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It is estimated that the millennials and centennials They will make up 75 percent of the global workforce.
The centennials They represented 32 percent of the world population in 2019 alone.
In Mexico, Generation Z represents 36 percent of the census, according to INEGI.
The digital world has become a very important tool for people around the world, especially for the new generations who share everything on these platforms. This is the case of a trend that generation Z workers are doing today, to get revenge on what they consider bad bosses.
Currently, there is a generation gap of more than 40 years in most jobs around the world, so working conditions are adapted to the old generations and not to the new ones, creating an environment of non-acceptance and adaptation to the new generations that make up the workforce in the world every day.
In Mexico, according to figures from the 2020 population census of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), The age of people to work (Economically Active Population, EAP) ranges from 15 to 64 years. Where millennials (between 25 and 39 years old) represent 22.6 percent of the entire population; centennials (ages 15-24) are 16.9 percent. Both generations occupy 39.5 percent of the Mexican population.
On the other hand, the youngest of the centennials or Generation Z (between 10 and 14 years old) represent 8.7 percent, and they will join the workforce over the next five years.
The history
It is the story of Essence Gibbs, a tiktoker who tells in various videos on the Chinese social network that she felt overloaded with her work, where I had a bad boss and bad pay as a sales manager at a sportswear store.
During her 18 months on the team, she stated that upper store management often shortened or delayed their biweekly paychecks with no explanation. What’s more, he said that special benefits and allowances were given to employees close to the boss.
Then, Gibbs She says she decided to take matters into her own hands. But instead of doing the bare minimum on the sales floor during every shift or quitting your job altogether, chose to benefit customers, but not company profits, by giving away some products.
“Managers at work treated us horribly, so I gave a customer 50 percent off a $110 pair of Air Force Jordans.”Gibbs, 19, who is a business administration student from Lake Charles, Louisiana, told US media.
In his TikTok video, he can be seen giving a customer the massive discount as an act of corporate defiance.
In the recording that registers more than 435,000 visits on the social networking platform, the young woman says that she took said action to give discounts to customers, cutting prices, especially after feeling slighted by his superiors, so it became routine.
“They messed with our money paying payroll late, so I messed with theirs [usando códigos de descuento especiales] to help a customer,” said Gibbs, who now works as a manager for a national drugstore chain after leaving the store in May 2021.
“I felt a little guilty, but my managers didn’t respect me, so I found ways to put a smile on my face,” he said.
At his post, disgruntled Gen Z workers and millennials are uniting under the hashtag #MaliciousCompliance trending, or being overly accommodating, nice and generous to customers or customers with the company’s dime.
@simplyessencee Aye fr though ..😂 #notoriginalcontent ♬ original sound – Tik Toker
In this sense, specialists point out that these actions are considered a branch of the “quit in silence” fashion, in which employees did the bare minimum at work amid the Great Resignation movement after the pandemic.
It is the same case of an Internet user who joined the trend, and tells that he worked in a restaurant, and recalled giving customers 18-ounce cups of coffee after their manager viciously belittles them in front of a customer in a post with more than 22,000 views.
Another anonymous Reddit user garnered 43,900 views on a post praising a mischievously obedient waiter who treated his kids to huge bowls of ice cream after his boss humiliated him for asking if the restaurant didn’t have its small dessert plates.
In conclusion, many specialists point out that if an employee is simply giving benefits to several clients a day, over time this can become extremely expensive for the company or brand.
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