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https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-job-satisfaction-unhappy-work-salary-promotion-loyalty-2024-2

More young people are saying the same thing: Salary and career growth are the most important things about a job. And it could explain why Gen Z workers are so much more unsatisfied with their jobs than their older colleagues.

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[-] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago

Older generations are such bootlickers.

The boomer above me at work can't understand why we can't find new staff, to which I always reply, "we don't pay enough, so they can get a better deal somewhere else easily"

She always replies, "well, we don't want to find people who are only in it for the money"

Lmao, good luck with that. Every workplace is a shithole, so the idea of "company loyalty" is just a means for workers to put up with more for less. Younger people aren't falling for it.

I tell her nobody under 50 thinks that way, and she's not having it.

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

The boomer above me at work can't understand why we can't find new staff, to which I always reply, "we don't pay enough, so they can get a better deal somewhere else easily"

She always replies, "well, we don't want to find people who are only in it for the money"

This shit makes me want to pull my fucking hair out. THATS THE WHOLE OSTENSIBLE POINT OF THIS GODDAMN SYSTEM YOU FORCED US ALL IN! That’s the “freedom of choice” shit they’re always banging on about. Ofc it only ever fucking applies to the bosses of course, us grunts are supposed to eat shit with a smile.

[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

The last time I received a raise was 2017 and it was like 2% cost of living raise. I've been let go from about 5 companies since then. I've never been promoted either.

From all of these companies I've worked at over the last decade I have lists of professional references and people who would love to work with me again.

I have been loyal to a fault and have been punished for it.

[-] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Yup, companies are never loyal to you. They'll cut you out as soon as a better arrangement presents itself

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I thought it's cause inworknin kitchens and everyone is Bourdain brained where suddenly being asked what my goals are as a line cook at a new job was a thing but I guess it's more ancient. I don't have to deal with that crap cause my skills speak for themselves but other people try to play this bullshit game instead of being food mercenaries

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well we dont want to find people who are only in it for the money.

What do you think the odds are that they're still looking for whoever they think can ~~produce the most value~~ work the hardest and not whoever they think is the most fun to be around?

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bro, how does any employer complain about not getting good staff? Literally every job is flooded with hundreds of applications they're that spoiled for choice.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

a job is just a job

shocked-pikachu You're telling me it's not supposed to be? I'm supposed to make it my entire personality and dedicate my life to it?

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No no, of course you are!! That's why so many people start conversations with new acquaintances by asking about it:

"So! What do you do for a living?"

subtexts may include:

  • "Are you more important than me?"
  • "Can I use your social influence to help me?"
  • "Are you rich and generous and looking for a new cause?"
  • "Can I safely disregard or perhaps even shit on you?"
[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More young people are saying the same thing: Salary and career growth are the most important things about a job

All your fucking life in school they hammer into your head that the benefits of capitalism is exactly that shit and then you actually go into the job force and all of sudden it’s like “oh and also you have to pretend to do it for the pure fucking love of making your boss money and tongue my asshole or else I can’t cum” foh

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

If I ever get my hands on a job, I'd love to randomly apply and just play games with the hiring manager.

Offer to join up if they offer higher salary and when they refuse, lecture them that money isn't everything, and that the spirit of capitalism is defeated when employers are all buddy-buddy instead of competing.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 year ago

"How Gen Z is ruining the "lazy articles complaining about millennials" industry."

[-] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Critical support to AI replacing these overpaid opinion piece wankers writing absolute gobshite

[-] redfern45@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

It’s not hard; Fuck you, pay me.

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago
[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you millennials for working non-1.5x overtime for no reason so I can go home after 8 hours rat-salute

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

You won't catch this millennial working any job that doesn't pay 1.5x for overtime.

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

perhaps gen z is in fact more miserable than millennials. who can say

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's called people aren't falling for some jackass company that thinks splurging on peripheral benefits, shit like ping pong tables, instead of fucking PAYING PEOPLE MORE, is the right move

Fuck would I bust my ass for? So some stupid ass c suite motherfucker that hasn't worked a day in his life can jack himself off about how well he 'motivated people'? So I can have my boss tell me "great job" now and "we can only give a 3.5% raise" later? When 3% is apparently what I'd get if I were too stupid to breathe without written instructions?

I get the same pay if I achieve what's needed or if I work 60 hours a week fixing other people's shit, and an extra .5 to 1 percent raise ain't good enough, fuckstick

[-] Doubledee@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I'll never forget being taken to the office at the grocery store and told I wasn't stocking the shelves good enough to get a $0.25 raise, and they would only give me an extra dime per hour. I was barely above minimum wage. And these people said we were a family which is why we didn't need a union. Literally nickel and diming me, telling me to my face that my work didn't deserve like a dollar a shift more than they would do by default.

[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Raises are never "in the budget this year" deeper-sadness

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Can't pay my rent in bean bag chairs from the rec room so fuck off, Mr boss man.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

This was supposwd to be Gen X. We were the "Whatever" generation. And now we're middle managers. It's lile we've given up everything we didn't believe in.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Stolen valor

[-] Lerios@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

don't worry, we don't just care about how much a company pays! we also care about how easy it is to commit time theft (and/or real theft) against them Care-Comrade

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Later

""sigh No gen Z. I'm NOT hiring. You know I'm very picky. I would rather die than see you work even if I will complain that your generation is lazy later."

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Millennials, the perfect assassins, are now pinning their kills on Gen Z and escaping into the night hahaha

[-] Ocommie63@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Pfp if the author is pure

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I was hoping we'd keep taking the boomer blame so.i could be forever young

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