Effin' A!
Posted on 09/12/2022 8:30:13 PM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan
More and more, younger generations are opting to live soft lives, rejecting the struggle, stress, and anxiety that come with working a traditional nine-to-five career and grinding out your days on life's hamster wheel.
(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...
In China, first there was Lie flat, somewhat later there is Let it Rot
Both are expressions of a sizeable portion of the Chinese 20 somethings to reject the workplace. The 996 workplace from 9 AM to 9 PM 6 days a week has been rejected. A better life is just to lie Flat
Since the hard earned college degree is lost among thousands like it, the best course is to Let it Rot. With no chance for advancement or a raise in status.....Let it Rot
All well and good, except they want more pay, more time off and better benefits.
“That’s the problem with forced diversity. It can destroy an office culture. Nowadays employees seem to act under fear -”
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Yup. I’ve had those feedbacks from MAGA friends of mine. You have to click with everyone or you are ‘forced’ to. The primary objective of a job is to pay your rent first, and everything comes second. However, the group dynamic heavily comes into play.
Friends and family often ask LaBeach how he affords to live the way he is. It’s not like he has a nest egg funding his life. He’s taken a “$10 in; $20 out” approach, he says, and it works for him. He’s booked commercials while living in Mexico—last year he appeared in a commercial FanDuel run during NFL games, and he even has a line—and that provides some extra income doing work he enjoys. He does his freelance while chilling on the beach, or even sitting in the stands at the U.S. Open.
And one thing that has made such this live a ‘soft life,’ possible is contraception. After idolatry, perversion of male and female roles is the next work of the devil.
I'd have to say that I generally agree with this. I'd say that my biggest bitch is the corporations just really don't give a damn at all about their workers. Frankly, I think that for most companies, if they could figure out a way to get rid of those darn workers (especially American ones), they'd be all for it. Of course, at the same time they want those same Americans to pay top dollar for their products, though I am a bit unclear on exactly how they expect those folks to pay for stuff, since the corps would prefer literally anyone else on the planet as an employee.
Eventually, the rest will come along: toll roads that cost 50 cents a mile and paycheck deductions so massive that what remains will essentially be an allowance. And don’t forget the VATs.
That sounds like the saying from Mr. Holland's Opus: Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans.
It's really true.
“Someone might be offended by a joke, prank, or lighthearted comment and go to HR.”
Yup—I call it the “minefield effect”.
It has turned many/most offices into hostile work environments.
Nope. She either goes for five figures like most of us, or she doesn't go. It's similar to my situation: I have a good resume, but my programming experience was so long ago that I simply wouldn't be a good fit for most programming jobs. That's what one manager told me recently, but he said the company would be happy to have me in a technical support role and even gave me suggestions to improve the skills section of my resume, which I'm taking to heart.
“Life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans.”
And I think (am not sure) that movie took the saying from The Beatles — Lennon, maybe. That was a good movie!
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