Gen Z Believes They Shouldn’t Need a Skillset to Get a Job, Just a Winning Personality
Red State | 11/20/2023 | Joe Cunningham
Corporate workers are discovering whether or not they’re “personality hires” as the term has gained steam on social media in recent weeks.
Bella Rose Mortel, a 22-year-old social media strategist at newsletter platform Beehiiv, went viral this week labeling herself a personality hire, and suggesting that other Gen Zers might embrace a more “playful” attitude at work.
The term “personality hire” refers to an employee beloved for bringing a positive attitude and seamless interpersonal skills to the office — usually to compensate for a lack of hard skills or productivity.
I blame the sitcom “Friends” for the current state of entitlement in our nation. People, young and old alike, think that you can have a life where you devote a couple of hours a week to your job, but are paid enough money to live in Greenwich Village and sit around a coffee shop with your friends. Despite your lack of skills and any semblance of a work ethic, you are promoted at work, able to open successful businesses, and land lucrative jobs better than the ones you’re currently ignoring. And it never cuts into your social life.
I deserve it. I deserve yours. I deserve it all.
Well we certainly didn’t cartoons all day like they do.
Yeah, only on Saturday mornings.
Or during breakfast, maybe after school on Popeye & Janie’s Tree House.
What are we talking about?
Productivity is a dying vestige of the old White-Privileged business model. There is a new paradigm that promotes endless fun, and freedom to express distain for all archaic ideals. It wouldn’t do much for the bottom line, though…
My role today will be played by computers and AI. No more plumbers, electricians, ditch diggers, mechanics etc etc…
We have people at the top that watched too many episodes of The Jetsons and are now regularly smoking dope..
I have certain set of skills… but I’m stuck here at IMAO to help pay the bills. Since I don’t actually get paid that is not going well.
I, too, have a certain set of skills … of which my wife mostly disapproves
I don’t even have a Wife or Kids and they all disapprove of everything I do before I even do it.
Very prudent of them.
Where do I apply for the position of Chief Morale Officer?
In the sauna, after Sauna Hours.
Don’t we usually go with a new intern for that position?