced that they never could have understood the things I had done in my previous statistical positions. To these 30-something math majors, who still carried pocket calculators to do simple math, statistics meant calculating means and percentages and drawing pretty charts in Excel. My charts simply weren't pretty enough! Imagine their surprise when I said I rarely did my own final charts; in previous jobs, I had graphics people or secretaries who polished them up for me while I did the serious number-crunching. After I told them that, they simply hated my guts, and I cannot even tell you how patronized I was by these people with less than half my education and much less experience. But such is life. I was only there for the pension. I bit my tongue, put in the four additional years I needed for my 10, took the pension, and got the fuck outta there.

But go ahead and make your brilliant assumptions, R63, without knowing any of the facts. AFAICT, that's what your generation is best at.

BTW, I and an older colleague got the 35-year-old fired for falsifying data. Yes, indeed, we were both older and wiser than him and saw through his bullshit.

Life is funny.

Sorry -- older and wiser than he.

[quote]who still carried pocket calculators

Were they also carrying Walkmans?

By the way, next time you make up a story to self-aggrandise, try and keep it consistent. You can't seem to decide whether you liked the job - as you originally claimed - or whether you were just doing it for the pension.

If I tried to recall in detail all the decades I wasn’t feeling it l, and did it anyway, I’d have to take to my bed for a week. There’s nothing quite like having no one else around who’ll pay your bills to get you onto mass transit every damn morning for years on end.

You just don't give up, do you, R67? I never said I liked the job @ R9; I said I would have liked to stay longer. If I had, I would have received a higher pension. Yes, I was only there for the pension.

And truly, I often pondered why, in 2012-2016, these young guys carried around hand calculators in their pockets. Later, when I saw them doing simple addition, etc. in Excel spreadsheets, I figured it out. They never learned to do any math in their heads.

OK, I'm done now. IDGAF if you believe me or not. But I will tell you this: I have had many, many experiences/conversations like this with younger people who simply refuse to believe that I know what I'm talking about. They/you simply must be right!! Guess what? If you already know everything, you will never learn anything. Believe-it-or-not, there are, in fact, people out there who know a lot more about a lot more things than you do. If you opened your mind and actually tried to listen, you might learn something.

r69 No, I don't believe you because you're very obviously full of shit. Like your comment about "hand calculators", I mean how fucking ancient are you? No Millennial was walking around in 2012 with a calculator rather than just using their phone. Also, the fact that you conflate mathematics with arithmetic.

This is my mom..

Wow, so someone new to a job isn't immediately perfect for the role? Shocking if true.

I heard of helicopter parents but accompanying their adult children to their job interviews shows they are not ready for the world as responsible adults.