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.
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’.