Gen Z now wants to get paid for breaks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's sad to see all the anti labor, anti union ranting on here. In the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s (the era when everything was better, right? traditional working class values?) paid breaks were standard. People worked a lot less and made more in real dollars.

?? All the people who supported unions etc in the 60s then became anti-labor anti union managers in the 80s. Don’t you remember this?? When these Gen Z people get off their parents payroll and have to pay for their costs on their own, they’ll be as anti union as the rest of them.

Classic boomer/genz response. It’s like you have no idea that millennials exist. Newsflash—we’ve been voting for two decades, and we like unions. There are more of us than you now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not clicking on a TikTok link.

Why not? It's not cooties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's sad to see all the anti labor, anti union ranting on here. In the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s (the era when everything was better, right? traditional working class values?) paid breaks were standard. People worked a lot less and made more in real dollars.

?? All the people who supported unions etc in the 60s then became anti-labor anti union managers in the 80s. Don’t you remember this?? When these Gen Z people get off their parents payroll and have to pay for their costs on their own, they’ll be as anti union as the rest of them.

Wow you drank the koolaid.

1) management is a pyramid so vast majority of workers don’t become managers.

2) it was an active campaign by industry and govt (hello ATC and Reagan) to hobble unions and paint them as “communist”

3) GenZ is tracking much more of work life in media, so is aware who tends to get promoted, they talk about salaries, so much more aware of how it really works vs the “unions are bad because you won’t advance” creed — they see it’s much more old boys club still and that in truth there is not much class mobility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't the work day used to be 9-5, inclusive of lunch? I'm an older millennial/young Gen X, and I've put in the unpaid time to get the experience and position myself for more opportunities, but I don't look down on those who can't or won't do that. We really should respect the balance of work and personal time.

The boomers made a song lamenting the 9-5, which meant they were actually paid for lunch (3 🍸 s), so I hardly think Gen Z pushing back against the hourly creep is unwarranted.

We will see more of this, since Gen Z fully understands that working hard and producing results just results in more work, and that promotions and pay raises go to the boss’s mini-me, rather than the workers pulling long hours and getting things done.

You know song lyrics aren't indicative of actual law, right? I mean, pop tunes aren't exactly a full legal analysis of applicable employment laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't the work day used to be 9-5, inclusive of lunch? I'm an older millennial/young Gen X, and I've put in the unpaid time to get the experience and position myself for more opportunities, but I don't look down on those who can't or won't do that. We really should respect the balance of work and personal time.

The boomers made a song lamenting the 9-5, which meant they were actually paid for lunch (3 🍸 s), so I hardly think Gen Z pushing back against the hourly creep is unwarranted.

We will see more of this, since Gen Z fully understands that working hard and producing results just results in more work, and that promotions and pay raises go to the boss’s mini-me, rather than the workers pulling long hours and getting things done.

You know song lyrics aren't indicative of actual law, right? I mean, pop tunes aren't exactly a full legal analysis of applicable employment laws.

Oh wow, you must be an esquire! Thanks for clearing that up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's sad to see all the anti labor, anti union ranting on here. In the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s (the era when everything was better, right? traditional working class values?) paid breaks were standard. People worked a lot less and made more in real dollars.

That’s because there are lot of fascists masquerading as “Democrats” on here. I’m an old school FDR Democrat, like our Union loving president Joe Biden, and can’t stand these kind of people. A lot of them are “Democrats” because Trump is beloved by some working class white people and they just hate working class people and use their hatred of Trump as a mask for spouting their fascist / classist rhetoric.

[Anonymous]

I'm not entitled AT ALL and I'm a hard working millenial. But why do I have to take unpaid lunch breaks?? I don't want to eat lunch. I'm a T1 diabetic and eat small amounts all day as I sit at my desk. I don't stop working. I'd like to be able to not take a lunch and leave after 8 hours instead of having to be at work for 8.5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not entitled AT ALL and I'm a hard working millenial. But why do I have to take unpaid lunch breaks?? I don't want to eat lunch. I'm a T1 diabetic and eat small amounts all day as I sit at my desk. I don't stop working. I'd like to be able to not take a lunch and leave after 8 hours instead of having to be at work for 8.5.

But aren’t you salaried? So not paid “hourly” /s

[Anonymous]

I can't wait for Gen Z to rise to power and totally fk up the system. And I mean fk it up in a good way.

[Anonymous]

Dear gen z,

Please make a 30 hour work week the new norm. Getting off at 5 is too late to have a life with kids and a commute

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear gen z,

Please make a 30 hour work week the new norm. Getting off at 5 is too late to have a life with kids and a commute

Thanks

Yeah they are calling BS on the “long hours” paying off, and realize it’s all a sham.

[Anonymous]

I'm a mid millennial and I love what gen Z is doing to the workplace. I've learned a lot from them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just complaining to my husband about my Gen Z colleagues (we’re older millennials). Not only do they have a very irreverent approach to work - no respect for hierarchy, no sense of urgency, no proactive problem solving - they ask a million questions instead of just doing stuff. Very aggravating.

What industry? I've always wondered what jobs require a sense of urgency beyond working in an emergency room?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most. Entitled. Generation. Ever.

Gen X raised them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most. Entitled. Generation. Ever.

Gen X raised them

Gen X let social media raise them.