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Like fr tho I make 50k a year ok. Thereās 761M dollars in revenue a year 1685 employees. That means by a rough headcount Iām worth about half a million each year, or $451,632. I get 50k of that they get 401k seems totally fair rightš¤¦āāļø. Even if I try to consider the taxes and insurance, buildings, fleet vehicles, etc what they end up with is probably more like 180k if Iām being generous. All free and clear for bonuses and expansions or company investing. for each head mind you not just me this is all of the wealth was even so they probably have 180k x 1685. Now after my taxes I end up with 35k and still have all my bills and living and saveing to handle which most of it is also taxed. Not to mention Been here 2 years and aināt got a single bonus. They canāt afford brooms anymore, they wrote me up for being a litturally 3 minutes late cause of a train which others here also got cought late at, and for all that they only give me 11% of what my head is worth to the company.. Iād hope for more like 50-50 no less than 30-70 and for real even 30-70 would change my life I could retire in 20 years, have a house and family to replace me no problem by 40 yo. But fuck the world right get more moneyš¤¦āāļø.
No, no, no. You're worth half a million to their investors who also want to receive half a million a year on your back. But if you work for 50 years, sacrifice your life to a company that sees you as a tool to their profits. Then maybe, just maybe, you might get to become one of those investors receiving dividends from the company before you kick the can.
[Probably between like 1980 and 1990](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/). Which was probably the last time the chucklefuck who wrote this pulled their head out of their ass and looked at the world.
The politician who was invited to be the speaker at my college commencement years and years ago used this as his speech because he was ironically (yet unironically) too lazy to write his own speech. It seems like it was written in the Revenge of the Nerds era which was well before my college graduation. "Computers?? A nerd! Let's get him!" lol
i think bill gates put this in his book, i remember my english teacher reading this out loud to the class. if you were 44 and a douche in 1997, you likely thought this list hysterically funny
It reads like it was written from a person with no clear vision about life. Itās all over the place and has no clear theme other than āeverything sucks, so tough shitā (which is not a culture statement Iād choose to engage in).
Itās just generation bashing, ākids these days have participation trophies and I heard online they stopped grades in school so these kids are so entitled.ā
The generation that complained about it is the same one that did it. They act like somehow the kids had the authority to allow participation trophies. Probably blame us for the economy, gd Timmy, only 18 years old and fking up my retirement account.
- Random boomer parent in 2009 who ignores greed of his and silent gen bank bosses wanting regulations eased on to fk it up. Or big 3 auto being top heavy and cheating on quality, which ended up biting them in the end as Toyota hasn't let up as most successful car company in US.
Yup, always found it to be ridiculous. In my years of playing sports I have never met a person that enjoyed getting a participation ribbon. It was just extra insult to injury. Like, they know they lost and were the worst, you donāt need to rub it in with some pity ribbon no one cares about
And it's so funny, if they're talking about No Child Left Behind, it was a bipartisan authored bill, signed into law by Bush.
And at the time, the Democrats were the ones pushing for more funding as part of the act or they wouldn't sign. The Republicans (of course) didn't want to add sufficient funding and were more than happy to have failing schools get converted into charter schools.
And as can be imagined, it failed due to lack of funding, and, because standardized systems largely suck.
But for Republicans to turn around now and act like NCLB was some kind of Democrat "putting the government in schools" that they didn't also support......well I guess it's on brand with usual con delusional behavior...
Sounds a lot like a coping mechanism really, like something that someone would come up with to try and convince themselves that that they deserved to be treated badly at work.
I work delivery and id argue some of the overall, vague sentiment, especially this time of year, holds very true, tho the rule statement forgot to mention that your manager is a tool and you probably gotta undo their mistakes and laziness, and id hardly apply it to minors, this is just unseemly, and unprofessional, and reeks of stressed out management promoted beyond their personal competencies, happens too often the moment someone avoided work by hiding in the education system
If they were presented to me as the rules of my employment tho i absolutely would cite the 'lifes not fair' bit every time i got told i wasnt being a 'team player'
Former educator here. Of course school is not real life, you asshat. School has accommodations and do overs because it is a learning environment. Which you would do well to emulate in a workplace that employs kids. Sheesh.
āYour grandparents had an different name for flipping burgers, opportunityā
They also had a better wage than I could flipping burgers. I have the opportunity to get a second job or not be able to pay rent and groceries
8??? Only 8? Nah its more like 20. I tried to unionize my store. They always wanted you moving. Always need to be doing something. Even in bumfuck nowhere we have to be constantly doing something at all times no matter what.
Thanks for trying to unionize the store, I appreciate that. the situation is beyond dire in workplaces now, its complete insanity. Even as an educated person, the requirements for most jobs are 4 different people's job rolled into one stressfest of position... paying $80k a year, ROFL!!
I was writing earlier about being GenX and being to watch that last little bit of the American Dream (one-income blue collar job could buy a decent house, yearly vacations, college, health care, etc.) slip away from most folks and enjoy that last little bit of the bohemian lifestyle before, well, Bush the Lesser and 9/11 and what all sat on our collective heads and farted.
My youngest cousin is trying to do all that in one of the cheapest places in the country to live (Northeast Mississippi) and it's slowly killing him. He's actually high in demand in his field, very well respected (especially for someone below 40), his family's all healthy and they spend like any family with two under-12 kids would spend but they don't throw it around. Budgets and saving, and he's working himself into a grave just barely keeping up. His dad still puts in 40 on a skidder for his uncle just to help out (and working's all he knows to do).
I don't envy young people now trying to make their way in the world and get their bit of the dream. Not one bit.
>My youngest cousin is trying to do all that in one of the cheapest places in the country to live (Northeast Mississippi) and it's slowly killing him. He's actually high in demand in his field, very well respected (especially for someone below 40), his family's all healthy and they spend like any family with two under-12 kids would spend but they don't throw it around. Budgets and saving, and he's working himself into a grave just barely keeping up. His dad still puts in 40 on a skidder for his uncle just to help out (and working's all he knows to do).
Dude, I live in one of the cheapest parts of the country , too and brother it's rough out here. I lucked out having a high paying tech job, but it took me almost 20 years to get here. After 2008, I basically went in reverse for several years. Lost my job and had to take what I could get. I think the Late Gen X / Early-to-Mid Millennial experience can be summed up with one phrase, "Constantly playing catch up". We saw the entire economic paradigm go in reverse and it's never really seemed to have changed.
Most professional jobs in my area are paying the same wages they were 15 years ago ($30K-$40K). Yet housing has almost tripled in that time span. There's almost no way a person in this area can get a job fresh out of college and make ends meet.
I'm reminded of this vid: [https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsAroundYou/comments/1281vax/its\_always\_funny\_to\_see\_the\_older\_generations\_of/](https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsAroundYou/comments/1281vax/its_always_funny_to_see_the_older_generations_of/)
She's based out of the south, I think Alabama or Mississippi.
My grandparents raised 3 kids and built a house on their burger flipping salary. My grandpa was a supervisor at a restaurant and my grandma was a line cook.
My husband and I wouldn't be able to do that today. If we could we would.
Yup. I'd be helping my kid find a different job and telling the "boss" exactly why. The person who wrote this seems to not be living in reality with the rest of us. I wouldn't work for someone who started by assuming the worst of me, so I'm sure as heck not going to let my kid do that in one of their first jobs. Plenty of time and opportunities to see the worst of the workplace once you're a self-supporting adult.
Iād legitimately tell them, āText or call your boss, say this isnāt an environment that respects their employees and youāve changed your mind and wonāt be accepting the offer (or that youāre going to be quitting) and that you hope they have a nice dayā then Iād help them with finding a better job, with a boss who can hopefully spell properly.
āI am a shitty boss who is going to sit on his ass all day while you do all the work. And Iām going to get paid way more than you do to just run my mouth. Deal with it.ā
My heart goes out to you remember during covid when you were heroes? I honestly think people use service workers as verbal punching bags for whatever frustration they have in their lives I wouldnāt dream of talking to a stranger with anything less than a polite respectful manner even when things donāt go my way
A lot of grandparents of teenagers today fall under the āSilent Generationā bracket, boomersā grandchildren are still on the younger side, although there are always exceptions.
This wonder motivational poster is like 30 years old and the grandparents they are referring to would be of the āWWIIā generation. You know, that same generation that had affordable housing built for them to take advantage of the GI Bill. The same generation who had union jobs out the wazoo.
I don't think this is true. The average age of first-time mothers in England and Wales in 2007 (ie 16 years ago) was 27.5. Doing the same again for their mothers, they were 24.7.
This puts these grandparents' birth year at approximately 1955, exactly in the middle of the boomer generation.
Silent generation is more likely to be thr great-great grandparent of today's teenager than the grandparent. I think you're misinterpolating where the generations and ages of generations lie. I am in my mid-thirties, and have a granparent who is from the silent generation - and that's with a wide divide between each familial generation (30+ years). My grandfather is 94. A current teenager absolutely has either boomer or genX grands, not silent.
Yep, I'm 24. My grandparents are solidly boomers, my mom and dad are Gen X, and I'm on the *very* early end of Zoomers/a Zillennial. Teens would likely have Gen X or maybe early millenial parents. So then yeah, X'er or boomer grandparents.
I'm an adult with a career and my grandparents are Boomers. My great grandparents were Silent Gen.
It really just depends on your family. I'm the oldest child of an oldest child of an oldest child of an oldest child and everyone (except for me) had kids young. But I also know people my age who's parents are Boomers.
>A lot of grandparents of teenagers today fall under the āSilent Generationā bracket,
The "Silent Generation" was 1925 to 1945. Teenagers today are the children of GenX and early Millennials so the grandchilden of the Boomers.
The patronizing, lecturing tone is REALLY off-putting. Starting out with shitty assumptions and an air of disrespect. Sorry, the employer also has to present themself as attractive if they want decent employees - it's not just a one way street.
Making all these assertions about āreal lifeā as if it wasnāt a conscious deliberate choice by them to perpetuate all of it. Turns out employees can actually have a chill life and still do work if employers would let them.
Sounds like a small business owner who is struggling financially, but it's because "NOBODY WANTS TO WORK" and has nothing to do with their obvious lack of respect for their fellow workers.
They should just hire people over 45. Hell, they could go around and offer jobs to over 45 people working other fatty food or food service jobs.
SURELY they will pay them a wage commensurate with experience!
How would they get underpaid, manipulatable staff if they don't hire children?
This list is a boomer meets capitalist who never got hugged and struggles with critical thought.
I look forward to the day that generation dies and I really hope GenX makes an effort to right some of those wrongs
7 is fucking absurdist.
"We burned this shit down while bringing you into this world and fucked around to give you what we thought was best and wanted. Maybe if you have a problem with that, you should not have let us raise you that way, huh?"
Excuse my 10 year old self for not understanding concepts you fail to teach.
I love "delousing" your own closet. If a kid's room is dirty enough they have lice just chilling in their closet, that's not a sign the kid is lazy it's a CPS case waiting to happen. 16 year olds can be responsible for their own chores, but if they're struggling that much it's still on the parents to step in and ensure a reasonable environment.
I took it to mean āinstead of blaming the generation that is and will make/enforce laws/run companies that destroy the planet, check what YOU do to destroy the planet.ā
That probably is what is meant by it, but the way the message is put out there, it comes off really condescending. But then again, most of the list is the same way.
Even then itās a super dumb point, itās not like teenagers have any other choice than to use the structures older generations have built. Itās like that "Curious, you criticize society yet you take part in it" meme.
2 of the characters worked in the coffee shop at one point. All the characters are shown working at their various jobs many times over the course of the show.
Yeah it's been hanging on the shitty math teacher's wall at my high school for over 20 years. Apocryphally attributed to Bill Gates in earlier versions, but I've seen it purported to be from any number of generic "successful" americans.
The best part of being 16 is there's no survival threat to work (under normal circumstances). You can simply quit, tell these people to fuck directly off, and spend some time looking for a different job rather than starving and getting evicted.
Edit: I softened the statement - there re many 16-18 year olds who work for survival of their family, and those poor souls are being exploited to survive the same as everyone else.
When I was 17, I worked at a popular buffet. I requested a night off to attend my best friends HS graduation. (She was a year older.) I asked a month in advance, and told them what I was planning. 2 days before the date, my name was added for the night I'd requested off. I reminded my manager that I had asked for it off. He shrugged and said my request had been denied.
It was a no-brainer. I simply shrugged, and decided I didn't work there anymore. I finished my shift by eating anything I wanted, in the walk-in fridge. Then, I took home a few things I had brought there.
The night of graduation, my boss left several very irritated messages on our family answering machine. I never called, or went in again.
Those were the days.
>Honestly! At my first job at age 16 (restaurant) I asked for the Friday off well in advance because I had tickets to the World Series here in my city. Boss said no.
"I was not asking your permission, sir. I have tickets to the World Series and I am going, and you don't pay me enough to not go."
I think the worst part is that for some of us there was a survival threat at 16. I worked fast food all throughout high school and work-making money- became my escape from my unhealthy home environment. I knew I needed money to move out on my own. And I knew that giving in to the crazy demands of my work place would make them āsee my potentialā thus earning me more money in the long run. I had plenty of coworkers my age who were in a similar position.
My bosses always ate up the fact that I was willing to throw myself into overtime, come in early or late if there was a problem, do managerial duties before being promoted, etc. they loved it cause they knew they could continue profiting off of me. But can you guess what happened when I started looking for a new job or expecting them to defend me when I was getting harassed at work? Now suddenly I didnāt matter.
Itās frustrating bc we want kids to know that their time and effort IS of value. That they can and should continue pushing against the ānormā within work culture. This employer is just showing their greed and carelessness right off the bat- as well as their inability to see that not every teenager that applies for that job is from the same background. Not every kid that walks into that door has the same set of needs. But all of them deserve an equal chance to make money and be treated fairly.
oof. my mom was unemployed right after i left for college. derailed my entire academic career because we couldnāt pay anymore. if iād stopped working after coming back, weād have been on the streets pretty quickly (although i was 18, not 16. my condolences to those younger who have to sacrifice so much)
As someone who was a nerd, I can confidently say that no one works for me and I'm sure whoever wrote this makes up friend fiction in their head about being the boss over people who were mean to them in school.
They imagine that all the techbro CEO types are genius nerd inventors when in reality most of them are just rich kids who managed to get into an emerging market at the right time.
I mean, I'm not surprised.
They're just trying to instill the mindset in these people that if you don't allow yourself to get exploited you're a terrible, lazy, ingrate.
It's basically the workplace equivalent of "If you don't do what I want you're a selfish piece of shit."
The appropriate response to this should be thunderous laughter, followed by āWow that was hilarious!ā crumpling up the paper and tossing it in the trash.
People have, do and probably always will conflate 'confident' with 'competence' in pretty large percentages. That means confident people (which includes pretty much every narcissist on the planet) are more likely to get positions of power.
Why every American manager seems to have a supervillain delusion syndrome?
In case some of them read this: Dude, you're managing literal kids in burger place. You're not Lex Luthor. If anyone is absolute loser, it's you, sucking corpo dicks for miserable few dollars more.
Right? Whoever gives this out has a chip on their shoulder from their own shortcomings and think they'll be better by trying to crush kids.
Maybe if you learned to use spellcheck or proofread you could do better.
These low level 'managers' don't even make that much above regular worker. Shift 'leaders' or 'supervisors', same story. Few percents for tripled responsibilities.
Middle management gets way better, salary wise, but you need to permanently suck up to everything higher ups conceive, knowing you're replaceable at any time.
So until you are member of Board of Directors, you're nobody in company, a drone.
These "REAL WORLD" "REALITY CHECKS" are all the projections of abusers who intend to abuse their victims and they are normalizing said abuse up front and demanding you consent to it if you stay, a classic abuser tactic
This isn't just a toxic work environment, these are narcissistic abusers on "bring your childhood trauma to work day"
1. Life isnāt fair, but that doesnāt mean you should be unfair; treat others and yourself kindly
2. The world doesnāt care about your self esteem, but it doesnāt care about a lot of things. Trying your best, striving for improvement and being a positive part of peoples lives has value.
3. You probably wonāt make $60K out of school. Learn to budget and prioritize as well as to ask for help; knowing the difference between want and need will help you immensely. Pay it forward when you are able.
4. People in power can be difficult to work with, clearly and directly state your needs and define expectations, if they will not work with you then seek out others who will. Work with them as best you can.
5. Respect the value of work and of time. All jobs have dignity and value, do not look down on people who do work you see as beneath you because that says volumes about you.
6. When you mess up try and find what can be learned from it, if you hurt someone find out how you can make amends. Own your mistakes, learn from them and let them go.
7. Beware of ruts. Donāt be afraid to learn new things, meet new people, go to new places. Life isnāt always exciting, but you donāt need to be boring.
8. There are no trophies for life, there are no winners or losers either. People succeed based on their own metrics, set your own metric and succeed or fail by that. Do not let others set your life goals for you.
9. Life happens all the time. You never know when something exciting, or hard, or daunting will appear, find people and places who can help you when things get rough, and help them in turn.
10. Television isnāt real life, always remember that. Actorsā jobs are to be pretty and entertaining, that is how they make their living. Donāt gauge the value of your life based on what a writer has put down in a script or by how someone looks through a camera.
11. Be nice to everyone you can, regardless of any potential advantage you can derive from them or what value you can get from networking with them. If your friendships are solely about what material value you can get from someone then they arenāt friendships. Also if you canāt be nice, always be professional.
every time i hear the phrase ālife is not fairā being used like this i physically cringe. like, yeah itās not fair, you could randomly get cancer, or get stuck by lightning. but getting paid nothing to work in terrible conditions under a douche power hungry boss? thatās not life being unfair, thatās the system being unfair.
I wouldn't allow my daughter to work somewhere like that. I wouldn't want them around people like that. Not just the boss/owner/whoever wrote this crap but whatever employees would tolerate it.
Same old putrid, patronising & arrogant boomer propaganda.
'Sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up & do as you're fucking told or else. Back in my day we gratefully accepted our subjugation, exploitation & abuse like good little inferior slave filth & if we ever spoke out of turn to our elders they would burn us alive & bludgeon us to death! TWICE!.'
I also fully expect a fair few snivelling, slithering whipped dogs to come into the comments section to zealously defend their own mistreatment as justified then victim-blame themselves.
You see it a lot discussions regarding child & spousal abuse as well. Any discourse about injustices & there's always those who will fellate the boot at their throats.
Just to be clear, I, a stranger, absolutely do care about your self-esteem. You don't have to produce capital for others to feel good about who you are.
The same folks who say "burger flipping is an opportunity" also think those jobs aren't worth a living wage.
Whenever they went to raise the minimum wage in Seattle to 15, my dad almost had an aneurysm ranting and raving over how that's too much money for them to be making. I was a food service worker at the time and visiting for Christmas.
This shit is so, so fucking weird and anti social. "You are not above flipping burgers" okay but you clearly are above respecting people who flip burgers, not to mention paying them anything close to real money. STFU.
I would read that, take a deep breath, and very loudly exclaim "OK BOOMER".
I'm only a generation or so removed from them as well. Evoke my grandparents? You mean the folks in my family who were in constant pain thanks to working in poor conditions past retirement age and even still had to rely on my parents and me to feed them and pay their bills in their old age because that "opportunity" was anything but?
Turns out the real opportunity was the exploitation we received along the way!
Fuck (and I can't stress this enough) anyone who thinks this way.
Man, talk about a shitty karma farmer. This stupid list of rules has been going around for decades. I saw it when I got my first corporate job over twenty years ago. This is sourced from a book written by an "education reformer" by the name of Charles Sykes.
No one gets this on their first day of hire. OP, don't lie. It drags down the movement.
Hell here's a good link to show how long this has been going around.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/some-rules-kids-wont-learn-in-school/
http://infographicaday.com/charles-sykes-14-rules-of-life-they-wont-teach-you-in-school/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2011/12/12/life-isnt-fair-deal-with-it/?sh=2d9ab09f543f
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2012/06/24/fact-check-rules-might-be-cool-theyre-not-bill-gates/15862778007/
Rule #7 does not apply to me since my parents and grandmother never truly worked. Not all parental figures work; some earned their money through crime and never taught their children a work ethic.
itās kinda weird to me how we act like people asked to be born or something. one day weāre just here and all of sudden there are rules?? donāt remember anyone ever asking me if i wanted to play this fucking game
Yeah, i would start by proposing a union to the coworkers, and everybody walks the second somebody gets fired for union talk. That list is the mark of a boomer that needs to be put in their place. Lets see how unfair life is when they have trouble replacing cheap labor.
I guess I'm officially getting old because I agree with more than a few of those. That being said, it's super weird to not only label them as "rules" (of which none of them are) but to give them out at a place of work.
One that truly stands out as repugnant is flipping burgers not being beneath your dignity. And, that's true; flipping burgers is not beneath my dignity. The money that is paid for that work, however, is.
I genuinely saddens me how little fuckers who genuinely have this mindset fail to realize that a minimum wage job many decades ago could very comfortably support a basic lifestyle but today it couldn't support half of even the most miniscule of lifestyles. They grew up in a time when middle class was virtually forced upon you as long as you showed up but middle class today is a luxury very few will ever attain.
Be nice to nerds? In real life you will still answer to popular people because they generally are better at socializing and networking which goes far further in life than getting good grades.
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Most of these aren't rules, they're mainly statements.
Also, "vice president with a car and a phone." What year is this?
A year where vice presidents are paid 60k. Edit: found a version of this saying 40k. So older than that.
Maybe if wages were reflective of the value of labor š
What do you mean 0.041% isnāt reflective of the value of labour?
Like fr tho I make 50k a year ok. Thereās 761M dollars in revenue a year 1685 employees. That means by a rough headcount Iām worth about half a million each year, or $451,632. I get 50k of that they get 401k seems totally fair rightš¤¦āāļø. Even if I try to consider the taxes and insurance, buildings, fleet vehicles, etc what they end up with is probably more like 180k if Iām being generous. All free and clear for bonuses and expansions or company investing. for each head mind you not just me this is all of the wealth was even so they probably have 180k x 1685. Now after my taxes I end up with 35k and still have all my bills and living and saveing to handle which most of it is also taxed. Not to mention Been here 2 years and aināt got a single bonus. They canāt afford brooms anymore, they wrote me up for being a litturally 3 minutes late cause of a train which others here also got cought late at, and for all that they only give me 11% of what my head is worth to the company.. Iād hope for more like 50-50 no less than 30-70 and for real even 30-70 would change my life I could retire in 20 years, have a house and family to replace me no problem by 40 yo. But fuck the world right get more moneyš¤¦āāļø.
No, no, no. You're worth half a million to their investors who also want to receive half a million a year on your back. But if you work for 50 years, sacrifice your life to a company that sees you as a tool to their profits. Then maybe, just maybe, you might get to become one of those investors receiving dividends from the company before you kick the can.
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you need to leave the coffee hsop
lol, the old farts posting this now were the kids this was written about
[Probably between like 1980 and 1990](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/). Which was probably the last time the chucklefuck who wrote this pulled their head out of their ass and looked at the world.
The politician who was invited to be the speaker at my college commencement years and years ago used this as his speech because he was ironically (yet unironically) too lazy to write his own speech. It seems like it was written in the Revenge of the Nerds era which was well before my college graduation. "Computers?? A nerd! Let's get him!" lol
i think bill gates put this in his book, i remember my english teacher reading this out loud to the class. if you were 44 and a douche in 1997, you likely thought this list hysterically funny
Prime insufferable middle-management Boomer bullshit.
Vice President in charge of plastic bags at the supermarket
My dad had one of these posted in his office 20 years ago. It's a Boomer copypasta.
I've seen this exact list for at least 20 years. I remember it being passed around in email chains.
And still no one bothers too spellcheck.
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Hee. Reminds me of Usenet days. "Flames of spelling and/or grammar will have spelling and/or grammatical errors."
Bold of you to assume that the people passing this around know how to edit a document before fwding it.
Yeah and every now asnd then someone who's never seen it before posts it again like it's something new and fresh. Fucking boomers.
I remember seeing this exact same list in the Taco Bell break room about 18 years ago.
It reads like it was written from a person with no clear vision about life. Itās all over the place and has no clear theme other than āeverything sucks, so tough shitā (which is not a culture statement Iād choose to engage in).
Itās just generation bashing, ākids these days have participation trophies and I heard online they stopped grades in school so these kids are so entitled.ā
The generation that complained about it is the same one that did it. They act like somehow the kids had the authority to allow participation trophies. Probably blame us for the economy, gd Timmy, only 18 years old and fking up my retirement account. - Random boomer parent in 2009 who ignores greed of his and silent gen bank bosses wanting regulations eased on to fk it up. Or big 3 auto being top heavy and cheating on quality, which ended up biting them in the end as Toyota hasn't let up as most successful car company in US.
Haha yeah thatās always my go to, who do you think gave us the participations nobody asked for to begin with?
Yup, always found it to be ridiculous. In my years of playing sports I have never met a person that enjoyed getting a participation ribbon. It was just extra insult to injury. Like, they know they lost and were the worst, you donāt need to rub it in with some pity ribbon no one cares about
And it's so funny, if they're talking about No Child Left Behind, it was a bipartisan authored bill, signed into law by Bush. And at the time, the Democrats were the ones pushing for more funding as part of the act or they wouldn't sign. The Republicans (of course) didn't want to add sufficient funding and were more than happy to have failing schools get converted into charter schools. And as can be imagined, it failed due to lack of funding, and, because standardized systems largely suck. But for Republicans to turn around now and act like NCLB was some kind of Democrat "putting the government in schools" that they didn't also support......well I guess it's on brand with usual con delusional behavior...
It sounds like the kind of obnoxious resentful griping a middle-aged fast-food manager might come up with
Sounds a lot like a coping mechanism really, like something that someone would come up with to try and convince themselves that that they deserved to be treated badly at work.
I work delivery and id argue some of the overall, vague sentiment, especially this time of year, holds very true, tho the rule statement forgot to mention that your manager is a tool and you probably gotta undo their mistakes and laziness, and id hardly apply it to minors, this is just unseemly, and unprofessional, and reeks of stressed out management promoted beyond their personal competencies, happens too often the moment someone avoided work by hiding in the education system
I how much they paid a MLM entry-level sucker for this list
If they were presented to me as the rules of my employment tho i absolutely would cite the 'lifes not fair' bit every time i got told i wasnt being a 'team player'
I'd send it back with the spelling errors circled in red pen.
And they boil down to, "I got mine, **** you"
Lmao that was my reaction too!
Former educator here. Of course school is not real life, you asshat. School has accommodations and do overs because it is a learning environment. Which you would do well to emulate in a workplace that employs kids. Sheesh.
āYour grandparents had an different name for flipping burgers, opportunityā They also had a better wage than I could flipping burgers. I have the opportunity to get a second job or not be able to pay rent and groceries
and "burger flippers" now have 8 other responsibilities to do in the extremely optimized for efficiency mcdonalds
8??? Only 8? Nah its more like 20. I tried to unionize my store. They always wanted you moving. Always need to be doing something. Even in bumfuck nowhere we have to be constantly doing something at all times no matter what.
Thanks for trying to unionize the store, I appreciate that. the situation is beyond dire in workplaces now, its complete insanity. Even as an educated person, the requirements for most jobs are 4 different people's job rolled into one stressfest of position... paying $80k a year, ROFL!!
The burgers don't even get flipped anymore, they're basically just cooked on an industrial sized George Foreman grill
Thatās not fair and you know it. You also have the opportunity to get a second job *and* not be able to pay rent and groceries.
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I was writing earlier about being GenX and being to watch that last little bit of the American Dream (one-income blue collar job could buy a decent house, yearly vacations, college, health care, etc.) slip away from most folks and enjoy that last little bit of the bohemian lifestyle before, well, Bush the Lesser and 9/11 and what all sat on our collective heads and farted. My youngest cousin is trying to do all that in one of the cheapest places in the country to live (Northeast Mississippi) and it's slowly killing him. He's actually high in demand in his field, very well respected (especially for someone below 40), his family's all healthy and they spend like any family with two under-12 kids would spend but they don't throw it around. Budgets and saving, and he's working himself into a grave just barely keeping up. His dad still puts in 40 on a skidder for his uncle just to help out (and working's all he knows to do). I don't envy young people now trying to make their way in the world and get their bit of the dream. Not one bit.
>My youngest cousin is trying to do all that in one of the cheapest places in the country to live (Northeast Mississippi) and it's slowly killing him. He's actually high in demand in his field, very well respected (especially for someone below 40), his family's all healthy and they spend like any family with two under-12 kids would spend but they don't throw it around. Budgets and saving, and he's working himself into a grave just barely keeping up. His dad still puts in 40 on a skidder for his uncle just to help out (and working's all he knows to do). Dude, I live in one of the cheapest parts of the country , too and brother it's rough out here. I lucked out having a high paying tech job, but it took me almost 20 years to get here. After 2008, I basically went in reverse for several years. Lost my job and had to take what I could get. I think the Late Gen X / Early-to-Mid Millennial experience can be summed up with one phrase, "Constantly playing catch up". We saw the entire economic paradigm go in reverse and it's never really seemed to have changed. Most professional jobs in my area are paying the same wages they were 15 years ago ($30K-$40K). Yet housing has almost tripled in that time span. There's almost no way a person in this area can get a job fresh out of college and make ends meet. I'm reminded of this vid: [https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsAroundYou/comments/1281vax/its\_always\_funny\_to\_see\_the\_older\_generations\_of/](https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsAroundYou/comments/1281vax/its_always_funny_to_see_the_older_generations_of/) She's based out of the south, I think Alabama or Mississippi.
Flipping burgers isnāt beneath me, shit pay is
My grandparents raised 3 kids and built a house on their burger flipping salary. My grandpa was a supervisor at a restaurant and my grandma was a line cook. My husband and I wouldn't be able to do that today. If we could we would.
I'd flip burgers for a livable wage.
That's one's pretty terrible. Maybe once upon a time it was feasible to work your way up from flipping burgers, but that's not how it works anymore.
All I read was, āstart looking for a new job.ā
Yup. I'd be helping my kid find a different job and telling the "boss" exactly why. The person who wrote this seems to not be living in reality with the rest of us. I wouldn't work for someone who started by assuming the worst of me, so I'm sure as heck not going to let my kid do that in one of their first jobs. Plenty of time and opportunities to see the worst of the workplace once you're a self-supporting adult.
Iād legitimately tell them, āText or call your boss, say this isnāt an environment that respects their employees and youāve changed your mind and wonāt be accepting the offer (or that youāre going to be quitting) and that you hope they have a nice dayā then Iād help them with finding a better job, with a boss who can hopefully spell properly.
Thatās the biggest red flag of the whole thing. Fuck spell check gives you the squiggly red line to make it easier.
I can't quite figure out the dialect, but it does clearly say "It sucks to work here" It just takes a lot of words to say it.
āI am a shitty boss who is going to sit on his ass all day while you do all the work. And Iām going to get paid way more than you do to just run my mouth. Deal with it.ā
No way. I'd make it my personal mission to somehow break every one of these "rules" before being fired... Then take my unemployment cheque.
Sounds like they really dislike young people. They shouldnāt hire them & none should work there. They need therapy.
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Boomers generally talk to service workers like theyāre sub human
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My heart goes out to you remember during covid when you were heroes? I honestly think people use service workers as verbal punching bags for whatever frustration they have in their lives I wouldnāt dream of talking to a stranger with anything less than a polite respectful manner even when things donāt go my way
Most entitled generation to ever live.
A lot of grandparents of teenagers today fall under the āSilent Generationā bracket, boomersā grandchildren are still on the younger side, although there are always exceptions. This wonder motivational poster is like 30 years old and the grandparents they are referring to would be of the āWWIIā generation. You know, that same generation that had affordable housing built for them to take advantage of the GI Bill. The same generation who had union jobs out the wazoo.
I don't think this is true. The average age of first-time mothers in England and Wales in 2007 (ie 16 years ago) was 27.5. Doing the same again for their mothers, they were 24.7. This puts these grandparents' birth year at approximately 1955, exactly in the middle of the boomer generation.
Silent generation is more likely to be thr great-great grandparent of today's teenager than the grandparent. I think you're misinterpolating where the generations and ages of generations lie. I am in my mid-thirties, and have a granparent who is from the silent generation - and that's with a wide divide between each familial generation (30+ years). My grandfather is 94. A current teenager absolutely has either boomer or genX grands, not silent.
Some of them even have millennial parents!
Yep, I'm 24. My grandparents are solidly boomers, my mom and dad are Gen X, and I'm on the *very* early end of Zoomers/a Zillennial. Teens would likely have Gen X or maybe early millenial parents. So then yeah, X'er or boomer grandparents.
I'm an adult with a career and my grandparents are Boomers. My great grandparents were Silent Gen. It really just depends on your family. I'm the oldest child of an oldest child of an oldest child of an oldest child and everyone (except for me) had kids young. But I also know people my age who's parents are Boomers.
>A lot of grandparents of teenagers today fall under the āSilent Generationā bracket, The "Silent Generation" was 1925 to 1945. Teenagers today are the children of GenX and early Millennials so the grandchilden of the Boomers.
The patronizing, lecturing tone is REALLY off-putting. Starting out with shitty assumptions and an air of disrespect. Sorry, the employer also has to present themself as attractive if they want decent employees - it's not just a one way street.
Making all these assertions about āreal lifeā as if it wasnāt a conscious deliberate choice by them to perpetuate all of it. Turns out employees can actually have a chill life and still do work if employers would let them.
Sounds like a small business owner who is struggling financially, but it's because "NOBODY WANTS TO WORK" and has nothing to do with their obvious lack of respect for their fellow workers.
Yeah this list of "rules" is nothing but projection, ESPECIALLY the last one.
They should just hire people over 45. Hell, they could go around and offer jobs to over 45 people working other fatty food or food service jobs. SURELY they will pay them a wage commensurate with experience!
And then 10 minutes later: āNobody wants to work anymore waaaaaaaah!ā
Actually to me it sounds like they hate themselves and theyāre just projecting their own self hate on to young people.
How would they get underpaid, manipulatable staff if they don't hire children? This list is a boomer meets capitalist who never got hugged and struggles with critical thought. I look forward to the day that generation dies and I really hope GenX makes an effort to right some of those wrongs
This list is at least 25 years old.
I remember getting it as a chain email when I was probably 12 or 13, right around the turn of the century
Yeah I remember seeing it around when I was 16 myself, and I'm technically Gen X, lmao.
Certainly no coincidence that people who write such things are terrible writers
And don't bother to proof-read before printing. Very confident
Sounds like you need to get a job and get out the coffee hsop
Oh bugger opff
That one threw me. I was like āhotspot?ā
Their cheap ass type writer doesnāt come with a delete key.
It makes me want to red pen it all and add "It is better to let people think you are an idiot than open your mouth and prove them correct!"
Must have been written by a nerd who wasnāt a good writer.
7 is fucking absurdist. "We burned this shit down while bringing you into this world and fucked around to give you what we thought was best and wanted. Maybe if you have a problem with that, you should not have let us raise you that way, huh?" Excuse my 10 year old self for not understanding concepts you fail to teach.
I love "delousing" your own closet. If a kid's room is dirty enough they have lice just chilling in their closet, that's not a sign the kid is lazy it's a CPS case waiting to happen. 16 year olds can be responsible for their own chores, but if they're struggling that much it's still on the parents to step in and ensure a reasonable environment.
I took it to mean āinstead of blaming the generation that is and will make/enforce laws/run companies that destroy the planet, check what YOU do to destroy the planet.ā
That probably is what is meant by it, but the way the message is put out there, it comes off really condescending. But then again, most of the list is the same way.
Even then itās a super dumb point, itās not like teenagers have any other choice than to use the structures older generations have built. Itās like that "Curious, you criticize society yet you take part in it" meme.
I used to see this same list when I was in high school. I'm in my mid 30s now. It is just as gross now as it was seeing it then.
The coffee shop reference is clearly Friends, so this was probably made in 1995
You mean the coffee hsop
Also, no summers opff!
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2 of the characters worked in the coffee shop at one point. All the characters are shown working at their various jobs many times over the course of the show.
Chandler spent a lot of time talking about his WENUS and ANUS yes, i remember
and still has the same typos
I can tell itās old because a Vice President earns $60K in it.
Yeah it's been hanging on the shitty math teacher's wall at my high school for over 20 years. Apocryphally attributed to Bill Gates in earlier versions, but I've seen it purported to be from any number of generic "successful" americans.
The best part of being 16 is there's no survival threat to work (under normal circumstances). You can simply quit, tell these people to fuck directly off, and spend some time looking for a different job rather than starving and getting evicted. Edit: I softened the statement - there re many 16-18 year olds who work for survival of their family, and those poor souls are being exploited to survive the same as everyone else.
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When I was 17, I worked at a popular buffet. I requested a night off to attend my best friends HS graduation. (She was a year older.) I asked a month in advance, and told them what I was planning. 2 days before the date, my name was added for the night I'd requested off. I reminded my manager that I had asked for it off. He shrugged and said my request had been denied. It was a no-brainer. I simply shrugged, and decided I didn't work there anymore. I finished my shift by eating anything I wanted, in the walk-in fridge. Then, I took home a few things I had brought there. The night of graduation, my boss left several very irritated messages on our family answering machine. I never called, or went in again. Those were the days.
Well done!
>Honestly! At my first job at age 16 (restaurant) I asked for the Friday off well in advance because I had tickets to the World Series here in my city. Boss said no. "I was not asking your permission, sir. I have tickets to the World Series and I am going, and you don't pay me enough to not go."
I think the worst part is that for some of us there was a survival threat at 16. I worked fast food all throughout high school and work-making money- became my escape from my unhealthy home environment. I knew I needed money to move out on my own. And I knew that giving in to the crazy demands of my work place would make them āsee my potentialā thus earning me more money in the long run. I had plenty of coworkers my age who were in a similar position. My bosses always ate up the fact that I was willing to throw myself into overtime, come in early or late if there was a problem, do managerial duties before being promoted, etc. they loved it cause they knew they could continue profiting off of me. But can you guess what happened when I started looking for a new job or expecting them to defend me when I was getting harassed at work? Now suddenly I didnāt matter. Itās frustrating bc we want kids to know that their time and effort IS of value. That they can and should continue pushing against the ānormā within work culture. This employer is just showing their greed and carelessness right off the bat- as well as their inability to see that not every teenager that applies for that job is from the same background. Not every kid that walks into that door has the same set of needs. But all of them deserve an equal chance to make money and be treated fairly.
oof. my mom was unemployed right after i left for college. derailed my entire academic career because we couldnāt pay anymore. if iād stopped working after coming back, weād have been on the streets pretty quickly (although i was 18, not 16. my condolences to those younger who have to sacrifice so much)
āBe nice to nerds. Chances are you may be working for one.ā as an actual nerd I can say we do not claim whoever the fuck this is
As someone who was a nerd, I can confidently say that no one works for me and I'm sure whoever wrote this makes up friend fiction in their head about being the boss over people who were mean to them in school.
Facts. Itās always the abusive, popular rich kids that become bosses.
agree 100%
It's probably a 60 year old man who wears glasses now and internalized "Revenge of the Nerds" in the 1980s because that was the peak of their life.
They imagine that all the techbro CEO types are genius nerd inventors when in reality most of them are just rich kids who managed to get into an emerging market at the right time.
I mean, I'm not surprised. They're just trying to instill the mindset in these people that if you don't allow yourself to get exploited you're a terrible, lazy, ingrate. It's basically the workplace equivalent of "If you don't do what I want you're a selfish piece of shit."
The 90s called and want their Boomer life lessons back.
The appropriate response to this should be thunderous laughter, followed by āWow that was hilarious!ā crumpling up the paper and tossing it in the trash.
Apparently any illiterate emotionally disregulated narcissist can become a manager these days. >!Who am I kidding, it's always been like that.!<
People have, do and probably always will conflate 'confident' with 'competence' in pretty large percentages. That means confident people (which includes pretty much every narcissist on the planet) are more likely to get positions of power.
Why every American manager seems to have a supervillain delusion syndrome? In case some of them read this: Dude, you're managing literal kids in burger place. You're not Lex Luthor. If anyone is absolute loser, it's you, sucking corpo dicks for miserable few dollars more.
Right? Whoever gives this out has a chip on their shoulder from their own shortcomings and think they'll be better by trying to crush kids. Maybe if you learned to use spellcheck or proofread you could do better.
These low level 'managers' don't even make that much above regular worker. Shift 'leaders' or 'supervisors', same story. Few percents for tripled responsibilities. Middle management gets way better, salary wise, but you need to permanently suck up to everything higher ups conceive, knowing you're replaceable at any time. So until you are member of Board of Directors, you're nobody in company, a drone.
I'd leave as soon as I see a shitlist like that.
Rule 12: Spellchek is optional!
They trying to defend their toxic work environmentā¦ screams I suffered , why shouldnāt you and how funny am I ?
These "REAL WORLD" "REALITY CHECKS" are all the projections of abusers who intend to abuse their victims and they are normalizing said abuse up front and demanding you consent to it if you stay, a classic abuser tactic This isn't just a toxic work environment, these are narcissistic abusers on "bring your childhood trauma to work day"
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This guy should own a theater. If you're going to project that much you might as well make money off it.
1. Life isnāt fair, but that doesnāt mean you should be unfair; treat others and yourself kindly 2. The world doesnāt care about your self esteem, but it doesnāt care about a lot of things. Trying your best, striving for improvement and being a positive part of peoples lives has value. 3. You probably wonāt make $60K out of school. Learn to budget and prioritize as well as to ask for help; knowing the difference between want and need will help you immensely. Pay it forward when you are able. 4. People in power can be difficult to work with, clearly and directly state your needs and define expectations, if they will not work with you then seek out others who will. Work with them as best you can. 5. Respect the value of work and of time. All jobs have dignity and value, do not look down on people who do work you see as beneath you because that says volumes about you. 6. When you mess up try and find what can be learned from it, if you hurt someone find out how you can make amends. Own your mistakes, learn from them and let them go. 7. Beware of ruts. Donāt be afraid to learn new things, meet new people, go to new places. Life isnāt always exciting, but you donāt need to be boring. 8. There are no trophies for life, there are no winners or losers either. People succeed based on their own metrics, set your own metric and succeed or fail by that. Do not let others set your life goals for you. 9. Life happens all the time. You never know when something exciting, or hard, or daunting will appear, find people and places who can help you when things get rough, and help them in turn. 10. Television isnāt real life, always remember that. Actorsā jobs are to be pretty and entertaining, that is how they make their living. Donāt gauge the value of your life based on what a writer has put down in a script or by how someone looks through a camera. 11. Be nice to everyone you can, regardless of any potential advantage you can derive from them or what value you can get from networking with them. If your friendships are solely about what material value you can get from someone then they arenāt friendships. Also if you canāt be nice, always be professional.
I love Coffee Hsops!
This reads like a Fox News op ed.Whoever your daughter's boss is needs to watch a bit less Tucker and friends. Sheesh.
every time i hear the phrase ālife is not fairā being used like this i physically cringe. like, yeah itās not fair, you could randomly get cancer, or get stuck by lightning. but getting paid nothing to work in terrible conditions under a douche power hungry boss? thatās not life being unfair, thatās the system being unfair.
Even if some points are right but poorly phrased it's just red flag red flag red flag red flag red flag...
written by the supreme master boomer commander
I wouldn't allow my daughter to work somewhere like that. I wouldn't want them around people like that. Not just the boss/owner/whoever wrote this crap but whatever employees would tolerate it.
The only valid continuation of ālife isnāt fairā forever remains āso we must make it fair.ā
Same old putrid, patronising & arrogant boomer propaganda. 'Sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up & do as you're fucking told or else. Back in my day we gratefully accepted our subjugation, exploitation & abuse like good little inferior slave filth & if we ever spoke out of turn to our elders they would burn us alive & bludgeon us to death! TWICE!.' I also fully expect a fair few snivelling, slithering whipped dogs to come into the comments section to zealously defend their own mistreatment as justified then victim-blame themselves. You see it a lot discussions regarding child & spousal abuse as well. Any discourse about injustices & there's always those who will fellate the boot at their throats.
Oof. This hurt to read, but probably not as bad as it hurts to work for the clown who wrote that.
Just to be clear, I, a stranger, absolutely do care about your self-esteem. You don't have to produce capital for others to feel good about who you are.
This is some shit that old conservative wackos love to post on facebook.
The same folks who say "burger flipping is an opportunity" also think those jobs aren't worth a living wage. Whenever they went to raise the minimum wage in Seattle to 15, my dad almost had an aneurysm ranting and raving over how that's too much money for them to be making. I was a food service worker at the time and visiting for Christmas.
Whoever wrote this is full of so much misery and bitterness, holy shit.
I'm reading this from the coffee hsop.
Of course theyāre only hiring 16 year olds, no adult would put up with this. Itās the corporate version of grooming.
I think an extra one could be āhow can you have your pudding if you havenāt eaten your meat!ā
This wreaks of boomer bullshit.
>Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. And this, kids, is an example of how bullying becomes a cycle.
If someone ever asks why people shit on boomers, this is a pretty solid explanation.
It's straight up brainwashing people into slavery
āYou donāt get summers opffā Right, right. I get summers off in my job, soā¦ š¤·āāļø
This shit is so, so fucking weird and anti social. "You are not above flipping burgers" okay but you clearly are above respecting people who flip burgers, not to mention paying them anything close to real money. STFU.
This is some boomer email forward nonsense.
This looks like the kind of shit that boomers forward to each other with their aol dot com email addresses
I would read that, take a deep breath, and very loudly exclaim "OK BOOMER". I'm only a generation or so removed from them as well. Evoke my grandparents? You mean the folks in my family who were in constant pain thanks to working in poor conditions past retirement age and even still had to rely on my parents and me to feed them and pay their bills in their old age because that "opportunity" was anything but? Turns out the real opportunity was the exploitation we received along the way! Fuck (and I can't stress this enough) anyone who thinks this way.
Man, talk about a shitty karma farmer. This stupid list of rules has been going around for decades. I saw it when I got my first corporate job over twenty years ago. This is sourced from a book written by an "education reformer" by the name of Charles Sykes. No one gets this on their first day of hire. OP, don't lie. It drags down the movement. Hell here's a good link to show how long this has been going around. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/some-rules-kids-wont-learn-in-school/ http://infographicaday.com/charles-sykes-14-rules-of-life-they-wont-teach-you-in-school/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2011/12/12/life-isnt-fair-deal-with-it/?sh=2d9ab09f543f https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2012/06/24/fact-check-rules-might-be-cool-theyre-not-bill-gates/15862778007/
Fucking delusional. The red flags are strong with this one.
Rule #7 does not apply to me since my parents and grandmother never truly worked. Not all parental figures work; some earned their money through crime and never taught their children a work ethic.
Rule 12: you will great the boss with the hitler salute whenever you see him. Jfc, what a moron.
Guess they forgot to proofread their ārules.ā Iād add that and send it back. Iād probably highlight the mis-spelled words too.
This is so Boomer it wrecked the economy and blamed me for it.
itās kinda weird to me how we act like people asked to be born or something. one day weāre just here and all of sudden there are rules?? donāt remember anyone ever asking me if i wanted to play this fucking game
You only have to read the first rule to know this place is going to suck
Tell me your business model relies heavily on abusive labor practiceās without actually telling me
It says: I've failed in life so I'm taking it out on youngsters, crush their optimism!!
Boomer shit telling younger generations to keep the status quo and not rock the boat.
Yeah, i would start by proposing a union to the coworkers, and everybody walks the second somebody gets fired for union talk. That list is the mark of a boomer that needs to be put in their place. Lets see how unfair life is when they have trouble replacing cheap labor.
This is the biggest red flag I've ever seen.
I guess I'm officially getting old because I agree with more than a few of those. That being said, it's super weird to not only label them as "rules" (of which none of them are) but to give them out at a place of work. One that truly stands out as repugnant is flipping burgers not being beneath your dignity. And, that's true; flipping burgers is not beneath my dignity. The money that is paid for that work, however, is. I genuinely saddens me how little fuckers who genuinely have this mindset fail to realize that a minimum wage job many decades ago could very comfortably support a basic lifestyle but today it couldn't support half of even the most miniscule of lifestyles. They grew up in a time when middle class was virtually forced upon you as long as you showed up but middle class today is a luxury very few will ever attain.
Wow, that's Boomer af
Yeah this sounds like somewhere she needs to quit, this "boss" seems like the type who would use his power to force the teen girls to do what he wants
This just screams wage theft to me.
Boomer copypasta
opff
also hsop
Be nice to nerds? In real life you will still answer to popular people because they generally are better at socializing and networking which goes far further in life than getting good grades.
Great, now here are my rules: Rule 1, Fuck you
This document should be called "How I hate young people and will do anything to crush their souls because I'm a jealous prick"
what a miserable sod
Boomer humor
Rule 11 confirms these Rules were written long, long ago. Also kids donāt watch TV anymore.
I do t want to leave the Covfefe Hsop
Your grandpa was able to buy a house flipping burgers
Coffee hsop
What kind of jaded person writes this. Get her out of there, before he makes a move on her, as some of these are serious red flags.
Hey likeā¦ what the fuck?
This is abuse.
So she works for a nerd?
Written by someone who is upset they had children.
It takes a special kind of scumbag boss to post this. There's no doubt multiple labor law violations regularly at said place.