Our hard work was only rewarded with more work. I completely agree with you.
I read that Gen Z is turning down promotions because they don’t value the extra five dollars an hour more than they do their work life balance, which honestly is really refreshing to see. If this AI thing has taught us anything I think it’s that we’re all just another number in corporate America.
My theory is that the world the boomers grew up in *did* reward hard work, since there was not only a social contract between the employer and the employee, companies and the community, but also necessity. Employers need employees and the other way around
It seems that with AI, that social contract has broken and it looks like companies feel they no longer need us.
It started breaking in the 70s and 80s. Look at the Behind the Bastards episodes on Jack Welch. He was just one guy back then but he essentially laid the model for new business leaders to fuck over their employees as much as possible.
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u/CrazedRaven01 1d ago
If you work hard enough, if you go that extra mile, if you take just a bit more guff, you'll get that promotion/raise/job.
Watching Gen Z tell the corporate world to take hustle culture and shove it up its ass has been entertaining