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.

  • getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.mlEnglish
    40·
    22 days ago

    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.

    • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      22 days ago

      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:

      • getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.mlEnglish
        19·
        22 days ago

        Yeah…it’s such a struggle lol. I appreciate you adding to my old screenshot, though. I missed how well-read hexbears are.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        18·
        22 days ago

        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 shitposting debating with plebs at the forum instead of watching goats or whatever the fuck.

        • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          14·
          22 days ago

          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

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      24·
      22 days ago

      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.

      • getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.mlEnglish
        14·
        22 days ago

        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’.