I worked for Air Canada Express for 35 years as an aircraft mechanic , I retired a last year . My coworkers where very appreciative of me and where sorry to see me go. Not a WORD of thanks from the company, nothing. What a miserable company.
All the airlines are like that. I worked for a few. At the end of the day, its crickets. I know a woman that scarified her family to move up the ladder in one company. Her husband left her, her kids wanted to live with their father and she was good with that. Then she got cancer and very sick and as fast as you can say that, the company sent in some new hire to take her company car, her laptop and anything she used at home that belonged to the company. They didn't even ask how she was. That was it. Thanks for nothing.
No one wants to work to maintain an ever decreasing standard of living, especially when the losses and sacrifices clearly aren't being shared by those who began with too much of everything.There is a perception of inequality, and that perception is not wrong.If there is such a thing as " necessary" work and workers, it doesn't make much sense that the unnecessary workers make disproportionately more money.
@@markferguson3745 Boy did you hit the nail on the head with that comment. Remember during the pandemic? Everything shut down but for necessary workers...like doctors nurses and also grocery store employees and gas station employees. Even coffee shops were open. We needed them to be there for us so we could survive. We live in a crazy world where those same people make little and the suits who sit at a round table talking bs make enough to buy a second and third home.
@@esterdrass4964 Not so long ago, the disparities weren't as great.The upside to being a "professional " was as much not having to break your back and sweat bullets doing manual labor ,-while wearing a swell suit.Unfortunately, what happens in a capitalist society without checks or balances on fair behavior , is that management will continually increase the size of their piece of the pie at their employees expense.That's how labor unions came about, and that is why they were systematically crushed.The few that remain have little leverage. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and greed feeds on itself; it's a human phenomena that those who get or have more always want more; almost like some higher power giving them the rope to hang themselves.The labor market is def going through some changes.
@@markferguson3745 Frankly, if I had a kid, I would strongly encourage them to skip the college and go to a trade school and learn a trade that will never leave you hungry. A trade like plumber or electrician and you may be the grubbiest looking person in town, but you're laughing all the way to the bank. Well, yes, we are going through changes, and I hope for the better. Sometimes I feel like I watching a horror show when I see what is happening, but you know, the powers that be always find out the hard way where it all ends up. Apparently, they never learned that power, like life itself, is fluid.
Yeah...they expect A Lot and they don't want to pay very much for it. All of these years that I've been working (I'm 58, been working since I was 19) I'll never get back. Time is our most valuable commodity, and it's not worth that much to corporations.
This is the truth. Some of these "jobs" raised the minimum wage and cut most of their workforce and put triple the responsibility on the handful of employees that they kept.
So true….. and yet the lowest unemployment rate?….. it’s low because we have given up looking for a great job and have retired early just to get on with living rather than slaving. Good luck with your search! I have been volunteering for decades now. Wish I could get paid a decent wage for excellent work (I have 2 degrees). But I’m deemed over qualified or the available jobs are too soul crushing. Flew through my savings but my real estate supports me and I’m happier though barely middle class.
@@honestcomment862 ya man I was in recycling at 18/hr and they got me to do heavy machinery, customer service, clean up, power tool position…all which were suppose to have positions for…maybe except for cleaning as anyone can do that end of each day…but man it was stressful being called everywhere all the time. I even got mad saying “OK I GOT 2 PEOPLE TELLING ME TO DO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME, JUST WAIT A SECOND!” 🤣
Those of us that belong to Gen-X, we had so little opportunity when we were young, we held on to any crumby job with a death grip. The fact that the younger generations can tell employers to go suck an egg does my heart good.
Employers had the power for way too long... for the last 3 decades all we heard is that no one is irreplaceable and you should have 100% loyalty to your company but dont expect anything in return. I'm amazed to see how many companies are still arrogant and they still treat candidates at interviews like peasants who should be begging them for a job. Interviews have just become a big time wasting exercise where you have to go through several rounds of interviews to prove how much you want the job just to be told that you're not good enough or worse still just ghosted.
I’m a local truck driver doing deliveries so I go to a lot of places on a daily basis the only people who I ever hear say something like this is places that you would never want to work at because they’re horrible and pay is even worse. It’s not that people don’t want to work anymore it’s not they realized they don’t want to work for nothing.
I do think this has a lot to do with it. If we were to bring manufacturing back the requirement to get a job at a nuke plant would go way down which is fine because realistically some people just understand how to do complicated things even without school In a service economy we need a masters to run a Starbucks
@@georgevavoulis4758 when I was younger I would always wonder why the rich are so cheap when it comes to paying us for Work I couldn't understand that amount of greed. But I was missing the point I forgot who I've heard this from but the idea is not so much agreed Read but keeping you hungry and on a brink of poverty this way your forest to work for them. That is the true game as I understand it now.
It's slave labor basically....work 40 hours a week for a paltry two weeks vacation a year and the pay barely covers the basic necessities. After several years I finally got three weeks vacation. Maternity leave is a joke if it exists at all. People in Europe are shocked by how employers treat their employees in the west.
Two weeks vacation is a joke. I get like 5 weeks in Germany. But then we pay high taxes and contributions to health care, unemployment insurance, etc. so we earn less. But still I prefer to have a safety net when I become unemployed or if i get sick my medical bills are paid for. I heard medical bills in America are insanely high.
Nobody wants to work 40-50 hours per week & then realize they can't even afford to buy a home or rent a decent apartment on their own, on any remotely healthy budget plan. Then, add in all the other living necessities on top of that (healthcare, food, retirement savings, etc.). But, that's life in our burgeoning oligarchy/kleptocracy. Once enough people realize that they have nothing to gain, even when they work almost all the time, then they realize they also have nothing to lose...and the social fabric unravels.
I Remember in 1978 age 17 buying my first house and putting a deposit down with the money I saved from a Saturday supermarket job. To buy that same house today under the same conditions you'd have to be earning 100k a year
Plus lots of these jobs don't offer health insurance. And with the healthcare costs we have... I mean who can AFFORD working for min wage. It's beyond ridiculous.
Once upon a time, I worked for a bank - the smell of greed - the way the customers were spoken about totally sickened me. I left, ran my own business for 10 years and retired early. There was a price for this - hard work, self discipline, still doing stuff I didn't enjoy at times, keeping my temper with idiots and frugality. It's not all roses. But worth it for my self respect and sanity? Oh yes!
Any business tries to make you work hard. However, I know some people who are self-employed and it definitely looks like another level of stress. But hell, working your ass for yourself must be a feeling I can't even imagine. Less power to big corporations!
When an employer pays you minimum wage, what they're really saying is "I'm only paying you this much because of the law. If it were up to me, I would pay you much less".
Hehehe yeah, but a lot of minimum wage jobs (if not nearly all of them) can be done with a minimum of training and no qualifications. It's a lot easier to find people to do it than, say, finding a decent astronaut or a reasonably capable neurosurgeon. So, it doesn't pay much.
After NASA basically n shut down in the early 70s, a lot of highly qualified people ended up working low paying jobs. The problem with education is that teachers and employment gurus are always lying, saying its s path to a good job. Education does not guarantee a job. If you tell someone that you're an college grad and unemployed, they immediately ask what you studied. Where were THOSE people when I was in high school, being told n that a college degree was the cure for poverty? There are unemployed PhDs and MDs. Probably thousands of them. Education didn't work for them. If there were NO unemployed doctors, I might buy it.
You are absolutely right. I'm 55 and due to the pandemic I now work from home. They keep trying to entice me with food and snacks to come back to the office not even paying attention to the fact that I'm vegan. Why would I want to do that when I can stay at home and not waste gas and be forced to use a microwave when I don't even use one at home for my meals? The environment there is toxic anyway and the management is always micromanaging the staff. No thanks. Planning my great escape to work for myself in the next couple of months.
I just gave my notice today because I am fed up with my retail , low income job and found something with better salary and work conditions. Having the exit conversation with my boss was so scary that I wanted to throw up. However I said what I really think (with kindness), I told him that I’m leaving because I don’t feel appreciated for what I do and that I have no intention to continue. He was shocked. I feel better now. I took your advice and found a job that pays more. I am so happy. Love your videos
I would like to see robots end most retail jobs. They have crappy hours, low pay, and low status. Just eliminate them. Free people up to do something else, like maintaining the robots.
Don't ever be intimidated by a boss. What's he/she gonna do, hit you. Then you'll have a big ass lawsuit and you can retire early. It's a win-win. Glad your in a little better place now and best of luck to you.
@@FreedomTalkMedia "Free people up to do something else..." The beauty of bringing more robots into the workforce is exactly that: Humans should not be doing anything a robot can do, merely because it provides a paycheck. If that activity provides joy, of course, that's altogether different. The increase of robotics *should* mean an increase in free time for humanity. At least, that's how technological advances have typically been pitched to the public. We have the *technology* to allow people to (at the very least) work fewer hours, for a wage that allows them a comfortable life. Somehow, though, those advances have instead gone to increasing the wage gap between worker-bees and excutives, and to the pickpockets euphemistically referred to as "investors".
Oh my, thank you for putting so many people's thoughts into words. It's so tiring hearing the 'nobody wants to work mantra' from managers and all the blame being put on workers rather than themselves and their selfish methods and actions. From what I've seen in both big and small companies, greed of those at the top is always king over workers well-being. As someone closing in on retirement I so admire how younger people aren't taking the crap too many of us have for years.
It’s nuts, too… I’m now doing small biz consulting and small-medium sized businesses have to treat their team better, can’t afford to lose talent, or they will die. The dichotomy between some (not all) small local businesses and large corporations; there’s less a “profit motive” and more about security and slow growth. The employees at the biz I’m helping most have worked there for over a decade or two. They’re compensated fairly, get wage increases, and have competitive benefits. They have a good team with good management who cares/is passionate about what they’re doing. I think if I ever hired an admin assistant one day (which would be great bc organization is not my favorite part of running a biz lol) I will compensate them well and have a good team. I used to work some really shit jobs so I know how it is… I want to be someone others WANT to work for. Like I saw an author who was able to give her editor and admin, her team, generous bonuses every time she also got a good bonus writing on kindle vella. I want to be like that so when we succeed, we all do well. People aren’t disposable/just numbers.
@@PerrySkyePhoenix You are not alone. Take heart... being active and engaged in the world helps keep you young. Many people retire, and it is the worst thing they could have ever done to themselves. They are less active and disengaged, which often speeds, mental and physical decline. I've often heard of people quitting their jobs and then being dead only a couple years later. It is the struggle that keeps us alive.
@@pkendlers "Many people retire, and it is the worst thing they could have ever done to themselves." I hear that often, and certainly believe that it holds true for some percentage of retirees. But... that'll completely depend on how much a given person defines himself or herself by the job, y'know? "Hey, I'm Sales-guy Joe, with company X. That's who and what I am." For folks who think like that, sure... retirement seems like a possible path to early post-retirement death. Personally, though, I don't get it. I have roughly forty gajillion interests in life, and nowhere near enough time to pursue them all while I'm a worker-bee. Post-retirement - whenever the hell I can afford that - I'll have soooo many things in the to-do bin to keep me active and engaged, that it I'll have to create a schedule just to cycle through them all. For any retirees feeling lost without the job they left, I'd say... grab a camera... step outside... breathe deep... start walking. Enjoy. Live long and prosper.
@@pkendlersQueen of England never did a day's work in her life. Lived to almost 100 years old. The powers that be want us to think we need to work for them. One can stay active without slaving away for a kunt that doesn't need any of the money they extract from the population.
I am a 74 year old American woman who worked full time from 1969 to 2009. Management always treated us then the same way they are treating workers now. It is human/management greed nature.
It’s not that people don’t want to work, it’s that these people (employers) wa to take advantage of employees. They want you to be a slave and and to have a smile on your face. It’s literally what they want, some want you to work for free, that’s how ridiculous this is. It’s really no wonder why more and more people want to be self employed, and I don’t blame them.
How can you have good morale when you are overworked in a toxic environment, fewer benefits, insufficient pay and management with unrealistic productivity expectations multi-tasking you to death????
A good example are security guards expected to do police officers jobs for minimum wages and be treated like crap . Even unionized security guards get so many deductions the make even less money .
@@georgevavoulis4758 Don't get me started on this one. We were told we had to pay for someone to cover our shift if we called in sick and the company couldn't find coverage, but when I need to call in sick no one started calling other workers at 0200 to start at 0500. Doing the work of cops, but no guns and no tasers and we are supposed to call the real PD if things got out of hand. . . . .so when I have someone with 150lbs on me throwing rebar at me because we didn't have the length of rebar in stock they wanted I guess my job was more like dodgeball until the real PD came. I ran my truck yard very well and if you showed up early and you were respectful as a trucker then I would make sure you were at your dock when the bell said I was supposed to let you into the lot. If you were an absolute dickhead to me then you can sit there and be the last truck in after everyone else and if your boss calls and asks why his truck was in last I will be sure to tell him why and the names I was called. Don't disrespect the person who has full control of the gates into and out of the yard and can stop you to check your vehicle for any contraband at any time or we can play "last in line, random contraband inspection day" as many times as it takes until someone learns how to be respectful or for the company to send a driver who knows how to be respectful, whichever comes first. Sometimes I honestly wanted to just look at them and say "You know your company name and truck ID are written on the truck, right?".
This couldn't have come at a better time--I just got laid off from a job I had for eight years. I hated every minute of every day of that eight years, and have nothing to show for it but compounded interest on debt I couldn't pay off with my inadequate wages. Good riddance! I'm done with that sort of life.
As long as you have sustainable life, that is enough to be contented and be happy. I left my job too after having my own house and savings. I was born poor that is why I know how to be happy with less. During my corporate years, I earned a lot, but I am sooo sad and stressed almost everyday. I even overdosed myself with pain relievers everytime I have migraine or dysmenorhia to be able to work. The money was so attractive that I almost forgot how to live. But in my deepest sorrows, I questioned the value of it and my contentment...afterall, i just wanna live.
So at the start of Covid I was laid off my 8 year job in a casino on the Las Vegas strip. I got a job at Papa Johns delivering pizza and started offering housekeeping services on weekends. The casinos treat you like shit and don’t give a flying F about you. Anyway now I run a fully licensed and insured professional housekeeping business that’s completely eco friendly and non toxic (18 year vegan here) with 2 employees. I never heard a word from the moment we were laid off until 18 months later. Never checked on us, nothing. I absolutely love what I do now and I make a shit ton of money
As a gen Xer who has worked since age 14, I applaud the generation that has their own gigs, side hustles, or owns their own business. I’ve worked too many jobs that suck the life out of me. Enjoy life.
Good for you for working young! I always admired that in very young people, even a little bit in the ones that were assholes. When you get to be an adult there's still a little bit of real dignity in being employed. It's barely detectable but it's there and it's real. Too bad it's just so depressing being a slave.
Here’s the deal. I’m 75 and my first job paid $.65 an hour. I worked the job. Min wage went up to $1.25. I worked the job. I realized that 1. 1/2 years of college didn’t prepare me for anything. Got drafted. Went into a 4 years apprenticeship. The greatest time in America was 1945 to 1995. I realized no man will have you work for him unless he’s making money off your labor. You kids have inherited the worst economy since the depression. You’ll only survive by never marrying, no kids, building your own house, and not spending money on anything trivial and unnecessary for survival. Every successful business got there by hiding cash from the IRS and the state tax levee.
There are three levels of slavery: 1.Taxes 2.Inflation 2.Debt 3.Employment Government prints money you work for and then steals them from you through taxes, so it can blow them on dumb stuff, thus creating need to print more money which makes whatever you worked for worth less, thus making it harder for you to afford assets transportation and necessities, which pushes you into debt, which siphons even more money into you and makes you afford even less assets and necessities but puts a very high pressure on you to have stable income so you can pay off the debt which pushes you into employment and here the proverbial circle of slavery closes and now you are a slave to the system in all but name, you live more comfortably then slaves of the old perhaps due to technology, but you are barely affording shelter and food, not much better off than slaves of the old times. There is no free will, you can quit the job just like old slaves could run away from their cotton fields, but in doing so, you loose everything, and there is nowhere to run, there is just more cottonfields, not much different than the one you just ran away from, way to become free is free yourself from as many of these 4 chains as you can, people who are trully free, dont have a job, dont pay taxes, and dont owe anything and own assets protecting them from inflation. They are the only ones who are trully free. Slavery wasnt abolished, it is more prevalent than ever.
If one of the assets you're talking about is land, we're not allowed to own land in the US. We have to pay lots of money for the right to rent it ("purchase"), but if we don't also pay the land rent every year, it will be taken away from us. Or if the federal or state government decides that they want it (in many states for "economic development", aka, their corporation-owning buddies to get that land), they can legally seize it & stall our "just compensation" pittance in courts for years.......which means we can never truly own it.
@@off6848 Correct. And right up to the early 20th century government consumed between 3% to 8% of the GDP instead of 40% today. Before 1916 three was no income tax and the US had gone from a developing to a developed country. How much of what is paid in taxes today does not benefit the taxpayer (especially federal taxes)? I think a blanket response like the above overlooks degrees. Yes we all should contribute (we all don't since nearly half of Americans pay close to zero federal taxes); but at some point contributing simply became paying a huge fine that does most taxpayers no good at all.
Here in New Zealand, if you get paid a couple of dollars an hour more than McDonalds, they are taking away your breaks, claiming you are paid for them. And more disturbingly, when a full-time worker leaves, they are hiring a part-timer, but expecting the same amount of work. It's depressing. All so they can give shareholders more and more money for nothing.
This is so true about Giving you just enough hours, not to have insurance or making life miserable working with rude customers and then getting a paycheck that won’t even provide a weeks worth of groceries let alone rent
I completely agree with you!! I have lived almost everything you articulated .My wife got leukemia just as the pandemic started her workplace closed down so lost her job too. I took a leave of absence to help her. I became depressed. I could only handle part-time when I went back to work. Then I got let go as well! I've never considered having my own business. Not sure what to do to be honest.
Nobody ever says "thank you" in business anymore. There is little appreciation. You lose your sense of dignity and self worth as a human being. You become a number and it doesnt matter how many years you have worked or what you have done to make your company a good place to work. All there is is pressure, stress and endless demands for more, more more on a hamster treadmill that is unsatisfying and a sure fire road to unhappiness and a miserable existence where you eventually reach the stage where you do not understand what the purpose of your life is in the first place. I approve of this video and this message.
My entire plan was to do these shitty jobs for low pay and learn skills that I could use in my own business. At 57 years old, I called it quits and took all those skills that I learned working for others and now work for myself. It's great.
I am 62 and newly retired and agree with you 100%. It makes me sick to see what these greedy companies are doing to our country and most of them pay little or no taxes to operate here. The people need to stand up and unite. Demand a livable wage and affordable health insurance for starters that would at least make it worth going to work. Sick of hearing about their record profits off of our backs.
In the uk especially people on average wage can now never buy a house. So as a boomer I certainly don’t expect them to work. They should exploit the system as much as the wealthy and big business does. In any case immigration into the uk is now so high most menial jobs still get done
First, thanks for the Blink outro! Is that even a word?? I just started a new job, working in a fulfillment center for “influencers.” It pays $12/hr. My prior job was super stressful-I did accounts payable for a large nonprofit, cutting over a million dollars in checks every week, and lots of other things I don’t care to reminisce about. In other words, HUGE stress. Like, couldn’t sleep at night stress. And I did that for…drumroll please…$14/hour. So I took a $2/hour pay cut and now have ZERO work stress. I go in, put in my earbuds, walk around a warehouse all day long picking orders for people with conspicuous consumption problems, and when I leave for the day I’M DONE! I don’t have to think about it til the next day. This is just my 3rd week, but so far I love it. And when I get really sick and tired of it? I can move on to the next $12/hour job. 🤷🏻♀️If I have to work for such small wages, it might as well be a job with little to no stress.
This is EXACTLY how I feel and why instead of being a medical clerk I chose a path of warehouse / cleaning / resort work . I started a small business but due to sales need a job ( been self employed for a year now and LOVE IT ) kinda dread going back to work 40hours a week , min wage here is $15.50/hr and if anywhere is paying me under $20/hr it better be easy as hell and stress free ( please note * easy as hell to me means doesnt kill my body, isnt consistent heavy lifting or mechanical trouble shooting , I enjoy repetitive no brainer work because my business is my creative outlet ...) these companies expect the world for the least amount of pay possible and its sickening . I had a job offer last year at a 5 star Fairmont hotel in Banff for $17/hr . Nightly, their cheapest room is $500! And a housekeeper is expected to clean up to 16 rooms per shift....GREED!
I've worked several types of jobs. I really don't enjoy being an employee, which is why I'm here making videos on the internets. The flexibility of content creation and the gig economy is fantastic.
I agree with this 100%. I'll tell you why people keep going to the jobs that you are talking about. Desperation. It's that simple... Employers (Corporations) have manipulated people so well over the last 30ish years so well and towards their own goals, that people will take these jobs and be stuck at them for years because they're desperate. If you have a family (even if you don't) and most of the jobs available in your area fall into that category, you'll take the job. Simply because you have no other option. Well, unless you want to live on the street and eat out of garbage cans...
I'm in my 50s and you're pretty spot on in regard to how employees are treated. I still believe the 80s were the best time to work. A lot of good paying jobs available straight out of high school. I lean more conservative, but I'm not stupid either. I've been in unions for most of my life. Now that isn't so easily an option.
I don't know. The 80s had their other side to. I worked in retail and the motto was that the customer was always right. They had an area in the building where customers could walk in and complain about anyone for any reason. Like, the line to pay was too long and you were too slow ringing up. I did waitress a bit though, good money there.
You hit the nail on the head. I was 20 in 1980. There was no internet and computers were in their infancy. I didn't want to work in most of the sh_t jobs over the next several decades. It's no different today. I don't blame the youth for not wanting to work in the same condition I've worked in for so long. And who can afford college? The young really are forced to get into their own thing. Be independent, that's my advice. And thanks for your no BS video.
Amen Sister!! Love your videos! I am 63 yrs old and have been completely self-employed since 1985! Do not regret it one bit. The powera that be make it as difficult as possible, though, through extremely high taxes on us rebels. Whatever. Keep up the great videos. You are a very wise person. I just started my youtube channel which was how I found you and so glad I did! You inspire me. And I am a dog lover too so I loved seeing how much you love your dog in another video. ❤
I worked for a non-denominational church. I was paid for 12 hours per week, but had mandated volunteer time and ended up working well over full time every single week. They did this to all (but one) of their female employees. Once things shifted and they struggled to fill the positions, the church leaders sure loved complaining how nobody wanted to work anymore.
“Mandating” volunteer hours violates labor laws. More importantly, since they don’t care about laws, clearly it doesn’t work for attracting talent bc no one wants to be disrespected like that.
Never tell your boss the truth about why you left. Don’t tell them it’s because they’re toxic. Tell them you found a better opportunity and that you won’t be sharing details as requested.
Our culture is messed up! Period! If your young the best advice is save your money so your not a slave your whole life. Freedom is important stay out of debt! Keep your expenses low . Go get your freedom! I do think work is important but it needs to be the right kind of work
They've found a way to steal from your savings (besides legalized theft they call a "tax") by turning on the money printing machine and devaluing the dollar. It's lost almost 97% of its purchasing power since the "Fed" was implemented. That's what happens when your money isn't backed by anything the way it used to be.
You are so on point! I agree with everything you said. I was born in the last year of the Boomers. And I remember my parents and grandparents saying the same thing, "your generation doesn't want to work." Now I hear people my age saying the same thing about younger people. It makes me so angry to hear this. I started working at 15 and still am not close to being able to retire. Wages are not keeping pace with inflation. And these employers are really delusional thinking that people should be grateful for not making enough to cover their expenses, much less try and save for anything.
I subbed for 9 years and was only allowed to work 4 days so they didn't have to give me benefits. The most modern thing is to subcontract, so the school system isn't responsible for you. Everywhere is a 39 hour place except if they get you on a salary and work you 62 hours a week.
This video, of yours, landed on my favorites. You hit the nail on the head on every point. I was impressed by what you said, especially with you being an employer, yourself, with you owning a business of your own. I never thought I would see the day where a business owner would say what you said, but here I am. The biggest round of applause to you, for that. And, another thing that really got me happy about this video is the fact you told the truth. Everyone who has ever existed, really, does NOT "want" to work. People say this person or that person does not "want" to work, but what they should say is the person's not "willing" to work. But even then, that's the person's judgmental side, saying that. Most people are willing to work. They just don't want to. Who does? Even the person saying that doesn't want to. I'm in Ohio, USA, and America has a full time work week at 40 hours. Our federal minimum wage, here, has been 7.25 per hour for probably over a decade, at this point. Finally, since a couple of years ago, Ohio has it where minimum wage goes up every year, based on inflation. Ohio's minimum wage is, I think, 10.10, this year (2023). I have a bachelors degree, and I've had a hard time finding work, at all, to the point where you would think I'm one of those not willing to work. What little experience I do have, falls under the same category as what you explained in the video, with the shitty working conditions (including weather conditions), the boss breathing down our neck and not appreciating us, mean customers, back breaking work, stuck at minimum wage, being given few hours, etc. In 2012, I got to the same place you got, that you mentioned at the end of the video. I was like "Fuck this," and I tried to do tutoring on my own. Even that got me no where. No one called me up for it. That same year, I went to a career coaching place, that paid the tuition for a program where I got a vocational certificate. No luck. Last year (2022), I learned how to edit videos, on my own. Still, no luck. I've done TH-cam since 2017. No luck. Teespring landed me no luck. Whatever I looked into, whether job applications or trying to do shit on my own, I've had no luck finding anything. That's been the case ever since I first became an adult, which was quite some time ago. Even after having the church pray, for crying out loud. Even PRAYER didn't work. The ONE thing that should have worked to get me something. And, guess how much I've won from Publisher's Clearance House, having been on their website since 2012. A one time winning of FIVE dollars. Bus fare / gas to go to the bank to cash the check equals the amount of the check, if not more. It's like I lost money winning money. I may as well have not gone to the bank to cash the check. So, "fuck this" is right.
Wow, you just said what I have thought for decades. Fortunately, I have stumbled into a job I really like at this point. I'm grateful for that. My current job isn't for everyone, but it's definitely for me. However, I did spend years at other jobs where the environment was toxic, they were expecting me to work through an unpaid lunch break, unreasonably low pay, etc.
People are tired of working and struggling to live. High housing costs, taxes and inflation have created so much poverty-stricken people living in tents. What's the point of working if you can't even afford a roof over your head.
This resounded with me so loudly. I just had a small family business use me as a manager while still paying me housekeepers wages for the past year at a small inn. And now the family member who used to work my position needs to move back home so I was let go for "not being a good fit" anymore.
I am 51. I just started my own dog sitting business for all of the reasons you stated, except I didn't consciously realize that until I heard you speaking. I follow many TH-cam channels, and find more value in your channel than I do from channels that have 300k followers or more. You are wise WAY beyond your years. "...she left me roses by the stairs...surprises let me know she cares..." 🎶
100 % correct on all fronts. The wages I made in 1984 were enough to live life pretty well with the odd vacation, buying new stereo equipment every few months etc. Slowly inflation kicked in and jobs started becoming harder to find. Big companies closed doors and sent there manufacturing to Mexico etc. People could no longer afford buying things manufactured in North America and the Chinese garbage goods became the new norm. With the majority of good paying jobs gone the only place left to work was retail or fast food which were previously for student to make money to go to school. Slowly the middle class has been squeezed out and two people working even having to work overtime has become stressful and the results are basically a break even point at best. Government greed for tax dollars has led to companies trying to buy new equipment or upgrade machinery so they don't have to pay tax's. The end result of not giving workers the profit or share of it means we no longer have money to buy things goods services etc... No trickle down equals a dead economy which they have created now. Thanks god I am nearing my retirement and I am able to escape this viscous cycle. I totally understand why the young people of today don`t want to work. Its not that their lazy it`s the pay for services is no longer even worth getting out of bed or even feeling good about yourself.
You're absolutely right!! And I'm glad to hear you say it! But the thing that sucks about that is that if you're the sort of person that is not very creative and hasn't been able to figure out a way to make money online or start a business such that it is enjoyable or worthwhile to you, then you're really screwed. You're stuck doing those awful jobs and barely getting by. Meanwhile, corporate profits soar. And the people at the top make way more than they are worth.
I’m simply not offering my spirit and soul to work anymore. At 32 years old, I’m semi-confident I could disappear and live to a long age with the skills I have now. They’re all pretty primal skills, but, it’s better than functioning in this soulless culture.
So true ! Great video ! These days you can't afford anything, the payroll deductions are way too high, then you pay taxes on everything you buy, you watch the costs of living increase mercilessly, and on top of that, you end up in a very toxic work environment, where's the motivation in that ?
I've retired when my time arrived. My body ailments and mental weariness just dictated it. I live a humble, frugal lifestyle i collect enough. But I'm glad I left..
the small family business just happened to me. thank you for proving my exact point. i hope my coworkers will see it and realize how much better they deserve.
Another thing to piggyback on is that my company gives generous time off work, but they constantly block the vacation calendar so that we can’t use our time. They’re telling us to schedule 2023 in November 2022, and get this, they scheduled 11 days for me that I didn’t even pick. So 11 days are picked for me by management. Most of us lost time off bc they blocked the calendar, and they only recently let us have a bank to donate unused PTO. I went to donate mine and was told sorry the bank is full. They do not allow us to cash out or rollover unused PTO. So my company was able to get thousands upon thousands of dollars bc they prevented us any ways to use it.
I am 71 and collect "social security". I absolutely 100% agree with everything you just said. Given a little time, I could come up with lots more you could add to your speech. My best advice, if you can wrap your hands around a few dollars, is to start working for yourself. You can sell stuff online (be careful with the money because the taxman will come calling), and as you said, make pottery, carve wood, walk dogs, babysit, whatever it takes so you don't operate on someone else's time or rules. And don't be deterred by the braying asses who say that no one wants to work anymore. They are the exact same losers who would screw their own mothers if they thought they could make a buck off of it. I have said for a long time, "When you go to work for somebody else, it is only a matter of time before they screw you. It will happen, count on it and be as ready as you can, or work for yourself because XYZ Inc. will screw you, guaranteed. I am with you all the way. As Judge Judy says, "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining."
I'm of your Grandfather's generation and although I knew all the reasons people didn't want to work in minimum wage jobs, I was really worried about how they were finding money to live and pay their bills. I appreciate all the ways you listed that people are able to do that now. Thanks
Hear hear! Thanks a lot for saying this Nicole, we are breaking our back for 30 days off a year and a limited income :((( my only problem is that I find side hustles stressful and uncertain, so I’m not sure I could do it, maybe I’m just tired of working for 10 years straight 😩
I've only recently had 30 days off in a row, but that's only because I had a stroke! I've never had a month long vacation in my life. I guess I'm off for good now, though. Blew all the healthy years on horrible jobs working for jerks.
I've worked all my life and no matter how hard I pull on 'my' bootstraps all I get is cramped fingers and a bad back. If you can find a job (a career) that you really enjoy doing every day, you are so blessed it makes the rest of us sick with envy.
@@garyhall5397 Speaking for myself, I didn't figure that out until I hit my early 30's, sad to say. We, as a society, do a piss poor job of preparing our youth for the future realities of life in America. In my opinion, of course.
Thank you for this video, also mental abuse such as working in call centers smh companies are always so eager to hire for these terrible positions which are toxic to your mental and physical health.
You Nailed it Nicole, Im in my mid thirties right now but I regretted working so hard as a cleaner/cook from age 19 here in the Uk, I wish I had invested in my education or anything that would contribute to my growth earlier, or perhaps I was afraid to try new things because my English and my communication skills wasn’t good ,and so Lately i’ve started taking English lessons and learning other things, and hoping to completely quit my Job soon and be able to work @ home ,your channel was one of my inspiration and I hope one day I can come back to this comment…😜
Absolutely agree. I don't want those younger than me to pay for my mistake of believing the lies and thinking that society actually gave a crap about me. This would is all about exploitation and I refused to participate. I'm 64.
I have seen everyone of these at every single job I've held for 35 years. Now seeing my kid be abused at her full time job by being told she's been promoted, given all the extra work but, they just happened to forget about increasing her pay. No, nobody wants to work and yes, we're all sick of being demeaned and clearly told we're dispensable. Also, I've seen most older workers get laid off just before retirement by every big corporation I've worked at. I now do the bare minimum at all times.
I’m obviously very blessed. I am a nurse from Alberta and we have a strong union standing behind us. This is so depressing finding out how poorly other workers are treated 😢
OMG, you are so right! I hate that old man ( or Karen ) that says "nobody wants to work anymore". Same like "stay off my lawn"! It is 100% truth that nobody has ever wanted to work as a slave or indentured servant and not make ends meet! I love this video you did. I appreciate you Nicole, I think you are awesome!
This is a really good video- answered some questions about that topic. Yes- thank you for providing this important information. You express and articulate this really well!!!
Some of this has been going on for a long time. 20 years or so ago, I had a job at Wendy's in my town. One night I was running a fever and needed to go home. But the other people working didn't want to have cover my shift. One of them was the manager's daughter. If I hadn't gone home I would have passed out. So I went anyway. But they knew they couldn't actually fire me for running a fever. (It was 104 btw). So they just... didn't schedule me for any more shifts. Naturally, I still needed money, so I had to find another job. But that kind of crap sticks with you. (I think that manager eventually got fired.)
Boomer here, I completely agree, wonder why it took so long, working for someone else has always been a shitty deal. Yes I did work the trades, oil field, construction, mines etc but made the most money working for myself doing whatever, learned to do most things from books, now it’s the internet. Best thing of all, you determine how much, if any, taxes you pay.
I’m 65 and you’re spot on. Corporate America’s officers are making a fortune. Workers are being paid poverty level wages and everyone is mad at each other at work. HR is running rampant with your ego power trips instead of helping employees. anything an employee does that’s beyond their job they are not recognized for it but their management is busy to take the credit for it. It’s terrible out there I don’t blame anybody for not wanting to work.
As a single mother with one child (in the states) in the 90s with a waitressing job, I was able to go out to eat/movie/museum at least once a week, and we took a camping trip/road trip every couple of months. I now have a master's degree and own a business, but I can't afford to even breathe. I don't want to work harder/more time to afford the things I could do with a part time income just a little over a decade ago. Where's the incentive?
I am a full time reseller. When the time came for me to provide for five years of my husband's medical school I realized that my at that time side hustle can actually give me good living. I make more than any hourly position can offer (I have only an EMT license which pays really bad). It's extremely flexible and I can run to kids' preschool at any time, do any errand at any minute I desire. I work hard but this quite literally saved my family financially.
So Nicole, you said you are a business owner. What business do you own? How many people do you employ? Also, the reason many (not all) employers require a university degree is because primary and secondary education has failed to impart the minimum basic skills and knowledge needed to participate well in the economy. And then the “________ Studies” degrees so many universities are churning out are not equipping student with the knowledge base and ethics that will enable graduates (if they even get that far) to be of true value to themselves or an employer.
I worked for a company where the team had to compete with each other. The the new hire would have have 2 weeks & whoever performed the worst would be let go. Another person would be hired & the cycle would start again. Needless to say there was no teamwork.
I am 77 years old. And I agree with you 100%. And thank you so much for being the first one I have heard that makes sense. So so so true. I am glad that people don't want to take it anymore.
Yes, but....if they paid more then they'd have to charge more...wah!!! Oh, wait...maybe they could pay the CEO less...what? Nah, let's not go there! Here in Arizona, several years ago they raised the minimum wage to $12 an hour. That equals around $1500 a month after tax if you work a full 40 hours a week. At this taco joint they had signs out saying "due to the fact that minimum wage has increased we had to increase our prices", like right on the counter between the customer and employees. Crass. I wrote them a letter and told them that if their business model requires slave labor, then they should not be in business. I mean, providing jobs is good, but, if you can't even live off the wages of a particular job, what is the effing point???
Notice how these companies had record profits but raised prices citing increased expenses. Yeah, when those expenses decrease which they do, companies are not going to go down on prices
$20 an hour at the burger chain here in Seattle area. They pay for the benefits and chip in for childcare. They also have a scholarship program that is super generous. Free public transport if you work at the Seattle city location.
If the working class all decided at once they weren't working anymore, the investor, wealth, and ruling class would freak out. They're entire livelihood and lifestyle would crumble down. They even steal your money by taxing your "income." You trade your time for money - there is no profit. You traded 1 hour worth 10$ for 10$. Yet they keep getting away with giving huge tax breaks to the investor and ruling class that makes actual profits on the back of the working class that makes no profit.
I always hated to work. I don't like work. I don't need money. I am super frugal cheapskate and I can live luxuriousloy with less than €850 a month and save a bit too. Work steals your time and energy, maybe even health. I was most of my live on sabbatical or unemployed, and health is amazing. People who work years barely in health today. So sad.
I can relate to that. But have to say that I do like to work voluntary because I do not work for profit but to help people. I just don't want to be working to make someone else rich. When I worked in the past there was either a bad work climate, too much pressure and mean spirited colleagues or narcisstic supervisors. Or I just didn't fit in with the team. So I figured I do not want to be unhappy and getting sick in the end. Money is not the issue, I do value my time. And like you I manage on little money. I have savings too and don't buy unnecessary stuff I do not need. Health is all important to me as well. I know enough people who worked hard and got sick in the end with burn out or damaged bones.
You made valid points people are tired of working for corporations and businesses that only focus on their bottom-line profit. Why not bet on yourself! Even if you fail, you have succeeded in learning that you have skills that can be applied to other opportunities.
During lockdown I was working for a company here in the UK that put all employees on Furlough receiving only 80% of our wages paid by the government and made us work from home normally. They even made us sign a document saying we weren't working from home. We were all terrified and worried about what was coming up and didn't question at all.
It's good to hear that they are a segment of young people who are willing to go out and exploit the economy and meet it where it is. What I tend to see more often are people who have simply dropped out of the economy and don't want to work because they feel either it's beneath them, or they're not getting enough out of it. I have no problem with either perspective, but I think it should be understood that those of us that are working to feed clothing, shelter ourselves don't owe you anything if you refuse to exercise the same initiative.
Great truthful presentation, unions were started because the businesses did not want to pay their employes a livable wage and benefits. You are completely right if you work full time and can not afford having food, shelter, transportation and a place to live there is a real problem.
Totally "ON POINT"! Great video... I've seen all of this as well, and I finally had it when our $30M / yr company offered its employees a free hot dog for "Employee Appreciation Day"... Then and shortly thereafter, when I finally retired, they gave me a face mask telling me not to "forget" them. To be sure, that will never be forgotten..
A hotdog? That is as close as legally possible to taking a *literal* piss out of employees.. Don't get me wrong, piss'a parties are of the same calibre, just less 'in ur face'
Im living my best life since Corvid started playing videogames and watching youtube from the comfort of my own apartment. ✌️😎 And I don't have any plans to go back to having to work and waste my time for 💰
Hi Nicole, I was born mid 50’s and was much moved by your words. I could not fault a single word you said. I might have said this was a ‘revelation’ to me except that in fact (and shame on me) I had not given the matter too much thought at all. I know your video would have taken a lot of your time and effort but truly you have done GOOD here and I for one am grateful you provided this enlightenment. And even If I don’t now rush-out and DO something about it, then I will at least take Thumper’s very good advice; “If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all”. Because I heard what you said at 12:52; “so now you know”. Thank you - Alex in Australia [Liked and Subscribed].
I agree with everything you said! Here’s my job story My husband lost his farm manager job last year cause owner sold the farm. The house we lived in was included so guess what we were now jobless and homeless. I hadn’t worked in years due to having multiple surgeries well I had to go to work to pay for a shed home that we are fixing up it’s in my son’s backyard. I am mad sad terrified you name it. I am taking a risk working and messing up everything in my spine. I have metal screws and rods on my entire spine except neck area and the way it hurts I’m scared. My husband is working too on his brother’s farm. Nicole do you think I could possibly do a side hustle type job? I’m 64 and only have an iPhone for Internet is there anything you would suggest I could do? Thanks ❤
Hi! I would try TH-cam videos, you can talk about live on a farm (many people love that), teach or just share your experiences, or if you can cook, could sell something, hope it helps!
Reselling is something you can do with just your phone. Find things for cheap at thrift stores and yard sales, and sell them for a profit on platforms like Ebay, Poshmark, Vinted, etc. There are lots of youtube tutorials on this subject to help get you started
I've been noticing tons of job posting that require bachelors or masters degrees , pay 25 an hour and schedule you at 37.5 hours a week. It's complete bullshit
In France they get one month vacation (holiday) a year starting the first year. If you're sick they want you to stay home . An one to two hour lunch . Consider that recently they rioted in the streets because they wNted to raise the retirement age. In the USA it work one year and you get one week vacation. 30 minutes for lunch. The retirement age keeps going higher and higher. A..hole bosses do not care if you or your children are sick you must report to work so they can under pay and over work you. F..k that.
Thanks Nicole and good points. Love the comments about your dad driving cab which is what I do with some of that not needed post secondary. He probably drove in Toronto when there wasn't uber and less cabs on the road. The good old days... You could have touched on housing too now which is insane and all over Canada pretty much (and we're in another recession/high interest rate situation again which came up really a few months ago after this post.) I love how candid you are that most people really don't want to work or maybe not as hard as some want which is true. And yup many people really aren't in jobs that they really want to do. Good stuff gal!
I used to work in parks for over 13 years and while people easily assume it's a "fun" job, for me, it was one of the most miserable, WORSE jobs I ever had dealing with abusive bosses and patrons who often talked down to me on top of having been involved with a union where I wasn't really getting the help I needed from them. When they laid me off amid the pandemic (or so they told me it was because of that) the feeling was mutual between me and my boss making me feel very liberated and now working a job that I (generally) like.
I worked for Air Canada Express for 35 years as an aircraft mechanic , I retired a last year . My coworkers where very appreciative of me and where sorry to see me go. Not a WORD of thanks from the company, nothing. What a miserable company.
All the airlines are like that. I worked for a few. At the end of the day, its crickets. I know a woman that scarified her family to move up the ladder in one company. Her husband left her, her kids wanted to live with their father and she was good with that. Then she got cancer and very sick and as fast as you can say that, the company sent in some new hire to take her company car, her laptop and anything she used at home that belonged to the company. They didn't even ask how she was. That was it. Thanks for nothing.
No one wants to work to maintain an ever decreasing standard of living, especially when the losses and sacrifices clearly aren't being shared by those who began with too much of everything.There is a perception of inequality, and that perception is not wrong.If there is such a thing as " necessary" work and workers, it doesn't make much sense that the unnecessary workers make disproportionately more money.
@@markferguson3745 Boy did you hit the nail on the head with that comment. Remember during the pandemic? Everything shut down but for necessary workers...like doctors nurses and also grocery store employees and gas station employees. Even coffee shops were open. We needed them to be there for us so we could survive. We live in a crazy world where those same people make little and the suits who sit at a round table talking bs make enough to buy a second and third home.
@@esterdrass4964 Not so long ago, the disparities weren't as great.The upside to being a "professional " was as much not having to break your back and sweat bullets doing manual labor ,-while wearing a swell suit.Unfortunately, what happens in a capitalist society without checks or balances on fair behavior , is that management will continually increase the size of their piece of the pie at their employees expense.That's how labor unions came about, and that is why they were systematically crushed.The few that remain have little leverage.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and greed feeds on itself; it's a human phenomena that those who get or have more always want more; almost like some higher power giving them the rope to hang themselves.The labor market is def going through some changes.
@@markferguson3745 Frankly, if I had a kid, I would strongly encourage them to skip the college and go to a trade school and learn a trade that will never leave you hungry. A trade like plumber or electrician and you may be the grubbiest looking person in town, but you're laughing all the way to the bank. Well, yes, we are going through changes, and I hope for the better. Sometimes I feel like I watching a horror show when I see what is happening, but you know, the powers that be always find out the hard way where it all ends up. Apparently, they never learned that power, like life itself, is fluid.
"Nobody wants to work anymore!"
me with over 300 job applications, 20 interviews, and 0 offers this year "Nobody wants to hire anymore!"
Lol true! It's been hard to land a job.
Yeah...they expect A Lot and they don't want to pay very much for it. All of these years that I've been working (I'm 58, been working since I was 19) I'll never get back. Time is our most valuable commodity, and it's not worth that much to corporations.
This is the truth. Some of these "jobs" raised the minimum wage and cut most of their workforce and put triple the responsibility on the handful of employees that they kept.
So true….. and yet the lowest unemployment rate?….. it’s low because we have given up looking for a great job and have retired early just to get on with living rather than slaving. Good luck with your search! I have been volunteering for decades now. Wish I could get paid a decent wage for excellent work (I have 2 degrees). But I’m deemed over qualified or the available jobs are too soul crushing. Flew through my savings but my real estate supports me and I’m happier though barely middle class.
@@honestcomment862 ya man I was in recycling at 18/hr and they got me to do heavy machinery, customer service, clean up, power tool position…all which were suppose to have positions for…maybe except for cleaning as anyone can do that end of each day…but man it was stressful being called everywhere all the time. I even got mad saying “OK I GOT 2 PEOPLE TELLING ME TO DO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME, JUST WAIT A SECOND!” 🤣
Those of us that belong to Gen-X, we had so little opportunity when we were young, we held on to any crumby job with a death grip. The fact that the younger generations can tell employers to go suck an egg does my heart good.
Employers had the power for way too long... for the last 3 decades all we heard is that no one is irreplaceable and you should have 100% loyalty to your company but dont expect anything in return.
I'm amazed to see how many companies are still arrogant and they still treat candidates at interviews like peasants who should be begging them for a job. Interviews have just become a big time wasting exercise where you have to go through several rounds of interviews to prove how much you want the job just to be told that you're not good enough or worse still just ghosted.
What about millennials who started working in 2006-2012. That was fun.
@@notme8152 I'm just glad I had a job in a warehouse pushing drugs, back then.
😂 me too...
I’m a local truck driver doing deliveries so I go to a lot of places on a daily basis the only people who I ever hear say something like this is places that you would never want to work at because they’re horrible and pay is even worse. It’s not that people don’t want to work anymore it’s not they realized they don’t want to work for nothing.
The stress and disrespect isn’t with the meager paycheck? 🤔 lol
I do think this has a lot to do with it. If we were to bring manufacturing back the requirement to get a job at a nuke plant would go way down which is fine because realistically some people just understand how to do complicated things even without school
In a service economy we need a masters to run a Starbucks
Absolutely, they offer pay that won't get you off the street, and then complain that people don't want to work for them.
It costs over $1,00,000for a house in Toronto, rent costs $2,000/month and all these taxes go up . But minimum wage is $12/hr
@@georgevavoulis4758 when I was younger I would always wonder why the rich are so cheap when it comes to paying us for Work I couldn't understand that amount of greed. But I was missing the point I forgot who I've heard this from but the idea is not so much agreed Read but keeping you hungry and on a brink of poverty this way your forest to work for them. That is the true game as I understand it now.
It's slave labor basically....work 40 hours a week for a paltry two weeks vacation a year and the pay barely covers the basic necessities. After several years I finally got three weeks vacation. Maternity leave is a joke if it exists at all. People in Europe are shocked by how employers treat their employees in the west.
Two weeks vacation is a joke. I get like 5 weeks in Germany. But then we pay high taxes and contributions to health care, unemployment insurance, etc. so we earn less. But still I prefer to have a safety net when I become unemployed or if i get sick my medical bills are paid for. I heard medical bills in America are insanely high.
@@beatrixk.6723 I'm in Canada, and I get 4 weeks vacation, but only after 10 years.
People in Europe are also shocked that we still have affordable homes in the US.
@@b.michaelbrown1117 That may be, but if you need medical treatment for cancer,etc. you may have to sell your house to be able to pay expensive bills.
Yep. Work 5 days a week to get just 2 days off. Work 50 weeks to get just 2 weeks off. Rinse and repeat. F-ing hamster wheel.
Nobody wants to work 40-50 hours per week & then realize they can't even afford to buy a home or rent a decent apartment on their own, on any remotely healthy budget plan. Then, add in all the other living necessities on top of that (healthcare, food, retirement savings, etc.). But, that's life in our burgeoning oligarchy/kleptocracy. Once enough people realize that they have nothing to gain, even when they work almost all the time, then they realize they also have nothing to lose...and the social fabric unravels.
I Remember in 1978 age 17 buying my first house and putting a deposit down with the money I saved from a Saturday supermarket job. To buy that same house today under the same conditions you'd have to be earning 100k a year
The illegals and robots will take those jobs.
Plus lots of these jobs don't offer health insurance. And with the healthcare costs we have... I mean who can AFFORD working for min wage. It's beyond ridiculous.
The word "amazon" comes to mind here. If you really are hell bent on treating your workers as slaves they will in the end simply truck off.
They would have money for food.
Go together with a friend and rent a place together.
Biggest drain on income,…fast food, every day, going to the bar.
Once upon a time, I worked for a bank - the smell of greed - the way the customers were spoken about totally sickened me. I left, ran my own business for 10 years and retired early. There was a price for this - hard work, self discipline, still doing stuff I didn't enjoy at times, keeping my temper with idiots and frugality. It's not all roses. But worth it for my self respect and sanity? Oh yes!
"Diet and exercise", there is no magic pill to life, just "Diet and exercise"...
Self-respect and sanity are so important. It's hard to put in proper hard work and discipline without your sanity.
I agree with you 100%. I started working for myself after COVID. I still think about the dolts that I used to work for and just laugh.
Wells Fargo - WORST EMPLOYER EVER
Any business tries to make you work hard. However, I know some people who are self-employed and it definitely looks like another level of stress. But hell, working your ass for yourself must be a feeling I can't even imagine. Less power to big corporations!
When an employer pays you minimum wage, what they're really saying is "I'm only paying you this much because of the law. If it were up to me, I would pay you much less".
Hehehe yeah, but a lot of minimum wage jobs (if not nearly all of them) can be done with a minimum of training and no qualifications. It's a lot easier to find people to do it than, say, finding a decent astronaut or a reasonably capable neurosurgeon.
So, it doesn't pay much.
@@devilsoffspring5519that doesn't justify poverty.
After NASA basically n shut down in the early 70s, a lot of highly qualified people ended up working low paying jobs.
The problem with education is that teachers and employment gurus are always lying, saying its s path to a good job.
Education does not guarantee a job.
If you tell someone that you're an college grad and unemployed, they immediately ask what you studied.
Where were THOSE people when I was in high school, being told n that a college degree was the cure for poverty?
There are unemployed PhDs and MDs. Probably thousands of them. Education didn't work for them.
If there were NO unemployed doctors, I might buy it.
Exactly. Well said.
Xackly!
You are absolutely right. I'm 55 and due to the pandemic I now work from home. They keep trying to entice me with food and snacks to come back to the office not even paying attention to the fact that I'm vegan. Why would I want to do that when I can stay at home and not waste gas and be forced to use a microwave when I don't even use one at home for my meals? The environment there is toxic anyway and the management is always micromanaging the staff. No thanks. Planning my great escape to work for myself in the next couple of months.
Oh yeah being vegan. What a travesty that they would serve you free meat.
That is hilarious because it’s so true! They don’t even care enough to notice you’re vegan.
Bravo! I am 53 and I am also planning my great escape too! ❤️🙏❤️
You sound so miserable, do yourself a favor and chill out.
@Mike P I'm 53 and want to find another job. However, I still have my mortgage to pay so sad😢
I just gave my notice today because I am fed up with my retail , low income job and found something with better salary and work conditions. Having the exit conversation with my boss was so scary that I wanted to throw up. However I said what I really think (with kindness), I told him that I’m leaving because I don’t feel appreciated for what I do and that I have no intention to continue. He was shocked. I feel better now. I took your advice and found a job that pays more. I am so happy. Love your videos
Wow.. the conversation with your boss at a retail store was "scary".
That's not scary. That's difficult.
Also, that's pathetic.
So the issue wasn’t the labor market but rather your choices. And you had the freedom to make a different choice. So does this video apply to you?
I would like to see robots end most retail jobs. They have crappy hours, low pay, and low status. Just eliminate them. Free people up to do something else, like maintaining the robots.
Don't ever be intimidated by a boss. What's he/she gonna do, hit you. Then you'll have a big ass lawsuit and you can retire early. It's a win-win. Glad your in a little better place now and best of luck to you.
@@FreedomTalkMedia "Free people up to do something else..." The beauty of bringing more robots into the workforce is exactly that: Humans should not be doing anything a robot can do, merely because it provides a paycheck. If that activity provides joy, of course, that's altogether different.
The increase of robotics *should* mean an increase in free time for humanity. At least, that's how technological advances have typically been pitched to the public. We have the *technology* to allow people to (at the very least) work fewer hours, for a wage that allows them a comfortable life.
Somehow, though, those advances have instead gone to increasing the wage gap between worker-bees and excutives, and to the pickpockets euphemistically referred to as "investors".
Oh my, thank you for putting so many people's thoughts into words. It's so tiring hearing the 'nobody wants to work mantra' from managers and all the blame being put on workers rather than themselves and their selfish methods and actions. From what I've seen in both big and small companies, greed of those at the top is always king over workers well-being. As someone closing in on retirement I so admire how younger people aren't taking the crap too many of us have for years.
I wish I could retire. I'll probably have to work until I drop dead.
It’s nuts, too… I’m now doing small biz consulting and small-medium sized businesses have to treat their team better, can’t afford to lose talent, or they will die. The dichotomy between some (not all) small local businesses and large corporations; there’s less a “profit motive” and more about security and slow growth. The employees at the biz I’m helping most have worked there for over a decade or two. They’re compensated fairly, get wage increases, and have competitive benefits. They have a good team with good management who cares/is passionate about what they’re doing. I think if I ever hired an admin assistant one day (which would be great bc organization is not my favorite part of running a biz lol) I will compensate them well and have a good team. I used to work some really shit jobs so I know how it is… I want to be someone others WANT to work for. Like I saw an author who was able to give her editor and admin, her team, generous bonuses every time she also got a good bonus writing on kindle vella. I want to be like that so when we succeed, we all do well. People aren’t disposable/just numbers.
@@PerrySkyePhoenix You are not alone. Take heart... being active and engaged in the world helps keep you young.
Many people retire, and it is the worst thing they could have ever done to themselves. They are less active and disengaged, which often speeds, mental and physical decline. I've often heard of people quitting their jobs and then being dead only a couple years later. It is the struggle that keeps us alive.
@@pkendlers "Many people retire, and it is the worst thing they could have ever done to themselves." I hear that often, and certainly believe that it holds true for some percentage of retirees.
But... that'll completely depend on how much a given person defines himself or herself by the job, y'know? "Hey, I'm Sales-guy Joe, with company X. That's who and what I am." For folks who think like that, sure... retirement seems like a possible path to early post-retirement death.
Personally, though, I don't get it. I have roughly forty gajillion interests in life, and nowhere near enough time to pursue them all while I'm a worker-bee. Post-retirement - whenever the hell I can afford that - I'll have soooo many things in the to-do bin to keep me active and engaged, that it I'll have to create a schedule just to cycle through them all.
For any retirees feeling lost without the job they left, I'd say... grab a camera... step outside... breathe deep... start walking. Enjoy. Live long and prosper.
@@pkendlersQueen of England never did a day's work in her life. Lived to almost 100 years old. The powers that be want us to think we need to work for them. One can stay active without slaving away for a kunt that doesn't need any of the money they extract from the population.
I am a 74 year old American woman who worked full time from 1969 to 2009. Management always treated us then the same way they are treating workers now. It is human/management greed nature.
Yeah but now they’re underpaying 🤷♂️. When you were our age houses were 15k and jobs paid like 10k
I’m 67. Everything you’ve said is wholly correct. This isn’t a Canadian/US issue btw, entirely the same here in Europe……🇬🇧
Not Europe, UK probably
Exactly. (European here.) This is "Western Corporate Culture" basically.
It’s not that people don’t want to work, it’s that these people (employers) wa to take advantage of employees. They want you to be a slave and and to have a smile on your face. It’s literally what they want, some want you to work for free, that’s how ridiculous this is. It’s really no wonder why more and more people want to be self employed, and I don’t blame them.
How can you have good morale when you are overworked in a toxic environment, fewer benefits, insufficient pay and management with unrealistic productivity expectations multi-tasking you to death????
A good example are security guards expected to do police officers jobs for minimum wages and be treated like crap . Even unionized security guards get so many deductions the make even less money .
@@georgevavoulis4758 Don't get me started on this one. We were told we had to pay for someone to cover our shift if we called in sick and the company couldn't find coverage, but when I need to call in sick no one started calling other workers at 0200 to start at 0500. Doing the work of cops, but no guns and no tasers and we are supposed to call the real PD if things got out of hand. . . . .so when I have someone with 150lbs on me throwing rebar at me because we didn't have the length of rebar in stock they wanted I guess my job was more like dodgeball until the real PD came.
I ran my truck yard very well and if you showed up early and you were respectful as a trucker then I would make sure you were at your dock when the bell said I was supposed to let you into the lot. If you were an absolute dickhead to me then you can sit there and be the last truck in after everyone else and if your boss calls and asks why his truck was in last I will be sure to tell him why and the names I was called. Don't disrespect the person who has full control of the gates into and out of the yard and can stop you to check your vehicle for any contraband at any time or we can play "last in line, random contraband inspection day" as many times as it takes until someone learns how to be respectful or for the company to send a driver who knows how to be respectful, whichever comes first. Sometimes I honestly wanted to just look at them and say "You know your company name and truck ID are written on the truck, right?".
This couldn't have come at a better time--I just got laid off from a job I had for eight years. I hated every minute of every day of that eight years, and have nothing to show for it but compounded interest on debt I couldn't pay off with my inadequate wages. Good riddance! I'm done with that sort of life.
As long as you have sustainable life, that is enough to be contented and be happy.
I left my job too after having my own house and savings. I was born poor that is why I know how to be happy with less.
During my corporate years, I earned a lot, but I am sooo sad and stressed almost everyday. I even overdosed myself with pain relievers everytime I have migraine or dysmenorhia to be able to work.
The money was so attractive that I almost forgot how to live. But in my deepest sorrows, I questioned the value of it and my contentment...afterall, i just wanna live.
Good luck heart man.
@@lazarusblackwell6988 thank you--I need it! I'm a woman, but it's a pretty universal condition these days
I pray you resolve your problems.And merry Christmas (2023)
What are you doing now ?
So at the start of Covid I was laid off my 8 year job in a casino on the Las Vegas strip. I got a job at Papa Johns delivering pizza and started offering housekeeping services on weekends. The casinos treat you like shit and don’t give a flying F about you. Anyway now I run a fully licensed and insured professional housekeeping business that’s completely eco friendly and non toxic (18 year vegan here) with 2 employees. I never heard a word from the moment we were laid off until 18 months later. Never checked on us, nothing. I absolutely love what I do now and I make a shit ton of money
And how much do you pay your employees? And what are their benefits?
@@whatevergoesforme5129I actually have 5 employees now and they just got raises 😊
As a gen Xer who has worked since age 14, I applaud the generation that has their own gigs, side hustles, or owns their own business. I’ve worked too many jobs that suck the life out of me. Enjoy life.
Good for you for working young! I always admired that in very young people, even a little bit in the ones that were assholes. When you get to be an adult there's still a little bit of real dignity in being employed. It's barely detectable but it's there and it's real. Too bad it's just so depressing being a slave.
There is a difference between humility and humiliation. Don’t let them take away your dignity.
Here’s the deal. I’m 75 and my first job paid $.65 an hour. I worked the job. Min wage went up to $1.25. I worked the job. I realized that 1. 1/2 years of college didn’t prepare me for anything. Got drafted. Went into a 4 years apprenticeship. The greatest time in America was 1945 to 1995. I realized no man will have you work for him unless he’s making money off your labor.
You kids have inherited the worst economy since the depression. You’ll only survive by never marrying, no kids, building your own house, and not spending money on anything trivial and unnecessary for survival.
Every successful business got there by hiding cash from the IRS and the state tax levee.
A lot of truth here.
There are three levels of slavery:
1.Taxes
2.Inflation
2.Debt
3.Employment
Government prints money you work for and then steals them from you through taxes, so it can blow them on dumb stuff, thus creating need to print more money which makes whatever you worked for worth less, thus making it harder for you to afford assets transportation and necessities, which pushes you into debt, which siphons even more money into you and makes you afford even less assets and necessities but puts a very high pressure on you to have stable income so you can pay off the debt which pushes you into employment and here the proverbial circle of slavery closes and now you are a slave to the system in all but name, you live more comfortably then slaves of the old perhaps due to technology, but you are barely affording shelter and food, not much better off than slaves of the old times. There is no free will, you can quit the job just like old slaves could run away from their cotton fields, but in doing so, you loose everything, and there is nowhere to run, there is just more cottonfields, not much different than the one you just ran away from, way to become free is free yourself from as many of these 4 chains as you can, people who are trully free, dont have a job, dont pay taxes, and dont owe anything and own assets protecting them from inflation. They are the only ones who are trully free. Slavery wasnt abolished, it is more prevalent than ever.
If one of the assets you're talking about is land, we're not allowed to own land in the US.
We have to pay lots of money for the right to rent it ("purchase"), but if we don't also pay the land rent every year, it will be taken away from us.
Or if the federal or state government decides that they want it (in many states for "economic development", aka, their corporation-owning buddies to get that land), they can legally seize it & stall our "just compensation" pittance in courts for years.......which means we can never truly own it.
You left out share cropping which is paying a mortgage (notice the bank is involved in that like in your point #1)
That’s stretching the term at the end of the day if you live in a civilization you have to contribute somehow
@@off6848 Correct. And right up to the early 20th century government consumed between 3% to 8% of the GDP instead of 40% today. Before 1916 three was no income tax and the US had gone from a developing to a developed country. How much of what is paid in taxes today does not benefit the taxpayer (especially federal taxes)? I think a blanket response like the above overlooks degrees. Yes we all should contribute (we all don't since nearly half of Americans pay close to zero federal taxes); but at some point contributing simply became paying a huge fine that does most taxpayers no good at all.
Slavery wasn't abolished, it was perfected.
Here in New Zealand, if you get paid a couple of dollars an hour more than McDonalds, they are taking away your breaks, claiming you are paid for them. And more disturbingly, when a full-time worker leaves, they are hiring a part-timer, but expecting the same amount of work. It's depressing. All so they can give shareholders more and more money for nothing.
This is so true about Giving you just enough hours, not to have insurance or making life miserable working with rude customers and then getting a paycheck that won’t even provide a weeks worth of groceries let alone rent
I completely agree with you!! I have lived almost everything you articulated .My wife got leukemia just as the pandemic started her workplace closed down so lost her job too. I took a leave of absence to help her. I became depressed. I could only handle part-time when I went back to work. Then I got let go as well! I've never considered having my own business. Not sure what to do to be honest.
Very similar, but fortunately I am close to retirement age. Hope your situation improves.
@@markhorton8578it's crazy eh!? I hope you never have to go through this. Don't wish it in anyone. If you have any job ideas I am open to suggestions.
Nobody ever says "thank you" in business anymore. There is little appreciation. You lose your sense of dignity and self worth as a human being. You become a number and it doesnt matter how many years you have worked or what you have done to make your company a good place to work.
All there is is pressure, stress and endless demands for more, more more on a hamster treadmill that is unsatisfying and a sure fire road to unhappiness and a miserable existence where you eventually reach the stage where you do not understand what the purpose of your life is in the first place.
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My entire plan was to do these shitty jobs for low pay and learn skills that I could use in my own business. At 57 years old, I called it quits and took all those skills that I learned working for others and now work for myself. It's great.
I am 62 and newly retired and agree with you 100%. It makes me sick to see what these greedy companies are doing to our country and most of them pay little or no taxes to operate here. The people need to stand up and unite. Demand a livable wage and affordable health insurance for starters that would at least make it worth going to work. Sick of hearing about their record profits off of our backs.
Celebrate record profits with layoffs!!!11
In the uk especially people on average wage can now never buy a house. So as a boomer I certainly don’t expect them to work. They should exploit the system as much as the wealthy and big business does.
In any case immigration into the uk is now so high most menial jobs still get done
First, thanks for the Blink outro! Is that even a word??
I just started a new job, working in a fulfillment center for “influencers.” It pays $12/hr. My prior job was super stressful-I did accounts payable for a large nonprofit, cutting over a million dollars in checks every week, and lots of other things I don’t care to reminisce about. In other words, HUGE stress. Like, couldn’t sleep at night stress. And I did that for…drumroll please…$14/hour. So I took a $2/hour pay cut and now have ZERO work stress. I go in, put in my earbuds, walk around a warehouse all day long picking orders for people with conspicuous consumption problems, and when I leave for the day I’M DONE! I don’t have to think about it til the next day. This is just my 3rd week, but so far I love it. And when I get really sick and tired of it? I can move on to the next $12/hour job. 🤷🏻♀️If I have to work for such small wages, it might as well be a job with little to no stress.
I feel the same way! Nobody else seems to understand that.
This is EXACTLY how I feel and why instead of being a medical clerk I chose a path of warehouse / cleaning / resort work . I started a small business but due to sales need a job ( been self employed for a year now and LOVE IT ) kinda dread going back to work 40hours a week , min wage here is $15.50/hr and if anywhere is paying me under $20/hr it better be easy as hell and stress free ( please note * easy as hell to me means doesnt kill my body, isnt consistent heavy lifting or mechanical trouble shooting , I enjoy repetitive no brainer work because my business is my creative outlet ...) these companies expect the world for the least amount of pay possible and its sickening . I had a job offer last year at a 5 star Fairmont hotel in Banff for $17/hr . Nightly, their cheapest room is $500! And a housekeeper is expected to clean up to 16 rooms per shift....GREED!
Truth. Stress makes you sick.
@@sophrosyne5900I worked in the Hamptons. I had to clean 30 rooms a day. Rich people don’t tip.
I've worked several types of jobs. I really don't enjoy being an employee, which is why I'm here making videos on the internets. The flexibility of content creation and the gig economy is fantastic.
100% agree
I agree with this 100%. I'll tell you why people keep going to the jobs that you are talking about. Desperation. It's that simple... Employers (Corporations) have manipulated people so well over the last 30ish years so well and towards their own goals, that people will take these jobs and be stuck at them for years because they're desperate. If you have a family (even if you don't) and most of the jobs available in your area fall into that category, you'll take the job. Simply because you have no other option. Well, unless you want to live on the street and eat out of garbage cans...
I'm in my 50s and you're pretty spot on in regard to how employees are treated. I still believe the 80s were the best time to work. A lot of good paying jobs available straight out of high school. I lean more conservative, but I'm not stupid either. I've been in unions for most of my life. Now that isn't so easily an option.
I don't know. The 80s had their other side to. I worked in retail and the motto was that the customer was always right. They had an area in the building where customers could walk in and complain about anyone for any reason. Like, the line to pay was too long and you were too slow ringing up. I did waitress a bit though, good money there.
@@esterdrass4964 The customer is always right, until he isn't.
People don't mind working. It's just that EVERYONE is fed up with being ABUSED.
You hit the nail on the head. I was 20 in 1980. There was no internet and computers were in their infancy. I didn't want to work in most of the sh_t jobs over the next several decades. It's no different today. I don't blame the youth for not wanting to work in the same condition I've worked in for so long. And who can afford college? The young really are forced to get into their own thing. Be independent, that's my advice. And thanks for your no BS video.
Amen Sister!! Love your videos! I am 63 yrs old and have been completely self-employed since 1985! Do not regret it one bit. The powera that be make it as difficult as possible, though, through extremely high taxes on us rebels. Whatever. Keep up the great videos. You are a very wise person. I just started my youtube channel which was how I found you and so glad I did! You inspire me. And I am a dog lover too so I loved seeing how much you love your dog in another video. ❤
I worked for a non-denominational church. I was paid for 12 hours per week, but had mandated volunteer time and ended up working well over full time every single week. They did this to all (but one) of their female employees. Once things shifted and they struggled to fill the positions, the church leaders sure loved complaining how nobody wanted to work anymore.
Church leaders ofcourse good contracts & benefits
That is against most stat labor laws.
You worked 28 hours for free. That's on you. They can't force you to do anything you don't want to.
“Mandating” volunteer hours violates labor laws. More importantly, since they don’t care about laws, clearly it doesn’t work for attracting talent bc no one wants to be disrespected like that.
@@nineseven420empire3 who do you report it to? There isn't a single local government out there that gives a flying fuck about any of its constituents.
Never tell your boss the truth about why you left. Don’t tell them it’s because they’re toxic. Tell them you found a better opportunity and that you won’t be sharing details as requested.
Too late 😉
Tell them they're toxic and you found an employer who pays more and isn't. They should feel consequences.
Our culture is messed up! Period! If your young the best advice is save your money so your not a slave your whole life. Freedom is important stay out of debt! Keep your expenses low . Go get your freedom! I do think work is important but it needs to be the right kind of work
Love that. Save your money so your not a slave your whole life. Plus, the more they realize you need it, the more they take advantage.
This ☝️ 🙌🏻
They've found a way to steal from your savings (besides legalized theft they call a "tax") by turning on the money printing machine and devaluing the dollar. It's lost almost 97% of its purchasing power since the "Fed" was implemented. That's what happens when your money isn't backed by anything the way it used to be.
You are so on point! I agree with everything you said.
I was born in the last year of the Boomers. And I remember my parents and grandparents saying the same thing, "your generation doesn't want to work." Now I hear people my age saying the same thing about younger people. It makes me so angry to hear this.
I started working at 15 and still am not close to being able to retire. Wages are not keeping pace with inflation. And these employers are really delusional thinking that people should be grateful for not making enough to cover their expenses, much less try and save for anything.
Not only that, but the actual cost of childcare is more than than these jobs pay. Many people literally cannot AFFORD working.
I subbed for 9 years and was only allowed to work 4 days so they didn't have to give me benefits. The most modern thing is to subcontract, so the school system isn't responsible for you. Everywhere is a 39 hour place except if they get you on a salary and work you 62 hours a week.
This video, of yours, landed on my favorites. You hit the nail on the head on every point. I was impressed by what you said, especially with you being an employer, yourself, with you owning a business of your own. I never thought I would see the day where a business owner would say what you said, but here I am. The biggest round of applause to you, for that. And, another thing that really got me happy about this video is the fact you told the truth. Everyone who has ever existed, really, does NOT "want" to work. People say this person or that person does not "want" to work, but what they should say is the person's not "willing" to work. But even then, that's the person's judgmental side, saying that. Most people are willing to work. They just don't want to. Who does? Even the person saying that doesn't want to.
I'm in Ohio, USA, and America has a full time work week at 40 hours. Our federal minimum wage, here, has been 7.25 per hour for probably over a decade, at this point. Finally, since a couple of years ago, Ohio has it where minimum wage goes up every year, based on inflation. Ohio's minimum wage is, I think, 10.10, this year (2023).
I have a bachelors degree, and I've had a hard time finding work, at all, to the point where you would think I'm one of those not willing to work. What little experience I do have, falls under the same category as what you explained in the video, with the shitty working conditions (including weather conditions), the boss breathing down our neck and not appreciating us, mean customers, back breaking work, stuck at minimum wage, being given few hours, etc. In 2012, I got to the same place you got, that you mentioned at the end of the video. I was like "Fuck this," and I tried to do tutoring on my own. Even that got me no where. No one called me up for it. That same year, I went to a career coaching place, that paid the tuition for a program where I got a vocational certificate. No luck. Last year (2022), I learned how to edit videos, on my own. Still, no luck. I've done TH-cam since 2017. No luck. Teespring landed me no luck. Whatever I looked into, whether job applications or trying to do shit on my own, I've had no luck finding anything. That's been the case ever since I first became an adult, which was quite some time ago. Even after having the church pray, for crying out loud. Even PRAYER didn't work. The ONE thing that should have worked to get me something. And, guess how much I've won from Publisher's Clearance House, having been on their website since 2012. A one time winning of FIVE dollars. Bus fare / gas to go to the bank to cash the check equals the amount of the check, if not more. It's like I lost money winning money. I may as well have not gone to the bank to cash the check. So, "fuck this" is right.
We’re hurting for medical technologists in Ohio if you want to give that a go
Wow, you just said what I have thought for decades. Fortunately, I have stumbled into a job I really like at this point. I'm grateful for that. My current job isn't for everyone, but it's definitely for me. However, I did spend years at other jobs where the environment was toxic, they were expecting me to work through an unpaid lunch break, unreasonably low pay, etc.
What job do you do? Is it fun?
People are tired of working and struggling to live. High housing costs, taxes and inflation have created so much poverty-stricken people living in tents. What's the point of working if you can't even afford a roof over your head.
This resounded with me so loudly. I just had a small family business use me as a manager while still paying me housekeepers wages for the past year at a small inn. And now the family member who used to work my position needs to move back home so I was let go for "not being a good fit" anymore.
100% agree. I hate that "no one wants to work anymore" bs. No Karen, people have found more lucrative ways of making a living online.
I am 51. I just started my own dog sitting business for all of the reasons you stated, except I didn't consciously realize that until I heard you speaking. I follow many TH-cam channels, and find more value in your channel than I do from channels that have 300k followers or more. You are wise WAY beyond your years. "...she left me roses by the stairs...surprises let me know she cares..." 🎶
+1 like for the Blink-182 reference :)
I agree with you. I'm in the process of generating side hustles and investing. I'm starting to apply minimalism into my Life. Thanks.
100 % correct on all fronts. The wages I made in 1984 were enough to live life pretty well with the odd vacation, buying new stereo equipment every few months etc. Slowly inflation kicked in and jobs started becoming harder to find. Big companies closed doors and sent there manufacturing to Mexico etc. People could no longer afford buying things manufactured in North America and the Chinese garbage goods became the new norm. With the majority of good paying jobs gone the only place left to work was retail or fast food which were previously for student to make money to go to school. Slowly the middle class has been squeezed out and two people working even having to work overtime has become stressful and the results are basically a break even point at best. Government greed for tax dollars has led to companies trying to buy new equipment or upgrade machinery so they don't have to pay tax's. The end result of not giving workers the profit or share of it means we no longer have money to buy things goods services etc... No trickle down equals a dead economy which they have created now. Thanks god I am nearing my retirement and I am able to escape this viscous cycle. I totally understand why the young people of today don`t want to work. Its not that their lazy it`s the pay for services is no longer even worth getting out of bed or even feeling good about yourself.
Don't forget the big inflation which began with the Oil Shock on 1973.
You're absolutely right!! And I'm glad to hear you say it! But the thing that sucks about that is that if you're the sort of person that is not very creative and hasn't been able to figure out a way to make money online or start a business such that it is enjoyable or worthwhile to you, then you're really screwed. You're stuck doing those awful jobs and barely getting by. Meanwhile, corporate profits soar. And the people at the top make way more than they are worth.
People need to pool resources, create communities so no one is stuck with crazy high rents.
@@LilyGazouCooperation is the key...but who can you trust?!
I’m simply not offering my spirit and soul to work anymore. At 32 years old, I’m semi-confident I could disappear and live to a long age with the skills I have now. They’re all pretty primal skills, but, it’s better than functioning in this soulless culture.
One of the best videos I’ve ever watched in the last few years and so very well spoken. You earned a subscriber.
So true ! Great video ! These days you can't afford anything, the payroll deductions are way too high, then you pay taxes on everything you buy, you watch the costs of living increase mercilessly, and on top of that, you end up in a very toxic work environment, where's the motivation in that ?
I've retired when my time arrived. My body ailments and mental weariness just dictated it.
I live a humble, frugal lifestyle i collect enough.
But I'm glad I left..
the small family business just happened to me. thank you for proving my exact point. i hope my coworkers will see it and realize how much better they deserve.
Another thing to piggyback on is that my company gives generous time off work, but they constantly block the vacation calendar so that we can’t use our time. They’re telling us to schedule 2023 in November 2022, and get this, they scheduled 11 days for me that I didn’t even pick. So 11 days are picked for me by management. Most of us lost time off bc they blocked the calendar, and they only recently let us have a bank to donate unused PTO. I went to donate mine and was told sorry the bank is full. They do not allow us to cash out or rollover unused PTO. So my company was able to get thousands upon thousands of dollars bc they prevented us any ways to use it.
Call in sick with Covid a few times.
I bet they sure think they're clever.
I am 71 and collect "social security". I absolutely 100% agree with everything you just said. Given a little time, I could come up with lots more you could add to your speech. My best advice, if you can wrap your hands around a few dollars, is to start working for yourself. You can sell stuff online (be careful with the money because the taxman will come calling), and as you said, make pottery, carve wood, walk dogs, babysit, whatever it takes so you don't operate on someone else's time or rules. And don't be deterred by the braying asses who say that no one wants to work anymore. They are the exact same losers who would screw their own mothers if they thought they could make a buck off of it. I have said for a long time, "When you go to work for somebody else, it is only a matter of time before they screw you. It will happen, count on it and be as ready as you can, or work for yourself because XYZ Inc. will screw you, guaranteed. I am with you all the way. As Judge Judy says, "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining."
yes I'm 72. I got out of the rat race at age 50, started working for myself. Never looked back
I'm of your Grandfather's generation and although I knew all the reasons people didn't want to work in minimum wage jobs, I was really worried about how they were finding money to live and pay their bills. I appreciate all the ways you listed that people are able to do that now. Thanks
Now they loot stores.
Hear hear! Thanks a lot for saying this Nicole, we are breaking our back for 30 days off a year and a limited income :((( my only problem is that I find side hustles stressful and uncertain, so I’m not sure I could do it, maybe I’m just tired of working for 10 years straight 😩
I've been working for 20 years straight and I don't get 30 days off. Damn.
I've only recently had 30 days off in a row, but that's only because I had a stroke! I've never had a month long vacation in my life. I guess I'm off for good now, though. Blew all the healthy years on horrible jobs working for jerks.
I've worked all my life and no matter how hard I pull on 'my' bootstraps all I get is cramped fingers and a bad back. If you can find a job (a career) that you really enjoy doing every day, you are so blessed it makes the rest of us sick with envy.
I have never understood how we ask 18 year olds to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives when they have never done anything.
@@garyhall5397 Speaking for myself, I didn't figure that out until I hit my early 30's, sad to say. We, as a society, do a piss poor job of preparing our youth for the future realities of life in America. In my opinion, of course.
@@historyre-visited4597 Totally agree.
I love your passion. Put this into words and submit it as an op-Ed piece. It will get published. ❤
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Watched twice, and shared with my 50-something-year-old-friends.
As the mother of a 21, 29, and 32-year old, you are one of my favorite Millenials.
Thank you for this video, also mental abuse such as working in call centers smh companies are always so eager to hire for these terrible positions which are toxic to your mental and physical health.
You Nailed it Nicole, Im in my mid thirties right now but I regretted working so hard as a cleaner/cook from age 19 here in the Uk, I wish I had invested in my education or anything that would contribute to my growth earlier, or perhaps I was afraid to try new things because my English and my communication skills wasn’t good ,and so Lately i’ve started taking English lessons and learning other things, and hoping to completely quit my Job soon and be able to work @ home ,your channel was one of my inspiration and I hope one day I can come back to this comment…😜
Glad I worked most of my life before things got bad . Worked from 1973 till 2011 . Retired and damn glad I am
Absolutely agree. I don't want those younger than me to pay for my mistake of believing the lies and thinking that society actually gave a crap about me. This would is all about exploitation and I refused to participate. I'm 64.
Thank you for giving voice to us all. I bow to you! Give them hell, they have earned it!
I don’t know who you are but the algo recommended me your videos and now I’m watching nonstop. Good content!
Service industry is the worst: most customers are real twats, and your own professionalism and knowledge does not garner more respect 😥
This is so true
Hell yeah, you nailed it. Absolutely nothing else to add. I enjoyed your video so much, everything i think of everyday but well articulated!
I have seen everyone of these at every single job I've held for 35 years. Now seeing my kid be abused at her full time job by being told she's been promoted, given all the extra work but, they just happened to forget about increasing her pay. No, nobody wants to work and yes, we're all sick of being demeaned and clearly told we're dispensable. Also, I've seen most older workers get laid off just before retirement by every big corporation I've worked at. I now do the bare minimum at all times.
Shame on you for bringing an innocent kid into this madness from their place of non-existence, they didn't ask for any of this(neither of, actually)
I’m obviously very blessed. I am a nurse from Alberta and we have a strong union standing behind us.
This is so depressing finding out how poorly other workers are treated 😢
OMG, you are so right! I hate that old man ( or Karen ) that says "nobody wants to work anymore". Same like "stay off my lawn"! It is 100% truth that nobody has ever wanted to work as a slave or indentured servant and not make ends meet! I love this video you did. I appreciate you Nicole, I think you are awesome!
This is a really good video- answered some questions about that topic. Yes- thank you for providing this important information. You express and articulate this really well!!!
Some of this has been going on for a long time. 20 years or so ago, I had a job at Wendy's in my town. One night I was running a fever and needed to go home. But the other people working didn't want to have cover my shift. One of them was the manager's daughter. If I hadn't gone home I would have passed out. So I went anyway. But they knew they couldn't actually fire me for running a fever. (It was 104 btw). So they just... didn't schedule me for any more shifts. Naturally, I still needed money, so I had to find another job. But that kind of crap sticks with you.
(I think that manager eventually got fired.)
Boomer here, I completely agree, wonder why it took so long, working for someone else has always been a shitty deal. Yes I did work the trades, oil field, construction, mines etc but made the most money working for myself doing whatever, learned to do most things from books, now it’s the internet. Best thing of all, you determine how much, if any, taxes you pay.
Love this in so many ways! Everything I feel and think put in a nutshell! You did such a wonderful job explaining this! New subscriber!
I’m 65 and you’re spot on. Corporate America’s officers are making a fortune. Workers are being paid poverty level wages and everyone is mad at each other at work. HR is running rampant with your ego power trips instead of helping employees. anything an employee does that’s beyond their job they are not recognized for it but their management is busy to take the credit for it. It’s terrible out there I don’t blame anybody for not wanting to work.
As a single mother with one child (in the states) in the 90s with a waitressing job, I was able to go out to eat/movie/museum at least once a week, and we took a camping trip/road trip every couple of months. I now have a master's degree and own a business, but I can't afford to even breathe. I don't want to work harder/more time to afford the things I could do with a part time income just a little over a decade ago. Where's the incentive?
I am a full time reseller. When the time came for me to provide for five years of my husband's medical school I realized that my at that time side hustle can actually give me good living. I make more than any hourly position can offer (I have only an EMT license which pays really bad). It's extremely flexible and I can run to kids' preschool at any time, do any errand at any minute I desire. I work hard but this quite literally saved my family financially.
So Nicole, you said you are a business owner. What business do you own? How many people do you employ?
Also, the reason many (not all) employers require a university degree is because primary and secondary education has failed to impart the minimum basic skills and knowledge needed to participate well in the economy. And then the “________ Studies” degrees so many universities are churning out are not equipping student with the knowledge base and ethics that will enable graduates (if they even get that far) to be of true value to themselves or an employer.
Holy cow, girl! Your perspective has caused me to rethink this issue. +1
I worked for a company where the team had to compete with each other. The the new hire would have have 2 weeks & whoever performed the worst would be let go. Another person would be hired & the cycle would start again. Needless to say there was no teamwork.
I am 77 years old. And I agree with you 100%. And thank you so much for being the first one I have heard that makes sense. So so so true. I am glad that people don't want to take it anymore.
Yes, but....if they paid more then they'd have to charge more...wah!!!
Oh, wait...maybe they could pay the CEO less...what? Nah, let's not go there!
Here in Arizona, several years ago they raised the minimum wage to $12 an hour. That equals around $1500 a month after tax if you work a full 40 hours a week.
At this taco joint they had signs out saying "due to the fact that minimum wage has increased we had to increase our prices", like right on the counter between the customer and employees. Crass.
I wrote them a letter and told them that if their business model requires slave labor, then they should not be in business.
I mean, providing jobs is good, but, if you can't even live off the wages of a particular job, what is the effing point???
yeah, thank god they aren't raising the prices anyways!
@@AccordingtoNicole "sarcastic snickering"
Notice how these companies had record profits but raised prices citing increased expenses. Yeah, when those expenses decrease which they do, companies are not going to go down on prices
$20 an hour at the burger chain here in Seattle area. They pay for the benefits and chip in for childcare. They also have a scholarship program that is super generous. Free public transport if you work at the Seattle city location.
If the working class all decided at once they weren't working anymore, the investor, wealth, and ruling class would freak out. They're entire livelihood and lifestyle would crumble down. They even steal your money by taxing your "income." You trade your time for money - there is no profit. You traded 1 hour worth 10$ for 10$. Yet they keep getting away with giving huge tax breaks to the investor and ruling class that makes actual profits on the back of the working class that makes no profit.
I always hated to work. I don't like work. I don't need money. I am super frugal cheapskate and I can live luxuriousloy with less than €850 a month and save a bit too.
Work steals your time and energy, maybe even health. I was most of my live on sabbatical or unemployed, and health is amazing. People who work years barely in health today. So sad.
I can relate to that. But have to say that I do like to work voluntary because I do not work for profit but to help people. I just don't want to be working to make someone else rich. When I worked in the past there was either a bad work climate, too much pressure and mean spirited colleagues or narcisstic supervisors. Or I just didn't fit in with the team. So I figured I do not want to be unhappy and getting sick in the end. Money is not the issue, I do value my time. And like you I manage on little money. I have savings too and don't buy unnecessary stuff I do not need. Health is all important to me as well. I know enough people who worked hard and got sick in the end with burn out or damaged bones.
@@beatrixk.6723 Exactly. They valiued money more than health. Hope you can have a great new year 2023 spending as little.
That sounds great! But where do you get the 850/month?
You made valid points people are tired of working for corporations and businesses that only focus on their bottom-line profit. Why not bet on yourself! Even if you fail, you have succeeded in learning that you have skills that can be applied to other opportunities.
During lockdown I was working for a company here in the UK that put all employees on Furlough receiving only 80% of our wages paid by the government and made us work from home normally. They even made us sign a document saying we weren't working from home. We were all terrified and worried about what was coming up and didn't question at all.
It's good to hear that they are a segment of young people who are willing to go out and exploit the economy and meet it where it is. What I tend to see more often are people who have simply dropped out of the economy and don't want to work because they feel either it's beneath them, or they're not getting enough out of it. I have no problem with either perspective, but I think it should be understood that those of us that are working to feed clothing, shelter ourselves don't owe you anything if you refuse to exercise the same initiative.
Great truthful presentation, unions were started because the businesses did not want to pay their employes a livable wage and benefits. You are completely right if you work full time and can not afford having food, shelter, transportation and a place to live there is a real problem.
Totally "ON POINT"! Great video... I've seen all of this as well, and I finally had it when our $30M / yr company offered its employees a free hot dog for "Employee Appreciation Day"... Then and shortly thereafter, when I finally retired, they gave me a face mask telling me not to "forget" them. To be sure, that will never be forgotten..
A hotdog? That is as close as legally possible to taking a *literal* piss out of employees..
Don't get me wrong, piss'a parties are of the same calibre, just less 'in ur face'
Im living my best life since Corvid started playing videogames and watching youtube from the comfort of my own apartment.
✌️😎 And I don't have any plans to go back to having to work and waste my time for 💰
Hi Nicole, I was born mid 50’s and was much moved by your words. I could not fault a single word you said. I might have said this was a ‘revelation’ to me except that in fact (and shame on me) I had not given the matter too much thought at all. I know your video would have taken a lot of your time and effort but truly you have done GOOD here and I for one am grateful you provided this enlightenment. And even If I don’t now rush-out and DO something about it, then I will at least take Thumper’s very good advice; “If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all”. Because I heard what you said at 12:52; “so now you know”. Thank you - Alex in Australia [Liked and Subscribed].
Companies that make you an "associate" is one way of getting around labor laws because you are a member of management instead of an employee.
You are right on the money! Keep up the great work!
I agree with everything you said! Here’s my job story
My husband lost his farm manager job last year cause owner sold the farm. The house we lived in was included so guess what we were now jobless and homeless. I hadn’t worked in years due to having multiple surgeries well I had to go to work to pay for a shed home that we are fixing up it’s in my son’s backyard. I am mad sad terrified you name it. I am taking a risk working and messing up everything in my spine. I have metal screws and rods on my entire spine except neck area and the way it hurts I’m scared. My husband is working too on his brother’s farm.
Nicole do you think I could possibly do a side hustle type job? I’m 64 and only have an iPhone for Internet is there anything you would suggest I could do? Thanks ❤
Hi! I would try TH-cam videos, you can talk about live on a farm (many people love that), teach or just share your experiences, or if you can cook, could sell something, hope it helps!
@@LeenaCruz thank you so much ❤️
I agree with Leena. Urban farming and balcony garden videos are pretty popular here. Gardening for tiny spaces, even fording videos.
Reselling is something you can do with just your phone. Find things for cheap at thrift stores and yard sales, and sell them for a profit on platforms like Ebay, Poshmark, Vinted, etc. There are lots of youtube tutorials on this subject to help get you started
Tutoring?
I've been noticing tons of job posting that require bachelors or masters degrees , pay 25 an hour and schedule you at 37.5 hours a week. It's complete bullshit
In France they get one month vacation (holiday) a year starting the first year. If you're sick they want you to stay home . An one to two hour lunch . Consider that recently they rioted in the streets because they wNted to raise the retirement age. In the USA it work one year and you get one week vacation. 30 minutes for lunch. The retirement age keeps going higher and higher. A..hole bosses do not care if you or your children are sick you must report to work so they can under pay and over work you.
F..k that.
Thanks Nicole and good points. Love the comments about your dad driving cab which is what I do with some of that not needed post secondary. He probably drove in Toronto when there wasn't uber and less cabs on the road. The good old days... You could have touched on housing too now which is insane and all over Canada pretty much (and we're in another recession/high interest rate situation again which came up really a few months ago after this post.) I love how candid you are that most people really don't want to work or maybe not as hard as some want which is true. And yup many people really aren't in jobs that they really want to do. Good stuff gal!
I used to work in parks for over 13 years and while people easily assume it's a "fun" job, for me, it was one of the most miserable, WORSE jobs I ever had dealing with abusive bosses and patrons who often talked down to me on top of having been involved with a union where I wasn't really getting the help I needed from them. When they laid me off amid the pandemic (or so they told me it was because of that) the feeling was mutual between me and my boss making me feel very liberated and now working a job that I (generally) like.
Lots of wisdom at this still very young (at least to me) age. Respect.