☎️ 79% Of Gen Z Workers Have Their Parents Talk To Their Bosses

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda gem Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's interesting we're just talking about older people going in
to share accommodation and the younger people. This is another
part of that statistic is that younger people aren't sort
of entering the share accommodation market as much anymore because
a lot of them are still living at home. So
all these generational shifts are taking place, and kids living

(00:23):
at home longer means that they rely on their parents
for more. I've read these interesting statistics here. These are
American statistics, but I've been interested to know if they're
similar to the ones we have here. Nearly half of
gen Za's have mum regularly talked to their boss. Now,
when I think of gen Z, I think someone who's sixteen,
but that's not they're in their mid twenties. My son's

(00:44):
are gen Z. You've got a couple of your dominic
could be gen Z.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Officially it's ninety seven to twenty twelve, so the drop
zone is kind of mid twenties. So this is what
I find extraordinary. Kids are in their mid twenties. And
this is what this survey has found is that thirty
one percent of gen zetters had a parent write their resume.
That's not so bad. I think i'd be if my

(01:12):
kids wanted my help, I'd love to my eldest, I'd
flourish it from me.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
He was now thirty three.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I was trying to get him a job years ago,
and so I said, right, So I started sending and
I became a sport, and I applied on his behalf
at Bunnings.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I thought, I'll get a job for punning's easier.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Easy, and no, no, no, well these days and I
was quite happy with everything.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
GTP will outdo all of us, all their psych tests
and all the things.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Still didn't get it.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Didn't get the job. And then I said, what does
that say about me? Can we get a job?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
And it was everything about you? Seventy seven percent? This
is I find extraordinary. Have taken a parent to a
job interview as a boss? You go, come on, Anita McGregor,
who I do that? My podcast with my friend is
a she's a university lecturer. Professor close enough, but she's
also a university lecturer and her students are postgrade, so

(02:06):
they've already done a psychology degree. This is a forensic psychology.
It's the next you're a little bit older, and she
said that every parent's trying and get in touch with her.
She just judges people so harsh. Parents should not be involved.
As much as you want to as a parent, you're
desperate to fix things, but when it but it's received
very differently. And my kids go, Mom, don't.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Know and you want to as you say, want to.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
My daughter she was working for a blake years ago
and he just wouldn't pay her. And I said, you've
got to talk to him. You've got to get your money.
You can't work for free. And he was, I'll pay
you next week and then next week we'll come. And
there was one time it was like two months in
a rears.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Really yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
I said, Jones had to step up to the plate.
I said, I'm just going to go out and see.
And he was in a shop near us and I thought,
I can't do this.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
She said, Dad, don't do it.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Then one day I'm in the shop and he came
up and he's talking to me and he said, I
should get you to come and sprook outside of my
shoe and I said, hey, you can't afford me, and
be I heard you don't pay.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Your bills, and like it was just the occident. What
happened as you got paid that afternoon.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Funny about that. Fifty three percent of parents have spoken
with a hiring manager on their child's behalf. Forty five
percent regularly have a parent talk to their current manager.
These are people in their mid twenties. Oh and if
you break all of that down, Oh, look at these.
Eighty three percent of have parents packed their lunch for them.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'd love that.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Fifty percent say parents spoke to their manager of our
workplace conflict. This is interesting. One forty nine percent say
a parent helped the master time off because a parent
would say, hey, we're going on a holiday, I'll talk
to your boss about it. This is where as a parent,
you're desperate to step in because this benefits you.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
You get your.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Family holiday, but conversations about getting a raise and a
promotion parents Forty six percent of parents are stepping in
for that too. These aren't kids who are sixteen, These
are kids who are older than that. You find that
quite extraordinary. These are the knock on effects of kids
living at home longer because it changes the parents' life too.
In the older generation, you wouldn't be involved in any

(04:10):
of this. Your child would be winning or losing on
their own terms. Now they're in your house, you're hearing
these stories. They're more emotionally dependent on you. So this
is where we are extraordinary.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Imagine art your father making you lunch.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Imagine once mum had to go into hospital for a procedure.
The family pretty much broke down and Dad said, I'll
wrap up some biscuits for you for school. There were
Anzac biscuits. He put four of them in a row
and put glad wrap around them. This is also the
man that bit into some sliced cheese and ate it,
or not realizing that there were bits of plastic between
the slice.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Now we might put that up on our socials. Get
your thoughts on that.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yes,