The latest job market news is that while many hundreds of thousands fewer jobs than were initially reported were created, unemployment is still trending down. I have a non-partisan theory about why that is. The idiots that dwelt at the bottom of the barrel are finally getting hired. Anyone who already had a modicum of ability and common sense is already employed.
The stupidity I have to deal with at physicians' offices, the banks, calling customer service, getting a haircut, the grocery store, and with the entry level new hires in my own business is aggravating beyond description. Twice in as many weeks, I have called the HR manager into my office find out exactly where the hell he and our recruiter are finding these idiots. He has shown me the applications, resumes (when they're submitted), interview notes and reference calls for some of these employees I have wanted to throttle and they really are the best of what's left. I have provided written fucking instructions with boldface type and underlines on the most important parts of the instructions and they are not followed. I get tired of the incompetence and lack and urgency and source documents and generate reports myself, only to have the clerical and admin staff I asked to do it proudly send me the reports hours after I have finished reading them. It is consistently the zoomer generation and a couple of late millennials. We don't even hire boomers, they lack the technological savvy for an office which uses as little paper as possible. Generation X is the prime mix of experience and talent, but I cannot have an office full of mid-career to senior staffers. We have tried shadowing, mentoring, knee-to-knee training, sandbox technology training and evaluations, and the newest crop of workers cannot get it.
The most plausible explanation I have heard is "popcorn brain" their minds are so programmed by tiktok and instagram shorts that they cannot focus long enough to read and comprehend a complete set of written instructions or focus on training enough to learn. They have to spoon fed in bite size increments. They want to train from home, instead of in the office. Our society has really failed in raising the Zoomer generation. Masks and remote learning has not prepared them for the workplace. They will be led by the next generation of elites because so few of them are able to function as autonomous and empowered individual adults.
Before I retired and sold my business we had many excellent employees, sounds to me like you don’t know how to manage your employees. If you hire good people and train them well, they’ll succeed, if you’re too lazy to manage them properly it’s on you.