“I Want To Quit”: Woman Shares How Disappointed She Is With Today’s “Work Culture”, The Internet Agrees
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During the worldwide pandemic, companies learned that remote work can be highly effective, with 83% of employers surveyed saying that the shift to remote work has been successful for their company, according to a PwC study. In addition, 54% of workers said they want to continue working remotely after the pandemic.
Millennials and Gen-Z workers have been actively seeking flexibility from employers and control over their lives, which means being able to work from anywhere and at any time. But fast forward to 2023 and we still see 9 to 5, work from the office culture alive and well.
Just like corporate employee and TikToker Julia Huynh (@jigglyjulia), who shared a viral video stating that despite liking her job, which she has only had for 6 months, she wants nothing more than to quit. The video has amassed 1.1M views and calls this outdated Monday-to-Friday work culture into question.
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TikTok creator Julia Huynh has had her 9 to 5 corporate work for only 6 months, but it has left her so drained she wants to quit already
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“I’m literally six months into my first corporate job, and I already want to quit”
“And it’s not the fact that I don’t like my job and the people suck and it’s just horrible. It’s actually a pretty nice job. Like, I love my coworkers, it’s all around great. If you look at it at face value, it’s great. My one thing that I hate most is the fact that it’s been six months and I literally feel like nothing has happened in the past six months.”
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“I work 9 to 5, Monday through Friday”
“… actually, no, it’s more like 8 to 5 and sometimes it’s like 9 to 5. I’ll be going through my work week and then by the time it gets to Friday, I’m just so exhausted to the fact where, like, I can’t do anything on the weekend anymore.”
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“Something needs to change in this work culture”
“This is not cutting it, because I’m not gonna go through my entire life working for, like, 40 years and then I wake up one day and I think about it and I’m like, ‘wow, it’s been 40 years and I’ve done literally nothing’. The only caveat with quitting this job is that I will not have any money so how am I supposed to live, like what am I supposed to do? I don’t understand. Anyway, that’s my rant for today.”
@jigglyjulia quarter life crisis alert #corporate #job #fulltimejob ♬ original sound – Julia Huynh
“I was scared that someone at my company would see the video and report me,” the TikToker told us
Bored Panda reached out to Julia Huynh, who recently graduated college and started her full-time job a few months after.
“I started posting on TikTok in 2020 at the start of the pandemic to post beauty tutorials. My mission has always been to be a role model for young Asian American girls who feel underrepresented in the social media space. I want to be someone my younger self can look up to and feel inspired by!” the digital creator told us.
When asked about this particular viral video, Julia recounted: “After 6 months into my full-time job, I felt unmotivated and burnt out from the 9-to-5 work culture. I didn’t expect that video to go viral and I was a bit nervous when it started gaining traction.”
The TikToker said she was scared that someone at her company would see the video and report her. “But I held my ground and did not delete it because I knew that others resonated with the sentiments that I expressed. I wanted others to feel seen and heard, and I also wanted to feel that I wasn’t alone in feeling this way,” Julia explained.
“I have a job, I’m making money, I have a roof over my head, but at some point, I feel like I’m not even living”
In a viral video, Julia said that she likes her job despite the fact that she is so exhausted after that 9-to-5 week. “Yes, I love my job! My manager is awesome and my team is so fun. They preach work-life balance all the time and I truly am very grateful to even have a job in this economy.”
“I am trying to separate my job and the general 9-to-5 work culture because it gets super easy to fall into the trap of comfort in staying where you are. What I mean by this is that even though my job is, at its core, not extremely physically or mentally demanding, it’s hard on my spirit and soul,” Julia explained.
“After the work day ends, we are free to do whatever we want. We practice our hobbies and hang out with friends and family. But thinking about the idea of working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for the rest of my life is depressing. Especially since most of my free time is spent preparing for work, it doesn’t actually feel like I’m living anymore. I feel like a cog in the drain: doing the same thing over and over again, every day.”
Having said that, Julia argues that it’s hard to think about this and complain when she’s in a place of privilege. “I have a job, I’m making money, I have a roof over my head, and I live comfortably. But at some point, I feel like I’m not even living. After talking to a lot of friends who feel the same way, it made me feel like I was crazy for hating the work culture and wanting to quit.”
But even if Julia wanted to quit, it would be really difficult unless, she said, she had some other sort of substantial income. “Health/vision/dental insurance is basically tied to being a full-time employee, so that makes quitting almost impossible,” she added.
“Having a remote job would be ideal because it really helps with feeling like I’m living with a bit more freedom”
Julia said that she knows some companies are starting to implement the 4-day work week and she thinks it’s amazing. “I also think that having to go into the office for me is very mentally draining (even if it is only a couple days a week). Having a remote job would be ideal because it really helps with feeling like I’m living with a bit more freedom.”
The digital creator concluded by saying that she loves working at coffee shops and traveling while working, so having a fully remote job would speak to her soul.
The Great Resignation is in full swing in the US
But the author of this viral TikTok video is far from the only one feeling exhausted with today’s work model. In 2021, more than 47 million employees quit their jobs, many of whom were in search of an improved work-life balance and flexibility, increased compensation, and a strong company culture. This proved to be a major disruption in America’s labor force, also known as The Great Resignation.
Prior to the pandemic, the habits and mental models of work centered around a physical space belonging to their employer. During the pandemic, the 56% of all workers who could do their job from home changed their habits and mental models of work to focus on the tasks they did, not where they did these tasks.
This allowed way more flexibility for the employees, who found the long-needed work-life balance they were lacking so much. As a result, the work-from-home work model proved to be just as efficient and productive, but with less stressed and happier employees.
Moreover, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, the best-selling author and CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, argues that extensive research shows that coming to the office will do much more damage than good. [It will] “reduce worker performance, drive up company costs, and cause workers to spend more on their commutes, all increasing inflation.” Dr. Tsipursky, just like the majority of the experts in the area, see the work-from-office model as burden-bearing and outdated.
No wonder that there has been a surge in the newly coined phenomenon occurring in today’s workplaces called “quiet quitting.” In our previous interview, Dr. Tsipursky explained that the term emerged in March 2022, and refers to doing the bare minimum tasks of your job description well enough that you don’t get fired.
“The concept quickly went viral on TikTok. Yet it only started to gain traction as an issue of concern among business leaders when government data on productivity released in August 2022 showed a sharp and unexpected drop in Q1 and Q2 of 2022,” he said. The drop in productivity at work linked to quiet quitting may be because “forcing employees to come to the office under the threat of discipline leads to disengagement, fear, and distrust.”
Many people agreed that the 9 to 5 work culture is outdated and it has to change
I don't get this post? Maybe i missed the clue? She's upset she has to work for money? Isn't that how most people live? Work every day. If you only work 9 to 5 you are lucky. Many jobs are way worse.
She probably thinks work should be like making her TikToks, and she's upset that she isn't able to "influence".
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This is pathetic. Oh bless honey... you've had to grow up, get a job and work for a living. Like the rest of us. Get over yourself.
The generations before you challenged the status quo, and won. Don't forget that. You'd be working without any employment rights, 12-16 hour workdays, fired at will if no-one questioned things. Just because you're used to the status quo and you had to suffer doesn't mean future generations can't stand up for themselves to improve things even more.
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Good news, once the company sees her video she will be promoted to customer. They won't want someone around who doesn't want to be there and will poison the atmosphere.
And you don't find it messed up that complaining about something that EVERYONE complains about when bossman isn't around can get someone fired? And these are basic complaints that aren't really damaging, mind you. She's not shaming anyone and she's not talking c**p about her actual employer. Her video is stress relief if anything. Trust me, I've said much worse about my job off camera. And yet, by your own words, she should get fired for it. And yet, you don't see a problem with it. Cool, boomer.
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i don't know why we're still working 40 hrs/week. hasn't technology progressed to the point that we can lower typical working hours? i've been working 40 hrs/week for 25 years and i'm exhausted. i still have another 25 years to go and it's just depressing. can we not get a 30 hr work week for the same compensation? why not? why do the CEO's and CFO's and all them get billions of dollars in bonuses and we're still grinding the 9-5 5 days a week? work-life balance is a joke. i get what this chick is saying and i feel it. she's not lazy, she just wants to have a life OUTSIDE of work. your job shouldn't be your life!!
Zov I understand what you're saying. I think people need to get out of the mindset of 8hrs work, 8hrs play, and 8hrs of sleep mindset that started in 1817 during the Industrial Revolution. We need to evolve. A lot of things have evolved in the last 60 years. Why can't this? By the way I am a CFO and I refuse to work 40 hrs a week. The company I work with bases our schedule on 30hrs a week. This is definitely do able. A lot of people waste working hours by shooting the sh$t with their co workers around the water cooler.
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I definitely want to side with employees and there are many many instances of young people getting shafted by corporate jobs BUT this girl just sounds like she's whining about having to be an adult now.
Wait until she finds out how many hours a day the people work who made her phone, or the clothes she's wearing, or the food she eats....
She will never find out. Too busy making tik toks complaining about her easy life. Time is comming fast when her BS job will disappear and she will be complaining about zero hours and no food, no heat, sleeping on the street
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Yeah, it sucks. Maybe we could change some things so that it doesn't suck? Just a thought
Load More Replies... Just wait until you get to 30 and realise despite the fact you’ve been doing it for 10+ years you’ve still got longer to work than you’ve been alive (going by gov retirement ages). I said that to one of my younger coworkers on his 30th, I though he was going to cry.
Currently my retirement age is 67 years and 8 months 😁 and Im sure it will raise maybe even couple of times before I get there. So Im pretty sure I will never retire, maybe have to stop working because of some illness. My body is already broken in my early 30s 😂
Load More Replies... Seriously ! Such entitlement ! Such a hardship to work 9 - 5 and after 6 months, so exhausted ! You've got to be kidding me. Welcome to life, work and reality.
Welcome to the existence of mental exhaustion! It exists. We all hate it! And my generation is the most affected because THE WORLD FREAKING SUCKS. Why do you think most of us are chronically online?? Because, even at it's worst, it's better than what's outside our doors. And people like you make it so we can't even rant about it! Y'all can rant and talk up a storm about how "lazy" we are but as soon as we have even the slightest complaint because (believe it or not!) we're working a job we hate with hours that we also hate because we "have to", you tell us to "get over it." Well guess what? If my mental health fails, I'm not working. So, if ranting or venting helps even the slightest bit, best believe that I'm going to do it so I can get up in the morning to go back to the job I hate. Period.
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I've been in the workforce for 30+ years. What I tell my children as well as what I say to interns and new employees is that you need to find a job that you enjoy. It's worth a significant drop in pay to go to a job that is interesting TO YOU. I could not fathom an existence where every morning I'd wake up and say to myself "OMG I hate my job.". It's not worth it! I think everyone realizes that if we want stuff (food, phones, houses, tv shows, video games, etc.) then everyone needs to work to produce those things. The pandemic highlighted the fact that when the number of people working drops significantly, or work less than the "standard" of 40 hours that supply is reduced and there isn't enough for everyone to have what they want... Then we get inflation until fewer people can afford those things because not enough people are producing those things.
Maybe the way she shared makes her look like entitled but if we breakdown the whole thing she's not actually wrong. A good pay is absolutely needed for survival. But, doing the same thing over and over, without any space, peace to enjoy living - life becomes quite monotonous.
I don't agree. Survival does not depend on "good pay". No one forced her to take a corporate job, long known to be "the rat race".
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We need to reset work culture in the US, no excuses... I'm 46, so I'm not a "whiny" Millennial, sorry Millennials. Gen X, like me, were the "latch key" generation. No one was home when we got off the bus, we learned to take care of ourselves because our parents were trying to climb a corporate ladder. Most didn't succeed in anything except being absentee parents. Now, we are taking care of those elderly parents that express their guilt in teaching us independence as young kids. GX did the total opposite with our Millennial kids. We became helicopter parents, making every decision for them and shielding them from consequences. There lies a happy medium between Boomers and Millennials. We just gotta find it...
That sounds....sad. But thats not everyones experience.
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There’s my old person rant but whining about 9-5? When I was her age, it was 8-6 and I also had a part time job for an additional 12 hours a week so I could, you know, make my student loan payment. I was able to stop the second job after a few years when I made more money. We got two weeks of vacation a year. This girl is so exhausted? It’s not like she’s digging ditches, or working 70 hours a week. She’s working one regular, office job for one paycheck. A sweet deal.
GenX here, these comments make me realize how much I normalized my 14hr work days that I worked for 25 years. I don't think I ever had a "40hr work week" job or left before 7 at ANY job until, ironically, I had my first corporate job! Based on my prior experience, 9-5 corporate was cakewalk! I think I did all those earlier long hours because I was working post-production in Los Angeles and that's just "how the industry is", but also it was mostly stimulating work that I truly enjoyed. It's not the number of hours you work but the satisfaction of the work you do that makes a difference. It's up to you to find what you love. Just find your own balance... I find it refreshing that GenZ and Millennials have pushed back against poor working conditions. But to whine about a 9-5 corporate job is laughable. Edit: after posting, I realized I should point out that I was freelance for those long hour years and no one was stopping me from taking off for 3 months if I could afford to. I worked hella long hours that was "required" but to prevent burnout I could take long breaks. If I had only had 2 weeks vacation I'd be posting this from a mental ward right now.
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I am a Gen. X and grew up knowing our fate. I think work can change, our world is not the world of my parents or grandparents. My generation worked 50 to 60 hour weeks. We lived to work our careers were more important than anything else in our lives. I was told by bosses who’s my teenage son didn’t need my time and I should not feel guilty about being required to work on Saturdays it was only a half day. The work life balance they insisted on was that employees should make sure they left from work by six one day of the week to have a date night. But less than 50 hours was slacking off. I am in my mid 50s my son is in his 30s he still has resentment that he practically raised himself because his parents were always working. We weren’t even well paid. We shouldn’t have to feel we don’t have a life, with the advancement of technology that allows for more productivity. My generation were not heros for our work ethic we were afraid to stand up or call out the exploitation we suffered.
Wow, you make a compelling point... People complaining about the younger generation forget we made them. We made them by never being able to be home. By having teachers and television/the internet raise them. Maybe if we weren't forced into long hours and being pushed to prioritize work over everything else, we wouldn't be complaining about them so much...
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I feel like 9-5 needs to stay for some people, though. A lot of these people are just lazy.
@Lola Atkinson, your reasoning makes no sense. You talk as if corporations as if they are objects that magically should provide services and products for free. Do you realize in the real world that it's actually people who make it function. By your logic if everyone followed your advice do you realize there would be NO SERVICES and PRODUCTS and then we would have to create it ourselves which would cost more TIME and EFFORT to survive. RoBOTS can't do everything and there has to be a human to create that robot and maintain it.
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Working in an office for 8hrs is soul sucking...maybe because you can't see the results of your work?...I'm now in construction, I work 8hrs a day, longer commutes...but I see my finished products and I don't feel the drain like I did in the office.
Its important to understand your role in your company/agency. Thats something the individual has to take responsibility for.
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Imagine complaining about working an 8 hour work day after your first corporate job 😂😂 holy smokes today's youth are some entitled whiny brats!! Good thing you'll only be working for the "next 40 years" ... Tick off another day on your retirement calendar! 😂 Life is more than clicks and likes chica, time to set the silver spoon down, put your helmet on, and get in the game. Best of luck to you, you're gonna need it!
I see a lot of people mad about this, but I feel differently. I guess it's because I had to retire in my mid 40s, but I kind of agree. We have this weird culture that wants to use you up in America. I have been to other countries that look at us like we are crazy: 40+ hour work weeks, 2 weeks off annually, very little parental leave, expensive healthcare, expensive education system (yet underperforming public education). I don't have to deal with this anymore, but I support the idea of a better work environment for younger people... for everyone! I am not upset about not getting the benefit. And just because I suffered through a demanding work environment doesn't mean everyone else should. I hope they can get a positive change for themselves and others.
I find it insane that so many Americans want to defend continuing a work culture that ends up taking over peoples entire lives and mental health. We expect people to have work be the most important priority, and then don't even give decent compensation. Let alone come close to the compensation other countries provide workers while also ensuring they have a work - life balance in general.
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It's kind of sad how many people in this comment section are so pressed about what she is saying. She is expressing she doesn't like this, and I can tell many of you don't like it either. But the mentality of, "stfu because I have to do it too!" just shows how wrong it really is that we as a society have developed to have to work to, not even live, but to survive. Evolutionary wise, we were not meant to be working (especially sitting over a computer) for 8 hours (if we're lucky only 8 hours) a day. Rather than accepting how s****y this is and being bitter, we should be encouraging the younger generations to speak out. They are the ones to really make positive change, which benefits ALL of us. So rather than giving the capitalist pigs what they want, which is essentially slave labor, and for us to accept this system since it only benefits them in the end, we should be cheering these people on!
Dude. Seriously. Nothing happening at this woman’s corporation is slavery. Abolitionists were worried about human rights being violated, not being too tired for weekend plans.
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You know the reason they pay you to do "work" is because it isn't "fun". If it was, you would have pay them. It is idiotic to expect a "job" to be a f---ing picnic. Grow up.
If a 9-5 corporate job scares you, please don't become a teacher. We don't do 9-5. We don't complain (much), we do.
Teachers have horrible working conditions and expectations. I lasted one year than went back to school to be an accountant. Worked more hours but somehow teaching was even more draining than 80 hour tax season workdays.
Load More Replies... I agree with this girl to a point. Yes, people need to work. But this 8hrs work, 8hrs play, and 8hrs of sleep started in 1817 during the Industrial Revolution. It is 2022 people, we are in a digital age. We don't need a full 8 hours every day to work, we can get 2x as much done in a shorter amount of time than a person could in 1817. I agree the work culture needs to change, it's not the 1800s anymore.
Whaaaaa...whaaaa...whaaaaaa..... I don't want to work! I can't cope!!! I'm exhausted!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee honey. There's 168 hours in a week and you're being asked to work only 40 hrs, not even 25%. Time to suck it up buttercup and face reality!
Six months in and nothing happened? Did she expect to get promoted twice or thrice within that frame? That's quite the ego there
If you work for a corporation, you get the grind. That has always been the deal. It's the home of capitalism. You want something to show for your efforts, learn to make something.
Don't get me wrong, there's still some toxic work issues that need to be resolved, like once you're off the clock, your boss shouldn't be bugging you. I think we could at least 6 hour days, which would be a lot more flexible, especially for families. A 40 hour work week is pretty excessive. People need a break and take some time off to reset ourselves. We're not robots. But honestly, you can't just not work. You just have to learn to embrace the suck sometimes. We'd all love to "just quit" and do our own thing, but it's not possible. Maybe find a job where you're not tied down to a desk all day. Until things change, you're just going to have to suck up the 40 hour work week for now.
Work should be more about accomplishment and productivity than hours. I can produce a lot in six hours, but the mentality is you need to put in time even if it accomplishes nothing. In my professional we live by the billable hour. We need to get away from this. Some jobs will always be hours based, but couldn’t those also refocus processes to allow more time for living?
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While I was attending grad school, I took a job with one of the biggest electronics companies on the planet. I hated the job on day one, not just six months in. You know what I did? I worked there for a year and a half. When I did my exit interview, I complained about all sorts of problems. The result was an investigation that, while it apparently did not fix the problem at hand, wound up getting one of the VPs fired after embezzlement was discovered.
I have literally been working since I was 7 and now have a corporate job..I'm still just as exhausted as when I did physical labor as when I was 7. I literally sleep all weekend.
I literally work 60-80 hours a week so people like you can sleep all weekend complaining about hoe hard it is working 6 hours a day. We all know you dont actually work a full 8 hours, literally
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Just wanna say I would love some consistency. I know that’s not the point but I put up with really bad culture and my schedule is so all over the place there is very little I can enjoy. An actual 9-5 M-F schedule would be a perk for me.
Oh sweetie~ woman just find a rich man and get yourself pregnant if you wanna get a free pass to life 🤓🤓
I agree with her and I'm not gen z. Working 8 to 10 hours a day sometimes more is draining. Like she said when you work those hours by the time the weekend comes and you're supposed to go out and enjoy yourself you don't want to. You don't have the strength and you just want to be left alone to watch a movie or read a book and drink your wine.
The whole point of technology is to make humans life easier. Cooperations take this technology and have used it to increase work load on their employees while increasing their profits. What's wrong with evolving as a society and letting technology take care of all of these pointless jobs you all have and letting the humans enjoy existing? Imagine what the human race could accomplish if everyone didn't waste so much time at their pointless jobs? The human race should be striving to enjoy their existence instead having to pay for your right to exist by working your life away only to benefit a handful of people. Employment is just slavery with extra steps. 80% of your jobs are completely unnecessary but yet you all work the completely pointless job just so a few people high up in your company can gather as many resources as possible. While you pursue your fake American dream you consume large amounts of resources all while accomplishing absolutely nothing.
Technology is and has been making our lives easier but it apparently is making people dumber and more entitled that they don't live in reality or understand how privileged they are. Without modern day technology your a*s would be walking to work which would be 1-3 hours out of your day and then you would be working for 12 hours, then you would spend another couple of hours searching for food and actually preparing your food (sorry no microwaves) unless you were a man because you would have enslaved a woman under the pretence of marriage or love to do that stuff. Without technology or the protections we have, we would be spending 75% of our day trying to survive let alone our current 25%. While I'm on it, try being a woman with the 2nd shift where you work full-time, take care of children, and a grown a*s man and then talk to me about slavery. But actually don't even talk about slavery because you take slavery too lightly.
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You can definitely tell who the boomers and Xers are in the comments. She's right, y'all may be institutionalized to accept throwing most of your life away to a company who doesn't care about you and refuses to pay you nearly enough (inflation is out of control and wages have NOT risen to match, haven't in an entire generation), but that doesn't mean it's ok or that it shouldn't change.
Nope. I'm 30 and part of the millenials. You must have grown up being called princess. If you want to get paid more, EARN IT. You are ENTITLED TO NOTHING. If you think the minimum wage is unfair then reach out to your local politicians or join organizations that work towards those goals. But know that also requires TIME and EFFORT. Your comment should really be, "you can tell who works and who doesn't" or "you can tell who is lazy or not" or "who is an entitled freeloader or not".
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I can't count the number of times I put in 100 work weeks in my life and this girl is crying about 40-45 hours? Sorry sunshine, this is what happens when you grow up. Go flip burgers for 20 hours a week so you have more free time and see what that pays you. Are all young people this whiny?
So she works so hard that she's too tired to party on her days off? Is that the complaint? You like your job and coworkers, but you would leave if someone would like, GIVE you money? Lol If it makes you feel any better, your parents probably hated their jobs, and their bosses but they worked to feed you. You already have a leg up! Don't fear. If you are good at your job, and you help others succeed, you will definitely have the chance to do other, better things, and if you are lucky and brave, maybe you will start your own business someday, and work on your own dream. Good luck finding people willing to like, work though.
The question people need to ask is are these people who are complaing single, married or have children. It sounds like this story is ranking about single individuals who want to work and play. But the story fails to speak to the people who have responsibilities like children, mortgage etc.. they are complaing about a 40 hr week yet there are people who work two jobs or more than 60+ hours a week to barely survive or provide for thier children. Or family. This story screams of entitlement and delusional desires. It always seems like some people want the perfect life as long as they are dependent on others or they have been made spoiled by family and actually belive that life is like social media post.
Gen Z = lazy, entitled, low attention span from social media. This generation is so used to instant gratification that when work for just 6 months and no big thing happens they quit. Lazy.
I'm not Gen Z but I agree with them about the work culture. It's outdated. The whole working ridiculous hours on salary is quite disturbing. Furthermore the whole so called 40 hour work week was created by Henry Ford. The car industry where people move around all day. The same concept is horrible for sit down jobs. They really are smart and not the sheep generations of the past
Load More Replies... I hate corporate. Been doing it for 20 years now. The only thing that makes me like it now is because I'm fully remote. No more interaction with corny co-workers
It's great if you can get a job/career doing something you love (ie sports, singing, farming, etc) but that's not always there case. Some people have to work mundane, unfulfilling jobs to pay the bills. They learn to find their fulfillment, joy, growth & all, outside of their job. You have to weigh how much you are willing to give to your job v. What the job gives to you ($, status, access, companionship). The result may mean you decide to get a different job!
Just a couple generations ago, there were no weekends, and you worked 16 hours a day in your own fields or you didn't eat because your crops didn't grow. People crying that capitalism takes everything and gives nothing obviously have never looked into communism.
I still work like that today, as do millions of farmers, ranchers, truck drivers
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Wow. What a whiney generation. Not every moment in life is going to be full of exhilaration. Not every day is going to end with us feeling 100% fulfilled. This is not a movie or a TV show, this is real life. Perhaps that woman and those who are also miserable could try feeling some gratitude for what they DO have instead of just constantly complaining about what they don't have. She is very lucky to have an education, a job that pays a living wage, good coworkers, a roof over her head, food to eat, friends, technology so that she can complain on social media all day, etc. A mundane 9-5 job sure beats living in a war zone, struggling to just stay alive. I'm not saying that one shouldn't desire to strive for better, but a little gratitude might give her a little perspective.
Pathetic article, 20 year old who's only worked for 6 months is tired. Boo hoo. You must be sooo tired from doing the least physically demanding job in society
Time is coming her BS job will nomlonger exist and she will have all the 168 hour week to herself to sit on her a*s making tik toks
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I'm surprised at the number of corporate bootlickers posting here that we should be grateful to our corporate overlords for any scrap they give us in exchange for our dignity and self worth.
Don’t listen to the naysayers. We should want more from life. I owed my own business, I worked twice as much as any of my employees. It nearly killed me. I am a recovering workaholic. I feel tremendous guilt for taking any personal time. I was conditioned for years to accept that work was the most important priority. It’s not, I hope this generation makes things better. So you won’t torture yourselves with guilt because you take a sick day.
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So many people saying "it's a great job", but still wanting to leave, must ask themselves "Great for whom"?
Preach. Work culture sucks, and it's up to us to change it and create a culture of greater worker control. All the people here dissing hey need to grow the f**k up and realize that this is how we make the world better.
Now that I'm old, I get to work around 7:45 and usually leave around 6:30 or 7:00. I used to work until 8 or 9, but just don't have the energy anymore. I also work two Saturdays a month, plus the occasional extra saturday, sunday, holiday, etc. My workplace has calmed down, but I can remember in "the old days" getting a call to come into work while I was at the park with my kids, and once, literally, having to do work over the phone while I was with the family at Tokyo Disneyland because "it can't wait!" I'm so glad things have calmed down since then.
Shear laziness. No wonder companies are posting that they won't hire the Woke generation. Imagine you have to work to earn a living??? I enjoy work and making life better for me and those around me. This young woman represents what's wrong in the world today...she cares only about herself and doesn't care about anyone else or the contributions she can make in our world. She is a lover of self, which will be her downfall if she's doesn't eventually wake from her Woke state of mind. I worked 60-80 hours a week and still enjoyed my time off on the weekends. Her article made me sick and scared of this new generation that will continue to lead our great Nation down a part to that of a 3 world country. She deserves to lose her job to someone else who needs it and would appreciate what they have.
When I read "that's capitalism for ya" in these kind of posts by the Gen X and in betweens, my eyes start to water from laughter.... A huge number of those kids have no problem whatsoever to live in a house build by others, live of their parents paycheck for way too long, love driving their (motor)bikes or cars, buy food at fast-food chains or, what's becoming a trend, refuse to work and travel the world, but have no problem with being sponsored by, drums please..., people who do work for a living. And what's even worse, they are proud of that achievement. I grew up that if I wanted something, I needed to work for it. That is the same lesson I've taught my son. This generation entitled kids have parents who forgot that important piece in their parenting... Life isn't about TikTok, influencers, you tubers, Instagram and a number of social media I'm not even aware of... Sad thing is that that same generation is eventually going to be in charge of getting into politics, ruling countries.
Gen X here..., but not in the US and I thank my parents for not going through back then with their plans to move from the Netherlands to the US. In The Netherlands things aren't all that great either, but what they do very well, is having jobs that come with normal work hours, a minimum of, if I remember correctly 24 paid vacation days, 16 weeks of payed maternity leave, no set number of sick days so that if you are sick you don't have to go to work because it's financially holding you back, if you do work more then your contracted hours you get either time for time or get payed those hours (the latter is however financially less attractive because you pay more taxes over that amount). Waiters and waitresses are being payed normally and aren't depending on tips to survive and all in all, working in The Netherlands isn't all bad even though there are some cr@ppy jobs and cr@ppy employees. I've worked since my 13th and never stayed at a job I didn't like. You want things? You work!
Amazed at all the boot licker responses saying she should be happy, she’s itchy it’s only 9-5, others have it worse. Cool that you’ve ingested your own stolen time and corporate suffering into something necessary and it’s become an acceptable part of your life now. It’s the mentality of someone ether brainwashed by corporate/work obsessed culture OR you’ve made enough money as a boomer (something most young people won’t achieve in our late capitalist hellscape) and you’ve shut off your ability to be in touch with humanity. The 5 day work week is a dinosaur as AI comes for our jobs. This was supposed to be a good thing - that technology was supposed to make life easier and set us free from hard or pointless, brain dead labor. Instead of crapping on young people demanding higher quality of living for ALL of us, you tell them to suck it up and get used to the monotony and say THANKS for it. Please just pipe down and honor your slave daddies and let the rest of us figure out UBI and such.
Kids like this will quiet quit until one day no one’s hiring and everything is expensive. They’ll be asking for a job. By then, companies would’ve replaced the lost employees with AI and other advanced tech (like Flippy) to keep up with productivity. These kids will become a bunch of unemployed post-college graduates with little survival skills. Smart kids, but their poor work ethic sealed their fate.
This post makes me ill. The entitlement is off the charts. Absolutely pathetic and utterly lazy.
The destruction of this country started with the millennials and just gets worse. Welcome to adulthood. I never work the same hours or have same days off. My record for one day is 20 hours and I've done it more than once. I deal with it -people want weekends off and I'm the one who makes entertainment possible. Deal with it. Do you want a tissue or the world's smallest violin?
So, hang on . . . this is breaking news . . . If you want money, you have to work. Work isn't fun necessarily, but having money is . . . That sure is a head scratcher. Life is about give and take. Wow, I'm gobsmacked. Gen Z is doomed at this point.
I find the lack of time off is a real killer. I work 12 hour shifts in a factory but it's awesome because it's a rotating schedule where you work 6 of 7 days in a row, then change to only work 1 of 7. You get the money and hours you need but get substantial time off instead of 2 days to barely get some chores done. Trust me, 9 to 5 is pretty crappy for humans, and better to work longer hours fewer days if you can find it. (Give a couple months to adjust).
Despite the whining, I have to agree that corporate environment is awful. I did the mon-fri, 8:30-5:30, stuck in traffic one hour each way, thing for a few years. It was the most mundane, frustrating experience of my life! Your entire life is spent working for nothing and the people who enjoy it seemed so brainwashed that they believe that the company's success is their own personal success. When I left this job, my boss asked me what challenges my new job will offer me l. Like that is an actual factor! I said nothing, that's why I'm leaving. I have to say, 12 years later and it's still the best decision I've made!
There are legitimate issues in "corporate" culture that should be addressed, but simply complaining about working from 9 until 5 isn't news worthy
It was easier for us, partially because we know the value of hard work. We also didn't have a social media phenomenon to tell us how everyone else felt. Right or wrong, we were ignorant of the struggles of others. Lastly, it seems we looked to our parents or other figure heads for guidance, not other people our age. Face it, you haven't lived yet, you don't know what it's like, just what it's like now. Be patient, work hard and be ready to move quickly. Adapt to the situation. Make a way. Don't depend on others. If you get help, fine. But don't depend on it.
I have mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, I think the ability to work from home is a positive step, and I do have a much better balance in my life. On the other hand, I see this post and the associated comments, and my eyes just roll right out of my head. Yes, younglings, life sucks and then you die. The world doesn't run on Facebook likes. There's a lot of actual work that goes into making all this stuff possible. Someday robots will do it all, but we aren't there yet. You'll just have to survive on 3 weeks vacation until then.
This is the prevalent attitude with these idiots. They think life is all fun. I hear this c**p and i just want to slap the p**s outta someone.
I don't work unless I want to. I take time off whenever I want to. I still make more money than the average American, working pretty much when i want to. I would just die if I had to do the jobs that are out here, or deal with the bosses, the games they play, sit through interviews hoping I would make the cut. When the pandemic happened and my job temporarily shut down, I got depressed at the idea of going to find a job. Thank God I stuck to my right mind and waited for my career to start back up and didn't listen to the naysayers that told me to just fill out job applications. If you don't want to work their jobs that are unfulfilling, don't or do what you gotta do until you manifest better. There is better out here. So many cool jobs that people never heard of that pay great, allow freedom, stability and are fulfilling and that don't require years of college. I support people not settling for what they are told to setting for. You write the story of your life.
As someone who could be your Grandfather; work is work. The only way to make it to retirement is to twist your head around or save up a war chest worth of cash and break out on your own. With your own business the work and worry will double. Maybe you'll love being in control. Worked for me to understand I was using them to fill the war chest and get out early. Learn about finance and manage you as your business. You have to decide to be happy.
You can't remote factory work. You can't remote any job that requires physical labor. Whst makes you corporate types so special.
Some of us corporate employees actually work pretty hard lives, especially the ones who are outraged by this girl. I wouldn't even call this girl a corporate employee. She is a lazy parasite.
Load More Replies... This comment section sickens me. Basically saying "yes the system is broken, yes we work our lives away but this is how it is and everyone should just shutup and do as they are told". At what point did you forsake yourself? At least this person is willing to stand up and say something. I stand behind it. We need to keep fighting.
Humans have "worked their lives away" for millenia. Such a lazy entitled generation to complain about 8 hours a day in a clean, comfortable, climate controlled office. Not a clue what its like to work 7 days a week when 8 hours is only a half day
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The kid who says the companies steal all the profits for themselves built on th r back of employees is a moron. They literally don't understand that working for a company is an exchanges of goods for services. You agree to provide labor and they agree to pay u for said labor. And the reason they get all the profits is because the owners put up all tje risk and capital to build the company. Ugh. I weep for the future.
Not the dinos in these comments making this girl out to be a bad person. I'm sorry you live a miserable life and seem to think that everyone after you needs to suffer the same way but working for 40 years, 5 days a week and not even having enough money to retire isn't really a life you should be bragging about to this "younger generation" you seem to hate. No, people should not have to work themselves to the bone to have enough money to have a roof over their heads and food on the table. Work culture SHOULD change and it already has in many parts of the world, all of which have reported IMPROVED productivity in their employees and I can guarantee the employees are feeling more optimistic about life now that they have more time to themselves and don't have to spend the only 2 days off they have during the week doing chores. Get off your high horse and go start living your life before you die old and miserable.
Do you actually work to make a living? You are either a freeloader or someone privileged person who was born into money. What parts of the world do you speak of??? Once you figure that out tell me which countries are worse because there are A LOT. You think 40 hours is working yourself to the bone 🤣🤣🤣🤣. People must use the term "lazy" to describe you often.
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She’s in for a rude awakening. There’s a reason rich people are called the 1% because the rest of of 99% work 40 hours a week so the 1% can stay the 1%. Capitalism is merely a legal form of slavery, but until that changes it is what it is. Hating have to work to live is something we all hate, but she is clearly out of touch if she doesn’t see that already.
I don't get this post? Maybe i missed the clue? She's upset she has to work for money? Isn't that how most people live? Work every day. If you only work 9 to 5 you are lucky. Many jobs are way worse.
She probably thinks work should be like making her TikToks, and she's upset that she isn't able to "influence".
Load More Replies... This is pathetic. Oh bless honey... you've had to grow up, get a job and work for a living. Like the rest of us. Get over yourself.
The generations before you challenged the status quo, and won. Don't forget that. You'd be working without any employment rights, 12-16 hour workdays, fired at will if no-one questioned things. Just because you're used to the status quo and you had to suffer doesn't mean future generations can't stand up for themselves to improve things even more.
Load More Replies... Good news, once the company sees her video she will be promoted to customer. They won't want someone around who doesn't want to be there and will poison the atmosphere.
And you don't find it messed up that complaining about something that EVERYONE complains about when bossman isn't around can get someone fired? And these are basic complaints that aren't really damaging, mind you. She's not shaming anyone and she's not talking c**p about her actual employer. Her video is stress relief if anything. Trust me, I've said much worse about my job off camera. And yet, by your own words, she should get fired for it. And yet, you don't see a problem with it. Cool, boomer.
Load More Replies... i don't know why we're still working 40 hrs/week. hasn't technology progressed to the point that we can lower typical working hours? i've been working 40 hrs/week for 25 years and i'm exhausted. i still have another 25 years to go and it's just depressing. can we not get a 30 hr work week for the same compensation? why not? why do the CEO's and CFO's and all them get billions of dollars in bonuses and we're still grinding the 9-5 5 days a week? work-life balance is a joke. i get what this chick is saying and i feel it. she's not lazy, she just wants to have a life OUTSIDE of work. your job shouldn't be your life!!
Zov I understand what you're saying. I think people need to get out of the mindset of 8hrs work, 8hrs play, and 8hrs of sleep mindset that started in 1817 during the Industrial Revolution. We need to evolve. A lot of things have evolved in the last 60 years. Why can't this? By the way I am a CFO and I refuse to work 40 hrs a week. The company I work with bases our schedule on 30hrs a week. This is definitely do able. A lot of people waste working hours by shooting the sh$t with their co workers around the water cooler.
Load More Replies... I definitely want to side with employees and there are many many instances of young people getting shafted by corporate jobs BUT this girl just sounds like she's whining about having to be an adult now.
Wait until she finds out how many hours a day the people work who made her phone, or the clothes she's wearing, or the food she eats....
She will never find out. Too busy making tik toks complaining about her easy life. Time is comming fast when her BS job will disappear and she will be complaining about zero hours and no food, no heat, sleeping on the street
Load More Replies... Yeah, it sucks. Maybe we could change some things so that it doesn't suck? Just a thought
Load More Replies... Just wait until you get to 30 and realise despite the fact you’ve been doing it for 10+ years you’ve still got longer to work than you’ve been alive (going by gov retirement ages). I said that to one of my younger coworkers on his 30th, I though he was going to cry.
Currently my retirement age is 67 years and 8 months 😁 and Im sure it will raise maybe even couple of times before I get there. So Im pretty sure I will never retire, maybe have to stop working because of some illness. My body is already broken in my early 30s 😂
Load More Replies... Seriously ! Such entitlement ! Such a hardship to work 9 - 5 and after 6 months, so exhausted ! You've got to be kidding me. Welcome to life, work and reality.
Welcome to the existence of mental exhaustion! It exists. We all hate it! And my generation is the most affected because THE WORLD FREAKING SUCKS. Why do you think most of us are chronically online?? Because, even at it's worst, it's better than what's outside our doors. And people like you make it so we can't even rant about it! Y'all can rant and talk up a storm about how "lazy" we are but as soon as we have even the slightest complaint because (believe it or not!) we're working a job we hate with hours that we also hate because we "have to", you tell us to "get over it." Well guess what? If my mental health fails, I'm not working. So, if ranting or venting helps even the slightest bit, best believe that I'm going to do it so I can get up in the morning to go back to the job I hate. Period.
Load More Replies... I've been in the workforce for 30+ years. What I tell my children as well as what I say to interns and new employees is that you need to find a job that you enjoy. It's worth a significant drop in pay to go to a job that is interesting TO YOU. I could not fathom an existence where every morning I'd wake up and say to myself "OMG I hate my job.". It's not worth it! I think everyone realizes that if we want stuff (food, phones, houses, tv shows, video games, etc.) then everyone needs to work to produce those things. The pandemic highlighted the fact that when the number of people working drops significantly, or work less than the "standard" of 40 hours that supply is reduced and there isn't enough for everyone to have what they want... Then we get inflation until fewer people can afford those things because not enough people are producing those things.
Maybe the way she shared makes her look like entitled but if we breakdown the whole thing she's not actually wrong. A good pay is absolutely needed for survival. But, doing the same thing over and over, without any space, peace to enjoy living - life becomes quite monotonous.
I don't agree. Survival does not depend on "good pay". No one forced her to take a corporate job, long known to be "the rat race".
Load More Replies... We need to reset work culture in the US, no excuses... I'm 46, so I'm not a "whiny" Millennial, sorry Millennials. Gen X, like me, were the "latch key" generation. No one was home when we got off the bus, we learned to take care of ourselves because our parents were trying to climb a corporate ladder. Most didn't succeed in anything except being absentee parents. Now, we are taking care of those elderly parents that express their guilt in teaching us independence as young kids. GX did the total opposite with our Millennial kids. We became helicopter parents, making every decision for them and shielding them from consequences. There lies a happy medium between Boomers and Millennials. We just gotta find it...
That sounds....sad. But thats not everyones experience.
Load More Replies... There’s my old person rant but whining about 9-5? When I was her age, it was 8-6 and I also had a part time job for an additional 12 hours a week so I could, you know, make my student loan payment. I was able to stop the second job after a few years when I made more money. We got two weeks of vacation a year. This girl is so exhausted? It’s not like she’s digging ditches, or working 70 hours a week. She’s working one regular, office job for one paycheck. A sweet deal.
GenX here, these comments make me realize how much I normalized my 14hr work days that I worked for 25 years. I don't think I ever had a "40hr work week" job or left before 7 at ANY job until, ironically, I had my first corporate job! Based on my prior experience, 9-5 corporate was cakewalk! I think I did all those earlier long hours because I was working post-production in Los Angeles and that's just "how the industry is", but also it was mostly stimulating work that I truly enjoyed. It's not the number of hours you work but the satisfaction of the work you do that makes a difference. It's up to you to find what you love. Just find your own balance... I find it refreshing that GenZ and Millennials have pushed back against poor working conditions. But to whine about a 9-5 corporate job is laughable. Edit: after posting, I realized I should point out that I was freelance for those long hour years and no one was stopping me from taking off for 3 months if I could afford to. I worked hella long hours that was "required" but to prevent burnout I could take long breaks. If I had only had 2 weeks vacation I'd be posting this from a mental ward right now.
Load More Replies... I am a Gen. X and grew up knowing our fate. I think work can change, our world is not the world of my parents or grandparents. My generation worked 50 to 60 hour weeks. We lived to work our careers were more important than anything else in our lives. I was told by bosses who’s my teenage son didn’t need my time and I should not feel guilty about being required to work on Saturdays it was only a half day. The work life balance they insisted on was that employees should make sure they left from work by six one day of the week to have a date night. But less than 50 hours was slacking off. I am in my mid 50s my son is in his 30s he still has resentment that he practically raised himself because his parents were always working. We weren’t even well paid. We shouldn’t have to feel we don’t have a life, with the advancement of technology that allows for more productivity. My generation were not heros for our work ethic we were afraid to stand up or call out the exploitation we suffered.
Wow, you make a compelling point... People complaining about the younger generation forget we made them. We made them by never being able to be home. By having teachers and television/the internet raise them. Maybe if we weren't forced into long hours and being pushed to prioritize work over everything else, we wouldn't be complaining about them so much...
Load More Replies... I feel like 9-5 needs to stay for some people, though. A lot of these people are just lazy.
@Lola Atkinson, your reasoning makes no sense. You talk as if corporations as if they are objects that magically should provide services and products for free. Do you realize in the real world that it's actually people who make it function. By your logic if everyone followed your advice do you realize there would be NO SERVICES and PRODUCTS and then we would have to create it ourselves which would cost more TIME and EFFORT to survive. RoBOTS can't do everything and there has to be a human to create that robot and maintain it.
Load More Replies... Working in an office for 8hrs is soul sucking...maybe because you can't see the results of your work?...I'm now in construction, I work 8hrs a day, longer commutes...but I see my finished products and I don't feel the drain like I did in the office.
Its important to understand your role in your company/agency. Thats something the individual has to take responsibility for.
Load More Replies... Imagine complaining about working an 8 hour work day after your first corporate job 😂😂 holy smokes today's youth are some entitled whiny brats!! Good thing you'll only be working for the "next 40 years" ... Tick off another day on your retirement calendar! 😂 Life is more than clicks and likes chica, time to set the silver spoon down, put your helmet on, and get in the game. Best of luck to you, you're gonna need it!
I see a lot of people mad about this, but I feel differently. I guess it's because I had to retire in my mid 40s, but I kind of agree. We have this weird culture that wants to use you up in America. I have been to other countries that look at us like we are crazy: 40+ hour work weeks, 2 weeks off annually, very little parental leave, expensive healthcare, expensive education system (yet underperforming public education). I don't have to deal with this anymore, but I support the idea of a better work environment for younger people... for everyone! I am not upset about not getting the benefit. And just because I suffered through a demanding work environment doesn't mean everyone else should. I hope they can get a positive change for themselves and others.
I find it insane that so many Americans want to defend continuing a work culture that ends up taking over peoples entire lives and mental health. We expect people to have work be the most important priority, and then don't even give decent compensation. Let alone come close to the compensation other countries provide workers while also ensuring they have a work - life balance in general.
Load More Replies... It's kind of sad how many people in this comment section are so pressed about what she is saying. She is expressing she doesn't like this, and I can tell many of you don't like it either. But the mentality of, "stfu because I have to do it too!" just shows how wrong it really is that we as a society have developed to have to work to, not even live, but to survive. Evolutionary wise, we were not meant to be working (especially sitting over a computer) for 8 hours (if we're lucky only 8 hours) a day. Rather than accepting how s****y this is and being bitter, we should be encouraging the younger generations to speak out. They are the ones to really make positive change, which benefits ALL of us. So rather than giving the capitalist pigs what they want, which is essentially slave labor, and for us to accept this system since it only benefits them in the end, we should be cheering these people on!
Dude. Seriously. Nothing happening at this woman’s corporation is slavery. Abolitionists were worried about human rights being violated, not being too tired for weekend plans.
Load More Replies... You know the reason they pay you to do "work" is because it isn't "fun". If it was, you would have pay them. It is idiotic to expect a "job" to be a f---ing picnic. Grow up.
If a 9-5 corporate job scares you, please don't become a teacher. We don't do 9-5. We don't complain (much), we do.
Teachers have horrible working conditions and expectations. I lasted one year than went back to school to be an accountant. Worked more hours but somehow teaching was even more draining than 80 hour tax season workdays.
Load More Replies... I agree with this girl to a point. Yes, people need to work. But this 8hrs work, 8hrs play, and 8hrs of sleep started in 1817 during the Industrial Revolution. It is 2022 people, we are in a digital age. We don't need a full 8 hours every day to work, we can get 2x as much done in a shorter amount of time than a person could in 1817. I agree the work culture needs to change, it's not the 1800s anymore.
Whaaaaa...whaaaa...whaaaaaa..... I don't want to work! I can't cope!!! I'm exhausted!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee honey. There's 168 hours in a week and you're being asked to work only 40 hrs, not even 25%. Time to suck it up buttercup and face reality!
Six months in and nothing happened? Did she expect to get promoted twice or thrice within that frame? That's quite the ego there
If you work for a corporation, you get the grind. That has always been the deal. It's the home of capitalism. You want something to show for your efforts, learn to make something.
Don't get me wrong, there's still some toxic work issues that need to be resolved, like once you're off the clock, your boss shouldn't be bugging you. I think we could at least 6 hour days, which would be a lot more flexible, especially for families. A 40 hour work week is pretty excessive. People need a break and take some time off to reset ourselves. We're not robots. But honestly, you can't just not work. You just have to learn to embrace the suck sometimes. We'd all love to "just quit" and do our own thing, but it's not possible. Maybe find a job where you're not tied down to a desk all day. Until things change, you're just going to have to suck up the 40 hour work week for now.
Work should be more about accomplishment and productivity than hours. I can produce a lot in six hours, but the mentality is you need to put in time even if it accomplishes nothing. In my professional we live by the billable hour. We need to get away from this. Some jobs will always be hours based, but couldn’t those also refocus processes to allow more time for living?
Load More Replies... While I was attending grad school, I took a job with one of the biggest electronics companies on the planet. I hated the job on day one, not just six months in. You know what I did? I worked there for a year and a half. When I did my exit interview, I complained about all sorts of problems. The result was an investigation that, while it apparently did not fix the problem at hand, wound up getting one of the VPs fired after embezzlement was discovered.
I have literally been working since I was 7 and now have a corporate job..I'm still just as exhausted as when I did physical labor as when I was 7. I literally sleep all weekend.
I literally work 60-80 hours a week so people like you can sleep all weekend complaining about hoe hard it is working 6 hours a day. We all know you dont actually work a full 8 hours, literally
Load More Replies... Just wanna say I would love some consistency. I know that’s not the point but I put up with really bad culture and my schedule is so all over the place there is very little I can enjoy. An actual 9-5 M-F schedule would be a perk for me.
Oh sweetie~ woman just find a rich man and get yourself pregnant if you wanna get a free pass to life 🤓🤓
I agree with her and I'm not gen z. Working 8 to 10 hours a day sometimes more is draining. Like she said when you work those hours by the time the weekend comes and you're supposed to go out and enjoy yourself you don't want to. You don't have the strength and you just want to be left alone to watch a movie or read a book and drink your wine.
The whole point of technology is to make humans life easier. Cooperations take this technology and have used it to increase work load on their employees while increasing their profits. What's wrong with evolving as a society and letting technology take care of all of these pointless jobs you all have and letting the humans enjoy existing? Imagine what the human race could accomplish if everyone didn't waste so much time at their pointless jobs? The human race should be striving to enjoy their existence instead having to pay for your right to exist by working your life away only to benefit a handful of people. Employment is just slavery with extra steps. 80% of your jobs are completely unnecessary but yet you all work the completely pointless job just so a few people high up in your company can gather as many resources as possible. While you pursue your fake American dream you consume large amounts of resources all while accomplishing absolutely nothing.
Technology is and has been making our lives easier but it apparently is making people dumber and more entitled that they don't live in reality or understand how privileged they are. Without modern day technology your a*s would be walking to work which would be 1-3 hours out of your day and then you would be working for 12 hours, then you would spend another couple of hours searching for food and actually preparing your food (sorry no microwaves) unless you were a man because you would have enslaved a woman under the pretence of marriage or love to do that stuff. Without technology or the protections we have, we would be spending 75% of our day trying to survive let alone our current 25%. While I'm on it, try being a woman with the 2nd shift where you work full-time, take care of children, and a grown a*s man and then talk to me about slavery. But actually don't even talk about slavery because you take slavery too lightly.
Load More Replies... You can definitely tell who the boomers and Xers are in the comments. She's right, y'all may be institutionalized to accept throwing most of your life away to a company who doesn't care about you and refuses to pay you nearly enough (inflation is out of control and wages have NOT risen to match, haven't in an entire generation), but that doesn't mean it's ok or that it shouldn't change.
Nope. I'm 30 and part of the millenials. You must have grown up being called princess. If you want to get paid more, EARN IT. You are ENTITLED TO NOTHING. If you think the minimum wage is unfair then reach out to your local politicians or join organizations that work towards those goals. But know that also requires TIME and EFFORT. Your comment should really be, "you can tell who works and who doesn't" or "you can tell who is lazy or not" or "who is an entitled freeloader or not".
Load More Replies... I can't count the number of times I put in 100 work weeks in my life and this girl is crying about 40-45 hours? Sorry sunshine, this is what happens when you grow up. Go flip burgers for 20 hours a week so you have more free time and see what that pays you. Are all young people this whiny?
So she works so hard that she's too tired to party on her days off? Is that the complaint? You like your job and coworkers, but you would leave if someone would like, GIVE you money? Lol If it makes you feel any better, your parents probably hated their jobs, and their bosses but they worked to feed you. You already have a leg up! Don't fear. If you are good at your job, and you help others succeed, you will definitely have the chance to do other, better things, and if you are lucky and brave, maybe you will start your own business someday, and work on your own dream. Good luck finding people willing to like, work though.
The question people need to ask is are these people who are complaing single, married or have children. It sounds like this story is ranking about single individuals who want to work and play. But the story fails to speak to the people who have responsibilities like children, mortgage etc.. they are complaing about a 40 hr week yet there are people who work two jobs or more than 60+ hours a week to barely survive or provide for thier children. Or family. This story screams of entitlement and delusional desires. It always seems like some people want the perfect life as long as they are dependent on others or they have been made spoiled by family and actually belive that life is like social media post.
Gen Z = lazy, entitled, low attention span from social media. This generation is so used to instant gratification that when work for just 6 months and no big thing happens they quit. Lazy.
I'm not Gen Z but I agree with them about the work culture. It's outdated. The whole working ridiculous hours on salary is quite disturbing. Furthermore the whole so called 40 hour work week was created by Henry Ford. The car industry where people move around all day. The same concept is horrible for sit down jobs. They really are smart and not the sheep generations of the past
Load More Replies... I hate corporate. Been doing it for 20 years now. The only thing that makes me like it now is because I'm fully remote. No more interaction with corny co-workers
It's great if you can get a job/career doing something you love (ie sports, singing, farming, etc) but that's not always there case. Some people have to work mundane, unfulfilling jobs to pay the bills. They learn to find their fulfillment, joy, growth & all, outside of their job. You have to weigh how much you are willing to give to your job v. What the job gives to you ($, status, access, companionship). The result may mean you decide to get a different job!
Just a couple generations ago, there were no weekends, and you worked 16 hours a day in your own fields or you didn't eat because your crops didn't grow. People crying that capitalism takes everything and gives nothing obviously have never looked into communism.
I still work like that today, as do millions of farmers, ranchers, truck drivers
Load More Replies... Wow. What a whiney generation. Not every moment in life is going to be full of exhilaration. Not every day is going to end with us feeling 100% fulfilled. This is not a movie or a TV show, this is real life. Perhaps that woman and those who are also miserable could try feeling some gratitude for what they DO have instead of just constantly complaining about what they don't have. She is very lucky to have an education, a job that pays a living wage, good coworkers, a roof over her head, food to eat, friends, technology so that she can complain on social media all day, etc. A mundane 9-5 job sure beats living in a war zone, struggling to just stay alive. I'm not saying that one shouldn't desire to strive for better, but a little gratitude might give her a little perspective.
Pathetic article, 20 year old who's only worked for 6 months is tired. Boo hoo. You must be sooo tired from doing the least physically demanding job in society
Time is coming her BS job will nomlonger exist and she will have all the 168 hour week to herself to sit on her a*s making tik toks
Load More Replies... I'm surprised at the number of corporate bootlickers posting here that we should be grateful to our corporate overlords for any scrap they give us in exchange for our dignity and self worth.
Don’t listen to the naysayers. We should want more from life. I owed my own business, I worked twice as much as any of my employees. It nearly killed me. I am a recovering workaholic. I feel tremendous guilt for taking any personal time. I was conditioned for years to accept that work was the most important priority. It’s not, I hope this generation makes things better. So you won’t torture yourselves with guilt because you take a sick day.
Load More Replies... So many people saying "it's a great job", but still wanting to leave, must ask themselves "Great for whom"?
Preach. Work culture sucks, and it's up to us to change it and create a culture of greater worker control. All the people here dissing hey need to grow the f**k up and realize that this is how we make the world better.
Now that I'm old, I get to work around 7:45 and usually leave around 6:30 or 7:00. I used to work until 8 or 9, but just don't have the energy anymore. I also work two Saturdays a month, plus the occasional extra saturday, sunday, holiday, etc. My workplace has calmed down, but I can remember in "the old days" getting a call to come into work while I was at the park with my kids, and once, literally, having to do work over the phone while I was with the family at Tokyo Disneyland because "it can't wait!" I'm so glad things have calmed down since then.
Shear laziness. No wonder companies are posting that they won't hire the Woke generation. Imagine you have to work to earn a living??? I enjoy work and making life better for me and those around me. This young woman represents what's wrong in the world today...she cares only about herself and doesn't care about anyone else or the contributions she can make in our world. She is a lover of self, which will be her downfall if she's doesn't eventually wake from her Woke state of mind. I worked 60-80 hours a week and still enjoyed my time off on the weekends. Her article made me sick and scared of this new generation that will continue to lead our great Nation down a part to that of a 3 world country. She deserves to lose her job to someone else who needs it and would appreciate what they have.
When I read "that's capitalism for ya" in these kind of posts by the Gen X and in betweens, my eyes start to water from laughter.... A huge number of those kids have no problem whatsoever to live in a house build by others, live of their parents paycheck for way too long, love driving their (motor)bikes or cars, buy food at fast-food chains or, what's becoming a trend, refuse to work and travel the world, but have no problem with being sponsored by, drums please..., people who do work for a living. And what's even worse, they are proud of that achievement. I grew up that if I wanted something, I needed to work for it. That is the same lesson I've taught my son. This generation entitled kids have parents who forgot that important piece in their parenting... Life isn't about TikTok, influencers, you tubers, Instagram and a number of social media I'm not even aware of... Sad thing is that that same generation is eventually going to be in charge of getting into politics, ruling countries.
Gen X here..., but not in the US and I thank my parents for not going through back then with their plans to move from the Netherlands to the US. In The Netherlands things aren't all that great either, but what they do very well, is having jobs that come with normal work hours, a minimum of, if I remember correctly 24 paid vacation days, 16 weeks of payed maternity leave, no set number of sick days so that if you are sick you don't have to go to work because it's financially holding you back, if you do work more then your contracted hours you get either time for time or get payed those hours (the latter is however financially less attractive because you pay more taxes over that amount). Waiters and waitresses are being payed normally and aren't depending on tips to survive and all in all, working in The Netherlands isn't all bad even though there are some cr@ppy jobs and cr@ppy employees. I've worked since my 13th and never stayed at a job I didn't like. You want things? You work!
Amazed at all the boot licker responses saying she should be happy, she’s itchy it’s only 9-5, others have it worse. Cool that you’ve ingested your own stolen time and corporate suffering into something necessary and it’s become an acceptable part of your life now. It’s the mentality of someone ether brainwashed by corporate/work obsessed culture OR you’ve made enough money as a boomer (something most young people won’t achieve in our late capitalist hellscape) and you’ve shut off your ability to be in touch with humanity. The 5 day work week is a dinosaur as AI comes for our jobs. This was supposed to be a good thing - that technology was supposed to make life easier and set us free from hard or pointless, brain dead labor. Instead of crapping on young people demanding higher quality of living for ALL of us, you tell them to suck it up and get used to the monotony and say THANKS for it. Please just pipe down and honor your slave daddies and let the rest of us figure out UBI and such.
Kids like this will quiet quit until one day no one’s hiring and everything is expensive. They’ll be asking for a job. By then, companies would’ve replaced the lost employees with AI and other advanced tech (like Flippy) to keep up with productivity. These kids will become a bunch of unemployed post-college graduates with little survival skills. Smart kids, but their poor work ethic sealed their fate.
This post makes me ill. The entitlement is off the charts. Absolutely pathetic and utterly lazy.
The destruction of this country started with the millennials and just gets worse. Welcome to adulthood. I never work the same hours or have same days off. My record for one day is 20 hours and I've done it more than once. I deal with it -people want weekends off and I'm the one who makes entertainment possible. Deal with it. Do you want a tissue or the world's smallest violin?
So, hang on . . . this is breaking news . . . If you want money, you have to work. Work isn't fun necessarily, but having money is . . . That sure is a head scratcher. Life is about give and take. Wow, I'm gobsmacked. Gen Z is doomed at this point.
I find the lack of time off is a real killer. I work 12 hour shifts in a factory but it's awesome because it's a rotating schedule where you work 6 of 7 days in a row, then change to only work 1 of 7. You get the money and hours you need but get substantial time off instead of 2 days to barely get some chores done. Trust me, 9 to 5 is pretty crappy for humans, and better to work longer hours fewer days if you can find it. (Give a couple months to adjust).
Despite the whining, I have to agree that corporate environment is awful. I did the mon-fri, 8:30-5:30, stuck in traffic one hour each way, thing for a few years. It was the most mundane, frustrating experience of my life! Your entire life is spent working for nothing and the people who enjoy it seemed so brainwashed that they believe that the company's success is their own personal success. When I left this job, my boss asked me what challenges my new job will offer me l. Like that is an actual factor! I said nothing, that's why I'm leaving. I have to say, 12 years later and it's still the best decision I've made!
There are legitimate issues in "corporate" culture that should be addressed, but simply complaining about working from 9 until 5 isn't news worthy
It was easier for us, partially because we know the value of hard work. We also didn't have a social media phenomenon to tell us how everyone else felt. Right or wrong, we were ignorant of the struggles of others. Lastly, it seems we looked to our parents or other figure heads for guidance, not other people our age. Face it, you haven't lived yet, you don't know what it's like, just what it's like now. Be patient, work hard and be ready to move quickly. Adapt to the situation. Make a way. Don't depend on others. If you get help, fine. But don't depend on it.
I have mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, I think the ability to work from home is a positive step, and I do have a much better balance in my life. On the other hand, I see this post and the associated comments, and my eyes just roll right out of my head. Yes, younglings, life sucks and then you die. The world doesn't run on Facebook likes. There's a lot of actual work that goes into making all this stuff possible. Someday robots will do it all, but we aren't there yet. You'll just have to survive on 3 weeks vacation until then.
This is the prevalent attitude with these idiots. They think life is all fun. I hear this c**p and i just want to slap the p**s outta someone.
I don't work unless I want to. I take time off whenever I want to. I still make more money than the average American, working pretty much when i want to. I would just die if I had to do the jobs that are out here, or deal with the bosses, the games they play, sit through interviews hoping I would make the cut. When the pandemic happened and my job temporarily shut down, I got depressed at the idea of going to find a job. Thank God I stuck to my right mind and waited for my career to start back up and didn't listen to the naysayers that told me to just fill out job applications. If you don't want to work their jobs that are unfulfilling, don't or do what you gotta do until you manifest better. There is better out here. So many cool jobs that people never heard of that pay great, allow freedom, stability and are fulfilling and that don't require years of college. I support people not settling for what they are told to setting for. You write the story of your life.
As someone who could be your Grandfather; work is work. The only way to make it to retirement is to twist your head around or save up a war chest worth of cash and break out on your own. With your own business the work and worry will double. Maybe you'll love being in control. Worked for me to understand I was using them to fill the war chest and get out early. Learn about finance and manage you as your business. You have to decide to be happy.
You can't remote factory work. You can't remote any job that requires physical labor. Whst makes you corporate types so special.
Some of us corporate employees actually work pretty hard lives, especially the ones who are outraged by this girl. I wouldn't even call this girl a corporate employee. She is a lazy parasite.
Load More Replies... This comment section sickens me. Basically saying "yes the system is broken, yes we work our lives away but this is how it is and everyone should just shutup and do as they are told". At what point did you forsake yourself? At least this person is willing to stand up and say something. I stand behind it. We need to keep fighting.
Humans have "worked their lives away" for millenia. Such a lazy entitled generation to complain about 8 hours a day in a clean, comfortable, climate controlled office. Not a clue what its like to work 7 days a week when 8 hours is only a half day
Load More Replies... The kid who says the companies steal all the profits for themselves built on th r back of employees is a moron. They literally don't understand that working for a company is an exchanges of goods for services. You agree to provide labor and they agree to pay u for said labor. And the reason they get all the profits is because the owners put up all tje risk and capital to build the company. Ugh. I weep for the future.
Not the dinos in these comments making this girl out to be a bad person. I'm sorry you live a miserable life and seem to think that everyone after you needs to suffer the same way but working for 40 years, 5 days a week and not even having enough money to retire isn't really a life you should be bragging about to this "younger generation" you seem to hate. No, people should not have to work themselves to the bone to have enough money to have a roof over their heads and food on the table. Work culture SHOULD change and it already has in many parts of the world, all of which have reported IMPROVED productivity in their employees and I can guarantee the employees are feeling more optimistic about life now that they have more time to themselves and don't have to spend the only 2 days off they have during the week doing chores. Get off your high horse and go start living your life before you die old and miserable.
Do you actually work to make a living? You are either a freeloader or someone privileged person who was born into money. What parts of the world do you speak of??? Once you figure that out tell me which countries are worse because there are A LOT. You think 40 hours is working yourself to the bone 🤣🤣🤣🤣. People must use the term "lazy" to describe you often.
Load More Replies... She’s in for a rude awakening. There’s a reason rich people are called the 1% because the rest of of 99% work 40 hours a week so the 1% can stay the 1%. Capitalism is merely a legal form of slavery, but until that changes it is what it is. Hating have to work to live is something we all hate, but she is clearly out of touch if she doesn’t see that already.
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