We Can’t Afford to Work Anymore

[@peanutboxes4076]

At my current job, when they asked me in the interview why I wanted to work there, I said “because it’s a ten minute walk from my home and it doesn’t get more convenient than that”. Got the job, but last week my line manager said in a meeting that she doesn’t think I even like the company and they don’t want people just to turn up, do the job and get paid. I looked at her very confused. I said “but it is just a job to me. I turn up, I work hard to complete the tasks I’m given, I take my pay check and go home, what’s the problem?” She said something about company culture. I retorted that I’m not going to be a cheerleader for a company that makes record profits while we all struggle and granny freezes to deth this winter. She wasn’t happy but couldn’t really respond. Because we both know it’s stupid what she’s complaining about. Is it literally not enough to turn up and do the job anymore? I have to join a cult too? F off! They’ve been doing everything possible to make me quit but I keep turning up. I’ll leave without notice when I’m ready, and until then I’ll do the bare minimum. If they sack me i will start an employment tribunal. I actually told them that 😂 hence why now they are trying to get me to quit instead. Thing is, even when I do quit, I’m still going to make a claim against them, my list of issues with them is so long now, and they know deep down I’m right.

[@1101-f6z]

The king horded his money so much that there was no one left to protect it.

[@firstlast8258]

Not my king 🥴🖕

[@PatriciaWilson-fy3co]

Wait for it!!! Not even babies are being born so in 20 years there will not be enough people to continue the police department, army, navy marines, national guard or even government.

[@kludgedude]

USA, third world nation with 1st world costs

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

Truth

[@unkono]

I heard America is a 3rd world country with a Gucci belt.

[@TransientCynic]

Its ridiculous how fast things declined. When i got my first regular retail job 5 years ago, i was thinking pf searching for an apartment, but everything tanked during and after Covid. Brutal stuff bro. My best alternative is unrionically van life now, if you have bad familial relations like some of us do.

[@unkono]

Yeah living in your car is probably the best route.

[@unkono]

Yeah living in whatever car you have is probably the best route.

[@gorgjesss]

I think the most brutal part of it is losing a job before Christmas they always seem to do it that time of year with the most heartless look on their face.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

🥲

[@johngrimes412]

Some of these low wage jobs want you to sign a contract saying you won't work a second job now. That's absurd to the max.

[@Kevin-tn5rr]

Why work with nothing in return.makes perfect sense

[@GallantGael]

Australia is basically the same as the US although the Healthcare is somewhat subsidized and welfare is better.

[@unkono]

I'm surprised when I go outside and don't see people fighting with each other over petty things and losing their minds over the state of things.

[@shiptj01]

Entertainment greatly improves while society deteriorates. Lol

[@MW-qv5ox]

“You’ll own nothing and be happy”

[@michael-ph3jn]

How much does it cost to get happy?

[@justhomas83]

Enough to lose count

[@bobowon5450]

@@michael-ph3jn i've done the math. for my lifestyle it would be a about 200-300k in my tfsa. Based on my average interest rate return i could retire at any time if i had that much money

[@davefish2515]

Here’s another $5 for you, Millennial Steam. Thank you for all the great content you put out on a daily basis.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

I really appreciate the dono, I never thought life would be roughing me up so bad

[@ChristianGoin]

The people running the system refuse to acknowledge the failure of the system, they would blame bad habits people have but without those bad habits they couldn't have made the line go up. I mean they intentionally want people to run up their credit to put a leash on them.

[@user-sp2yu9zt6h]

its all according to plan, its not a failure.

[@jonm1999]

We’re as mad as hell and we’re not going to take this anymore.

[@shiptj01]

Yes, you will. Lol

[@sickpuppy575]

We have to find our nads . Or suffer the fate of slaves.

[@bobowon5450]

i know a guy who quit his job because it cost him more in transportation than he made in wages. his hours were incredibly scattered so it was either stay hanging out at the store for 3 hours of pay a day or go to and from work between every scheduled hour. "oh but he could surely call the labour board and get something better out of that place" once you call the labour board your done there, its the career equivalent of tossing a granade over your shoulder and walking out.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

New bus drivers are only needed during morning rush and afternoon rush They either sit for six hours or go home Then drive back to work another late shift Then be ready for the early morning shift

[@unkono]

In the near future every single American woman will have a O.F.

[@de14jabs]

Incorrect: Econ 101, oversaturation will drop the value. Besides, how many dudes will be able to afford it? They will have to go local and for bare necessities. 'Favours' for a can of spam

[@dollarstorememes]

@@de14jabs i'm pretty sure that was satire

[@bigbanknewyork3655]

Doing the strange for a Lil change

[@sebindru3727]

True MS, even East Europeans in the EU look at America and know you have it worse than we do, at least rent here is 400 EUR (450 USD) monthly for an one bedroom apt, food is cheaper and more natural and beer is 1 USD. While medium salary is about 1000 EUR.

[@davefish2515]

Thanks!

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

I really appreciate the dono- being a small channel is rough

[@itsme-nt2lj]

Been thinking a lot bout my bosses while playing Mario Bros.

[@unkono]

The guy from the movie Office Space was playing Tetris while everyone else was working.

[@desirabbit6869]

merry kramp-mass. sorry life sucks.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

Oh my god! thank you so much for your dono 🥲

[@Recuper8]

Look at Artificial Intelligence's and Robotics' trajectory. The vast majority of human white collar jobs have, at most, five years left. Decent paying human blue collar jobs might be as much as 20. Still, that means that babies born today will go through the school system, only to graduate from high school with zero human jobs available. Think about that for a long second, then ask yourself if this economic system makes sense.

[@economicallyshort5184]

I threw my JD and LLM diplomas out in my garbage today, felt pretty good.

[@justhomas83]

Papers that say yes you can. Life says otherwise I hate this

[@adamspencer5142]

Thanks

[@phoneticau]

What's a realistic option move off grid live off the land for free disengaged from the economy 🤔

[@jacobmansfield-go9fz]

Nothing legal

[@benjaminddale]

They own all the land and you can't afford it anyway

[@DavidRice-y4o]

Move out to the small rural towns, houses are 30 to 50k, fixers are much less and small farms are 100k. My buddy bought a 3k sqft house for 29k in parsons ks and another bought a 25 acre farm with a small fixer house for 90k. Wfh cust serv is 20/hour at cvs as an example and you can live just fine out here...

[@shiptj01]

Guess what? Doomed.

[@davefish2515]

Hey Millennial Steam, I sent you $5. Have a Merry Christmas and God bless you, Sir!

[@ryanossevorth3705]

This is still going to get worse. I watch legion of men too. He’s got good stuff. People have been using credit cards to get to the next paycheck. And now those people are in default. I’m working three jobs just to barely break even and it’s like people don’t understand this. Here in Canada the well off people want to leave the country. And the rest of the people can’t afford to leave or buy groceries. We should all go homeless and let the corporations let AI do the work and get the pay checks. Watched a guy say that the US is headed into a stagflation economy. It’s going to get worse.

[@summerwind4590]

I think we are getting the output from the algorithm. I watch LoM and yeah I just can’t get excited about going to work unless it’s like 80k/year. That is have some food, a 1700 ft2 home for me my wife and 4 kids. This economy is so stupid

[@unkono]

Your money will go further in the Philippines and Mexico.

[@Eltipoquevisteayer]

Great and be an easy target to the mafia and the general population

[@smlorrin]

Did you know that if you made $17,000 an hour since Christ was supposedly born, worked 24/7, every minute, every day until now, you'd be the *2ND* richest person in the world?

[@unkono]

Good to know.

[@fliporflop7119]

So the first place is someone with 17,500?

[@smlorrin]

@@fliporflop7119 No. If you get $17,000 per hour times 24 hours times 365 days, that gives you the amount that you get per year. That is 17,000 x 24 x 365 = $148,920,000 per year. Multiply that by 2025 years, and you get a little over $301.5 *BILLION.* *Elon Musk has more money than that.* The point of this exercise is to show how ridiculous the amount of money Elon Musk has when someone like MS can't make ends meet even though he's working full time.

[@coachnickjohnson5682]

Don’t let the public services off the hook either they do the same thing to teachers, police officers firefighters and any other emergency medical or public need employee.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

If you cannot work from home - you are disposable

[@deseanwright8]

Modern day slavery.

[@JaykensolutionsNet]

Thank you.

[@grim9488]

They live OBEY CONSUME REPRODUCE

[@justhomas83]

Minecraft Zombies

[@dynamo3059]

im net negative working where im at with low expenses i heard my idiot boss say i just sit around all day yeah no shit, minimum wages for minimum work! the dudes monthly mortgage payment is more money than my entire take home pay lol why would i be motivated when im not getting paid and have no way to get promoted?? dude actually bitched to me once that a million dollars doesnt buy much home where we live, LOL they are only.paying me enough to get a trailer park home! furthermore, this idiots job doesnt even need to exist hes.just a middle manager, im the one doing all the real work these guys are the real parasites not us

[@danwalsh6919]

I just retired up here in Canada and am truly afraid for young people coming up in the workforce.

[@BladeObssession]

I know people hate to be pitied but damn Millennial Steam you have my total sympathy because you have been through worse shit than me

[@GothamsFinest]

Some are stuck in an evergreen cog. They show up, they get paid. Why haven't they skilled up? Because, they cant! I had to learn full stack to get real money, it hurt, it was painful, paid for certs, but it paid off.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

I remember sitting at Insight.Inc with people so over qualified it hurt to see them there, but play the lottery, eventually some people win, or not

[@dalton6108]

DoorDash can help a bit. 100 dollars equals 12 hours of driving. A good night of 4-6 hours can produce 30-60 dollars. It won’t be fun especially if you think of time for pay or money vs gas.

[@Whatisthemeaningofitall]

Doordash isn’t an option for me. That 30-60 dollars is going to go towards fuel costs since my daily is a Tacoma.

[@jacobmansfield-go9fz]

Trading your car's value for cash. Not really worth it

[@dalton6108]

@ no it’s not, plus if you wreck your insurance won’t cover you because you were under contracted time and DoorDash will not cover you if you’re in between orders.

[@benjaminddale]

It would be worth it if people tipped better, but they don't, because they don't have to face you, they make you leave it at their door

[@grim9488]

Dont forget your can donate your plasma to champ rooting for you buddy😉😉😉😉🫡🫡🫡🫡 your gonna make it sonny keep pulling those bootstraps

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

I was told my plasma is no good🤣

[@grim9488]

@MillennialSteam-h3s same here bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I couldn't believe it when your on rock bottom no way but up from here right?😞😞

[@DavidB.Fischer]

Why would you be lazy if you are doing most of the job? Limited wages are just not sustainable you’re right. You shouldn’t be feeling guilty as well if you are not stepping up as much at work, you should be rewarded based on your merits, and the fact that you are simply coming towork that seems very truthful. It seems like they are forcing the issue of the fact of wanting to make you feel interested instead of just asking you being like oh are you interested in this? The focus should be on ensuring that everyone thrives, fostering cooperation rather than competition. Wage structures would be open and collectively agreed upon, reducing exploitation or unfair practices.

[@unkono]

LDAR stands for Lay down and Rot.

[@garrettcole2251]

I'm doing a 15 hour a week job

[@wno2025]

Maybe it's time to contact a bankruptcy attorney. (Hey, at least it's a way to make more KZbin content.)

[@longsword1969]

To top it off you'll be lucky if the pawn shop will even buy your stuff.

[@user-lu6yg3vk9z]

Look into tiny houses or vans converted into houses

[@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717]

Look into living in the woods. #Take_It_to_the_Woods

[@SOG487]

Are you real? Just live in a box bro it's not that bad live below your means

[@user-lu6yg3vk9z]

@@SOG487it always no need to pay rent no more

[@PatriciaWilson-fy3co]

I'm growing tons of produce in my living room.

[@ScottPeterson-ox7gh]

UBI done through CBDCs is on the way, things just need to get so bad that people will be begging for it, when they wouldn't have originally ;)

[@unkono]

Oh yes. Break the peoples will to fight back and be dependent on the government.

[@hanzo7616]

Don't be foolish to assume that rich people will just hand out free money. It will never happen, unless there's a huge catch. Food banks and temp hostels that are downright dilapidated will likely happen before free money.

[@DayrusBPB]

Here's a way to increase wage, work more jobs but lower hours. Make them pay u $25h but same wage for half the hours.

[@trottfoxx4467]

I like how prols always have to do more. Its always the rich crying MORE. why dont you want to work more? You need to pay more We need more taxes Why wont you have more kids? Why wont make more of your time geard towards work? More More MORE! Meanwhile, in the same breath, you are told to do with less. I think even slave drivers from history were more understanding, than todays businessmen. At least they gave the slave food and drink after work so they dont parish

[@Manx123]

You might want to set up bank account notifications on your phone when your account hits below a certain amount. It might save you social embarrassment or a fruitless choice to the store 👍👍

[@SOG487]

Are you real?

[@Manx123]

@@SOG487 as far as I can tell 🙃

[@Manx123]

@ as far as I can tell

[@genx7006]

How is MS going to make it until the 27th? Pawning some stuff MIGHT get him some cash. But you can't live forever on survival mode. It's getting harder and harder every single day.

[@Manx123]

@@genx7006 well, that seems like a harder challenge. he could try foodbanks 🤷🤷

[@unkono]

1984 happens in the work place.

[@rashawn8936]

😢

[@zorrosword123]

No prols left behind!

[@phoneticau]

What if moment you left high school and joined the Navy instead went to college student debt maxed out 20 credit cards you had a fork in your life back then toss a coin head or tails

[@moomagpie4265]

Terrible AI thumbnail.

[@unkono]

They can't even fix a pot hole in the road.

[@kludgedude]

R u proud to be a ‘merkin?

[@Whatisthemeaningofitall]

Not anymore

[@TurokAgi]

How much do you make a month? I'm guessing 6-8k with your job plus KZbin revenue. You should be having no money issues whatsoever in a state like Arizona with that kind of income. Are you making 3-4k a month?

[@randomkyle3]

okay first of all, that’s total speculation, second, most people don’t have youtube revenue to fall back on

[@thatstench5242]

He only has 2k subscribers he's probably not making much from youtube.

[@TurokAgi]

@@randomkyle3 idk what you're talking about. He said he makes about 2k a month from KZbin revenue and his job pays him in the high 5 digits

[@Tamarind525]

Find a food bank / food pantry

[@asavagecommentary5163]

You should do DoorDash

[@economicallyshort5184]

7:18 7:19👍

[@ryanlangston439]

Hey millennial steam you kinda may know my situation somewhat from my previous comments on other videos anyway I went through a temp agency today for a weld job yea the job they had was one of my former employers that I got fired from a long while ago soon as I heard the name of the company I got up walked out and the two ladies who were working there looked at me astonished that I walked out that quickly they even asked are you sure an I said yup

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

I have a had a similar experience with LinkedIn there are so many former workers that I know on there I dont want to associate with them in anyway people tell me that is why I am not finding work, I dont want to relive the trauma of all the crap jobs I have ever had

[@ryanlangston439]

@ right for me it’s like I’m not gonna sell my soul type of thing you didn’t want me the first time around so what’s the pt

[@bobbybobberton6373]

First! From the wage cage

[@MagicM1KE420]

I'll give you $250 for your PS5

[@aine4400]

Please don’t use AI art - its making creatives broke - by displacing them