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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/don-t-time-anything-gen-201728182.html

A TikTok video of a young woman complaining about her work-life balance after getting her first 9-to-5 position after college—described as “Gen Z girl finds out what a real job is like” in an X post—has gone viral. But while many have perceived her rant to be about having to work, a closer listen shows it’s really about having to commute to and from the office—and what little time there is left in her day after that.

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[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As far as I can tell, not a single media commentator, pundit, politician, CEO, or anybody else who has complained about kids not knowing what a real job is like, has ever once in their lives had a "rEaL" job.

It explains the sentiment. I'm hard pressed to name anyone who hasn't had at least one anxiety attack or depressive episode after their first couple years on the workforce. Entry level jobs are consistently awful. Small business bosses are as clueless as they are mean-spirited. And a lot of these jobs involve cold calling, menial labor, working for the guy that has the hardest time keeping staff on hand, and doing other soul-crushing bullshit.

The headline "College Grad Has Breakdown in Real Workforce" could as easily be an Onion bit about the absurdist dysfunction and backwards dogmatism of private industry. The epitomous Grad discovers everything they've spent 4-6 years mastering has been ignored or mismanaged by the business they've been hired by and now that they're an entry level employee they need to abandon all their best practices because CEO Daddy Knowns Best. Then the business loses a zillion dollars and the new hire gets blamed.

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