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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/don-t-time-anything-gen-201728182.html

A TikTok video of a young woman complaining about her work-life balance after getting her first 9-to-5 position after college—described as “Gen Z girl finds out what a real job is like” in an X post—has gone viral. But while many have perceived her rant to be about having to work, a closer listen shows it’s really about having to commute to and from the office—and what little time there is left in her day after that.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

and it's like, Chaya, what the fuck are you talking about? you worked as a real estate agent and now you're just the personal fool of the Babylon Bee asshole. what part of that is a real job?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

As far as I can tell, not a single media commentator, pundit, politician, CEO, or anybody else who has complained about kids not knowing what a real job is like, has ever once in their lives had a "rEaL" job. Any time I see these dipshits crying about "kids these days" I want to punch them in the gut, hand them some worn-out gloves, and make them go assemble tractors, install siding, run irrigation, cable a fuckin house, or insert any other physical labor job. None of them would last a day.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As far as I can tell, not a single media commentator, pundit, politician, CEO, or anybody else who has complained about kids not knowing what a real job is like, has ever once in their lives had a "rEaL" job.

It explains the sentiment. I'm hard pressed to name anyone who hasn't had at least one anxiety attack or depressive episode after their first couple years on the workforce. Entry level jobs are consistently awful. Small business bosses are as clueless as they are mean-spirited. And a lot of these jobs involve cold calling, menial labor, working for the guy that has the hardest time keeping staff on hand, and doing other soul-crushing bullshit.

The headline "College Grad Has Breakdown in Real Workforce" could as easily be an Onion bit about the absurdist dysfunction and backwards dogmatism of private industry. The epitomous Grad discovers everything they've spent 4-6 years mastering has been ignored or mismanaged by the business they've been hired by and now that they're an entry level employee they need to abandon all their best practices because CEO Daddy Knowns Best. Then the business loses a zillion dollars and the new hire gets blamed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Olivia, 23, tried to explain basic business ethics to her boss, but was rebuffed.

"I tried to tell them that you can't just pour all of the waste oil into the storm drain," she said, "But they said that when they were CEO of Valvoline, they saved billions of dollars per year by implementing this type of policy company-wide, and the cost of being fined by the state was far less than what they saved."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Infuriating. Being a menace to society for a quick buck. Hitmen have better ethics.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

If they don’t last a 12 hour shift, they have to go to the Ukrainian front lines and go explode some cluster munitions

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

None of them would last a day.

Many of them can last a single day being babied because it's their first day on the job - but then before they get any real responsibilities they'll reveal that they're doing an "undercover boss" shtick and propose a bunch of changes that make surface-level sense but won't actually work for reasons they haven't learned yet. Then they'll go on to self mythologize about how they've worked "on the line" even though doing on the job training with a CEO salary is in no way comparable to working for the actual wage for months or years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I'd be curious to see what exactly they define as a "real job" since they tend to look down on trade work as well

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sorry, there's only five real jobs so take your pick, mr out-of-touch elitist:

  • Business owner
  • Landlord
  • Car salesman
  • social media celebrity (no we're not 'the mainstream media' fuck you.)
  • investment banker