The Bullshit from decades ago was easier to swallow because at least people had a chance to make money and have a decent job while also paying a bit less for things like food, shelter or some luxuries.

Now people have no choice … they get paid less, they have no security and they have to pay more for food and shelter.

People were always aware of the bullshit … in the past we could put up with it because we could afford it … now people can’t.

I agree with the article. Gen Z are more open to sharing their life with the world. I wouldn’t say early generations just swallowed the bullshit. They just didn’t have a platform to express it to the masses. In the 70s or 80s if you got fired, maybe you reacted the same way, demanding a reason and expressing your frustration. But the only people who witnessed that, were the ones in the room and later on your buddies when you told them the story.

You don’t need to wait for them to get political power, start organizing a union and get that toxic shit out of your workplace now

Started with Gen X, which is why the baby boomers retiring is creating such a desperate demographic crisis. Nobody wants to buy into such an obviously corrupt system, which has rewarded every consecutive generation with less and less compensation despite the abundantly obvious massive advances in productivity. People are realizing that most of their work is not at all about generating value, but instead is all about occupying their time and energy in an apparent attempt to reduce competition.

If you could ask for early retirement now then they would get power that much quicker

They’re literally following a TikTok Trend. They’re submerged deep into bullshit and eating it up.

thats everyone at their age.

the difference is they can broadcast it into the world now.

Society will probably collapse by 2040.

I think most people make this mistake when first entering the workforce though, right? I know I did. Now, I get called pessimistic and cynical. But, I’ve got three decades of experience at various levels of company. With all that experience, I’d prefer to call myself a realist.

Millennial / Gen X cusp here. I feel like this really started with my generation. Many people no longer look for a job, they look for a job that allows them to make the world a slightly better place. Many of us have had that drilled into our heads from childhood.

Companies know this, so that’s what they sell when they’re hiring. And when you combine that with the cognitive bias for people wanting to do good through their work, this is the result.

This is effectively the only tool we will ever have against them, and we should use it before too much of the labor force is converted and automated, and the remaining employed shut up out of fear.

A company like Microsoft worth 3 trillion dollars (with a T), who spends billions to acquire another business in a strategic move, should not be allowed to dump the burden on the thousands of people they let go afterwards, just so the books look good.

They pull billions out of the company in profit, and then claim the company is broke and needs to distribute some losses socially. It’s completely insane that we just allow this to happen in mass. I’m lucky I can choose my companies and I don’t touch the big big corporations so it doesn’t affect me, but we need to do something collectively fast.

I worked at Disney+ in IT for 5 years, they gave me a yearly incentive to stay with them, bonuses, and my 5 years of service pin… and then laid me off a month later.

Bet that person is never loyal again. Live and learn.

The housing market is fucked, economic mobility is fucked, the climate is fucked. They’ve already lost to the man, what else do they have to lose?

As a Gen-Xer whose been beaten into believing you can’t realistically “fight the man”, I fucking love the Gen-Z attitude.

Seriously. Give them hell Gen-Z!

The kids are alright!

I love Gen Z, which is why I’m so upset that the dumb fucks are using TikTok.

I don’t care what the source is, if there’s a Gen [insert whatever] or Millennials might be to blame for [insert whatever] I’m already at a -10 on the trust meter right out the gate.

I see it plenty without the media stoking it. Here on Lemmy, etc.

It’s the same dumb tribalism as always, often backed up by some real data or trends (that tend to get twisted)

No, not every “boomer” is spoiled and ruining America, and 75% of the people you call boomers aren’t even boomers. Not every Gen Z is lazy and entitled and scrolling phones all day. Etc.

the way they alienate gen z as being “conditioned” to like social feedback on ticktok is really denigrating to me. As if every other generation was not conditioned to believe certain social taboos, mores and practices. Same old “young kids don’t know shit” rhetoric. Which viewers at home will just ingest w/o any sort of critical thought process.

Also how quickly they can invent ‘trends’ we should be fearful of simply because some middle-aged reporter watched a couple similar videos online. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go eat some tide pods before my scheduled game of knockout.

Not even Millennials see action against your employer as ‘betrayal’. Company loyalty is dead, and this professor is out of touch.

If the majority do it, it can no longer be extreme.

I’m enjoying the generational divide coming from Gen-Z.

Previous generations wanting to avoiding “burning bridges” only served corporate interests.

Workers need stop fearing our corporate overlords. We out number them.

They’ve manipulated the political process to shattered the social contract and must be held accountable.

I’m still partial to dragging them into the street since it worked quite well a century but this is a good step towards lighting that powder keg.

risk facing repercussions, such as violating severance agreements

oh no, I won’t get dick shit, which is exactly what I was going to get anyway. What a gigantic shame

I was watching Wendover’s billionaire social calendar last night. They have ships whose sole purpose is to transport their yachts from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean so they don’t have to deal with actual transoceanic sailing. Like they literally load the yacht onto the ship like a big cargo rig.

Generally, society doesn’t reward people that engage in behaviors that some may see as a betrayal.

The gall to speak like that of somebody publicizing the way one of their contacts with equal sides was terminated. Not even “mutual betrayal”, LOL.

It sucks when people think an organization has more rights than a person. If there’s a contract between two, then they are on the same level.

Yeah most people probably already had the double edged sword in their teeth. Shitty professor is out of touch.

CBS News. Viacom. I wonder who benefits from making these threats against these kids… hmmm

Greed and they don’t give a fuck about you. And it’s going to keep happening, again and again, until we change it.

I guess but companies will probably just counter by laying people off by text.

I’m surprised some are defending the CloudFlare HR rep. How is it “confrontational” to ask questions? At that point, all I would care about is unemployment and setting the record straight.

These recordings could save your ass.

As an older GenX I thank the Millenials for that. Generation Z seems to love their consumerism a little too much but at least they seem to know who’s screwing them and its not the poor folk.

1. The recent rise of sea shanties
2. Detailed instructions for operating abandoned Russian military vehicles
3. This

Just wait for the inevitable fakes to show up.

Every TikTok trend should make you cringe. They’re all aiding a hostile dictatorship.

I love exit interviews.

P.s. Chris, you were the worst manager I’ve ever had. You’re a terrible human. That’s why the entire department left and got hired at another company… the one I went to. The entire department, Chris. I made that happen.

But what do you think that accomplished?

Even if the HR person did type it verbatim and show it to you, they’re just going to turf it the second you leave and spin a tale that makes their boss happy.

There’s zero chance that the upper management who needed to hear what you said actually heard it.

There’s no point in those interviews unless you say what needs to be said.

" Yeah great, well I generally come in at least 15 minutes late. I, uh, use the side door, that way Lumberg can’t see me and, uh, after that I just sort a space out for about an hour. Yeah I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I’m working. I do that for, uh, probably another hour after lunch too. I’d say in a given week I probably only do about 15 minutes of real, actual, work. Oh yeah, let me tell you something about TPS reports. See the thing is Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care. It’s a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime. So where’s the motivation? And here’s something else, Bob, I have eight different bosses right now. Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That’s my only real motivation, is not to be hassled. That and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that’ll only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. Listen, I’m going to go. Uh, it’s been really nice talking to both of you guys. Good luck with your layoffs, all right? I hope your firings go really well."

Honestly they’ve been incredible. They’ve been politically active since they were teens and they care more about work/life balance than any other generation before (anecdotally). They’ve been dealt a shit hand but I’m rooting for them.

I was thinking about this just yesterday. After watching Frankie’s cultural observation on boomers, where he says that “boomers are the first generation in history that wanted to do better than their children”, I asked myself what have us millennials done. I settled on this, we broke the generational cycle of abuse and bullying of our kids. The boomers parents, while the “greatest” generation, were raised by an even stricter generation of parents who believed in things like not picking up a crying baby, and probably resulted in Boomer parents that, thanks to WW2, were also an untreated PTSD generation. Alcoholism was just dad’s being dad’s and pre ww2 moms stayed home to keep home and hearth with a little help from the snuff tin. Several generations of war torn parents ignorant of how to deal with what they went through, raising more kids for the next war. From the civil war to Vietnam, every generation had a war or two on their plate. Then our small communities were randomly spread out into suburban experiments to support the industrial revolution. Now no one knows their neighbor, they just go to work. Then the millennials were sent to war. We had heard the stories growing up about how great our nations fighting forces were. Now it was our turn. We had the most righteous of reasons to fight. But this time, when looking to the boomers to lead us, we found a bunch of disfunctional brats. Their maturity was a ruse. They didn’t know any better than we did on how to deal with this world. Their parents won the great war, setup the economy, spanked them, never hugged them, and then handed them the keys to the company and retired to Florida. So the bratty boomers without a clue bullied their kids out the door and into the world. There we stood, 18 and primed to take it on. But there was nothing left to take. Then the bubble they blew popped and we shipped out to Afghanistan, and then Iraq, and even after 20 years we still had nothing to show for it. No house, no good paying job, no health care, and a degree with the weight of never ending debt chained to it. The boomers are and always have been, brats. You see them out there on their Harley’s brrrraaaaatttting around. So when we started having kids, we said no. No we’re not going to beat our kids, no we’re not going to shame them for who they love, no we’re not going to “be a man” and shut up about our war trauma. But the brats still had all the power. They refused to let go of their toy. So we put ourselves to work on trying to fix the only thing we had the power to fix, ourselves. We started normalizing therapy, researching drug and alcohol addiction. We dug into the data. We acted like adults, we admitted we have a problem and we did the rigorous and SCIENTIFIC work of finding the solutions. We broke the cycle. We’ve really earnestly tried to raise thoughtful, honest about themselves, proud adults who ask why. We didn’t ignore them, we answered them honestly, we admitted there’s a problem. But we don’t have enough time to set it right in our life time. The brats won’t let go. We need Gen Z to carry the torch forward. Question everything, do the hard work, admit when you were wrong, be willing to change your mind when new data is discovered. I’m proud of these kids. I want them to do better than us. We got your back kid.

create awaraness for something that people already aware of since the dawn of human race?

Have you seen more than the one video floating around? Cuz I’ve only seen the one, could use some more for the spank bank.

I’ve been hearing about how older generations always hate younger generations all my life. How I must be destined to grow in to some crochety old man by 40.

I gotta say these kids seem like they’re headed in a pretty good direction, they’re funny, they’re not taking shit, frankly it seems like it’s going pretty well.