Dollar Tree Manager fired for sign:"Don't hire Gen Z's. They don't know what work actually means."

[Demovictory9]

A Dollar Tree manager in Bremen, Indiana was fired from their job after posting a controversial sign outside of the store last week, according to NBC affiliate WNDU.

The handwritten sign had been seen by a number of people entering the store, allowing them to take pictures of it and post them online.

"I apologize for us closing AGAIN," the sign said. "My 2 new cashiers quit because I said their boyfriends couldn't stand here for their entire shift.

"Don’t hire Gen Z’s. They don’t know what work actually means. NOW HIRING! *Baby Boomers ONLY, thanks!"

According to the Pew Research Center, someone born between 1997 and 2012 is considered in Generation Z, while a person born between 1946 and 1964 is considered part of the Baby Boomer generation."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/dollar-tree-manager-fired-after-posting-controversial-sign-outside-store/ar-AAWABiG

"We are aware that an unauthorized sign was posted at our store for a brief period of time. The handwritten message was absolutely not approved by or condoned by our Company," Guiler said in a statement.

[pwb]

1. Yeah they didn't mean it.

Wink wink.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. I Actually Believe Corporate

This was definitely not something that would conform to corporate HR policy.
Becoming a manager of a dollar store does not require a great deal of business savvy.
This local store manager is proving that.
Besides this store manager is unaware that a third of Gen Zers wouldn't even be working yet. Corporate HR knows that.
The manager is a buffoon, and nothing more sinister needs to be inferred.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

13. +1 (nt)

[brush]

2. Why'd he leave out Millennials and GenXers on the sign?

GenXers always get left out though, the forgotten generation for some reason.

[JanMichael]

5. That's what I noticed. Usually it is just X that is skipped.

[d_r]

19. Forgotten like

The latch key kids we were.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

22. Yup.

Gen x latchkey kid too.

[happybird]

24. We don't mind being left out/forgotten

We just want to be left alone to do our thing, whatever it may be.

[iemanja]

30. Because they aren't the one's he's had trouble with.

[brush]

33. No trouble with boomers either.

[XanaDUer2]

3. Why would their boyfriends hang around for their shifts?

That's some weird-ass shit.

[Coventina]

8. Lack of anything better to do, apparently.

[Demovictory9]

9. I supervised young people, I'd catch friends and such hanging around .. had to put a stop to it.

I'd walk up to the desk/station and see a person slide off to the side, waiting for me to leave. Young people stuff if not managed.

[XanaDUer2]

14. At my old job, coworkers' and

My family or friends would stop by to visit or have lunch, or just say hi. But there would have been issues with them staying all day with the employee, esp in employee-only areas.

That's just weird and inappropriate. So is the sign.

Manager is probably "salaried" and short staffed. Imo, short staffing is abusive. It was at my old job

[Skittles]

15. yes, I would tend to think that is young people stuff

as opposed to generational stuff

[Mariana]

27. Well, let's not take the manager's idiotic sign as gospel.

Bosses have been known to lie, believe it or not, and this one obviously isn't very bright. For all we know the employees quit because the manager was a power-tripping asshole who threw a temper tantrum because the guys showed up 1/2 hour before the shift was over or some such thing.

[Claire Oh Nette]

28. Making sure their girl doesn't look at any other guys...

Not a sign of a healthy relationship.

[XanaDUer2]

29. It does seem like monitoring

Nt

[walkingman]

6. Gen Z'ers are so mistreated. Just ask them.

[Sympthsical]

20. I'm sure a "No One Over 60" sign would've been met with the measured calm

We have come to expect with these issues.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Glad this ageist asshole got fired. What a dick (nt)

[Demovictory9]

10. at least he was ageist for older, usually it's the other direction

[WhiskeyGrinder]

25. "at least"

[Coventina]

11. Good luck finding enough Boomers to employ.

Aren't most of them retired by now?

I'm (proudly) Gen-X and I already qualify for early retirement.
(I could never afford it, though).

[Skittles]

16. well I am still at it.....

I swear, Coventina, you just never know what will happen.....staying employed is a pretty good idea I think

[Coventina]

17. Oh yeah, definitely. I wouldn't dream of retiring now.

I need my job for as long as I can physically handle it!!

[Takket]

12. amazing the store struggled to find good help considering the huge wages they surely offer

[NightWatcher]

18. Dollar Tree manager was flexing on someone?

He's had at least 20 years head start on these Gen Z'ers and the best he could manage is Dollar Tree manager?


He got fired, so he'll walk the half a block down the street and apply at the Everything's A Dollar store.

[ananda]

21. This is a trend among rich conservative types.

My newest bridge partner thinks that way too.

I don't like to get into conflicts at bridge, so I
just kept silent, and the subject dropped like lead.

I think she got the message.

I had another partner a few years ago who would
go on and on about bigotry toward Hispanics
and also work. I finally said enough and left the
table, and we were never partners again.

[Ishoutandscream2]

23. I'm a tail end Boomer

One month younger than President Obama. 60 years old. There’s no way I would want to work at such a place. Plus, my body can’t take the standing like it used to. This “manager” really screwed up.

[Leith]

26. Just a few short years ago

A laid-off person over 50 without specialized skills couldn't get a response from HR.

If that store really wants to hire boomers as cashiers, they better put some stools behind the counter, have generous break schedules, and pay at least $15 per hour.

[XanaDUer2]

31. My former, younger boss

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Got us "stand-up" desks. Standing for hours. It's probably healthier, but I told her I'm too old to stand up 7 hrs

[obamanut2012]

35. They are much healthier

Several times a day I raise mine and work standing up for 15 minutes or so. They aren't meant to be raised all day. If your boss said that, they are a moran.

[GoCubsGo]

37. Yep, and it was the norm for decades.

Except, that should read "over 45." I speak from experience.

[former9thward]

32. So they fired the one person who actually did want to work.

Yeah, that will work out...

I have had to deal with three Gen Z employees. They were all college students, one a senior graduating this term. None knew how to operate a copy machine (actually one knew how to make a copy but not how to make multiple copies). All just wanted to sit at the front desk looking at their personal ipads rather than going around the building to check out what needed to be done.

[obamanut2012]

34. Three work for me, and they are all hardworking

Conscientious kids who are bright, funny, and eager to please. Also all college students. All work without sulervision. They just needed to be trained and know my expectations for them. I treat them with respect, and they thrive.

Why would they know how to run a copier? None of us did until we were taught at a job.

[former9thward]

38. So they never had to make a copy of anything in school?

I knew how to make a copy in early grade school. But people will always come up with excuses.

[obamanut2012]

39. Generally, no, they don't

Most staff don't, either.

It isn't an excuse if they don't know: I have taught 18-year-olds how to use a copier in literally 45 seconds.

You are being unreasonable to your younger staff, sorry.

[former9thward]

41. I don't know what kind of schools you went to....

But at mine all the students knew how to make copies. Even the "staff". So its unreasonable to think people should do more than sit and stare at personal iPad's all the time during work hours? No wonder people like to "work" for you.

[BlackSkimmer]

43. Hell yeah. I even knew how to run a mimeograph!

And I sure knew how to make copies. Learned to do that as soon as needed. Makes you wonder if these kids ever set foot in a library. (There are copiers there.

[madinmaryland]

44. The smell of those could almost get a person high!

[Demovictory9]

46. We loved the smell..like fresh bread. Teacher wasnt comfortable with class happily smelling freshly

[Emile]

36. I had a generation Z boy down the road knock on my door this winter

wanting to shovel my sidewalk! I use to do that when I was a kid. I have lived here since 1976 and never once had a kid do that.

[Achilleaze]

40. Boomers Uber Alles!

[Johnny2X2X]

42. Cut to the chase

Kids today work harder, have less, owe more, and will retire with less than the previous generations.

Always cracks me up to hear previous generations pretend they had it so hard. I was there, we goofed off through high school, through college, and into our first jobs. Kids today are much more serious and have much less time for goofing off.

[Leith]

45. Here we are on day 2 of this thread

And I gotta say that this is one of my pet peeves: pitting generation against generation.

When I was a teenager in the 1970s, all we heard was that our schools were substandard, we didn't want to do anything but be hippies & smoke pot, we didn't know how to work, wanted everything just handed to us, and so on. And now we're doing it to our children and grandchildren.

Younger people use the saying "okay, boomer" to make us feel stupid, marginalized, not "with it," and so on.

Everyone doing that is wrong. The young people that I talk to are wonderfully polite, knowledgeable about things, and a pleasure to be around. I don't know if that because it's how I treat them or if they are like that with everyone. I prefer to think it's because that's how they are.

I've read that people don't quit jobs, they quit managers. Actually, they do both. That manager forced those cashiers to leave - s/he proved that by putting up that sign. The reality of the situation is that this was most likely the first job the cashiers ever had, which means that they needed to be taught how to work in a professional setting. That is the job of the manager. This whole thing just sounds like the manager was the one who didn't know how to do the job.

[llmart]

47. Totally off topic but...

how can they still call themselves Dollar Tree when they've raised the prices from $1.00 to $1.25 on what used to be strictly $1.00? I rarely go in one, but I do buy toothpaste there about three times a year. It was always $1.00 a tube. I'd buy 12 tubes at a time. Yesterday I had to restock and it was now $1.25.

[Lucid Dreamer]

48. Dollar Tree is the name of the store.

There are a bunch of stores with prices in their names that sell for more than the name implies.

Family Dollar
Dollar General
5 Below
and a bunch of others I don't know.

[llmart]

49. I'm aware of that.

It's just that the first time I ever went to a Dollar Tree there were signs everywhere saying, "Everything is a dollar" and that was true.