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A future-of-work expert said Gen Zers didn't have the "promise of stability" at work, so they're putting their personal lives and well-being first.

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[โ€“] TCB13@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (32 children)

And then you've the fucktards who say in the WEF and other places that "people have to suffer" in order to be more productive / want to work.

They have seen the legacy of all these broken promises. In the old days and in many parts of the West, they would promise you if you worked for 30 years, you have this defined benefit pension, you have retiree medical care, etc. None of that exists today.

But at the end of the day it was the same fucktards who broke the social contract when it comes to work and benefits.

I'm only as good as the value I'm delivering today, and so these are the terms under which I want to work, and you either meet them or not.'"

That's the right approach to the job market and I'm not even Gen Z. The current state of things, like expecting people to work multiple jobs, underpaying, firing to then hire at half the rate, constant layoffs, unreasonable demands and managers it's all bullshit that people can't stand anymore.

numerous Gen Zers are "quiet quitting" and taking a step back at work because they're painfully aware that their hard work could essentially amount to nothing.

When a employers and governments "loudly quit" on people's life's and expectations that's what they get.

In one survey last year, 74% of managers said the generation was the most challenging to work with.

How many of those managers are 50+ years old, with all they ever wanted and a sense their hard work payed off?

[โ€“] sandevistan@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago (31 children)

Could amount to nothing

Read between the lines here, article writer ๐Ÿฅฒ, everything amounts to nothing. Nobody wants their life to pass by unlived

Old people are impossible to talk to, painfully neurotic and stupid and obsessed with collecting clothing and electronics. They have zero compassion. They know the social contract is broken and they keep telling us to make the same decisions as them knowing we will get nothing for it and die

[โ€“] snek@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Old people are impossible to talk to, painfully neurotic and stupid

Could I ask, how old are you and why do you find it that way? :/ Never had this experience. Maybe my grandpa is a grumpy old fuck but otherwise "old people" are just "people".

[โ€“] sandevistan@lemm.ee -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Old ppl in the suburbs lol, this only goes for a small subset. I'm reconsidering things after meeting potential inlaws tbqhbbq

[โ€“] snek@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you mean, specifically older Americans (?) living in the suburbs?

Also again how old are you? A bit curious.

[โ€“] sandevistan@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yep. Early twenties. There are plenty of awesome old people in this country. Shitty paranoid homeowners who wpuld enjoy aprtheid south aftica congregate in suburbs

[โ€“] snek@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the coolest old people I have met were Americans who travel.

[โ€“] sandevistan@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I hear Americans are the worst tourists lol, and the most likely to be there to buy a woman for that matter

[โ€“] snek@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, none of the ones I saw in Europe.

[โ€“] sandevistan@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of the worst behavior is concentrated in regions people go for a discount like Bali Indonesia, India, Mexico, the Philippines, even Japan and SK, pretty much anywhere non European, I'm not surprised to hear you say that, because Euros and the upper class of saudi arabia and SK and aus and canada and US+NATO and europe is all alike in this way

[โ€“] snek@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Funny, reminds me how some Swedish men fly to Thailand to do things they cannot easily/safely do in Sweden, like pay for sex or do drugs.

[โ€“] sandevistan@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Thailand is a perfect example thanks forgot to mention that.

We also can kind of offer high end "vice services" like gambling and debauchery and whatnot to the elite of gulf states even better if they're very conservative and we can blackmail the hell out of them afterwards. The elite of the world coming to Las Vegas and Dubai and Thailand and Bali alike I mean

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