I love this particular GenZer, but that kind of pisses me off. She was raised better than that.

well, at least tRump won't sue them over it.

A little occasional diversion among all the horror and anger-inducing stories is not a bad thing IMO.

99% of my posts are serious and depressing as befitting the times, but even I welcome a diversion now and then!

My Millenial kids did it at the same age.

I feel sure that when I was a teen Boomer I stared straight ahead and occasionally rolled my eyes when I was bored or being lectured. I feel as if I saw this on sitcoms.

I feel sure that my mom did the same in the 50s.

I feel certain that every teenage human has done this since humans began.

I certainly did that on occasion.

Some things are just ridiculous.

With that, don't get me started with counting back change or being able to comprehend why you handed them $11.03 for a $10.43 bill.

But, and it is a big BUTT!, my ass can't spell for shit anymore due to spell check so hard for me to smack down kids who didn't deal with manual cash registers.

After watching the pup stare, which was cute, by the way, hell, forget GenZers, toddlers do that!

Or I won't take them seriously.
I taught him that look.

if everything is okay. They seem clueless about it--or at least the few I've (mildly) "confronted" on it...

I suppose there may a lot of explanations, but...

Breaks the stare every time... and then I laugh....like HA, got'cha...
FeckenEjits..
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I refuse to dignify it by registering any response at all, and simply ignore it!

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I've noticed it at work. I'll call the Help Desk (which has a lot of Gen-Z employees) for something. In the past, the kind of back and forth banter would go something like this:

Me: "Hi, this is Mark in XYZ department.
Help Desk rep: "Hi, Mark, this is John. What can I help you with?"
Me: [I then explain why I'm calling.]

Now, it's this:

Me: "Hi, this is Mark in XYZ department.
[Dead silence. No acknowledgment. Nothing]
Me: [I then explain why I'm calling]

It's a little thing, true. But that kind of banter -- just acknowledging someone -- helps to smooth out social and professional interactions. And the lack of it introduces a thoroughly unnecessary awkwardness into the conversation!

they should be fired for such behavior, that is just ridiculous

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purposes, but maybe not the ones that are between employees? But yeah, that should be part of the training.

Teenagers? Teenagers have done this for many years.

How do people not see that they feel the exact same way about young people now as their parents/grandparents did about them?

In the 60s & 70s to the 'oldies'.

We should blame their entire generation for doing something that nobody has ever done in any other generation befor them!

and I am anything but a Gen Zer. But to be fair, I think the difference here is that they are supposedly bringing it into the workplace.

...myself included.

The only real difference here is that cnn decided this was somehow newsworthy over any of the other stuff going on in America that they are not reporting to us.

For instance, has cnn reported anything about the Rockland County, NY vote tally lawsuit? No? But young people are ignoring other people? Shocking.

But I guess we're all supposed to pretend that these are just normal times, nothing to see here, move along.

"The same squirt bottle used to remove cats from furniture may be effectively employed into the faces of Millennials with unusual and satisfactory results."

they would say you assaulted them 🙄

Cats smarter

And then assault the sofa.
Yeah, we're on to them...

It's polite and self-effacing. "Dude" I can take in small doses too.

ain't their f----g Dude, man. Maybe if Joe Biden would have used Dude instead of man he would have got the gen z vote.

it's a quick way of taking responsibility

I've seen 'dead-eye' in people of all living generations. I can't count how many times I've gone in to a fast food place, a retail store, or some other business with soul-crushing entry-level jobs, to be helped by some person whose eyes were so devoid of life, you just knew they were merely warming the air around themselves for eight hours until they could go home. I can't say I blame them. The retail, customer-service gulag is not a place you want to do a lot of time. And some people never escape.

wait for the caller to say hello. If you're checking out, they don't say hello, they don't tell you the total, they don't say thank you when the transaction is done. If you are in a social situation and greet them, they don't respond.

I thought it was lack of social skills till MY very beloved GenZer said she does it when she doesn't feel like engaging. I was a little blown away because it's so rude and she's better than that.

And then they act all pissy when I say, "Hello? Hello?"
How am I supposed to tell if the call went through or was dropped or if I called a wrong number, or?????

I have stopped patronizing businesses over that behavior.

If I owned a small business, I would immediately fire any employee who did that.

Doesn’t end well

Xennial here (‘77). I work in a pub part time. We get everyone from Gen Z’ers to Boomers in. The older folks know what they want and don’t hold me up when I’m busy. The inexperienced drinkers or the young lads often do not.

Some Gen Z folks seem to have the social skills of a damp sponge and will just stare at me when I ask what they want. In return, they get the same dead stare back and I go about serving someone else until they get their shit together to order. No banter, no “I’ll wait”. Nope, you want to play dumb, you either get that in return, get ignored or a snappy Jersey attitude, complete with eye roll. That usually shocks the Brits’ systems.

born is just another form of profiling, right?