Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall

An opinion brought to you by somebody who's never done a real day's work in her life.

I am really fucking tired of soundbite politics, of people saying a thing to rally their voters without any nuance at all. I know why it happens and I know that it's always happened, but I wish it wouldn't.

Of course young people find a day's work stressful. Entry level jobs are almost always shit. You go from the easy(ish) life of full time education, into a world where adults belittle you while giving you tasks that they don't want to do. For this you're paid a minimum wage that's impossible to live on if you're under 21, and damn near impossible if you're over 21. You suddenly have to pay bills, and have to choose between having a social life and being functional.

While all of this is happening, you escape into social media where you see people your age apparently making bank just by fucking about online. So you spend your time daydreaming and resentful that you have to go to a place you don't want to be at an hour you're not used to.

And despite your efforts, condescending shitheads like Liz fucking Kendall are there to tell you that your feelings on the matter aren't valid.

So yeah, I'd say it's stressful.

Most age groups find a days work stressful.

Young people are just the first generation to be unashamed to admit it.

In part because we grew up with to many rancid arse holes like Liz Kendal expressing her toxic crap.

Millenials complained about it a lot, to the point where millennial is short hand for "lazy" for a lot of older generations.

Gen X made films mocking company culture and shitty work environments.

The youth today aren't the first to complain, they aren't the first to be called lazy, and they won't be the last. Fuck the older folks who call any of them lazy.

Many young people find toiling senselessly in a dystopian hellscape without hope nor future 'stressful', says I.

I don’t know the career of this particular woman but a politician ragging on the work ethic of anyone is hilarious.

What statistic is she basing this on, any or just her feelings? Just go work at a grocery store? Maybe she should ask these “managers” who’s she’s basing this opinion on what their turn around on employees is, what their wages and guaranteed hours are. The opinion of managers on the work ethic of anyone means less than shit to me having met at least one manager in my life and having worked retail/hospo before.

Pretty easy to advocate for “young” people to go work shitkicker jobs in retail and hospo when you sit at a desk in air con all day for a living. I know if I lost my current career I sure as fuck won’t go back.

Now come on you can't you say that she's clearly gone through the same working experience as the young people she's talking about . Like our recent tory candidate she prob had to do her work experience in Westminster, intern at Westminster, junior at Westminster,
- Exactly, I know the type because I’m related to similar. Looks down on such work, would never do such work but everyone else is lazy because they won’t do it. Classic.

I'm not young and yeah, working 8 hours (or more) straight is not fun. Boring tasks, incompetent (and arrogant) people to deal with, never ending stuff piled on you.

Gen z is more than right to not put up with the stuff that a lot of people has gone through

I'm over 30 and I still find work stressful every day

I’m 38 and it wasn’t always like this.

There’s a woman in our office who has been promoted and seems desperate to make people who are under hers life hell. Fortunately I’m nothing to do with her but I still get a fair few snide comments.

What’s with the agism? Old geezers like me find a day’s work incredibly stressful!

The problem with 'cracking down' on benefits is identical with the problem of 'cracking down' on immigration. These things are just not real problems and the people who think they are problems are flat wrong. You can't do anything about unreal problems, because the people who believe in the fake problems just don't believe in reality.

“Ban work before it kills you!”

So Liz Kendall thinks its odd that in a country where there are no jobs for life anymore, no real job security at all, zero-hour contracts and the bullshit of the 'gig economy' are rife, minimum wage is far below what the ever increasing cost of living can afford to pay for, where contracts (where they exist at all) can be redrawn at a moments notice to suit the whim of the employer and where the right to take strike action is pretty much gone has led to a stressed out, exhausted work-force? Or a reluctance to join it?

And then, couple that with the wait times now measured in years to access NHS mental health support and which largely constitutes being offered 4 hours of generic counseling and/or being told to download a fucking app she wonders whats going on and why so many people are so mentally unwell?

Meanwhile MP's get subsidised food, booze, accommodation costs and vote themselves a pay rise every time its raised in parliament.

You're taking the fucking piss Liz.

"no one wants to work anymore"

Equals:

The pay is not up to scratch.

"they had to understand that that was the world of work, that was just the nature of life and that isn’t stress or pressure”

Should we try to improve society? No! Life is pain! Get back in the bucket with the rest of the crabs where you belong!

Gen Z are lazy and don't want to work.

Millennials are lazy and don't want to work.

Gen X are lazy and don't want to work.

Boomers are lazy and don't want to work.

Only one of these groups were hippies and were work shy, as a generation. 🤷

Just off the headline;

Ya think?!