Quiet Quitting: A Gen Z Protest - A Dose of Buckley

[@ADoseofBuckley]

Correction at 3:15 - It should say "Season 6, Episode 21", not "Season 21, Episode 6". WHOOPS!

[@olandir]

It's kind of mindblowing that there actually is a Season 21 though! Wow, that show has been on for a long time!

[@rodrigogavilan3104]

Thanks Cuckley, love you

[@jameskowanko7574]

It’s insane that the Simpsons has gone on so long that both season 6 ep 21 and season 21 ep 6 are real episodes

[@michaelsoltesz3779]

Thank you, Buckley. I enjoy your videos. 😁

[@capngeeoff]

season 21 episode 6 is the one where Homer meets that celebrity and gets a wacky job

[@roxycauldwell544]

Just popping in to mention the fact that its been proven that jumping jobs every 2 years gets you 50% more than staying with one company for 20 years. You want loyalty? Give incentives to stay and stick by them.

[@ct-p6004]

Has this always been the case or is it a new phenomenon. Like the people currently retiring after spending their whole career in one place, did they screw themselves out of a ton of money over time?

[@Riceslayer]

@@ct-p6004 I work with a bunch of late Gen X-ers (early-mid 50s) and I'm the only millennial (30), and from what they say, yes it is new cause apparently back in the 70s/80s getting a job was hard so you took what you could get and stuck with it. People are getting more vocal about getting fucked over by their companies (Social media!) and jumping jobs as the whole loyalty thing doesn't really exist anymore. I am on my 3rd job in my adult years (worked in the same industry for 12 years now) first job was at for almost 7 years, 2nd place was 2 years, and I only left that for my current employment place (almost 4 years now) due to getting WAAAAAY better benefits and wage with the new company (defined benefit pension, every 2nd friday off, way higher wage). Needless to say, I probably won't be leaving my current job.

[@siri7005]

I think similar things can be seen in other areas of business as a customer, not just as an employee. ISPs and phone companies will offer much better deals to people who are not already customers. If you're already a customer you'll get way worse ones, if any at all. If possible it's much better to switch providers with some regularity in order to make use of that.

[@goosewithagibus]

@@Riceslayer I've worked 6 jobs since I was 17 (now 23). Fuck loyalty.

[@mlirwin8572]

Exactly so. But corporations don't see it that way; loyalty, in their eyes, goes one way only -- FROM the workers TO them. I'm semi-retired, working as a grocery store cashier, and plan to cut my hours down to two shifts a week in the very near future, for a wide variety of reasons. I kinda like the job and like 99.99% of the customers ... it's just management and the corporation in general that I despise.

[@Rikkilover17]

Pandemic definitely accelerated this school of thought. I remember so many people (before vaccines) being like, wait you want me to possibly die over some chicken nuggets and minimum wage?

[@GentlemanJunkie95]

Exactly! I'm a social worker so I see a hell lot of people on one day. When the pandemic started, pretty much nothing was done to protect us or the clients. All they did was sending an E-Mail that said that we are not allowed in the management's office anymore. Oh, and my boss sent an angry mail and asked what the is wrong with me for not having as many appointments with my clients as needed (btw. we worked with mentally ill people, so you can imagine how, for example, a heavily psychotic client isolates himself in a goddamn pandemic) Boy, did I do nothing except the bare minimum until my contract ended.

[@capysarah]

I'm not "quiet quitting." Just aggressively defending my time and energy from employers who would replace me on a whim and leave me homeless no matter _how_ "above and beyond" I go for them. - Sincerely, a millennial from a "right to work" state

[@ddjsoyenby]

exactly, don't want people leaving don't treat them like shit.

[@Nersius]

I went above and beyond once, worked so hard it was painful to wash the dishes each evening for over a month. My reward was being laid off 45 minutes before my shift ended (after having been assigned more work earlier that day) and being asked to drop off all my work equipment either that day or the next. Dropped it off that day, security guard I had to hand everything to wasn't informed and was actually just about to leave...

[@PrincessKLS]

I live in VA and I think it's a "right to work" state too. Back in the early 2000s (especially in my part of VA) it was a really sucky time. I'm proud that VA now has a minimum wage above the federal wage but back in the 2000s and early 2010s, it was very much a state that stayed at the bare minimum for things and didn't want to give "extra" to worker and/or people on social programs such as TANF and SSI like other states were doing.

[@corriedebeer799]

Im willing to admit my boss owns my ass during working hours but after hours is mine.

[@anonymouscommentor411]

Yeah, I hate when they feel it's totally cool to call you in on a day off. I just don't answer because we agreed I work work "X" hours so if I decide to work more it's because I'm feeling up for some more money nothing else.

[@concernedcitizen5988]

The funniest thing is that “quiet quitting” was termed by boomers in the media, gen z never renamed it they just did the thing lmaoooo

[@luigimaster111]

I first stopped going above and beyond when I realized my boss was going above and beyond to scam me out of owed wages. Felt like an utter betrayal when I noticed, immediately stopped pumping any overtime into that place, felt a lot less stressed after that, 50+ hours a week for years ain't healthy on the mentals.

[@TrexxSFV]

Mario is a cruel man

[@ddjsoyenby]

truth.

[@FrostFM]

@@TrexxSFV mama mia 😂

[@brutalistdude301]

Literally never do more than required. And immediately stop the moment the work is over. Barely do work.

[@runningcommentary2125]

One of the stupidest things I ever heard at my last job was when the branch director accused me of 'clock watching' because I left exactly when my shift ended, instead of sticking around another three minutes to stare into space so that the time sheet would look more aesthetically pleasing to her.

[@rainmanslim4611]

Fuck that. I'm off the second the clock says I'm off.

[@humanimal4dub926]

If I ain't getting paid for those 3 extra minutes they can kiss my entire ass

[@mlirwin8572]

@@rainmanslim4611 My place of work says if you clock out ONE MINUTE before your quitting time, you get docked. For ONE MINUTE. Considering this is a minimum-wage job, I'm gonna lose, what ... half a penny?? So at any particular time during the day, you can see a (*usually* small) lineup of people, staring at the time clock waiting for that last one minute or 30 seconds to tick off. Is it ridiculous? Of course it is. It's corporate bullshit at its finest. And for the record, I'm a boomer.

[@Herpusderpus]

I would’ve laughed harder than J. Jonah Jameson at that gem.

[@ReroutedYearAD]

I'd find consistent clock in and off times more pleasing. If you clock in and out the same time every day, I could multiply the work day to get your hours worked. If there's variations, even one minute difference a few times a week, I have to calculate each day and add them, making it longer for me to calculate your pay, assuming I ever worked in a position where I calculated someone's pay. As Rainman stated, I've worked in some areas where I'm on and off at certain times. Anything I do before my shift starts or after is volunteer work, and I didn't do that. Better to take the pay per hour, or for one of those, 12 hour period, than to work for free.

[@beautybard]

I agree. If you gotta work for a corporate overlord... work for one that can benefit you. I worked at JCPenney as a shoe salesperson and hid all the shoes I wanted behind the socks in the stock room. Once they went on clearance, I'd bring them out and use my 20% discount and get them for pennies. 6 pairs for less than 40$.

[@corriedebeer799]

Game the system like a pro... Love it !!!

[@CrazyBrainCory]

Legend

[@fenceyhen4249]

Shit, you might as well just steal them at that point and get 100% off.

[@Nerobyrne]

@@fenceyhen4249 nah they notice that, if you buy them for almost nothing, you're working within the system and nobody cares. "Work with the system, not against it"

[@shroomyesc]

I worked a chain convenience store and we baked fresh goods every day, same amount each day. Any extras we didn't sell I'd throw into a separate garbage bag inside the main one and once out back I'd just grab the inner one with all the untouched goodies and take that home with me.

[@pyromaniacal13]

7:35 Staggeringly accurate. The joke in the US Navy is that NAVY stands for Never Again Volunteer Yourself.

[@ADoseofBuckley]

I have a surprising number of military veterans and active service members in my audience, so I hope they'll enjoy that part.

[@SpectacularDisaster]

we say that in the Royal Canadian Navy too

[@fizgig2016]

I am a boomer, and last year I retired 3 years early b/c they tried to work us to death staring 3/13/20. By the end of the school year 20/21, I had worked at least 60 hours a week - and often more - only allowing myself "off time" on Sundays. It was a freaking nightmare. I used to get points off my teacher evaluation for not volunteering enough. As if part of being a teacher is giving up your personal time for unpaid work. I was already doing that, it was called lesson planning and grading.

[@ADoseofBuckley]

Yeah, I think a large part of this has led to the "labor shortages" we hear about, people in their late 50s and early 60s saying they've had enough. Actual quitting instead of quiet quitting, just saying "you've wrung as much as you're going to get out of me, I don't need this anymore".

[@Chrazzari]

@@ADoseofBuckley yeah this has happened a lot in Australia too. So many online training programs and courses to do outside of work hours. Heaps of older ones retiring earlier than they would've otherwise. They've even got teachers still studying at University to run classes on their own due to the shortages.

[@corriedebeer799]

I used to teach as well. Glad I dont have to raise other peoples children for litetarly half the pay ever other professional in every other industry gets.

[@corriedebeer799]

Teacher evals is THE biggest crock of bullshyte known to humanity. You dont pay a teacher 35 k per year but still you think it ok to discuss how they are not meeting KPI. I cannot tell you how disgusted Im at how the west treats teachers.

[@corriedebeer799]

@@ADoseofBuckley yes this cuants will not pay a teacher more than 35 K per anumn and are surprised when nobody wants to do the job. The arrogance is incredible.

[@metademetra]

From my perspective, this isn't doing the minimum amount of work, it's actually doing the MAXIMUM amount of work your contract allows. Hypothetically, a well-run company is only going to assign you duties that you've been trained on. If you're an IT tech, you're not being trained to watch your boss's bratty kids or to fetch the offfice coffee. You're also presumed to have only the duties and responsibilities of ONE individual. Or if you are, you're getting paid the proper wage to cover someone else's shift. If my boss tells me that they really need me to fill out the schedule for the month, and tells me I need to work 60 hours with no overtime pay, that's where "quiet quitting" comes in for me. According to my contract, I'm ONLY allowed to do the duties of a cashier/salesperson, and I'm ONLY allowed to do thar job 40 hours a week, or get paid overtime for any extra hours. And here these corporate journalists are going "Well you're lazy for refusing to do things you don't know how to do, and expecting to get paid for it."

[@QuantumFantasy]

Ugh, Buckley doesn't even know about "quiet snoozing". Didn't realize you were such an old man now. 💅

[@MotherKojiro]

MY generation invented it, and it's called wakerage. :P

[@Existntlangst]

I agree to a point. I served in the US Army for 20 years, burning out seriously at the end and medically retiring because the Army used and abused me. Once I wanted a break and needed to take care of my health, they put me out of the Army on a medical retirement. After rising through the ranks and becoming an officer as well as doing 6 combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, they kicked me to the curb when I didn't want to play any more. That was 5 years ago. I'm still feeling the burnout. I have a different career but I still have to take time for myself to prevent relapsing into burnout.

[@rjillidge3]

I get where you are coming from. I only did one enlistment in the US Navy and after doing a 10 month deployment and working long hours. I have noticed since I have gotten out , I have noticed that I am getting burnt out quickly at civilian jobs and my longest stretch was a job 1.5 years a job that basically had me working mando overtime with no work to do which caused my burn out issues to rise to the surface rather quickly.

[@rainmanslim4611]

The US army hasn't taken care of its veterans since WW2. The second you're no longer of use, they kick you to the curb and deny all the aid they possibly can. Bleeding for this fucking country doesn't earn you anything.

[@beanmeupscotty]

As much as I hate to admit, I'm with the zoomers on this, too. Even though this is a realization every generation does make, they are perhaps a bit unique in discovering the truth almost immediately as they come of age, rather than getting led on for a decade or two like millenials, Xers, boomers, etc. During 2020's wealth transfer no one likes to talk about, the big companies still had some pretense of platitudes for their employees. 2021 and beyond the mask slipped and they never felth bothered enough to adjust it. Imo it seems that most companies think that they've "won", and there is no choice beyond working by their standards or not working at all & starving. For me, it took 8 years to reach the same disenfranchisement. Have permanent back damage from the conditions my job at a hospital put me through. Went above and beyond many times, even taking on a role for their COVID floor when they had dangerous PPE protocols. Still got told to take the piss this past year. I'd rather the next generation tell these folks they can get f*ed when presented with the same "opportunities" rather than finding out how they reward unlimited loyalty as so many millenials did. I hope the boomers & other gens crying on their platforms about this are just oblivious shills hopelessly naive to what the current employment scape looks like.

[@ProcrastPerfection]

Big agree. I’m the oldest zoomer and I have been underachieving since I graduated college. The immediate reality that all the hard work I put in school did not bring a respectable wage, retirement, higher benefits killed all of my enthusiasm. I’d rather be a broke housewife than have both my husband and I work full time with nothing to show for it.

[@wtpiv6041]

You too huh? My older sister (Late Millennial) damaged her back working at a hospital. But yes, as an early Gen Z (98) there was never really ANY doubt. My peers and I saw our parents be miserable during the 2008 recession my mother was tossed aside by a certain tech company while my father had his job threatened by a petty superior after a hospital merger and moved to a new one. So I and many my age are fairly jaded about most things regarding “adulting.”

[@slrflre]

why do you have to hate to admit it?

[@beanmeupscotty]

@@slrflre discovering that everything about the working world that you were taught as a child was untrue, and that much of the work you've put in so far did hardly anything to better your career (relative to the slack offs), would be considered a tough pill to swallow, no?

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

I think Millennials and Gen-Z are "coming up with new things like laziness" stems from Boomers complaining how "in their generation there was no laziness".

[@jackspurlock9201]

They were the lazy bum hippies

[@dividedstatesofamerica2520]

@@jackspurlock9201 And they still are, except without the annoying hippie part.

[@neshama2195]

@@dividedstatesofamerica2520 haha exactly, I'm not changing their depends, they screwed up a ton of the world and can live in their McMansions with their basement dwelling adult kids stuck in the Metaverse :P

[@strikearose]

this reminds me of the Advice No One Asked For a few years ago about the guy who wasn't happy that his employees were doing their jobs and clocked out on time without staying late or putting in extra effort. With employers having this kind of mentality, it's no wonder this generation is getting shit on for calling it out. Why employers think they deserve employees who work beyond their job description is beyond me.

[@femkefeenstra7754]

In America they call it "quiet quitting." In the Netherlands we call it "normal." No really, here this is normal to us. I do my job during working hours, and then I'm done, and my boss is perfectly fine with that. Of course, slackers get their butt kicked out, but there is no problem in checking out when you're done with your work. It's fine, just like taking at least 4 weeks paid vacation each year. It's NORMAL! For all age categories.

[@jp73987]

See here in the States, people (namely 16-24 year olds. AKA my peers) don't even want to do the bare minimum either.They expect a $20,000 monthly check for sitting on their ass all day. That's the real issue with the new workers. I get not wanting to go all out for a minimum wage, but for fuck sakes put in some effort or else you'll end up costing the lives of thousands of employees, not just yourself.

[@femkefeenstra7754]

@@jp73987 Kids can have big dreams, but most of them learn very quickly that the real world isn't like they were told by both their parents and their schools. It usually doesn't take a lot of time to shift that kind of attitude. Don't let it get to you too hard, they'll learn.

[@jp73987]

@@femkefeenstra7754 I'm aware. I know not every gen z kid is like this. I used to work fast food with 2 good high school kids. They would often work their ass off and even out perform me at times. But I've also seen some lazy bastards that unfortunately make a good amount of my peers. I just wish that some of them realize that life's unfair, but you can't submit to it. Be the damn best worker and then leave for something better.

[@femkefeenstra7754]

@@jp73987 Lazy bastards are everywhere, every gender, every age, every everything. At my job, we usually kick them out, and still not expect every employee to give up everything for their job. Work is work, private life is private life, and that is that.

[@jp73987]

@@femkefeenstra7754 Absolutely true to that. Had a supervisor that did nothing to improve the stores he was in charge of despite the numerous complaints he gets from the employees and managers. And I agree life and work must be seperated. If I'm not an executive or Owner, then my work ends as soon as my shifts end (well maybe 30 minutes after). That's one thing I do hate about the work culture here. Managers expecting you to work 24/7 365 days a year.

[@OfficialAshArcher]

Work shouldn’t dominate your life. You only get one life, and while work is important for fulfilment, purpose and to make sure you can eat, your time for family and friends is most important!

[@BadSodaProductions]

Growing up I knew “quiet quitting” as “to the letter” a union term for not letting your employer talk you into anything extra other than what’s defined in your hire contract

[@dynamichunter843]

Great way to put it. I do my job description for the pay I signed up for, that they pay me for. Do I do extra? No, not unless they pay me. And they try to do that for free labor from salaried people all the time.

[@luisumana1238]

This absolutely sums up what I've been doing, and I just don't give a shit what the other coworkers say after I get off. I do try to get shit done, but if they're not satisfied with the way I do the tasks, I just shrug it off and move on.

[@Siknik64]

The more you work, the more reliable you appear, the more you get called on, and the more burned out you will get. If you appear as an asset to the company, you better believe they're going to use it.

[@IsomerMashups]

The fact that some people consider "doing what was written in your job description" entitled is insane to me. If it said that you'll do tasks X, Y, and Z for 40 hours per week and you actually do so, you've done your job.

[@ReroutedYearAD]

"I learned a new term/concept from XXXX! It's an old, recycled one with a new name because we're too lazy to use the existing ones so we keep making new ones to keep changing the language we're too lazy to learn." Maybe in a few years "hamburgers" will be used to refer to laceless shoes because 'slip-ons' is old hat. Ah, the post where they call it "fair deal." At least for the figures when I was still in a few years ago, yeah, if you are an O-9 with 20 years of service, you'll get about $19 an hour. After promotion from E-1 to E-2 with the biggest pay increase, everything else is about 4 cents increase per pay grade (per pay block, not hourly), and a pay increase for each year of service was like 2 cents. What's the amount of work we should have been doing for our pay? Because I know the more than 99.9% of the population was getting paid multiple times as much to not get shot at or blown up while giving foreigners water or something.

[@foxyloon]

Definitely had that "Oh, I'd already been doing that for years now. That's what the kids are calling it?" epiphany when I first read a news article about Quiet Quitting. Being a millenial that entered the work force over a decade ago, I always called it "working your wage", and took on the mindset of "well, if they'll only pay me $13 an hour, they're going to get $13 an hour of effort out of me." Then I was subsequently laid off for under-performing when new management took over. I couldn't help but laugh at the various articles being written about this, how out of touch the journalists are. I can imagine the shock of an executive type being told to "pay their workers more" as a solution to fix this.

[@TheCrazedGuitarist]

I love how doing exactly what is stated in your job description and clocking out at your out time is "quiet quitting." This is what I agreed to in the contract I signed. If you want me to do more than what is listed, raise the pay to accommodate that.

[@tk24life]

Ironically, this is the first generation where playing video games all day can be a job.

[@NJGuy1973]

"In case you've forgotten, here's how things work. I order the food, you cook the food, and the customer gets the food. We do this for forty years, and then we die. Sounds pretty good to me. What do you say?"

[@qunt100]

Man. If only I knew back then squidward wasn't fucking around. That is exactly how it is lol.

[@SoldierOfFate]

@@qunt100 Squidward was trying to warn us when we were kids.

[@THERSC216]

Buckley is right, I worked two years teaching at this one place and all I got was swag gifts and a puny raise. So I left after I did the 'quitting' before I left.

[@notgonnasay4571]

To be fair, “quiet quitting” wasn’t named by actual gen-z people, it was named by the people trying to imply that doing exactly what you’ve been hired to do is somehow lazy. A lot of gen-z folks then latched ON to it, but we were very much not the people who originally tried to imply that not doing extra work for no extra benefits is basically the same as quitting. Which is, let’s be real here, what the folks who came up with it were trying to insinuate. Because we are in a era that is hell on unions and worker’s rights to a degree that the easiest comparison is the great fucking depression, because all the people who learned their lesson during that mess are dead now and their kids are the ones making policy.

[@rainbow_vader]

I actually "quiet quit" without knowing I did, and the funny thing is I'm also gen Z, I just don't spend a lot of time in places I would have picked up the term. Long story short I was in a manufacturing job for a year fresh out of high school and I did my damn best every day only to realize I was spending a lot of time busting my ass fixing other people's mistakes while management did nothing. Eventually I just so happened to stop noticing all those screw ups like everyone else seemed to conveniently ignore and passed it along. That's not what got me fired tho, I just showed up late one too many times lmao

[@richyscott234]

7:36 you learn real quickly that the Navy is an acronym, “Never Again Volunteer Yourself”

[@KhayJayArt]

Oh lord those bootlicking ass tweets 🙄😒 Idk why people are so eager to simp for companies that don't give a shit about them?

[@STARPHASE]

I quit a job earlier this year(for another one that I was going to enjoy more) and let me tell you, my last 2 weeks, I did the BARE minimum. That job over worked me, and under paid me. I was doing my job and everyone else's because they were either undertrained or they didn't schedule enough people each day to do the work.

[@mdmyer]

Every generation thinks they're the new and edgy ones.. it's all been done before.

[@xSwordLilyx]

And the older generations think we're lazy brats No, apparently ya'll taught us our worth

[@HeroSword_P]

Anyone interested in this topic should also check out Joshua Fluke's video on quiet quitting, where a bunch of "hard work" and "bootstraps" pundits (who happen to all me conservative) bitch about younger people not wanting to be worked to death for the non guaranteed promise of a raise or promotion.

[@Nerobyrne]

Minimum wage, minimum effort.

[@kayleebowens]

Happy birthday, you cynical, magnificent bastard! Been following you for 8 years!

[@AhPook]

I always laugh when I see people commenting about not wanting to work. Here's a news flash for them, no one wants to fucking work. You work because you have to, not because you want to. There is no human alive that wouldn't rather just do the thing they enjoy for money.

[@corriedebeer799]

I actually enjoy my IT job. Working with computers makes me happy. Computers operate under such a pleasant logic. Completely unlike children or women.

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

Secret to success in the military: find the two people in the shop who'll do all the work and push them until they break (and you'll get a new person to replace them) or you get promoted. Rinse and repeat until retirement.

[@Zenthex]

i actually like my job as a janitor, it turns out cleaning is one of the most important things anyone could do in society. the part i don't like is my pay, i make $17/hr, but with median rent in my city, living wages start at $23/hr. i would love to afford rent, save money, buy a house, and participate in society, but essential labor just doesn't get you there. so really, besides being under the threat of homelessness, what incentive is there to go out and work?

[@joshjonson2368]

japanese need to export all their hentai games, its needed more than ever

[@jayblack3345]

5:28 5:37 5:58 6:08

[@KagagiouX]

"Never Volunteer for anything." Air Force: "You LITERALLY lose chances at promotion if you don't do this Volun-TOLD task I gave you."

[@MiketheNerdRanger]

If they literally told you to do it, its not volunteer work, its just a task.

[@mandalorian_guy]

Staff Sergeant- "This extracurricular family day event is voluntary so I expect everyone there at 1030 with their $40 donation and remember kids are going to be there so watch your language and no alcohol." Corporal- "I don't have a family and just want to spend the day in the barracks drinking and wondering if "The Suck™" is a claimable injury for VA benefits." SSgt- "Anyone who doesn't want to go I also need body's for a work detail so write your names on the board and be at the Motorpool at 0530 with a bottle of water."

[@ohgodpleaseno7360]

I’d argue that quiet quitting is good for the hard workers in a way, at least in my area and industry. I’m 22 and have been a welder for the last 5 years, there’s a huge shortage of skilled young labourers, and all the boomers are either dead or retiring, so if you’re a skilled hard working young person, you can pretty much demand your wage. This is how I manage to make over 100k per year and own my own house at 22 despite no collage or handouts from parents. It is still possible, you just have to be crafty lol

[@ciklop4206]

Yooo that's sick. Wish i could have started on my electrician career earlier but my pleb-tier countrymen really hate young workers that want to learn while crying about worker shortages. 21 and i make 2k a month, while my peers working dreadful service jobs get like 500-700 lmao

[@Cramhead43]

1:25 I still love that Columbus actually believed not only was the world pear shaped, but it also had a nipple on top. What a champion of logic and ethics. /s

[@georgetapia1010]

@@xunqianbaidu6917 though in truth the earth is pear shaped not round like a perfect sphere

[@paullaing5921]

I quietly quit a couple of years ago. I was one of those people who would go above and beyond for the company I work for. I would do the extra standby, I would stay behind and work for nothing. I was happy to do it. Then the company decided that the fair thing to do was slash my salary by £6000 a year. It all stopped; I don't do anything that I used to do and I don't feel the slightest bit bad about it. You get what you pay for.

[@THERSC216]

I feel you

[@FakeJeep]

I believe "work your wage" is another term. Had one job where I quit trying to get noticed for promotion or a raise given in the five years I worked there it changed managers every 2-4 months like clockwork because corp didn't like them for x reason. Eventually left that job for one that was far better paying with a better schedule... but I get it. Mt first job I showed up to work an hour early, stayed late, worked there for six years. I did my job perfectly, never got a complaint, could do the manager's job when needed. Never got a raise, never got offered a promotion by corp, ect... I quit doing /that/.

[@smoker6683]

So many modern jobs are an absolute joke. I feel sorry for the dudes out collecting garbage or fixing the sewers, because they work damn hard and often they work non stop. They also receive barely any recognition in comparison to the rich or middle class folks with their comfortable office jobs. Obviously some office workers work insanely hard, but honestly the ones I've seen work the hardest in the office barely receive any recognition either (probably because they're keeping to themselves and actually working, instead of socializing).

[@Bloodrocutioner]

Happy Birthday Buckley 🤘 thanks for all the laughs and content through the years! 🙂 Also totally agree these days you go above and beyond for companies and they give no thanks lol no extra pay at all lmao.

[@ChrisTopher-id4mz]

4:47-4:52. Same here. I used to be the bootlicker/ "tHiS iZ tEh rEaL wOrLD sNOwFLaKe" type up until I actually started working. And with a resume that includes *a)* a crummy local cafe that literally had the same dynamic as Archer and only existed because the owner's shithead son got too many concussions to play for the NFL. *b)* a 5am-9am shift at an Amazon warehouse where I fell asleep at the wheel of my car, and was given the option of being paid to leave and never come back. *c)* two "temp-to-hire" jobs (that reneged on the "hire" part of the deal) where I filed Christmas/Holiday card prints, mailed a pallet of water to Dua Lipa, and cleaned plastic vaginas. *d)* the Home Depot and worst of all *e)* maintenance at a supermarket where my so-called supervisor was thrown an Employee of the Year party as a joke because he was so lazy, rude, and lacking in ANY standard of hygiene. I turn thirty next year and have no desire to climb the corporate ladder.

[@xSwordLilyx]

Do you mean 5 am to 9pm?

[@ChrisTopher-id4mz]

@@xSwordLilyx Amazon divided their shifts into 4 hours. So no, it was 5am to 9am. That said, because of distance, I had to wake up super early to get there. On top of that, I couldn’t catch a nap because I’d either be mentally tired but physically alert or vice versa. I also (stupidly) took night shift work (which is where I fell asleep at the wheel) under the foolish idea that I’d get more of a “work/life balance” that I wasn’t getting in my morning hours.

[@athenassigil5820]

I actually love my job (maintenance) a lot of co workers who complained or quiet quit would eventually leave or get fired. Most jobs are mundane, but never work too hard nor be a dog f'er, just pull your weight, enjoy the occasional banter and boss pep talks, because all this just gets you by and eventually leads to retirement. Then you can be as lazy as you want.....if yer lucky.

[@Oldman_toby]

I feel like corporations and companies have gotten used to over working employees and now that the employees are wising up on this your employer just has to give it a special name to those employees who are just doing what they are paid for.

[@Bloodglas]

going above and beyond your job description often means your boss will realize they can take advantage of you to do more work without giving you more money.

[@SeptimusCreed]

While I definitely agree that this isn’t a new thing, I think one nuance that needs to be considered is that many millennials and pretty much all of Gen Z got the short end of the stick when it came to when they joined the workforce. While older folks might remember a better time in the workforce, the average young person started working at a time where the value of their time was set at an all time low. It’s true that people have been “quiet quitting” for ages. But the state of wages today really explains why the idea exploded publicly the way it did.

[@AHungryHunky]

"taking long toilet breaks at work" Yo I got some news for those managers, that's definitely not a Gen Z thing, sure Gen Z might have their phones to entertain them now but the whole "do 45 minutes of actual work" is a mentality that's been around for a very, very long time. Oddly enough. st least in my experience it's usually the management and office types themselves that are the most guilty of that of course the most guilty ones are also usually the ones pointing their fingers. Turns out when your hands are idle you've got plenty of time to point. I'd like to add that, again in my own personal experience, the ones that constantly talk about giving their all, grinding for what they've got etc. are also the least likely to know what actual work looks like. They get handed everything because they have friends family higher up in the office chain and despite being worthless are usually untouchable thanks to cronyism. They'll be the ones that get the promotions, and have do-nothing title positions made up for them, and they think they actually grinded for it. Worst part is some of them convince others they are hard workers. But I should expect that, I live in the greater Pittsburgh area after all. Can't walk ten feet without seeing the name of one of the most vicious industrial capitalists plastered onto a building like he did some big favor poisoning our rivers and air and sicking armed Pinkertons on striking workers resulting in a literal shootout.

[@popularcrow2000]

I watched this tiktok(this is gonna be corny) of some old guy being like "you know what we did we did whatever it took" and saying that their generation worked harder but then people responded saying that older generations didnt need an education or work as many hours.

[@RingsOfSolace]

Happy birthday, Buckley!

[@ADoseofBuckley]

Thank you. I'm old(er).

[@designtechdk]

@@ADoseofBuckley Patreon goal for showing off your cane coming up?

[@ADoseofBuckley]

@@designtechdk Like an actual cane, or... "showing off my cane" as a euphemism? Because I think I'll need to go on a different site for that second one.

[@fizgig2016]

@@ADoseofBuckley Fetlife awaits you...

[@robwebster1098]

As a veteran, I can confirm you never volunteer for any additional duties. More often than not it is a shitt detail and you regret volunteering instantly.

[@ADoseofBuckley]

Thanks for your service and glad to hear I wasn't wrong about this one, that it wasn't just some nonsense someone told me once.

[@Torgo224]

I'm at the ripe old age of 29, right on that borderline between Gen Z and Millennial (which is funny because a good buddy of mine from college is almost 40 and we're technically the same generation but had vastly different experiences in childhood, between him being born in the 80s and me in the 90s). That said, I was told as a kid the only reward you get for working hard is more work, which is the truth. . . AND NOTHING NEW. That shit has been in economic theory literally since the dawn of time. Firms seek to maximize profits and minimize costs, and that idea has been around since Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations published in 1776. Easy way to minimize costs and maximize profits? Pay people less than they are worth/work them beyond what their job entails. Now, that said, wages have not grown at the same rate as cost of living. Factoring in inflation, price increases in goods, utilities, etc., $50k a year is not the same comfortable living wage it was in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2009, but the consumer price index has steadily increased since 2009 (albeit not tremendously but CPI is an imperfect measure at the best of times). Factor in that Millennials were sold on the lie that if you go to college and get a degree, you were basically guaranteed a good job, and I get the angst. Statistically, Millennials are the most educated generation in human history but many, many are underemployed. Most of that is based on socioeconomic changes where people are working longer, wages have remained stagnant, and it's easier to just keep people who already know what they are doing within a firm than to train new people to do shit. So, people in college now look at those my age and are like "Why the fuck am I doing this when my master's degree will get me a job at Starbuck's?" tl;dr There is a systemic problem with capitalist economies that incentivizes worker exploitation and that's nothing new, at all. Read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair to see what I'm talking about (people missed the point, it's not about animal rights as much as it is about how shitty it was to work in a slaughterhouse under dangerous, dirty conditions, get paid shit, and no one caring). What's even funnier is that at my current job, my coworkers and supervisors have told me to stop working nights and weekends because we don't get paid overtime, so maybe something is sticking (I also work for the State government so profits aren't really a thing since it's all tax money, not corporate profit, but I digress). So yeah, none of this shit is new in any way, shape, or form. And this shit is also always cyclical. Karl Marx, who, by the way, is not nearly as scary or radical as people think if you actually read the stuff he wrote, basically posited that wages will stagnate and go down, people will start quitting when they realize they're being exploited, firms will realize this, start paying more when they don't have workers to throw in the meat grinder, people start working again, and the cycle keeps repeating over and over until it eventually breaks down. Marx died in 1883, so yeah, nothing new.

[@treyebillups8602]

Never expected to see someone shouting out Marx in a comment section like this and it's a pleasant surprise

[@dylanbourgard3605]

In the Army we refer to it as "shamming" you see you will get paid your salary wage regardless of if you work less than 40 hours a week or (more likely) they beat you like a rented mule because at the end of the day that's all you really are to them. The key is finding every opportunity to not be taken advantage of

[@8BLOO8]

I think another reason why people feel this is so new is because a couple of decades ago labor unions had a lot more support and then it seemed to taper off until just recently. A lot of Gen Z grew up in an anti union time and what’s worse is that other employees at your job will try to shame you for not going the extra mile and the boss doesn’t even have to do it anymore. I feel like everyone used to hate the boss more and now it’s a lot of ass kissing. Again not entirely new concepts but I do think things like this comes in waves.

[@project9701]

You call it "quiet quitting." I call it "employees understanding that you don't give a s(YAY!)t about them." Seriously. My last job, when I started, the maximum raise I could get was about 6%. Not good, but not bad, either. After eighteen years of mergers, buy-outs of our competition, and a general market shift that made our company more vital in the travel process...4.5%. For a perfect score. Which I've had one manager tell me the only way anyone could get was by the previous approval of HR in our corporate office on the East Coast (i.e. "send in an employee evaluation with a perfect score that we haven't already said you can do, and we're going to be looking at if YOU need to be employed with us"). If you're lucky-2.5 to 3%. When we bought out one of our biggest competitors, I was told that our salaries would be bumped up to match the company we bought out. Never happened. Discovered by accident that if someone was to walk in off the street and apply for my exact job, he'd be earning about $4/hour more than I would. This was about ten years into the job, so I had ten years of raises. And, we had a steady erosion of benefits and perks. 401(K) that the company matched your contributions up to 5%? Try matching half of your contributions up to 3% (so if you wanted to get your original 10% contribution rate, you'd have to shell out about 7% of your pre-tax paycheck to your 401(K).) Negotiated low- or at-cost airline tickets with some of our clients? Gone. Vacation time and sick time folded into a single PTO account of 15 days, we'd gotten about two weeks of vacation time and a week of paid sick time before (21 days total, FYI). Oh, and two weeks jury duty pay before you had to consider using vacation time, gone as well. I recognize that employees are many businesses' biggest expense. I recognize that some people at my job should have found a job somewhere else, far away. But when you start treating your employees like this...and demand more from them...what do you expect?

[@minioli01]

I agree the concept isn't new. That being said there has been an increase in time spent at work (or working from home) and on workload from 1990's to the 2000's. I havent seen any data suggesting this has changed since then. Considering that it's pretty amazing when you ear people talking about the good old days where they worked all day when we know that people actually work more now than they did then. We also notice an increase in adverse health effects : depression anxiety disorder, insomnia, muscular aches and pain. Considering that, good on people for setting limits. Perhaps they could consider unionizing so their bosses can't punish them for setting limits but that's another debate.

[@pfannkuchesindgeil5348]

Gen Z starts at '96

[@NotoriousLightning]

Stop being childlike. It's 97.

[@pfannkuchesindgeil5348]

@@NotoriousLightning How is that being childish?

[@ADoseofBuckley]

All generations are kinda like this where there's lots of dispute over where it begins and ends. I'm in a weird spot myself... I'm either the oldest Millennial, or the youngest Gen Xer. Some people my age, to try and feel special, call themselves X-lennials. So, yeah, 96, 97, the point's pretty much the same... they've mostly been in school up until now, and most of them have only been in the "real world" for a few years (they may have had part time student jobs before that, and there are going to be a small minority who may have even been just working full time straight since they've been 15 and they've been in the work force for 10 years now) but either way, they're just discovering things that other generations have known about for years... mainly that there's no loyalty, bosses don't care about you. Only what you can do to advance their careers.

[@efficiencygaming3494]

I always personally disagreed with the definition of Gen Z starting at '96 or '97 because that never really made much sense to me. Doesn't the term "Millennial" imply someone born up until the year 2000? To me, anyone born after 2000 would be Gen Z.

[@michaelserwetnyk1607]

Always love when Buckley finds a reason to include references to classic Simpsons episodes

[@kikicogger2284]

To anyone starting out in the workforce: you have a right to your lunch, your breaks, your vacations and sick days. You are not being lazy/not having a good work ethic or loyalty; they are YOUR rights and benefits. If your job can’t handle the workflow without you, that is THEIR fault, not yours. The only true benefit to not making those boundaries is to the company who is getting you to give them free labor.

[@eltiolavara9]

thankfully "quiet quitting" (what a terrible name) is the standard here, nobody really makes work their personality. its just a thing you do

[@nanamama152]

D'awwwww, Buckley man. I just wanted to give you a hug after I heard you talking about your job. You wouldn't take the hug, of course, cause you're an angry asshole, but it's the thought that counts, right? Also, that is actually pretty solid job advice right there.

[@ravenRedwake]

A fellow grocery guy does-I don’t know what, I don’t care, as I posted before I work alone most of the time, and I don’t have any authority over him. He basically gets paid to run through the back, make fun of the meat department guys who he has some kind of grudge with, and hating on kids. I used to think I was an angry person, coming from nightshift but I seem to be pretty balanced. I also bathe and launder my clothes regularly. Guy makes me laugh though. Some of the furthest right wing shit you’ll ever hear, like somebody from fourchan but in real life. Like I don’t like rainbow Nazis, but this guy fucking hates them.

[@TheBrianp1]

Duck and Cover does help. They won't help at ground 0 and won't make a difference if you are 200 miles away but otherwise... I would get into it, but what's the point.

[@bbmul1572]

I don’t think Gen Z came up with the name to be honest. I’m pretty sure it’s something employers have been using to exaggerate how little their employees are doing.

[@WerewolfGuyyy]

I prefer the term "minimum wage gets minimum effort" You want your employee to care about their job, give them a reason to care than the bare minimum or that'll all you grtllet back. Supply and demand works both ways

[@mswishwashstoning8450]

If you worked hard in the past, perhaps you could get extra money that would make a difference to your living. Now everything is inflated and young generation knows "hardwork" aka unpaid extra labour, or minimally paid work, isn't gonna improve your way of living. And on top of that, there are additional new worries that every generation experience. So why tf would youngster work more than they are required to for no reason and instead, just use that time for their own mental health.

[@treyebillups8602]

Do not work a fucking minute past the end of your contract-designated shift if your employer isn't offering the legally required overtime pay for it. Also, please join a union if one is available at your workplace.

[@DannyGast]

I thought quiet quitting was just the opposite of rage quitting, thanks for the explanation Dr. Buckley

[@Kackpuh]

It literally has been a staple of labor disputes in Germany for 40 years. Here it is called "innere Kündigung" (mental quitting).

[@johntousseau9380]

Navy veteran here. It's true. We used to say Navy stood for never again volunteer yourself. Or we'd say our real job in the Navy was skating. And whoever could skate their way out of the most work was the master skater.

[@SuperFeefer]

I've worked at Arbys for almost 5 years and for the past 2 I have been doing the work of 3 people myself due to a combination of being short staffed and coworkers being slow as hell leaving me to pick up the slack. I worked split shifts, stayed many hours later than originally scheduled and even worked on my days off and what did it get me? It got me my hours slashed in half when they hired 2 new people.

[@qunt100]

I feel that lol. Mcdonalds for 10 years wasn't any better. Sucked alot of ass.

[@marissaclaudio6318]

My understanding is that companies called it "quit quiting" and that the kids just heard it and said "yup".

[@nathanmeagher7869]

I would assume the "acting your wage" tweet was because quiet quitting sounds like some corporate dysphemism to make it sound like a bad thing to only do what you are asked of

[@digitalzealot7026]

Weee I'm gen z 🤗 I hate getting ads for the army or seeing random posts from millennials and gen x like "Gen z thinks they have it tough???" Like, what did I do? Most of us just became adults!!! Its like the millennial-hate all over again 😭. I guess I'm not really in the regular demographic of this channel anyway but whatever

[@rjframe4410]

its not Gen Z that gave it that name. Its corpo media giving it that name to put some shame on it. Changing it to "acting your wage" is to take that shame and dump it back in managements lap for expecting more and not paying more

[@designtechdk]

Consistently great content from Buckley!

[@johndoeing]

work sucks ass. I bet the first person to cultivate wheat instead of running after a deer for 2 days for food called it working from home.

[@jcspoon573]

Buckley, the Navy has it best in their own name acronym: Never Again Volunteer Yourself.

[@Porschop]

The term I have heard since joining union mills was "coasting". A lot of the 57+ year olds doing the bare minimum until they retire. Same thing just focused on the soon to be retired boomers

[@AntiVectorTV]

Definitely the waking up thing is called "You snooze you lose."

[@yourbeardlybro5887]

Boomer: “Gen Z needs to work harder and stop being so lazy, stop with the Quiet Quitting nonsense!” Gen Z: “Didn’t you attend Woodstock? Weren’t you a part of the hippy lifestyle? Im sure hippies worked very hard at their 9 to 5 jobs.! I’m sure you had a very work centric attitude back then” Boomer: 😡

[@galwhite7011]

Damn I can’t believe I’m still laughing at your videos after like 10 years of being subbed

[@HuskerNinja]

I would second the "at least try to find something you don't hate." I worked in the service industry for a couple years during college and despised every second of it, but now I'm much happier at work even though I work more than I did then simply because I love what I do. If you can find a job that doesn't make you completely miserable it does help, but even if you have your "dream job" you can't just be working 24/7. You have to take *some* time for yourself to refresh mentally and keep from burning out, and not wanting to go above and beyond even if it's to your own personal detriment doesn't make you lazy.

[@goosewithagibus]

I always ask "Why should I do more than the bare minimum?" and I've never gotten a good answer lol

[@elitalks258]

Okay, I will say this as many times as I need to: Employment is not truly voluntary under capitalism. If your choice is "work or starve" then it's not really a choice. Instead of the state putting a gun to your head to force compliance, the state withholds basic needs from you to force compliance.

[@georgetapia1010]

I hear the Chinese are doing it too but they call it "laying flat" or smthn

[@mnspstudioful]

Gen-X who has worked for multiple corporations with "loyalty" metrics and language that showed zero loyalty to me but expected me to show loyalty to them by volunteering, working outside of my shifts and duties, taking on management responsibilities, etc. I was let go from one after multiple positive awards, commendations, and promotions because I ultimately called in sick... while I was sick... with a doctor's note and prescription. And from another after I reported a manager for fraternizing with his hourly employees in the cage at the local dance club (and ultimately taking two of them home, according to his divorce papers; he's still employed with that business 15 years later). "Quiet Quitting" isn't new but it's yet one more thing the media is determined to convince their viewers is solely caused by Gen-Z. It's Gen-Z's "avocado toast".

[@nslouka90]

Employment is definitely not "100% voluntary" or why would banks start asking so many questions when you deposit too much cash, or landlords won't rent to you unless you have a steady job.

[@VanBourner]

Hey this is a cool "trend". I support quiet quitting. I quietly quit myself, we just used to call it burning out except not every burned out, we just realised that there's no need to give any additional value when not even a fraction of the benefits do not go to us. Working retail made me quiet quit. Now when I work in the office, I do the bare minimum in 2-3 hours and then fart around on the internet until it is 6PM.

[@PrincessKLS]

Thanks for explaining this, I was wondering what it was. I'm a Xennial which is basically an older Gen Y Millennials. I remember when I was young and trying to secure stable work in during the Bush economy in an economically depressed region of the US. I ended up going on disability (also because employers are still more likely to discriminate against disabled employees despite the law), but when I did work, I felt like I was being taken advantage of and one place I worked at tried to basically make me the work horse and cover for the "lazy" older people's left overs and not pay me more than the minimum wage (back when it was $5.15 an hour). It was also a part time job for me too. Also when I would hit the pavement and apply everywhere, I felt like I had to obsess over seeming like the perfect "prospective employee" and it was stressful and impossible for me to basically "be fake" and try to appear normal. My boomer and abusive mom kept putting me down for it too. But at the time, based on the conversation I had online with other millennials and the classes I took at a work readiness program I joined to help me, it seemed like the attitude was work your f*cking ass off and act as if you love it there and want to be there. Also there was this attitude going around from the Boomers and older generations claiming that us millennials were selfish and lazy and I feel like to compensate for that stereotype we would try to work ourselves to the bone and overdo ourselves to prove we weren't. At least in the already labor intensive minimum wage jobs, we did that.

[@xSwordLilyx]

I am also 'disabled' and able to work with 'reasonable accomodations'. I have been pretty lucky to have a boss who seems to know what rights I have without being told I know legally what I am entitled to, lets me eat when I need to, always gives me breaks, has been even more forgiving to one of my coworkers, sometimes I even get sent home early. My bf wonders why I am terrified of changing jobs. I have no way of knowing how a new boss will treat me. I have migraines, I was diagnosed after starting my job, and I have been allowed to pull down the blinds even though I don't think they like the aesthetic, to take a minute to eat or sit down. When I first started getting them I had to tough out a bit and get sent home early a lot, I got brainstem aura a lot so I wouldn't even really be functional. I have been able to take paid sick days for very bad migraines. I also have a bladder condition and I have been able to use the bathroom whenever I need to and have been very proud to never have peed my pants at work. I would every day if I worked for Bezos. I have read The Migraine Brain and thouroughly absorbed the section on rights under the ADA. My only frontier at the moment is getting the chair put back in the back, there is no longer room for it with the new table, I really need a private place to sit when I get my dizzy spells. I have been unapologetically sitting on a ladder when I do my counts at shift end.

[@Dribbleondo]

3:02 I am uncomfortable with that...voice...

[@bane2201]

People saying "young people bad" (lazy, don't save, etc.) are in a long lineage of "bad young people". “The beardless youth… does not foresee what is useful, squandering his money.” - Horace, in the _1st century BCE!_

[@bugjuicereviews]

I'm a second year teacher. The amount of veteran teachers that will see me in my room even 30 minutes past the end of school and tell me to "Go home. Don't spend your time here" used to be almost scary. I understand why they say don't be at school all the time, but I'm still new and figuring things out. Maybe next year, when I actually the stuff I'm going to do put together, I'll leave earlier. But for now, I stay until a set time after school and leave then. Or earlier if I have it all done already. Trying to give myself time, while also getting things done.

[@THERSC216]

Teachers like me are burned out after a year. The hate we get from admins and parents is sickening. I dont blame people for quitting teaching like that guy who quit teaching and became a Walmart manager.

[@averythegamer4949]

When I was working for zehrs and they started treating me like shit I immediately stopped putting in the extra effort. If a company is going to shit in my cornflakes at work while ignoring my college availability and force me to bike work after 1 hour of sleep (I worked night shifts, hence my availability being very important) then they don't deserve more than the bear minimum. If you hire a college student, knowing they're a student and then after finding out they're trans IMMEDIATELY start fucking with their work schedule to force them to choose between going to work and going to college then the business can fuck off. Contrast that with my job after where I was working a temp job in a flower greenhouse and my bosses were wonderful and took scheduling seriously, treated me fairly and were paying higher than minimum wage and I put in a ton of extra effort there. I did so good there that they even extended my contract an extra month and a half after the season ended. It's almost like if companies don't treat people like shit and actively fuck them over then employees will be happier and more likely to go that extra mile and be more productive. Funny how entirely too many canadian companies still try and run their businesses like american factories and then throw tantrums when no one will even apply to their job postings anymore because all their former employees were honest about how shit they are to work for.

[@xSwordLilyx]

I put entirely open availability so I would be hired, then slowly I decided I would not work saturdays despite my guilt about it due to stressful chronic understaffing and my responsibilities at home (I work every sunday and that is also understaffed and busy and I definitely need saturday to brace myself), then recently I was put on the eaaarly shifts without reliable transportation, like 5 a week, nobody asked me if this was okay, undersleeping also gives me migraines, and sometimes very long shifts for seemingly no reason, so I changed it so I could only do 3 a week, and not late shifts a lot either, I have regretted nothing less in my life. I am already getting less migraines and I still hardly have to deal with the problem person who works nights and if they give me an issue and don't treat me with respect one more time I will be having a sit down with the big guy. They have always had someone who can take a couple of these days a week but for some reason they always chose to pick one poor bastard and drill them into the ground, when they thought they could take it. My availabilty is really wonky now and I had to think about it for like an hour to get it right and I was so tired when I wrote it it's kind of hard to read 😂 I could not go another day like that!😭 Also if I get a close open scheduled one more time I will literally refuse to work it, I don't care why, this is just inhumane and nobody asked if it was okay and it's always been just long enough in between so that I think it won't happen again I have been having less migraines already, been having a much better home life/ ability to get to laundry and such and I still get to work usually 5 days and make decent money I also literally did 3 jobs on one of my recent shifts and when we hadn't been completely done with everything, the essentials were done, but several people were allowed to go home, and my ride had to go, I was 10 minutes past my scheduled time, I refused to keep working. I didn't ask just inform I had to leave. I know we were down a dude but did you call anyone in to cover? Sounds like your problem now, you get paid to put up with this crap. I've been working till midnight and stranded and it's not happening again. Dude I have seriously walked 30 mins to work in the cold at 4 am it is awfulll, noooooo, trying to work and your limbs are numb 🌚🥶

[@averythegamer4949]

@@xSwordLilyx For me, I was fired from zehrs without warning a few days after I got back from being sick with covid. I showed up for the night shift by taking the bus to the store, punched in and my punch was denied. No grocery managers were in so I assumed they just changed my schedule without telling me for the second time that week just to fuck me over like usual. Issue is, the bus I took to get there was the last bus of the night and I lived on the complete other side of Niagara falls. That's an over 2 hour walk on a good night, but this was in February and niagara falls doesn't plow their fucking sidewalks so it took me over 4 hours to walk home in the freezing cold. I get back home, wait for the store to open and immediately call the store owner asking what the fuck his managements problem was changing my schedule without warning and making me have to walk home like that. And apparently I had been fired that day and they just never told me. I asked why I was fired and he says it's because I missed too many shifts in a row without calling. You know, after I called in sick with covid and had to self isolate for 2 weeks. The real kicker? We have another trans staff member who also worked in my department, the entire time I was sick with covid, she wasn't once even scheduled even though management is constantly complaining about how understaffed they are. So they started fucking with my schedule ever since they found out I was trans and actively refused to schedule another trans person even when severely understaffed, only scheduling her AFTER they fired me for being a minority who got covid and had to follow provincial self isolation rules. Also the zehrs union sided with management on this case, so that should tell you all you need to know about union UFCW 175 & 633.

[@darkknight7545]

My birthday is the 4th!!!! Probably why I agree with most of the videos Buckley posts lol The line from Office Space most people related to was “it’s not that I hate my job… I just don’t care” lol. I was in the military (Navy)… one of the first things I learned when I got out to the fleet, navy stands for Never Again Volunteer Yourself. The subordinates do all the dirty work, supervisors do the paperwork and get the awards and accolades. You get paid pretty much the same depending on rank regardless so why go above and beyond when someone else is getting the credit?