I work in a high school as an aid to students with disabilities and exceptionalities. Today was a midterm day so when the kiddos I was proctoring left, I went to go help out the regular aids that watch the halls and the cafeteria. Two aids, women in their late 70s, stated they skipped their lunch to help monitor the students. I suggested that they ask our boss if they could leave early by the amount of time they had for lunch or just ask to be paid for their lunch.
Their response was to ask “where I got the nerve” to assume workers deserve compensation, and that “all you millennials will run the world to shit with all your entitlement! If you choose to work through your lunch or you are asked to work more you work and you don’t complain!”
I told them off and told them I disagree whole heartedly but now I’m just mad and angry so many in the much older generations in pretty much every job field expects the average worker to be superman and never complain. There is a reason the US is doomed and it is because boomers are pushing every other generation to burnout or suicide.
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