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Gen Z is forcing a workplace reckoning that should have happened years ago
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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thank fucking god. so much at so many work environments i've been in just seem designed to be malignant and enforce austere application of power moreso than anything, let alone account for worker quality of life and mental health. it's a business so because it's a business and since they have to make money that's just ok to disregard, as though our existence as human flesh and blood bodies and souls is predicated upon keeping these fucking things going, rather than these companies providing for our common needs and goods.
i remember a dishwasher job at college which was literally just standing in place washing dishes, the boss kept coming back to check on us and yell at us if we were listening to music in headphones because we had to be able to communicate at all times apparently - and these checkups were the only time we had any fucking thing to communicate; the only other duties of the job were mind numbing standing in place washing spoons with roaring machines going.