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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unbelievable.  A young woman in her first job out of college is complaining that having to commute to a 9-5 job, she has to leave by 7:30am and doesn't get home to 6:15 and then doesn't even have the energy to make dinner.  She laments that she doesn't have time for friends or "her life".

She should be glad that she only has an office job and not a laborer or factory job and that thanks to the way paved by labor unions in the past, that employers can only have a 40 hour work week without paying overtime (to non-salaried workers).   Gen Z is so amazingly entitled.

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How is this entitled?

People don't want a life of working long hours out of the home, and tack on long commutes to that. She's realizing that this is her life now and, for lots of us, it sucks. Maybe she envisioned something else for her life. Maybe she wishes she could afford a place closer to work. Maybe she's realizing what she went to college for was a waste and she doesn't enjoy it.

Who are you to call her entitled for feelings that are valid? We work like dogs in this country and don't enjoy good standards of work/life balance on the whole. WHat is there for her to be excited about? That she's not a day laborer in the fields? Oh, ok. I guess if you set the bar that low then you have a point. But, you don't. [/quote]
dp.. she does sound a bit entitled.  She doesn't have to join the rat race. There are many people who choose to not work 9 to 5 type jobs, and instead, do something else. They are willing to give up the modern boogie lifestyle for their freedom.

I like my boogie life, and so do my kids. So, they'll have to get those 9 to 5 type jobs to pay for their creature comforts.

Europeans may work less than 40 hours, but they also have less stuff, smaller homes, tiny closets, don't go shopping or eat out that frequently.  Their lifestyle supports working less hours.

I think the girl wants her nice American lifestyle with the European work hours, and that doesn't equate. [/quote]

What a load of Horse sh--. It's not "entitled" to want a good lifestyle (and you no nothing about her wants on that end) without having to be out of the house 10 hours a day (work + commute) and work for not very much money, esp. the first few years.

So I say, who the F cares if that is what she wants? That's what a lot of people want. People, even at my age where I'm closer to retirement than not, are OVER working like dogs for our employers just to scratch out some enjoyments in life. [/quote]

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