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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Younger Boomer who still works and part of it is the younger people have never really had to work.

Pretty much I can say around early 1990s real work stopped.

I think automation and everyone having a college degree was real cause. I recall at 23 I had a staff of 40 people. Wore a suit to work, was in office every day 8-7:30 pm.

By 33 I was sitting in a cube in dress down working basically 9-5.

We had so much stress and work to get done when I was 23 we had someone commit suicide off our roof and flew by our office window and no one looked up or went to window. I actually had someone at work arrested in handcuffs at desk due to some warrant, no one looked up.

a few older Gen x saw tail end, but pretty much folks who graduated college after 1995 never saw real work so hard to respect as no war stories   [/quote]

As an Xer, I have no idea what you are talking about. I remember being handed a pager and luggable 10lb "laptop" after I graduated with the expectation that I be available anytime management wanted to work. The equipment changed over the years, but the expectations haven't. 24/7 access and work is what's expected now.

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I was available in person a lot harder. I once worked 40 days in a row. I felt like ground hogs day. Saturday and Sunday in office from 8-2 pm then M to F 8-10 pm. I did not even have a computer on my desk at work let alone home. I was managing 40 people who were headaches. Breaking up fights, lugging equipment, reviewing reports, huge printouts. We often had folks sleep in chair.

My company had 18,000 employees and 20 years later had 40,000 and processing less work. Why well 9-5 and WFH need double the people. My staff had time sheets and they would hit 40 hours in Wed.

I don’t want to go back. We had a few suicides at work. One was a client who took elevator to top floor and jumped. We also had one die in vault. Suffocation.

My boss has multiple confirmed kills in Vietnam and was a bit unhinged. We also had wwii vets and some Jewish coworkers who were in concentration camps.

It was a bunch of jacked up folks  [/quote]

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