Wages haven't kept up for 40 years. Meanwhile inflation is skyrocketing. That's the problem. People are working more then ever & their quality of life is DECREASING. Is it a surprise people are giving up?
As an orderly (nurse assistant) , I was paid above $15 an hour (Quebec) between 1999-2003. Minimum wage was just above $7 an hour. Today, the same job pays just above $15 (Alberta) an hour and minimum wage is $15.00 an hour. How does this make sense? If this doesn’t put things into perspective, nothing will. It’s insanity.
Sounds like there’s a big focus to increase wages when the government should be focused on deflating the cost of living instead. I’m sick of property owners charging insane prices for housing.
This happened in the trades also. My first job 3 years ago paid me $13 while mcdonalds paid $15. Trades are hard up for people so now its gone up to $18 but unskilled production pays $19-$20 heck amazon drivers make 19.75. The caps are the same in production vs trade work like welding and machining.
That is terrible pay ,I haven't seen pay like that before in Australia for that sector, most people in Australia for nursing homes would be at least $27 aud or $25cad, they literally would be hard pressed to find any one for $15 ,that's Mac Donald's wages,picking fruit pays more
@ Don’t get me started! Australia is further ahead with their salary scales. My sister in law lives in Australia with her husband and yeah, Canada is pathetically far behind in comparison. Sadly I waited too long to try and immigrate there myself.
I suspect that there is a feeling that the rich are collecting dividends and capital gains, while wages are being depressed. I know I am not optimistic about my salary increasing unless I make a career switch, and I'm pretty close to retirement!
America is currently plagued by the hydra-headed evil duo of inflation and recession. The worst part about this recession is that consumers are racking up credit card debt. In December alone, credit card debt went up 36% while rates have doubled in a year. Inflation is so high that consumers are literally taking debt for basic life necessities. Collapse has indeed begun..
The truth is that people are finally waking up to the fact that our systems are breaking down in thousands of different ways all around us. Personally, the financial market seems like the only way to go with a long-term horizon . But if you don't have that time, it's a tough market out and thus you should consider financial advisory.
Until the Fed clamps down even further I think we're going to see hysteria due to rampant inflation. If you are in cross roads or need sincere advise on the best moves to take now with financial markets will be best you seek a fin-professional with fiduciary responsibilities who knows about mortgage-backed securities for proper guidance.
There are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with ‘’Carol Vivian Constable’’ for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive. She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.
If your salary exceeds your expenses then all these increases still mean you can live. And you can get eggs a lot cheaper than that btw. Try not working and see how you can’t afford anything; that better?
When I worked for a company for 22 years. I liked my job and opportunities it gave me. It was the management they kept bringing in that drove me out. A bunch of know it all's and do nothings they were. Main reason I opened my own business /shop with the experience I learned. 20 years later no regrets on doing so.
Last Monday, I received a request from a nursing student whose dad needed a letter from me regarding her nursing grad ceremony in order for his boss to let him off to attend the event for his daughter. Grown man living in a brick house shouldn’t need a note from me to be excused. This type of behavior is why we will not set ourselves on fire for the company anymore. I don’t even know this man but I cringed at the disrespect shown to him. His daughter is very hard working, disciplined, responsible. I bet she learned that from dad.
👆🏻this. Been at my company 21 years (bought out by a large corporation a few years ago). I’m a very hard worker and dedicated employee who has called in sick less than 10 times in 21 years (yes, i have come to work sick at times in my “dedication”). Recently had the flu - called in sick one day due to high fever - was told under “new” attendance policy, it is considered an unexcused absence and I earned a “point” against me which “could” effect any future raises or bonuses. Glad I only have 2 more years before retirement 🥺.
Correct. No one wants to work for FAR less than the are worth, be super stressed out, and compromise their health and relationships. Corporate America is the modern day prison system. I love working, but not for an abuser.
It’s a free market, you’re paid what you’re worth! Don’t like it, go get a better job or even better open your own business and see just how easy and stress free it is to be responsible for employees!
@@chrisforker7487 more like you’re paid what they can get away with. When companies are making record profits and the pay is sub par. It’s not fair to the worker. That’s why unions are needed.
Azul thank you for recognizing that our young people are smart and hard working. I am the father of one millennial and two Gen z who are entering the workforce. I am also in my fifties and working with younger people entering the workforce. They certainly are facing many challenges that we did not have to deal with when we started out. I am doing my best to mentor them and encourage them to stay positive.
I took a $5 an hour pay cut to work construction labor at a new co. Just to work with cooler people. Went from job supervisor to labor. Money isn't everything.
I had a Ph.D. and worked at a small college for 18 years. One day I came across the most blatant cheating I had ever seen. I followed all the procedures, including a witness, and was called in by our new VP for academic affairs. I brought all the relevant student work with me. Seeing the large stacks of paper in my hands the VP announced: Oh, that's the student work, we aren't here to discuss that, we are here to discuss why your a problem. The next year they started making offers for me to leave, when it became obvious that they didn't want me I took the best offer and left. They still have not been able to fill the opening I left and since they pay way below the medium for full professors at small private colleges in the southeast I doubt they will find anyone. During this whole thing I was never asked an open ended question (like what happened?) Some kid whined to a parent and then left and the school just figured got to take care of "customers". The problem is managers that don't know what they are doing.
I had a similar experience. Higher education, generally speaking, is a highly toxic environment. I don't miss that bubble nor the political and woke nonsense that permeates there.
@ThePathOfLeastResistanc barley, my rent went up 7200 or 600 a month just a few years ago. Utilities all increased too along with gas. Probably over 10k in total. I didn't get a 10k raise. Why would anyone want to work for less? Because that's what happens if you don't get a raise when there's inflation.
@ThePathOfLeastResistanc so basicly you (we all) took a pay cut the last 2 years. I'm saying when your pay doesn't keep up with inflation that's a huge reason why people wouldn't want to work anymore.
@ im not disagreeing, im questioning your original comment and the oxymoron of saying you make “excellent money”, yet simultaneously saying you don’t make enough money.
exactly, and the corporations are monopolies over the sector. for example when people say "be your own boss" they ignore the fact that being your own boss would mean endless red tape and competing with monopolies that cornered the market 50 years ago and have huge teams of lawyers that handle all the permits and fees and red tape. Which means their competition can never thrive. It usually can never even get off the ground. The only way to "be your own boss" is to involve yourself in someone else's scam, such as taking out loans and flipping houses or investing in stocks or cryptocurrencies (or whatever the next clever scam is). And the monopolies that exist in all sectors are rarely ever even run by the people that founded them. Those people usually died long ago, or the company was acquired by some other monopoly. It isn't free market at all anymore, it is people forced out of the free market and into indentured servitude. We serve CEOs and shareholders who never put any work in to the sector they represent.
I am retired. I worked for money. I worked to survive. When I made decent money I liked my job. When I was not making decent money I still appreciated the fact that a paycheck was better than no check at all. I went through the stagflation of the early 1980’s. No jobs and high inflation was stagflation. Mortgage rates were 10% and unemployment was about 10%. Those were rough years. I appreciate all the lessons I learned in those years. When you work you are selling your time for money. That is how it works! Work and save all you can so you can quit working. Don’t work so you can buy things you don’t need. Work for those things that you need to survive.
Spot on. Who the hell said work had to be enjoyable. It’s a means to an end. And economic conditions have been a lot worse than they are now. Can’t remember the widespread whinging and whining then that we hear now though
Free market includes refusing the offered price. Not working is the worker's response to an insufficient wage. Workers are tired of four decades of stagnant wages while executive pay goes up and up.
@@ThePathOfLeastResistanc it is indeed. Everyone is free to make poor decisions and be unhappy. I do wish they would stop whining about the outcomes of their own decisions though
You also have to take in to account vehicle cost along with insurance just to go to work. Then everything as far as house appliances are expensive and designed to fail.
People aren't tired of working. They are tired of working and still not being able to afford basic necessities. The breakdown of family started in the 70's and here we are.
Yes. My former colleagues are so stressed out. They now understand why I did not seek to continue working in Corporate America after I was laid off at 55.
Look at all the "disabled" vets with PTSD, soaking up 4-5,000 dollars a month, so they can sit at home and smoke weed. Other generations came home from war got the GI Bill, and made something of themselves, all the while suffering from the same thing. Not this generation,oh no, come home put around feeling sorry for themselves, never appreciating what they have, only play the victim!
I never liked working and didn't think anyone had a job that they actually liked. Who wants to work ? I worked jobs from 12 years old, delivering papers, drying cars at a car wash, cleaning a bakery, McDonalds when I was 15. Then I worked at Canada Packers in the summers for 4 years at University and then on CP rail fixing the track. Then after I graduated I got a summer job at CN rail and just stayed there. It was better than a job as an electrical engineer and it paid more money. Headache free job with no take home worries. I worked there for 39 years and then retired. I just worked for the money.
A job honestly doesn’t gives you the time, space and opportunity to chase your dreams and achieve your goals. From personal experience i can tell you working a serious job is modern day slavery. they pay you a small amount for doing a significant amount of work and promises you promotion. Best advice make investments and take calculated risks that would guarantee your success.
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I'm a middle aged millenial male that is completely and utterly burnt out and hopeless. Demands of the job keep rising. My title doesn't pay, wages are stagnant and sometimes I just wish I'd be laid off but know they'd rather frame me that pay out for the unemployment insurance. I get paranoid all of the time that that's what they're planning to do; screw me over and then fire me, or stress me so much i burn out and quit. There's no way to just move to another job because no one pays enough to survive. It is hellish.
Just retired from a 40 yr career in administration, event planning, and project management. It was very rewarding, fun, with decent bosses, co-workers. Two yrs prior to leaving, my health, covid, crazy new policies made me and forced me to leave full-time work. No regrets. I hope to return on a part-time basis to stay active. I planned ahead in my 50s as my health was deteriorating. Even though the gov and and you may wish to work to 65, 67 or 70, your body and physical health may say otherwise. Keep that in mind when planning ahead. Nothing is guaranteed. Had I not foreseen things, I would be homeless or in a very bad financial situation. I feel for the younger generations. Work shouldn't be just a job, but more a career with goals, career development, advancements, and good pay with a minimum 4-5% annual increase. Absolutely none of that is happening for those younger than 50 anymore. I dont know what lies ahead for so many left in the workforce. 😮 Glad I am retired. All the best to many out there in the workforce. ❤🎉
35 years in corporate. Yes, it gets old - as I get old. Overall burn out is real and burn out on delusional micro middle managers and lack of interest, let alone passion, in the job is real.
Something changed when they started with the Human Resources deal. We've been reduced to a resource like minerals that were mined from the earth, leaving nothing but a giant hole in the ground.
Even as a young man, I thought it was very cynical of them to refer to me as nothing more than a resource of the human kind. But they're there to make sure I'm happy and fulfilled, right? Somehow the even term "Personnel" was more... personal.
I work in public services The micromanagement gets worse every year. There are team WhatsApp groups where they can keep an eye on what you are doing outside of work hours. They strip people of their personality so we can better work drones. Well the productivity figures would suggest otherwise. They expect more and more and they get less and less because people are under too much stress. We are all like overloaded donkeys!
Zombies and Vampires that's why. The people that run companies have turned into vampires sucking the blood out of their company and their employees. And they have turned the company and every single employee into a virtual zombie.
I thought they wanted me when I was getting two job offers a week from strangers. Deck building, landscaping, retail clerking, all sorts of jobs. It turns out I"m 74 and they will take anybody at all. I turned them all down because I don't want to work either. I retired years ago.
I don't think it's that people don't want to work anymore. It's that money has been so decoupled from hard work that it's hugely demotivating to work hard jobs (because let's all be honest, when talking about this subject we're really taking about sh*tty, physically demanding yet low-paying jobs that nobody wants to work) when ppl seem to be making crazy money doing some of the dumbest things imaginable and then posting about it on social media. The people bleating the loudest about how nobody wants to work anymore are also the people most responsible for devaluing and stigmatizing the labor nobody wants to do. Who made "burger flipper" a pejorative? It wasn't the people flipping burgers...
It sure was the people flipping burgers. I was working at a McDonalds in DC in 1966 when we started insulting each other with burger flipper comments. I started off at $1.15, but you could buy an end of the model year VW bug brand new for $1600. When I left McD's in '67 I was making $1.50. I got a job as a laborer for a tree service making $2.35/hr and 20 to 30 hours a week of overtime pay. I was rich.
Yea. The bottom line, aka profit, is what pays employees. You’ve obviously never had others and their families depend on you. My employees pay raises are effective when they are. It’s called commission.
The rich people who ran newspapers have been running stories about this for 120 years now. I retired at 35, realized I could move abroad instead of the massive emasculation ritual that is working in corporate America today.
Corporations are not sharing the wealth. CEOs and stockholders are squeezing more and more from their workers. Workers are rebeling, and I don't blame them. Corporations are ultimately going to pay the price.
In construction we are pushed in the field to "work harder" so the clowns in the office can justify their check. Which is entirely overpaid. They reap all the rewards and the workers in the field get laid off tons. Its a shit show. A GIANT PYRIMAD SCHEME
Their problem isn’t that there are no workers, it’s that there are no workers for what they want to pay. If the pay is fair, there won’t be any lack of applicants. Everyone is looking for a fat chicken for little money.
When the focus moved away from planning to make a career at a single company to being a nomadic worker, something was lost. Now the emphasis is on satisfying the shareholders and not the long-term viability of a company.
When I hear “nobody wants to work anymore” my mind immediately gravitates to this whole “fake work” from home culture that continued in the aftermath of the pandemic. Yes, I suppose it serves its purpose for some people at certain times but certainly not for everybody, and certainly not for the younger generation who graduated in the midst of the pandemic and beyond Who may think showing up in an office five days a week is unfathomable.
Factory workers in the Midwest bought homes after 5 years on the job. Now the factories are gone and your rent is $2000/month and starter home is $400K
@bigbanknewyork3655 yep. Not only did those jobs pay pretty good in and of their own accord but money overall was worth more. The whole notion of rugged individualism on the parts of many Americans is gonna have to go by the wayside as it's no longer feasible.
Working for a living has always been a nightmare but the difference is that in the past we understand that we work or don't eat. Now the expectations are drastically different.
Maybe it has something to do with food and housing costs being so high that if you work a $10 to $15/hr job, you have to live in your parents house or under an overpass.
Prices keep rising and Pay stays the same. Might as well live in a tent, nobody's getting anywhere but the super rich and depending on how much they have, they can easily go broke. So many people win the lottery and piss through it overnight.
I retired on a pension at 50. Tried to stay busy and enjoy life for three years. Got so bored and depressed I couldn't take it anymore. I went back to work part time, and I have really been enjoying it. I don't do it for the money, I do it for a sense of purpose and to see people. I don't see ever working full time again, but I also can't see being fully retired again.
There is no incentive to work. When your paycheck ends up somewhere else. Rent or mortgage , insurance, transportation, inflation. You need to work more just to keep up. Never mind get ahead.
Lots of complaints about wages, and that’s reasonable. I don’t see people complaining that the source of motivation is largely gone among the non-workers. Work hard and you only -maybe- get more access to services and a few status symbol items. You won’t have relationships, respect, legacy, family. Get seriously ill just once and it’s all gone. So live with family or friends and do as little as possible.
When I first started working 40 odd years ago, you had time to actually do your job comfortably. This was before emails, so people weren't getting hundreds of emails a week. You had a lunch break and went home at the proper time. Your salary was enough to live on, buy a house etc. Working is awful now, so stressful. I can't wait to retire.
I've worked at a children hospital for 30 years. When I started there were 3500 employees. Now it's over 20000. The administration level just keeps growing. I feel like I get an additional boss every month. I'm done between 58-60. It's not what I do, it's all the garbage.
I work in a factory that has made the same product for 100 years. The issue here is that they created a massive jobs program of HR and IT people that have their own huge wing with their own cafeteria and a work schedule that includes catered meetings all day long. So while Earl has to bring a sack lunch and gets 20 minutes to whoof down a peanut butter sandwich before he has to hit the floor to make more product, Farah in HR is on her 3rd decafe latte before going into her office to surf social media.
@whouwit6392 i got an email today saying that 2 more operations directors have been hired for the labs, but yet we aren't allowed to hire techs, who actually produce the results. It's insanity. This is another reason why healthcare costs are sky high.
@@Ackb1004 its exactly like Office Space where i work. For every one person who actually produces results we have 6 people micromanaging production and sending pointless emails all day. The boomers wont retire but they also dont want to do any real work.
Something's gotta give .. Corporations have had their cake and eating it to far too long = paying little or no tax, cheap labor (local, and from abroad H1B Visas), uncapped price gouging, your retirement accounts funding their stocks, little vacation time, no pensions, long work hours. Feels like you're working for free, F that. .... and AI is already fueling layoffs
Cost of living these days has exploded to a point people can't afford many extras. But mother government aka joey thinks we can make it cushy for millions that don't belong here...
@@Cynicalgeek743 I’m saying it’s demoralizing to younger people especially when laid off and hard to find jobs .. extreme form of what’s happening now was Great Depression many committed . Personally I work a ton and hope I don’t lose my job .. I can empathize though . I’ve also lived super cheap states and it is less stressful .. so I’d encourage that option to many
the book that changed my approach to money is The Gilded Nexus of Prosperity all recommendations... It's completely different from anything I've read so far
The young people I managed up until 2 years ago were very hard working by any standards, well rounded and liked to contribute and be recognized for it. The distinct difference I noted, that was greatly accentuated by our working through COVID, was the demand for non-standard work hours, come very early, very late, etc . . . it was hard for me to understand, but they got their work done and on time . . .also anyone near or over 40 was old and a 'boomer' to them!!! 🙃
I’m 62 and It will be hard to retire from my blue collar job making 217,000 a year, plus another 45,000 in pension benefits, but I will this year. Some young man will replace me and I’ll move onto my last quarter of life.
@philschiavone101 my employer was shocked when I gave notice. They called me twice the first year after I left to try to get me to come back. 35 years was enough. That was physical stressful work. Thankful for their profit sharing plan though.
The answer you should always give to this is "no, it's not that nobody wants to work anymore. They just don't want to work for people like _you_ anymore". Best to simply tell the complainers the truth.....
when people say kids don't want to work, they're talking about physical work, where breaking a sweat or developing callous is a real threat. Plumbers, HVAC techs, welders etc can't find help in careers that frequently pay well into 6 figures once you have experience and credentials. They're not talking about providing a "better digital experience". T
If you’re not an influencer driving around in rented cars, wearing fake designer clothes and costume jewellery, you’re a failure. Real work is for losers
1. Lack of pay increases. 2. Some workers got a taste of FREDOM (work from home) and that was taken from them, 3. Women are feeling the competition between career vs homemaker (homesteading and single income families I believe is on the rise). Some of Gen X started employment when companies still gave back to employees (loyalty/ pensions)- that same generation has eyes on early retirement because they have had it.
At my job (now retired) in Western New York we went 9 years without a raise. When the union finally settled the contract we got bare minimum raises but had to give major concessions in health care. We also never received any retroactive pay for the 9 years we lost. We also worked the pandemic without hazard pay or bonus and some of our people caught COVID at work and died. Currently here in Buffalo, Channel 4 TV workers have gone 11 years without a contract. Welcome to the jungle. Workers have my sincere empathy but they must wage the class struggle and Organize, Organize, Organize!
I'm 38, I had planned on stacking up resources to help my daughter be the mother I never got to be. My target retirement account is for 2045. I'm ambitious, I make 60k/yr and was saving a quarter of it. 2045 likely will not come for me. I have stopped making contributions, I still work like a fool, but there's no point. No amount of money will protect me from the next 20 years.
Company's just are expecting way too much from their employee's and not providing the appropriate compensation. Employee's are tired! Everyone at my job are miserable!
The number of people riding around during the middle of the week, during the middle of the day is unbelievable. I have worked for my company for 40 years. I leave every morning before daybreak. I was out of work for close to 3 months with a broken foot. I was astonished to see that most of my neighbors hardly ever went to work. They're hanging around in basketball shorts ,mowing the grass, washing the cars,etc. How do they get by? Trust me,most of these morons aren't 'working from home'. What's the secret? How do they come up with the 2000 per month mortgage and never leave the house? We see this everywhere when we are on job sites in neighborhoods and talk amongst ourselves about how they get by.
@@woman5918 If they are meeting their milestones, its none of your business isn't it? If the work is being done and there's no problem, what is it here that is your business?
Quite often I hear complaints about the boss people work for. Sometimes the person in charge expects too much. Example; my wife worked at a tanning salon right next door to a tobacco/convenience store that was actually part of the same building. It was in close proximity to a bad neighborhood that was a night-time hangout for gang members. The convenience store was robbed regularly, and the owner/clerk had been shot by a criminal during a robbery. The woman my wife worked for wanted her girls to work alone at night, and I thought that was a dangerous situation due to the business location. I argued with her that she should have at least two working there at night, but she didn't want the extra salary pay-out. I told her my wife would not be working there any more if she wanted her to be there alone at night. Her husband even told her I was right, but she wouldn't listen. Needless to say she did not stay at that job.
I certainly hope this guy realizes that the Total Labor Force Participation rate is based off of the entire US population 16 and over. That means a 95 year old great-grandmother is included in the calculation. As the percentage of the US in retirement increases; there is a gradual decline in the LFP rate. It is a built-in headwind. Remarkably under Trump first term the TLFP rate was actually increasing against that built-in headwind until the bug
The key is to work your ass off (even part-time extra job) for a few years and still live like you’re poor. Getting some investment early and compounding can let you actually change jobs to something you like or retire early. I “retired” and started working again part-time and it’s so much of a better situation.
@SprintTri58 This. 💯 Toxic corporate culture has this competitive, self-congratulatory BS of staying “connected” to the company whilst being on vacation. And announcing the fact on a group email. Not healthy folks.
This issue speaks to developing and maintaining boundaries in all facets of life. Boundaries are for each person and for themselves alone. If your boundary is to not look at email during vacation, only you can enforce that boundary. This is an essential behavior everyone needs to learn and use throughout life. If your boundary is to not look at email during vacation then enforce your boundary and don't look. That's it.
@ I tried that and the owner went ballistic because he could not get a hold of me because I left my phone at home. I planned very carefully to have someone take over my PM duties. The question the owner had was ridiculous and only to make a point. Unfortunately, in my past construction industry as an estimator and project manager you become FULLY tied to your job because no one wants to take on extra responsibility for a few days. I completely agree with you. It did not used to be that way 20 years ago. But EVERYBODY is now expected to be available and check in it seems. Additionally, several of my coworkers would hardly ever take a vacation because of their insecurity issues. This needs to change.
I’m a federal employee. I am a RN. It’s true, all of the younger generations don’t seem to want to work at all, can’t seem to come to work, and want to be hired at top tier pay regardless of experience. It’s definitely generational.
It’s because a modern pay cheque gets you way less than before…For example in Toronto Canada it takes the avg Canadian 25 years to save for a downpayment on a house, whereas a few generations ago a house was able to be paid off in 7 years…
I am 42 now. I working my ass off since I am 16. I have three Kids and a wonderful wife. We saved money, skipped many vacation, drove a 20 year old car. But it pays off this year. We’re free of debt. When the next project is finished I‘ll be able to de facto retire. I am fed up with all that woke corporate bullshit.
Pays off?? Really.?? How so? Last I knew ya can't get time back and humans are mortal. And if ya look at our counterparts in other western democracies...they get far more than us . The fact is we are serfs and untill we take care of the uneven distribution of wealth ..this will continue. Long live Luigi
You, my man, are a winner. The game is and always has been difficult but working hard and controlling your spending improve your chances of this result dramatically, and again, always have done so
@Cynicalgeek743 And for the last twenty years many people looked down on us, because of our old car. They looked down on us from some Disney Land resort vacation while we stayed at home and went hiking. Now the same guys are drowning in debt and tell me how unfair live is… I tell them, that for every brand new F150 or BMW they bought I used the money as down payment for some real estate. It’s a choice everybody can make
Wages haven't kept up for 40 years. Meanwhile inflation is skyrocketing. That's the problem. People are working more then ever & their quality of life is DECREASING. Is it a surprise people are giving up?
And they wonder why the younger generations don't have as good of a work ethic.
Yes wages are pitiful
I'm 43. I quit working about a year ago, would never go back. I got enough money to live the life I want and freedom is priceless.
You moved overseas?
I quit a lucrative long term career and moved to Mexico last year at 56yrs old, Best thing I ever did wish I would’ve done it 10 years ago
How did you get that money? Are you rich and well off? Or did you have to work to get that money?
Working isn't the problem. Sub-1% pay raises for 15 years, while the CEO becomes multi-billionaire, is the problem.
This!
Scamerica started full bore with gen X.
Working, or rather, people getting lazy is a part of the problem.
People are content with less and less and parents enable poor work ethics
Agreed! Things are out of control in that regard.
People don't leave their jobs, they leave their bosses.
Good thing about the military….you’ll rarely ever have the same boss for more than a year…all personnel are always transferring from place to place.
And our boss is the government
My bosses are thee best …. The hourly pay on the other hand sucks . Only thing keeping me at the job is it’s extremely flexible.
Got to get that balance, somtime there nice because they have to be with what there paying @jenniferconley9591
Yep mostly true some bosses can be the nicest in the worlds but if they have unrealistic ex[expectations or are manipulative then they're the problem
I like my job just fine, what I don’t like is my company paying me 25% less adjusted for inflation vs what I made in 2001.
Banksters ate your carrots.
Buy a big stick for the banksters.
Free Luigi!
It would appear that the market is saying you're worth 25% less than you were 24 years ago.
@ It’s age discrimination. They know that once you hit 50 in IT you don’t stand a chance getting hired anywhere so they can take advantage of you.
Join the club!
@@Mkundera BS.
As an orderly (nurse assistant) , I was paid above $15 an hour (Quebec) between 1999-2003. Minimum wage was just above $7 an hour. Today, the same job pays just above $15 (Alberta) an hour and minimum wage is $15.00 an hour. How does this make sense? If this doesn’t put things into perspective, nothing will. It’s insanity.
Better to be stacking shelves at a supermarket and having near zero responsibility.
Sounds like there’s a big focus to increase wages when the government should be focused on deflating the cost of living instead.
I’m sick of property owners charging insane prices for housing.
This happened in the trades also. My first job 3 years ago paid me $13 while mcdonalds paid $15. Trades are hard up for people so now its gone up to $18 but unskilled production pays $19-$20 heck amazon drivers make 19.75. The caps are the same in production vs trade work like welding and machining.
That is terrible pay ,I haven't seen pay like that before in Australia for that sector, most people in Australia for nursing homes would be at least $27 aud or $25cad, they literally would be hard pressed to find any one for $15 ,that's Mac Donald's wages,picking fruit pays more
@ Don’t get me started! Australia is further ahead with their salary scales. My sister in law lives in Australia with her husband and yeah, Canada is pathetically far behind in comparison. Sadly I waited too long to try and immigrate there myself.
Correction. Nobody wants to work for what they are willing to pay!
Right!
Corporations paying their CEO’s millions, while the employees earn minimum wage.
I suspect that there is a feeling that the rich are collecting dividends and capital gains, while wages are being depressed. I know I am not optimistic about my salary increasing unless I make a career switch, and I'm pretty close to retirement!
I work for Food ,Comfortable Shelter and Contributions to my 401k !
Nothing stops you from competing for that CEO position
The other option is no CEOs and no businesses and no one has a job.
America is currently plagued by the hydra-headed evil duo of inflation and recession. The worst part about this recession is that consumers are racking up credit card debt. In December alone, credit card debt went up 36% while rates have doubled in a year. Inflation is so high that consumers are literally taking debt for basic life necessities. Collapse has indeed begun..
The truth is that people are finally waking up to the fact that our systems are breaking down in thousands of different ways all around us. Personally, the financial market seems like the only way to go with a long-term horizon . But if you don't have that time, it's a tough market out and thus you should consider financial advisory.
Until the Fed clamps down even further I think we're going to see hysteria due to rampant inflation. If you are in cross roads or need sincere advise on the best moves to take now with financial markets will be best you seek a fin-professional with fiduciary responsibilities who knows about mortgage-backed securities for proper guidance.
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I retired at 55, sick of working for a micro mismanaged circus. Only the clowns did well there.
Just turned 55, retiring in April.... congrats.
@@swtexan6502 Which government agency?
@@flyingjeff1984 ? USMC for 5 years... until the mid-90's. That is my one, and only, foray into working for the government.
Hahahahaha
Agreed. 1 percenters somehow steer the ship. While top performers get the shaft.
You mean no one wants to be EXPLOITED anymore. If im working 40+ hours ,and living in a tent what is the point!?!?
Try renting an apartment, moving to a state with cheaper accommodation if necessary. And 40+ hours is f all you whinger
@@Cynicalgeek743 is the gaslighting really necessary? not everyone can easily just pack up and move across the country so some fantasy job.
I had a 1% salary increase, while utilities went up 8%, rent up 15%, and eggs go for $8 a dozen. I wonder why nobody wants to work 🤔
If a job doesn't pay enough to at least survive on it's not worth doing.
If your salary exceeds your expenses then all these increases still mean you can live. And you can get eggs a lot cheaper than that btw. Try not working and see how you can’t afford anything; that better?
When I worked for a company for 22 years. I liked my job and opportunities it gave me. It was the management they kept bringing in that drove me out. A bunch of know it all's and do nothings they were. Main reason I opened my own business /shop with the experience I learned. 20 years later no regrets on doing so.
Last Monday, I received a request from a nursing student whose dad needed a letter from me regarding her nursing grad ceremony in order for his boss to let him off to attend the event for his daughter. Grown man living in a brick house shouldn’t need a note from me to be excused. This type of behavior is why we will not set ourselves on fire for the company anymore. I don’t even know this man but I cringed at the disrespect shown to him. His daughter is very hard working, disciplined, responsible. I bet she learned that from dad.
👆🏻this. Been at my company 21 years (bought out by a large corporation a few years ago). I’m a very hard worker and dedicated employee who has called in sick less than 10 times in 21 years (yes, i have come to work sick at times in my “dedication”). Recently had the flu - called in sick one day due to high fever - was told under “new” attendance policy, it is considered an unexcused absence and I earned a “point” against me which “could” effect any future raises or bonuses. Glad I only have 2 more years before retirement 🥺.
And this is why we are sick of working for ungrateful money hungry companies. Glad you only have 2 years too!@babysonographer9891
Correct. No one wants to work for FAR less than the are worth, be super stressed out, and compromise their health and relationships. Corporate America is the modern day prison system. I love working, but not for an abuser.
Slavery never went away in the USA. Corporations are the slave masters
It’s a free market, you’re paid what you’re worth! Don’t like it, go get a better job or even better open your own business and see just how easy and stress free it is to be responsible for employees!
Most of the time people are not "worth " what the think they are.
@@chrisforker7487 more like you’re paid what they can get away with.
When companies are making record profits and the pay is sub par.
It’s not fair to the worker.
That’s why unions are needed.
You ARE SO RIGHT!!
When I hear "Nobody wants to work." what I always hear is "Nobody wants to work for my unlivable pay rate."
Corporations pretend to pay a living wage, and we pretend to work. That's today's employee/employer relationship.
Azul thank you for recognizing that our young people are smart and hard working. I am the father of one millennial and two Gen z who are entering the workforce. I am also in my fifties and working with younger people entering the workforce. They certainly are facing many challenges that we did not have to deal with when we started out. I am doing my best to mentor them and encourage them to stay positive.
I took a $5 an hour pay cut to work construction labor at a new co. Just to work with cooler people. Went from job supervisor to labor. Money isn't everything.
I had a Ph.D. and worked at a small college for 18 years. One day I came across the most blatant cheating I had ever seen. I followed all the procedures, including a witness, and was called in by our new VP for academic affairs. I brought all the relevant student work with me. Seeing the large stacks of paper in my hands the VP announced: Oh, that's the student work, we aren't here to discuss that, we are here to discuss why your a problem. The next year they started making offers for me to leave, when it became obvious that they didn't want me I took the best offer and left. They still have not been able to fill the opening I left and since they pay way below the medium for full professors at small private colleges in the southeast I doubt they will find anyone. During this whole thing I was never asked an open ended question (like what happened?) Some kid whined to a parent and then left and the school just figured got to take care of "customers". The problem is managers that don't know what they are doing.
I had a similar experience. Higher education, generally speaking, is a highly toxic environment. I don't miss that bubble nor the political and woke nonsense that permeates there.
Work won't buy me a house, it barely affords my rent and I make excellent money. Why would anyone want to work if it don't pay what you need.
Your statement doesn’t make sense. Is it good money or do
You not make enough to pay rent?
@ThePathOfLeastResistanc barley, my rent went up 7200 or 600 a month just a few years ago. Utilities all increased too along with gas. Probably over 10k in total. I didn't get a 10k raise. Why would anyone want to work for less? Because that's what happens if you don't get a raise when there's inflation.
@ I haven’t had a raise in the 2 yrs that I’ve been at my job either
@ThePathOfLeastResistanc so basicly you (we all) took a pay cut the last 2 years. I'm saying when your pay doesn't keep up with inflation that's a huge reason why people wouldn't want to work anymore.
@ im not disagreeing, im questioning your original comment and the oxymoron of saying you make “excellent money”, yet simultaneously saying you don’t make enough money.
Its about pay. Companies want cheap labor. People want a living wage. But companies don't want to pay living wages.
exactly, and the corporations are monopolies over the sector. for example when people say "be your own boss" they ignore the fact that being your own boss would mean endless red tape and competing with monopolies that cornered the market 50 years ago and have huge teams of lawyers that handle all the permits and fees and red tape. Which means their competition can never thrive. It usually can never even get off the ground. The only way to "be your own boss" is to involve yourself in someone else's scam, such as taking out loans and flipping houses or investing in stocks or cryptocurrencies (or whatever the next clever scam is). And the monopolies that exist in all sectors are rarely ever even run by the people that founded them. Those people usually died long ago, or the company was acquired by some other monopoly. It isn't free market at all anymore, it is people forced out of the free market and into indentured servitude. We serve CEOs and shareholders who never put any work in to the sector they represent.
Do a video on the rate of increase of CEO compensation versus the minimum wage and cost of living tends.
I am retired. I worked for money. I worked to survive. When I made decent money I liked my job. When I was not making decent money I still appreciated the fact that a paycheck was better than no check at all. I went through the stagflation of the early 1980’s. No jobs and high inflation was stagflation. Mortgage rates were 10% and unemployment was about 10%. Those were rough years. I appreciate all the lessons I learned in those years. When you work you are selling your time for money. That is how it works! Work and save all you can so you can quit working. Don’t work so you can buy things you don’t need. Work for those things that you need to survive.
I remember the rates at 20 percent on both in 1980.
@@william-fla-321 my first car loan was at 17% interest. I remember the WIN (whip inflation now) buttons during the Ford administration.
Work smarter, not harder
Spot on. Who the hell said work had to be enjoyable. It’s a means to an end. And economic conditions have been a lot worse than they are now. Can’t remember the widespread whinging and whining then that we hear now though
I was told I'm not a team player because I didn't attend the company holiday party
Free market includes refusing the offered price. Not working is the worker's response to an insufficient wage. Workers are tired of four decades of stagnant wages while executive pay goes up and up.
Bam!
And living on the street begging for dimes is society’s response to a worker not working. Great decision
@@Cynicalgeek743 it’s a free country, is it not?
@@ThePathOfLeastResistanc it is indeed. Everyone is free to make poor decisions and be unhappy. I do wish they would stop whining about the outcomes of their own decisions though
You also have to take in to account vehicle cost along with insurance just to go to work. Then everything as far as house appliances are expensive and designed to fail.
People aren't tired of working. They are tired of working and still not being able to afford basic necessities. The breakdown of family started in the 70's and here we are.
Yes. My former colleagues are so stressed out. They now understand why I did not seek to continue working in Corporate America after I was laid off at 55.
Sorry that happened to you.
@chadwheeler38555 Thank you. But everything happens for a reason. And I much happier now.
I didn’t like my job either. I am kind of fond of eating though so off to work I went.
Eating, a roof over our heads clothing on our backs , I worked for 40years as many did before me To which I am greatfull .
Look at all the "disabled" vets with PTSD, soaking up 4-5,000 dollars a month, so they can sit at home and smoke weed. Other generations came home from war got the GI Bill, and made something of themselves, all the while suffering from the same thing. Not this generation,oh no, come home put around feeling sorry for themselves, never appreciating what they have, only play the victim!
I never liked working and didn't think anyone had a job that they actually liked. Who wants to work ? I worked jobs from 12 years old, delivering papers, drying cars at a car wash, cleaning a bakery, McDonalds when I was 15. Then I worked at Canada Packers in the summers for 4 years at University and then on CP rail fixing the track. Then after I graduated I got a summer job at CN rail and just stayed there. It was better than a job as an electrical engineer and it paid more money. Headache free job with no take home worries. I worked there for 39 years and then retired. I just worked for the money.
A job honestly doesn’t gives you the time, space and opportunity to chase your dreams and achieve your goals. From personal experience i can tell you working a serious job is modern day slavery. they pay you a small amount for doing a significant amount of work and promises you promotion. Best advice make investments and take calculated risks that would guarantee your success.
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Stocks are pretty unstable at the moment, but if you do the right math, you should be just fine. Bloomberg and other finance media have been recording cases of folks gaining over 250k just in a matter of weeks/couple months, so I think there are alot of wealth transfer in this downtime if you know where to look.
The best course of action if you lack market knowledge is to ask a consultant or investing coach for guidance or assistance. Speaking with a consultant helped me stay afloat in the market and grow my portfolio to about 65% since January, even though I know it sounds obvious or generic. I believe that is the most effective way to enter the business at the moment
@@Jeffcraparo Could you kindly elaborate on the advisor's background and qualifications?
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A lack of good leadership and a deterioration of work culture is a big part of this. Everyone is tired of getting jerked around.
I'm a middle aged millenial male that is completely and utterly burnt out and hopeless. Demands of the job keep rising. My title doesn't pay, wages are stagnant and sometimes I just wish I'd be laid off but know they'd rather frame me that pay out for the unemployment insurance. I get paranoid all of the time that that's what they're planning to do; screw me over and then fire me, or stress me so much i burn out and quit. There's no way to just move to another job because no one pays enough to survive. It is hellish.
People are sick of being treated like crap and their salaries not keeping up with inflation while CEO'S make absolutely gross wages!
Just retired from a 40 yr career in administration, event planning, and project management. It was very rewarding, fun, with decent bosses, co-workers. Two yrs prior to leaving, my health, covid, crazy new policies made me and forced me to leave full-time work. No regrets. I hope to return on a part-time basis to stay active. I planned ahead in my 50s as my health was deteriorating. Even though the gov and and you may wish to work to 65, 67 or 70, your body and physical health may say otherwise. Keep that in mind when planning ahead. Nothing is guaranteed. Had I not foreseen things, I would be homeless or in a very bad financial situation.
I feel for the younger generations. Work shouldn't be just a job, but more a career with goals, career development, advancements, and good pay with a minimum 4-5% annual increase. Absolutely none of that is happening for those younger than 50 anymore.
I dont know what lies ahead for so many left in the workforce. 😮
Glad I am retired.
All the best to many out there in the workforce.
❤🎉
35 years in corporate. Yes, it gets old - as I get old. Overall burn out is real and burn out on delusional micro middle managers and lack of interest, let alone passion, in the job is real.
I'm not even 35 yet. It's tempting to retire somewhere cheap overseas.
@@jpcarsmedia I feel ya
Oligarchy. My energy will go into me and my ideas. No longer interested in making money for jackasses.
nobody wants to work full time when working full time doesnt pay you enough to survive on
Something changed when they started with the Human Resources deal.
We've been reduced to a resource like minerals that were mined from the earth, leaving nothing but a giant hole in the ground.
Even as a young man, I thought it was very cynical of them to refer to me as nothing more than a resource of the human kind. But they're there to make sure I'm happy and fulfilled, right? Somehow the even term "Personnel" was more... personal.
@@utubewillyman HR is to cover the corps behind. You are not their concern.
I work in public services The micromanagement gets worse every year. There are team WhatsApp groups where they can keep an eye on what you are doing outside of work hours. They strip people of their personality so we can better work drones. Well the productivity figures would suggest otherwise. They expect more and more and they get less and less because people are under too much stress. We are all like overloaded donkeys!
Zombies and Vampires that's why. The people that run companies have turned into vampires sucking the blood out of their company and their employees. And they have turned the company and every single employee into a virtual zombie.
What's the old joke about the old Russian saying? They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.
Nobody likes to work.
They never have.
Lots of people retired during covid.
Boomers are retiring.
You won't see that level of people working again.
I thought they wanted me when I was getting two job offers a week from strangers. Deck building, landscaping, retail clerking, all sorts of jobs. It turns out I"m 74 and they will take anybody at all. I turned them all down because I don't want to work either. I retired years ago.
Too many BS jobs these days, no good CAREERS
I don't think it's that people don't want to work anymore. It's that money has been so decoupled from hard work that it's hugely demotivating to work hard jobs (because let's all be honest, when talking about this subject we're really taking about sh*tty, physically demanding yet low-paying jobs that nobody wants to work) when ppl seem to be making crazy money doing some of the dumbest things imaginable and then posting about it on social media. The people bleating the loudest about how nobody wants to work anymore are also the people most responsible for devaluing and stigmatizing the labor nobody wants to do. Who made "burger flipper" a pejorative? It wasn't the people flipping burgers...
Your comment is gold!
It sure was the people flipping burgers. I was working at a McDonalds in DC in 1966 when we started insulting each other with burger flipper comments. I started off at $1.15, but you could buy an end of the model year VW bug brand new for $1600. When I left McD's in '67 I was making $1.50. I got a job as a laborer for a tree service making $2.35/hr and 20 to 30 hours a week of overtime pay. I was rich.
Corporations only care about the bottom line and not employees.
Japanese companies were historically amazing and committed to their employees, yet I'm told that even Japan is changing.
Boo Hoo 😢
This is not true if your an employee providing for the bottom line
@@johnscott5799 Your fired
Yea. The bottom line, aka profit, is what pays employees. You’ve obviously never had others and their families depend on you. My employees pay raises are effective when they are. It’s called commission.
Strange the old scheme "I destroy myself so my Boss gets rich" does not work anymore because Internet brought transparency to the people.
The rich people who ran newspapers have been running stories about this for 120 years now. I retired at 35, realized I could move abroad instead of the massive emasculation ritual that is working in corporate America today.
How much you had at 35 when you retired?
£30@@cutehumor
I’m a 47 year old woman with burn out from work and it could be resolved if management was more skilled in leadership.
Corporations are not sharing the wealth. CEOs and stockholders are squeezing more and more from their workers. Workers are rebeling, and I don't blame them. Corporations are ultimately going to pay the price.
In construction we are pushed in the field to "work harder" so the clowns in the office can justify their check. Which is entirely overpaid. They reap all the rewards and the workers in the field get laid off tons. Its a shit show. A GIANT PYRIMAD SCHEME
US workers work MORE HOURS than other countries, and get WAY less time off work. Fix that OR make wages higher.
US workers actually put in about 20% effort therefore 80% overpaid.
Or what? And you don’t work longer hours. Try telling that to an Indian factory worker
No one wants to work, employers holler, but does not hire older employees.
Their problem isn’t that there are no workers, it’s that there are no workers for what they want to pay. If the pay is fair, there won’t be any lack of applicants. Everyone is looking for a fat chicken for little money.
No one wants to elevate CEO’s dreams over those of their families and loved ones.
Well said.
If they want to look after their families and loved ones they suck it up as every generation has done for hundreds of years.
When the focus moved away from planning to make a career at a single company to being a nomadic worker, something was lost. Now the emphasis is on satisfying the shareholders and not the long-term viability of a company.
Not true,nobody wants to work for free or be a slave for miserable pay.
Why would I want to work when I can pull in over $100,000 a year from two pensions and SS?
That circumstance is quite rare. I wouldn't want to work in that case either.
Must be tax payer paid pensions
Government workers
@@reasonableaudiophile2377 There are other pensions out there other than government pensions.
Sounds like you may be retired military, retired government worker, and have enough credit to draw social security? If so, well done!
Because they realized that the game was rigged.
Yeah in the USA they want you in debt to your eyeballs so you have to work until you die.
When I hear “nobody wants to work anymore” my mind immediately gravitates to this whole “fake work” from home culture that continued in the aftermath of the pandemic. Yes, I suppose it serves its purpose for some people at certain times but certainly not for everybody, and certainly not for the younger generation who graduated in the midst of the pandemic and beyond Who may think showing up in an office five days a week is unfathomable.
Retirement in March. I’m a one-man IT department and all they ever gave is 3-4% increase.
Who is your replacement?
Dude! Are you kidding me?!?! 3-4% is a great raise. What would be your idea of an equitable %?
I’ve only received a 3 percent raise each year also.
Probably doing the job of 2-3 people so maybe 6or 8%
I only got 2.5% this year and 2.25% last year in healthcare. They can’t even round up to 3%!
Over 50 years ago the lowest paying job was enough to not just live on but support a family on.
Factory workers in the Midwest bought homes after 5 years on the job. Now the factories are gone and your rent is $2000/month and starter home is $400K
@bigbanknewyork3655 yep. Not only did those jobs pay pretty good in and of their own accord but money overall was worth more. The whole notion of rugged individualism on the parts of many Americans is gonna have to go by the wayside as it's no longer feasible.
Working for a living has always been a nightmare but the difference is that in the past we understand that we work or don't eat. Now the expectations are drastically different.
Exactly. Now you work and still don't eat.
Maybe it has something to do with food and housing costs being so high that if you work a $10 to $15/hr job, you have to live in your parents house or under an overpass.
Prices keep rising and Pay stays the same. Might as well live in a tent, nobody's getting anywhere but the super rich and depending on how much they have, they can easily go broke. So many people win the lottery and piss through it overnight.
I retired on a pension at 50. Tried to stay busy and enjoy life for three years. Got so bored and depressed I couldn't take it anymore. I went back to work part time, and I have really been enjoying it. I don't do it for the money, I do it for a sense of purpose and to see people. I don't see ever working full time again, but I also can't see being fully retired again.
I'm going to retire at 49. I don't think I'm ever going back, though. I'm just tired of working. Period.
@@MidwestMoney congrats and good luck!
You're not supposed to like your job. Thats why they have to give you money to do it.
The ideal is to find a job that is long-term tolerable.
There is no incentive to work. When your paycheck ends up somewhere else. Rent or mortgage , insurance, transportation, inflation. You need to work more just to keep up. Never mind get ahead.
Lots of complaints about wages, and that’s reasonable. I don’t see people complaining that the source of motivation is largely gone among the non-workers. Work hard and you only -maybe- get more access to services and a few status symbol items. You won’t have relationships, respect, legacy, family. Get seriously ill just once and it’s all gone. So live with family or friends and do as little as possible.
I loved working but developed heart problems, so I retired early. Amen 🙏
Great. Just in time for the younger generation to fund my social security.
You mean fund the Ponzi
I always thought folks got back what they paid in over the years…
@@chadwheeler38555I could only hope so.
Why would you work a job that doesn't have a living wage? Why?
When I first started working 40 odd years ago, you had time to actually do your job comfortably. This was before emails, so people weren't getting hundreds of emails a week. You had a lunch break and went home at the proper time. Your salary was enough to live on, buy a house etc. Working is awful now, so stressful. I can't wait to retire.
My quality of life has diminished because of cell phones.
I've worked at a children hospital for 30 years. When I started there were 3500 employees. Now it's over 20000. The administration level just keeps growing. I feel like I get an additional boss every month. I'm done between 58-60. It's not what I do, it's all the garbage.
I work in a factory that has made the same product for 100 years. The issue here is that they created a massive jobs program of HR and IT people that have their own huge wing with their own cafeteria and a work schedule that includes catered meetings all day long. So while Earl has to bring a sack lunch and gets 20 minutes to whoof down a peanut butter sandwich before he has to hit the floor to make more product, Farah in HR is on her 3rd decafe latte before going into her office to surf social media.
@Dan.50 i hear ya.
The modern workplace is 1 person rowing the boat while 10 supervisors try to steer it
@whouwit6392 i got an email today saying that 2 more operations directors have been hired for the labs, but yet we aren't allowed to hire techs, who actually produce the results. It's insanity. This is another reason why healthcare costs are sky high.
@@Ackb1004 its exactly like Office Space where i work. For every one person who actually produces results we have 6 people micromanaging production and sending pointless emails all day. The boomers wont retire but they also dont want to do any real work.
Something's gotta give .. Corporations have had their cake and eating it to far too long = paying little or no tax, cheap labor (local, and from abroad H1B Visas), uncapped price gouging, your retirement accounts funding their stocks, little vacation time, no pensions, long work hours. Feels like you're working for free, F that. .... and AI is already fueling layoffs
Wrong. Eat their cake and have it to. Fify.
@@GiacomoRavioli retiring overseas, very doable
Born free…Taxed to death..
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It’s because cost of living is too high
Cost of living these days has exploded to a point people can't afford many extras. But mother government aka joey thinks we can make it cushy for millions that don't belong here...
Yeah, best response to a high cost of living is to stop (or never start) working so you can’t afford anything. Genius
@@Cynicalgeek743 I’m saying it’s demoralizing to younger people especially when laid off and hard to find jobs .. extreme form of what’s happening now was Great Depression many committed . Personally I work a ton and hope I don’t lose my job .. I can empathize though . I’ve also lived super cheap states and it is less stressful .. so I’d encourage that option to many
the book that changed my approach to money is The Gilded Nexus of Prosperity all recommendations... It's completely different from anything I've read so far
I used some techniques from that book to make money, and I can truly say I'm earning more now
I know about that book, my father told me about it
@@endrutatic didn’t get round to reading it though. Too much like hard work?
The young people I managed up until 2 years ago were very hard working by any standards, well rounded and liked to contribute and be recognized for it. The distinct difference I noted, that was greatly accentuated by our working through COVID, was the demand for non-standard work hours, come very early, very late, etc . . . it was hard for me to understand, but they got their work done and on time . . .also anyone near or over 40 was old and a 'boomer' to them!!! 🙃
I’m tired of working and paying taxes
Boo hoo. Perhaps you should get a lot of money for doing nothing. Why doesn’t everyone get this, it’s so unfair
If it was 2000 I would be at work 80 hours a week but nowadays everything is pointless
This. Why work when there's no love, no trust, no future anymore.
People are just tired, burned out and stressed not having enough money.
I wanted to retire at 62, but my bastard boss gave me a 30% raise with less hours. This guy is ruthless. 😢
lol, good stuff, if you don’t mind what do you do?
@ now I do hybrid sales
I’m 62 and It will be hard to retire from my blue collar job making 217,000 a year, plus another 45,000 in pension benefits, but I will this year. Some young man will replace me and I’ll move onto my last quarter of life.
@philschiavone101 my employer was shocked when I gave notice. They called me twice the first year after I left to try to get me to come back. 35 years was enough. That was physical stressful work. Thankful for their profit sharing plan though.
If you have pension, retire early
The answer you should always give to this is "no, it's not that nobody wants to work anymore. They just don't want to work for people like _you_ anymore". Best to simply tell the complainers the truth.....
Most folk work just hard enough not to get fired! And just about get paid enough money not to quit
when people say kids don't want to work, they're talking about physical work, where breaking a sweat or developing callous is a real threat. Plumbers, HVAC techs, welders etc can't find help in careers that frequently pay well into 6 figures once you have experience and credentials. They're not talking about providing a "better digital experience". T
I’m a blue collar worker who made 217k in 2024, but work is slowing down in the trades.
If you’re not an influencer driving around in rented cars, wearing fake designer clothes and costume jewellery, you’re a failure. Real work is for losers
1. Lack of pay increases. 2. Some workers got a taste of FREDOM (work from home) and that was taken from them, 3. Women are feeling the competition between career vs homemaker (homesteading and single income families I believe is on the rise). Some of Gen X started employment when companies still gave back to employees (loyalty/ pensions)- that same generation has eyes on early retirement because they have had it.
At my job (now retired) in Western New York we went 9 years without a raise. When the union finally settled the contract we got bare minimum raises but had to give major concessions in health care. We also never received any retroactive pay for the 9 years we lost. We also worked the pandemic without hazard pay or bonus and some of our people caught COVID at work and died. Currently here in Buffalo, Channel 4 TV workers have gone 11 years without a contract. Welcome to the jungle. Workers have my sincere empathy but they must wage the class struggle and Organize, Organize, Organize!
You could have always quit. Unions protect lazy people and that's the problem nowadays.
Wow, here in Los Angeles County our union fights for raises consistently and wins them. Your union sounds very weak.
I'm 38, I had planned on stacking up resources to help my daughter be the mother I never got to be. My target retirement account is for 2045. I'm ambitious, I make 60k/yr and was saving a quarter of it. 2045 likely will not come for me.
I have stopped making contributions, I still work like a fool, but there's no point. No amount of money will protect me from the next 20 years.
Company's just are expecting way too much from their employee's and not providing the appropriate compensation. Employee's are tired! Everyone at my job are miserable!
The number of people riding around during the middle of the week, during the middle of the day is unbelievable. I have worked for my company for 40 years. I leave every morning before daybreak. I was out of work for close to 3 months with a broken foot. I was astonished to see that most of my neighbors hardly ever went to work. They're hanging around in basketball shorts ,mowing the grass, washing the cars,etc. How do they get by? Trust me,most of these morons aren't 'working from home'. What's the secret? How do they come up with the 2000 per month mortgage and never leave the house? We see this everywhere when we are on job sites in neighborhoods and talk amongst ourselves about how they get by.
All they did was figure it out. Cuz working for a many places sucks deck.
Inheritance money from their parents who worked their butts off
probably latched on to a woman who is working her ass off
@@woman5918 If they are meeting their milestones, its none of your business isn't it? If the work is being done and there's no problem, what is it here that is your business?
@@blktauna hit a “nerve” I see, and you missed my point…
Quite often I hear complaints about the boss people work for. Sometimes the person in charge expects too much. Example; my wife worked at a tanning salon right next door to a tobacco/convenience store that was actually part of the same building. It was in close proximity to a bad neighborhood that was a night-time hangout for gang members. The convenience store was robbed regularly, and the owner/clerk had been shot by a criminal during a robbery. The woman my wife worked for wanted her girls to work alone at night, and I thought that was a dangerous situation due to the business location. I argued with her that she should have at least two working there at night, but she didn't want the extra salary pay-out. I told her my wife would not be working there any more if she wanted her to be there alone at night. Her husband even told her I was right, but she wouldn't listen. Needless to say she did not stay at that job.
This is true.. people are fed up with bosses who micromanage - are threatening and torturing or demanding … they don’t care for such bullshit anymore
I certainly hope this guy realizes that the Total Labor Force Participation rate is based off of the entire US population 16 and over. That means a 95 year old great-grandmother is included in the calculation. As the percentage of the US in retirement increases; there is a gradual decline in the LFP rate. It is a built-in headwind. Remarkably under Trump first term the TLFP rate was actually increasing against that built-in headwind until the bug
The key is to work your ass off (even part-time extra job) for a few years and still live like you’re poor. Getting some investment early and compounding can let you actually change jobs to something you like or retire early. I “retired” and started working again part-time and it’s so much of a better situation.
You hit the nail on the head, "There are fewer and fewer good jobs." We could create good jobs for everybody, but that would take a whole new system.
Can we finally be honest that women never really wanted to work just like men, most of the time?
If its not a living wage, why work for it?
Imagine working your ass off your entire life and now fast food workers are making the same wage as you, wages have not kept up,
People are tired of making others rich.
Today is the day to REPENT for TOMORROW'S NOT GUARANTEED…
I’m retired age 58 with a pension. My biggest gripe was the fake vacations. Boss: be sure to check your phone and have a nice “vacation”
@SprintTri58
This. 💯
Toxic corporate culture has this competitive, self-congratulatory BS of staying “connected” to the company whilst being on vacation. And announcing the fact on a group email. Not healthy folks.
This issue speaks to developing and maintaining boundaries in all facets of life.
Boundaries are for each person and for themselves alone.
If your boundary is to not look at email during vacation, only you can enforce that boundary.
This is an essential behavior everyone needs to learn and use throughout life.
If your boundary is to not look at email during vacation then enforce your boundary and don't look. That's it.
@ I tried that and the owner went ballistic because he could not get a hold of me because I left my phone at home. I planned very carefully to have someone take over my PM duties. The question the owner had was ridiculous and only to make a point. Unfortunately, in my past construction industry as an estimator and project manager you become FULLY tied to your job because no one wants to take on extra responsibility for a few days. I completely agree with you. It did not used to be that way 20 years ago. But EVERYBODY is now expected to be available and check in it seems. Additionally, several of my coworkers would hardly ever take a vacation because of their insecurity issues. This needs to change.
I’m a federal employee. I am a RN. It’s true, all of the younger generations don’t seem to want to work at all, can’t seem to come to work, and want to be hired at top tier pay regardless of experience. It’s definitely generational.
I hear you. I’m 62 and watch the younger generation on their dang phones all day.
It’s because a modern pay cheque gets you way less than before…For example in Toronto Canada it takes the avg Canadian 25 years to save for a downpayment on a house, whereas a few generations ago a house was able to be paid off in 7 years…
Its called demoralization. I dont know how excited I would be working in a proffession that is high-paying and you still cant afford a 1000sq.ft home.
Cuz youre not, ever, ever.
I bet youre glad trudeau stepped down. Its going to take years and bloodshed to bring Canada and US back to its European glory. Good luck up there.
I am 42 now. I working my ass off since I am 16. I have three Kids and a wonderful wife. We saved money, skipped many vacation, drove a 20 year old car.
But it pays off this year. We’re free of debt. When the next project is finished I‘ll be able to de facto retire. I am fed up with all that woke corporate bullshit.
Pays off?? Really.?? How so? Last I knew ya can't get time back and humans are mortal. And if ya look at our counterparts in other western democracies...they get far more than us . The fact is we are serfs and untill we take care of the uneven distribution of wealth ..this will continue. Long live Luigi
The “woke” is to camouflage the anti-worker policies that are actually right-wing.
You, my man, are a winner. The game is and always has been difficult but working hard and controlling your spending improve your chances of this result dramatically, and again, always have done so
@Cynicalgeek743 And for the last twenty years many people looked down on us, because of our old car. They looked down on us from some Disney Land resort vacation while we stayed at home and went hiking.
Now the same guys are drowning in debt and tell me how unfair live is…
I tell them, that for every brand new F150 or BMW they bought I used the money as down payment for some real estate.
It’s a choice everybody can make
I've had one job in the last 12 years. That experience was enough to remind me why I won't ever work for anyone but myself again.