The fucking entitlement of some people. It boils my piss that people my age are trying to do the same sort of gaslighting to young people as others did to my generation.
Young people, please don’t fall for it. They’re just trying to get you to be a good little workhorse. My peers fell for it and they’re all burnt out tired husks now.
My skin crawls whenever I hear people my age talk about “Lazy young workers.” As if ten years ago people weren’t saying the same shit about us. Maybe your spirit got broken and now you want to break the spirit of the next lot, I don’t know. Whatever it is it annoys me.
The funny thing is, the kinds of assholes that complain about “lazy entitled sensitive workers not getting shit done” are usually the ones making the workplace less productive imo. They make everyone miserable because they turn the place into a panopticon of “am I working hard enough?” And if you joke or show any kind of joy at work you’re not working hard enough so the workplace becomes depressing.
I hate generational warfare, I hate protestant work ethic, so mix the two and I become rage incarnate.
The worst part is when you get a young “pick me” who is like “I’M NOT SENSITIVE LIKE THE REST OF MY GENERATION I THINK YOU’RE RIGHT WE ARE LAZY.” It’s fucking sad.
EDIT: AND ANOTHER THING! It’s fucking ableist too! No Darren, the kid isn’t too sensitive, he has fucking PTSD.
Similar here. I worked for 16 years. Mainly as a carer for the elderly, also spent 18 months as a personal trainer. Did other jobs on the side for extra money, waitressing, telesales, giftaiding, I was even an au pair abroad twice. Built up a bit in savings. Even kept working on and off after being diagnosed with cancer and having issues with the treatment. But I was able to have some kind of life, did some travelling and had a social life. But then I had a stroke and couldn’t work any more. My pitiful savings were soon gone. My friends were soon gone, who wants to spend time with a virtually housebound person who’s tired and has no money and needs help but can’t give anything back? And so began my life on disability benefits, getting reassessed frequently, so no financial security at all, being denied, having to go through appeals, and so now here I am a literal beggar and thief, begging strangers online for food, sanitary towels and money, and sometimes shoplifting because it’s the only way I have to get these things. It doesn’t matter how hard you work or how much you save. You can lose it all in an instant through no fault of your own. There is no real safety or security for anyone. I was a decent worker but it all counted for nothing when I could no longer contribute, and instead of the societal “safety net” I keep hearing about, society has turned me into a beggar and thief.
Sorry Comrade, that sounds hellish :(
Some of what you say reminds me of what the Death Panel podcasters have to say about surplus labor and how disabled people are treated as less than human under capitalism.
People in the UK are regularly starved to death for the crime of being disabled. So many news stories of disabled people having their benefits stopped and then starving to death. Two names just off the top of my head, Errol Graham and Mark Wood. And no-one even cares, these news stories generate no outrage but just victim blaming “He should have tried harder to get help, there’s so much help out there.” No there isn’t! I was in the process of starving to death before I found hexbear and mutual aid. I had collapsed in the street from starvation and been diagnosed with multiple nutritional deficiencies, and still this country wouldn’t feed me. If it wasn’t for the people here I don’t think i would still be alive.
I’m sorry, that’s awful. It’s good that /c/mutualaid was able to help.
Fucking UK, what’s the point of stealing the world’s wealth if you’re just going to let your people starve to death anyway