https://finance.yahoo.com/news/don-t-time-anything-gen-201728182.html
A TikTok video of a young woman complaining about her work-life balance after getting her first 9-to-5 position after college—described as “Gen Z girl finds out what a real job is like” in an X post—has gone viral. But while many have perceived her rant to be about having to work, a closer listen shows it’s really about having to commute to and from the office—and what little time there is left in her day after that.
and it’s like, Chaya, what the fuck are you talking about? you worked as a real estate agent and now you’re just the personal fool of the Babylon Bee asshole. what part of that is a real job?
As far as I can tell, not a single media commentator, pundit, politician, CEO, or anybody else who has complained about kids not knowing what a real job is like, has ever once in their lives had a “rEaL” job. Any time I see these dipshits crying about “kids these days” I want to punch them in the gut, hand them some worn-out gloves, and make them go assemble tractors, install siding, run irrigation, cable a fuckin house, or insert any other physical labor job. None of them would last a day.
As far as I can tell, not a single media commentator, pundit, politician, CEO, or anybody else who has complained about kids not knowing what a real job is like, has ever once in their lives had a “rEaL” job.
It explains the sentiment. I’m hard pressed to name anyone who hasn’t had at least one anxiety attack or depressive episode after their first couple years on the workforce. Entry level jobs are consistently awful. Small business bosses are as clueless as they are mean-spirited. And a lot of these jobs involve cold calling, menial labor, working for the guy that has the hardest time keeping staff on hand, and doing other soul-crushing bullshit.
The headline “College Grad Has Breakdown in Real Workforce” could as easily be an Onion bit about the absurdist dysfunction and backwards dogmatism of private industry. The epitomous Grad discovers everything they’ve spent 4-6 years mastering has been ignored or mismanaged by the business they’ve been hired by and now that they’re an entry level employee they need to abandon all their best practices because CEO Daddy Knowns Best. Then the business loses a zillion dollars and the new hire gets blamed.
Olivia, 23, tried to explain basic business ethics to her boss, but was rebuffed.
“I tried to tell them that you can’t just pour all of the waste oil into the storm drain,” she said, “But they said that when they were CEO of Valvoline, they saved billions of dollars per year by implementing this type of policy company-wide, and the cost of being fined by the state was far less than what they saved.”
Infuriating. Being a menace to society for a quick buck. Hitmen have better ethics.
If they don’t last a 12 hour shift, they have to go to the Ukrainian front lines and go explode some cluster munitions
None of them would last a day.
Many of them can last a single day being babied because it’s their first day on the job - but then before they get any real responsibilities they’ll reveal that they’re doing an “undercover boss” shtick and propose a bunch of changes that make surface-level sense but won’t actually work for reasons they haven’t learned yet. Then they’ll go on to self mythologize about how they’ve worked “on the line” even though doing on the job training with a CEO salary is in no way comparable to working for the actual wage for months or years.
I’d be curious to see what exactly they define as a “real job” since they tend to look down on trade work as well
Sorry, there’s only five real jobs so take your pick, mr out-of-touch elitist:
- Business owner
- Landlord
- Car salesman
- social media celebrity (no we’re not ‘the mainstream media’ fuck you.)
- investment banker
Calvin! Go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!
don’t want a long commute, live in the suburbs? wtf
They suggest getting jobs in bumfuck nowhere, as if that job isn’t dishwasher at Adolf Maga’s bar or something.
“America is great because of the abundance available to people who work hard. What’s that, you want some of that abundance? Oh fuck you, you greedy, selfish asshole.”
What abundance? The people who work the hardest are ironically, not the far-right CHUDs. CHUDs are dictionary definition of dumb luck and got everything handed for them, and their politics are nothing but DEMANDING more freebies for the being the “right” race and gender at the expense of minorities. This Simpsons bit says it a lot better than I can.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
the comments are gross. no shortage of “when i was young i worked 22 hours a day bending steel with my bare hands and now i am making six figures, playing on the internet, and ‘working’ remotely as a captain of industry” type of divorced dad assholes with a healthy side of “she should thank her parents for how hard they obviously worked”.
Don’t want a long commute. Get a job in the suburbs.
LOL.
jobs (near) suburbs: mcdonalds that is still a 20 minute drive away
The whole “leftists are out of touch with the working class” thing is pure projection. Even CHUDs in bumfuck nowhere will tell you their work is a long drive away. The difference is they’re boring enough to like it that way.
Yahoo news promoting the troll account Libs of TikTok’s Xeets as legitimate in any way? Massive oof.
The girl’s right, let her WFH or cut mandatory working hours in half. It’s dumb to sacrifice your whole life for some bullshit job fresh out of college and yet what other choice is there?
having a commute to and from the office
The difference between waking up at 8 to catch the 830 bus and be at work by 9 vs waking up at 7 to be on the road by 730 to sit in morning traffic for ninety minutes is huge. Hell even if your commute is relatively quick, the difference between driving a car and being free to read or post or whatever while somebody else drives is huge on its own.
WFH allows workers to reclaim all of that time for themselves. That’s why bosses hate it - commute times are essentially uncompensated labor.
oh wow, for me taking the bus takes like 70-100% longer than driving if not more.
Would take me approximately 4x as long.
If I tried to take the bus from where I lived now into town I would only be able to go there twice a week and the trip would be over an hour, so yeah I get it. The few times when I’ve been able to make public transit work despite living in America are exceptions to the rule.
I lived and worked walking distance from a light rail for a couple years. It was an hour long trip either way but I didn’t mind that much because I could read. I miss it
Is it just my area or do landlords intentionally raise the rent where they know two or more people are going to split the cost between themselves?
A lot of the newer apartments do this where I live.
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Lack of interpretation and empathy is really doing wonders for the world rn
i mean sure its about her commute but its also about work because work sucks too
Should I quit my job because they’re making me go back? I don’t have something else lined up but I don’t give a shit. I have savings. Not a lot, but I can get by for a while. I just can’t deal with this bullshit for for another single second.
