The fucking entitlement of some people. It boils my piss that people my age are trying to do the same sort of gaslighting to young people as others did to my generation.
Young people, please don’t fall for it. They’re just trying to get you to be a good little workhorse. My peers fell for it and they’re all burnt out tired husks now.
My skin crawls whenever I hear people my age talk about “Lazy young workers.” As if ten years ago people weren’t saying the same shit about us. Maybe your spirit got broken and now you want to break the spirit of the next lot, I don’t know. Whatever it is it annoys me.
The funny thing is, the kinds of assholes that complain about “lazy entitled sensitive workers not getting shit done” are usually the ones making the workplace less productive imo. They make everyone miserable because they turn the place into a panopticon of “am I working hard enough?” And if you joke or show any kind of joy at work you’re not working hard enough so the workplace becomes depressing.
I hate generational warfare, I hate protestant work ethic, so mix the two and I become rage incarnate.
The worst part is when you get a young “pick me” who is like “I’M NOT SENSITIVE LIKE THE REST OF MY GENERATION I THINK YOU’RE RIGHT WE ARE LAZY.” It’s fucking sad.
EDIT: AND ANOTHER THING! It’s fucking ableist too! No Darren, the kid isn’t too sensitive, he has fucking PTSD.
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And it never changes…
At least some communities online are open to talking about it, I guess. Still feels like brainworms leeching off their hosts, though.
This shit’s been going on since at least 1349
Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get their living; we, considering the grievous incommodities, which of the lack especially of ploughmen and such labourers may hereafter come, have upon deliberation and treaty with the prelates and the nobles, and learned men assisting us, of their counsel ordained:
IIRC there’s ancient Greeks complaining about similar shit from like 3000 BC lol. Boomer is a state of mind and Plato’s parents probably whined he spent all day
shitpostingdebating with plebs at the forum instead of watching goats or whatever the fuck.The 1349 one stands out to me because I learned about it when the Brandon regime was busy cancelling all the pandemic health measures for the economy
Yeah…it’s such a struggle lol. I appreciate you adding to my old screenshot, though. I missed how well-read hexbears are.
I loathe the common misconception that being a good little workhorse and working yourself to death is somehow a sign of strength. I could understand if it was for a good cause, but they’re demanding people kill themselves slowly for some CEOs baby killing machine.
Yeah, it’s fucked because (in my experience anyway) those same people pushing that narrative look down on others as though they’re beneath them. They look up to those wielding power because they want that power for themselves and it makes them feel important by buying into the ‘grindset’.
I worked hard, had more savings built up than I’d ever had before, so much I was able to even help cover a friend’s cancer treatment!!! Was looking at preparing to do more stuff and then my life fell apart all of a sudden, lost my job, crippling depression, now I’m broke and would be homeless and starving if my parents hadn’t been able to step in and support me (for now? idk how long but I’m still incapacitated and not really thinking about long term survival right now).
But it just really drives home how fucking pointless this racket is. My mental health went kind of to shit from working so much, it was hard on my relationship and that was one (not the main, I think but a non-negligible one) contributor to it falling apart and my life getting ruined.
Fuck this racket, fuck capitalism, fuck work culture fuck it all. Yeah I don’t want to work anymore, it’s pointless and everything I worked for, all those savings, just fucking evaporated from one big life crisis that may not have happened if I hadn’t even been working so much.
Thank you, comrade
Similar here. I worked for 16 years. Mainly as a carer for the elderly, also spent 18 months as a personal trainer. Did other jobs on the side for extra money, waitressing, telesales, giftaiding, I was even an au pair abroad twice. Built up a bit in savings. Even kept working on and off after being diagnosed with cancer and having issues with the treatment. But I was able to have some kind of life, did some travelling and had a social life. But then I had a stroke and couldn’t work any more. My pitiful savings were soon gone. My friends were soon gone, who wants to spend time with a virtually housebound person who’s tired and has no money and needs help but can’t give anything back? And so began my life on disability benefits, getting reassessed frequently, so no financial security at all, being denied, having to go through appeals, and so now here I am a literal beggar and thief, begging strangers online for food, sanitary towels and money, and sometimes shoplifting because it’s the only way I have to get these things. It doesn’t matter how hard you work or how much you save. You can lose it all in an instant through no fault of your own. There is no real safety or security for anyone. I was a decent worker but it all counted for nothing when I could no longer contribute, and instead of the societal “safety net” I keep hearing about, society has turned me into a beggar and thief.
Sorry Comrade, that sounds hellish :(
Some of what you say reminds me of what the Death Panel podcasters have to say about surplus labor and how disabled people are treated as less than human under capitalism.
People in the UK are regularly starved to death for the crime of being disabled. So many news stories of disabled people having their benefits stopped and then starving to death. Two names just off the top of my head, Errol Graham and Mark Wood. And no-one even cares, these news stories generate no outrage but just victim blaming “He should have tried harder to get help, there’s so much help out there.” No there isn’t! I was in the process of starving to death before I found hexbear and mutual aid. I had collapsed in the street from starvation and been diagnosed with multiple nutritional deficiencies, and still this country wouldn’t feed me. If it wasn’t for the people here I don’t think i would still be alive.
I’m sorry, that’s awful. It’s good that /c/mutualaid was able to help.
Fucking UK, what’s the point of stealing the world’s wealth if you’re just going to let your people starve to death anyway
Theyre right. about me st least.
I dont wanna fucking work anymore. Im fkn tired. My back and knees hurt from crawling thru tunnels to fix broken pvc and cut out 75 year old cast iron. My hands hurt. My feet hurt from constant 14 hour shifts.
Im wrecking my body and the last bit of good health i have left so rich assholes can have swimming pools, and bedroom sized showers that use 5-10 times the EPA’s water usage guidelines because fuck everyone else.
Im tired boss, or whatever the meme is.
This. It fucking pisses me off how it’s never enough.
most of the time for me its white artificially lit office, with chud coworkers and early 20s boomers. doing completely meaningless tasks. i mean completely drop dead meaningless, nothing of even slight tiny value for anyone but boss’ bank account.
for the entire fucking day, five to six days a week. no real retirement. we have marvels of nature and technology and an entire planet to explore but noooo. its wasting youth stuck in a packed bus in traffic for me and every angry sad and tired driver around me.
its watching the sun set through the blinders on the (barred) tiny window in the corner of the room and getting home at night so i can get the pretty little dress shirt ready for tomorrow.
working from home is more tolerable, but they hate it now for some random flimsy reason. theyd rather make us suffer.
all of that for shit we don’t even need. food grows on the fucking floor how did we fuck things up so badly.
i just hate being alive. the only reason i havent jumped face first into the concrete below yet is because i hate capitalism even more. i want to live to see it die.
Nobody wants to hire anymore
No one wants to treat people like human beings anymore. They treat people like crap and then wonder why those people don’t work well with others. It’s circus.
Beat me to it.
Our whole generation is having a hard time ever starting our lives because employers are basically just ignoring us to death.
It’s not like the work is making the world better. We’re not piling sandbags before a rising flood and the young people won’t get off their dang smart phones. The “work” is like selling insurance for wireless earbuds or putting seventeen pumps of seasonal-themed sugar syrup into a latte. Fuck off. If anything this “work” should be done poorly. Because it’s killing the planet and putting microplastics in our brains. We’re generating revenue for the fascist misogynist tech sector patriarchs by zapping our brains with ad riddled media because, apparently, that generates revenue in this stupid fucktodeath world. Somewhere out there thirty million kids are getting yelled at to buy a product by an AI generated voice and that’s the reason some fucking dipshit who thinks “roko’s basilisk” is real can afford to buy a giant house.
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Whining olds should thank their lucky stars this awful machinery is able to coerce even lackluster participation from young people. Because they should be murdering all of us in preemptive revenge for what we’ve done to them.
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Tbf I really don’t want to work anymore
Doing nothing should be the ultimate goal of humanity. I want to lay in the grass like a sheep, listening to birds and eat stuff.
Valid. The grind will do that to you. It kills your love of getting something done.
I feel immensely lucky to have a job where I can do nearly nothing for most of the time and there’s not a goddamn thing any micromanaging asshole can do about it
>drive to airport
>meet crew, exchange pleasantries
>preflight briefing, we’re ready, let’s rock and roll
>plane checks out, board the pax
>call for pushback, get us out of here
>taxi taxi taxi
>cleared for takeoff, thrust set, lfg
>climb to cruise, deal with asshole controller
>coast out over Pacific Ocean
>12 hours of nothing
>pull out novel and crossword puzzles
>position report every hour
>shoot the shit with other planes over the radio
>relief time, clocking out of consciousness
>relief time, back in the hot seat
>1 more hour for crosswords
>coast in to China, approach briefing, let’s land this thing
>touch down, taxi in, everybody get off
>breeze through crew customs line
>get in van to hotel
>eat sleep repeat
I feel like being a commercial pilot is similar to my job, in that it’s pretty chill unless something outside of your control goes wrong, at which point it becomes immensely stressful.
Oh my god I want what you have so badly
Pls smuggle to to your job I only require beans
It boils my piss
I love your way with wordsI am this instances Beter Gribbin
You’re right, I don’t want to work, I don’t even want to leave my house. Piss off already.
Yeah, fuck it. Yes, I am a sensitive, empathy filled millennial. I like a light atmosphere, friendly people, working efficiently not hard, I call dogs heckin’ puppers and I fucking hate getting out of bed to work for my corporate master. Deal with it. I’d rather stay the stereotype than bully young people and turn into whatever my fellow 33-45 peers are turning into. I’d rather be cringe than a bully.
Fellow members in my PSL branch openly talk about how much we like cute things such as plushies and Pokemon and which kids’ shows we like (Arthur is based, Paw Patrol is cringe), all while doing way more actual socialist work than any of the Strasserist losers who would try to shame us for it.
People act like we’re uniquely “stuck in childhood” but my parents were the same. My mom is like 60 and still watches cartoons.
Yo, same, UBI when
boils my piss
Yep, that’s Dirt_Owl alright
People dislike doing things that are unrewarding, more news at 11.
I used to have that people-pleasing hard-working country-boy attitude. Long long ago. It died when I realized no business gives a flying fuck about me and will pay me next to nothing and smile to my face and pat me on the head.
Now I can’t even fake that I’m a hard worker. I don’t care enough. I just want the check and I’ll do the minimum to get it.
The cognitive dissonance of the generational slap fighting frustrates the hell outta me. Take any social commentary, documentary, movie, involving young people from like 1960 until today and you’ll see the exact same young people bashing over and over again.
What especially fucks me up is that it seems like people want to believe this weird, sad fairy tale that “we’re the last good & sane generation.” It’s painfully obvious to me that there are good and crazy people of all age groups and walks of life why are people so entrenched in the ideal of stereotyping??
I’m a burnt out and tired husk right now, but thats only because I’m job hunting as a fresh graduate…
That will do it to you. I’m feel for you, it’s a rough time.
To paraphrase a certain Karl Marx, from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.
Instead of having a bunch of BS jobs that don’t actually contribute to society, we should have a society that meets everyone’s needs first, and then let the people contribute back to society in the way that they can.
I think more people would genuinely want to “work” if they could work on their passion projects, or would agree to work somewhere because they actually want to do the thing to contribute back to society.
If you’re reading this and saying, well, nobody would want to do [insert position], then there’s no excuse for not devoting resources to either automate the task or improve working conditions to make that no longer the case.
Absolutely.
