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.
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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