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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maroosha Muzaffar

Billionaire says Gen Z are ‘too busy on TikTok’ to work on careers

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John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of New York City grocery stores Gristedes Foods, is facing an onslaught of criticism from Gen Z for saying they are “too busy on TikTok” to work on their careers.

In an interview, Mr Catsimatidis said he used to work 70 hours a week at a supermarket and blamed Generation Z – the group of people born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s – for not doing the same.

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