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    Gen Z seems to be refusing to swallow the bullshit the rest of us grew up having fed to us. A shame I’ll be close to aging out by the time they get much political power.

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      The Bullshit from decades ago was easier to swallow because at least people had a chance to make money and have a decent job while also paying a bit less for things like food, shelter or some luxuries.

      Now people have no choice … they get paid less, they have no security and they have to pay more for food and shelter.

      People were always aware of the bullshit … in the past we could put up with it because we could afford it … now people can’t.

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        Cost benefit analysis. I’m Gen-X and we had to deal with both Silent Gen “company loyalty” and Boomer toxic bullshit, but that was fine because we got a lot out of it and we were able tondo our own shit. In other words, a positive cost benefit analysis. Greed tilted that until it is now not worth it. Its funny how some people love capitalism until the system demands that they adjust. Sorry corpos, if you want a resource, you have to pay fair market value.

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      I agree with the article. Gen Z are more open to sharing their life with the world. I wouldn’t say early generations just swallowed the bullshit. They just didn’t have a platform to express it to the masses. In the 70s or 80s if you got fired, maybe you reacted the same way, demanding a reason and expressing your frustration. But the only people who witnessed that, were the ones in the room and later on your buddies when you told them the story.

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      You don’t need to wait for them to get political power, start organizing a union and get that toxic shit out of your workplace now

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      Started with Gen X, which is why the baby boomers retiring is creating such a desperate demographic crisis. Nobody wants to buy into such an obviously corrupt system, which has rewarded every consecutive generation with less and less compensation despite the abundantly obvious massive advances in productivity. People are realizing that most of their work is not at all about generating value, but instead is all about occupying their time and energy in an apparent attempt to reduce competition.

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      If you could ask for early retirement now then they would get power that much quicker

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      They’re literally following a TikTok Trend. They’re submerged deep into bullshit and eating it up.

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        And for many of them it will bite them in the ass.

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            I was more thinking about the laws against recording people, and particularly publishing those recordings. Along with the recordings being proof of other things, like maybe the person who took snacks on their way out could be accused of theft.

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      thats everyone at their age.

      the difference is they can broadcast it into the world now.

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        Nah. When I was a kid, my peers were happy to bend over backwards to work harder for nothing extra.

        Times have changed. That’s what happens as the disparity in wealth continues to grow. More people feel disenfranchised.

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          i was never that dumb to work for free, my friends werent either, sorry to hear your friends were.

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        Hmm that’s some of it, probably. I don’t think it’s all of it. And even if so, I think that phenomenon can build further momentum.

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          id go as far as doubting its at all of it, but AFAICT every recent generation had some good thinking about the problems and were keen on dissenting somehow when they were young.

          even a lot of the boomers (who are seen as very conservative now) had their counterculture thing when they were young.

          i think my biggest point with this is that the kids are generally alright and we can do good by laying off the juvenoia a bit.

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            i think my biggest point with this is that the kids are generally alright and we can do good by laying off the juvenoia a bit.

            100% agree there.

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        2030 is my guess because roughly half of the kids from the 60s will be mid 60s then and retire or be unable to keep on hustling because of age while all support systems will get into absolute overload.

        It’s seven years until 2030.

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          Well either see a brutal market recession as the boomers die off and/or sell off their retirement portfolio to buy more sand for their hourglass, while everyone else is too broke to buy it at the “market value” their financial planner promised them in 1992

          Or capitalists will sweep in and buy it for cheap, exacerbating the housing crisis and continuing to make life unaffordable

          Either way we’re in trouble

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          i think you underestimate how bad it can get before they can’t stop a collapse anymore.

          we already have a big homeless population and old people already in dire situations. i think that was the spark that got them so politicized in the first place.

          and the biggest factors will probably be more related to climate change which will take a bit more time to reeeeally fuck with us.

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            Joke is: I’m one of these boomers, born in the 1960s 😄

            Classic example of rage math - I’m always furious about the shit and the terror my generation didn’t prevent. We knew and know everything and chose and choose to carry on.

            Assholes all around. I’m dead serious about this.

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    “I have, like, really given my whole energy and life over the last four months to this job, and to be let go for no reason is like a huge slap in the face from a company that I really wanted to believe in,”

    First mistake was giving your whole life. Second mistake was believing in a company.

    Having survived a layoff like the one they mentioned - people getting random 15 minute meetings, suddenly seeing their accounts decommissioned, etc. - it definitely sucks, and knowing they’ll lay me off like that means I have no reason to have loyalty

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      I think most people make this mistake when first entering the workforce though, right? I know I did. Now, I get called pessimistic and cynical. But, I’ve got three decades of experience at various levels of company. With all that experience, I’d prefer to call myself a realist.

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        Recruiters aren’t blind to it either, at least for more senior roles. They stopped talking about the “family” that they are, and how much more “fun” it is to work there. They also stopped asking me why I chose this company, and instead ask me why I chose this role, because they know I don’t give a shit about the company. They cut straight to “here is the pay and benefits, we give extra for this that and that”. It should be like that for all levels, from junior to director.

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          Yes, it should be. But businesses aren’t people, they don’t have a conscience, they don’t care about their employees. They will use any tool they can to underpay someone, and work that same person harder than the rest of the team paid more. Because, they can.

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            If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength. would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet-!

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      Millennial / Gen X cusp here. I feel like this really started with my generation. Many people no longer look for a job, they look for a job that allows them to make the world a slightly better place. Many of us have had that drilled into our heads from childhood.

      Companies know this, so that’s what they sell when they’re hiring. And when you combine that with the cognitive bias for people wanting to do good through their work, this is the result.

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        Bingo. I mean I accepted pretty early on that A. I wouldn’t enjoy working and B. Someone else is going to make a lot of money off what I do.

        As long as I work for an employer that does something or makes something that can be a net positive, I feel like I’ve found something good.

        -is the lie I keep telling myself

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      This is effectively the only tool we will ever have against them, and we should use it before too much of the labor force is converted and automated, and the remaining employed shut up out of fear.

      A company like Microsoft worth 3 trillion dollars (with a T), who spends billions to acquire another business in a strategic move, should not be allowed to dump the burden on the thousands of people they let go afterwards, just so the books look good.

      They pull billions out of the company in profit, and then claim the company is broke and needs to distribute some losses socially. It’s completely insane that we just allow this to happen in mass. I’m lucky I can choose my companies and I don’t touch the big big corporations so it doesn’t affect me, but we need to do something collectively fast.

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        I worked for them in a division that was very customer facing. We got told over and over things we needed to improve the experience weren’t in the budget. I always vaguely waved my hands in the air with a “look at the piles of money” face.

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      I worked at Disney+ in IT for 5 years, they gave me a yearly incentive to stay with them, bonuses, and my 5 years of service pin… and then laid me off a month later.

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    As a Gen-Xer who’s been beaten into believing you can’t realistically “fight the man”, I fucking love the Gen-Z attitude.

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      The housing market is fucked, economic mobility is fucked, the climate is fucked. They’ve already lost to the man, what else do they have to lose?

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      As a Gen-Xer whose been beaten into believing you can’t realistically “fight the man”, I fucking love the Gen-Z attitude.

      Seriously. Give them hell Gen-Z!

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    As a millennial, I honestly have a lot of respect for Gen Z. I feel like they are slowly but surely figuring out how to stick it to the man and generate awareness of how the big corporations are slimy scum and don’t see employees as “People”. Go Gen Z!

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      Honestly they’ve been incredible. They’ve been politically active since they were teens and they care more about work/life balance than any other generation before (anecdotally). They’ve been dealt a shit hand but I’m rooting for them.

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      I was thinking about this just yesterday. After watching Frankie’s cultural observation on boomers, where he says that “boomers are the first generation in history that wanted to do better than their children”, I asked myself what have us millennials done. I settled on this, we broke the generational cycle of abuse and bullying of our kids. The boomers parents, while the “greatest” generation, were raised by an even stricter generation of parents who believed in things like not picking up a crying baby, and probably resulted in Boomer parents that, thanks to WW2, were also an untreated PTSD generation. Alcoholism was just dad’s being dad’s and pre ww2 moms stayed home to keep home and hearth with a little help from the snuff tin. Several generations of war torn parents ignorant of how to deal with what they went through, raising more kids for the next war. From the civil war to Vietnam, every generation had a war or two on their plate. Then our small communities were randomly spread out into suburban experiments to support the industrial revolution. Now no one knows their neighbor, they just go to work. Then the millennials were sent to war. We had heard the stories growing up about how great our nations fighting forces were. Now it was our turn. We had the most righteous of reasons to fight. But this time, when looking to the boomers to lead us, we found a bunch of disfunctional brats. Their maturity was a ruse. They didn’t know any better than we did on how to deal with this world. Their parents won the great war, setup the economy, spanked them, never hugged them, and then handed them the keys to the company and retired to Florida. So the bratty boomers without a clue bullied their kids out the door and into the world. There we stood, 18 and primed to take it on. But there was nothing left to take. Then the bubble they blew popped and we shipped out to Afghanistan, and then Iraq, and even after 20 years we still had nothing to show for it. No house, no good paying job, no health care, and a degree with the weight of never ending debt chained to it. The boomers are and always have been, brats. You see them out there on their Harley’s brrrraaaaatttting around. So when we started having kids, we said no. No we’re not going to beat our kids, no we’re not going to shame them for who they love, no we’re not going to “be a man” and shut up about our war trauma. But the brats still had all the power. They refused to let go of their toy. So we put ourselves to work on trying to fix the only thing we had the power to fix, ourselves. We started normalizing therapy, researching drug and alcohol addiction. We dug into the data. We acted like adults, we admitted we have a problem and we did the rigorous and SCIENTIFIC work of finding the solutions. We broke the cycle. We’ve really earnestly tried to raise thoughtful, honest about themselves, proud adults who ask why. We didn’t ignore them, we answered them honestly, we admitted there’s a problem. But we don’t have enough time to set it right in our life time. The brats won’t let go. We need Gen Z to carry the torch forward. Question everything, do the hard work, admit when you were wrong, be willing to change your mind when new data is discovered. I’m proud of these kids. I want them to do better than us. We got your back kid.

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        I asked myself what have us millennials done. I settled on this, we broke the generational cycle of abuse and bullying of our kids.

        Dont mean to ‘burst your bubble’, but as a Gen-Xer who took allot of abuse from my Boomer parents, and ended up a ‘latch key kid’ to boot, I made sure to not pass that on to my Millennial children. At all. So that trend was happening allot earlier than you think.

        Also, ‘wall of text’ is tough to read. Paragraphs are our friends. :)

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          Also, ‘wall of text’ is tough to read.

          I imagine they might have been bamboozled like I have been quite a few times, where a proper formatted line break is actually 2 line breaks in the editor instead of just one?

          Just a guess haha.

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            line break test. one. meow meow. two

            meow

            EDIT: You are correct. One line break does fk all. Two “Enters” are required

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              EDIT: You are correct. One line break does fk all. Two “Enters” are required

              That’s the same in any editor.

              If you are at the end of a sentence, and you want to start a new paragraph, you always hit the enter key twice.

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            where a proper formatted line break is actually 2 line breaks in the editor instead of just one?

            Just a guess haha.

            What?

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              Clicking enter while typing in a comment/post will put you on a new line in the text editor, but Markdown interprets this as a regular space.

              Having two line breaks (enter twice) in the editor tells Markdown to leave an empty line and then start in a new line.

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                Having two line breaks (enter twice) in the editor tells Markdown to leave an empty line and then start in a new line.

                You would be hitting enter twice to start a new paragraph in any Lemmy editor. Thats how you always start a new paragraph.

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                  What do you mean? In Word, you click enter once, and the paragraph spacing is done automatically based on existing paramters. While not every word processor is Word, I’d argue that the one-enter process I described is still a pretty legitimate form of starting a paragraph.

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                  Any Markdown editor, yes. But not everyone is familiar with Markdown formatting. People coming from text editors, forums, and word processors expect a single enter to start a new paragraph.

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      create awaraness for something that people already aware of since the dawn of human race?

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        You might be shocked to learn that an alarming number of people historically did not know that corpos are evil.

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    I hate corpo rats. If GenZ is able to fight the man and not get chewed up and spit out by the system, more power to them.

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      I’m surprised some are defending the CloudFlare HR rep. How is it “confrontational” to ask questions? At that point, all I would care about is unemployment and setting the record straight.

      These recordings could save your ass.

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        Can’t blame them, my generation popularized social networks even after finding out what they were for.

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          I can blame them for picking the one that is spyware for the world’s largest hostile dictatorship, you absolute concavebrain moron. Anybody who at this point doesn’t realize what TikToks intended purpose is are willfully ignorant.

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              150 Million Americans are giving the keys to the kingdom to a hostile militaristic dictatorship with the potential to do harm on a scale beyond anything you’ve ever seen

              in return for vines but worse.

              This is one of those issues where “GET MAD” is the correct response.

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                “GET MAD” at the proper institution/organizations/companies, not your fellow commenter, who is not even denying what you’re saying. I’m not saying you’re wrong, you’re just being a dick about it.

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                  I live in a democracy. The proper institutions and organizations to police this issue is my fellow commentator.

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                “Hostile militaristic dictatorship” is just the United States. There’s almost zero difference between the US and China in those regards. The only real difference is that Chinese citizens are actually being lifted out of poverty at a rate not seen at any point in history while the US is continuing to impoverish their citizens. Both of them spy on their citizens and have insanely racist cultures.

                There’s no moral difference between using TikTok and Facebook.

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                  Ji Xinping has no term limit and was unanimously reelected by the single party congress, completely unopposed. China does not select their leadership.

                  The USA criminalizes and punishes misconduct like massive data collection, such as the FCC fining FaceBook 5 Bn USD, but China created and operates an even more invasive and far reaching data collection scheme on their own with TikTok.

                  Face it, loyal dog, China is the same monster it has been for a century, just waiting to add millions more bodies to the pile.

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            Believing the USA has better motives is pretty moronic too. Especially if you live in the USA

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              Oh is the local Democracy who fines companies like FaceBook billions for doing exactly what TikTok is trying to do

              equivalent in your eyes to

              The Militaristic Expansionist Hostile Dictatorship who created TikTok to do exactly what FaceBook did and rewards them accordingly?

              Thanks for you opinion, dude.

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                Again, you need to take a step back. The USA has had much more aggressive and violent international policies than China. It being a democracy (which is itself arguable) does not matter.

                And Snowden showed us that the USA are, again, not better than China in terms of mass surveillance.

                China is a problem, but if you can’t see why the global south sees them as a balancing force rather than a threat, well, again, take a step back.

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                  China is literally annexing it’s neighboring countries and killing multiple different ethnic minorities en masse. Not 60 years ago, not 10 years ago, right now. It’s happening right now.

                  Because they are a Dictatorship. They’re being ruled by an unaccountable class of people.

                  You know why Snowden was such a big deal? Because an arm of the US Government did something illegal by its own laws and he exposed it, leading to massive controversy and political action. Because in the USA the people have protections against that sort of thing.

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      I don’t care what the source is, if there’s a Gen [insert whatever] or Millennials might be to blame for [insert whatever] I’m already at a -10 on the trust meter right out the gate.

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        I didn’t try my first avocado toast until like a year ago and lemme tell ya. Seeing as how eating it somehow went back in time and made me unable to afford a house, I expected it to be a lot more magical.

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      I see it plenty without the media stoking it. Here on Lemmy, etc.

      It’s the same dumb tribalism as always, often backed up by some real data or trends (that tend to get twisted)

      No, not every “boomer” is spoiled and ruining America, and 75% of the people you call boomers aren’t even boomers. Not every Gen Z is lazy and entitled and scrolling phones all day. Etc.

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        Crabs in a bucket. If we can’t find the things that make us alike with our cohorts, it’s going to be very difficult to ever affect any sort of change.

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          Boomers don’t consider any generation after them “cohorts”. They consider them subservient.

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        The median age of U.S. senators is 65. Who do you think is voting for those people?

        The Boomer generation absolutely deserves to be shit on.

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            Who the fuck would we vote for? Genocide Joe or Cheeto Mussolini? They rigged the primary against Bernie twice. Democracy is fucked in this country.

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            Buddy I’m not here to convince you of anything. If you wanna believe not showing up to vote is just as bad as making a conscious decision and the effort to vote for these procorporate trash ghouls in the Senate that’s your choice. As for me: I choose to say Boomers are responsible for who they vote for and who they vote for is trash, so they are trash.

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      the way they alienate gen z as being “conditioned” to like social feedback on ticktok is really denigrating to me. As if every other generation was not conditioned to believe certain social taboos, mores and practices. Same old “young kids don’t know shit” rhetoric. Which viewers at home will just ingest w/o any sort of critical thought process.

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      Also how quickly they can invent ‘trends’ we should be fearful of simply because some middle-aged reporter watched a couple similar videos online. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go eat some tide pods before my scheduled game of knockout.

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    Influencer or not, however, those who stream videos of themselves being fired from their job risk facing repercussions, such as violating severance agreements, the BBC reported. Job termination videos can also backfire on those who post them if viewers find the post vindictive or unprofessional.

    “Generally speaking, such moves are a double-edged sword. The literature on whistleblowers, a more extreme form of publicly sharing bad practices, shows that people get stigmatized for doing so,” Ben Voyer, an ESCP Business School professor who founded the Gen Z Observatory, told Business Insider in a recent article.

    “Generally, society doesn’t reward people that engage in behaviors that some may see as a betrayal. Pushing such content online is a way to get moral support on the one hand, and a little revenge on the other hand,” he said.

    If you’re confused about who to blame, remember that one side debates on whether they should purchase a mega yacht, or have a more reasonable “support” yacht trailing the main one for their helicopter/staff.

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      Not even Millennials see action against your employer as ‘betrayal’. Company loyalty is dead, and this professor is out of touch.

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      If the majority do it, it can no longer be extreme.

      I’m enjoying the generational divide coming from Gen-Z.

      Previous generations wanting to avoiding “burning bridges” only served corporate interests.

      Workers need stop fearing our corporate overlords. We out number them.

      They’ve manipulated the political process to shattered the social contract and must be held accountable.

      I’m still partial to dragging them into the street since it worked quite well a century but this is a good step towards lighting that powder keg.

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        I’m still partial to dragging them into the street since it worked quite well a century but this is a good step towards lighting that powder keg.

        What exactly worked quite well? The USSR and other “socialist” countries worked well only for those outside their territory, acting as some kind of counterbalance, I’ll admit that.

        What was inside was an even more extreme form of what you call “corporate overlords”, because there wasn’t even an illusion of choice, your path changing employers would be similar to transferring between places in a military, the new employer would see every shitty thing the previous one decided to write about you, and they wouldn’t care what you have to say about that generally.

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          You seem to have taken this comment in some random direction that is pro-capitalism

          I am not going to take the time to go through all the scenarios as to how violent uprisings resulted in the standards or work we have today simply because you can’t understand a common idiom.

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            simply because you can’t understand a common idiom.

            I understand plenty, miss some, and also there are people not worth understanding.

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      risk facing repercussions, such as violating severance agreements

      oh no, I won’t get dick shit, which is exactly what I was going to get anyway. What a gigantic shame

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      I was watching Wendover’s billionaire social calendar last night. They have ships whose sole purpose is to transport their yachts from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean so they don’t have to deal with actual transoceanic sailing. Like they literally load the yacht onto the ship like a big cargo rig.

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      Yeah most people probably already had the double edged sword in their teeth. Shitty professor is out of touch.

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      Generally, society doesn’t reward people that engage in behaviors that some may see as a betrayal.

      The gall to speak like that of somebody publicizing the way one of their contacts with equal sides was terminated. Not even “mutual betrayal”, LOL.

      It sucks when people think an organization has more rights than a person. If there’s a contract between two, then they are on the same level.

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      Greed and they don’t give a fuck about you. And it’s going to keep happening, again and again, until we change it.

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      As an older GenX I thank the Millenials for that. Generation Z seems to love their consumerism a little too much but at least they seem to know who’s screwing them and its not the poor folk.

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      I’ve been hearing about how older generations always hate younger generations all my life. How I must be destined to grow in to some crochety old man by 40.

      I gotta say these kids seem like they’re headed in a pretty good direction, they’re funny, they’re not taking shit, frankly it seems like it’s going pretty well.

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        Yeah dude. I’m Xilenial, was told how I would grow up and be just like them. No, really, becoming old is a choice. My younger brothers are full on MAGA and hate-filled. They look and act older than I do by a long shot. I work with teams of Gen Z students and stay young by being around them.

        You can age without becoming old. Some people chose to be old, and those types tend to hate younger folks and also hated the older people when they were younger themselves.

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          Right?! I was way more conservative in my teens and have gone way further to the left and less conservative as I’ve aged.

          “When you buy a house you’ll understand” … yeah, nope, maybe it’s the fact that it took 3 of us to buy the house instead of ONE salary being able to, but, nope - still not a crazy jackass who has no empathy just to keep my property taxes low.

          ETA: Gen Z is great. I love the no fucks given attitude in the workplace and they’re a fucking inspiration.

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            I think you’re right. Boomers were much more liberal than their parents but became neoconservatives once they got into housing ownership and the stock market. They then projected their own wants and desires on the next generations and assumed that everyone would follow them.

            I was also very conservative as a teen, but that was only because my family lived in a shithole suburb and complained nonstop about California and liberals. As soon as I get away from them, my tune changed pretty much instantly.

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            YES… and this is why I want to.punch every clown who says “fascism will die off with the Boomers”. It never has, and never will

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        They are also not fundamentally brain damaged by years of the inhalation of lead and then being irradiated by one of the worse nuclear disasters of all time.

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          I knew about the lead for Gen X. Are you talking about both Millennials and Gen Z not having been poisoned in their developmental years or are you referring to Boomers (and older), some of whom were irradiated and/or got hit by smog, etc. It sounds like you’re saying something also happened to Millennials otherwise, and I never heard about this.

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            No, just gen Z. Even a large number of the Millennial population were fairly exposed. Millennial generation starts in 1981, leaded gas didn’t become illegal to sell until 1992. And Chernobyl happened in 1986.

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              Oh that’s right, Chernobyl! There were staggered end dates to the sale of leaded gas though, so the years will vary more or less by continent. Nevertheless, your point remains valid even if the lead pollution was at its peak in the 1970s.

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          Actually only Gen Z will be free of the epigenetic effects. It actually takes 2 gens of not being exposed for a generation not to be affected.

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    I quit Lowe’s a few months ago and they mistakenly gave me an exit interview. Not only did I put my grievances in writing, but I was adamant that the “HR” person typed what I was saying verbatim.

    There’s no point in those interviews unless you say what needs to be said.

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      I love exit interviews.

      P.s. Chris, you were the worst manager I’ve ever had. You’re a terrible human. That’s why the entire department left and got hired at another company… the one I went to. The entire department, Chris. I made that happen.

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        I’m of the opposite opinion. Exit interviews are just a way a company can further pretend to give a shit what you think, while not actually giving a shit. Do you really think what you say will make a difference?? If they didn’t listen to you while you were working, why would they listen to you if you’ve quit? It’s all smoke and mirrors designed to make you feel good while giving the company marketing material to say, ‘we listen’ when they don’t. HR is on team company. They are not your friend. The odds of them actually doing anything different based on an exit interview is zero. If anything, they’ll use what you say against you to frame it as ‘clearly he/she is not a happy person’ so they just dismiss what you say. Just like they did when you were working for them.

        I deny them that chance so I don’t do them.

        Fuck them. Leave and say nothing and just be happier at your new job. They had their chance and blew it. You don’t owe them anything and you’re better off channeling that energy into something more in line with what makes you happy.

        That’s just my take though.

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          They don’t care whether you think they give a shit or not. The contract has already ended, they have no “legal” motivation to give you the light of day.

          The reason exit interviews exist is that some people within the company do care about employee feedback / retention rate, because from a strictly practical point of view, hiring/training costs many thousands of dollars for any vaguely skilled position so knowing if there is an avoidable problem is valuable.
          The flip-side is that in most cases, circumstances are out of control of whoever is in charge of exit interviews. If an employee quits for personal reasons, can’t do anything about it. If the owner is a cunt, can’t do anything about that either. However, if five employees quit because “Chris is the worst manager in the world”, then maybe Chris will eventually find himself “promoted” to a non-management position.

          From an employee perspective playing nice and being professional can be worthwhile, depending on the size of the industry, whether you’re willing to burn bridges, and the importance of networking for your job position. The company you were working for may suck but your previous manager might get a new job and offer to hire you there.

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          Well, Chris got fired… so, yeah I guess losing an entire department in a weeks time, each person citing Chris as the reason, might cause some actions.

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      But what do you think that accomplished?

      Even if the HR person did type it verbatim and show it to you, they’re just going to turf it the second you leave and spin a tale that makes their boss happy.

      There’s zero chance that the upper management who needed to hear what you said actually heard it.

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        Meh, they get taken seriously at least where I work. Especially if they were a high performer or if there is a significant trend in departures.

        That said, some leadership will hear parts that don’t make them feel so bad and gasp onto those.

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        These giant corporations are extremely data driven, and managers who get bad reviews do eventually become squeaky wheels.

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      There’s no point in those interviews unless you say what needs to be said.

      " Yeah great, well I generally come in at least 15 minutes late. I, uh, use the side door, that way Lumberg can’t see me and, uh, after that I just sort a space out for about an hour. Yeah I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I’m working. I do that for, uh, probably another hour after lunch too. I’d say in a given week I probably only do about 15 minutes of real, actual, work. Oh yeah, let me tell you something about TPS reports. See the thing is Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care. It’s a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime. So where’s the motivation? And here’s something else, Bob, I have eight different bosses right now. Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That’s my only real motivation, is not to be hassled. That and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that’ll only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. Listen, I’m going to go. Uh, it’s been really nice talking to both of you guys. Good luck with your layoffs, all right? I hope your firings go really well."

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      2. Detailed instructions for operating abandoned Russian military vehicles
      3. This
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        Funny as hell. The manosphere bros who took it seriously made it even funnier

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        honestly you could’ve left a single comment in opposition against tiktok and left it there but had the audacity to voice against it multiple times.

        sure tiktok is pure evil spyware, you aren’t wrong, but mate just calm down and speak your concerns in a single comment and call it a day.

        more karma too lmao

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        Gen-Xer here, and I agree. I’m impressed with all of the younger generations, from you guys to the Zs. Gen-Alpha is still fairly young, but no reason to believe they won’t also follow suit.

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          Other than a significant portion of them getting sucked into bullshit from the likes of Andrew Taint et al.

          Can Z fuck the corpos before the corpo algorithms fuck Alpha?

          BET NOW!

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    “Growing tik toc trend” only gives one example that we’ve all already watched. Either it’s a lie about it being a trend or piss poor reporting.

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      This is how right-wing idiots got trolled into believing that schools were getting litter boxes for furries.

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        Wasn’t the litter box thing just a suggestion from a lawmaker that refuses to do anything about school shootings?

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          Yeah that was a whole thing like a couple years back. The sad reality iirc is that the litter was for something to do with school shootings, perhaps to help clean up the blood…