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.
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