As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are coming to the office with alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through the list of humanities grads instead.

“We want critical thinking, not just AI,” the financier told the FT.

“womp womp”

Add co-workers to this list, because we’re the ones that have to retrain them when they inevitably fail.

As a Gen-Xer in the workforce since the 90s, this is the first era in which the new talent coming in has a lower level of technical savvy and critical thinking skills than the previous one. And it’s not just a knowledge gap - it’s an ambition gap. In a lot of cases, Boomers are easier to work with than Gen Z, because for all their idiocy, they have the ambition to dig for the answer and work shit out eventually.

Gen Z just kinda seems to gives up once the easy answers aren’t available.

Unrelated question - We got X. The kids got Z. Why aren’t we calling Millennials Generation Y?

Reap what your c-suite sowed, d-bags.