Or… Here’s a thought. Kids DO want to work, they just want their time valued; to be respected and have a liveable wage.

39 points

Yeah, young people would be great workers if they hadn’t already learned that if they’re treated like shit they can just walk away, which they’re glad to do, immediately- if they’re not paid/treated fairly. Rightly so.

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Alternate headline: Businesses fail to pay fair wages; young workers avoid

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Spent four years in college, went $60k in debt for it, and I still have to take fucking personality tests as part of the interview process for the one fucking interview I get for every 50+ jobs I apply to. Not to mention that entry level jobs are basically nonexistant and professional workplaces only care to get employees that already have experience from God knows where. So that leaves us starting out in our careers with the strategy of “fake it till you make it”, which creates further scrutiny during the interview processes. But no, apparently the problem is that people are too lazy. Fuck everything about the hiring process these days.

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Friends would get mad at me for how much I’d lie in interviews. Now, they see why I did. Interview questions like “why u wanna work here” or “where u see yourself in the next x years” dumbass shut up it’s a warehouse you pay me to pick things up and put them down. Now I work in places that pay more because I specialized in some areas but the idea is the same. Interviewers don’t even care if you do your job, they just care that everything is running smooth and their boss is happy by whatever metric they use to judge “smooth”. Learning that distinction saved me a lot of headache.

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I’ve been a software engineer for 30 years. The only thing that’s changed in this process is they no longer have to even have humans involved in the hiring process until after 98% of the applicants have been shit-canned.

It’s up to us to figure out their criteria, of course, and they will always lowball the pay.

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When your industry is “having trouble finding the right staff” you might want to rethink where the finger is pointing… spoiler it’s not the staff

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Introspection is a tough nut for many to swallow.

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If you refuse to hire an old guy, that is a lawsuit, and socially unacceptable to say or do. But this is OK? Even if I said I didn’t want to hire the 65 year old that is changing careers and learning a new field because I don’t want to spend time training them when they are on the cusp of retirement, that’s a lawsuit and socially unacceptable. But this is ok?

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And how is anybody going to prove it was age discrimination?

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Age discrimination against young people is legal. Youths are not a protected class. The only protected class based on age is people 40 and over, not young people, unless your state has different rules or you’re outside of Freedomland where actual worker protections exist.

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Exploiting young people is feature of the system.

People just don’t like saying it out loud.

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If young folk have a future how will we get them into warzones?

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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

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  • All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
  • Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
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