As someone who tutors A-level maths, further maths, chemistry and physics I can confirm that most students really aren't prepared to put in the hard yards. But any teacher who now calls a kid lazy is almost certain to lose his/her job.
Geotechnical engineer here. I can confirm that the levels of curosiity for engineering and technology have massively decreased. Universities are a bit of a joke. Large swathes of engineers I work with have to be sourced from outside the UK and even Europe. Most of the international students have a very poor grasp of written English and the many domestic students will do an MSc but they aren't really interested in pursuing long-term. I would add that the GB News presenters are hardly adding anything either. Was watching on segment on electric cars and the presenters had done zero research. These presenters are nearly as bad. I've learnt not to lose sleep over it - luckily the UK is one of the most desirable places to work and bringing technical people from around the world is relatively easy. Please don't complain about immigration if all you want to be is RUclipsr. RUclips only pays if you get circa 2 million views a week and non-skippable 15 second adds. Hope this helps.
I don't think its because of a lack of curiosity. more to do with the entry barrier being to high, cost of uni to high, and the likelihood of one of these firms giving you a job unless you are a math genius.@@lawrenceabbott5292
David, I am a tutor over here in the US for the same, math, chemistry, etc. and I could not agree more! Teachers are no longer able to do their jobs. How in the Hell do parents think one adult can keep an entire classroom of participation trophy children from chaos without using discipline is beyond me. *Not condoning caning by nuns just discipline.
@@run2cat4runRubbish! It's got nothing to do with capitalism.. Pretty soon, there won't be any capitalism. We'll all be slaves to the communist totalitarian world we now live in. It'll be hellish like you never imagined.
I'm a teacher and the disrespect and laziness I see gets worse every year. Behaviour is out of control and standard of work is really poor. I'm witnessing the collapse of society right before my eyes, and it scares me. What is the incentive to work hard anymore when they can get anything they want from their parents?
You're implying there's something out there to work hard for. Fun fact, there isn't. The opportunities aren't available like they once was. People ask their parents for help because they have no choice, its nothing to do with being lazy. Starting your own family now is completely out of reach for most men now. if laziness was the cause of all this. Then "by eck" there's some real lazy people around.
Do you ever ask them what they expect to be doing as a job when they leave school? Do they all expect to be invited to be starship pilots or some other fanciful nonsense? Do you ever tell them they'll be lucky to get a job asking people if they want fries with that? And do you point out that they'll be living with their parents forever?
It's not that they are lazy their streets are over run with grooming gangs drug addicts there is no where for them to go and the work that you doesnt pay the Bills
One of my nieces is Gen Z she's just qualified as a mid wife that's after dropping out of college when her mum died and then going back in her early 20s and being the eldest on the course when she went back to college while holding a bar job to pay her way. so proud of her.
Who cares about the females. Its the males who really suffer. College is full of women. In fact they go out of their way to accept far more women than men
This is also a big reason, why would people on benefits, openly accept the shit relationship, between the government and native population, follow the rules and pay tax into society that cares more for people, they don't even know, if they'll even assimilate into a culture they don't wish or care to understand. Most people don't even want to accept, that there's a reason, behind it other than laziness. Your working so many hours, to get fucked by tax.. for a false sense of 'pride' that doesn't even affect the newer generation.. Why? Because even millennial's; nevermind the newer generation, understand that any pride associated with Great Britain left a long time ago, it's just worse now.
Exactly we are all paying for ones who have never contributed to our country ,and should be kicked out to where they came from , we are all to blame but the government and big businesses have cost our children their future ,for the bank balances disgrace and time the UK people stood up an put a stop to it
I grew up in the 60s my parents attitude was you get nothing for nothing. I always seemed to have something to do like helping my parents on their 4 acre allotment at weekends & when I was 14 I was working in the local shop at weekends & school holidays. I know times change & all the regulations make it impossible for teenagers to have jobs but it was a good learning ground to prepare you for work life.
4 acre allotment? Sound more like a farm! You really do make some bizarre uniformed comments on here. Kids can still get a part time job, nothings changed over the last 30 years.
When I was 13, my parents bought a woodstove; and it was my job to supply the wood. It got rid of 95% of the heating bill, but the real reason was to teach me that hard work won't hurt you. My Dad and his friends worked me so hard for free that my first paying job seemed like a picnic.
And not realizing that the comfort they have comes for hard working people that came before. It is the beginning of the fall of what was built when people stop maintaining it. Lack of understanding and perspective. But I agree that nobody should put up with abuse. Hard work is not abuse.
Just the tax rate is enough not to bother with working. Can actually have a very comfortable life living on benefits if your in the right area and not chasing status. If I could do life again I'd keep it simple, pay video games and live off the government. Hopefully they introduce UBI before I get too old. Tired of working free for 5 months of the year for the government.
i go slow in my part time job too. you cant take this system seriously. so i dont. it will change in time, but why waste your time right now ?@@exsubmariner
you cant joke your way into pension contributions. there are no houses, and so people wont work too hard. its a cold reality that there is not going to be enough tax contributions to fund your pensions. 'insert smiley face'@@exsubmariner
There have always been lazy people, but society used to shame them and make them pay the price. My Grandmother raised 9 kids during and after the Great Depression. Grandpa was a sharecropper and they had very little cash money; but they grew a huge garden and raised their own chickens and hogs. People were poor then in a way that people today cannot understand. Grandma would keep a pot of soup simmering on the stove for people who showed up hungry. Without exception, people would ask if they could do some chores in return for something to eat. They were flat broke and had nothing but they still had some self-respect. Contrast that to the entitlement mentality of today.
Sounds like a life of luxury if you ask me, raising 9 on one wage, huge garden and raising their own livestock. Having nothing is working 50 to 80 hours a week in a rented flat. But we don't know half, right?@@Julie-wx2gf
Boomers had it far easier than Gen Z. The dollar was far stronger. Avg house wasn't 100x the avg wage. Most of you boomers wouldn't be able to survive in this economy. Due to this brutal economy, we will see more multigenerational families living together like how it is overseas
In my experience of working with boomers, they generally take all day to complete a simple task and then sit there complaining about how young people don't do any work.
Rightly so we have a 76 years accountant and she makes so many mistakes she's not sharp anymore and must go on the cruise retire but she wont because she hate her husband and won't stay home
Oh please! as a baby boomer I seem to remember my parents generation having the same opinion of myself and my friends! and please don't get me started on how my grandparents felt ( national service would straighten 'em out!) and "Bring back the birch!" and generation "Z" will feel the the same towards their children and grandchildren when they reach their early 2os
I would like to think they have been disincentivised to want to work. They are driven. They do want to work, but the road blocks that have been put in front of them seem extremely hard to overcome. As we always discuss a house for them, it will cost 400k + a car will cost 25k to 80k depending on model, living expenses are some of the highest in recorded history.... and those that have benefited from that say "get to work" and contribute to our further comfort. .. I am a 40yo millennial who's doing well, and even I would be like F that...
I agree.I am Generation X and I work as hard as any Boomers did but couldn't move out of my Parents house for ages because of the rising cost of getting by.My work place only closes on Christmas Day and people who get weekends and Bank Holidays have the nerve to say I get it easy.
I have 2 jobs and struggle. If I lost one job, I would quit the other, as I’m not working to get into certain debt. I’d rather sink while not working, than work and sink. Greedy companies not paying a living wage.
If Gen Z is lazy then it says a lot about the generation that raised them. Imagine giving your kids a phone or tablet because you can't be bothered to be an actual parent and then complaining that they don't want to leave the device that actually raised them... It all starts at home. "hard work" is not a gene that you are or aren't born with, it's a value that you teach to your kids(or are supposed to anyway). Sounds like these adults are just upset at the consequences of not raising their kids properly.
@stevenbrown6593 That's lazy parenting talk and you know it. A teacher can not force the kid to do work at home. If most of the power was in the teacher's hands do you think teacher's would call home when a kid acts up? You can't even brainwash a kid if they don't pay attention in the first place because they're on their phone or being disruptive.
Its the parents, government, schools and societies fault for not punishing bad behaviour. My nieces lad who is now thirteen has been brought up to have manners and respect for others and we his family always comment on what a good lad he is.how many kids when told to go to bed, get a shower, do your homework or anything else get the simple response of ok with no argument or whinging.
I have two millennials and two gen z's, nothing wrong with any of them, all brought up the same way. My advice is never make idle threats, step out of line and the consequences are these and then do it when you have to without fail.
So much effort to live the most mundane existences, most of us work to barely survive nowadays, decades ago buying houses/saving was all possible on a single wage family, good luck with that nowadays.
It's easy to go criticise from the 30k houses now worth a quarter of a million. Where doing a service to the community could afford your 1 working household with food and a mortgage to reasonably pay off. There is nothing worth working for anymore, and that's why it's not as valued as previous generations.
Parents fault.. we outsource Childcare so we can afford to feed our kids. We could also years ago grab ya kid by scruff of neck and say get on.. now by law you considered to have assaulted your kid. Kids go into school now you have police at door. Question is should governments parent as they try to or actual parents.
Totally agree - most of these kidults have never heard the word "NO" in their lives - brought up by helicopter or jelly fish parents or even the "bulldozer" parents, who dramatically clear every little obstacle out of the child's way - also those kids who are never held accountable for their actions, because Mommy and Daddy are themselves infantiles - these factors and more, attribute to all these "know nothing", self-indulged, self-involved, self-opinioned and self-centred little narcissists, who think the world evolves around them. And these weak and selfish egotists, dimwits and lazy morons are going to be the next leaders... what a joke! We see in Germany, how these kidults in the Govt are running the country over the edge into wreck and ruin, with everyone wondering if this is just plain stupidity or if it is maliciously meditated!
Exactly CREATING. Wander who created these? Social media? Diversity and inclusion? Transitions? Lockdown? They've been indoctrinated into communism and that wasn't gen z, it was older generations
What utter bullshit my daughter is 23 rent's a property wants a career in veterinary so been in college since 16 now in university an has a part time job at a vet so she is part of the z gen an not bloody lazy.
Wow they did complain about the young people in the that time another thing they would say "they should not of got rid of national service they should be put in the army" I remember my grandad born in Victorian times he would get up when top of the pops was on and just turn it off my nanny would almost pass out and cover her eyes when a couple were just kissing on TV. But Macmillan was right we never had it so good and won't again I was a gpo telephonist plenty of overtime and you could leave a job in the evening and get another the next day loads of factory work men worked at fords people could buy their own houses but automation came in no mor gpo telephonists fords started to get robots loads made redundant ect ect computers .everything changed in the eighties the NHS started to go down .my son has to work long shifts he has a damaged lung his rent is so high I know how hard it is for the young ones .Yes Macmillan knew what he was talking about our generation had it good better than the ones before us and better than the ones after us .
Lack of discipline at home and in school. Talking to teachers I found out that they have no means of keeping kids in line. They need to know that doing bad has consequences .
We raised both our children to be responsible by giving them chores, they had jobs at early ages, involved in sports, etc. Now one child is a responsible adult teaching and raising 2 small children. The other he works part time here and there, single, no ambition, still living at home (has a deadline of moving out in 2 months). Anyways, I take responsibility to a point because I don’t understand what had happened. Somewhere he got lost in the shuffle. There are so many more things outside our home and family life that has and is still influencing him. He’s an adult, and I am done feeling guilty taking responsibility for his nonsense. I’m truly tired of people saying it falls back on the parents.
You say you take responsibility for your offspring. How exactly? By kicking one out of your home and giving him a deadline? That's irresponsible given the economic circumstances. This isn't the 1950s. The opportunities aren't there like they once was.
People are complex; they are not programmable machines. Even cats and dogs, with their much smaller brains, display unique personalities, so what do expect from homo sapiens? You can bring up two children in exactly the same way, and they may still turn out completely different. This is nothing new: we have known about this since the dawn of civilisation.
His nonsense? Unless this guy is a modern day Nick Cotton, I'm not seeing what the problem is. I certainly don't see him as being public enemy number one. Be glad that he's not a career criminal, or an addict, or suffering some long-term illness. Sheesh.
Try having ambition, when your country doesn't care about you; your welfare, the only care is thought about outside the borders, while simultaneously watching the government bringing them in on your dime. Giving them everything. And the housing costs raised so drastically, it isn't even feasible, on a wage that hasn't been raised either. Due to a constant influx of cheap labour. Many millennial have resigned to the fact they may never own their own homes, some have to hope on the deaths of their immediate family, to raise the funds. Nevermind this new generation coming onto the scene. Don't need older generations, talking down on things they got no clue about, because they have been stuck in the same job for the last 20-30 years of their lives. Knowing next to nothing of the job market, that would spit them out in a heartbeat. Because your cv doesn't have any 'keywords' sorted out by a algorithm before any real eyes land on it. It's a hard sell at the end of the day. And that is what it is, you need an incentive to work.
I appreciate your comments. You don’t know the entire situation which is ok. We have helped him time and time again, however it’s now in-between of helping and enabling. We haven’t (and won’t) wiped our hands freely of him. When he is out there, we will still be here to guide. But because of many factors, the resentment builds up and we don’t want that to ruin the relationship we do have. We will get through it. I’m just sick of blaming parents all the time. As some of you said it is sad the economy, government, and so many other factors not helping. As for his nonsense? I’m talking about him making up every excuse for “not working” at a steady job and contributing to his own welfare.
I sit with these younger guys from work at our breaks and they are always ANGRY they are told they have to work a full day instead of leaving early. They are great guys except they just don't want to work! Ages 23, 26 and 28. I am 56. Sure I leave early SOMETIMES as a treat to myself, but I can't make a habit of it because I have bills to pay. I don't know how they manage. They don't seem to realize that its a place of business and shit has to get done. They are like overgrown children. Not all of their generation is like that of course but a lot more than us older gents and gals.
Funnily enough my department just sacked someone about your age for similar laziness. I work at a former airfield now used as a car storage facility, and his job was to deliver the parts to the workshops. He always took detours just to waste time and thrashed the van just to try and kill it quicker, then when he wasn’t delivering, he took extra breaks, never went to see what needed delivering, me and my colleague (21 and 19 if you ask) were always running around getting it all ready for him while he stood there, and he always left 15-30 minutes early. A nice guy, but a bloody pain.
@@alfienaylor1587 I don’t doubt it. I GENERALLY don't like to generalize but the laziness issue comes up a lot with the younger generation. Of course there are exceptions. Their parents after all are my age so clearly its something my generation failed to do that is the reason why they are the way they are. They need to get a better attitutude for their own good. What also comes up a lot is people my age often say the younger generation doesn’t have any manners, but I defend them on that score. I went back to college in my 40’s and I just found all of these 20-something people to be SO NICE to me and each other. - particularly the men. The following generations I have similarly fpimd tp be just plain nice. I feel very strongly about that. I don't let people get away with trashing them on the manners issue. I also don’t like people to refer to them as “kids”. They are young adult men and women and referring to them as kids is disrespectful. I remember my generation when we were their age as priding ourselves on being SNARKY all the time and I include myself in that at least a little bit. I am a reformed SNARKER. I am nice now. Honest.
@alfienaylor1587 What you said doesn’t mean anything. It’s happens much more with the newer generation. I’m going through the same experience now. It’s not only being completely careless at work. It is the disrespect. The disassociation with good manners and connection with other people. The world is actually creating zombies.
I live in a HMO and have done for most of my life (I DO NOT OWN IT) - but this house has been for the last 20 years - I'm 54 and came from the school of "hard knocks" - the Gen-Z "adults" that have come to this house just after college / Uni are LITERALLY like 5 yr old children. Won't clean, hardly cook, ask then to do anything like tidy up after themselves and you either get silence or "verbal", don't know how to use a washing machine, never even seen a mop or a broom, their rooms always stink - on and on. Gen-Z when they leave home are not even remotely "housebroken" or fit to live in a shared society. I've quite literally had young black 20 somethings scream in my face that I'm being a "racist mofo" just because I keep asking them to clean, like I do all the others. II even had one of them assault me for it - just asking them to "clean their shit". and these are the people that will be voting on the decisions of our future and the future of the UK. Not only are we importing people who hate us - we've grown our own crop of them as well. By comparison, there has been quite a few older 30+ foreign workers (all legal, visa's etc), mostly IT types from India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Senegal and Nigeria and ALL OF THEM, know how to cook, clean, do chores, and are RESPECTFUL, pleasant people to be around. The west has become soft, too soft for it's own good.
@@hollyclough6761 When a child in a western country can say "if you hit me I'll sue" you KNOW that country is FUCKED. that moment happened in the UK 25 years ago - what happened 25 years ago? Gen Z were born. Any more dumb statements?
Why work when you are taxed to the hilt to pay for migrants, people claiming disability for spurious reasons, big issue sellers from eastern europe, over generous and underworked civil servants, council workers and politicians and the pensions of ex state employees. More and more people realise the less you do the less you are taxed the more time you have for yourself, many will never be able to afford a house and find they are pushed down the que for social housing by people born in other countries who will never make a net contribution into the system. Sod that for a game of soldiers!
What is this crap? GenZ are max 26 years old, when I was at that age I was partying every single night. And that one guy who has an 11 and a 7 year old what does he expect them to do? Let them be kids, man, like you were too at that age. Also being a bit rebellious is a good thing for children, they might be wrong at first, but they need to learn how to say no.
I'm sad to say that my youngest has never had a proper job. He returned home 15 years ago and has never had a job since. He gets stroppy if asked to do something, moans if we haven't bought a certain food or want to control costs by reducing the heating or asking for lights to be turned off. Thinks paying £180 month entitles him to have an easy life and be fed and everything paid for. This is all played on the 'mental health issues' card. I paid tax and NI when I was 15! That was nearly 60 years ago!
I don't think they are particularly lazy, I know lots of hard-working young people. The problem is that they have grown up seeing their parents constantly in and out of work and often getting nowhere. Also, they work hard, but the money they earn does not reward them as much as it did us. When I started work in the late 70s (part-time in school), I would earn about £6.50 for an eight hour shift. However, a pint of beer was about 32p. So that is about 20 beers. Now, minimum wage £5.28 per hour, for an eight hour shift = £42.24, at £3.50 a pint = 12 pints of beer. When I was a year older, my father just put me on his car insurance with a surcharge so small, he didn't even ask me to pay for it - try it now! It was about 50p to go into a nightclub, one shift was equal to 13 entry fees! Now it is £10 and you can only go in 4 times. As for cigarettes, it is horrific! When we went to work, we generally earned a full adult wage unless you were on an apprenticeship and that was at least 75% of full salary from your day of starting. Most of my friends were married, with children and mortgages by the time they were 21. We saw our parents in stable full-time employment all their lives and benefiting from it, so we too were motivated. How this generation keeps going, I don't know.
Minimum wage is only 5.28 if you are under 18 It is 10.18 for you are older than 18. When I started work in 1970 under 18's always were paid less and I was paid less as a female! If you want to get on in life you do have to work for it . People on benefits should remember they are living off of other people's earnings and should consider themselves very fortunate they are able to do so. I wonder if they would be more motivated to work if there were no benefits available to them. I worked in a job centre for 15 years and can say from experience there are plenty of lazy people around who do not want to work.
It is true that there are a lot of lazy people around but if the incentive to work is reduced then there will be even more. I think it is ok to reduce benefits, but only when there are jobs to go to. I am in favour of the government being "employer of last resort." That is, instead of paying unemployment benefits, give people work at minimum wage up to the point where they earn what they would do on benefits (including HB, CTB etc). It might cost the state more in cash terms, but would also get something back for tax money and nobody could be considered "unemployed." There is a lot of work that needs to be done, especially with regards to the cleanliness of our cities. However, the government should employ them, not farm them out to the private sector or else the private sector would remove real jobs in favour of employing them. Not a good idea in my view. In my town, it is fairly easy to find minimum wage work now but I understand it is not the same everywhere. @@LynnMaguire-t4u
The industry I am in we used to be beating people off with a stick. You knew you could be replaced in an instant if you were under performing. Now we struggle to keep staff and recruit. Even though you can earn very well indeed these young kids just cannot be bothered to put the hard work and hours in. They just all want it handed on a plate or be Fanstergramfluencers. It's ridiculous!
Maybe they don't want to be in a situation where they can "dropped in an instant".. the veil has been lifted. You thought you were working towards something, I'm a prosperous country with a government that had your best interests at heart. Kids today with a brain know nothing could be further from the truth. You ever looked at it from this perspective? Can you really blame them?
@@emcg.9655 You are missing my point. My point is that there were always people who wanted to get into our industry because of the money they can earn. Now they don't want to because they have to put hard work and graft into it. They want it handed on a plate. These younger generation don't last the test of time. I work along side people who have been in my industry 30 years +. You will never get that now.
It all depends on your definition of hard work? hours? work rate? enthusiasm? I've never noticed any laziness in the younger generation. Just a lack of economic incentive.
I wouldn't say that. There is hope for some of you. Just always keep in mind no one owes you anything and you have to work for what you want. Blessings to you.
@@catwoman6559Yeah if they worked harder they'd have jobs for life as school leavers with final salary pensions, unprecedented economic growth, average houses at 3x the average salary with no deposit required and an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society where they aren't competing against racial strangers for resources, jobs and services in their own homelands. You know, all the things the boomers worked so hard for.
You can always brood about many things and paralyse yourself. But what kind of life is that? If you can't change the circumstances, you have to change yourself or start a revolution. These are the choices.@@noogate2672
'I got caned by nuns' never did me any harm what next you got ab*sed by priests never did you any harm... Can we not strive for better because you didn't have better is that it?
Around the area I live in a large number of people, some older but mostly younger than me, do not work. Able bodied men and women. They sail through life on Universal Credit and PIP and indulge on booze and drugs. Deplorable.
Too many parents like the guy on the right, making excuses for kids behavior !!! Too many parent dont want to parent, they want to "friends" with their kids. Wake up !! its your job to equip them for adulthood not be their " friend"
Is she wrong? NO Why are we so scared to say the truth. These kids write words like: “Prolly”, “Merika” etc…. That’s just being lazy. They do not listen. They do not show respect for anyone. They have no ethics. They have no good manners.
Too many parents nowadays just want to be their children's friend. Parenting is too important to be put on a friendship basis. Parents never get to be their children's friend till they are well grown up.
Maybe make it socially acceptable for mums to bring their children up like in the old days. As a mother now, if you don't work you're a scrounger, if you do work you're neglecting! Win win
well if you are on benefits you need to hope others don't feel like you? If nobody works where would your benefit money come from? You do realise it is other people's earnings?
I am from the Z generation, and I understand that a lot of times you have to work, and work really hard, but when you hustle all day and you cannot even afford to live in a house that isn’t a studio with no doors, well, you start to get unmotivated. That adding the fact that seeing a lot of people that are the same age and making money through social media doing nothing (not everyone, but the majority), it’s going to have an effect on young people, and also the pressure of having 300 degrees to work for a minimum salary. So. Yes. There are some entitled young people and those who don’t want to hustle, but isn’t it also a bit of older generations’ fault, don’t ask to your employees something you weren’t asked from your employer, and don’t expect an average-position performance from people that you pay as if they were doing an internship. This generation is going to work a lifetime to support YOUR retirement plans, and it’s going to die working for people of YOUR generation who barely got a degree, still living in bad apartments YOU are renting for an exorbitant price, so who’s the one to blame for young people rebelling?
@@El.Cid17Pay back should not mean being 30 and still not affording, after years of working, to live on your own. Don’t know other people’s experiences but I answered an application where I was asked an age below 26 with at least 4-5 years of experience, 2 degrees and at least 2 foreign languages. Now, I’m so so convinced that we should pay back and make the system work, but the system is breaking itself because of the demanding, isn’t it kind of obvious that people are going to leave and where they feel more appreciated or do thing they find more easy if they get no rewards? I do not think that asking to have enough money to live a normal life in a 1 bedroom apartment should be considered an expensive luxury.
Yeah, we know, you didn't ask to be born into this terrible world. Who cares. In the not too distant future, it will be your turn, your problem and you sort it out.
Stop pushing kids into university. Tell them they need to save money. Start with a "starter home" rather than 3 rungs up the ladder. Never give your kids money for nothing, but match what they earn. Give them chores. Never make empty threats. Always be truthful. Tell them they are loved and will always have a home.
@@johncook8141 I know what you mean, I was shocked to see him, but, now I’ve got used to the idea, I like him on here and think he’s good! Rather he was on here than joining the LBC lot!
The new breed of self-entitled, poorly educated, badly trained, incompetent British medics who hold the country to ransom and play Russian roulette with patients lives.
Gen Z are no more lazy than any generation before them, how many of us were focussed at a young age? The biggest problem is the youth can't see what benefit they will gain from working hard as everything is too expensive and out of their reach. Work is supposed to pay and it doesn't, that's not Gen Z's fault.
If they lose their job...they go beg on the corner. That is the first course of action when you need money and are able to work? I can't imagine my grandfather or father doing that when they moved, and left everything, and had to start again.
I got caned so badly back in the mid 70's for smoking cigarettes. I was severely hurt by my sadistic headmaster. I said nothing. I should have gone to A&E. Sometime later, this monster beat a boy so badly,the police were involved,and the creep was invited to stand down. He should have been prosecuted for assault. The man was a drunken pig.
Its interesting gb news's take on things lately. Everyone is lazy who doesn't do what the status quo says. If people have incentive for their graft then they wont become lazy, complacent and or dependent. Why do you think so many employers etc are happy to take low skilled labour etc.....its because they work cheap and accept what they can for their graft here. Mist average people in this country can see that.....its just the middle and upper classes like much of this panel cant see this.
The thing is that boomers never had the internet when they were younger so they dont know the pressure of having to keep up with their social media. As well as my day job I am also an Instagram model and I have to post pictures daily or I will start losing followers. Having to work as a model and do a 10 to 3 job 4 days a week is next to impossible. It takes me 90 minutes to put my makeup on and get dressed so I can do my photoshoot + it takes me 20 minutes to commute home from work. That means it can be literally 5 o'clock before I finish working each day, it is crazy how little time I get to myself now I am an adult.
Is it a joke or what? It is normal for an adult to work 8 hours a day (5 times a week) then grab the kids at school and on their way home drop in the shop and hit home around 6:30 pm. Then cook a decent meal while checking the kids' homework and play with them after supper. Hard but that is life. I guess, your parents demonstrated it to you?
@@editfazekas3854 I work very hard actually. I already told you I work two jobs, maybe you didn't read that part?! I don't have any kids and frankly I don't want any either. If you want to work 8 hours a day 5 days a week then that is up to you but that seems crazy to me. Maybe if you worked faster you could do the work in less time and work the same number of hours that I do?
I don't expect many people want to work but people have always done it because they need to live- that is buy food, etc How do you survive if you do not work? Apart from living on benefits which is living off other people's earnings. Why should people work to support you?
Nobody wants to work 9-5 you still have to work to pay your bills bottom line. Bills don't care if you don't want to work if you don't work prepared to get evicted. Also gen Z and Millennials don't even do a good job at saving their money. My cousin works at Five Guys and he talks about all the Millennials and gen Zs that come in there and buy burgers for $13 dollars. Four burgers at Five Guys cost over 40 dollars and if you add got two milkshakes that's over 50 dollars right there.
gen-z are more aware of they're rights than reponsibilitiy's and when they start work and find out gen-x won't put up with they're bull they can't cope
You heard the man, stop being lazy, oh, and those 50 hours a week you're doing, try doing 90 or you'll end up with nothing. and that'll be YOUR fault.@@stequality
Our music teacher had a size 14 plimsoll with "Fred" written backwards in chalk on the sole and the P.E. teacher owned the other plimsoll. The Headmaster owned a cane and if you cried ouch you got another smack with the cane. Mr.Savage,Mr.Cross and Mr Witt.
This is a result of the boom in teenage mums in the early 80s who’s children made the same mistakes so we have children, having children who just become grown up adult children
Ive a 22yr old nephew who doesn’t work and never wants to work and hes isolated himself from the entire family as we all have been trying to support him into work but at every turn hes lied and cheated to avoid it. He was abusive towards his grandparents and mother leading to them kicking him out. The gov provided a roof over his head and a program to get him into work and of course no surprises here hes avoided ‘the work’ and is now on their shit list being penalised for his lack of effort. If somebody doesn’t want to do something there is nothing anyone can do about it in todays world. His mother never raised a hand to him but did take away his toys and when he was not behaving as a child or put him on the naughty step, tried to reason with him etc and he seemed reasonable enough in his teens a good lad but when in came to college and work he puts zero effort and says he ‘choses’ not to work.
Sounds as though he's severely depressed and probably traumatised. Understandable when he's from a family who slag him off for all the world to see instead of helping him.
This is what happens when you raise a one click generation everything one tap away on your phone I remember working a weekend to buy my first album now same will give you access to all records on the web
The Government changed the law so that you cannot discipline your own children without social services getting involved and the children taken away "for their safety". I remember a story where a child wearing a nappy ran into the road and the dad caught them and smacked them on the bum. A member of the public complained and the father was hit with a restraining order from seeing the child even though the mother sat in court and said she didn't want that to happen. Family courts are closed and they make terrible decisions.
Gen a under 25s are expected to do the same job, same hours, have the same living costs if living independently, on a lower pay rate. When they can sit at home and make money off social media platforms like tiktok. I think everything has gone tech and olders don’t seem to grasp it. Andre can’t talk as his kids and ex missus are milking tiktok 😂😂😂😂
As someone who tutors A-level maths, further maths, chemistry and physics I can confirm that most students really aren't prepared to put in the hard yards. But any teacher who now calls a kid lazy is almost certain to lose his/her job.
Dont worry. The chinese kids are putting in the "hard yards". They will do the work.
Geotechnical engineer here. I can confirm that the levels of curosiity for engineering and technology have massively decreased. Universities are a bit of a joke. Large swathes of engineers I work with have to be sourced from outside the UK and even Europe. Most of the international students have a very poor grasp of written English and the many domestic students will do an MSc but they aren't really interested in pursuing long-term.
I would add that the GB News presenters are hardly adding anything either. Was watching on segment on electric cars and the presenters had done zero research. These presenters are nearly as bad. I've learnt not to lose sleep over it - luckily the UK is one of the most desirable places to work and bringing technical people from around the world is relatively easy. Please don't complain about immigration if all you want to be is RUclipsr. RUclips only pays if you get circa 2 million views a week and non-skippable 15 second adds. Hope this helps.
So zero teachers got fried?
I don't think its because of a lack of curiosity. more to do with the entry barrier being to high, cost of uni to high, and the likelihood of one of these firms giving you a job unless you are a math genius.@@lawrenceabbott5292
David, I am a tutor over here in the US for the same, math, chemistry, etc. and I could not agree more! Teachers are no longer able to do their jobs. How in the Hell do parents think one adult can keep an entire classroom of participation trophy children from chaos without using discipline is beyond me. *Not condoning caning by nuns just discipline.
Discipline is core, it's gone. It's as simple as that
Or people realise that capitalism keep poor people poor
@@run2cat4run That's why all of the world wants to live in the west, because capitalism has worked.
@@El.Cid17 and yet a lot of British are moving out
@@run2cat4runRubbish! It's got nothing to do with capitalism.. Pretty soon, there won't be any capitalism. We'll all be slaves to the communist totalitarian world we now live in. It'll be hellish like you never imagined.
that just shows that the west is winning at capitalism and the rest of the world is not@@El.Cid17
I'm a teacher and the disrespect and laziness I see gets worse every year. Behaviour is out of control and standard of work is really poor. I'm witnessing the collapse of society right before my eyes, and it scares me. What is the incentive to work hard anymore when they can get anything they want from their parents?
I'm assuming most of them are 'minority' children now from looking at the demographic make up of 'our' children now.
You're implying there's something out there to work hard for. Fun fact, there isn't. The opportunities aren't available like they once was. People ask their parents for help because they have no choice, its nothing to do with being lazy. Starting your own family now is completely out of reach for most men now. if laziness was the cause of all this. Then "by eck" there's some real lazy people around.
Do you ever ask them what they expect to be doing as a job when they leave school? Do they all expect to be invited to be starship pilots or some other fanciful nonsense? Do you ever tell them they'll be lucky to get a job asking people if they want fries with that? And do you point out that they'll be living with their parents forever?
lol very good, Yeah he probably conveniently misses all of that.@@stevemumbling7720
It's not that they are lazy their streets are over run with grooming gangs drug addicts there is no where for them to go and the work that you doesnt pay the Bills
When did British people start pronouncing the letter z as zee? I have always said the letter z as zed and so have those around me. 🧐
Totally agree.
One of my nieces is Gen Z she's just qualified as a mid wife that's after dropping out of college when her mum died and then going back in her early 20s and being the eldest on the course when she went back to college while holding a bar job to pay her way. so proud of her.
theres always some good ones
Who cares about the females. Its the males who really suffer. College is full of women. In fact they go out of their way to accept far more women than men
Much respect & I hope she has a promising career
@@peterdudgon3830there's always good ones & bad ones in every generation.
@@Emperor-Inker true but they have lions share of lazy bugers
Maybe they see people being delivered everyday being given houses and a lifetime of benefits, and think why bother.
yeah thats what it is.
This is also a big reason, why would people on benefits, openly accept the shit relationship, between the government and native population, follow the rules and pay tax into society that cares more for people, they don't even know, if they'll even assimilate into a culture they don't wish or care to understand.
Most people don't even want to accept, that there's a reason, behind it other than laziness. Your working so many hours, to get fucked by tax.. for a false sense of 'pride' that doesn't even affect the newer generation..
Why? Because even millennial's; nevermind the newer generation, understand that any pride associated with Great Britain left a long time ago, it's just worse now.
Exactly we are all paying for ones who have never contributed to our country ,and should be kicked out to where they came from , we are all to blame but the government and big businesses have cost our children their future ,for the bank balances disgrace and time the UK people stood up an put a stop to it
@@CathyThompson-o1ywell said!
I grew up in the 60s my parents attitude was you get nothing for nothing. I always seemed to have something to do like helping my parents on their 4 acre allotment at weekends & when I was 14 I was working in the local shop at weekends & school holidays. I know times change & all the regulations make it impossible for teenagers to have jobs but it was a good learning ground to prepare you for work life.
4 acre allotment? Sound more like a farm! You really do make some bizarre uniformed comments on here. Kids can still get a part time job, nothings changed over the last 30 years.
When I was 13, my parents bought a woodstove; and it was my job to supply the wood. It got rid of 95% of the heating bill, but the real reason was to teach me that hard work won't hurt you. My Dad and his friends worked me so hard for free that my first paying job seemed like a picnic.
Yes learn about how shit capitalism is
Learn to be cap doffing boomer, like you? Nah, you’re alright.
@@run2cat4run It's given you a good life. Name another system that works, that's right you can't.
Let's he honest, who does want to work? People these days just don't want to put up with bs.
And not realizing that the comfort they have comes for hard working people that came before. It is the beginning of the fall of what was built when people stop maintaining it. Lack of understanding and perspective. But I agree that nobody should put up with abuse. Hard work is not abuse.
Social media plays a big part in this everything for nothing entitled generation
so. im still part time. there is no incentive to work, so i dont. im fine. and im 32
@@puppets.and.muppets your part time but you don't work maybe you should have a lie down and think your last comment through
Just the tax rate is enough not to bother with working. Can actually have a very comfortable life living on benefits if your in the right area and not chasing status. If I could do life again I'd keep it simple, pay video games and live off the government. Hopefully they introduce UBI before I get too old. Tired of working free for 5 months of the year for the government.
i go slow in my part time job too. you cant take this system seriously. so i dont. it will change in time, but why waste your time right now ?@@exsubmariner
you cant joke your way into pension contributions. there are no houses, and so people wont work too hard. its a cold reality that there is not going to be enough tax contributions to fund your pensions. 'insert smiley face'@@exsubmariner
There have always been lazy people, but society used to shame them and make them pay the price. My Grandmother raised 9 kids during and after the Great Depression. Grandpa was a sharecropper and they had very little cash money; but they grew a huge garden and raised their own chickens and hogs. People were poor then in a way that people today cannot understand. Grandma would keep a pot of soup simmering on the stove for people who showed up hungry. Without exception, people would ask if they could do some chores in return for something to eat. They were flat broke and had nothing but they still had some self-respect. Contrast that to the entitlement mentality of today.
Sounds like a life of luxury if you ask me, raising 9 on one wage, huge garden and raising their own livestock. Having nothing is working 50 to 80 hours a week in a rented flat. But we don't know half, right?@@Julie-wx2gf
@@Julie-wx2gf He didn't have land; he worked someone else's land and paid with a big chunk of his harvest. That is what the word "sharecropper" means.
Boomers had it far easier than Gen Z. The dollar was far stronger. Avg house wasn't 100x the avg wage. Most of you boomers wouldn't be able to survive in this economy. Due to this brutal economy, we will see more multigenerational families living together like how it is overseas
@@Julie-wx2gf Exactlyyyyyy
The Over 50's are unemployed because HR Departments WON'T consider their Applications, NO MATTER how GREAT their past experience!
I worked for myself as a consultant well into my 60s.
Would rather employ a younger person who doesnt turn up,
In my experience of working with boomers, they generally take all day to complete a simple task and then sit there complaining about how young people don't do any work.
Rightly so we have a 76 years accountant and she makes so many mistakes she's not sharp anymore and must go on the cruise retire but she wont because she hate her husband and won't stay home
@@diegolove173Can she write coherent English sentences though ? .
Oh please! as a baby boomer I seem to remember my parents generation having the same opinion of myself and my friends!
and please don't get me started on how my grandparents felt ( national service would straighten 'em out!)
and "Bring back the birch!"
and generation "Z" will feel the the same towards their children and grandchildren when they reach their early 2os
I would like to think they have been disincentivised to want to work. They are driven. They do want to work, but the road blocks that have been put in front of them seem extremely hard to overcome. As we always discuss a house for them, it will cost 400k + a car will cost 25k to 80k depending on model, living expenses are some of the highest in recorded history.... and those that have benefited from that say "get to work" and contribute to our further comfort. .. I am a 40yo millennial who's doing well, and even I would be like F that...
I agree.I am Generation X and I work as hard as any Boomers did but couldn't move out of my Parents house for ages because of the rising cost of getting by.My work place only closes on Christmas Day and people who get weekends and Bank Holidays have the nerve to say I get it easy.
I have 2 jobs and struggle. If I lost one job, I would quit the other, as I’m not working to get into certain debt. I’d rather sink while not working, than work and sink.
Greedy companies not paying a living wage.
As a Gen Xer, laziness years ago got you nowhere. Now you can be supported by a welfare system and the laziness is encouraged.
What does job seekers pay, £65/week? If you're lucky you get Housing Benefit. I don't know how people on benefits survive.
If Gen Z is lazy then it says a lot about the generation that raised them. Imagine giving your kids a phone or tablet because you can't be bothered to be an actual parent and then complaining that they don't want to leave the device that actually raised them... It all starts at home. "hard work" is not a gene that you are or aren't born with, it's a value that you teach to your kids(or are supposed to anyway). Sounds like these adults are just upset at the consequences of not raising their kids properly.
@stevenbrown6593 And who's responsible for how Gen Z we're raised?
@stevenbrown6593 That's lazy parenting talk and you know it. A teacher can not force the kid to do work at home. If most of the power was in the teacher's hands do you think teacher's would call home when a kid acts up? You can't even brainwash a kid if they don't pay attention in the first place because they're on their phone or being disruptive.
Too busy working. Something the children should learn
Why does everyone these days only speak American? Generation Zed is what it should be...........sick and tired of US speak
"Gotten" is my favourite 🤮
oh yes that's diabolical - it's not English at all. @@itchyscratch3829
It was the Blair era when everyone got a badge just for turning up that has created this culture.
Yes, Blair really started the rot and Major before him. Millennials live under those two.
Its the parents, government, schools and societies fault for not punishing bad behaviour. My nieces lad who is now thirteen has been brought up to have manners and respect for others and we his family always comment on what a good lad he is.how many kids when told to go to bed, get a shower, do your homework or anything else get the simple response of ok with no argument or whinging.
And not enough sports
I have two millennials and two gen z's, nothing wrong with any of them, all brought up the same way. My advice is never make idle threats, step out of line and the consequences are these and then do it when you have to without fail.
I have two hard working respectable millennials, I have a bright but lazy Gen Z.
So much effort to live the most mundane existences, most of us work to barely survive nowadays, decades ago buying houses/saving was all possible on a single wage family, good luck with that nowadays.
Every Generation has said the previous generation was lazy and annoying.
Not true the previous generations have all worked harder, because they had too
It's easy to go criticise from the 30k houses now worth a quarter of a million. Where doing a service to the community could afford your 1 working household with food and a mortgage to reasonably pay off.
There is nothing worth working for anymore, and that's why it's not as valued as previous generations.
Parents fault.. we outsource Childcare so we can afford to feed our kids. We could also years ago grab ya kid by scruff of neck and say get on.. now by law you considered to have assaulted your kid. Kids go into school now you have police at door. Question is should governments parent as they try to or actual parents.
Completely agree! Parents are loosing rights, not legally allowed to discipline their own children.
The Age of Idiocy creating "Kidults" and the "Infantile Generation".
Totally agree - most of these kidults have never heard the word "NO" in their lives - brought up by helicopter or jelly fish parents or even the "bulldozer" parents, who dramatically clear every little obstacle out of the child's way - also those kids who are never held accountable for their actions, because Mommy and Daddy are themselves infantiles - these factors and more, attribute to all these "know nothing", self-indulged, self-involved, self-opinioned and self-centred little narcissists, who think the world evolves around them. And these weak and selfish egotists, dimwits and lazy morons are going to be the next leaders... what a joke! We see in Germany, how these kidults in the Govt are running the country over the edge into wreck and ruin, with everyone wondering if this is just plain stupidity or if it is maliciously meditated!
@@normabates1925 not quite, the boomers build today's world the entitled brats of today are the ones f'ing it up.
Exactly CREATING. Wander who created these? Social media? Diversity and inclusion? Transitions? Lockdown? They've been indoctrinated into communism and that wasn't gen z, it was older generations
What utter bullshit my daughter is 23 rent's a property wants a career in veterinary so been in college since 16 now in university an has a part time job at a vet so she is part of the z gen an not bloody lazy.
Exactly. I know plenty of young people who work hard.
This is just more nonsense from gb news.
@JB-el3mo Yeah. But the comments are mainly from the ignorant bunch of gb viewers who live in an echo chamber of hate and ignorance
I remember in the sixties and seventies the oldies would call the youngsters long haired layabouts
We were long-haired, but we were not layabouts. The hair didn't last long, anyway :)
Wow they did complain about the young people in the that time another thing they would say "they should not of got rid of national service they should be put in the army" I remember my grandad born in Victorian times he would get up when top of the pops was on and just turn it off my nanny would almost pass out and cover her eyes when a couple were just kissing on TV. But Macmillan was right we never had it so good and won't again I was a gpo telephonist plenty of overtime and you could leave a job in the evening and get another the next day loads of factory work men worked at fords people could buy their own houses but automation came in no mor gpo telephonists fords started to get robots loads made redundant ect ect computers .everything changed in the eighties the NHS started to go down .my son has to work long shifts he has a damaged lung his rent is so high I know how hard it is for the young ones .Yes Macmillan knew what he was talking about our generation had it good better than the ones before us and better than the ones after us .
Lack of discipline at home and in school. Talking to teachers I found out that they have no means of keeping kids in line. They need to know that doing bad has consequences .
Problem is that wages are not working for .
Imagine calling people lazy when your job involves sitting on a sofa 😂😂
She sits on a sofa for a few minutes in a week: I'm quite sure that a lot of hard work goes into being asked to come on this show.
@@DieFlabbergast... *Well said, they never let logic and critical thinking get in the way of a sensational claim.*
@@thebesttheworst2277 it's not a claim, it's a fact.
Thankyou 🙏🏼🤣
We raised both our children to be responsible by giving them chores, they had jobs at early ages, involved in sports, etc. Now one child is a responsible adult teaching and raising 2 small children. The other he works part time here and there, single, no ambition, still living at home (has a deadline of moving out in 2 months). Anyways, I take responsibility to a point because I don’t understand what had happened. Somewhere he got lost in the shuffle. There are so many more things outside our home and family life that has and is still influencing him. He’s an adult, and I am done feeling guilty taking responsibility for his nonsense. I’m truly tired of people saying it falls back on the parents.
You say you take responsibility for your offspring. How exactly? By kicking one out of your home and giving him a deadline? That's irresponsible given the economic circumstances. This isn't the 1950s. The opportunities aren't there like they once was.
People are complex; they are not programmable machines. Even cats and dogs, with their much smaller brains, display unique personalities, so what do expect from homo sapiens? You can bring up two children in exactly the same way, and they may still turn out completely different. This is nothing new: we have known about this since the dawn of civilisation.
His nonsense? Unless this guy is a modern day Nick Cotton, I'm not seeing what the problem is. I certainly don't see him as being public enemy number one. Be glad that he's not a career criminal, or an addict, or suffering some long-term illness. Sheesh.
Try having ambition, when your country doesn't care about you; your welfare, the only care is thought about outside the borders, while simultaneously watching the government bringing them in on your dime. Giving them everything.
And the housing costs raised so drastically, it isn't even feasible, on a wage that hasn't been raised either. Due to a constant influx of cheap labour.
Many millennial have resigned to the fact they may never own their own homes, some have to hope on the deaths of their immediate family, to raise the funds. Nevermind this new generation coming onto the scene.
Don't need older generations, talking down on things they got no clue about, because they have been stuck in the same job for the last 20-30 years of their lives. Knowing next to nothing of the job market, that would spit them out in a heartbeat. Because your cv doesn't have any 'keywords' sorted out by a algorithm before any real eyes land on it.
It's a hard sell at the end of the day. And that is what it is, you need an incentive to work.
I appreciate your comments. You don’t know the entire situation which is ok. We have helped him time and time again, however it’s now in-between of helping and enabling. We haven’t (and won’t) wiped our hands freely of him. When he is out there, we will still be here to guide. But because of many factors, the resentment builds up and we don’t want that to ruin the relationship we do have. We will get through it. I’m just sick of blaming parents all the time. As some of you said it is sad the economy, government, and so many other factors not helping. As for his nonsense? I’m talking about him making up every excuse for “not working” at a steady job and contributing to his own welfare.
I sit with these younger guys from work at our breaks and they are always ANGRY they are told they have to work a full day instead of leaving early. They are great guys except they just don't want to work! Ages 23, 26 and 28. I am 56. Sure I leave early SOMETIMES as a treat to myself, but I can't make a habit of it because I have bills to pay. I don't know how they manage. They don't seem to realize that its a place of business and shit has to get done. They are like overgrown children. Not all of their generation is like that of course but a lot more than us older gents and gals.
Funnily enough my department just sacked someone about your age for similar laziness. I work at a former airfield now used as a car storage facility, and his job was to deliver the parts to the workshops. He always took detours just to waste time and thrashed the van just to try and kill it quicker, then when he wasn’t delivering, he took extra breaks, never went to see what needed delivering, me and my colleague (21 and 19 if you ask) were always running around getting it all ready for him while he stood there, and he always left 15-30 minutes early. A nice guy, but a bloody pain.
@@alfienaylor1587 I don’t doubt it. I GENERALLY don't like to generalize but the laziness issue comes up a lot with the younger generation. Of course there are exceptions. Their parents after all are my age so clearly its something my generation failed to do that is the reason why they are the way they are. They need to get a better attitutude for their own good.
What also comes up a lot is people my age often say the younger generation doesn’t have any manners, but I defend them on that score. I went back to college in my 40’s and I just found all of these 20-something people to be SO NICE to me and each other. - particularly the men. The following generations I have similarly fpimd tp be just plain nice. I feel very strongly about that. I don't let people get away with trashing them on the manners issue. I also don’t like people to refer to them as “kids”. They are young adult men and women and referring to them as kids is disrespectful.
I remember my generation when we were their age as priding ourselves on being SNARKY all the time and I include myself in that at least a little bit. I am a reformed SNARKER. I am nice now. Honest.
“They are like overgrown children”
That’s exactly right
@alfienaylor1587
What you said doesn’t mean anything.
It’s happens much more with the newer generation.
I’m going through the same experience now.
It’s not only being completely careless at work.
It is the disrespect.
The disassociation with good manners and connection with other people.
The world is actually creating zombies.
I live in a HMO and have done for most of my life (I DO NOT OWN IT) - but this house has been for the last 20 years - I'm 54 and came from the school of "hard knocks" - the Gen-Z "adults" that have come to this house just after college / Uni are LITERALLY like 5 yr old children. Won't clean, hardly cook, ask then to do anything like tidy up after themselves and you either get silence or "verbal", don't know how to use a washing machine, never even seen a mop or a broom, their rooms always stink - on and on.
Gen-Z when they leave home are not even remotely "housebroken" or fit to live in a shared society. I've quite literally had young black 20 somethings scream in my face that I'm being a "racist mofo" just because I keep asking them to clean, like I do all the others.
II even had one of them assault me for it - just asking them to "clean their shit". and these are the people that will be voting on the decisions of our future and the future of the UK. Not only are we importing people who hate us - we've grown our own crop of them as well.
By comparison, there has been quite a few older 30+ foreign workers (all legal, visa's etc), mostly IT types from India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Senegal and Nigeria and ALL OF THEM, know how to cook, clean, do chores, and are RESPECTFUL, pleasant people to be around. The west has become soft, too soft for it's own good.
Yea I don't think social services remove children in those countries. This one they do.
@@hollyclough6761 When a child in a western country can say "if you hit me I'll sue" you KNOW that country is FUCKED. that moment happened in the UK 25 years ago - what happened 25 years ago? Gen Z were born.
Any more dumb statements?
It is perhaps a factor but never the core issue. @@hollyclough6761
They (activist teachers) literally tell young black kids to play on their race in school. If that's not a recipe for disaster, I don't know what is.
If only we could go back to the 1930s when young people were invisible.
Why work when you are taxed to the hilt to pay for migrants, people claiming disability for spurious reasons, big issue sellers from eastern europe, over generous and underworked civil servants, council workers and politicians and the pensions of ex state employees.
More and more people realise the less you do the less you are taxed the more time you have for yourself, many will never be able to afford a house and find they are pushed down the que for social housing by people born in other countries who will never make a net contribution into the system. Sod that for a game of soldiers!
Jodie foster is a legend
I'm 54..I get up at 0345 and finish 5pm and work 56 days straight without a day off.
It's called wanting things in life I can call my own
56 DAYS IS ILLEGAL.
Talk about a sweeping statement 😂
It is much harder for the young generation low wages long shifts McMillan was right us older generations he said we never had it so good .
i only work part time. long shifts ?
What is this crap? GenZ are max 26 years old, when I was at that age I was partying every single night. And that one guy who has an 11 and a 7 year old what does he expect them to do? Let them be kids, man, like you were too at that age. Also being a bit rebellious is a good thing for children, they might be wrong at first, but they need to learn how to say no.
I'm sad to say that my youngest has never had a proper job. He returned home 15 years ago and has never had a job since. He gets stroppy if asked to do something, moans if we haven't bought a certain food or want to control costs by reducing the heating or asking for lights to be turned off. Thinks paying £180 month entitles him to have an easy life and be fed and everything paid for. This is all played on the 'mental health issues' card.
I paid tax and NI when I was 15! That was nearly 60 years ago!
As it says in the Bible; "spare, the rod and you will spoil the child"
When did they get peter andre in?
The young are WEAK
I don't think they are particularly lazy, I know lots of hard-working young people. The problem is that they have grown up seeing their parents constantly in and out of work and often getting nowhere. Also, they work hard, but the money they earn does not reward them as much as it did us. When I started work in the late 70s (part-time in school), I would earn about £6.50 for an eight hour shift. However, a pint of beer was about 32p. So that is about 20 beers. Now, minimum wage £5.28 per hour, for an eight hour shift = £42.24, at £3.50 a pint = 12 pints of beer. When I was a year older, my father just put me on his car insurance with a surcharge so small, he didn't even ask me to pay for it - try it now! It was about 50p to go into a nightclub, one shift was equal to 13 entry fees! Now it is £10 and you can only go in 4 times. As for cigarettes, it is horrific! When we went to work, we generally earned a full adult wage unless you were on an apprenticeship and that was at least 75% of full salary from your day of starting. Most of my friends were married, with children and mortgages by the time they were 21. We saw our parents in stable full-time employment all their lives and benefiting from it, so we too were motivated. How this generation keeps going, I don't know.
Minimum wage is only 5.28 if you are under 18 It is 10.18 for you are older than 18. When I started work in 1970 under 18's always were paid less and I was paid less as a female! If you want to get on in life you do have to work for it . People on benefits should remember they are living off of other people's earnings and should consider themselves very fortunate they are able to do so. I wonder if they would be more motivated to work if there were no benefits available to them. I worked in a job centre for 15 years and can say from experience there are plenty of lazy people around who do not want to work.
It is true that there are a lot of lazy people around but if the incentive to work is reduced then there will be even more. I think it is ok to reduce benefits, but only when there are jobs to go to. I am in favour of the government being "employer of last resort." That is, instead of paying unemployment benefits, give people work at minimum wage up to the point where they earn what they would do on benefits (including HB, CTB etc). It might cost the state more in cash terms, but would also get something back for tax money and nobody could be considered "unemployed."
There is a lot of work that needs to be done, especially with regards to the cleanliness of our cities. However, the government should employ them, not farm them out to the private sector or else the private sector would remove real jobs in favour of employing them. Not a good idea in my view. In my town, it is fairly easy to find minimum wage work now but I understand it is not the same everywhere. @@LynnMaguire-t4u
@@LynnMaguire-t4ujob centre Staff are now sanctioning and starving the Sick Absolutely Disgusting how they treat people
The industry I am in we used to be beating people off with a stick. You knew you could be replaced in an instant if you were under performing. Now we struggle to keep staff and recruit. Even though you can earn very well indeed these young kids just cannot be bothered to put the hard work and hours in. They just all want it handed on a plate or be Fanstergramfluencers. It's ridiculous!
Maybe they don't want to be in a situation where they can "dropped in an instant".. the veil has been lifted. You thought you were working towards something, I'm a prosperous country with a government that had your best interests at heart. Kids today with a brain know nothing could be further from the truth. You ever looked at it from this perspective? Can you really blame them?
@@emcg.9655 You are missing my point. My point is that there were always people who wanted to get into our industry because of the money they can earn. Now they don't want to because they have to put hard work and graft into it. They want it handed on a plate. These younger generation don't last the test of time. I work along side people who have been in my industry 30 years +. You will never get that now.
It all depends on your definition of hard work? hours? work rate? enthusiasm? I've never noticed any laziness in the younger generation. Just a lack of economic incentive.
@@3rdElementGames There's plenty of economic incentive. The younger generation are just lazy.
@@myrants5836sure uber eats may have some spare employees
I'm Gen-Z and I agree. Most people in my generation expect things to be handed to them on a silver platter, if not the throw a tantrum. We are doomed
I wouldn't say that. There is hope for some of you. Just always keep in mind no one owes you anything and you have to work for what you want. Blessings to you.
@@catwoman6559Yeah if they worked harder they'd have jobs for life as school leavers with final salary pensions, unprecedented economic growth, average houses at 3x the average salary with no deposit required and an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society where they aren't competing against racial strangers for resources, jobs and services in their own homelands. You know, all the things the boomers worked so hard for.
You can always brood about many things and paralyse yourself. But what kind of life is that? If you can't change the circumstances, you have to change yourself or start a revolution. These are the choices.@@noogate2672
Bring back military service….
Parents are the absolute reason of these kids have no drive or manners.
Good Times make weak people
We were taught the rules of behaviour at home and at school and it stuck with me my whole life.
'I got caned by nuns' never did me any harm what next you got ab*sed by priests never did you any harm... Can we not strive for better because you didn't have better is that it?
When house prices are a rip-off what's the incentive to work hard?
then how are the plucky investors going to make a profit if you dont work ?
@@puppets.and.muppets Private or Public?
Not having to live in a freezing cold leaky cardboard box is a pretty good incentive.
@@stevemumbling7720 Sounds like a 'new build' house? 😂
At last a generation to make mine look good.
Around the area I live in a large number of people, some older but mostly younger than me, do not work. Able bodied men and women. They sail through life on Universal Credit and PIP and indulge on booze and drugs. Deplorable.
Too many parents like the guy on the right, making excuses for kids behavior !!!
Too many parent dont want to parent, they want to "friends" with their kids.
Wake up !! its your job to equip them for adulthood not be their " friend"
Is she wrong?
NO
Why are we so scared to say the truth.
These kids write words like: “Prolly”, “Merika” etc….
That’s just being lazy.
They do not listen. They do not show respect for anyone.
They have no ethics.
They have no good manners.
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Don't want to hand their wage over to a landlord you mean. Who does what to work for nothing?
So I imagine Gen Z are going to jump on this looming "Universal Basic Income" without much complaint?
Our country has for years Rewarded Failure. Starting from the very top and working down.
Too many parents nowadays just want to be their children's friend. Parenting is too important to be put on a friendship basis. Parents never get to be their children's friend till they are well grown up.
Well said
Maybe make it socially acceptable for mums to bring their children up like in the old days. As a mother now, if you don't work you're a scrounger, if you do work you're neglecting! Win win
Work doesn’t pay so why bother
This 💯
Then you only have yourself to blame.
well if you are on benefits you need to hope others don't feel like you? If nobody works where would your benefit money come from? You do realise it is other people's earnings?
Jodie Foster and the other lady are spot on.
Canned by nuns, i would pay good money for that😂.
I am from the Z generation, and I understand that a lot of times you have to work, and work really hard, but when you hustle all day and you cannot even afford to live in a house that isn’t a studio with no doors, well, you start to get unmotivated. That adding the fact that seeing a lot of people that are the same age and making money through social media doing nothing (not everyone, but the majority), it’s going to have an effect on young people, and also the pressure of having 300 degrees to work for a minimum salary. So. Yes. There are some entitled young people and those who don’t want to hustle, but isn’t it also a bit of older generations’ fault, don’t ask to your employees something you weren’t asked from your employer, and don’t expect an average-position performance from people that you pay as if they were doing an internship. This generation is going to work a lifetime to support YOUR retirement plans, and it’s going to die working for people of YOUR generation who barely got a degree, still living in bad apartments YOU are renting for an exorbitant price, so who’s the one to blame for young people rebelling?
That older generation has worked hard for a lifetime, to pay for your education and health care. It's time to pay back.
@@El.Cid17Pay back should not mean being 30 and still not affording, after years of working, to live on your own. Don’t know other people’s experiences but I answered an application where I was asked an age below 26 with at least 4-5 years of experience, 2 degrees and at least 2 foreign languages. Now, I’m so so convinced that we should pay back and make the system work, but the system is breaking itself because of the demanding, isn’t it kind of obvious that people are going to leave and where they feel more appreciated or do thing they find more easy if they get no rewards? I do not think that asking to have enough money to live a normal life in a 1 bedroom apartment should be considered an expensive luxury.
@@El.Cid17what education? most graduates leave uni unemployable.
Yeah, we know, you didn't ask to be born into this terrible world. Who cares. In the not too distant future, it will be your turn, your problem and you sort it out.
100% Kids don't want to slave away just to be able to afford to pay for their boomer landlord to pay off their mortgage and fund their retirement.
Stop pushing kids into university. Tell them they need to save money. Start with a "starter home" rather than 3 rungs up the ladder. Never give your kids money for nothing, but match what they earn. Give them chores. Never make empty threats. Always be truthful. Tell them they are loved and will always have a home.
Gen Zee? Are we in America?
Got any jobs that pay more than slave wages?
we have some volunteer jobs in the city.
Tania is absolutely right, on everything she says here!
AGREE!!!
I really can't take to Peter on this!!!
@@johncook8141 I know what you mean, I was shocked to see him, but, now I’ve got used to the idea, I like him on here and think he’s good! Rather he was on here than joining the LBC lot!
Junior doxtors are a prim example
junior vaxers
Junior doctors? Really? They work extremely hard and end up in a huge amount of debt. Stop believing nonsense Tory propaganda.
The new breed of self-entitled, poorly educated, badly trained, incompetent British medics who hold the country to ransom and play Russian roulette with patients lives.
Peter Andre…… my man😎 the world needs More Andre !
Gen Z are no more lazy than any generation before them, how many of us were focussed at a young age? The biggest problem is the youth can't see what benefit they will gain from working hard as everything is too expensive and out of their reach. Work is supposed to pay and it doesn't, that's not Gen Z's fault.
If they lose their job...they go beg on the corner. That is the first course of action when you need money and are able to work? I can't imagine my grandfather or father doing that when they moved, and left everything, and had to start again.
I was beaten to within an inch of my life for eating an Opal Fruit in class. Bloody kids don't know they're born.
... *made to make the mouth water and initiate a Teachers physical rage.* - Mars PR Team circa 1980
I got caned so badly back in the mid 70's for smoking cigarettes. I was severely hurt by my sadistic headmaster. I said nothing. I should have gone to A&E. Sometime later, this monster beat a boy so badly,the police were involved,and the creep was invited to stand down. He should have been prosecuted for assault. The man was a drunken pig.
As long as we accept and tolerate it…… it will persist.
Its interesting gb news's take on things lately. Everyone is lazy who doesn't do what the status quo says. If people have incentive for their graft then they wont become lazy, complacent and or dependent. Why do you think so many employers etc are happy to take low skilled labour etc.....its because they work cheap and accept what they can for their graft here. Mist average people in this country can see that.....its just the middle and upper classes like much of this panel cant see this.
i love being lazy. i have managed to grift along nicely for the last 15 years. i dont really need a lot of money as i live very simply.
The thing is that boomers never had the internet when they were younger so they dont know the pressure of having to keep up with their social media. As well as my day job I am also an Instagram model and I have to post pictures daily or I will start losing followers. Having to work as a model and do a 10 to 3 job 4 days a week is next to impossible. It takes me 90 minutes to put my makeup on and get dressed so I can do my photoshoot + it takes me 20 minutes to commute home from work. That means it can be literally 5 o'clock before I finish working each day, it is crazy how little time I get to myself now I am an adult.
Is it a joke or what? It is normal for an adult to work 8 hours a day (5 times a week) then grab the kids at school and on their way home drop in the shop and hit home around 6:30 pm. Then cook a decent meal while checking the kids' homework and play with them after supper. Hard but that is life. I guess, your parents demonstrated it to you?
@@editfazekas3854 I work very hard actually. I already told you I work two jobs, maybe you didn't read that part?! I don't have any kids and frankly I don't want any either. If you want to work 8 hours a day 5 days a week then that is up to you but that seems crazy to me. Maybe if you worked faster you could do the work in less time and work the same number of hours that I do?
@@MadisonBellis ur a woman, its ur job to have kids
Who wants to work 9-5 and still have nothing to show for it?
I don't expect many people want to work but people have always done it because they need to live- that is buy food, etc How do you survive if you do not work? Apart from living on benefits which is living off other people's earnings. Why should people work to support you?
Nobody wants to work 9-5 you still have to work to pay your bills bottom line. Bills don't care if you don't want to work if you don't work prepared to get evicted.
Also gen Z and Millennials don't even do a good job at saving their money. My cousin works at Five Guys and he talks about all the Millennials and gen Zs that come in there and buy burgers for $13 dollars. Four burgers at Five Guys cost over 40 dollars and if you add got two milkshakes that's over 50 dollars right there.
*9-6
gen-z are more aware of they're rights than reponsibilitiy's and when they start work and find out gen-x won't put up with they're bull they can't cope
Laziest, most self entitled people you will ever meet, certainly not all but a very big majority.
Totally agree!
100%. Well said Jodie and thank you Tonia, nearly always agree with her. Says it how it is !
Life is tough, if you don't work hard for what you want you'll end up with nothing and it'll be your own fault
What about those in full time work and still can't afford things ? Ignorance is bliss right ? You work hard to get your benefits I take it ?
You heard the man, stop being lazy, oh, and those 50 hours a week you're doing, try doing 90 or you'll end up with nothing. and that'll be YOUR fault.@@stequality
@@3rdElementGames another troll coming off the conveyor belt? Get a job and pay for your macdonalds instead of sponging for it
i was agreeing with your initial comment about working full time and still not being able to afford anything.@@stequality
@@3rdElementGames sorry misunderstood! Lol I take what I said you back and divert it to OP
Our music teacher had a size 14 plimsoll with "Fred" written backwards in chalk on the sole and the P.E. teacher owned the other plimsoll.
The Headmaster owned a cane and if you cried ouch you got another smack with the cane.
Mr.Savage,Mr.Cross and Mr Witt.
They're real names!
🤣 We had a Mr. Dick
This is a result of the boom in teenage mums in the early 80s who’s children made the same mistakes so we have children, having children who just become grown up adult children
Ive a 22yr old nephew who doesn’t work and never wants to work and hes isolated himself from the entire family as we all have been trying to support him into work but at every turn hes lied and cheated to avoid it.
He was abusive towards his grandparents and mother leading to them kicking him out. The gov provided a roof over his head and a program to get him into work and of course no surprises here hes avoided ‘the work’ and is now on their shit list being penalised for his lack of effort.
If somebody doesn’t want to do something there is nothing anyone can do about it in todays world.
His mother never raised a hand to him but did take away his toys and when he was not behaving as a child or put him on the naughty step, tried to reason with him etc and he seemed reasonable enough in his teens a good lad but when in came to college and work he puts zero effort and says he ‘choses’ not to work.
What "work" was offered?
Sounds as though he's severely depressed and probably traumatised. Understandable when he's from a family who slag him off for all the world to see instead of helping him.
This is what happens when you raise a one click generation everything one tap away on your phone I remember working a weekend to buy my first album now same will give you access to all records on the web
Gen Zee = Gen Zed! Semiliterate is being generous.
Agree 💯
The Government changed the law so that you cannot discipline your own children without social services getting involved and the children taken away "for their safety". I remember a story where a child wearing a nappy ran into the road and the dad caught them and smacked them on the bum. A member of the public complained and the father was hit with a restraining order from seeing the child even though the mother sat in court and said she didn't want that to happen. Family courts are closed and they make terrible decisions.
Gen a under 25s are expected to do the same job, same hours, have the same living costs if living independently, on a lower pay rate. When they can sit at home and make money off social media platforms like tiktok. I think everything has gone tech and olders don’t seem to grasp it. Andre can’t talk as his kids and ex missus are milking tiktok 😂😂😂😂
You can't always blame the parents there's alway one in the family
You are so right Tonia x
True
We had to live in a cardboard box and eat sweepings off the road when i was a nipper....
Oh it was you outside our house? We always wondered where you went.
Sweepings? We used to dream of sweepings!
😂😂😂
Cardboard box?!! Very la di da!
Luxury
Gen x, the house revoled around the parents, and the kids fitted in.
Now the house revolves around the kids
Agree with Pete evety body wants everything now
My new 60 year old housekeeper is a heaps better worker than the previous 16 year old housekeeper. Shouldn't it be the other way round?
Those people of the program are deluded - they just DON'T KNOW what reality is.