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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Everyone at my work who's younger than me works way harder. Often it's cause they're younger and aren't a very experienced and indispensable part of the business,my being canned would fuck the place up BIG time so I operate with a lot less fear and really try to endorse efficiently over hard work and also cause it's a kitchen to get people to stop giving 'help' that isn't asked for 'stop trying to help me and help me' yo paralhrase Morpheus. Where say there's an order for 3 pizzas that's a one person job and often someone will drop whatever they're doing to go help, that isn't necessary or useful, keep doing what your doing and let people both ask for help when needed and also when you go to help someone they're thr one cling the shots, the asker should instruct the person helping and the helper should ask what helps best. Having people jump in and finish orders that are 3 chits away from what I'm doing doesn't actually do anything for me. 'What can I do for you?' Is the first thing to say when offering help. Otherwise you're imposing 'help'