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Gen Z is unhappier at work than any other generation. Here are the two things they want.
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this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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Yeah, I'm a millennial who has hated those same things since probably around the same time gen Z started joining the workforce. I bet the only real difference is that gen Z didn't join the workforce with the illusion that it wasn't so bad because millennials were already talking about it. And gen X cynicism (which is deserved, not trying to open a front in the "generation war" here) likely planted the seed for millennials to notice it.
I'm seeing the same. I'm an older millennial that joined the workforce in a conservative state, so I kept my mouth shut about shitty work conditions so I didn't end up fist fighting some of my coworkers. Gen Z is entering a workplace full of disgruntled millennials like myself and we're together making an environment where it's safer to tell employers we're tired of being taken for granted.
I'm a Xilenial and agree 100% with what you said. Younger Gen X started to notice these problems, but when your 35-ish year old Boomer parents are living the life, they shut you down without mercy. It took until the youngest Millenials/Older Gen Z for people to be able to talk about this openly.
Older gen y, been railing against the bullshit as long as I've been immersed in it. Glad others are taking up the torches and pitchforks.
Gen X here and it has been common knowledge since 2000 that the only way to not fall behind your peers in terms of salary or career advancement is to change jobs every few years.
Existing staff getting paid less than new hires has been a thing for at least 25 years.
"The best way to get a raise is to get a new job"
Hell, I think it was boomers, if not the silent generation, who first learned the hard way that company loyalty can screw you. If that shit started in the 80s, it would have caught the silent generation.
The whole generational conflict is just another attempt to divide people so they are less likely to unite effectively against the ones who put their profit ahead of everything and everyone else.
Younger Silent and older Boomers definitely got the biggest shaft of all. This was the group of people who were promised a pension and regular retirement. Then the idiots who manage the companies ran them into bankruptcy and got business-friendly bankruptcy judges to dissolve the pensions, leaving retired and retiring people with nothing to fall back on. Younger Boomers looked at that and went "sounds good to me!".