I work at a nursery/lawn and garden/patio and grill furniture type retail place. A lot of our staff was older people just working there for fun, and while some of them are great some of them have been kinda pissy about certain changes that were made after we changed ownership, to the point some quit or moved to part time over it.
So we had a bunch of teens and 20 somethings move into their roles and there’s been a massive morale boost. There this one 17 year old immigrant kid who can assemble like a half dozen grills a day, a 20-something girl who took over the house plants department and has been doing gangbusters, some 22 year old guy became our delivery truck driver and he’s been totally on point. It’s been a relief for me cuz I’m an assistant manager and we used to get so many complaints about assemblies and deliveries being fucked up but now that these two whipper snappers took over I’ve barely gotten any calls from angry Boomers wondering why there fucking ceramic egg grill didn’t show up on time.
Turns out when you give kids something more stimulating to do than standing at cash register all day they actually can thrive.
Youngest guy in our team basically glued himself to me the first time we met and he became my little apprentice. All he asked me for was agency and a little guidance so I gave him that and he flew. Anyway my work son is now moving to another company with a huge payrise… damn they grow up so fast.
Those i work with who are the same age as me or older literally cant be fucked and i hate them all. There’s nothing quite like that early 20s energy and some agency to do shit.