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Viral Tweet Sparks Debate On Why This Generation Isn’t Soft Or Weak For Quitting Toxic Jobs As Older People Like To Criticize Them
Differences between generations are caused by the natural development of humanity. Because we have different experiences from the world surrounding us, we will have a different outlook to the world than our parents did even though we were raised by them and were taught the values they believe in.
The differences are evident in various areas of life and they’re often easily distinguishable. For example, Twitter user Yugopnik shared his thought about how the older generation observes that young people don’t remain at one company for long if they feel like it is interfering with their life too much and calls them soft for that, but he completely disagrees with that.
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Twitter user points out that calling the younger generation soft or weak for quitting toxic jobs doesn’t make any sense
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Yugopnik describes himself as a “Balkan Slavic Socialist with a YouTube essay channel and cohost of @TheDeprogramPod.” He says he “Dresses like Tito, drinks like Yeltsin, and talks like Žižek.”
The tweet in question went quite viral with 95k likes, so evidently, many people share the same sentiment about not staying in a job that has a toxic environment.
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He understands that sometimes life circumstances may not permit one to quit a job, but other than that, there is no reason to torture oneself for a job
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Yugopnik says that he finds it funny when older people call the younger generation soft or weak if they can’t handle managers who demand too much but don’t pay enough. He understands that some people don’t have a choice and just have to stay to be able to feed themselves and their loved ones, but other than that, he doesn’t think the consequences are worth it.
The comments were filled with people sharing the same sentiment
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Many of them couldn’t find logic in the accusation as employees just are looking for better options
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Twitter users had a heated discussion in the comments. The majority of people agreed that they consider it normal to quit working at a place you don’t feel is suited for you. Some said that doing that is actually an act of self-care and a sign of self-respect.
If you think about it, a standard workweek is 40 hours, so you spend most of your time awake working. So why would you want to spend all that time working for someone who doesn’t appreciate you or with people who make your life harder than it should be? Especially when the circumstances allow you to quit and find something better.
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They feel that if a person is being mistreated and not valued in the company, they have no business remaining there
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Another argument that a lot of people said their older relatives or acquaintances mentioned was that young people don’t have loyalty to their employers and are changing their jobs as if they were socks.
It all comes back to the same reason of not putting up with a toxic working environment as a lot of people feel that they don’t receive the same loyalty from their employers and after a while it just makes them search for better options.
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Many times people aren’t even paid enough to make the suffering worth having a luxurious life
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Not only were people trying to explain why quitting a job that makes you die inside is a very sensible decision, they came for the older generations for having meltdowns when they are asked to put masks on for others’ and their own safety.
Also, if you really think about it, it’s not that easy to walk out from a job. However toxic it is, it is still a source of income, you’re already familiar with it and with the people working with you. The unknown and uncertainty is always scary, so quitting a job in hopes to find a better one is actually quite brave.
To compare, one Twitter user said that the moments when the older generation has meltdowns are when they have to follow life-saving regulations
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Although the vast majority of Twitter commenters fully agreed with Yugopnik, there were some who thought that persevering at a job that you don’t like toughens character and shows a person’s ability to adapt.
After reading all the opinions and reasons, you are really left convinced that if you are not happy with where your life is going, you try to change that and it’s weird to be called soft or weak for that.
Actually, quitting a job is often seen as a bold move because uncertainty is always frightening, but it’s worth overcoming it to get free from a toxic situation
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What do you think of Yugopnik’s opinion? Would you agree with Twitter users who support it or do you think that young people don’t know how to deal with uncomfortable situations? Share your reflections in the comments!
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
What we all need to remember is that every previous generation that ever existed has called the next but one generation after them stupid names. It's been going on for centuries. It's not new. It's not different It's not specific to any generation or group of people. It's still stupid, but it's nothing new.
bumble bee 4 years ago
These generational groups, boomers, X, Y, etc are just marketing ploys to sell people stuff hey don't need based on when they were born. There were no generational groups before boomers, and they were called boomers based on the increase of births after WWII.
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Stefan 4 years ago
Calling a whole generation any name is always too simplistic to be pertinent.
BusLady 4 years ago
I particularly hate this "war" between boomers and millennials. People should except one another's differences and respect one another. What good does it do to be angry?
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago (edited)
My body will never fully recover b/c I did everything required to work to pay for education, to pay rent, to pay bills, to *eat*, to have medical care b/c we weren't well off enough to afford insurance and not poor enough for Meidcaid. (US, if you can't guess, LOL.) The grinding exhaustion b/c you can't do all that and still get enough sleep, you're never able to eat healthy b/c you don't have time to cook a good meal, it's just what you can grab, and your body just ages faster than the calendar says it does. I probably knocked 20 years off my life. If I did it again? I"d sooner have the frigging student debt. Sometimes. Just to have not been full-time worker, full-time student, just... no. Never. Don't. Not worth the long-term effect. Rant over.
DUN DUN 4 years ago
I see my cousin work over 10 hrs a day and get paid the bare minimum. She works in the software sector. It's jst crazy how much she puts her energy into her work, only to get 50% of what she deserves.
RNA 4 years ago (edited)
There's this material on BoredPanda about how man are/were taught to 'dislike women'. You Pandas might want to check it out as this is really good (even though rather depressing) stuff. One of the few non-comparative things i was taught (i'm GenX, go figure!) as a kid was that a man should be r-e-s-i-l-i-e-n-t. It was not an opposition to the other gender, it was simply stated to me (thousands of times) in my face, as an 'objective' fact. So if one can't handle the harsh treatment he's not manly enough, period. I believe this might be the reason why older generations see younglings quitting the job for many different reasons as soft/ weak. I'm not trying to be judgemental here, to make things clear, i'm just looking for an explanation (i didn't read the whole thing though fiy, sorry if it was pointed out before smh).
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
Also Gen X. I think our parents stressed resiliency and self-sufficiency to justify their non-parenting. (We have been referred to as "the least parented generation".) Those can be good traits, but they can also be negative - sometimes it's better to quit or to ask for help. I see Millennials doing the best they can with the very bad situation they grew into. I think they're 100% correct to reject toxic jobs and demand something better.
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Vishy 4 years ago
Some of us can't just hop on to the next job. I have a family to feed and have depression and bipolar disorder. I work hard at whatever is given to me at wages that would make you cringe. I don't think about it as cowardice. It takes courage.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
I think this point is made up above by one of the posters -they say sticking it out to support your familiy is courage.
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Charlie Taube 4 years ago
“Your never going to get anywhere in life if you don’t let rich people exploit you.” 🤣
ZAPanda 4 years ago
I want to know whether she said that verbatim and if she knows that "to be exploited" is not in fact a good thing.
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Shane S 4 years ago
There’s nothing wrong either with doing an 8-5 passionless job if it has good benefits and pays you enough to support your interests and hobbies.
Otter 4 years ago (edited)
Absolutely! The odds of finding a job that you're passionate about are extremely low, because in most "passion" fields the competition for places is so fierce that jobs pay little or nothing. Literally. In the arts and related businesses, employers are shamefully shameless about using interns and volunteers instead of adequately compensated employees. So for most humans, a job where you have adequate payment, a decent work-life balance, and you don't feel morally corrupted by your work, well, that's as good as it gets for most of us. Better than it ever gets for a lot of us.
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I threw myself into my first after school job at a supermarket wholeheartedly. They used me, I did boss level work for youth wages, opened the dept and closed it, had to train my own boss. And then they had the nerve to call me lazy (it was actually the deputy manager fobbing her s**t on me, thinking I would be an easy target). I brought all the log books to the disciplinary meeting: every day she said I was lazy had my signature only for (deli)cleaning, cooking, dishes, sanatising etc, and I can guarantee I served 90% of customers on those days, and the duty manager backed me up. I'd always thought "work hard be loyal blah blah blah" 😡 well, they could never cover my 10 hour Saturday shift without splitting it into three etc, no one wanted to cover it (horrible shift). So I came in on Friday one hour before closing with my uniform in a bag along with my letter of resignation and a matching medical certificate. Apparently 6 others left within a fortnight 😃
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
On reflection I was fortunate and privileged to have been able to just quit, even if I was at high school. I was thinking about it just now, and if I had had to stay in that job, that would have been spirit breaking s**t. And that is reality for so many ppl, and I'm sorry if I seemed flippant in my above comments, I did not think about it properly from the viewpoint of others.
Load More Replies...
Jo Choto 4 years ago
What we all need to remember is that every previous generation that ever existed has called the next but one generation after them stupid names. It's been going on for centuries. It's not new. It's not different It's not specific to any generation or group of people. It's still stupid, but it's nothing new.
bumble bee 4 years ago
These generational groups, boomers, X, Y, etc are just marketing ploys to sell people stuff hey don't need based on when they were born. There were no generational groups before boomers, and they were called boomers based on the increase of births after WWII.
Load More Replies... Stefan 4 years ago
Calling a whole generation any name is always too simplistic to be pertinent.
BusLady 4 years ago
I particularly hate this "war" between boomers and millennials. People should except one another's differences and respect one another. What good does it do to be angry?
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago (edited)
My body will never fully recover b/c I did everything required to work to pay for education, to pay rent, to pay bills, to *eat*, to have medical care b/c we weren't well off enough to afford insurance and not poor enough for Meidcaid. (US, if you can't guess, LOL.) The grinding exhaustion b/c you can't do all that and still get enough sleep, you're never able to eat healthy b/c you don't have time to cook a good meal, it's just what you can grab, and your body just ages faster than the calendar says it does. I probably knocked 20 years off my life. If I did it again? I"d sooner have the frigging student debt. Sometimes. Just to have not been full-time worker, full-time student, just... no. Never. Don't. Not worth the long-term effect. Rant over.
DUN DUN 4 years ago
I see my cousin work over 10 hrs a day and get paid the bare minimum. She works in the software sector. It's jst crazy how much she puts her energy into her work, only to get 50% of what she deserves.
RNA 4 years ago (edited)
There's this material on BoredPanda about how man are/were taught to 'dislike women'. You Pandas might want to check it out as this is really good (even though rather depressing) stuff. One of the few non-comparative things i was taught (i'm GenX, go figure!) as a kid was that a man should be r-e-s-i-l-i-e-n-t. It was not an opposition to the other gender, it was simply stated to me (thousands of times) in my face, as an 'objective' fact. So if one can't handle the harsh treatment he's not manly enough, period. I believe this might be the reason why older generations see younglings quitting the job for many different reasons as soft/ weak. I'm not trying to be judgemental here, to make things clear, i'm just looking for an explanation (i didn't read the whole thing though fiy, sorry if it was pointed out before smh).
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
Also Gen X. I think our parents stressed resiliency and self-sufficiency to justify their non-parenting. (We have been referred to as "the least parented generation".) Those can be good traits, but they can also be negative - sometimes it's better to quit or to ask for help. I see Millennials doing the best they can with the very bad situation they grew into. I think they're 100% correct to reject toxic jobs and demand something better.
Load More Replies... Vishy 4 years ago
Some of us can't just hop on to the next job. I have a family to feed and have depression and bipolar disorder. I work hard at whatever is given to me at wages that would make you cringe. I don't think about it as cowardice. It takes courage.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
I think this point is made up above by one of the posters -they say sticking it out to support your familiy is courage.
Load More Replies... Charlie Taube 4 years ago
“Your never going to get anywhere in life if you don’t let rich people exploit you.” 🤣
ZAPanda 4 years ago
I want to know whether she said that verbatim and if she knows that "to be exploited" is not in fact a good thing.
Load More Replies... Shane S 4 years ago
There’s nothing wrong either with doing an 8-5 passionless job if it has good benefits and pays you enough to support your interests and hobbies.
Otter 4 years ago (edited)
Absolutely! The odds of finding a job that you're passionate about are extremely low, because in most "passion" fields the competition for places is so fierce that jobs pay little or nothing. Literally. In the arts and related businesses, employers are shamefully shameless about using interns and volunteers instead of adequately compensated employees. So for most humans, a job where you have adequate payment, a decent work-life balance, and you don't feel morally corrupted by your work, well, that's as good as it gets for most of us. Better than it ever gets for a lot of us.
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I threw myself into my first after school job at a supermarket wholeheartedly. They used me, I did boss level work for youth wages, opened the dept and closed it, had to train my own boss. And then they had the nerve to call me lazy (it was actually the deputy manager fobbing her s**t on me, thinking I would be an easy target). I brought all the log books to the disciplinary meeting: every day she said I was lazy had my signature only for (deli)cleaning, cooking, dishes, sanatising etc, and I can guarantee I served 90% of customers on those days, and the duty manager backed me up. I'd always thought "work hard be loyal blah blah blah" 😡 well, they could never cover my 10 hour Saturday shift without splitting it into three etc, no one wanted to cover it (horrible shift). So I came in on Friday one hour before closing with my uniform in a bag along with my letter of resignation and a matching medical certificate. Apparently 6 others left within a fortnight 😃
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
On reflection I was fortunate and privileged to have been able to just quit, even if I was at high school. I was thinking about it just now, and if I had had to stay in that job, that would have been spirit breaking s**t. And that is reality for so many ppl, and I'm sorry if I seemed flippant in my above comments, I did not think about it properly from the viewpoint of others.
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