Generations in the Workplace
This generation is known for bringing their emotional support animals to work, requesting mental health days, and asking "but what's the work-life balance like?" during job interviews.
What is Gen Z?
This personality color writes case notes so detailed, they include what the family cat was feeling during the home visit.
What is Blue?
This bias makes you think every family you meet is worse than the last one, turning you into the Eeyore of child intervention.
What is negativity bias?
This 1993 film starring Will Smith proves that sometimes the best therapy is throwing a troubled teen out of a moving car
What is "Six Degrees of Separation"?
This button, located suspiciously close to the 'Leave Meeting' button, has caused more workplace embarrassment than the 1995 office Christmas party.
What is the camera button?
This generation remembers when case files were actual physical files, home visits required a paper map, and "going paperless" was just a fantasy we told ourselves while drowning in triplicate forms.
What is Gen X?
This color personality thinks 'winging it' is a perfectly acceptable case planning strategy and probably showed up to this meeting without pants
What is Orange?
This cognitive bias is why you're absolutely convinced your assessment was perfect, despite what the court, your supervisor, and basic logic suggest.
What is confirmation bias?
In this Robin Williams classic, a therapist breaks every ethical boundary imaginable but somehow still helps Matt Damon cry about apples.
What is "Good Will Hunting"?
The number of times Microsoft Teams has crashed during a critical meeting, causing you to question all your life choices.
What is "too many"?
This generation invented the phrase "let's take this offline," refuses to retire, and still thinks a conference call means everyone actually calling in on a phone with a mute button that never works.
What are Baby Boomers?
This personality color has already created a spreadsheet to track everyone's Jeopardy scores, complete with pivot tables and conditional formatting
What is Gold?
The bias where you overestimate how insightful you were about a case after everything has gone sideways.
What is hindsight bias?
This Sandra Bullock film shows that the best intervention strategy is apparently just being rich and white with a spare bedroom.
What is "The Blind Side"?
This Teams feature makes you look like a floating head in space, which is pretty much how you feel after back-to-back meetings anyway
What is "background blur"?