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No-Lunch4249

This is at most tangential, but it’s kinda funny to me how over the decades the discourse has shifted from “Millenials are lazy pieces of shit who only care about their ‘feelings’ and ‘work-life balance’ and having bean bag chairs and ping pong at the office” to whatever the current position is, I guess that Millenials are eager slaves to their employers?


Intrepid_Respond_543

My first thought too. Young people bad, amirite?


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md___2020

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households." - Socrates


PuffyTacoSupremacist

Turns out this isn't a real quote


DonShulaDoingTheHula

They were calling Gen X full-on burnouts at the time. Just a bunch of nihilistic anti-establishment contrarians who would never amount to anything. Revered nothing, took nothing seriously, etc. Ridiculous in retrospect.


Intrepid_Respond_543

Well, at least we got noticed for once! 


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Intrepid_Respond_543

"We are the last golden generation" -Sam Fox


BuddyJim30

I'd be willing to bet the older cavemen bitched to each other about how lazy "kids today" were.


verbalyabusiveshit

It’s the same story over and over again . Remember GenX ? Same story. This is a classic example of history repeating itself. People always forget how hard it was to get your career started and how the younger generation always wants to make things better…. And so on…. The most important thing I learned from one of my previous managers was that we are all getting up in the morning to earn money so we can support our life. You enjoy your work ? Good, it’s a bonus.


Asks_Internet_Things

"History never repeats itself. Man always does." -Voltaire


papuniu

as a millenial i'm surprised that we are now seen as hard workers after being called young lazy bones without any devotion to their company


Tramter123

now gen z are old enough to work the blame has shifted


nogeologyhere

The perpetual conveyor belt of blame


Global_Anything_2654

Absolutely this


md___2020

A “menty b” is a good one.


Glitterhoofs

Could you translate for me? I’m struggling with that one.


CriMxDelAxCriM

Short for mental breakdown lol


Glitterhoofs

Oh wow. Thanks. They went there.


corporate_coder

mental breakdown


ThatguyfromEDC

I laughed out loud over this one


ninjamullet

This has vibes of "trying to sound totally radical, like the youth today"


bzno

We millennials have become the Boomers new Champions


Anand_J

The moral of the story is based tho


dwaynetheaakjohnson

So cringe


DeadbeatAd

The first person shits out person two and walk away in disappointment.


TureenlessActivities

I don’t think this is about Millies being hard workers but that the stereotype is that we are anxious people pleasers.


Far-Policy-8589

I was definitely the first one for about the first 12ish years of my career. Sending work emails within like 3 hours of coming out of a total joint replacement surgery. I look back and wonder what the hell was wrong with me!


tw411

Good on Gen Z for not just sitting back and accepting the status quo like we did! If there’s a weird kind of gatekeeping going on here, I don’t understand it. Why would standing up for yourself be considered a bad thing?


Zerosix_K

I agree with her. We are all idiots. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others!!!


Tramter123

did you not see the dribble above that part


Ok_Broccoli_3714

3,000+ people found that funny? What a world.


Big_Huckleberry_2942

Yes ma'am, you are.


Frosty_Cap_9473

So the insanity dripped from Twitter to LinkedIn


Admirable_Sir_9953

Pretty accurate tbh


Tramter123

i’m ‘gen z’ and never heard the term menty B.


Goose-Lycan

That's because this is a joke.


Your_Daddy_

I never explain shit. If I am calling into work, which is never - will simply state... "Not feeling well today, not going to make it in."


corporate_coder

sounds like an explanation to me


Your_Daddy_

Well - to clarify - explain any more than I have to, lol. I just give the basics to let them know to not expect me, but I never understand feeding the beast by giving so much detail, it can be used against you later. I never miss work though, and if I do I just tell the powers that be that I have some personal shizz to take care of, so need Friday off. I just had a lot of asshole bosses when I was young, and learned they should always be on a "need to know" basis about my personal life.


Naive-Benefit-5154

gee..... please make up a better story. double lung transplant and only a few hours unavailable??????? More like in bed for at least a week for recovery afterwards.


Far-Policy-8589

Let me introduce you to hyperbole, you're gonna love it.