Another Tweet Calling Millennials (And Gen Z) Entitled Got Absolutely Blasted

Capitalist society has so heavily revolved around work for so long that some people just can’t grasp the idea that actually, many folks are just working to pay their bills, and not out of some deep love of performing labor that disproportionately benefits whoever is higher up the chain than they are.

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In many ways, employers have gotten greedier and more exploitative over the decades, paying less while providing fewer benefits, creating toxic work cultures, and still expecting every little peon to go above and beyond. And if they don’t, somehow, they’re the problem.

A recent Twitter exchange that went viral highlighted this issue, showing that older generations still fail to understand the world they have created for the rest of us.

what if instead of telling me lunch is at noon but expecting me to know the secret real time that lunch begins, you just tell me what time it actually is pic.twitter.com/VLdszJCeID

— rax ‘sandra lee enthusiast’ king (@RaxKingIsDead) April 6, 2022

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“I have found Millenials [sic] and Zs are very entitled,” wrote @ARou06. “They ignore tasks if they feel like they shouldn’t have to do it. They do minimal work while wanting maximum praise and often claim stress as the reason they fail to perform. They simply don’t have a strong work ethic.”

The tweet prompted a response complaining about how they “watch the clock” and won’t start new tasks at 11:59am if their lunch is at noon. “No initiative, no motivation other than collecting a paycheck.”

The dismissive exchange didn’t go over well with the generations that are tired of getting blamed for everything under the sun after boomers broke the job market for all of us.

This is like how every time in my 20s when I got hired for a customer service job and asked to come in at X o’clock for my first shift, I would ask what time the shift ends and I would get a reply like “a good employee wouldn’t ask that on their first day.” Why is it a secret???

— Eric Alexander Moore (@_eric_alexander) April 6, 2022

When I worked in retail, we wouldn’t get paid extra unless we finished our shift at least 30 minutes late. But if we clocked in 5 minutes late, we were docked half an hour’s pay.

— Nisha VM #BLM (@NishaVM88) April 6, 2022

I always shit on company time

— San of the Seventh Sphere (@san_dead) April 6, 2022

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I had a boss that complained about the employees being “clock-watchers”.

This same boss SCREAMED at a co-worker about her not being at her desk working at the moment her shift started.

I asked him, “How would you know, if you’re not watching the clock?”

He didn’t like that.

— Kelvin – n0mql – EN35ld (@kelvin0mql) April 6, 2022

And the idea that taking a job for money is somehow morally repugnant is just insane.

In a perfect world, everyone would get to do something they love for money, but that isn’t always possible, and considering we live in a world where basic needs like rent and healthcare can be astronomically expensive, money kind of matters a lot. That’s the society you built, boomers.

yeah of course their only interest is collecting a paycheck. what else can they collect? are you going to let them take the products of their labor home? no? then shut up lmao, you’re not their friend, you’re their boss. you settle up every two weeks. https://t.co/lOFDhlr40Z

— Elizabeth Bruenig (@ebruenig) April 7, 2022

Yeah what did you think this relationship was

— Fashionably late capitalism (@redplanning) April 6, 2022

The notion that “work provides us with our purpose in life” is a capitalism facade.

The purpose of your life is to live.

Sometimes “your life’s work” will have nothing to do with your job.

Work is about a paycheque and sometimes a job is just a job.

Life is more than work.

— Nittya (@nittyarizza) April 6, 2022

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I wonder what they think the business owner’s motivation is

— mck_tl (@mudtrumpet) April 6, 2022

boomers as teenagers stocking cans of soup for the equivalent of 21$ an hour then going home to their two story house they were able to buy for 30k:

— comeback arc (@tomytailfin_) April 6, 2022

Millennials have long been tired of this crap, and Gen Z isn’t putting up with it from the start.

No we sprang out of Zeus’ head like Athena.

— Tubegurt (@JarrettGoss) April 6, 2022

This is exactly it. It took a long time, but people figured out that selling your entire life to a corporation that doesn’t value you isn’t the way.

The people who haven’t figured that out are very upset with the people who realize they deserve respect and joy.

— Vote Mel 2020 (@VoteMel2020) April 6, 2022

and who themselves have no inclination to reward hard work from their subordinates

“i worked hard at your age!” maybe you did. you also got compensated for it. or if you didn’t, you were a sucker, and that’s not your subordinates’ fault.

— worm with problems (@branewurms) April 6, 2022

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Thank you! I’ve had such a hard time finding a job that hasn’t made me want to off myself and 98% of the reason why is because of management! Either you’re underpaid and don’t receive any health insurance, or you’re stuck dealing with entitled management who don’t offer any help.

— Rachel (@2001wfatbuns) April 6, 2022

Literally told my boss, when I work from home my lunch is probably 20-30 minutes to eat and walk my dog. My lunch at the office is going to take every second of the hour I have scheduled, every time.

— Andrew Tiemann (@CaTmannZOU) April 6, 2022

I want max invisibility. I want to be assigned work, I want to complete work, I want to go home. Ask me to do 5 things, I will do 5. I will not do 6 or 7 or 10. But I also won’t do 4. Just ignore me and let me do the job you hired me for. That’s it.

— Jonathan Dalecki (@jonathandalecki) April 6, 2022

If you want employees that go above and beyond, compensate them accordingly and create work environments that don’t make them stressed and hate their lives. This isn’t rocket science, but maybe the real entitlement is the generation of management that thinks they can keep treating everyone poorly and still get everything they want in return.

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*First Published: April 7, 2022, 6:49 am