According to an article in Your Tango, some Gen X bosses can be annoyed by their Gen Z workers, and wish they would stop saying things such as:

• “I was only a few minutes late.”
• “That’s not my problem.”
• “Sorry, I’m just not a morning person.”
• “I don’t do well under pressure.”
• “I’ll finish this whenever I get to it.”
• “I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed right now. Can we take a pause?”

Annoying yes, but don’t assume this started with Gen Z. Here’s what aggravated Missionary Generation (born between 1883 and 1900) bosses thought about their Lost Generation (born between 1900 and 1927) workers:

• “They won’t stop stewing in their disillusionment with pre-war values and societal norms, and just clean the damn bathrooms.”
• “Every time I ask for a status report, I get a lecture on what Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald told them about surrealism, and dadaism.”

Here’s what some Lost Generation bosses said about their Greatest Generation (born between 1901 and 1927) workers:

• “Not exactly the greatest when it comes to showing up for work on time.”
• “I’m not questioning his patriotism, but is it asking too much for him to correctly spell “patriotism?”

And here’s what some Greatest Generation bosses said about their Silent Generation (born between 1928 and 1945) workers:

• I wish Mr. Silent Generation would quit yakking on the phone and silently focus on his job.
• I never hear peep from them when I ask for volunteers.

In conclusion, don’t’ be so hard on Gen Z workers. It won’t be long before they’ll be complaining about their Gen Alpha (born between 2011 and 2024) workers.

• “She’s on the phone with her AI boyfriend all day and tried to get him added to the company payroll.

Comedy writer Ben Alper has written for Jay Leno, David Letterman and others. He is the author of “Live From the Beginning of Time: Late Night Comedy Monologues Through the Ages”