Gen Z 1st World Issues

[GURPS]

Gen Z ‘shocked’ to learn their ‘digital footprint’ could ruin job prospects​

A TikTok user has gone viral after sharing their social media nightmare, claiming they missed out on a job because of something their potential colleagues had seen them post online.

“Me realizing the digital footprint is real because when called for a job interview they loved me but when they did a background check they said they didn’t want to hire me anymore,” the TikTok user, @shoomew, wrote in text over a recent video — with more than 4.1 million views since it was posted in October.

In a statement to The Post, the high school student, named Jayden, confirmed the story — and their disappointment.

“I was very shocked and sad even because it was such a good position!” Jayden told The Post in an email. “This wont change how I post because I feel like I’m already too far gone. Hopefully a TV career will take me instead one day haha.”

 

[GURPS]

Gen Z is overwhelmed by ‘tech shame’ at work—and it’s keeping them quiet in meetings​

When the Zoom lags, some participants might be panicking more than others: Gen Z.

They’re most likely to feel plagued by technological issues at work, according to HP’s global survey of 10,000 office workers around the world. That might be surprising considering the youngest generation is digitally native, often assigned the job of explaining newfangled gizmos or devices to their older peers at work. But that can put Gen Z under pressure.

While 1 in 5 young office workers report feeling judged for having tech issues, only 1 in 25 of their older coworkers feel the same way, according to HP. They’re also 10 times more likely to feel shame when having these tech snafus than their peers over age 40.

This “tech shame,” as Debbie Irish, head of HP’s U.K. and Ireland human resources, posits to WorkLife, is due to a number of reasons. For one, she says, it might be related to not being able to afford better technological equipment or Wi-Fi the way senior coworkers can, since Gen Z is largely still on entry-level salaries. They may also feel less confident in their place at work in general.

“Some young professionals are entering the workforce for the first time in fully virtual settings,” Irish says. “They have less face-to-face time in the office than any other generation and have limited access to senior employees, mentors, and even their bosses.”

 

[phreddyp]

Gen Z is overwhelmed by ‘tech shame’ at work—and it’s keeping them quiet in meetings​

When the Zoom lags, some participants might be panicking more than others: Gen Z.

They’re most likely to feel plagued by technological issues at work, according to HP’s global survey of 10,000 office workers around the world. That might be surprising considering the youngest generation is digitally native, often assigned the job of explaining newfangled gizmos or devices to their older peers at work. But that can put Gen Z under pressure.

While 1 in 5 young office workers report feeling judged for having tech issues, only 1 in 25 of their older coworkers feel the same way, according to HP. They’re also 10 times more likely to feel shame when having these tech snafus than their peers over age 40.

This “tech shame,” as Debbie Irish, head of HP’s U.K. and Ireland human resources, posits to WorkLife, is due to a number of reasons. For one, she says, it might be related to not being able to afford better technological equipment or Wi-Fi the way senior coworkers can, since Gen Z is largely still on entry-level salaries. They may also feel less confident in their place at work in general.

“Some young professionals are entering the workforce for the first time in fully virtual settings,” Irish says. “They have less face-to-face time in the office than any other generation and have limited access to senior employees, mentors, and even their bosses.”

It's a real eye opener when you finally realize you have to stand on your own two feet, I think it finally hit me at seventeen.

 

[frequentflier]

Before I considered even interviewing a potential candidate to work at my store, I looked them up on the MD judicial case search site and Facebook.
Some people post too much personal information on FB and I think it saved me from a few disasters.

 

[kom526]

It's a real eye opener when you finally realize you have to stand on your own two feet, I think it finally hit me at seventeen.

I had help in that realization. Those yellow footprints were very helpful.

 

[Toxick]

“I was very shocked and sad even because it was such a good position!” Jayden told The Post in an email.

No cap - that cancel **** goes both ways. On god, I feel you fam.

“This wont change how I post because I feel like I’m already too far gone.

NGL learning from your mistakes is cringe.

Hopefully a TV career will take me instead one day haha.”

Well, good luck with that.

 

[GURPS]

Stella Morabito's 'The Weaponization of Loneliness' Is a New Classic on Totalitarianism​

Morabito’s subtitle captures the essential point: How tyrants stoke our fear of isolation to silence, divide and conquer. A former propaganda analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Morabito is an expert on communist media, agitprop, and disinformation. Her Masters in Russian and Soviet History is from Southern Cal.

Morabito has been studying and writing about these issues for nearly four decades, most recently at The Federalist, where she has been a senior contributor since 2014. Prior to that, I had the pleasure as opinion editor of publishing a number of her columns in The Washington Examiner.

From our first conversation years ago, Morabito has reminded me of two of the most important thinkers of the 20th century: Jean Francois Revel, the French political thinker who wrote the classic The Totalitarian Temptation, and Hannah Arendt, author of an equally important volume entitled The Origins of Totalitarianism.

It was Revel who wrote:

“The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or – much more mysteriously – to submit to it.”

And Arendt who wrote:

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.
“It is as though mankind had divided itself between those who believe in human omnipotence (who think that everything is possible if one knows how to organize masses for it) and those for whom powerlessness has become the major experience of their lives.”

 

[GURPS]

The young men of Gen Z had an especially tough time as they came of age. They’re the boys who were told they were “toxic” and “the future was female.” They watched mutely as girls were handed all the honors and awards at school. Their Boy Scout troops were opened up to girls, ending the last boys-only bastion in the country, even as girls-only spaces were praised, funded, and expanded.


Yet despite the efforts of third-wave feminists and their gelded allies’ best efforts, these boys managed to grow into young men who don’t hate themselves. On the contrary, they think they’re actually quite alright, while the angry, pink-hatted millennial women who couldn’t stop sobbing when Hillary lost and who ruined school, “Star Wars,” and comics are the ones with the problem.

But there’s something even worse and more dangerous to the Left than the boys of Gen Z’s refusal to become submissive and self-loathing eunuchs: they have an abiding, sardonic sense of humor.

Many say that 2024 is shaping up to be a repeat of 2016, and there are certainly current conditions that support that premise. One of them is that the “may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb” attitude is making a comeback. In 2016, that meant voting for the guy who joked about grabbing women by the pink hat. In 2023, as blue-haired harpies and damaged alphabet people shriek at you that you’re a racist-sexist-homo-trans-xenophobe, it means you shouldn’t disappoint them. Embrace it, become it — fulfill their wildest unsafe-victim-of-violent-ideas fantasies. And then, as you confirm their bias and their eyes well up with terror, savor and enjoy the hysteria.

Gen Z bros are going to see “Barbie” so they can emulate (for laughs) Ken’s character arc. Slate summarizes the plot:

Barbies and Kens alike are under the impression that their matriarchal utopia is a mirror of the real world; surely, decades of playing with highly accomplished dolls must have overcome whatever biases existed in darker pre-Mattel times. But when when Barbie and Ken make their way to Los Angeles in an attempt to track down the source of a disturbance in Barbieland’s perpetual bliss, they find themselves in a place that’s far less progressive, and far less pink, than their own. Barbie gets catcalled on the street and discovers that the company marketing her girl-power brand is run by an all-male board. But Ken discovers something different: a world where men hold power, where they are noticed and admired—a place where men matter.
Ken is the closest thing Barbie has to a villain, unless you count patriarchy itself. Upon returning to Barbieland, he and the other Kens (others Ken?) take control in a bloodless coup, and by the time Barbie makes her way back, she’s been literally displaced. Her dream home is now Ken’s Mojo Dojo Casa House, and the Barbies who once ruled the world wear frilly maid outfits and serve cocktails.

That right there is why Gen Z lads are heading to the theater: sigma Ken goes full Chad. And we can expect the memes, role-playing, Halloween costumes, and theme parties to take off from there.

The Based and Hilarious Reason Gen Z Bros Are Flocking to the New Barbie Flick

pjmedia.com

 

[GURPS]

Gen Z Woman BREAKS DOWN IN TEARS Over Not Getting Married & Having To Work A 9-5 Job Every Day!​

never taught any coping skills

 

[stgislander]

Gen Z Woman BREAKS DOWN IN TEARS Over Not Getting Married & Having To Work A 9-5 Job Every Day!​

never taught any coping skills

There's always Only Fans sweetheart.

 

[GURPS]

‘I don’t have time for anything’: A Gen Zer’s horror at the 10-hour day required to commute to an office for her first job goes viral​

A TikTok video of a young woman complaining about her work-life balance after getting her first 9-to-5 position after college—described as “Gen Z girl finds out what a real job is like” in an X post—has gone viral. But while many have perceived her rant to be about having to work, a closer listen shows it’s really about having to commute to and from the office—and what little time there is left in her day after that.

The TikTok video has racked up 228,000 likes since being posted on Oct. 19, with many viewers sympathetic to the poster, identified on the platform as Brielle. The X post mentioned above, from the account @TTEcclesBrown, has racked up 47 million views since being posted on Wednesday, with many responses deriding her.

In the video, the woman notes that remote work would solve her problem, as would affordable rent closer to her office.

“If I was able to walk to work, it’d be fine,” she says, adding later, “Nothing to do with my job at all…Being in the office 9-to-5, like, if it was remote, you’d get off at 5, and you’re home and everything’s fine.”

Instead, she says, “I get on the train at 7:30 and I don’t get home till like 6:15 earliest.” She complains that after her commute she doesn’t have the time or energy to cook dinner or work out. She also wonders, “How do you have friends? How do you have time for, like, dating? Like I don’t have time for anything, and I’m like so stressed out.”

As for why she doesn’t live closer to work, she notes, “There’s no way I’m gonna be able to afford living in the city right now, so that’s off the table.”

 

[Kyle]

 

[GURPS]

yeah but laughing at these lusers is funny

 

[herb749]

Could find another job which these types do often. To an employer that was a red flag in years past.

 

[GURPS]

PhD Gets OWNED By Marine’s IQ Score​

 

[CPUSA]

It's a real eye opener when you finally realize you have to stand on your own two feet, I think it finally hit me at seventeen.

Seventeen?
Sounds like your parents coddled you for too long....

 

[Hijinx]

I don't know my IQ, and I don't care.
I believe being smart and having an IQ are two separate things.
Many people who have a high IQ could not pour piss out of a boot with a hole in the toe and directions written on the heel.

I don't have any college, I wasn't rated that high in high school, probably due to being lazy and enjoying the experience instead of putting my mind to work like I should have.
Now intelligence , like I said does not mean that person is smart. I may not be that intelligent, but I am smarter than any college professor or liberal American who is a Communist, a Marxist, a wretched human being passing this crap on to our youth, and urging anyone to vote for Joe Biden or Hussein Obama.

 

[Sneakers]

I believe being smart and having an IQ are two separate things.

Agree. I've always said the same thing.

My ex was a perfect example. Incredibly intelligent, 2 Masters, diagnosed a major problem with an EA-6B in another country over satellite with seconds before the comm window closed, but insisted a dishwasher didn't have a heater coil. When I asked what temp steam is created, she said 212*. When I asked what the inlet temp of the water from the hot water heater was she said 120*. I then asked how could 120* water that been in a dishwasher for an hour create steam and be certified for sanitizing? I got the blank stare blinks.

 

[phreddyp]

Seventeen?
Sounds like your parents coddled you for too long....

Maybe! Started working part time job 12 at a Chinese carry out, numerous other part time jobs until I graduated High School then my 1st full time job at 17 and that's when it hit me.

 

[Kinnakeet]

Gen Z ‘shocked’ to learn their ‘digital footprint’ could ruin job prospects​

A TikTok user has gone viral after sharing their social media nightmare, claiming they missed out on a job because of something their potential colleagues had seen them post online.

“Me realizing the digital footprint is real because when called for a job interview they loved me but when they did a background check they said they didn’t want to hire me anymore,” the TikTok user, @shoomew, wrote in text over a recent video — with more than 4.1 million views since it was posted in October.

In a statement to The Post, the high school student, named Jayden, confirmed the story — and their disappointment.

“I was very shocked and sad even because it was such a good position!” Jayden told The Post in an email. “This wont change how I post because I feel like I’m already too far gone. Hopefully a TV career will take me instead one day haha.”

she is going to the porn industry