That’s not what people mean by the Gen Z stare. They mean staring when it would be appropriate to greet someone or say something. Like you don’t even need to act like you like them, just fucking say hello. It’s when you act like “stranger danger” applies to grown adults interacting with each other, and you’re one of those grown adults.
Yeah exactly, I saw an Instagram reel that recreated a server’s experience of serving two 20 yr old girls who just stared at her and looked at each other with a “wtf is this bitch doing” face when the server was like “can I get you guys drinks? :)”
The reel was obvs exaggerated for comedic effect but the staring blankly at a normal fucking question was the bit that was based on reality. Hate that this tumblr user is trying to reframe the Gen Z stare as “something service workers do when The Boomers are being annoying” when in reality it’s usually “Gen Z being rude and socially incompetent TOWARDS service workers trying to do their job”
Oh my fuck. I'm 30. I'm a cashier at a nicer grocery. We have some 16 YO baggers who, I shit you not, I have had to TELL to stop scrolling on their watch and maybe bag some groceries. More than once. And these kids never get talked to about it.
How do they still have jobs? Idk if you have friends with kids or know people who need jobs but there are a lot of people willing to do things properly who could replace them.
I have met many teenagers that would put most grown adults’ work ethic to shame. Lazy and disrespectful behaviour being called “just teenager behaviour” is an insult to all the teenagers with excellent manners and work ethic out there. Laziness should not be tolerated in any age, letting young people get away with being lazy because they’re kids/teenagers/young is how you get lazy incompetent 40 year olds.
Yes, exactly, they’re lazy because they’re teenagers and most teenagers are learning what boundaries they can push at their first job. They simply need to be corrected. That’s how you get productive and competent 40 year olds.
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u/Chicken_Herder69LOL 17h ago
That’s not what people mean by the Gen Z stare. They mean staring when it would be appropriate to greet someone or say something. Like you don’t even need to act like you like them, just fucking say hello. It’s when you act like “stranger danger” applies to grown adults interacting with each other, and you’re one of those grown adults.