A college graduate who just started her first job shared the shock and upset of working a 9-to-5
https://www.insider.com/college-graduate-upset-shock-working-nine-to-five-tiktok-2023-10
Tucker Carlson - far right - incendiary. Oh my. He sounds like a very bad man.
no one is making them work 9-5
if they want to work part time, feel free to do so! But be aware that those who work longer and hard will pass you by over time and you might eventually regret it or envy will get the best of you.
If anything that video highlights the importance of living in close proximity to where you work. She says herself she’s not upset about the hours but about the commute. She mentions that moving close to her current job is off the table, so unless her current employer operates in other states/cities to which she could transfer, her only option is to get a new job.
I think a lot of older people don’t get it.
Today isn’t just like 1980 but with worse music.
Today isn’t better than 1980 because interest rates were higher then.
The country is $33T in debt.
The country pays $1T a year in interest payments alone.
Wages have been stagnant for 40 years — inflation drives up costs everywhere, but wages do not keep pace.
Social life is almost entirely digital and that sucks. Sure, YOU may decide to socialize out in the real world, but if 99% of everyone is still digital, your effort will fail.
Leadership positions in politics and business go almost exclusively to Ivy League educated lawyers and MBA types. You don’t fit into that category? Well, you will never get that big promotion. Your corporate career is going nowhere.
And you are tracked and surveilled everywhere you go. Do the wrong thing, say the wrong thing, you could lose everything you have.
This is an absolutely rotten time to be young. People have no hope. They don’t see anything getting better for them no matter how hard they work. Jump back to about 1980. Reagan spoke of “Morning in America” and people latched on to that because they could feel it. But no one feels that today. People have given up. And the problems are deep and systemic. You can’t say “pull yourself up”. That’s not a realistic solution at all.
And don’t tell me “My nephew is young, and he’s doing great.” I don’t care about your nephew. I don’t care about the 5% who are doing just swell. I care about 95% of the young people who will look back at the Joe Biden years as the best years of their lives. Think about that.
Tucker should be smart enough to know that these articles are fake.
It’s true that a regular job can grab so much of your time that you don’t have time to date. I chose a job as a government lawyer in part so I could have some boundaries and be able to try to find a husband. It still entailed a lot of unpaid overtime but I was better situated than my friends in private firms.
I really feel sorry for lonely young people. I think we need to step up and start introducing them and extending hospitality, so they can meet people in a casual way and be somewhat assured they are not psycho or something. I don’t think we need arranged marriages at all, but I kind of appreciate how the parents of a couple of southeast Asian friends had realistic suggestions about who their kids might hit it off with and introduced them. No pressure, just practice interacting, and possibly a potential mate.
It’s interesting how times and attitudes are changing. In my late parents’ day and my and my husband’s day, we commuted to our jobs, and we were glad to have jobs. It’s what you did. After putting in the time, we could retire with comfortable pensions. But now people can work from home, don’t want to go TO a job, and want more time for fun. I hope they can arrange things the way they want them without negatively affecting goods and services. Some things you have to show up for.
youth soccer killed America!
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I work full time and it’s 12 hour shifts. My commute is about an hour. I have zero free time on my work days but only work 7 days in every 14 days. Today and tomorrow, I’ll be catching up on housework, dishes, laundry(work clothes) etc and need to go shopping.
My dad used to commute an hour each way with a 5 day work week but he had a wife that got up early and made him lunch to take with him and was working on dinner when he got home. She was a housewife so the only chores he had was mowing, shoveling snow etc until those became my chores. He always said a 15-20 minute commute is about right. Gives you time to adjust your mindset from work to home or visa versa.
Yes, being single and working full time can seem like you’re only living to work and working costs money too. Clothing you normally wouldn’t need, gas, wear and tear on a vehicle, buying easy button food because coming home and cooking for two hours and the one hour cleanup from that is not something you feel like doing.
But by the title of the thread, I thought he was talking about the whole HR thing because I’ve heard his thoughts on that and he’s not a fan. Neither am I.
The first place I worked was run by an Italian guy and his three sons, one of which was the shop foreman. They also had a secretary/receptionist and a bookkeeper. 100 employees and they ran it fine with no HR. If you were late a lot, Tony, the shop foreman, would notice and say something, plainly and bluntly. “You need to start showing up on time if you want keep your job.”
AND they didn’t refer to you as a “resource” like the raw materials they use up while calling all the equipment and machinery “assets” and only to refer to a person as an asset after they had used themselves up for the company.
They didn’t need a spreadsheet to track something they could simply notice. There were no head games. There was no rah, rah, go team. No psych 101 games to try and mold you into a part of team.
I saw a questionnaire that someone else got that they’ll likely spring on me at some point with questions like “What do you think your greatest strengths and weaknesses are?”
I will not be filling that out. I didn’t sign up for some wanna be therapist’s experiments.
Every once in a while, this HR lady still wears a mask to show she’s a good little cog in the machine.
As someone who worked a 9 to 5 job and commuted, I can’t say I have much sympathy for the girl. For some feminists I have to say that working a job may not be as much fun and gratifying as you think.
I grew up with the expression “good honest job.” Someone who worked a good honest job deserves respect. The garbage collector had a good honest job. Hunter Biden has never had a good honest job, despite being paid well.
A lot of people have had honest jobs, to include a long daily commute. I think the source of their satisfaction, despite a long workday, was the self-respect that comes from having fulfilled their obligation to their employer, themself, and to family.
From the short Carlson quote, I can’t tell what he thinks.
As a customer, I’ve learned not to take workers for granted, to try to be pleasant and appreciative of their work. I remember a little sign at a KFC: “It’s nice to be important; it’s more important to be nice.”