
According to a recent New York Post article, “A majority of Gen Z and millennial workers believe that “cheating” in the workplace is completely acceptable, such as napping on the clock or using AI to perform tasks.”
While I don’t believe it should be acceptable—just as I didn’t think it is acceptable to gun down a CEO—in both cases I can understand why they did it, and perhaps we should start assigning some of the responsibility for this behavior where it belongs—at the top.
Consider the following…
What does a health insurance company and a Gen Z or millennial worker have in common? Both provide some sort of service in exchange for money.
What does an employer and a client of a health insurance company have in common? Both pay someone money to get some sort of service.
For the Health Insurance company, they are being paid each month to cover their client’s medical needs. Yet instead of actually providing all the services they lead their customer to believe they are getting, they often “Delay, Deny, and Defend” in an attempt to avoid handing over all the services they promised the client, thus putting more money in their own pockets.
Now let’s turn to the Gen Z and millennial worker. They see how these CEOs are making MILLIONS of dollars a year by cutting corners and not delivering all that the health insurance client believes they are paying for.
If the big boys at the top can do it, why not them? At least when they do it, in most cases no one is going to die. While it may not put more money in their pockets like the big CEOs, it will give them some time, and what do they say? Time is money.
Not only are big companies like Health Insurance Companies setting the example, but they are also protected by our government. Look how the “authorities” quickly tracked down the alleged shooter. Gen Z and millennials are not stupid; they know if they go to New York and someone shoots them in the street, the authorities won’t be putting a fraction of the effort into finding the shooter.
I am a firm believer that if we want our children—or anyone we have any influence over—to behave in a certain way, we need to set an example. Such as, a man can’t expect his son to show respect to his mother if the man displays disrespect to his wife.
Look what happened after Trump was elected president. Trump is an adjudicated rapist. While you might disagree with the civil ruling against him, New York, Judge Lewis A Kaplan said, “…Mr. Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law…” Perhaps you don’t see Trump as a rapist, but apparently a jury of his peers did.
My point in bringing this up, what happened right after Trump was elected? Trump supporter Nick Fuentes went on social media boasting that with Trump’s win, women were subject to the rules of men and then said “Your bodies, our choice.”
That rapey comment went viral on social media with other trolls posting it in women’s comments. Reportedly, some schoolboys were using the phrase to taunt female classmates.
Terrific, guys. The top has just set an example how to treat women and girls.
We need to stop trashing the behavior of the younger generation when the behavior of the older generation is a dumpster fire.
If we want our citizens to behave better, perhaps those who are considered our leaders need to start setting a better example.
(Photo: Lily and Danny on the sofa. We didn’t want our dogs on the sofa, but with the example we set, there they are!)
(More about the pups: Lily (left) Danny (right) were named for two of the main characters in my Haunting Danielle series. Well, sorta. When we got Danny as a very young pup he was already being called Danny. We could have changed the name, but my daughter pointed out we should keep the name, for Danielle aka Dani in the series, and then name the female we were getting, Lily. They are miniature Australian Shepherds. While they are not biological siblings, we’ve told them they are. Lily has been spayed, Danny neutered. You can’t breed two tri aussies without a great risk of birth defects. Both are spoiled and well loved.)
Very well said. As I was brought up there are two sides to every story. The sad part of this is when someone only presents part of either side of the story top suit their agenda taking the original intent out of context.
A sofa without a dog to cuddle isn’t worth sitting on …in my humble opinion
True!