Pressed to explain herself, Ward told news.com.au that her rapid departure had a simple explanation.
“I left because I’d never done children before, and I was in a room with 10 screaming babies, and I just couldn’t do it,” she revealed.
Telling the outlet that she had applied for “hundreds” of jobs, she insisted that should not mean she should be forced to accept any kind of employment.
She said she had handed out resumes, applied online and in person and hasn’t had any bites.
She said she would miss her “prime Tupperware” but was most upset about missing out on the spag bol, saying she was “fuming” to miss out but did not dare brave the children to retrieve it.
‘Own goals’
Greg Weiss, founder of HR firm CareerSuport365, has said that millennials struggle to make it past the crucial 90-day mark when starting a new job largely due to “own goals” such as lateness and absenteeism.
“One in three millennials will turn over in the first 90 days. The reasons for failing: 62% is poor performance, 50% is absence, 25% is lateness and 30% is gross misconduct,” he said in 2019.
“Younger people will typically say, it’s not as great as I want, not as exciting, you’re underpaying, or frankly at the millennial end they’re just lazy, and I mean that genuinely.”
He also blamed social media.
“Everyone is looking at everybody else’s highlight reel. People are not posting about how crap their current role is and what they’re really going through, they’re just living the high life,” he claimed.
“It gives an overinformed skew of the grass is always greener somewhere else.”
While he didn’t want to generalise and say “every millennial is like this”, Weiss said “broadly it’s an entitled generation”.
