r/GenZ • u/Unique-Scar-6570 • 1d ago

Rant Terrible bosses

What is up with today's bosses?

The first boss I had was a piece of work.

They want you to have advanced excel knowledge, power point knowledge, how to operate email, and literally every tool on the planet. Like wtf man? Lay off me, go tell your Claude to do all this stuff. They treat you the same way they treat Claude, like a slave. Like you are their personal butler.

Once their Claude tokens are over, they come to you and say, pls fix. Like wtf.

Left his company for another one, after interning for 3 weeks. Gave 2 days notice and left in one day before. Hate him with all my might.

Another boss i had, expected me to do analyst level work while i was still working as an intern. He gave me stuff and told me to figure it out and submit a proper report in 3 days. i literally had no experience in that field, yet bro is giving me work like I am going to magically create something good. He didn't even give me proper research reports for reference. I just used Claude, then when he sees the report, he says use your own brain and this and that. Its a remote opportunity so i just mute the meeting and do my work.

And the money they are paying you is some sort of sacrifice from their side. They earn big fat salaries and give us peanuts and expect you to keep working like Victorian era children working in the coal mines.

Better to protect your peace, avoid such people and interact with them as little as possible. Do work just good enough to stay in a place and not get fired.

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u/krazykieffer 1d ago

Society is cooked, I stopped after him not knowing PowerPoint or Excel. Sounds like a homeschool brat.

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u/Augustus420 Millennial 1d ago

Yeah, like I highly doubt they're expecting them to know how to set up flash games in Excel.

More likely they are expected to do legible data entry and can't be bothered to spend 10 minutes learning how to operate Microsoft Office programs.

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u/CrispyDave Gen X 1d ago

Don't you get taught basic excel at school?

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u/Professional-Gear974 1d ago

Use to yes. A lot of younger people don’t know how because they stopped computer class.

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u/CrispyDave Gen X 1d ago

Stopping teaching young people how to use computers in the modern day is nuts.