Dave Portnoy unloads on ‘lazy, entitled’ Gen Z as they take over the workplace

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy didn’t mince words erstwhile discussing nan “lazy, entitled losers” taking babe boomers’ spot successful today’s workforce.

Gen Z – nan procreation calved betwixt 1997 and 2012 – has received a bad rap for laziness, entitlement, affectional sensitivity, and mediocre connection skills successful caller years.

Since they’ve overtaken their babe boomer grandparents astatine nan office, nan changes are already showing for immoderate of those managing them.

“They don’t want to work. They’re spoiled brats,” Portnoy said Thursday on “Varney & Co.” 

“They’ve grown up successful a world wherever it’s [an] everyone gets a trophy generation, and nan thought of showing up and going done postulation and being astatine nan agency astatine 8:45 and moving until six, they look astatine you for illustration you’ve sewage 10 heads,” he continued. 

Portnoy proceeded to declare nan youngest moving property group expects everything handed to them “on a metallic platter” and lamented they’re “very difficult to motivate.”

He closed retired nan disapproval by branding Gen Zers “really lazy, entitled losers.”

A recent Wall Street Journal report discussing nan “locker room playbook” for managing Gen Z looks to nan literal locker room wherever master athletes – galore of whom are Gen Z – person to beryllium motivated and led, conscionable arsenic Gen Zers successful different professions.

The outlet highlights that galore Gen Zers prioritize things for illustration self-care and work-life boundaries much than different generations earlier them whitethorn have. 

Marti Wronski, main operating serviceman of the Milwaukee Brewers who has been pinch nan franchise for complete 2 decades, told nan outlet nan procreation typically asks questions that different property groups wouldn’t person asked during occupation interviews – questions astir nan magnitude of paternity time off available, nan organization’s values and what it represents and really nan domiciled fits their individual “big picture,” indicating a attraction connected matching jobs to individual interests and life goals.