• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    Honestly, we need to all stop working until our leaders are interested in fixing wealth inequality.

    We all waste at least 5/7ths of our lives turning this wheel that now only benefits a few thousand people at the top who then take the money they get from our work and use it to fuck children.

    Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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    They’re not paying a living wage, they expect you to be available when they want you and to go away when they don’t, and they give you hideous workloads. They rob you of dignity, cheat you money, and deprive you of benefits. “No one wants to work anymore.” Fucking bullshit.

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      I’ve had so many shitty managers, including three millennials. People literally cant treat employees like humans and just a productivity machine. I worked jobs both at big corps and small mom and pop stores and they are all the same

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      “Nobody wants to work” always has the unspoken second part, “for what I want to pay.”

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        It’s super interesting to me that “not wanting to work” is a bad thing. I talk to a lot of boomers who doesn’t understand how younger people don’t want to work.

        Well you got brainwashed into a 40+ hour work week, and you were able to buy a house for $5000 and were able to support 4 children and a stay at home wife. A 20 year old now knows that they will never own a house and don’t have time for a family because they need 2 jobs to buy something that wasn’t made by slaves in a temu factory.

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          Lol I said this to a cashier once when she apologized for my wait (IDC tbh I saw they were busy and tempered my expectations). She said, “nobody wants to work anymore!” And I asked her, “of course they don’t, nobody wants to be at a David’s Bridal at 11am on a Saturday. Do YOU want to be here, working, right now??” And she was Gobsmacked lmao. I wasn’t mean to her or anything. She just. Couldn’t fathom it. So odd.

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    I feel like naming generations has done some harm. This isn’t like, a “Gen z” thing, it’s a young people thing, it’s a “people who are the future of humanity” problem. The future of humanity is one in which people cannot psychologically handle the life they’re expected to/forced to lead. That is a lot more serious. It’s not like, just some cultural issue with Gen Z like the debate about ankle socks

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    You run places with a skeleton crew and wonder why people are burnt out, where I work at we have people doing like 3 jobs at once and we’re a retail store, sometimes I get home and I’m too dead to die.

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      I kinda feel sorry for managers at large retail chains, but I also kinda don’t. On one hand, they’re “in charge” of the store, but the big decisions (or small decisions, if they involve enough money) are made by corporate. Management makes the schedule, but corporate dictates how much of a “budget” they’re allowed for wages, supplies, etc. If they go over that budget too often, they’re fired.

      I don’t feel sorry for the ones who are petty dictators. I also don’t feel sorry for the ones who are perfectly capable of working in another field, hate their job, but stick with retail anyway. Retail sucks. Making it a life choice is a terrible idea. If they’re smart enough to run a store, they should be smart enough to figure that out.

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        The only difference between a good store manager and a bad one is how much physical labour they do. They more they help out with the actual money making side of the job, the better the job.

        My store manager spends most of his day sitting in his office, he’s never once worked my department to help us, he’s the reason I stepped up to manage my department, I know more than him, so I’m just gonna do it my way and tell him to fuck off, what’s he gonna do? Fire me for making the store more money?

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        some dont answer the burnt out question with yes, cause it can be a tracked company questionnaire.i wouldnt do it either.

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          Incorrect. I was unemployed for a time and very burnt out. The churn still grinds you up and spits you out, shit paycheck or none.

          Now I’m underemployed and still burned out. But at least it will take longer to go bankrupt.

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            Unemployed and paid for by their parents, that have money for now. The members of the ever shrinking middle class. A lot of Gen Z is also still young enough to be pretty reliant on their parents (myself included), especially because of how shit the working conditions are. Being unemployed is still terrible. Hope you get some less shitty employment.