A Failed Generation

Or a generation setup for failure. This is sad, and I don't know that you can blame this on the lockdowns, or not only on the lockdowns. San Francisco employers are hiring etiquette coaches for Gen Z

Didn't any of them have parents? They have no basic skills, and some of them don't even understand personal hygiene.

One supervisor told [Rosalinda Randall, a Marin-based etiquette coach] a new hire repeatedly left food wrappers scattered on the communal lunch table, assuming janitors would clean it up. ‘Their manager didn't know how to handle it, as they didn't want to sound like a parent,' said Randall.

Companies have been reduced to spending money to teach Zoomers how to act like grown ups.

• how to make eye contact
• where to stick your name tag (always on the right)
• how to ask for — not demand — things from your boss.
• personal hygiene (because two new hires did not shower or change their shirts for weeks)
• why being an "office siren" is inappropriate

Hat tip to Not the Bee with Companies are hiring etiquette coaches to help Zoomers acclimate to the workplace, and MaddMedic.