Defending Gen Z

[@thenoelmiller]

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[@jasonvargas7564]

Never

[@DiloenKarsten]

That would make my FBI guy sad

[@stalepork1309]

Did they make you use the peace emoji

[@kesfedor8930]

it's hilarious how quick it went from millennials to gen-z being hated on. it really just is the circle of life. we will never bypass the generational hate lmaoooo

[@whatislife3603]

Ikr

[@jdrummerdd]

Its blowing my mind, i turn 26 in a week, and in the span of 4 years I've gone from being called a lazy millenial by boomers to a soft Zoomer by millenials, its fuckin wild.

[@lusilverrr]

gen alpha already getting hate lmfao fucking ipad babies

[@nperegri]

As a millennial, I'm doing my best to defend y'all from being shit on the way we were ruthlessly shit on for just about everything for the last decade or so. But it's honestly kind of nice to be out of the spotlight.

[@SquishyTheBerries]

@@nperegri enjoy your time away from that spotlight. Older people that have become bitter and resentful from life seem to always hate the younger generations for one reason or another. It used to be millennials and now it's gen z. We'll get shit on for a few years and then they'll move on to something else. I'm honestly hopeful; I believe that as society collectively grows more compassionate (as it seems to be doing) eventually this generational hate will stop. Anyways you seem like a lovely person and I'm sure it's wonderful to have that negativity die down a bit.

[@paulbeck2186]

As a millennial and a veteran... Any job that requires constant interaction with customers and the public in general, are always harder jobs. Because, generally speaking, people suck.

[@tn-7044]

Millennial and a veteran?? Thanks for your service in Ukraine man🫡

[@vaishuc518]

​@@tn-7044😭😭

[@yobroc6616]

Bro tell me about I worked at target and I also served. The micromanagement was insane and just expected so much for new workers while my millennial counterparts did nothing lol

[@psychoticbreaks167justletm4]

Its straight up emotional labor. I did a decade of it. Now in my 30s I do skilled work with my hands where the people skills DO take you far, but the level of "people-load" isnt remotely comparable. For me to even do entry level retail ever again, I need $30/hr to compensate for the wear and tear from the stress of putting on a face for people who dont appreciate it for hours at a time. THAT in itself is a true labor. I dig in the sun sometimes as part of my work... and that is less strenuous... less hard on my body even. Pays a lot better too... good benefits, steady schedule, ample pto. The other part of retail stress is the compounding poverty stress. Between that dynamic and erratic, inflexible scheduling, it kind of consumes your life just to leave you at bear minimum. The health impact of jobs working with the public is far reaching, long term. Insidious in the net physical/mental toll. I spent my 20s feeling 60 and got out of retail to start feeling 18 in my 30s. Its like a form of imprisonment for your very being. It really hits you on all sides.

[@sentimentist]

@@tn-7044 oldest millennials were born in 1981, old enough to fight both in afghan and iraq wars

[@nicxlaus]

Learning that Best Buy employees don't make sales commission was the scariest part of this video

[@halatiny6537]

Right they are always so accommodating and attentive.

[@melz4766]

THEY DON’T?! they why are they always up ur literal ass when I’m just trying on headphones… 🙂

[@Sofus-o3n]

@@halatiny6537too much, there’s a point where customer service become too much/annoying and Best Buy checks that box

[@TheCakeisHere]

I used to work there. The people who work there are NOT mentally well. Sales at that level is a different beast.

[@zan5479]

we indeed do not

[@roverloid]

i went from having a $12/hr retail job to working a $23/hr 12 hour night-shift building power modules and managing 5 lines of production, and im still 100% convinced that my retail job will always be the hardest job ive ever had in my life. its insane how we get paid less the more traumatizing the work is.

[@roverloid]

at my retail job, this man who was a regular gave me a "business opportunity" for his company and his business card saying i should come over and discuss working for him. told a few people in town, and turns out hes a serial rapist. at my manufacturing job, i once slept in my car for 6 hours and got paid for it bc there wasnt any work to do. crazy.

[@elizabethlyloo]

@@roverloidthat took such a dark turn

[@camerontessier6850]

Regarding the last video on this, I think two things can be true at once: a tough work environment can definitely be emotionally taxing, and filming yourself having a meltdown about working 30 hours a week for all of social media to see is corny as hell

[@bakerm4ker]

real

[@stupidbroad]

right, like go home and have a mental breakdown alone in your room like every other normal retail worker...

[@Jaestarexplodes]

Yes as we know, being a full time college student and working 40 hour weeks and being overwhelmed because of it is corny. Using the biggest tool for social engagement to express unrest of the way we are treated by corporations isn’t corny. It’s the only thing you can do. Bootlicking is corny

[@8harts]

@@Jaestarexplodes saying filming yourself in public places is corny=bootlicking your genius must truly be studied

[@RonniV2]

​@jsblackchalk1551 there's a huge difference between filming yourself having an actual mental breakdown in public (cringe & corny), and expressing your frustration with your job when you're sound of mind (normal).

[@jane3538]

i feel like after working in customer service for a long enough time you reach a point where you stop processing anything and instead of crying in the freezer you just stare at a wall for five minutes

[@Me-vn3gz]

mood (and i’ve only been in cs for 6 months)

[@JerseyJake98]

I went from internally suffering to just looking at the invisible sitcom camera recording me at work

[@nathangaspacio6128]

Not sure if it's just american culture but I work in customer service in New Zealand and it's pretty chill.

[@klmpore4334]

Or you join the military cause I'd rather get shot in the face than work at McDonald's again 😅💀

[@nathangaspacio6128]

@@klmpore4334 i think star bucks, mcdonalds, and other branch chain food/drink places have to be the worst jobs out there

[@HeisenbergFam]

Noel saying "retail job" and laughing like a Disney villain is gold. Nice to see great--grandpas like Noel defending Gen Z

[@ghost8214]

here u are again

[@DS-nw4eq]

Please go away

[@YoungChildSupport420]

​@@ghost8214it's more of a tradition at this point

[@cassidyb.3531]

Thank you for defending 93% of your audience

[@Binstabih]

Came here to comment that 😂😂

[@Binstabih]

@@brianbaker5590take ur pills

[@AmY-gm2qs]

of which 100% are female lol

[@TheCheemstar]

@@AmY-gm2qsnah

[@vaishuc518]

100%*

[@TheGander]

It’s not that gen z doesn’t want to work. It’s that we don’t want to be abused💀 so many jobs put us through hell and back and we can’t even afford the cheapest rent out there. My brother had to work three different jobs to even consider affording housing. Btw he was 18. A child working three jobs bc they only payed 12$ per hour. A lot of older people look at us like we’re lazy but in reality we have to work three times as hard to even make a fraction of what they were making.

[@oogaboogass]

While also doing college which is hell in the first place...is messed up

[@mochabearry]

@@sliyan6726Wellcare. Welfare. Get therapy through that, honestly.

[@RedsHitpostMedia]

It it isnt that the wages are different its that in Boomer times that wage could raise a family of 4 and buy a house and then have the audacity to say their life was harder while they keep voting more policies and politicians putting us in debt while they die rich

[@RadiumX]

As a former Starbucks barista of 2 years, I can confidently say that the Starbucks kid is right. Working there has made me incredibly good at handling stressful situations. I was literally just having this conversation not too long ago with a coworker who also happened to have worked at Starbucks before. It's weird how, of all jobs, that helped me the most in terms of stress management lol

[@nathangaspacio6128]

I work in checkouts at a super market and I'm much better at small talk with strangers now.

[@Jordan-X]

If Starbucks is the pinnacle of hard work for Gen Z, we are fucked as a nation

[@emmyluly4620]

@@Jordan-Xyou are so dramatic

[@Jordan-X]

@@emmyluly4620 It’s because I’m part of Gen Z, Emmy

[@nelthon9005]

@@Jordan-Xcringe

[@Peepee4brain]

Reacting to the doggo thing is SO FUCKING REALLLL. I’m 24 and the youngest coworker above me was like 38. All moms. It was unironic emojis, doggos, minions, Disney adults. And I played along HARD. It was a dark time.

[@NohaTheEpic]

Same bro, if I see one more Office gif I’m going to lose it

[@Michan4206]

Reading the words "Disney Adult" made me recoil in disgust.

[@trentrushmusic]

thank you for your service

[@goo_dragon]

I'm the youngest in my department (also 24) and in addition to what you said it's customary for new hires to be spammed with "i can haz cheezburger" style cat memes. I share your pain

[@nmoney000]

As a 28 year old, i don't understand the emojis and minions. I also don't understand gen z slang or Tik Tok. I am always confused by all my coworkers lol

[@Ovasiig]

I have worked food service since I was 14. When I tell you I have some stories I mean it. First dude got it perfectly. Older people will complain about us then leave us with more work, talk down to us, and then get mad when we tell them fuck off don’t treat me like your tool. It’s not that most gen z people don’t wanna work it’s that we don’t want to be given extra for less then disrespected like we don’t do more

[@almondtea4704]

I feel like food service and retail are a completely different ball game. That’s just my personal experience

[@Kitykitycoco]

I worked corporate, security, and work at a lab currently. It doesn't end. The only way to prevent it is to pretend to be incompetent enough to make them never ask you again

[@v496K]

Retail is bad but food service is the 9th circle of hell

[@gonk9204]

Well said, im so damn fed up of being expected to carry more workload because im more efficient and competant then the older staff WHILST still being disrespected and treated like less then them ALL DUE TO MY AGE, especially when i worked in jobs where i was also paid less for being in the 16-18 wage bracket. Its a load of BS. I wouldnt mind doing more then them if they atleast respected me for it, but it was always the utter lack of gratitude or respect that got to me. I never even needed a thank you, i just wanted to be treated as equal if nothing else.

[@evelynleila8563]

yess very well saidd

[@dobbysafreeelf]

Bruh I've been WAITING for this one. I started working at starbucks during covid and I have some pretty awful stories. I now work at Starbucks HR and once my contract ends in October I'm never going back. The amount of times I had to clean up drugs in our bathroom or file incident reports was insane. I wanted to work at starbucks to make a silly little latte, but I wasn't even prepared for the shit I'd have to deal with. I had 5 managers within a year at the same store because none of them could put up with how shit our store was, so it was up to the employees to do damage control. Once I made it to the SSC I then truly realized how out of touch corporate people were with their own company. They had no idea how bad the store environments were, and talked about our jobs as if they were less important than their 3 day work weeks that made more money than I did in a month. I was making $14.20 when I started, and before I left retail I was making $16. If it was up to me, baristas would AT LEAST be making $19-20 an hour. Customers assumed we were racking in tips, and I was making an average of $9 every 2 weeks. If I could get every barista to boycott starbucks I would, as well as the customers but I know that won't happen because every middle aged woman is addicted to their 1000 calorie $15 latte.

[@skullpixiedust]

LITERALLY Starbucks is BS. These types of fast food jobs where they expect you to work your ass off, physically and mentally taking advantage of you, while not making a live-able wage… It’s insane. Being 17 and being yelled at and insulted by grown ass people over coffee as a regular occurrence does something to you. Not to mention the creeps that you can’t do anything about because sbux makes you baby every single customer.. Having people get irrationally mad over the tip screen that Starbucks forces us to have so they don’t have to actually pay us right… bullshit

[@sav_asanas]

Fancy seeing a fellow partner in the comments - I’m an SM. Would love to “connect” with you about SSC opportunities, I feel the exact same way about the state of the company but getting out of store and into partner resources is the dream.

[@bluemystery9723]

But was making the silly little lattes still fun? 😢 I've only ever wanted to work at Starbucks because I feel like the learning and creating of the drinks seems fun. Does it lose its shine very quickly?

[@becca-tg5pn]

@@bluemystery9723i worked at starbucks for about 6 months and i loved it. i worked there because i liked making drinks. my boss wasn't as bad as what i hear, but it is a lot of work. i had to close alone some nights and there was always a rush before close. some nights i would come home hours late because there was just so much work. nonetheless i recommend working there! teaches you time management, teamwork, and you'll have fun making the silly little lattes

[@Smew-eow]

Currently a barista and making silly little lattes is what keeps me going. Sometimes these lattes are unbearable (like getting 5 Brown Sugar Shaken espressos in a row, with one espresso machine down for cleaning- i am still not over it), but all in all I never thought making coffee would become a passion project for me until I started working for Starbucks. Now i want my black apron and to someday work at a reserve store! @@bluemystery9723

[@kingkojinn]

Ive never worked at Starbucks but I did work at Caribou Coffee and just recently quit. That shit about Gen Z doing literally everything while all of the managers and older people are sitting around doing nothing is so real. I would be busting my ass so we could close on time, and when I’d talk to them about how stressed I was, they’d just give me some half-assed encouragement and go back to being on their phones or sitting on their ass in the back instead of fucking helping

[@veraaa8838]

Working in customer service was the worst 😭 the amount of fake laughter, repeated “jokes”, creepy old men, and crackheads is crazy

[@myfriendscallmekat]

Emphasis on creepy old men!

[@Quadrophiniac]

8:04 As a 33 year old millennial, if you are the older person taking advantage of a kid just because people did that to you, you are still a garbage human. The cycle will never end if that's how everybody acts

[@jarethlarwood6445]

"They did it to me though!" Like "yeah, now you're just as bad as them.

[@noabrand1256]

It’s obviously a joke bro

[@badusername9903]

this a certified 33 y/o millennial comment

[@H34DSHOT619]

Yeah but it’s funny tho

[@aria_lu7762]

It's a canon event you can't do anything but laugh

[@cbug01]

I used to be a barista at a 24h drive thru Starbucks. I was also treated like I stormed Normandy. One time during a rush an Army recruiter gave me his card and told me he felt like I had amazing potential, no joke

[@damienkphoto]

That'd honestly be enough to pull me right in that shit lmao

[@paige2853]

Food service is 100% the worst job I will have ever worked. 12 hr shifts, no breaks, no sitting down, etc. Office jobs are so easy. I always get my work done in 1/2 of the time it takes others because 1/2 of office jobs are ppl socializing at their desks and I’ve always been the youngest person so I don’t have much to talk about with them

[@CovertCrow]

Try working in an association where all approvals need to go through the entire organization including the board. You'll never have a minute to yourself.

[@aprithot]

Nah most regular sit-down food service isn’t the worst, mainly because the tips and regulars can make it worth it. It’s fast food adjacent places that are straight from hell.

[@dachi1of1]

nice job getting worked around bro

[@kaitlynblount7683]

Yeah man working in customer service jobs as a woman, shit like that last story is super common. The fact that she had hope and wanted some sort of defense from her boss or managers, or even sympathy from coworkers, is what makes me sad. She absolutely should've gotten support, but I'm sure it's easy for the older people to just dismiss her and act like she's being too sensitive. As a grizzled millennial of 32 years, I just wanna give her a (consensual) hug and tell her I'm sorry. It shouldn't be so common, and your employers SHOULD protect you. I feel like a lot of women my age have just grown accustomed to casual sexual harassment, so they probably look at gen z women who actually expect accountability as annoying or privileged. It's not fair at all. Just because a lot of us sucked it up and dealt with it doesn't mean its okay. I hope they all stand up for themselves. I hope they keep speaking up. Because the culture of just shutting up and dealing with it is horrible. I work in a grocery store on the front end, I recently had a guy talking to me about how he'd like to pull my hair during sex. There's another guy that touches or tugs on my hair or braid every time he comes in. Too many older men will "accidentally" touch my ass or brush their hands over my chest. A maybe 80 something dude fully asked to take me on vacation with him.. I don't think men realize how common this shit is and how absolutely awful it is. And since I'm a "customer service lead" at my job, I often just smile and pretend it's fine. Definitely contributing to the problem but I also don't wanna be the one who raises the issue or dismisses a dude and then gets followed to my car when my shift ends, you know.

[@alyeam2673]

This fr. A coworker touched my ass one day, I’m talking full on booty cheek grab, and my mom had the audacity to say that she used to work with a guy that would do the same thing to her all the time and it was “just his way of being friendly,” aka defending his actions. She really said I was over reacting to him touching my ass :/. HR didn’t fire him till waaaaay later but that’s only because after I told HR about him, 5 other girls came forward and said he did the same thing to them

[@wildboar67]

@@Fred72355 grow up.

[@Artisticspells]

My manager will smack my butt with papers or talk about it and make sexual jokes about me and says it’s fine because I like girls even tho I told her I don’t like anyone doing it , also once had a weird male coworker who would talk about how thick I was and I told her it made me uncomfortable and she said “just don’t tell hr until I can hire new people” 😅

[@olispinoli]

I'm a tad younger than you and work in a STEM field. Experienced the same shit day after day since undergrad. I used to think "welp. It just comes with the territory," until experienceing situations kept getting worse and worse eventually leading to SA+ by a coworker. Reported it to HR and filed police report. All HR did was recommend therapy. Took a new job in a new city and the pattern started up again. Even with me putting up concrete boundaries, the old fucks said nasty things and would "accidentally" touch me or tug my hair. Reported this to HR multiple times. A couple of the men admitted to HR that they did what I said. Nothing was done other than assign them virtual sensitivity training once a year. Started talking to the only other women (3 of us total) in the whole division who just happened to be Gen Z. They also were experiencing it and were scared to speak up. We all quit within a few months and now the division is in the process of dissolving because of sexual harassment issues and project mismanagement. I hear you about being terrified of retribution. It's real. I've received threats myself when I've spoken up. Much empathy to you

[@kaitlynblount7683]

@@Fred72355 listen I was on my Adderall shit ok, I like to ramble, lmao.

[@kitxkat4]

as a 21yo gen z adult who has also worked in retail hell (had a grown man call me a f***ing b***h for refusing to provide him a service after he made a racist comment about another customer in the store) I can attest to being emotionally and mentally drained from interactions with old people. however, you can expose what your work is like WITHOUT recording yourself having a breakdown

[@doid4354]

Yeah the worst part of my job was racist/sexist or entitled customers. I wouldnt post a breakdown online because I know I would be torn apart. But I would be open about how screwed up people are when you’re kind to them and trying to do your job. Genuinely scared of another job like that because I dont know how to handle the dirty looks and inappropriate questions about what race I am.

[@KristenZianourry2015]

Yeah its never not weird or cringe to post ur breakdowns

[@DankDavee]

I did valet for a VA hospital in 2019, we had a slow day once and some lady called the cops on me saying “there’s a suspicious man standing by the valet tent” cop came up to me while I was working and was like “you know how old ppl are blah blah, you’re good”

[@kitxkat4]

@@DankDavee that's insane

[@bananaduck14]

I have the utmost respect for any retail worker. I think I manage stress and emotional tiredness pretty well but I know for a fact that almost any retail job would most likely break me

[@SamogitianJesus]

Try working in an airport bro. I thought retail was awful before, but when I started working as a traveler service agent I knew I was in for a whole different latitude of bullshit. For context I mainly worked at the check in and boarding. People would forget to bring passports and cry because they cant fly to a foreign country. Once this woman had a suitcase bit over the weight limit and had to pay like 50$ or she wouldnt be flying so she of course started pleading that she doesnt have any money, asking for managers, screaming etc. When my manager told me she wont be flying unless she pays, she proceeded to cry and then fucking fake-fainted. Then her visibly embarrased husband came from who knows where and asked me quietly how much he has to pay. He paid the 50$, then took a big gulp of water from his water bottle and just spat it on his wifes face who was still lying on the ground. They gave each other hugs, the wife went on to the boarding/secure area and her husband disappeared back into shadows. This is just one of the stories, there are many of people joking about bombs (felony btw), trying to fly with obviously fake passports, just in general retarded people. Retail has nothing on this shit.

[@juwairiyahummabdullah]

10 years ago working retail was really chill, i doubt that it changed much unless you work in a horrible area

[@bananaduck14]

@@juwairiyahummabdullah I mean it might just be me, but I feel like ever since covid, people have been ruder and more publicly mean. Like karens and stuff I feel like are more popular, alongside actual violence, so I do feel like it's harder to work in retail these days

[@ihaveakirbyobessesion2617]

@@SamogitianJesus i thought the tsa was like that family guy episode with meg

[@nathangaspacio6128]

@@juwairiyahummabdullah I think it depends on your place of work and your role. I work at check-outs in a supermarket and it's pretty fast-paced and sometimes stressful but for the most part I just scan items and talk to people. Occasionally I get a grumpy person but they exist for like 5 minutes then I never see them again. However, everyone else at my work treats checkouts like a warzone because their jobs are way more chill and at their own pace, getting to take longer breaks, etc. I also live in New Zealand and mostly serve nice old people which probably helps a lot.

[@rachelcarpenter1956]

Previous starbucks barista turned shift supervisor here and can say, it was horrible and may have been the worst 2 years of my life. I’ve had drinks, straws, (another employee had chewed gum) and other things thrown at me. A customer shit and spread it all over our walls. Men would harass the female baristas because they were stuck making their drinks on the bar and the men would stand and stare/watch and talk to them and there was no where to go (and don’t even think for a second the higher ups would do ANYTHING with our complaints). Baristas would be crying in the back room or on the floor making drinks SOBBING because of the way entitled people treated them, and we weren’t allowed to snap back at customers or let customers take any blame. We were expected to just make their drink with a smile and move on. Our managers only cared about shorting the time in the drive thru and how quickly we could make a fucking latte. I would work til 11pm and be told I need to come in at 4am and open and my job was at risk if I didn’t come in. I was 17 and 18 during the entirety of my starbucks employment and it was my first job. It ruined a lot of how I felt towards working but I found I truly DO love working, it was just starbucks that was so fucking awful. edit: I made 12 dollars an hour.

[@Mr_Mistah]

Sounds like the average Starbucks to me

[@dunno-19]

Noel's voice paired with the smooth different angle cuts give this video such a nice, meditative, transfixing quality. I love it.

[@tmvandr]

being a barista is tough, but once you end up at a drive thru it's an entirely different beast. I had full drinks chucked at me through the window, a lit cigarette, old men waiting on the patio after we closed to follow us to our cars. absolute nightmares.

[@nickasel5393]

target would take me out back and shoot me in the head if I didn’t get a 70 year old to sign up for a red card

[@bi_furious]

Nah fr when in reality they don’t even know how to press skip on the pin pad for target circle 💀 ITS ON THE SCREEN

[@scuffedgravyboat]

“And now that the vibe is weird and uncomfortable” if that doesn’t sum up Noel perfectly, I don’t know what does.

[@pinkyblushbottom1897]

I think the real lesson to learn as a kid with their first job is not to stress so much about being 'behind'. Every shit customer service job out there will try to squeeze as much from you as possible. don't feel bad or behind because companies understaff and underpay to line the pockets of higher ups. just do the minimum for your minimum wage and when some karen yells at you tell them you hate it here too.

[@Amber-tk8hd]

Yes this! I had to explain this to my younger sister. I'm currently 25 and she's 17. It's best to do minimum work for minimum wage.

[@Reverse_Cowgirl-cat]

Its so common for employees to put all the shit customer service work on the one who "can handle it" but the truth is, that person is just quietly suffering...

[@CorperalWafflez]

as someone whos worked in restaurants for years, old men rubbing young girls' backs is a disgustingly common occurrence. my girlfriend whos a host has to deal with that type of shit all the time. another thing i have to constantly deal with is old ladies touching my arms because i have tattoos. idk if they've just never seen someone young with tattoos but its still super uncomfortable

[@Rant.]

The second Noel mentioned the comments saying he didn't work a retail job I couldn't stop thinking... but best buy.

[@angerbella704]

Im 19 but i work at starbucks and it truly is a difficult job. Ive worked there for a year. Ive worked at many other fast food locations but starbucks customers are on a different level. Theyll scream at you, throw things at you, spit at you, degrade you. Every time i clock in i feel like im going to war. Meanwhile corporate sucks and leaves like only 3-4 ppl staffed while there are over 100 customers per hour. My advice to starbucks baristas is to stop taking it so seriously. Corporate obviously doesnt take you seriously. Just do your job to the best of your ability, if everything doesnt get done thats fine, youre gonna get paid for the time you worked and thats all that matters. Unionize if you can but you probably won't be able to. Not to downplay how much the job and company suck, but when I see my coworkers freak out or break down like that guy in the video, i get why they might feel that way, but i can't relate. Idgaf if there is 40 customers in the cafe mad at me and a one hour wait bc we have 3 ppl during the busiest time. Whatever idc. I'm getting paid. They treat you like a worthless replaceable employee so treat it like what it is; a job. Don't let the corporations suck your soul out of you

[@freddiethefoz]

i’m not even joking that first one with the vet working at starbucks joke is actually scary how true it is. when i managed a starbucks we had this kid who worked there in between working for the navy and he was our best employee.

[@myfriendscallmekat]

Last story really got me. One time when I was doing the closing shift (ending at 10pm) as a customer service rep at Home Depot, a customer came in asked me to leave my station to “show him” where something was (the “something” was in the far back of store and it was 9-something at night and I was ALONE). when I declined this, he lunged at me, trying to grab my arm. So I’m on the opposite side of this huge store from the rest of my coworkers even though the older guy I worked with was supposed to be manning the station WITH me at that moment and had gone off to do god knows what, leaving me to this insane person. it was terrifying. The man then laughed and took off, and apparently he’d come in and harassed several of my female coworkers before me and had not yet been banned. Similar harassment happened at my immediate next job as a barista. A man my coworker rejected followed her to her car and popped in during every shift she had, and another man-who was known for staring at and sexually harassing middle school girls so badly that he’d been banned from two of our other stores in the area-commented on my female coworkers bodies and when a male coworker insisted on taking his order since the women didn’t want to anymore, he left and didn’t come back. Manager at my store knew what was happening in both instances and didn’t ban either of them but she surely stayed on our asses about keeping the drive thru times down!!! All service work is hell!!!!

[@carlisleross2765]

Sisyphus, but it's just that old man at best buy seeing his total, passing out, waking up, seeing the price and passing out again for all eternity.

[@menahem2681]

Noel as a Marine vet definitely resonated with the laughing as the shit situation not being you and reminiscing on that. Nothing like a toxic workplace ❤

[@artistana523]

I’ve worked at Ulta for 7 years and the toll it took on me, especially during Covid was soul zapping. Thankfully, I work as the makeup artist as of this past year so more 1 on 1 with customers, but still, new managers look at me like I’ve stormed Normandy when I tell them how long I’ve been there.

[@RichardCheezman]

what you said about the midwest is spot on, I’m from a small town in the midwest, but I’ve lived in a city outside the midwest for all but 2 years, I moved back to the midwest for college and everyone kept asking why I came back

[@Mr_Mistah]

I love the Midwest

[@cozylumberjack]

I worked for a year and a half at Office Depot running the print center (i wish I was exaggerating) at the most busy OD in the city. And I was damn good. But now I'm working in I.T. and chilling. But to this day I still have nightmares of working during the busiest hours with the most annoying customers. On the plus side If I ever find myself in stressful fast paced situation I have this "zone" of focus while multitasking. Kinda like the cooking staff on "the bear" but I'm by myself, and the yelling is my mind's internal monologue. I remember one time I got into the zone at the print desk and somehow 3 hours went by and i didn't remember a single thing i did. Now that I type this out, is that healthy? (rhetorical)

[@melon6544]

My first job was at an ice cream parlor when I was 15, and the memory I recall with the most clarity is when an old dude yelled at me because I couldn’t figure out his change. He’d handed me a 100$ bill first which I input on the computer, but then he gave me a bunch of change so he’d get bills back, but my brain was not functioning to figure out what I was supposed to give him now. It was over 90 degrees out and I’d been at that register for 3 hours with a line out the door the whole time. So naturally I burst into tears. People can be so mean for no reason

[@CCSyks]

my general manager at starbucks is an army veteran and even though I'm considered a "high performing barista" I still get "talks" about how I need to perform faster even though I make drinks in less than 30 sec. i would consider it one of the most high stress jobs I've ever worked even though I've bartended and served in high pace restaurants.

[@Maggie_mccann]

what pisses me off the most is that companies would rather have a shit ton of part time employees than a good amount of full time so they don't have to give out benefits. Also boss's won't hire you if you don't have a open schedule. If you tell them, "hey i can't work these days or these shifts" they won't hire you. So they're only giving out part time jobs and expecting open availability so I can't get a second job. I worked a part time job with open availability, work for about 2 months, then started looking for a second job, told the first boss that I can't work mornings anymore. I got fired that week. Same thing happened with another job. I worked part time with open availability, told them i'll be starting night school (i specifically signed up for night school that has a longer program so I could continue working) and told them i couldn't close anymore, then got fired 2 weeks before I started school.

[@KazıklıMaria]

i remember you talking about your work experience in the earlier episodes of tmg. how the song move your feet by junior senior reminded you of one of your co workers who committed suicide. that still haunts me to this day whenever i hear that song i get goosebumps...

[@its_joey]

as someone with a full time office job, I can confidently say that my past minimum wage jobs were immensely more difficult and painful both physically and emotionally

[@DankrumStar]

I 100% agree that Starbucks is the hardest job that I ever work, but I am so incredibly grateful for it. It has given me the ability to remain calm in the most stressful of situations, and I am currently in the medical field. Plus the fact that I had no autonomy over my own respect, and would have people through drinks and even a hot latte at me for having “too much foam” and all I could do was calmly and sternly say “ I will not be remaking that for you you can leave now before the police get involved” and then just pointing the door and repeating it, while continuing to make drinks. And every job that’s sees Starbucks on my résumé has brought up Starbucks as a superior work experience.

[@creakycoffins8258]

thank you for defending me noel

[@Halfmoonbaee]

The straight death threats i used to get in food service. I really had a breakdown one day and went out back and punched the wall. Handed a customer back blood change 😭

[@lizziecross8149]

I worked as an emcee at a karaoke bar and restaurant at a beach in the south. Customers would get wasted and then assume they could put their hands on me. Usually I could just distance myself a bit and move on, but there were some instances where I felt like I couldn’t get away. One man, who was in his 60s or 70s, came in one night, and before we’d even opened up the karaoke bar, he started yelling at one of my coworkers because we didn’t have a song (that had very racist lyrics). I went over to diffuse the situation, and I basically had to put on a sweet southern accent and charm him. He finally calmed down, but he then decided that my hospitality meant he could get up in my space. At one point, he came up to sign up for a song, and when I was recommending a song, he put his hand on my lower back and sort of pulled me closer. I managed to get out of his arms and get back on stage, but when he came up to sing his song, he wanted me to sing “summer lovin’” with him. He kept putting his arms around me during the song, but I would just dance away awkwardly. After his song, he went to sit down at his table, and I realized that he was there with his wife. The audacity of that man shocks me.

[@burtybarto3389]

Abusing the new employee is a tradition as old as time itself lmao

[@calliope_x3]

I don't work in technically retail but I do work at a movie theater where I'd say probably 80% of the workers (including managers) are Gen Z, and lemme tell you: the person who emailed in about how gen z people have to basically code switch to weird archaic meme speak to communicate with millennials is spot on. With the vast majority of my coworkers, we all just talk normally and if we text at all (which we usually don't, 'cause COVID stole the most important years of our lives in terms of social development), we talk just as they said, pretty professional text free of the excessive emojis and outdated references used by the older people. I'll also say that, similar to what other people have said, if someone broke down like the dude in the video, we would absolutely stop and check on them, make sure they're ok, maybe even send them home, because clearly they're not gonna be fit to help that day. HOWEVER, if they took out their phone to record themselves and post it on tiktok, they'd be laughed out of the room, cause that's lame as hell, and come on, if you're feeling good enough to post on tiktok, you're good enough to work. I think what especially older people don't understand about gen z workers is that one, as i said, COVID destroyed all social skills development during most of our high school years, when we would normally be building those up, and two, that whole "gen z is soft and/or callous" thing is a complete myth (also, those are basically opposites, and yet we get accused of both simultaneously). Gen z has been through some real tough shit, what with the pandemic and all, and I believe that coming out of that with a good percentage of your life just gone resulted in either an overwhelming sense of empathy, because we all know how bad it gets now, or a sort of hardened "i can take it" attitude.

[@Joshua.Wheeler]

i like all the camera angles. makes it seem like a video where he has more cameras

[@jasonvargas7564]

Defend me instead

[@axmoylotl]

You're literally a thief, a murderer, a deceiver, a manipulator, a betrayer, a vandal, an abuser, a fraudster, a con artist, a bully, an extortionist, a harasser, a cheater, a saboteur, an arsonist, a kidnapper, a smuggler, a blackmailer, an embezzler, and a drug trafficker.

[@Joshua.Wheeler]

defend both of these nuts (not rlly, jason. I’m simply joking. Love you, have a great day!)

[@evasdorling7555]

vergas

[@kaitlyn5344]

That is classic Jason Vargas & Joshua Wheeler banter. Hope you’re both having a good week. Bless you (for the next time you sneeze)

[@ousimanie1869]

You said it, Kaitlyn. You love to see it. Never fails to put a smile on my face!

[@R0man.Geck0]

This video needed to happen bruh, everything is dead on this time around, you can tell Noel is having more fun w this one. Tackled everything from entitled older workers, to millennial cringe larping, and the straight up harassment that happens

[@cherrielime]

I will say retail and food are two different monsters. Food service was so bad i remember crying because i was so happy to land a retail job( and stayed there waaaay longer than any of the food places i worked at)

[@Natallz]

Hi I’m gen z, worked at six flags in games, made a mistake counting back change, customer got mad and cursed at me, I freaked out and cried because I didn’t know what to do 😂 my fellow gen z manager and millennial supervisors rescued me. I was just confused and needed more time and clarification but this gen x dad was so impatient 😂 I was young and 16 and didn’t have great coping skills I have since learned then 😂

[@allisonostle4826]

When I was 19 I worked front desk at a severly understaffed resort. Literally everyone would leave at 4pm and I would work till 10pm. We had 60 rooms and I was responsible for everyone. There was one day during a heat wave where it was 30°C inside the building and I had so many guests coming and complaining about the heat that I had a severe panick attack, nearly fainted and had to leave work in an ambulence. I kept working there for anouther month and this was my second job. I also worked as an adventure tour guide that summer and only had one day off a week. Don't say that gen z doesn't work hard.

[@CarlosRodriguez-on3qe]

I’d personally would like to thank all the Starbucks workers from Vons in Indo that worked Coachella. Y’all are truly gods strongest soliders🙏

[@facewrinkles3886]

I'm guessing Palm Desert was hella busy as well with all the clothing shops (and the tiny Starbucks there)

[@RonniV2]

I've been working retail since I was 16 (I'm almost 24), and my family owns a small business in the service industry. I've witnessed, heard of, and dealt with some truly awful retail/service shitshows. It's rough out here.

[@evangelinemurphy1460]

I still have literal nightmares about my waitressing job

[@AmieReva]

Everyone should be forced to work a retail job for 6 months once in their lives to fully understand the experience, and to just generally learn patience, how to manage stress, and to learn deeper empathy for people.

[@Pink15181]

The editing and overall quality of this video is elevated. Noel has leveled up.

[@connorcombs3691]

Im gen z, and my first job was a grocery store deli. Ive worked as a line cook in 3 resturants since, my current one being a steak house. I could have made better money serving at any, but at the end of the day being at the mercy of others is terrible. I have crazy respect for anyone who has to directly serve others in any capacity, it takes a far more kind and patient person than i am

[@KristenZianourry2015]

Filming yourself having a breakdown is never not cringe or weird

[@starveilvalley]

Retail is so bad, especially working in a heavily elderly neighborhood. They look down on us like we are dumb ash. I was told to do cusomter service better (im not in customer service), she leaves the store after i scanned her items and calls my workplace after leaving and talks mad s**t about me while im on the line with her just for her to ask for my manager and complain about how bad i am at customer service... A woman tried to tell me the change i gave back was wrong, i showed her the recipt with how much change was owed back and she blamed it on how young and stupid i am. Older people are creul for literally no reason.

[@heyfella5217]

Thats the truth. I used to let it get to me, but nowadays I realize that that is THEM. They've wasted their lives being miserable about stupid shit like *change* and *whether their diet iced tea is in stock this week*. They made their fucking bed, and I get maaaad schadenfreude knowing that they are going to die sooner than I, living in that misery they've created for themselves. It just helps.

[@DonTonSoup]

I too am a Gen Z Filipino who moved to an ENTIRELY 40+ y/o white town. I’m ngl, I love being a unicorn here. Everyone is so fascinated by me and my culture. It’s quite beautiful. I’m a 23 year old dude and I regularly grab lunch with golden girls type groups and drink at local dives with old ass Hell’s Angels (they’re a lot lamer than the stories make them out to be. It’s really just a old man frat) because of how welcoming the community is.

[@jules553]

I worked for a starbucks 10 years ago when I was 16, and honestly I’m stilled scarred by it. I get flashbacks to being treated so badly by people over a blended drink, none of the jobs I’ve had since, including running my own business have been nearly as stressful and mentally draining. I feel for these poor kids, cause I can only imagine it’s gotten worse lol.

[@Vincisomething]

Any workplace that says "we're like a family" 🚩🚩🚩

[@Neblin275]

I am absolutely millenial-pilled at my job where i'm the youngest. had to create a worksona

[@rosarosa1965]

I learned the therapist word for this is “work skin”

[@cupofjoe283]

I’m a cashier at a grocer store and we get a lot of old customers. One time this lady was looking like she was going to pass out and said her head hurt. While this was happening I basically did the transaction for her.

[@domolicious77]

I’m 24, i used to work at McDonalds for 3 years and it was ROUGH. One time a pregnant woman got mad over her $2 caramel frappe not having enough extra caramel drizzle so she came back screaming, threw the drink at the manager, started slapping & punching my coworkers when they asked her to leave. People will get so damn mad over their food especially if the lines are long. Glad I left.

[@Mr_Mistah]

Was this McDonald's in the hood?

[@domolicious77]

@@Mr_Mistah no, it was between some farms & a small city & community college

[@YourGuyWedge]

13:22 its worth saying you could be any individual saying anything at the meeting and the people will clap, we just wanna get out of there. So we clap and move on like robots.

[@pickenslaila]

Lmaooooo they cooked yo ass on the last post. Glad you came back to redeem yourself 😂😂

[@veevee6771]

I'm a Millennial who worked with people ALL 45 and older when I was in my early 20's. I was so close to fighting old people every single day. The amount of audacity that those old bastards collected over the years was astounding.

[@unlitrash]

pls do more of these i have stories for fucking days about the nastiest and rudest customers ever. but then they say gen z doesn’t want to work 😭😭

[@odorkpersonal8520]

i worked at a zipline park, a starbucks, and few other places. at the zipline park, we would have people experiencing heat related illnesses at height, kids screaming bloody murder, pissing in their harness, and so. many. child birthday parties. i worked there for almost 5 years dealing with emergencies and bad guests. my 7 months as a starbucks barista caused me so much more stress than even the worst day at the zipline place. didnt help that two of my supervisors very outwardly hated my guts for seemingly no reason

[@AP-wc1kf]

I'm imagining when Noel heard about the philopeno mans story he related a lot. As he is an Asian, African, European, North and South American, Antartican, Australian and 5% Disneylandian man. Lots of his work experiences must have been similar

[@vitriolette6620]

As a current member of the military and a former Starbucks worker, Starbucks was definitely more stressful. My manager threw me on the floor alone to handle everyone's drinks and laughed from the side about how I was drowning in work. Customers have screamed in our faces, insulted our families, etc. In the military, at least everyone around you has your back. At Starbucks, you have to pretend like you LOVE that customer across from you and let them be right about everything. No wonder military members do well there, standing there with a straight face and taking it as this person is screaming at you and getting in your face.

[@Mr_Mistah]

Apparently only demons go to Starbucks Glad I never stepped foot in one

[@Ankhiros]

Man the corporate email is so real why can’t I walk in and dap up my managers and use slang in my messages yet.? Instead I have to Teams react in my monthly meetings to Gif’s and every “happy Friday” message I receive.

[@lizcasazza8524]

I’ll never forget when I worked at a resort and my coworker in her 50s was obsessed with shitting on gen z. I was having cramps and wanted to take a sick day (I had never missed a day at this job) so I texted my other gen z coworker if the resort was busy. If it was then I was going to show up. I can’t remember what she responded but I drove to work without realizing that she mentioned to our boss I might not go to work. I didn’t even confirm this and thought about missing work for a total of about 6 minutes so it was a dumb move on her part. I get there and she had just gotten done crying. Turns out my boss started yelling that we were going to be too busy and to tell me that if I missed work, I would be fired. The lady in her 50s started yelling that gen z were so lazy and made terrible coworkers in front of her. My coworker ended up calling HR on their asses and they were real nice after that. That lady in her 50s also told a girl we worked with who was an out patient at a psych hospital was mentally ill because it’s a trend among gen z.

[@alessandrosubranni9199]

Got my first job at a Canadian Tire at 15 and they scheduled me for my first 8 hour shift on fucking black Friday weekend. I was still learning the system and this dude was asking me for a part that I stg didn't exist and he straight up asked me "are you slow? Like are you a dumbass?" I've been yelled it like no other working construction but never been as close to crying as that 😭😭

[@dorxly]

Oh shit did I miss this one, I had an old coffee shop job two years back, worked on the pastry side alone, I'd need to prepare the order on a plate (all the pastry is comes from another shop and we only display it on the shelfs) and then deliver it to the customer all on my own and I had two floors to serve with only stares My shift was 12 hours and they didn't allow us to even sit during our shifts beside the launch break, I'd be coming to work 3pm and leaving 3am nearly everyday and it felt like actual torture, by the end of the 3 weeks that I spent there I developed a serious foot infection that I had to spend WAY MORE in medical bills on than I got during those 3 weeks of work

[@ethansabetta298]

Great to have support from the boomers ✊️😔

[@aedanboroughlive]

I work at a therapeutic day program for children. I have been kicked, hit, slapped, spit on, cursed at, and have gotten a patient's urine splattered on my face. I would still take it any day over working at the quick service sandwich shop I spent two years at.

[@Rabbit-the-One]

I'm not Gen Z, but I'm proud of them. I think the next generation of adults are doing fine.

[@chadthompson3003]

We ain't, we're drowning lol

[@R33fth3b33f]

I'm homeless

[@mr.kilpatrick2991]

mental health statistics and poor financial decisions prove otherwise

[@EzOddz]

*nervous laughing* : no...

[@PlebianGorilla]

I work at.. you guessed it. Starbucks. I’m a shift supervisor. 3 years in this month. I’ve worked at several other stores within my district and I can say the one I’m at now is different because of the store manager we have. I’ve grown so much as a person in this job and I have so much fun everyday. I love the people I work with and we do a great job. We top the area when it comes to drive thru times like how long someone is waiting, so that’s like 100 stores lol so I really accredit it to my store manager and the culture he has worked with us to cultivate. I’m given the space if I need it to talk and vent to my boss, to work through issues I may be having and find solutions or receive guidance. Emotional support. Basically like everything I’ve needed to really grow. I’m learning so much about myself at this point in my life, a lot of rapid change as a young adult, a lot of feeling like I’m alone in this world, so I don’t know what I’d do without it. It’s a very different experience than I’ve had anywhere else. I’ve learned how to have hard conversations, how to support others, how to have patience, how to handle 7000 variables while remaining calm, etc. Pumpkin launch is tomorrow and I’m excited to get there at 4:30am and get right into the trenches with my fellow partners.

[@legacy9171]

That is actually exactly how the Chinese restaurants work. There’s a company that manages them and links up immigrating families with jobs/opportunities with potential restaurants they can open and they’ve already got the logistics and menu figured out to support the restaurant. There’s a documentary about it somewhere

[@idkhtcmsitt]

How can I look up that documentary?

[@legacy9171]

@@idkhtcmsitt I'm sorry I don't remember where it was. I thought it might have been "The Search for General Tso" but I think that one might only talk about the dish

[@idkhtcmsitt]

@@legacy9171 thanks, I'll look into it. It's actually pretty interesting, in my country you can see more and more Chinese businesses, they're all over the place, and I've heard they are financed by their government. I wanna know how it works. The only bad thing is they were pretty convenient when they first got here, but now the demand is pretty high since there are a lot of them and the prices are really high, the same as buying in the typical stores

[@johnddonnet5151]

16:00 MAN'S NOT HOT, MAN'S NEVER HOT

[@prettylittlefears4809]

I remember my first job. I had started literally the day right after I turned 18 and within the first 2 months I had worked Black Friday thanksgiving and Christmas that shit was so fucking hectic

[@MickMod]

I used to work at a hardware store stocking shelves and helping customers, that job was still harder than my current job (welding railway tracks and repairing bridges for those tracks) because of all the awful customers. Nothing but respect for all the retail workers from me

[@cuddlestheadorable1153]

Starting off strong with a bomb threat. The quality i except from a Noel Miller video.

[@mistyavinger]

This made me remember that the first day at my job my millennial boss put despicable me up on the conference room TV and we all had to act like we had some kind of attachment to this movie/were interested

[@maritamiller7571]

just started my first career job and the millennial leading my orientation said “her love language is gifs hehe” 😬

[@rubystar5981]

I’m 17 and work at Dunkin , and it’s always super busy and understaffed. Very stressful and I’ve cried a lot but the job has for sure taught me so much patience and had prepared me well for future challenges. #abuseworks!

[@Grim_scene]

Noel is always so real

[@JustenHarden]

One of my favorite moments as a retail cashier… Scanned items and the guy goes “Whoa whoa whoa … 4 dollars each? The sign said 3 for 12!” …. BRUH

[@lololand27341221]

Instant Noel classic

[@gaonuli8318]

This is low-key so real, working at a American ass "fast-casual" job and being THE ONLY asian.. I feel like there was racism surrounding me.

[@Loveyevee]

ayy i just hopped on YT, perfect timing noel

[@matthewrichardson7203]

As someone who works at a hardware retail store in the Midwest the amount of people that come in who are either drunk or high is astounding, like these people are driving on a highway to get there also.

[@benjaminstout2809]

noel’s like gen z’s cool uncle 🔥