The Blue collar millennial workforce (and gen Z)

[floridaman]

Even when I'm working, I still get treated like I'm a lazy good-for-nothing. It's very frustrating. Makes you feel like you have to basically bleed to death to be worth anything in their eyes.

[hakon]

Gen Z here im a toolmaker and working full time sometimes 60 hr weeks. I think honestly its just Millenials and GenZ dont want to slave away for a poor wage or wast time doing something we dont like.

[pinkmoosestudios]

I suspect there's a high correlation with "no one wants to work any more" and "we don't want to pay any more."

[kristopherknapp]

I'm a millennial and just became a supervisor. I honestly prefer my younger employees they just go do the job without arguing. The old timers are the ones who give me a ration of shit because they dont want to get up out of their chairs. Already wrote one up for being rude and disrespecting me as his boss.

[PinkNintendoDuo]

I’m no blue collar worker (never want to enter the sector), but I’m with you on this. We (the millennials and zoomers) don’t want to work to death the way older generations had to put up with. A healthy work-life balance is more preferable.

[mimief]

I worked 170 hrs in two weeks just now, more than all but one of my coworkers, and he still told me "You can't hang with the real hard workers" like brother at this point I don't even care I'm just trying to save $$$ for my family's future not perform for anyone.

[IanCanada-nbdy]

We do want to work. We just want to get paid enough to have a mediocre standard of living.

[matthewnikitas]

I think the bottom line is young people do not want to work earning a wage where they would still not be able to earn enough money to be able to provide for themselves independently. This has more to do with inflation than anything else.

[allengreene]

I’m 29 Years Old and I’m a Custodian at Portland Public Schools. I don’t like to be Stuck at Home, I got to be doing something to stay busy and I take pride and helping-keeping the School Clean and Presentable for the Kids👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿 It makes Me feel like I’m actually making a Difference compared to what I was doing in Retail.

[mynameisnobody]

You can never change how people look at you no matter how much you try. If they don't like you they don't like you. Nothing can change that

[Jblast]

Millennial, here we don't want to be slaves or a surf to a company until high-level management understands that they will find it hard to find your foot soldiers

[guesswho]

What it comes down to is boomers drove this country into the ground. When we were turning 18 it was in the middle of the worst recession since THE GREAT DEPRESSION. Yet here we are, working, hustling, and trying to keep this boat afloat while they talk trash like they aren't responsible for the current state of the world. The best part is they're actually bashing themselves because it was their guidance or should I say "lack of" that has caused this mess they love to complain about🤷🏻‍♂️

[SirMichaelAugustus]

The older generation is lazy. The younger generation is impatient. The lack of motivation comes from low wages with high cost of living.

[Warriorfit]

15 years in the Trades.Carpentry. I think the biggest issue is the disconnect between trade careers and young people. Many kids don’t really know about the trades in depth and that falls on us. Also I’ve had great success getting young kids to work because I don’t haze or treat them less from the start. Don’t have time to play fuck around games the Gen Z and young millennials want to learn I see it everyday. Your young guys progress, effort and motivation is a direct reflection of your leadership. If you think otherwise you need to learn extreme accountability/ownership. That’s the difference between a boss and a leader.

[trollerthegreattrollertheg]

Gen z ex warehouse worker here. A lot and i mean a LOT of the companies i left didn't give me the most basic respect. Especially more elder superiors. One of the jobs had me getting accused of taking off days with no call despite me literally having a paper slip showcasing the time was approved weeks beforehand. Honestly kept working there over summer just to piss off the manager that yelled at me from that incident. I loved the phsysical side and driving a forklift around but it just gets too stressful to enjoy with that happening. Unless you can pay me extra to take the vents of your superiority complex like the therapist you refuse to see, you'll see me gone within a month. There's literal remote insurance jobs that'll pay me the same if not more to do less so don't treat me like I've got nowhere else to go.

[ChaseEmbrace]

People who constantly complain that kids don't want to work are just miserable with their lives and trying to find someone to blame. And they are the exact reason kids don't want to work. Nobody wants to be around that crap. There are always going to be kids who do want to work, and kids who don't want to work. If you're an experienced worker, step up and be a leader. Be the motivation that gets kids interested in working.

[edwinmondragon]

I get it. I am an ag teacher and hear all the time about how kids these days while I have a third of the school that signs up for skill competitions in the shop, the outdoors, and board rooms. Sounds like kids who are itching to get to work to me.

[DanTheMan]

I’m a millennial with a college degree and job searching in this job market climate has been a traumatic nightmare that really causes your self esteem to take a hit. I wouldn’t mind working a blue collar job but I have no blue collar experience

[riscongo]

Boomers think you can still work a factory or construction job and be well off. We bust our ass and barely make it. They could work at a restaurant and have a decent house with a family

[TheOwl-sv]

Who invented the weekend, 40h work week, overtime, unions etc.? Literally every generation before the Boomers stood up to the rich rulling class. Than the Boomers, the first generation that actually had it good, gave up the fight and let it all go to hell.
They're the odd ones out, not us.