Opinion | A Rude Awakening Is Ahead for Young Employees
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A recession will hand the bargaining power to their bosses.

Breaking news, there's this hot new trend in financial journalism called "zombie writing."

When it's a slow news day, the author writes about something that's literally always been the case and then adds "Millennials are doing X and that's new and scary".

Symptoms of "zombie writing" can include drooling, extreme fatigue, and a lack of financial income.

  • usa_suxxx [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    People who started work in the past dozen years are about to experience their first tough job market. Younger employees—not all, but many—will need to make more realistic demands of the workplace.

    I couldn't even get a fast food job when I was 18. I never worked Fast Food and that's the reason why. That 2006 recession was something. I also applied like to several thousands of tech jobs to get my first programming job. Like, these fuckers don't know shit.

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 years ago

      I was applying for jobs at that time, too, and remember reading that there were 40 applicants for every 7-11 opening.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Every 7-11 job openings, or every position at a 7-11?

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          2 years ago

          Every open position at a 7-11, yeah. I can't find the numbers now - this was from a really depressing news article that I read right after submitting an application to a job like that and it's stuck in my head ever since.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      It's on the suffering poor to make more realistic demands, not the slavering hogs who demand more and more profit every quarter forever at the expense of the entire planet and everything living on it. They will never stop escalating their ceaseless demands for blood. It doesnt matter that they just sacrificed over a million human beings to make the line go up, nothing will never be enough to fill the void inside of them, or to slake the thirst of the mad god Capital.

      These people and the eldritch horror they worship must be destroyed.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I'm gonna make realistic demands for the value of my surplus labour. Something on the order of...oh...100 percent.