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4.0 GPA Comp Sci/SWE University student.

[gandalf the racist @racistbilbo]

How are so many people this stupid?

The point isnt that walmart is a good job. Its that the unions are offering you a shittier deal than walmart.

Were unions paying LESS than walmart 20 years ago for apprentices? Absolutely not. I went to a trade high school. 70% of everyone i knew went into a trade and started making very, very, VERY good money at 16/17/18 years old as an apprentice, whether it was electrician, plumber, welder, or mechanic. 20 years ago, these SAME places were STILL paying 18 dollars an hour to start. Nothing has changed except for the fact that 18 dollars used to be a very good wage, back when walmart would only give you 6. Now, its completely unlivable and walmart will give you 23.

This is bad. This is wrong. Thats the point.

[camila 🃏 🍥 @cumilq]

watching all these amazing streamers makes imp want to keep improving and see how far she can go . . .
i can do it . . . i can do it ! ! ( ◡̀ ̫ ◡́) ✧

[Jay @gaiaslastlaugh]

Learning today a lot of people think those who work physically demanding and backbreaking jobs are "lazy," you should all know shame

[(• ˕ •マ.ᐟ ★ @Y40IFRQTTING]

Boomers being able to buy houses on one year's salary and get into top positions with little friction was actually a Cold War compromise to make sure they don't become Communists.

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

GENERATIVE AI IS POPULAR BECAUSE IT GIVES LAZY, DUMB, AND UNTALENTED PEOPLE THE ILLUSION THEY'RE SMART AND TALENTED.

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

The claim that AI is somehow going to result in people making more money and life being more affordable, is some of the most absurd billionaire propaganda I have ever seen.

[Delafiant @delafiant]

PI PI PI PI PI PI

[Sidiun @OfficialSidiun]

The ONLY way I got into the trade I’m doing now is because my boss is 4 years older than me.

He straight up told me that the older guys wouldn’t give anyone a chance so they let him start hiring and boom here I am learning everyday.

Find a company that have people around your age or you will be more miserable than you ever thought possible.

[VMU @VeeEmYou]

For years I thought it was on overly emotional belief of mine that old people around me were purposefully obstructing everyone’s path, that in reality they were just senile or their senses had dulled. No, it turns out they actually are doing it on purpose and are antisocial.

[mailboxfarmer🧑‍🌾🚜📬 @Vertzy24]

“Americas farmers average 60 years old. And none of these kids want to work. The whole industry is in danger.”

“Wow. Would you hire me? I’d love to take it over!”

“Absolutely not.”

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

I looked at a Boomer's cellphone and his YouTube was all these AI slop videos about Jack Reacher-type white knight old men beating up young men. I scrolled down, constant power fantasies about old men physically humiliating young men. These Boomers are completely cooked.

[James @James32980438]

"Do you have at least ten years of experience, all of your own tools, and are willing to work a minimum of 60 hours a week for $18/h?"

"No."

"Get the fuck out of my shop! Damn lazy kids just don't want to work anymore."

[Schmμτż ᛭𝟗᛭ @Schmutz_9R]

“For every eight guys who retire in this trade, only one guy picks it up. The whole industry is in danger.”

“Wow. Would you hire me? I’d love to learn it.”

“Absolutely not.”

[iceberg ❄️🏔 @snowset]

My boomer neighbor was just telling me how a genx friend offered him a free tree and how he told the friend where he could plant it. Friend said he wouldn't plant it there because in 15 years it'll be in the power lines. Boomer says "what do I care? I want it there and in 15 years I'll be dead!" Then started laughing maniacally.

No tree was planted. Why are so many of them like this?

[Lumi (Reformed)💫💥 Phase Connect @Kaneko_Lumi]

sat for 10 mins not understanding a puzzle and now i'm going to lie in bed grumpy for the next 3 hours

[Stephen Stone - PhD Tricknologist @Stephen19718352]

I cannot tell you how many times I've seen this. Absolute shitheel boomers and GenXers who own a small, profitable business and run it into the ground, because they refuse to believe that human psychology exists. They think that people are just biological machines and the only thing they need to calculate is the minimum amount of money that will keep those machines running.

I have seen this with my own 2 eyes. I once had 2 customers, making similar products in the same small-medium sized southern city. What they made was relatively labor intensive and it took a solid 3 months to get a production employee trained up. One company was owned by one of these shitheels. He has essentially no training program besides relying on current employees to train new ones haphazardly. He cultivated zero culture and would, roughly monthly, make known some grievance he had about scrap rate or production numbers, in some way that most of the employees would see/hear.

Every time I met with him, he would bitch about finding "good people." He was to the point of recruiting young people from Chipotle or McDonalds that showed him a modicum of competence when he went out to lunch. He was paying like $25/hr, which was very good for the time and place. He had ceased doing background checks or even drug tests, long before. Eventually, he managed to sell to private equity. The new owners sold it for scrap within 18 months.

The guy across town was a totally different story. He paid like $19/hr, starting. Yet there was a complex social structure around locals for "trying to get in there." For the local working class, this was the place to try to get a job. It didn't take long to figure out why. There was a purposely cultivated culture. Everyone went through an intensive training program. The owner knew absolutely every employee's name, and their spouse's name and their kid's names and ages. There were real (not the fake forced kind) of company events. Picnics, barbecues, Christmas Parties. Certain hunting openers were official company holidays. It was so strong that is was a quasi mark of shame to get fired from this place, and people wold be bewildered in the rare instance someone left.

There was a lot more going on, but this is the key part. People actually do matter. People respond well to the right incentives. Unless very certain economic conditions exist, people are not just biological robots who respond only to money.

[The Refined Populist @RefinedPopulist]

I run a corporate consulting firm that specializes in small businesses, and I've dealt with more dysfunctional owners like this than I care to remember. I can tell you EXACTLY what's going on here.

This guy had HALF his competent workforce walk off the job, can’t retain new hires even after doubling wages, and the workers who do stick around can’t even clean a fish tank without causing thousands of dollars in damages.

And his conclusion is that an entire generation is unemployable?! Complete and utter nonsense.

I can practically guarantee that if I sat down with the employees who quit, it wouldn't even take five minutes to figure out why they all left:

An arrogant, insufferable, Boomer tyrant who treats his employees like garbage, blames everyone else for his own failures, and has created such a miserable working environment that anyone with two functioning brain cells and another employment opportunity immediately slams the eject button.

Which, incidentally, explains why the only employees he can retain are apparently too stupid to tie their own shoes.

The most incredible part is that this guy thinks offering $35 an hour somehow vindicates him.

Do you have any idea how thoroughly you have to screw up as an employer to make $73,000 a year CLEANING FISH TANKS sound like a bad deal?

And rather than engage in even a moment of self-reflection, he takes to X, publicly announcing that everyone who has ever worked for him is a lazy, incompetent moron.

I cannot imagine why people don’t want to work for this man.

I've got news for you, pal, and you might want to pay attention because I normally charge $400 an hour for this:

When everyone who has the ability to leave your business does so, and the only people left are the ones nobody else will hire, it isn’t an employee problem. It’s a YOU problem.

And the fact that you apparently had to shut down an otherwise profitable business before figuring that out tells me everything I need to know about why you had no business running one in the first place.

[MillennialGroyper2 @RNCgroyp]

A guy I grew up with is in prison. His dad had a Pontiac Grand Prix sitting in the driveway. His brother said his dad was going to scrap it. I offered to buy it for $100 more than scrap. He said no. 1500. I said no. he just scrapped it. Why are people like this

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

Perspective

“Just work harder”…

[Meth @morebreasts]

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