So, finally the spin doctors have made it into the front page headline maintaining that no one wants to work anymore:
My local newspaper in richy-rich Switzerland runs the following front page headline (translated): “How the young are jeopardizing Switzerland’s prosperity. Generation Z has no desire to achieve great things in the workplace, says psychologist XXX”.
The article claims that young people are too spoiled by their parents, prefer to work part-time and no longer identify themselves through their work, but by their leisure activities. In contrast, there is more competition in the labor market in Africa and Asia, which means that young people there see their chance in hard work.
So what is it that makes us in the richest country in the world, with the highest cost of living and – so far – the highest salaries, supposedly not try harder?
Well, it is very difficult to identify with a job where there are no longer any real jobs at all, but only low-paying jobs in surrogate companies, which are in reality nothing more than outsourced “cost centers” of other, large corporations. They come in different corporate guises, but all have the same goal, namely not to pay us employees the standard industry rate or union pay scale and not to let us share in the corporate profits:
In many sectors, there are almost no real jobs in “real” companies any more, apart from a few specialist jobs. Only in low-wage sectors such as gastronomy, the hotel industry or retail is there direct employment.
How are you supposed to define yourself through your work or even identify with your employer if you actually work in a “cost center” for some other corporation without receiving its wages and profit sharing?
How much lacquer did they consume before getting this brainchild ready for print?
I understand it. I could work at 100%, but I don’t want to. 80% is fine, and I don’t need more. It’s a bit less money, but I value my free time more than burning out on my job. So are we the bad ones now, just because we value our mental health more than we care about working ourselves to death? I don’t think so.
Is it not factually true that more and more non-parents decide to only work part time?
Pff. Swiss workers have to work much more per hour than they used to. The „hour“ of work – a mere metaphor for workload – takes more time to get done every year. This generation does not work part time. Itt works part wage.
Yea, they’re not wrong. My aim is to retire early. And I certainly don’t define myself via my job as many older Swiss do.
But that doesn’t mean while I work that I do a poor job…
A psychologist who judges people for how they prioritise their life…red flag to me. Unless he is just saying how it is without judgment and that comes from the journalist. But I can’t.be bothered to read this. I don’t need an article to tell me the obvious.
With all the automatization and technical progress you would think we could just reduce working hours, right… right?
Edit: Also dont worry Zoomers, they said the exact same thing about us when we were young.
Prepare to get replaced by A.I. in a heartbeat. All the while there will most probably not be any taxation on the equivalent of the hours of work that are replaced by A.I. thus making it even more attractive for the companies that are letting you go.
And after you finally realize that you won’t get any job anymore that you have worked hard to attain the degrees for you finally give in and are henceforth part of our social security system that will make sure that you receive exactly the minimum amount of money per month that allows you to live a life where you barely get by. This in turn will make it almost impossible to not relocate to a cheaper flat and due to the higher costs of now suddenly being poor make it even harder to live your life free of financial worries.
I understand the pain and hardship this shitfuckery leads to. A sad reality. All the while mental health issues rise exponentially making life a living hell for many.
Why would i? I’ll never be able to own anything here anyway, why bother working a lot? either earn a lot and work like a madman or take it easy and just do the minimum.
It doesnt actually say that….
The ones motivated to work hard have nice jobs… in my job i see that what i am doing affects multiple hundred thousands of people, so many people profit if i do my stuff well… but if you work for 4’200 a month and serve low quality food that makes people sick in a multi billion dollar corporation… well, the harder you work, the more profit makes some company that only focuses on profit… yeah, really good motivation and perspective…
Seems like some generations are afraid they cant keep their unsustainable and high-purchasing-power lifestyle, after retirement…
As some other generations would say:
get rekt fkrs 🙂
Socrates said that also. So imagine how lazy we must be after so many generations.
It’s just a cycle pattern, we are teenager 14-15-16 and “lazy”, we get old and see the new 15yo and say they are lazy while forgetting we were in the exact same spot.
I’m not genZ but I also have “kä Lust”
“Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers. Children are now tyrants.” – Socrates
If i could actually own my own home or something worthwhile with my wage without burning out, or fear that my retirement will be a nightmare, if things continue the way they are, maybe I would be more motivated lol
I wish i had a job entry that allows me potentional growth worth the time investment in comparison to buying power. I will never be able to buy property at the current way the housing market is prized.
Common! Its always the same!
Times changed. Years ago you actually could achieve something like buying a house if you worked. Nowadays for the normal 0815 citizen its just not possible. So why work hard, destroy your health and achive nothing instead work normal and achive the same thing.
> Die 15-30-Jährigen definieren sich nicht mehr über den Job, sondern suchen den Sinn in der Freizeit
Mr. Shoepisser makes it sound like this is a bad thing.
Drum zahleni nid id AHV i als uslandschwiizer. Kei chance dass das System nach 30 Jahre noch Ufrecht bliibt
Fun fact.. there is not sufficient evidence on the existence of generation concepts. It’s a pretty random concept to attract attention and clicks… it’s social sciences = good luck 😂
“Poor billionaire company owners having trouble to find slave workers”
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So, finally the spin doctors have made it into the front page headline maintaining that no one wants to work anymore:
My local newspaper in richy-rich Switzerland runs the following front page headline (translated): “How the young are jeopardizing Switzerland’s prosperity. Generation Z has no desire to achieve great things in the workplace, says psychologist XXX”.
The article claims that young people are too spoiled by their parents, prefer to work part-time and no longer identify themselves through their work, but by their leisure activities. In contrast, there is more competition in the labor market in Africa and Asia, which means that young people there see their chance in hard work.
So what is it that makes us in the richest country in the world, with the highest cost of living and – so far – the highest salaries, supposedly not try harder?
Well, it is very difficult to identify with a job where there are no longer any real jobs at all, but only low-paying jobs in surrogate companies, which are in reality nothing more than outsourced “cost centers” of other, large corporations. They come in different corporate guises, but all have the same goal, namely not to pay us employees the standard industry rate or union pay scale and not to let us share in the corporate profits:
– Temporary employment agencies
– contract work companies
– covert temporary work
– bogus self-employment
– multi-level marketing
– in-house outsourcing (inside corporate structures)
– offshoring
– permanent internships
In many sectors, there are almost no real jobs in “real” companies any more, apart from a few specialist jobs. Only in low-wage sectors such as gastronomy, the hotel industry or retail is there direct employment.
How are you supposed to define yourself through your work or even identify with your employer if you actually work in a “cost center” for some other corporation without receiving its wages and profit sharing?
How much lacquer did they consume before getting this brainchild ready for print?
I understand it. I could work at 100%, but I don’t want to. 80% is fine, and I don’t need more. It’s a bit less money, but I value my free time more than burning out on my job. So are we the bad ones now, just because we value our mental health more than we care about working ourselves to death? I don’t think so.
Is it not factually true that more and more non-parents decide to only work part time?
Pff. Swiss workers have to work much more per hour than they used to. The „hour“ of work – a mere metaphor for workload – takes more time to get done every year. This generation does not work part time. Itt works part wage.
Yea, they’re not wrong. My aim is to retire early. And I certainly don’t define myself via my job as many older Swiss do.
But that doesn’t mean while I work that I do a poor job…
A psychologist who judges people for how they prioritise their life…red flag to me. Unless he is just saying how it is without judgment and that comes from the journalist. But I can’t.be bothered to read this. I don’t need an article to tell me the obvious.
With all the automatization and technical progress you would think we could just reduce working hours, right… right?
Edit: Also dont worry Zoomers, they said the exact same thing about us when we were young.
Prepare to get replaced by A.I. in a heartbeat. All the while there will most probably not be any taxation on the equivalent of the hours of work that are replaced by A.I. thus making it even more attractive for the companies that are letting you go.
And after you finally realize that you won’t get any job anymore that you have worked hard to attain the degrees for you finally give in and are henceforth part of our social security system that will make sure that you receive exactly the minimum amount of money per month that allows you to live a life where you barely get by. This in turn will make it almost impossible to not relocate to a cheaper flat and due to the higher costs of now suddenly being poor make it even harder to live your life free of financial worries.
I understand the pain and hardship this shitfuckery leads to. A sad reality. All the while mental health issues rise exponentially making life a living hell for many.
Why would i? I’ll never be able to own anything here anyway, why bother working a lot? either earn a lot and work like a madman or take it easy and just do the minimum.
It doesnt actually say that….
The ones motivated to work hard have nice jobs… in my job i see that what i am doing affects multiple hundred thousands of people, so many people profit if i do my stuff well… but if you work for 4’200 a month and serve low quality food that makes people sick in a multi billion dollar corporation… well, the harder you work, the more profit makes some company that only focuses on profit… yeah, really good motivation and perspective…
Celebrating 125 years of “nobody wants to work anymore” https://imgur.com/gallery/gtMgiEO
Seems like some generations are afraid they cant keep their unsustainable and high-purchasing-power lifestyle, after retirement…
As some other generations would say:
get rekt fkrs 🙂
Socrates said that also. So imagine how lazy we must be after so many generations.
It’s just a cycle pattern, we are teenager 14-15-16 and “lazy”, we get old and see the new 15yo and say they are lazy while forgetting we were in the exact same spot.
I’m not genZ but I also have “kä Lust”
“Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers. Children are now tyrants.” – Socrates
If i could actually own my own home or something worthwhile with my wage without burning out, or fear that my retirement will be a nightmare, if things continue the way they are, maybe I would be more motivated lol
I wish i had a job entry that allows me potentional growth worth the time investment in comparison to buying power. I will never be able to buy property at the current way the housing market is prized.
Common! Its always the same!
Times changed. Years ago you actually could achieve something like buying a house if you worked. Nowadays for the normal 0815 citizen its just not possible. So why work hard, destroy your health and achive nothing instead work normal and achive the same thing.
> Die 15-30-Jährigen definieren sich nicht mehr über den Job, sondern suchen den Sinn in der Freizeit
Mr. Shoepisser makes it sound like this is a bad thing.
Drum zahleni nid id AHV i als uslandschwiizer. Kei chance dass das System nach 30 Jahre noch Ufrecht bliibt
Fun fact.. there is not sufficient evidence on the existence of generation concepts. It’s a pretty random concept to attract attention and clicks… it’s social sciences = good luck 😂
“Poor billionaire company owners having trouble to find slave workers”