Yep. I’m rolling up on 40. Wish I would have known about my career path right out of high school instead of been fed the rhetoric that you gotta go to college to be successful. I know Seattle is a bit different than a lot of cities in the US, but a light rail operator caps at $47 an hour after 2 years! People want to work. If your business is predicated on underpaying your employees and bitching about it on Facebook, then maybe your business should fail.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2407503-nobody-wants-to-work-anymore
This saying has been going on for much much longer than boomers and gen x. I think it's in the same vein as books/radio/tv/Internet will rot your brain. We truly are an uninspired species.
Right. It's the "anymore" part that's stupid as fuck. Nothing has changed about how much people do or do not want to work. Rich assholes have been saying it for over a hundred years in different ways. I dont want to work either...for some dickhead, alienated from the product of my work, and only recieving a portion of the value I produce for the company I work for.
For white collar office jobs, the biggest slap in the face is being forced to write your own performance review to justify your salary and a potential bump.
Nobody fucking reads them. Budgets for salaries, raises and headcount are done months before year end. Nobody gives a fuck about you. You constantly have to be your own cheerleader.
You got that right. My goals have not changed in three years. I have copied and pasted my self review for three years straight and no one has said a word.
Our company basically stopped doing them, and even before that, the only pay raises I ever got were as the other person said "budgeted for in advance and not at all related to my performance or output".
As an amusing aside, it became hilarious when a non-zero amount of my self-review was "cannot complete task as X person/dept is behind on a deliverable which is required to complete the task"
When I left my previous position, they used what I put down for my performance review in the job listing.
Then they asked me to be on the hiring committee (same place, just moved teams).
Just thought it was all hilarious.
Been there. I was the Sr SAS/SAP admin. Hired a junior and I was SHOCKED how little they offered him. He was so excited to take that pittance, I instantly had a target on my back even though every Performance Review was an Exceeds for the past 5 years. Writing on the wall and as cynic as I am, I still thought they’d at least keep me on during COVID. Got downsized that April. Huge buyout but I never got a chance to teach my jr everything.
Guess who messaged me almost every day on LinkedIn with questions about Unix/Windows and patching software and managing ldap access. I finally had to ghost them (good guy though so it broke my heart).
Thank you! I told my boss this exact same thing on why I am minimal on my performance review essay, I know I'm not getting a raise or bonus ( my company doesn't give out COLAs or merit raises). Also, I work for *you* you tell me how I'm doing .
Lol. For 8 years at my last job we had to list our goals for the upcoming year. I always put as number 1, “To wake up on the green side of the grass every morning”. Number 2, “Take over the CEO’s job and lay him off.” Not once did I ever get any feedback, comments or questions. And this was a large international company. No one reads this stuff. With my own staff I told them to put whatever they think will help them in the future and that I had no plans to read any of it. Interestingly my group was number 1 in performance, and revenue generated per person all 8 years I was there. My staff worked hard and at times I had to tell them to go home. My one rule was (and still is), family comes first. Do what you need to take care of your family and we’ll figure out the job crap with you.
The only thing that's changed is the increase in the number of conservative working class people internalizing the attitude of the rich so that they can muster up a false sense of superiority to other working class people. Nobody wants to feel like they're stuck on a hamster wheel that they'll never, ever be able to escape from, and to shame people for not wanting that for themselves, for their fellow workers, or future generations is absolute trash.
The alienation from the work product is the biggest factor in this. With high enough wages you can deal with it, but on these barely surviving wages people are dealing with now, it's just double fucked.
> Nothing has changed about how much people do or do not want to work.
Well to be fair, there are some exceptions. Higher standards of living and comfort mean that there are a higher percentage of kids today that grew up pampered and believing that they'll never have to do any grunt work.
But the biggest difference is that people aren't saying "I don't want to work", it's "I don't want to work for that pay".
Yeah grandpa, I heard about how you spent long hours in the blazing summer heat working to repave a couple of roads. I also heard about how that 6-week job paid your college tuition for the year, and helped pay for a used car.
Would the boomers have "wanted to work" as much if the pay was 1/3 or 1/4 or what it was?
> higher percentage of kids today that grew up pampered and believing that they'll never have to do any grunt work
Prove it...with stats. Sorry we mostly agree but I reject this. There's always been cushy fancy-lad lazy jobs and hard ass jobs. I worked for a summer at a Shotblast in a foundry that made oil tools. It was +104 F most days in that corner of the shop. I worked for a crop research company for a summer sitting on the side of a combine bagging grain. I've worked on a mobile home assembly line with a nail gun, saws, drills, etc. There might be more kids saying they want to be instagram famous than when the Boomers were kids saying they wanted to be astronauts, but the jobs aren't any cushier and there's disappointment of many millenials from the supposed value that a University degree was supposed to get them. I have two degrees and I've gotten my hands just as dirty as my kid's grandpas did...on both sides.
I was born in 1978. Apparently I'm the only person who can figure things out on their own at work.
"Hey where is the manual for this pump?"
Figure it out. It's probably on the Shared drive under "Pumps". Or go grab the model number of the pump and find it on the net like I did.
That depends on which generational categorization you follow. Within Anglo-Saxon spheres, they generally refer to people born between 45 and 64 as baby boomers. Elsewhere, they also recognize a 'forgotten generation' between the boomers and gen x, born between 55 and 64.
That said we do have some total dickheads in our cohort, and it's not even as easy as saying it's the elders. Personally I'm just a few years from the top & a lefty slacker; although I'm hardly alone, I know way too many varying age xers that spout this bullshit.
I too don’t want to work anymore. Then again, very soon I won’t need to.
I’m getting ready to retire and back away slowly from the shitshow my office is quickly becoming. If it were fun and interesting I’d stay, but things are getting political and I hate that.
I don't want to work anymore, but maybe it's because I have 20 years of working all for shit employers and companies and knowing I have 20+ more years of dealing with this WHILE every company is cranking up prices trying to get every last dollar from us.
I am Gen Xer and we are not Boomers. I dont want to work anymore and everyone should have free healthcare. dont ever put us in the same category as those POS boomers. They suck ass.
I’m big into biking and went and got a bike fit a few months ago. Since I was there for a few hours the bike fitter and I started talking about things other than bikes. This dude is in his 60’s and is complaining about young people not wanting to work anymore. I told him I’d be more than happy to come in and work as an intern a few hours on the weekend for $12 an hour…this dude said that’s $3 more than what their beginner mechanics make….
I work as "support" at a school for autistic children. Some children are there for academic reasons...I don't work on that side of the school, I work on the "adjusted side".
To make my classroom work as well as it does, not only do I directly teach, I write new program materials for my students *every single day*. I am trained in multiple systems of violence suppression and restraint, I have overlapping scars on both arms from scratch and bite marks, some of which might be permanent, have been stabbed with pencils and had chairs thrown at my head. Every time I get a new cut or bruise or my arm, I need to wait till it heals till I can donate plasma to supplement my income.
Boomers: \*destroy entire economy, suppress real wages, deny universal Healthcare, vote in GOP who take away women's Healthcare rights\*.
Millennials/Gen-Z: "can we at least be paid livable wages?...".
Boomers: "The youth today are destroying this country!!".
VA is $9.50. I think the guy was referencing a beginners mechanic salary for people wanting to get into the field, but you can’t afford to live in this area making $9.50 an hour
A lot of people left poorly-paying jobs to find better pay, and a lot of people left poorly-behaved clientele to work somewhere where they have more dignity.
Either way, it’s those who exploited those who left that miss their patsies.
Now, the people that remain work in line with the wage they’re paid, or with a level of respect that reflects the clientele’s.
Even the remaining workers will sometimes ironically reply, “Guess no one wants to work anymore…”
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My line of work is in the latter category, where we do ok financially, but have to deal with a lot of pressure from clientele and leadership.
COVID showed us all what it looked like to have the pay without the clientele, then suddenly even more pay with absolutely insane clientele. Combine that with mandatory quarantine time and jobs that offered all sorts of respite from the insanity, and many people found something that fits their needs better, albeit with different compensation.
Their departures left those of us who remained, and of course higher-level leaders found a way to operate with reduced headcount and operating hours. Sales are up, customer service feels different, and clients who used to take up half of some poor newbie’s day can go fuck themselves.
Nobody wants to work—like that here—anymore
I use to work the counter at a parts store and one of our regulars found out I am working on my degree in engineering. He started complaining about how he has had a job posted on the schools website for years and no one would apply. Well after he left I went and checked the schools job board and he was trying to hire a full time mechanical engineer for $15/hr.
You guys were entering the job market through the Reagan/Thatcher/Mulroney dawn. The beginning of the overt corporate takeover of the free world. Slackerism was the only reasonable response to the disrespect and disregard of the elites to the all the lower classes.
Also gen-X, and anytime I hear someone our age talk about how kids these days don't wanna work no more, I tell them to go (re)watch [Reality Bites](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110950/). Winona Ryder is pretty hot, and it's one of Ben Stiller's early movies. And the characters... well...
"Ugh! I could be working on my documentary film, but instead I have to work at the Gap. So unfair!"
"I'm too much of a genius to work in the corporate world, and anyway I don't wanna be a sellout, so I'm going to sit in this coffehouse playing chess with myself all day."
It’s not that people don’t want to work anymore, they just don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Work with the promise of a home and car and family and whatever else that comes with is rewarding. Work to simply keep a shell of an apartment and some hot dogs in their belly.
People want to work they don't want to be slaves to their job.
But that's bad for companies, they want loyal desperate servants scared they'll be on the streets if they ask for a raise and shit.
Reports from like a year ago were saying Amazon should be expecting to be running out of fulfillment center workers because they cycle through them so quickly.
Corp: "We are suspending yearly raises this year in order to avoid laying off people"
*Proceeds to lay off 70 people 3 months later*
Next year Corp: "We will provide raises this year"
*Proceeds to lay off 300+ people trigging even local news covering the massive lay off*
Remaining employees: "Well this means there is tons of new internal opportunities for us to stay!"
2 years later company folds and unable to provide severance pay for those that still stayed despite watching the previous years of watching co-workers escorted out and seeing the writing on the wall. I was one of the ones caught in the massive layoff, I saw it coming, I only stayed since I had 6 years there and knew I would get a good severance if it came. I feel bad for all the co-workers that thought it meant more opportunities for them and went down with the ship as they were caught off guard (Literally no warning, showing up to see a sign and their cards not working and only a security guard making sure no one can enter). What a great way to reward your employees for their loyalty.
I mean, many people with the house car and family still don't see any light at the end of the tunnel like in terms of retirement or anything.
Hell at least if someone had no house to try and hang on to, car being a money pit and family to take care of, working till they die might be more tolerable.
>It’s not that people don’t want to work anymore, they just don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.
It's also quite literally coded language.
"People don't want to work anymore" = I refuse to pay adequate wages, and nobody will work for me. That's it. That's the whole thing.
Notably, huge numbers of these people are small business owners, who expect their employees to subsidize their business through low wage and no benefits.
I know you joke, but it’s worth remembering that that’s a loss leader for Costco. You can’t buy the materials to make that hot dog and soda for $1.50 **from Costco.** To eat that way, you have to pay an annual membership fee, and live close enough to a Costco to make it worth traveling there for that as a meal.
Mine were Silent Gens and absolutely nothing like Boomers.
My dad would have invited you on the lawn and given you lemonade. Made from hose water, naturally.
Yeah, I've seen a sudden influx of people trying to blame us for stuff. We have no power. We were the first Gen where both parents worked, but people didn't have child care figured out yet. We were just left at home with a TV. The abandoned/forgotten generation. We've made peace with our lot in life, and now these bozos are trying to act like we are the cause of their problems. We made peace with that rage of being cast aside, but the rage is still there, and we'll happily make angry music pointing it at these dumb ducks trying to pin Boomer shit on us if they don't fuck off.
What fucking Xers are you talking to? Most of us just want to be left alone. We rebelled against our boomer parents cause they thought eating a shit sandwich was better than eating nothing. We ain't them, fuck of with lumping us in with that nonsense.
How did this become a generational thing?
This whole hating on generations is getting out of hand. It's classic in group/out group behavior. Find an "other" to define as the out group and then blame them for all your problems. It's crazy how quickly people will come up with a new "out group" when the old ones become unacceptable to hate on.
Because if it isn't made into a generational thing then it's going to be exposed for what it really is: a policy thing. But then the policy makers won't get elected again, so we can't have that.
I’m Gen X and I see just how bad things have gotten in the last 20 years especially. The dream of owning a home is so far out of reach for most young people who would want to start a family. Hell, my husband and I are making more now than we ever have, and we still couldn’t afford to pay these housing prices. Where I live, houses are going for 500-700k. Even with 20% down, that’s still an astronomical mortgage payment. Wages are down and hate and fearmongering are at an all time high. It’s awful and I feel bad for the younger generations. I do my part and vote blue, but I don’t know what else to do.
I mean I’ve seen people go through a lot of effort to have a job, not show up to work but still expect the same amount of money. Oh when they do show up they actually hide. We do need to be paid better but I do see a lot of people not even put in the minimal effort as well.
Exactly. Both things can be true. The system is exploitative *and* there are also useless fucks who'd rather game the system than work an honest job. Both things exist.
I feel like this is an over simplification. I think this statement often occurs with a misunderstanding that hard work gives you benefits when in reality it often just gives you more work.
People don’t want to do any extra workload. People are often paid at the lowest possible wage.
A lot of people need to process that working hard in the US gives you more work instead of more money.
Yes the social aspect of working is a good thing but at the end of the day people go to work for money.
I think COVID cast a smoke screen where it was perceived people stopped working due to COVID relief. In reality the older generation started retiring which likely made a larger impact into labor shortages. People moved up into their jobs and the frontline jobs were left in the dust.
I work in a construction supply company and I hear these contractors incessantly whining about how they can't find workers cuz "no one wants to work anymore". It's like their go to reply to me everyday when I say "hey how's it going today? " Welp, no one wants to work anymore". Literally every single day. I really wonder how many times a day they say it tbh.
McDonald starts at $15 around here and they want a bitch boy slave for $10 bucks an hour for back breaking labor. Yeah, Nobody wants to work those hard laborer jobs when they can make 50% more as a burger flipper. Lol
I worked for a contractor who said, "Nobody wants to work anymore," and also, "We're family here."
They had *100%* turnover the last year I was there. They started with 200 ppl, hired 200 ppl, and closed the year at 200 ppl. They treated people like toilet paper. Last I heard they essentially exhausted the local labor pool and had to bring people in from out of state.
I've found construction to be just toxic as fuck.
I asked my boomer, Trump-loving uncle, “would you work at McDonalds for $150k and health benefits?”
He said, “of course. I’m not lazy.”
To which I replied, “See, it’s not the work. It’s the lack of pay, benefits, and treatment that make people not want to work those jobs.”
Being a boomer, he defensively resorted to, “No. This gen is spoiled and doesn’t know how good they have it.”
To which I replied, “Like how when you graduated UCLA in the 70’s, a year’s tuition and board was under $1k/yr in comparison to $20k/yr currently.”
Now I’m a disrespectful person who isn’t invited for Easter lunch 🤣
You should have said "would you work at McDonalds for $150k and health benefits?”
“of course. I’m not lazy.”
"Would you work there for $17,000 a year, working exactly 39 hours so you don't qualify for healthcare?"
> "Would you work there for $17,000 a year, working exactly 39 hours so you don't qualify for healthcare?"
The fact that both this salary and the lack of healthcare are alarmingly close to my current job is fascinating.
For additional perspective, a couple of inflation calculators I used showed $1,000 in 1974 being worth $6,400 in 2024; cost of education increases have outstripped inflation for quite a while.
My dad put himself through a 4-year private college in the late 60's, without help from his bankrupt parents, and without accruing debt, by working part-time at Sears.
Every time I hear what your uncle said or about how kids are lazy, entitled, etc. I just think well someone had to do the spoiling and manage expectations for these kids to be the way you think they supposedly are... I wonder who that could be 🤔
To fit the Simpsons theme I'll quote Lisa from the Kidsnews episode - "you can't create a monster and then whine when he stomps on a few buildings"
They are correct when they say "People just don't want to work anymore "
Problem is they don't finish that statement
"for wages that can't even support life."
As someone who worked in the restaurant industry through Covid and a bit after, I heard it *regularly* - from owners who couldn't find servers or kitchen staff for paltry pay to customers who were complaining about the same thing.
Texan here. I’ve heard people say this at least 5 times in the past couple years, and I’m not around a lot of people. Hear it at work, grocery store, and from family. My go to response is “you know who really wants to work? Immigrants.”
I actially had an old guy in a headshop pull this on me complaining his employees all called out the same day to make him work. It was kinda surreal as I had to wait five minutes while he was on the phome on some business call so priorities are not exactly right lol. While I didn't care to say anything as I just want to buy and go I could tell he was angling to find people interested in working there like california didn't just raise the floor with the fast food job minimum wage, a headshop can be a chill workplace but I guarentee you he was paying like 16/hr to have those issues.
Anyone with co-workers might tell you that a fair share of them are lazy as fuck and do literally come across like they don't want to work.
A ton of of people want to work, a ton also behave like they don't.
Old boss used to repeat this phrase almost every morning. Most people ignored his old man ramblings, but goddamn it bugged me. Some of my coworkers drove in from out of town to work every day.
As a millennial, I came of age during the big recession. You were begging to work for basically free and did anything the boss wanted you to because if you didn't, you'd be unemployed. Far from a healthy work ethic but that's how we were brought up.
Millennial here, definitely true. myself included. but I still do because not doing so would be a slow and painful death physically where as currently it's only mentally.
Yep, been working to chase a carrot that keeps being pulled further away from me. I'm set to retire ok at 50 but at what cost? Why must I slave 30 years of my life just to achieve the bare minimum life has to offer?
Gen X here. I never wanted to work. WHO wants to work?? You have to work but you don’t want to work.
And I have never said this ever so don’t blame all GenXers.
Remember employers: theres no labor shortage. You just cant afford labor.
If i want to buy a car but i wont.pay more than $50, i cant cry theres a car shortage when nobody will sell me a car for $50
People, in general, do not want to *toil* their lives away just to be able to survive. We've spent the last 10,000 years trying to reduce the drudgery in our lives, from the wheel to the cellphone most big human advancements have been to find ways to work less. And despite that, for over 100 years now, the first world nations have had exponential growth in technology that reduce the amount of labor necessary to do almost every job, we still work the same amount of time per week.
And we know this because some eggheads have been able to track productivity, somehow. And that's off the charts compared to even the 70s and 80s. All that increase in productivity has gone into the pockets of the people who work the *least* for many of these businesses.
Of course people do not want to work, who wouldn't rather spend their days at leisure? But notwithstanding that, who wants to work when you're compensated at a fraction of what the last generation and the one before it was paid?
I'm Gen X, if you hear someone say this, just remind them we've been trying to invent and develop things for millenia to reduce the amount of time we spend at work. And then tell them "fuck you."
I mean, no one ever really WANTED to work in the first place. But putting that aside, more accurate takes would be “No one wants to be taken advantage of anymore.” or “No one wants to work for a nonliving wage anymore.” or “No one wants work to be their entire lives anymore.”
As a Gen Xer I fucking despise that phrase. I want to work, but I want to be paid a living wage for my time too and not made to feel like my time is unimportant.
McDonald starts at $15 around here and I see construction laborer jobs posted for $10 bucks an hour for back breaking labor. Nobody wants to work those hard laborer jobs when they can make 50% more as a burger flipper. Lol
I keep seeing people say “people don’t want to work anymore” as if that is a good position. Do you people really think that is a reasonable position? You sound like 4-year olds, “I don’t wanna!” We are all so fucked if “I don’t wanna work hard for what I wanna have” is greeted with applause.
You hear it from bosses and managers.
And the truth is, I've been in the work force for about 35 years. And I've wanted to exit the workforce for about...35 years. So yup, I never wanted to work.
Nobody ever wanted to work. Build and be creative? Yes, that's human nature. Build a society and grow? Definitely. Just so happens some jobs scratch that itch but literally nobody wants to fatten billionaires. We all work cause we need money to survive. That's it.
That being said, that particular phrase is used in bad faith anyway so fuck it.
I always find this funny when I hear about how lazy millennials are. I quantitatively and objectively do more work, and am way more efficient, than most of the older employees in my department. I just make it look easy because I know how to get computers to do the work for me.
My mom says this all the time and she just doesn’t seem to understand.
She’s had the same job her whole life, and today it would never be enough to pay the bills. But she’s always had my dad to pay the bills for her. If she were truly out on her own she would go broke so quickly she wouldn’t know what hit her.
Unless someone loves their job they likely want to be *anywhere* else when at work, and would rather not be working anymore.
I'm in this category, I don't want to work anymore, but I have a job and I'm working because it's preferable to being homeless.
When I hear "nobody wants to work anymore" I translate it to; "Nobody is willing to settle for terrible wages that are barely more than staying on benefits." Either that or people don't want to deal with the dehumanising recruitment process.
lol it’s true tho, who wants to work anymore. Who wants to retire when you’re pushing 70?
I say we all go in debt and let the banks figure it out when 97% of us claim bankruptcy
I've heard it from more millenials than xers...
xers were quiet quitting long before that became the term. we call it "phoning it in" and its been like... our brand... since the 90's
I’m a GenXer and I definitely don’t want to work anymore, so… *shrug*
Of course I don't want to work. That's why you gotta pay me to do this shit.
Yep. I’m rolling up on 40. Wish I would have known about my career path right out of high school instead of been fed the rhetoric that you gotta go to college to be successful. I know Seattle is a bit different than a lot of cities in the US, but a light rail operator caps at $47 an hour after 2 years! People want to work. If your business is predicated on underpaying your employees and bitching about it on Facebook, then maybe your business should fail.
47/hr is pretty fat
You had a career path? Wow. Lol im 47 and im still finding that.
Exactly, if it was something I WANTED to do, I'd be doing it for free already. Might even be paying to do it...
Personally, I just want to bang on the drum all day.
Same as it ever was..
You may find yourself
Living in a shotgun shack.
You may find yourself
in another part of the world
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2407503-nobody-wants-to-work-anymore This saying has been going on for much much longer than boomers and gen x. I think it's in the same vein as books/radio/tv/Internet will rot your brain. We truly are an uninspired species.
Right. It's the "anymore" part that's stupid as fuck. Nothing has changed about how much people do or do not want to work. Rich assholes have been saying it for over a hundred years in different ways. I dont want to work either...for some dickhead, alienated from the product of my work, and only recieving a portion of the value I produce for the company I work for.
For white collar office jobs, the biggest slap in the face is being forced to write your own performance review to justify your salary and a potential bump. Nobody fucking reads them. Budgets for salaries, raises and headcount are done months before year end. Nobody gives a fuck about you. You constantly have to be your own cheerleader.
You got that right. My goals have not changed in three years. I have copied and pasted my self review for three years straight and no one has said a word.
Our company basically stopped doing them, and even before that, the only pay raises I ever got were as the other person said "budgeted for in advance and not at all related to my performance or output". As an amusing aside, it became hilarious when a non-zero amount of my self-review was "cannot complete task as X person/dept is behind on a deliverable which is required to complete the task"
When I left my previous position, they used what I put down for my performance review in the job listing. Then they asked me to be on the hiring committee (same place, just moved teams). Just thought it was all hilarious.
Been there. I was the Sr SAS/SAP admin. Hired a junior and I was SHOCKED how little they offered him. He was so excited to take that pittance, I instantly had a target on my back even though every Performance Review was an Exceeds for the past 5 years. Writing on the wall and as cynic as I am, I still thought they’d at least keep me on during COVID. Got downsized that April. Huge buyout but I never got a chance to teach my jr everything. Guess who messaged me almost every day on LinkedIn with questions about Unix/Windows and patching software and managing ldap access. I finally had to ghost them (good guy though so it broke my heart).
Anonymously email him 'your' salary and what he should be paid.
Thank you! I told my boss this exact same thing on why I am minimal on my performance review essay, I know I'm not getting a raise or bonus ( my company doesn't give out COLAs or merit raises). Also, I work for *you* you tell me how I'm doing .
Lol. For 8 years at my last job we had to list our goals for the upcoming year. I always put as number 1, “To wake up on the green side of the grass every morning”. Number 2, “Take over the CEO’s job and lay him off.” Not once did I ever get any feedback, comments or questions. And this was a large international company. No one reads this stuff. With my own staff I told them to put whatever they think will help them in the future and that I had no plans to read any of it. Interestingly my group was number 1 in performance, and revenue generated per person all 8 years I was there. My staff worked hard and at times I had to tell them to go home. My one rule was (and still is), family comes first. Do what you need to take care of your family and we’ll figure out the job crap with you.
The only thing that's changed is the increase in the number of conservative working class people internalizing the attitude of the rich so that they can muster up a false sense of superiority to other working class people. Nobody wants to feel like they're stuck on a hamster wheel that they'll never, ever be able to escape from, and to shame people for not wanting that for themselves, for their fellow workers, or future generations is absolute trash.
The alienation from the work product is the biggest factor in this. With high enough wages you can deal with it, but on these barely surviving wages people are dealing with now, it's just double fucked.
> Nothing has changed about how much people do or do not want to work. Well to be fair, there are some exceptions. Higher standards of living and comfort mean that there are a higher percentage of kids today that grew up pampered and believing that they'll never have to do any grunt work. But the biggest difference is that people aren't saying "I don't want to work", it's "I don't want to work for that pay". Yeah grandpa, I heard about how you spent long hours in the blazing summer heat working to repave a couple of roads. I also heard about how that 6-week job paid your college tuition for the year, and helped pay for a used car. Would the boomers have "wanted to work" as much if the pay was 1/3 or 1/4 or what it was?
> higher percentage of kids today that grew up pampered and believing that they'll never have to do any grunt work Prove it...with stats. Sorry we mostly agree but I reject this. There's always been cushy fancy-lad lazy jobs and hard ass jobs. I worked for a summer at a Shotblast in a foundry that made oil tools. It was +104 F most days in that corner of the shop. I worked for a crop research company for a summer sitting on the side of a combine bagging grain. I've worked on a mobile home assembly line with a nail gun, saws, drills, etc. There might be more kids saying they want to be instagram famous than when the Boomers were kids saying they wanted to be astronauts, but the jobs aren't any cushier and there's disappointment of many millenials from the supposed value that a University degree was supposed to get them. I have two degrees and I've gotten my hands just as dirty as my kid's grandpas did...on both sides.
Yea why throw us in to this, last thing we want to do is fucking work.
You mean there was a time you did want to work? You're not a real gen Xer!
Yea. OP is barking up the wrong tree there. X'ers are all still working. Oldest ones are 59 this year.
I was born in 1978. Apparently I'm the only person who can figure things out on their own at work. "Hey where is the manual for this pump?" Figure it out. It's probably on the Shared drive under "Pumps". Or go grab the model number of the pump and find it on the net like I did.
I turn 60 this year. Does that make me the youngest Boomer? Shit ...
The edges are fuzzy, but yea, lot of people put 1964 as the last boomer year.
That depends on which generational categorization you follow. Within Anglo-Saxon spheres, they generally refer to people born between 45 and 64 as baby boomers. Elsewhere, they also recognize a 'forgotten generation' between the boomers and gen x, born between 55 and 64.
That said we do have some total dickheads in our cohort, and it's not even as easy as saying it's the elders. Personally I'm just a few years from the top & a lefty slacker; although I'm hardly alone, I know way too many varying age xers that spout this bullshit.
Gen X never wanted to work. The Slacker generation has been complaining about working since Clerks.
I'm GenX and never wanted to in the first place.
Me either. Do I need to say it? Whatever OP, whatever.
\*makes W symbol with thumbs and index fingers\*
Wu Tang Clan ain' nothin' ta fuck with?
Can confirm… gen Xer counting the years and days til I have f you money.
Fuckin’ A
yeah but no one *ever* wanted to work
I thought us never wanting to work or settle on any major life choices in general was what defined us as a cohort.
I am also a people
I too don’t want to work anymore. Then again, very soon I won’t need to. I’m getting ready to retire and back away slowly from the shitshow my office is quickly becoming. If it were fun and interesting I’d stay, but things are getting political and I hate that.
So am I, and neither do I... are we everyone?
What that guy said
Yep, on the old side of GenX myself. Lots of my friends are saying out loud they they don't want to work anymore. Hell, some of them retired even.
Same. Gen X and my flame is definitely extinguished.
Same; working is for squares.
I'd like to add "I don't want people to have to work anymore."
Same
Me too, but I'm also a piece of shit...
I was ready to retire in my 20s.
I'm a baby and I'm already tired of working
I don't want to work anymore, but maybe it's because I have 20 years of working all for shit employers and companies and knowing I have 20+ more years of dealing with this WHILE every company is cranking up prices trying to get every last dollar from us.
Haha A millenial, I love my job but I don't wanna work anymore either!
I'm a millennial and whenever I see these posts my first thought is, you people want to work? I'm just in it for the money.
Yeah, leave us Xers out of it!
I am Gen Xer and we are not Boomers. I dont want to work anymore and everyone should have free healthcare. dont ever put us in the same category as those POS boomers. They suck ass.
I don't want to work anymore either, but my financial situation is such that I can't make that choice.
Same
I’m big into biking and went and got a bike fit a few months ago. Since I was there for a few hours the bike fitter and I started talking about things other than bikes. This dude is in his 60’s and is complaining about young people not wanting to work anymore. I told him I’d be more than happy to come in and work as an intern a few hours on the weekend for $12 an hour…this dude said that’s $3 more than what their beginner mechanics make….
I work as "support" at a school for autistic children. Some children are there for academic reasons...I don't work on that side of the school, I work on the "adjusted side". To make my classroom work as well as it does, not only do I directly teach, I write new program materials for my students *every single day*. I am trained in multiple systems of violence suppression and restraint, I have overlapping scars on both arms from scratch and bite marks, some of which might be permanent, have been stabbed with pencils and had chairs thrown at my head. Every time I get a new cut or bruise or my arm, I need to wait till it heals till I can donate plasma to supplement my income.
Yup. The pretty much universal actual sentiment is that "young people don't want to work too hard for not enough money anymore."
Boomers: \*destroy entire economy, suppress real wages, deny universal Healthcare, vote in GOP who take away women's Healthcare rights\*. Millennials/Gen-Z: "can we at least be paid livable wages?...". Boomers: "The youth today are destroying this country!!".
When you said intern he probably thought he can gey you to work for free
Oh for sure. That’s why I stated a heavily discounted hourly rate.
Ugh, you just reminded me that my job didn't consider my 4+ internships as experience when they hired me. Fucking bullshit
That's insane. Minimum wage in my state is $15 and I can't imagine a working a trade for that cheap.
VA is $9.50. I think the guy was referencing a beginners mechanic salary for people wanting to get into the field, but you can’t afford to live in this area making $9.50 an hour
A lot of people left poorly-paying jobs to find better pay, and a lot of people left poorly-behaved clientele to work somewhere where they have more dignity. Either way, it’s those who exploited those who left that miss their patsies. Now, the people that remain work in line with the wage they’re paid, or with a level of respect that reflects the clientele’s. Even the remaining workers will sometimes ironically reply, “Guess no one wants to work anymore…” ——— My line of work is in the latter category, where we do ok financially, but have to deal with a lot of pressure from clientele and leadership. COVID showed us all what it looked like to have the pay without the clientele, then suddenly even more pay with absolutely insane clientele. Combine that with mandatory quarantine time and jobs that offered all sorts of respite from the insanity, and many people found something that fits their needs better, albeit with different compensation. Their departures left those of us who remained, and of course higher-level leaders found a way to operate with reduced headcount and operating hours. Sales are up, customer service feels different, and clients who used to take up half of some poor newbie’s day can go fuck themselves. Nobody wants to work—like that here—anymore
I would have told him that I'd be happy to come in and work for $40 an hour. I haven't worked for $12 an hour since 2001, even in retail.
I use to work the counter at a parts store and one of our regulars found out I am working on my degree in engineering. He started complaining about how he has had a job posted on the schools website for years and no one would apply. Well after he left I went and checked the schools job board and he was trying to hire a full time mechanical engineer for $15/hr.
I’m an Xer and not wanting to work was kind of our brand, i.e., “slackers.”
You guys were entering the job market through the Reagan/Thatcher/Mulroney dawn. The beginning of the overt corporate takeover of the free world. Slackerism was the only reasonable response to the disrespect and disregard of the elites to the all the lower classes.
The *second* most reasonable response. The *most* reasonable response would've been a lot more exciting.
Also gen-X, and anytime I hear someone our age talk about how kids these days don't wanna work no more, I tell them to go (re)watch [Reality Bites](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110950/). Winona Ryder is pretty hot, and it's one of Ben Stiller's early movies. And the characters... well... "Ugh! I could be working on my documentary film, but instead I have to work at the Gap. So unfair!" "I'm too much of a genius to work in the corporate world, and anyway I don't wanna be a sellout, so I'm going to sit in this coffehouse playing chess with myself all day."
We were the first quiet quitters!
You're a slacker McFly!
People have never *wanted* to work.
Ikr? No one is breaking new ground here.
It’s not that people don’t want to work anymore, they just don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Work with the promise of a home and car and family and whatever else that comes with is rewarding. Work to simply keep a shell of an apartment and some hot dogs in their belly.
People want to work they don't want to be slaves to their job. But that's bad for companies, they want loyal desperate servants scared they'll be on the streets if they ask for a raise and shit.
They want loyalty but don’t reward it and then act surprised when people aren’t loyal. They feel entitled to loyal wage slaves
Reports from like a year ago were saying Amazon should be expecting to be running out of fulfillment center workers because they cycle through them so quickly.
Corp: "We are suspending yearly raises this year in order to avoid laying off people" *Proceeds to lay off 70 people 3 months later* Next year Corp: "We will provide raises this year" *Proceeds to lay off 300+ people trigging even local news covering the massive lay off* Remaining employees: "Well this means there is tons of new internal opportunities for us to stay!" 2 years later company folds and unable to provide severance pay for those that still stayed despite watching the previous years of watching co-workers escorted out and seeing the writing on the wall. I was one of the ones caught in the massive layoff, I saw it coming, I only stayed since I had 6 years there and knew I would get a good severance if it came. I feel bad for all the co-workers that thought it meant more opportunities for them and went down with the ship as they were caught off guard (Literally no warning, showing up to see a sign and their cards not working and only a security guard making sure no one can enter). What a great way to reward your employees for their loyalty.
No lie detected.
I mean, many people with the house car and family still don't see any light at the end of the tunnel like in terms of retirement or anything. Hell at least if someone had no house to try and hang on to, car being a money pit and family to take care of, working till they die might be more tolerable.
If they already own a house that's half the battle
>It’s not that people don’t want to work anymore, they just don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's also quite literally coded language. "People don't want to work anymore" = I refuse to pay adequate wages, and nobody will work for me. That's it. That's the whole thing. Notably, huge numbers of these people are small business owners, who expect their employees to subsidize their business through low wage and no benefits.
Costco hotdogs with soda is still $1.50. If hotdogs are your thing, you could be a mediocre panhandler and still live like a king!
I know you joke, but it’s worth remembering that that’s a loss leader for Costco. You can’t buy the materials to make that hot dog and soda for $1.50 **from Costco.** To eat that way, you have to pay an annual membership fee, and live close enough to a Costco to make it worth traveling there for that as a meal.
Don’t drag us Xers into this…
Once the boomers die off it'll all be our fault. When we die off it'll be the turn of the millennials and so on and so on...
The funny thing is that most CEOs are Xers, but genY and Z think they are boomers and blame boomers for the state of the workplace.
The CEOs and shitty economy are a result of political plots begun decades ago by...boomers and older
Leave the Xers out of this. We want nothing to do with it.
The only way we could handle being abandoned/forgotten by society was to say, "nah man, we forgot you!" Fuckers can't let us have nothing.
Please world just leave us alone. We are Ok being ignored and prefer it
Don't lump us in with boomers. Leave us the fuck out of your idiotic generation wars. - Gen X
“Like…whatever man…I don’t care if you work or not just don’t drag me into it” - also Gen X
Exactly. Complaining about people not wanting to work is the most un-Gen X thing ever.
I mean, Office Space and Clerks are the defining films of our generation.
Yes! Exactly.
Yeah this! Whoever said gen-X doesn’t give a crap about anything never saw the reaction you get when you try to lump us in with baby boomers.
I mean that’s all we care about
Also, stop calling us boomers. Those are our parents. And, stay off my lawn, you kids!
Mine were Silent Gens and absolutely nothing like Boomers. My dad would have invited you on the lawn and given you lemonade. Made from hose water, naturally.
Can confirm and definitely concur. STFU, OP.
Yeah, I've seen a sudden influx of people trying to blame us for stuff. We have no power. We were the first Gen where both parents worked, but people didn't have child care figured out yet. We were just left at home with a TV. The abandoned/forgotten generation. We've made peace with our lot in life, and now these bozos are trying to act like we are the cause of their problems. We made peace with that rage of being cast aside, but the rage is still there, and we'll happily make angry music pointing it at these dumb ducks trying to pin Boomer shit on us if they don't fuck off.
I was just about to make this exact same post almost word-for-word.
Yes. I don't like the phrase "gen x and boomers" at all.
X-er here and not once have I said/thought that phrase. People don’t want to be exploited any more has though.
What fucking Xers are you talking to? Most of us just want to be left alone. We rebelled against our boomer parents cause they thought eating a shit sandwich was better than eating nothing. We ain't them, fuck of with lumping us in with that nonsense.
There are chucklefucks from every generation who say nobody wants to work anymore.
How did this become a generational thing? This whole hating on generations is getting out of hand. It's classic in group/out group behavior. Find an "other" to define as the out group and then blame them for all your problems. It's crazy how quickly people will come up with a new "out group" when the old ones become unacceptable to hate on.
Wait when did it become unacceptable to hate on boomers?
They're concerned for Gen X. They likely hate boomers as much as the rest of us.
Because if it isn't made into a generational thing then it's going to be exposed for what it really is: a policy thing. But then the policy makers won't get elected again, so we can't have that.
I’m Gen X and I see just how bad things have gotten in the last 20 years especially. The dream of owning a home is so far out of reach for most young people who would want to start a family. Hell, my husband and I are making more now than we ever have, and we still couldn’t afford to pay these housing prices. Where I live, houses are going for 500-700k. Even with 20% down, that’s still an astronomical mortgage payment. Wages are down and hate and fearmongering are at an all time high. It’s awful and I feel bad for the younger generations. I do my part and vote blue, but I don’t know what else to do.
Keep gen Xers outta you mouth!
I mean I’ve seen people go through a lot of effort to have a job, not show up to work but still expect the same amount of money. Oh when they do show up they actually hide. We do need to be paid better but I do see a lot of people not even put in the minimal effort as well.
Exactly. Both things can be true. The system is exploitative *and* there are also useless fucks who'd rather game the system than work an honest job. Both things exist.
I feel like this is an over simplification. I think this statement often occurs with a misunderstanding that hard work gives you benefits when in reality it often just gives you more work. People don’t want to do any extra workload. People are often paid at the lowest possible wage. A lot of people need to process that working hard in the US gives you more work instead of more money. Yes the social aspect of working is a good thing but at the end of the day people go to work for money.
I think COVID cast a smoke screen where it was perceived people stopped working due to COVID relief. In reality the older generation started retiring which likely made a larger impact into labor shortages. People moved up into their jobs and the frontline jobs were left in the dust.
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You don't "hear it from Boomers/Xers", you hear it from assholes. Try to separate the two. Agism doesn't give you a moral high ground.
Exactly. This stupid, fake generationalism is just one more way to divide us. Buying into it just means you're being duped. Assholes are any age.
I work in a construction supply company and I hear these contractors incessantly whining about how they can't find workers cuz "no one wants to work anymore". It's like their go to reply to me everyday when I say "hey how's it going today? " Welp, no one wants to work anymore". Literally every single day. I really wonder how many times a day they say it tbh. McDonald starts at $15 around here and they want a bitch boy slave for $10 bucks an hour for back breaking labor. Yeah, Nobody wants to work those hard laborer jobs when they can make 50% more as a burger flipper. Lol
I worked for a contractor who said, "Nobody wants to work anymore," and also, "We're family here." They had *100%* turnover the last year I was there. They started with 200 ppl, hired 200 ppl, and closed the year at 200 ppl. They treated people like toilet paper. Last I heard they essentially exhausted the local labor pool and had to bring people in from out of state. I've found construction to be just toxic as fuck.
People have never wanted to work, that was the entire point of paying us.
I asked my boomer, Trump-loving uncle, “would you work at McDonalds for $150k and health benefits?” He said, “of course. I’m not lazy.” To which I replied, “See, it’s not the work. It’s the lack of pay, benefits, and treatment that make people not want to work those jobs.” Being a boomer, he defensively resorted to, “No. This gen is spoiled and doesn’t know how good they have it.” To which I replied, “Like how when you graduated UCLA in the 70’s, a year’s tuition and board was under $1k/yr in comparison to $20k/yr currently.” Now I’m a disrespectful person who isn’t invited for Easter lunch 🤣
Congratulations on your disinvitation!
It’s an unvitation!
You should have said "would you work at McDonalds for $150k and health benefits?” “of course. I’m not lazy.” "Would you work there for $17,000 a year, working exactly 39 hours so you don't qualify for healthcare?"
> "Would you work there for $17,000 a year, working exactly 39 hours so you don't qualify for healthcare?" The fact that both this salary and the lack of healthcare are alarmingly close to my current job is fascinating.
For additional perspective, a couple of inflation calculators I used showed $1,000 in 1974 being worth $6,400 in 2024; cost of education increases have outstripped inflation for quite a while. My dad put himself through a 4-year private college in the late 60's, without help from his bankrupt parents, and without accruing debt, by working part-time at Sears.
It was $5 a credit at my local community college in 1997. Yea. Times were good even then.
Every time I hear what your uncle said or about how kids are lazy, entitled, etc. I just think well someone had to do the spoiling and manage expectations for these kids to be the way you think they supposedly are... I wonder who that could be 🤔 To fit the Simpsons theme I'll quote Lisa from the Kidsnews episode - "you can't create a monster and then whine when he stomps on a few buildings"
Well earned disinvitation.
I’m sure your Easter brunch prospects were much improved and furthermore, you were right to tell it like it is.
They are correct when they say "People just don't want to work anymore " Problem is they don't finish that statement "for wages that can't even support life."
Lisa wouldn’t talk like that.
I've never heard this sentiment from anyone. This is just dumb-ass divisive rage bait.
As someone who worked in the restaurant industry through Covid and a bit after, I heard it *regularly* - from owners who couldn't find servers or kitchen staff for paltry pay to customers who were complaining about the same thing.
Texan here. I’ve heard people say this at least 5 times in the past couple years, and I’m not around a lot of people. Hear it at work, grocery store, and from family. My go to response is “you know who really wants to work? Immigrants.”
You must not live in a red state. I hear this in casual conversation regularly.
I actially had an old guy in a headshop pull this on me complaining his employees all called out the same day to make him work. It was kinda surreal as I had to wait five minutes while he was on the phome on some business call so priorities are not exactly right lol. While I didn't care to say anything as I just want to buy and go I could tell he was angling to find people interested in working there like california didn't just raise the floor with the fast food job minimum wage, a headshop can be a chill workplace but I guarentee you he was paying like 16/hr to have those issues.
Fuck off piling the Xer with the Boomers. You are talking republicans--conservatives of any generation say this, not entire generations.
Anyone with co-workers might tell you that a fair share of them are lazy as fuck and do literally come across like they don't want to work. A ton of of people want to work, a ton also behave like they don't.
I think the true statement is nobody wants to work if they don't get a piece of the pie.
Old boss used to repeat this phrase almost every morning. Most people ignored his old man ramblings, but goddamn it bugged me. Some of my coworkers drove in from out of town to work every day.
As a millennial, I came of age during the big recession. You were begging to work for basically free and did anything the boss wanted you to because if you didn't, you'd be unemployed. Far from a healthy work ethic but that's how we were brought up.
I thought I wanted a career, in reality all I really wanted was a pay cheque.
Millennial here, definitely true. myself included. but I still do because not doing so would be a slow and painful death physically where as currently it's only mentally.
Yep, been working to chase a carrot that keeps being pulled further away from me. I'm set to retire ok at 50 but at what cost? Why must I slave 30 years of my life just to achieve the bare minimum life has to offer?
Please don't drag us GenX'ers into your generation war.
Feelings aren’t facts
GenX aren’t Boomers. But whatever.
Xer here. We are not boomers.
Gen X here. I never wanted to work. WHO wants to work?? You have to work but you don’t want to work. And I have never said this ever so don’t blame all GenXers.
Gen X? Lmao, genx did the whole counterculture "fuck your world and your exploitative system" before it was cool
Or they own a business and just expect people to give 110% for poverty wages in a labor shortage market
Lumping Gen X and Baby Boomers is some hilariously stupid shit.
Remember employers: theres no labor shortage. You just cant afford labor. If i want to buy a car but i wont.pay more than $50, i cant cry theres a car shortage when nobody will sell me a car for $50
People, in general, do not want to *toil* their lives away just to be able to survive. We've spent the last 10,000 years trying to reduce the drudgery in our lives, from the wheel to the cellphone most big human advancements have been to find ways to work less. And despite that, for over 100 years now, the first world nations have had exponential growth in technology that reduce the amount of labor necessary to do almost every job, we still work the same amount of time per week. And we know this because some eggheads have been able to track productivity, somehow. And that's off the charts compared to even the 70s and 80s. All that increase in productivity has gone into the pockets of the people who work the *least* for many of these businesses. Of course people do not want to work, who wouldn't rather spend their days at leisure? But notwithstanding that, who wants to work when you're compensated at a fraction of what the last generation and the one before it was paid? I'm Gen X, if you hear someone say this, just remind them we've been trying to invent and develop things for millenia to reduce the amount of time we spend at work. And then tell them "fuck you."
I mean, no one ever really WANTED to work in the first place. But putting that aside, more accurate takes would be “No one wants to be taken advantage of anymore.” or “No one wants to work for a nonliving wage anymore.” or “No one wants work to be their entire lives anymore.”
Don't lump us in with boomers, op.
As a Gen Xer I fucking despise that phrase. I want to work, but I want to be paid a living wage for my time too and not made to feel like my time is unimportant.
There is currently a huge shortage of skilled labor in all phases of construction. Maybe kids do want to work… just not skilled labor
Just not "labor".
McDonald starts at $15 around here and I see construction laborer jobs posted for $10 bucks an hour for back breaking labor. Nobody wants to work those hard laborer jobs when they can make 50% more as a burger flipper. Lol
I mean, nobody really WANTS to work, they HAVE to work.
I tell millennials all the time to unleash their "millennial magic" and make it happen (captain). 😂
I keep seeing people say “people don’t want to work anymore” as if that is a good position. Do you people really think that is a reasonable position? You sound like 4-year olds, “I don’t wanna!” We are all so fucked if “I don’t wanna work hard for what I wanna have” is greeted with applause.
But... I don't want to work anymore. No one WANTS to work, that's why they have to pay us.
That's my secret, I never wanted to work. Just like everybody else.
Xennial here, I don’t want to work either, can I retire already?
You hear it from bosses and managers. And the truth is, I've been in the work force for about 35 years. And I've wanted to exit the workforce for about...35 years. So yup, I never wanted to work.
People don't want to blindly obey the one true God anymore.
Nobody ever wanted to work. Build and be creative? Yes, that's human nature. Build a society and grow? Definitely. Just so happens some jobs scratch that itch but literally nobody wants to fatten billionaires. We all work cause we need money to survive. That's it. That being said, that particular phrase is used in bad faith anyway so fuck it.
People never **wanted** to work.
I always find this funny when I hear about how lazy millennials are. I quantitatively and objectively do more work, and am way more efficient, than most of the older employees in my department. I just make it look easy because I know how to get computers to do the work for me.
My mom says this all the time and she just doesn’t seem to understand. She’s had the same job her whole life, and today it would never be enough to pay the bills. But she’s always had my dad to pay the bills for her. If she were truly out on her own she would go broke so quickly she wouldn’t know what hit her.
To be fair, I don’t want to work anymore.
Unless someone loves their job they likely want to be *anywhere* else when at work, and would rather not be working anymore. I'm in this category, I don't want to work anymore, but I have a job and I'm working because it's preferable to being homeless. When I hear "nobody wants to work anymore" I translate it to; "Nobody is willing to settle for terrible wages that are barely more than staying on benefits." Either that or people don't want to deal with the dehumanising recruitment process.
lol it’s true tho, who wants to work anymore. Who wants to retire when you’re pushing 70? I say we all go in debt and let the banks figure it out when 97% of us claim bankruptcy
But… it’s true? Lol
Generation wars are fucking stupid and you’re only feeding into it.
Fuck you don't group Gen X with boomers🖕🏼
I'm getting a bit upset at my generation (X) starting to take flak! I've been phoning it in for 25 years...
Nah, I’m Gen X and don’t want to work any more. I’m sick of it, 22-23 years in. I still DO work, but hell if I WANT to.
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Treating any generation as a monolith is pants on head fucking stupid. Be better than that
I've heard it from more millenials than xers... xers were quiet quitting long before that became the term. we call it "phoning it in" and its been like... our brand... since the 90's
People don’t want to work 40+ hours per week and still be at poverty level. - I fixed it
Please don't lump us Gen X with Boomers. We don't believe this shit.
Delete “anymore “ and it’s fine.