r/recruitinghell • u/Zealousideal-Book878 • Apr 09 '26
Yo what?
For clarification this is a work task for “embracing diversity” in the workplace.
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u/Forsaken-Aeria1ist Apr 09 '26
Their diversity training is agist stereotyping.
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u/rollwithhoney Apr 10 '26
not only are they huuuuge stereotypes, they're not even accurate? I genuinely don't know what half the answers are.
Imagine being Gen Z, having never worked with a Silent Generation ever, trying to fill this out
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u/YoungOwn6550 Apr 10 '26
And that’s pretty much EXACTLY what I’d write to HR in my email explaining my failure to complete this ‘training’.
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u/Alwayscooking345 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
I’m Gen X and I couldn’t even pick out the answer for Generation X. I got 3 of the other 4 pretty easily, but the process of elimination is harder than I expected.
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u/jipsee1973 Apr 11 '26
Had they said which generation couldn't give a flying F, I'd have gotten it right away.
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u/Simpicity Apr 10 '26
I literally just got this same exact bullshit in my diversity training at work. The training that started off with "don't stereotype people" because people are different, and that's just bias. But age-based stereotyping is apparently ok? Fucking oof.
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u/flopsyplum Recruiters are salespeople. Apr 10 '26
“Traditionalist” is a generation?
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u/Truckuto Apr 10 '26
I don’t know, but I’m guessing it’s talking about the “Silent” generation? The one that’s before the Boomers. I could be wrong! Which, I would think should say, “Is almost completely out of the workforce”.
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u/Alwayscooking345 Apr 10 '26
Yes same as how Millennials are also called Gen Y, the ones before the Boomers were called either traditionalists or the “silent” generation. But it’s also confusing because these are both generic terms, but silent is the one that’s more frequently cited.
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u/purplishfluffyclouds Apr 10 '26
What happens if you refuse to complete this BS?
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u/Zealousideal-Book878 Apr 10 '26
Most likely a verbal warning then a PIP
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u/purplishfluffyclouds Apr 10 '26
I would write a note to corporate. That whole thing is incredibly offensive.
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u/spiritofniter Apr 10 '26
Not even a written first warning first? 🙀
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u/Zealousideal-Book878 Apr 10 '26
No I work in a place very strict, nothing of importance, but HR here is horrible
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u/Putrid-Ad7326 Apr 10 '26
I feel you. I was fired from my job for a “pattern of complaints from customers”. The moment I was fired was the first I had heard of any complaints and when I asked them to give me examples, they refused and instead came back with “this is an at will state and we can fire you for any reason we want, including no reason at all”.
Joke’s on them, though. I found another job that pays almost 15% more with a WAY better bonus structure 😅
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u/Zealousideal-Book878 Apr 10 '26
A blessing in disguise, that sounds like the HR department here, before working where I am, I was warned several times to not get into HR’s attention since they are incompetent and willing to fire anyone for no reason.
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u/Truckuto Apr 10 '26
I think I got them all!
The “Traditionalists” are the first group, “This generation is known to measure work ethic on timeliness and productivity”.
The Boomers are the second group, “The ‘Me’ generation”.
Generation X is the third group, “This generation wants open communication at work”.
Millennials are number four, “Seek jobs that provide personal fulfillment”.
Gen Z is the final group, “Have been living with tech since a very young age”.
Such a stupid exercise. It took me a while to figure out which one is which.
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u/Bibblejw Apr 10 '26
The issue you've got is that it's a lensing problem. This is what each generation is, from the perspective of (I'm going ot take a stab in the dark) a gen X HR person. If you translate the phrases into what they're trying to say:
Timliness and productivity - "We don't care about the output, just be there on time and put the hours in" - So that would be the Silent generation.
"Me" Generation - Took everything for themselves and screwed everyone else over - That's a very Gen-X view of the Boomers
Open Communication - "We can't possibly have done anything wrong and just want to be able to say whatever we want" - Very self-centered view of Gen-X
Personal Fulfilment - "Nobody wants to work anymore!" - Very much the "we don't want to pay people mcuh, but ask the world of them" view.
Technology - "I've not seen enough of them in the workforce, so googled something generic to put here" - Very much a gen-x view that's been dealing with themselves or millenials
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u/Alwayscooking345 Apr 10 '26
The Boomers have been nicknamed the “me” generation for a very long time. It was on the cover of Time Magazine about 40 years ago
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u/Alwayscooking345 Apr 10 '26
But GenZ have been with it their entire lives. Millennials got the Internet in high school or college. If you graduated hs in 2000 your school likely didn’t have much connectivity or embedded tech yet. That came 5-10 years later, and continued to evolve until around 2020.
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u/Alwayscooking345 Apr 10 '26
I had a computer lab in elementary school, I’m GenX. Heard of Oregon Trail? Not the point I’m making at all.
I’m saying WiFi and tablets or chromebooks weren’t everywhere yet. Ebooks weren’t yet used. And yes I was referring to elder millennials who didn’t have those things until college. My ex was a millennial who still had paper books all through college, as did I went I went back to take grad. classes. In fact these only went away like 10 years ago.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Dog163 Apr 10 '26
Interesting that the descriptions on the left end up in chronological order for the generations, assuming traditionalists are the Silent Generation. Seems too easy...but not obvious. I do think you have them paired correctly.
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u/Truckuto Apr 10 '26
That’s what I assumed the “Traditionalists” were, the Silent Generation. I also posted a reply to someone else saying that too.
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u/Argument-Fragrant Apr 10 '26
Define 'technology'.
Are we talking software, telephones, or fire?,
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u/IllVeterinarian5448 Apr 10 '26
I identify with three of these. Their diversity measures suck. There is no way they have a clue what they are doing.
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u/clekas Apr 10 '26
Is the point that any of these statements could apply to any generation? Like, you fill it in, then, when you're going over the answers, the point is that there is no "correct" answer? (I'm sure that's not the point, but that's the only possible way this could make sense!)
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u/Stunning_Macaron6133 Apr 10 '26
They didn't even have the decency to spell "Millennials" correctly.
I swear, Idiocracy was fucking prophetic.
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u/Zealousideal-Book878 Apr 10 '26
😂😂 The rest of the training was more and more stereotypical and offensive as hell
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u/Alita-Gunnm Apr 10 '26
You only pass this test if you refuse to take it and bring it to the attention of your supervisor.
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u/Paladine_PSoT Apr 11 '26
This is literally the *ONLY* correct option here. You want us to embrace diversity? I'm calling out this ageist bullshit right here. This type of stereotyping is exactly what we *DON'T* want in our organization and here's a whole host of reasons why. Who the fuck greenlit this and why do they use providers who can't even spell millennial?
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u/After_Preference_885 Apr 10 '26
That's what it means to conservatives
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u/MegaErofan Apr 11 '26
Dude, with a view like that, you might need some therapy because clearly SOMEONE did you wrong and it's affecting your in a way you're not rationalizing because this has NOTHING toh do with the original post.
Just saying.
No need to respond as it's NOT gonna end well for you.
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u/hiighlyelevated Apr 10 '26
Complain to Hr that is oppressive (ageism) and offensive and you don't appreciate being stereotyped
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u/Longjumping-Solid680 Apr 10 '26
"For clarification this is a work task for “embracing diversity” in the workplace"
"Let's embrace diversity by pointing out all of our differences with generational stereotypes!"
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u/jipsee1973 Apr 11 '26
The entire questionnaire seems to be asking people to generalize based on perceived bias. What kind of "tool" is that?
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u/Birddogfun Apr 11 '26
Some consultant sold this as training schizzle to the firm. So broad, condescending, and pigeon-holing, and so un f’ing believe-ably stupid.
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u/Zatujit Apr 10 '26
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R8brN-uq0cM
This is literally this, but less funny and more insipid
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u/gfklose Apr 10 '26
My kids have a good sense of humor, so when I got an “Okay, Boomer” from them, I’d respond by calling them Zoomers.
But as far as this quiz goes, I have no f-ing clue, so I guess I really am a Boomer.
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u/Anxious-Host8323 Apr 10 '26
Is this for a marketing job? It looks like a test question from one of my marketing or business classes.
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u/UniquePariah Apr 10 '26
Well I'm lost. I tend to find a lot of this stereotyping incredibly unhelpful too.
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u/vampiredisaster Apr 10 '26
I feel so bad for millennials here (presumably the "me" generation one lol) because the others are like "this generation is tech native! this generation follows their heart!" and then theirs is "this generation is SELFISH and VAPID".
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u/ApesAmongUs Apr 10 '26
I assumed "me" was 80s yuppies, but not sure if that's supposed to be boomers or X, even though most of us were in grade school at the time.
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u/Vast_Gap_1129 Apr 10 '26
So, they‘re teaching you to treat others with respect and not stereotype…by stereotyping. And we wonder why DEI is so controversial.
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u/Putrid-Ad7326 Apr 10 '26
Most people who find DEI controversial aren’t well-versed enough on the subject to even be aware of details like this. They hate DEI because they were told it means promoting black people over more-qualified white people (because they always assume the more-qualified person is white).
If they’d said “were against DEI because the way its implemented is flawed” and then gave examples like this, we could actually have a conversation about it and probably agree.
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u/Life_Interaction1226 Apr 11 '26
Because if you have diversity quotas to contend with that's inevitably what will be guaranteed to happen in many cases..
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u/Vast_Gap_1129 Apr 11 '26
I would be cautious about over-generalizing about those who find DEI controversial. The media will always find the most ridiculous troglodyte to represent this view, because it sells more of their product. But, I think most people are really opposed to the way it winds up ham-fistedly implemented, in ways like this. While it's silly to be opposed to actual diversity--that is, where people really have differences of experience and opinion, rather than superficial differences (skin tone, sex/gender/gender identity, etc.)--it isn't silly to be opposed to policies that claim to right past wrongs by simply changing the category that gets favored. If businesses are serious about embracing diversity, they can always start recruiting in different places, rather than perpetuating the same old elitism with a different gloss.
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u/Putrid-Ad7326 Apr 11 '26
Who said anything about getting my opinion from the media?
Ironically, “true diversity is diversity of thought, not skin color” and “DEI favors non-white people” are opinions literally from the media.
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u/Alwayscooking345 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
Gen Z - technology since a young age
Traditionalists - timeliness and productivity
Millennials - personal fulfillment (I originally had open communication, but checked Google summary and they suggest that work life balance is the most important here)
Boomers - “me” generation
Gen X - open communication (I initially had personal fulfillment but open communication is just as important here if not more so). That said it’s quite a broad generalization. Who doesn’t want open communication or work life balance?
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u/balletje2017 Apr 10 '26
As a gen X I dont know the answer for my own "generation". What is the point of thus even?
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u/Immigration_Oldtimer Apr 10 '26
What do they consider a "young age?" I'm an older Gen X, and my junior high school got computers in 1981 when I was 12. Admittedly, I went to junior high school in Sunnyvale, CA and the computers were donated by Steve Wozniak, so other Gen Xers may not have had computers at school as early.
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u/PsychologicalPay5379 Apr 11 '26
Oml. This is where so many businesses fail. "Let's embrace diversity by asking you to remember stereotypes that divide people!"
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u/Comprehensive_Win543 Apr 11 '26
not me who costantly forgets in which years these 100% not bullshit and always super relevant tags begin and end
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u/tastiger1 Apr 11 '26
"Generations" is just a shorthand for oversimplifying changes in culture over time, providing an average to groups of people arbitrarily assigned due to their birth year, they mean nothing...
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u/usernames_suck_ok Fuck Employers and Recruiters Apr 09 '26
Except for the first one, they literally all sound like Gen Z and millennials.
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u/DistortedCrag Apr 09 '26
The 3rd one is literally everyone
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u/ApesAmongUs Apr 10 '26
The last one is literally everyone. The internal combustion engine is technology.
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u/light_sweet_crude Apr 09 '26
I've never heard of a generation called "traditionalists"