Millennials and older generations can’t get enough of Gen Z employees and their vibrant personalities at work. Incorporating their slang, humor, and refreshing practices into professional fields is a delightful scenario. Realtor Mike Hege (@pridemoreproperties) shared how his Gen Z assistant has been helping with home tours using modern-day tricks. He posted a video showing the result when he asked his Gen Z employee to edit a promotional video. “Asked my Gen Z employee to edit a video for me, and this is what I got!” he captioned.
Representative Image Source: Pexels | Ron Lach
One would expect professional and skilled results, assuming Gen Z to be well-versed in technology and editing. Instead, Hege received a hilarious video. The video showed Hege standing in front of various homes, sharing details about his job and services. Rather than enhancing the editing for smooth transitions, the employee made a comedic edit, cutting the frames abruptly and including only the parts where Hege took deep breaths before speaking.
Instead of cutting out the behind-the-scenes moments, she focused on them. She hilariously cut out the main portions where Hege spoke, leaving a video of Hege just breathing. Frame after frame, Hege is seen sighing. Each pause he took was cut and saved, resulting in a series of breaths throughout the video. Adding to the humor, Hege was enthusiastic, smiling, and gesturing toward the plots. Thanks to his Gen Z employee's witty skills, the video had no words, just random breathing.
Hege was even captured setting his hair and making bizarre expressions. People couldn’t get enough of the video and were in stitches at the skillful yet mind-boggling result. Many donned their humor caps and commented with priceless sarcasm. Many pointed out that the Gen Z woman deserved a raise for her top-notch skills. @greatgonsales69 wrote, “Give her a raise because this 100% caught my attention far more than whatever you were going to say.” @thomas_jefferson_coode added, “I think this would be better than the actual video.” @1hairjordan said, “Legendary edit.”
@allyspellsrightly said, “Gen Z are absolutely the marketing and advertising masters these days. So funny.” @angieschraam added, “Her audacity is so respectable though” @colewalliser wrote, “I’d buy any house based on solid breathing!” @galaticboy2009 exclaimed, “He will huff, he will puff, and he will blow your dream home into your possession.” @hellokittys_trash wrote, “This breathed life into me. It felt like I was breathing a higher % of oxygen.” @drlucyfathy exclaimed, “To be fair it worked because I’d definitely hire/work with you after watching this.”
A few days later, the realtor also shared the "Real Gen Z Edit" video, where the employee's professionalism left people impressed. "I swear I can get a word in! Who else is abused by their Gen Zers?" Hege wrote hilariously in the caption.
You can follow Mike Hege (@pridemoreproperties) on Instagram for more content on humor and real estate.
Robin Williams performs for military men and women as part of a United Service Organization (USO) show on board Camp Phoenix in December 2007
Gif of Robin Williams via 
A woman conducts a online color testCanva
A selection of color swatchesCanva
A young boy takes a color examCanva 
Pictured: A healthy practice?
Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.