Viral Tweet Sparks Debate On Why This Generation Isn’t Soft Or Weak For Quitting Toxic Jobs As Older People Like To Criticize Them

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.

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.

“Your never going to get anywhere in life if you don’t let rich people exploit you.” 🤣

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 😃

My son uses the term "Wage slave" to describe jobs where you work for a dictator at low pay. They treat you like sh*t and act like they own you while you are on the clock. Not surprising that these jobs have a heavy turnover.

I'm in my 60s and *lots* of people in my age group quit jobs they didn't like to pursue whatever turned their crank. We got flack but who cares(d). I went through a whack of jobs until I settled on a career path that I fancied in my mid 30's. I left jobs due to boredom, micromanagers, idiots and 'just cuz'.

I gotta admit i didn't read all of this. I'm a boomer and have never heard any of these remarks. I think it's part of Pandas new format. Spread all the undocumented, negative hearsay you can find. Just what we need, more unnecessary pot stirring.

I'm Gen X and I've been railing against the hostile work environment and outright illegal acts by corps, all. my. life. A whistleblower when it wasn't cool. I'm quite certain I ended up on a well shared "naughty list" (still on it also). Sooo sick of first question at an interview being "Why u wanna work for us?" My answer: You all called me. (what I'd like to add: "....so came because I figure the paychecks won't bounce")

I'm Gen-X and totally applaud and support the outright rejection of toxic work culture, abusive management, and the expectations demanding martyrdom for a job. That sh!t broke me, and as I was watching it happen spoke out against it in favor of a workforce revolution which I never thought would happen The only way to make change is to attack the industry at it's false premise - that the employee and customer aren't as important as their executive board or investors. Watch what happens when business collapse when neither workers nor customers will sponsor the bad behavior and adversarial relationship they promote. Bravo!!

The other side of the story is that younger workers these days can be fragile & easily offended to the point of being unreasonable. Example #1, customer service at a hardware store turned around and walked away from helping me. My crime: she did not understand that I was asking if the store had any used portable generators for sale they had taken back under warranty replacement after the recent lengthy power outage. She kept saying that warranty problems were handled by corporate. I tried to tell her that I was not asking about how to handle a warranty problem, I wanted to know if the store had an inventory of used generators for sale at a discount. The rep felt I was being disrespectful because I did not like her answer. I repeated the question several times to the same answer, so she walked away from the customer service booth acting wounded. I was very offended that she would just walk away. Strange, and no, I was not being gruff, obnoxious, abusive, or unkind. She had zero tolerance for any sort of perceived disrespect. Example #2: I had a question about the meaning of a three-letter mnemonic on a will distribution form sent me by a major nationwide bank. I kept getting non-answers and the run-around by cust. service. I asked to speak to a supervisor. He escalated by insisting that I had to come in to the local branch and talk personally to a representative so they could be sure who they were talking to. The representative at the local branch was equally unhelpful. Apparently, they all felt that they would be providing high-level legal fiduciary advice if they defined one of their alphabet soup of numerous mnemonics. The corp. did not provide an online page to define their numerous mnemonics. I kept getting more annoyed and frustrated until I left. I found out what it meant doing a google search. So what is the big secret? I was just asking for the definition of one of their code word mnemonics. I was not asking their opinions and recommendations on a long-term, high-dollar investment strategy at their bank. Defining a commonly-used business term does not create a binding fiduciary agency relationship. They should have known that working at the big-name bank with all their training. Apparently, they felt I was disrespecting them by being annoyed at their refusal to help me with a reasonable question. I will never do business with that bank again since this sort of fragility and arrogance seems to be part of their corp. culture. And don't blame it on me, I was polite and friendly. The young people just wanted to assert themselves by being unhelpful since they were so fragile and determined not to take the slightest bull off of a customer. This sort of excessive fragility to the point that you won't work with a customer is unnecessary and unprofessional, young people. Stop it. You are not that delicate, fragile, or special to the point that you must be babied all the time.

I am a boomer and never stayed in a job more than two years because I was not willing to sell my soul or make myself sick just for the job. In my parents' day, employers were loyal to there employees so there was a reason to be loyal, but that actually changed for the boomer generation. If you really investigated I bet you would find more boomers who were like me. I have to say that I get really tired of the boomer/"old people" bashing. We are not all alike, just as not all young people are alike, Look to the broader picture, please.

These generational biases really need to end. It's not ok to judge people on anything besides character and age is not an exception. Every generation has amazing wonderful people, every generation has terrible, selfish people. Look at your own ideals and core beliefs; realize the long history of where they come from. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. We all should try to learn from past mistakes. Those that come after us will do the same.

I’m a boomer, I’m not criticizing anyone. The fact is we grew up in a different time, it wasn’t easier it harder than now. Each generation has its hurdles. BOTTOM LINE: for anyone in any generation who makes sweeping generalizations about an entire generation is a fool.

Any person who has control over your paycheck is not your friend. Too many employees forget that and think the boss would go the extra mile for them. That will never happen. If you're told in an interview that they are like a family, don't react, don't smile, nothing. You are not marrying into your job, keep it separate from your home life. Employers need to do better.

I think in about 5 years these folks are not going to be singing the exact same tune because life in general doesn't care about your feelings.

It used to be possible to buy a house and raise a a family on a modest salary. People on a modest salary now can often barely afford to eat. The older generations who are (directly or indirectly) responsible for this are equally as responsible for messing up our planet for younger and future generations - and refuse to act, even now. And yet somehow the young are the bad ones. The inequality in our society and the mess our planet is in now will take generations to fix, if it's even possible.

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They're soft because they give up too easily, have a sense of entitlement, and some are not willing to make sacrifices. They need a new iphone, they need a nice car, they have to eat out or order from delivery services, they have little fundamental understanding of saving and putting in truly hard work to get where they would like to be, they want an education, but aren't willing to do what previous generations did and have a few jobs to pay off that education, and they see previous generations and those older than them as idiots for having done the hard work to get where they are, but don't see the hard work and instead see people who are older than them who are doing similar jobs and getting paid much more, and being jealous because they lack the depth of experience. These are some of the reasons people call them soft, and all of these are justified reasons for making the claim.