Collecting Quick Feedback Generation Y (ages 16 - 35)

[XtremeResident]

Hey Everyone,

I'm currently working on a project at at work that involves absenteesim rates amongst the Y Generation (those aged 16-35).

There seems to be a trend that anyone within this particular age group tend to call in sick to their jobs more often than those over the age of 35.

Why do you think this is?

Feel free to say what you think, feel, or even relate it to personal experiences!

Any feedback would be appriciated

Thanks in advance!

[huskyfan23]

They'd rather use a sick day to take the day off than use a vacation day.

[XtremeResident]

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Good example! Anyone else?

[Evil Ernie]

It's ********. Every generation thinks that they're better than the next or previous.

I think that that gen x people are less intelligent. Let's takes a poll.

[XtremeResident]

A poll? i think its obvious what the results will be!

[huskyfan23]

I don't know about Y being smarter than X, but I know it's definitely smarter than Z.

[Evil Ernie]

It's ********. Every generation thinks that they're better than the next or previous.

I think that that gen x people are less intelligent. Let's takes a poll.

I don't know about Y being smarter than X, but I know it's definitely smarter than Z.

see.........??

[Goelz83]

I think parenting is getting worse so kids nowadays are not taught good values at a young age. When these kids get older, they become bad employees.

Most of the time, if children are raised in a good household, they turn into upstanding adults that are good workers. When children get raised in a **** home, they turn into **** employees.

[Personal experience time: My parents have held down jobs their entire lives and go to work every day. They have raised four children that have graduated college and are now all working full-time or in graduate school. A girl I work with had a screwed-up family life (based on what she has told me) when she was younger and she can't go a full month without getting too drunk to get into work on time the next morning.]

[DennyCrane]

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Entitlement issues

As a manager, I find it extremely frustrating when my staff abuse the system. Their mentality is "If you didn't expect me to use it, then why give it to me?"

When I was growing up I was almost never aloud to stay home from school. I literally had to be thowing something up, or crapping someone out if I wanted to stay home from school. And if I did stay home, I wasn't aloud to watch TV, talk or the phone, or hang out with my friends...even when I was "feeling better" as soon as school was conveniently over for the day.

I am actually part of Gen Y, but the type of parenting I received was not typical for my generation. Many of my friends got to stay home at least once a month (I was lucky if I got 1 day a year), and they usually had extended vacations where they were pulled out of school (because apparently 2 months in the summer, plus Christmas & Spring Break just wasn't enough). How is that teaching your kids the value of good old hard work people? This is exactly why Gen Y feels entitled to abuse sick time; it's how they were brought up.

Disclaimer: I've also dealt with my fair share of Gen X people who are chronic abusers of sick time, but that seems to be more the exception rather than the rule.