"I'm having a hard time finding a job"

[vraiblonde]

The only way to get a job now is if you have connections.

That is completely and absolutely not true. That's the excuse lazy yoots use when they don't want to get off their ass.

Look around you. See all those working people? When everyone else has a job but you "can't find one", guess what?

The places to get jobs now are online job boards.

Obviously not or you'd have one. That's the problem with you kids - you don't want to work for anything. I'll bet your mom still washes your clothes.

Yet here you are, laughing at the less fortunate solely because they weren't like you-- born in a time where things were dirt cheap and easy to obtain.

OMG "Oh, things were so cheap and easy back in the 70s and 80s! "



That's another bullshit excuse you lazy kids use because you don't want to get off your ass.

I got my first actual job when I was 17, working at a grocery store as a cashier. I hated every second of it. I wasn't respected and working close to 55-60 hours a week, 6-7 days a week, for minimum wage in a place where I wasn't allowed to sit down to rest, eventually leading to me being diagnosed with a musculoskeletal condition in my lower legs. I couldn't get emergency time off, and was eventually written up for "attendance issues" when I had a massive seizure that led to a week-long stay in a hospital right before work. I couldn't spend time with my family or friends. I had to work holidays as we were chronically understaffed. Most of the time when I would have a day off, I would be forced to come in. Even with all of that, I couldn't afford to have my own place. Just for rent, not including other bills, would have taken up ~90% of my paycheck.

Poor you.

"Oh, I hated my job! They didn't respect me! I couldn't rest! I couldn't spend time with my family or friends! "



AND!! You had to *gasp* work holidays!!!

What a spoiled entitled little sht you are.

 

[vraiblonde]

I'm going to laugh about this all night now

 

[Squiddie]

That is completely and absolutely not true. That's the excuse lazy yoots use when they don't want to get off their ass.
Look around you. See all those working people? When everyone else has a job but you "can't find one", guess what?

It is unequivocally true. You just haven't experienced it so you wouldn't know. When I was unemployed and with bills creeping up on me, I was on online job boards 5-7 hours a day, every day, applying for anything that I could get my application out to. This went on for a total of two months, applying even to entry level jobs at restaurants and stores like Staples. If you step outside your bubble of out of touch people in their golden years, you'll find hundreds, if not thousands of stories that echo mine. It's even covered in the news.

Still Struggling To Find A Job? Here's Why It Is So Hard

Discover why today's hiring environment may not be conducive to finding a new job, and how you can change course when you hit a dead end in your job search.

www.forbes.com

From 'Great Resignation' to 'Great Detachment': How the U.S. job market has slowed

Official data points mask dissatisfaction and job-finding difficulties among America's workers.

www.nbcnews.com

Also, do you realize how retarded your rhetoric is? "I see people working, therefore it's easy to get a job" is probably one of the most profoundly stupid things I've ever had the displeasure of reading and I'm stunned you have the same voting power as me. For all the people you see working, there's a large chunk of young people unemployed and desperate for work, yet getting rejected by company algorithms for positions that are already filled.

Obviously not or you'd have one. That's the problem with you kids - you don't want to work for anything. I'll bet your mom still washes your clothes.

I do have a job, and I am blessed by the Lord to have one that is able to support myself to live semi-comfortably debt-free. I am in the minority of younger people, as very few younger than 30 are making above 100,000/yr like I am. It's satisfying to see that you doubled down on your shitty attitude of looking down your nose to younger people who had to stay with their parents because its economically unfeasible for the majority of young adults to support themselves with a job. I would hate to be near someone as vile as yourself, as the sheer lack of empathy towards those who have a differing viewpoint would be unbearable to be in a ten foot radius of.

OMG "Oh, things were so cheap and easy back in the 70s and 80s! "
That's another bullshit excuse you lazy kids use because you don't want to get off your ass.

This is another verifiable fact, this time from NASDAQ. "In 1980, the median monthly rent, according to iPropertyManagement, was $243. For comparison, the nationwide average monthly rent in August 2022 was $1,388." Adjusted for inflation, that $243 is now $930.40. It was quite literally cheaper to live in the 1970s and 1980s than it is in 2024. You can deny all you want, but it is undeniable fact that salary has not kept up with the price of living.

Poor you.
"Oh, I hated my job! They didn't respect me! I couldn't rest! I couldn't spend time with my family or friends! "
AND!! You had to *gasp* work holidays!!!
What a spoiled entitled little sht you are.

It is not entitlement to expect to be able to have a brief period of rest, when it is proven standing for long periods of time leads to various health conditions. It is not entitlement to not want to be reprimanded for a serious, unavoidable medical emergency like what happened to me.

This is just proof that you want young people to be mindless slaves to corporations to feed your entitled, luxurious lifestyle because you had it easier when it was your time to transition from child to adult. The fact that you want young people to work their lives away for less than commensurate standards of living and an inferior life experience than their parents. You don't care that not being able to socialize with friends and family has verifiable health negatives. You don't care, because you didn't have to experience it, and it doesn't affect you personally.

Many people entering the workforce were fed the lie that an entry level job is both easy to obtain and something that you could make work until you found a better one. Now they're experiencing that they were deceived, and are now facing people like you who sneer at their contempt and mock them. The facts that I put up won't make you think. You look down at me because I had the nerve to share my experience that didn't line up with your delusions. I understand it now, and I now know how I can be more caring, and less like you.

The sheer nerve to say all of this, even calling me entitled, is astounding. I must applaud the balls it took to seriously write all of this, look it over, and not look inward on yourself once during this. It's impressive the arrogance, ignorance, and sheer ineptitude you put on display in this thread.

I would hate to be you.

 

[PrchJrkr]

Wow...

 

[black dog]

Last week, I asked 2 different teenagers if they would like a job washing my tractors and pickups after the snowstorms. Wanted it done this past Sunday since it was gonna be one of the warmest days. Neither could or wanted to do it - too cold one said. Was gonna pay $25 per piece and I was supplying the pressure washer, brush and soap. It takes less than an hour per piece - so $25 per hour. Not bad for a teenager imo. My daughter ended up taking the offer after already putting in 55 hours last week plowing snow and another 16 hours at the hardware store.

How old is she? I have a super responsible 25 yr old.

 

[black dog]

It is unequivocally true. You just haven't experienced it so you wouldn't know. When I was unemployed and with bills creeping up on me, I was on online job boards 5-7 hours a day, every day, applying for anything that I could get my application out to. This went on for a total of two months, applying even to entry level jobs at restaurants and stores like Staples. If you step outside your bubble of out of touch people in their golden years, you'll find hundreds, if not thousands of stories that echo mine. It's even covered in the news.

Still Struggling To Find A Job? Here's Why It Is So Hard

Discover why today's hiring environment may not be conducive to finding a new job, and how you can change course when you hit a dead end in your job search.

www.forbes.com

From 'Great Resignation' to 'Great Detachment': How the U.S. job market has slowed

Official data points mask dissatisfaction and job-finding difficulties among America's workers.

www.nbcnews.com

Also, do you realize how retarded your rhetoric is? "I see people working, therefore it's easy to get a job" is probably one of the most profoundly stupid things I've ever had the displeasure of reading and I'm stunned you have the same voting power as me. For all the people you see working, there's a large chunk of young people unemployed and desperate for work, yet getting rejected by company algorithms for positions that are already filled.

I do have a job, and I am blessed by the Lord to have one that is able to support myself to live semi-comfortably debt-free. I am in the minority of younger people, as very few younger than 30 are making above 100,000/yr like I am. It's satisfying to see that you doubled down on your shitty attitude of looking down your nose to younger people who had to stay with their parents because its economically unfeasible for the majority of young adults to support themselves with a job. I would hate to be near someone as vile as yourself, as the sheer lack of empathy towards those who have a differing viewpoint would be unbearable to be in a ten foot radius of.

This is another verifiable fact, this time from NASDAQ. "In 1980, the median monthly rent, according to iPropertyManagement, was $243. For comparison, the nationwide average monthly rent in August 2022 was $1,388." Adjusted for inflation, that $243 is now $930.40. It was quite literally cheaper to live in the 1970s and 1980s than it is in 2024. You can deny all you want, but it is undeniable fact that salary has not kept up with the price of living.

It is not entitlement to expect to be able to have a brief period of rest, when it is proven standing for long periods of time leads to various health conditions. It is not entitlement to not want to be reprimanded for a serious, unavoidable medical emergency like what happened to me.

This is just proof that you want young people to be mindless slaves to corporations to feed your entitled, luxurious lifestyle because you had it easier when it was your time to transition from child to adult. The fact that you want young people to work their lives away for less than commensurate standards of living and an inferior life experience than their parents. You don't care that not being able to socialize with friends and family has verifiable health negatives. You don't care, because you didn't have to experience it, and it doesn't affect you personally.

Many people entering the workforce were fed the lie that an entry level job is both easy to obtain and something that you could make work until you found a better one. Now they're experiencing that they were deceived, and are now facing people like you who sneer at their contempt and mock them. The facts that I put up won't make you think. You look down at me because I had the nerve to share my experience that didn't line up with your delusions. I understand it now, and I now know how I can be more caring, and less like you.

The sheer nerve to say all of this, even calling me entitled, is astounding. I must applaud the balls it took to seriously write all of this, look it over, and not look inward on yourself once during this. It's impressive the arrogance, ignorance, and sheer ineptitude you put on display in this thread.

I would hate to be you.

Are you aware that home interest rates went from 18% in 1981 down to about 10% in the late 1980's?
You sugar pop, never would have made it through 5 years of any trade journeyman-ship much less boot camp even in the Navy or Air Force.
You believe that somehow the world owes you something, your parents failed you.
Heres a hint, the world owes you nothing, you entitled t w a t.

 

[black dog]

Both my father and brother had to work 15-20 years before they had enough seniority to have Saturdays and Sundays off.

Hey, Pimp'ns hard, gotta work those weekends too...

I'm jealous, we didn't have any seniority. Kicks Rocks....

 

[stgislander]

Hey, Pimp'ns hard, gotta work those weekends too...

I'm jealous, we didn't have any seniority. Kicks Rocks....

Pimp'ns gotta be easier.

 

[phreddyp]

That would be too on the nose. As someone who has experienced this job market hell firsthand, it boils my blood to see those in an advantaged position heap straw-man insults on those less fortunate.

Sounds like you should have made better choices in life instead of whining about how unfair life is. Everyone has obstacles in life to overcome, no one on this site is immune from them, however being a crybaby never improves anything. Face it squiddie life has passed YOU by and ALL you have left is remorse about the choices YOU made.

 

[my-thyme]

Well, squiddie won't be back.

Poor thing.

 

[black dog]

Pi

Pimp'ns gotta be easier.

As a kid I wanted to be Iceberg Slims kid, lol I read his whole series.

 

[black dog]

Well, squiddie won't be back.

Poor thing.

Things were just looking up, she was moving out of grams house at 34 yrs old for the first time.

 

[vraiblonde]

This is just proof that you want young people to be mindless slaves to corporations to feed your entitled, luxurious lifestyle because you had it easier when it was your time to transition from child to adult. The fact that you want young people to work their lives away for less than commensurate standards of living and an inferior life experience than their parents. You don't care that not being able to socialize with friends and family has verifiable health negatives. You don't care, because you didn't have to experience it, and it doesn't affect you personally.

Man, you'd fit right in with those lazy entitled whiners on Reddit.

Many people entering the workforce were fed the lie that an entry level job is both easy to obtain and something that you could make work until you found a better one.

"OMG I sat here on the computer for an hour and nobody will hire me! "

I would hate to be you.

Right, because it's much better to be some whiner without a job struggling to grow up than someone who already struggled and is enjoying the payoff.

This is what you kids don't understand: young adulting is a struggle no matter when you did it. You're not unique. The only difference is that we old people didn't have a Mommy and Daddy who gave us everything or a pop culture that encouraged us to be lazy whiners. We knew that if we wanted money, we'd have to work for it, and sometimes that work would suck and the boss would treat us like crap. We might have to *gasp* work holidays.



So I totally think you should lay around on your ass playing games on the internet and bitching to strangers on social media sites, hoping some rando will recognize your brilliance and offer you a job as an influencer. That sounds like a solid game plan. Also buy a bunch of lottery tickets because that's the very best retirement plan. What do old people know? Nothing, that's what. Only teenagers and young 20-somethings know what's going on.

 

[Kyle]

So I totally think you should lay around on your ass playing games on the internet and bitching to strangers on social media sites, hoping some rando will recognize your brilliance and offer you a job as an influencer. That sounds like a solid game plan. Also buy a bunch of lottery tickets because that's the very best retirement plan. What do old people know? Nothing, that's what. Only teenagers and young 20-somethings know what's going on.

Inorite!?!

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

That is completely and absolutely not true.

It is unequivocally true.

You are both correct.



By the way, that is a DATPIFF? I looked and still don't understand it.

 

[Sneakers]

For the love of god, shut the **** up.

Hit a nerve, did I? A little too close to the truth?

 

[Clem72]

That is completely and absolutely not true. That's the excuse lazy yoots use when they don't want to get off their ass.

Look around you. See all those working people? When everyone else has a job but you "can't find one", guess what?



Obviously not or you'd have one. That's the problem with you kids - you don't want to work for anything. I'll bet your mom still washes your clothes.





OMG "Oh, things were so cheap and easy back in the 70s and 80s! "



That's another bullshit excuse you lazy kids use because you don't want to get off your ass.



Poor you.

"Oh, I hated my job! They didn't respect me! I couldn't rest! I couldn't spend time with my family or friends! "



AND!! You had to *gasp* work holidays!!!

What a spoiled entitled little sht you are.

This really is funny. Thinks working at 17 at a grocery store is school of hard Knox. Starting at 14 I was picking grapes, pruning vines, and repairing/installing trellis in the fields or for 8-10 hours a day during the summer and weekends/after school during the school year.

And did I buy a mansion and a boat with that money? No, it paid for a beat up Honda CL77 and some spending money for the movies/A&W (that was the cool place back in the day).

 

[TPD]

I kinda sorta wish we still had tobacco fields to separate the men from the boys. 3/4 of the kids today would never make it till noon.

 

[Sneakers]

I kinda sorta wish we still had tobacco fields to separate the men from the boys. 3/4 of the kids today would never make it till noon.

There are other venues. I worked an oyster farm, from the blazing August sun to the soaking wet freezing water in February. It was hard and very messy work. Because these were living creatures, you either did the work or entire spawns could be lost costing the company thousands.

 

[vraiblonde]

This really is funny. Thinks working at 17 at a grocery store is school of hard Knox. Starting at 14 I was picking grapes, pruning vines, and repairing/installing trellis in the fields or for 8-10 hours a day during the summer and weekends/after school during the school year.

And did I buy a mansion and a boat with that money? No, it paid for a beat up Honda CL77 and some spending money for the movies/A&W (that was the cool place back in the day).

But did they make you work on holidays? Because that is just torture and shouldn't be allowed.