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[Gen-Z] works just as hard as people before us, with lower salaries and higher costs of living,” Asero says. “When the standard work week [was implemented] people could afford to support a family with one spouse staying home and taking care of the mental load, food, and children. But that is hardly the case anymore. And most people who are mad at me are just taking out the anger they feel over the time they’ve lost working long hours. I just wanted to bring people together who feel this way to possibly incite a change.”

Point(s) of order.
First of all, GenZ is not making lower salaries. In fact, over time, salaries increase at every level of labor. If you're upset about cost of living, reconsider your choice at the polls.

Second, people she referred to before her knew how to live within their means. They didn't buy the new phone as soon as it hit the market to look cool, didn't buy new cars, didn't fly to Florida 3x a year and didn't spend every dime they made. We had budgets, we knew what we could afford, what we needed to save to buy, what we needed set aside of unexpected expenses. Guess what, we were happy.

Finally, just because you don't like something to don't need to start a movement to change the other 300+ million people in this country. Here is another phrase from us old people "Deal with it"

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“[Gen-Z] works just as hard as people before us, with lower salaries and higher costs of living,” Asero says. “When the standard work week [was implemented] people could afford to support a family with one spouse staying home and taking care of the mental load, food, and children. But that is hardly the case anymore. And most people who are mad at me are just taking out the anger they feel over the time they’ve lost working long hours. I just wanted to bring people together who feel this way to possibly incite a change.”

Oh, soo much to say after I'm done laughing!
Princess, please put the dick BACK in your mouth, it might be the only way for you to stop saying stupid shit.

"Gen Z works just as hard as people before us..."
That made me spit my coffee out. I get that every generation talks somewhat poorly about the next generation. Gen Z is fucking clueless. Not 100% of the generation, but the vast majority are about as useful as a pothole- just there to slow everyone down and cause more work for people who know what they're doing. Unless it's on their "device"... Then they know stuff!

What the fuck is this "mental load"? Bitch, if you even say that it's "stress" because you have to go to work, please just kill yourself now, it will only deepen the gene pool. Somewhere along the line, thankfully it was in my teen years, I figured out that I was cursed by my parents and born good looking and not filthy rich. So I had to work. I want to make more money, I get the privilege of working more. I was fortunate enough to figure out investments, and learned that it was better than gambling and not quite as risky.

I just had this conversation a few days ago with a guy that's like my older brother. I've never had just 1 job since I was 15. Always worked 2 or 3 jobs... I started college in my 40's, I'm 53 now and think I'm pretty close to finishing up and getting a piece of paper. I need it for my next step in my career. I remember coming home from work at 2am and studying or cranking out a paper. Family vacation; "Honey, take the kids to the beach for a few hours, I have homework to do." Tired as hell at kids functions (baseball, football, swimming...) because I "spun the clock" at work, or went from one job to another then to a football game. And I sure as hell didn't cry about it. I just grunted it out and did it. Funny, because when I had this conversation, it was while I was working my side job.

Bitch, we're not mad at you because "that's just the way life is". We're not mad at you at all... We find you pathetically comical. Just something to look, point and laugh at while we're on our way to and from work, and you're on your knees in some alleyway.

"I want to bring people together who feel this way and incite a chance"...
Please, the only thing that you should ever bring together is your lips. All of them.

I remember working my way through college, two jobs. One working on cars, another running a printing press.

I complained about not being paid much and my father told me I had to buy the experience needed with lower pay.

40 years later, I am the authority in my field having to remind these little shits that my specialized degree and experience trumps their google search and gender studies degree.

Here is another one that just doesn't get it. Noticed how she dragged her "Republican" dad into it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/i1t...?si=fJDAELYKiLvLejBg

Excuses, excuses, excuses.

Those of us who have been on this rock a long time know that it has not always been this way in this country. Naturally, there have always been deadbeats. No one is claiming otherwise. Anyone who wants to make excuses for the attitudes we see in young people - especially since the fake COVID crap, which is now approaching its fourth anniversary- is either blind or a liar.

Used to be- and it wasn't all that long ago- when a person graduated high school, either they got a job, or went into the service or went into college, and in the latter two, when they were through, those people entered the workplace.

And as far as marriage saving the fairer sex from having to work, that is, for the most part, a thing of the past. In most marriages, both partners have to work, and it has been this way for decades. Yes, we have a small number of marriages where one partner works and pays for the household and this used to be commonplace, but, again, this mode is decades in the past.

The problems with the current generation of youngsters are obvious and rampant, so, no, it's not just that she's on her period, or any other excuse to be had. Young people these days do not want to work and do not think they should have to earn the things they want, and there is no excusing it.

Except for a few odd jobs my work life started at 17 with the Army National guard.
All through college, when the elitist off spring were on spring or fall break I would go back to my guard unit and do extra work. I also had the advantage of obtaining an LPN license from my high school vocational technical program and worked nights as a nurse at a drug and alcohol rehab and going to school during the day, often as much as 23 credit hours per semester.
I just do what had to be done, no big deal
At one point in my clinical rotations in PA schoo, with no housing available at the clinical site I lived in my station wagon, again no big deal just do what you have to do.
I doubt hardly any of today’s entitlement mentality youth would do any of that or if they did would whine incessantly about it.

This little chick hasn’t made the best decisions here. So she’s living in NJ which is a ludicrously expensive state to live in then has to commute 2 hours into Manhattan which is even more ludicrously expensive than NJ? Whatever

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The problems with the current generation of youngsters are obvious and rampant, so, no, it's not just that she's on her period, or any other excuse to be had. Young people these days do not want to work and do not think they should have to earn the things they want, and there is no excusing it.

The lovely "Gen Z"!
They EXPECT everything just given to them. They think that "just showing up" should give them the keys to the castle.

Yes, there are exceptions, but they are few and far between: Ones that aren't afraid to get their hands dirty, break a sweat, and work their ass off.

But the vast majority are just like Lil Princess.
Clueless, lazy and demanding/expecting everything handed to them on a silver platter. And WOAH!!! If it's not on their devices it doesn't exist. More concerned about social media than an actual conversation with an actual person- face to face. They need more "likes" on their stupid tweets or posts. Searching for some anonymous "thumbs up". Face buried in their phone instead of actually seeing what's going on around them.

I have young coppers that can't get much past asking offenders the pedigree questions. Absolutely horrible at asking victims important questions. Us older guys (and girls) try and teach them...
"Oh, yeah, I know" comes out of their mouth in the first minute or so.

The bullshit COVID did nothing but accelerate this anti-social behavior in this generation. They don't have to actually interact with another human being, just a phone.

Funny that at their fingertips, lies all the information in the world, yet they are some of the most clueless people out there with little drive. I can't figure out why THEY can't figure out simple things like "why I shouldn't buy a $80K new car, toss $30K worth of stupid accessories on it while I'm saving up to buy a $300k home that's 2 1/2 hours from work". Or "why can't I go on a vacation out of town every time my days off come up, yet complain that I don't have any money and still live in my Moms basement?"

Job? As in "work"? Noooooo.... I'm an "influencer".
So they basically just tell people what to like, and not like.... AND PEOPLE LISTEN TO THEM.

Don't ya just love their blanket answer "Google it / Ask Siri" ?!?! Which I believe is a catalyst in this problem! They don't have to actually work on a problem anymore. No need to actually sit down, look at something and figure it out. The answer is literally given to them by some anonymous thing.

I think this new generation needs to watch St. Elmo's Fire. They are not the first generation to struggle with the transition from education to adulthood.

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This little chick hasn’t made the best decisions here. So she’s living in NJ which is a ludicrously expensive state to live in then has to commute 2 hours into Manhattan which is even more ludicrously expensive than NJ? Whatever

Yep, she is working in Manhattan and that’s where she wants to work and live. Should have held out for another city. Even New Jersey is bank.

Gen Z gets wake-up call on how the ‘real world’ works

Working a full-time job, more specifically the traditional 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., may be too much for Gen Z to bear.

"Gen Z, discovering the real world. It never gets old," the Washington Examiner’s Kaylee McGhee White recently said on "Making Money with Charles Payne." "And I say this as someone who is Gen Z, and they're shocked at the idea that you actually have to work a full-time job in order to make money."

One young American TikTok user recently took to the social site to showcase her stress and despair over not having time "to do anything" after working her 9-to-5 job.

"I want to shower, eat my dinner and go to sleep. I don't have time or energy to cook my dinner either. Like, I don't have energy to work out, like that's out the window. Like I'm so upset," the young woman says in the now-viral TikTok. "Nothing to do with my job at all, but just like the 9-to-5 schedule in general is crazy."

While McGhee White sympathized with disliking long hours and wanting more flexibility in the workplace, she shared words of wisdom for Gen Z peers who complain about their full-time jobs.

"I assume that she's probably only a couple of years younger than I am. So this is her first, maybe her second job, right? The best way is to buckle down, work hard and achieve what you want," McGhee White advised. "Success isn't handed to you, and that's exactly what my generation assumes."

The Washington Examiner editor further argued that Gen Z’s resistance to a 9-to-5 schedule started during the pandemic.

"I call them the COVID kids, where the last couple of years of their high school, or even college, was all spent remote. And so this has especially impacted offices where kids who are graduating from colleges just expect that they're going to be handed remote jobs because that's what they got used to for two to three years," McGhee White explained.

She additionally agreed with host Charles Payne’s sentiment that in order to reap work benefits and see the reward, "you got to put some skin in the game."

"Developing a work ethic is instrumental to being successful later on in life. And yet again, everything from government policy to the way that IT administrators are teaching kids, is doing the exact opposite," McGhee White said.

"Take, for example, student loan debt forgiveness," she continued. "We're teaching kids that they don't have to work hard to pay off their student loans and that other people will do it for them. So this is coming from the highest levels of government."

More broadly looking at Gen Z in the workplace, a recent survey from ResumeBuilder revealed that nearly 75% of managers of business leaders say that Gen Z – anyone born from 1997 onward – are "more difficult to work with than other generations."

Even more concerning, a whopping 49% of business leaders and managers surveyed said that it was difficult to work with Gen Z all or most of the time due to lack of communication skills, effort, motivation and even technological skills.

I feel, like, soo bad for, like, this girl!
Like, it's really not, like, FAIR for, like, someone to have to, like, GO TO WORK and stuff It's like, not cool. Like, I should be able to, like, do whatever I, like, WANT, you know?

I should, like, just be, like able to, like, order my Frappachino and, like, not be, like, hassled. I should be able to, like, say whatever I like, like, on social media, to like, get "likes", like, you know, other people!



I'm betting that she's, like, friends, with like, the "Wingstop Girl"!

https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...0601935/m/8380034405

Wait until they realize that even if the don't have to pay their student loans, when they enter the workforce they'll be paying someone else's.

Fellas, she’s a South Carolina co-ed. Odds are, the plan was to get married and be a stay at home wife to someone from the country club.