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American Businesses Are Firing Their New College Grads and All Your Neighbors Want to Ignore the Reason

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America's colleges spent four years teaching kids Lord knows what. Even if it was useful it’s already outdated.

Now those same kids are getting fired – and the bosses doing the firing have made their list of reasons very, very public.

Here's what they found when they finally looked inside the pipeline that's been feeding a system that’s primed for revolution.

Six in Ten Bosses Already Pulled the Trigger

The survey that set off alarms across corporate America comes from Intelligent.com, which polled nearly 1,000 U.S. business leaders about the employees they hired straight out of college.

The results were brutal.

Six in ten employers had already fired Gen Z workers brought on fresh from campus.

Three-quarters reported that some or all of their recent graduate hires failed to meet basic expectations.

One in six bosses said they're now hesitant to hire recent college grads at all, and one in seven said they may skip hiring them entirely next year.

This is an indictment.

What Bosses Say Went Wrong

The top reason employers cut these workers loose was lack of motivation or initiative – cited by half of the leaders surveyed.

The rest of the list reads like a damning report card on what four years of woke education actually produces: unprofessional behavior, poor communication skills, inability to take feedback, chronically late, wrong clothes, wrong language.

Sixty-five percent of hiring managers said recent graduates exhibit a sense of entitlement.

Sixty-three percent said they get offended too easily.

The Cengage Group's 2025 Graduate Employability Report backed all of it up: only 30% of 2025 graduates found full-time jobs in their field – down from 41% the year before – and nearly half admitted they felt unprepared to even apply for entry-level positions.

Colleges Spent Four Years Building This Problem

These kids didn't arrive broken. They were manufactured broken.

Goldwater Institute research found that 67% of major American universities require students to complete DEI courses just to graduate.

That's not education. That's a production line for grievance.

While their professors were busy teaching them that asking someone to show up on time is a microaggression, employers were ranking job-specific technical skills as their top workforce priority.

The Cengage report made the gap undeniable: employers want practical, job-ready skills. Educators placed those same skills dead last on their priority list, pushing soft-skills coursework instead.

Holly Schroth, a senior lecturer at UC Berkeley's business school, put it plainly: Gen Z workers "don't know basic skills for social interaction with customers, clients, and co-workers, nor workplace etiquette."

Four years. Six figures in tuition debt. Can't talk to a co-worker.

The Generation That Was Betrayed

To be clear about where the blame lands – and it does land somewhere specific.

These aren't bad kids. They're products of a system that failed them on purpose.

Democrats running America's educational institutions decided that turning college into a political re-education program was more important than producing graduates who could function in a real economy.

Worse, those who went before them allowed generation after generation of politicians in both parties to spend and spend your grandkids into basically zero future that resembles what used to be called the American Dream.

It’s pretty much out of reach already and they’re watching those bosses replace job after job already with  AI.

That’s a path to bolshevism.  

Charlie Kirk warned about it but a whole bunch of Americans who claim to love him somehow believe some rando trans fury is responsible.

This guy?

Wake up before your grandchildren become bolsheviks.

 

The once respectable U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that 80% of hiring managers believe today's graduates are less prepared for the workforce than previous generations.

The unemployment rate for recent college graduates hit 9.7% in late 2025 – the same as workers who never went to college at all.

Four years. Tens of thousands in debt. Statistically no better off than if they'd skipped the whole thing.

Trump is already dismantling the federal DEI apparatus, and the universities that built this mess are about to feel it in their budgets.

The businesses already rendered their verdict. They're just done hiring what these schools produce.

Sources:

  • Orianna Rosa Royle, "Bosses Are Firing Gen Z Grads Just Months After Hiring Them," Fortune, March 10, 2026.
  • "1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant to Hire Recent College Graduates," Intelligent.com, August 2024.
  • "2025 Graduate Employability Report," Cengage Group, September 9, 2025.
  • "DEI Required: 67% of Universities Mandate 'Diversity' Indoctrination," Goldwater Institute, January 2025.
  • "New Hire Readiness Report 2025," U.S. Chamber of Commerce / College Board, September 2025.

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