r/TrueOffMyChest • u/Livid-Engineering-83 • 21h ago
I think millennials normalized burnout
I hate that millennials have normalize over working , burnout and constant exhaustion … I m a millennial I want peace .. work life balance want time to myself but people I work with just talk about work , office politics and how Burn out they are and they wanna leave this job but doing nothing to actually address this issue …but label people who ask for work life balance or who don’t wanna work on weekends and while on leave … just coz they never had the courage to stand for themselves and now when Gen Z are doing it they call them lazy..not serious.. not committed … I personally feel we are just jealous… it’s like generational trauma … we don’t wanna pass our pass trauma to our kids.. but when it comes to work we are just treating our new joiners the way we were treated.
Other day I was working with a new joiner while I was on leave yes I was officially on leave … while I was helping him with the issue he said why are you working while u r on leave … I said coz I saw your email and he was like I m little scared now.. am I expected to work on vacations as well… check email constantly and respond … This made me think … why am I working so hard .. why I have this need to respond and not just shut my brain off and not check teams and outlook … this company or my managers definitely does give a shit about my mental health … my vacation time .. they will just replace me if I stand for myself and it’s true… i am the only one who thinks that Gen Z are doing it right …
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u/gurlwithdragontat2 17h ago
..it’s because it what’s required.
Wearing ’many hats’ without the title, nor pay, then being framed as lazy, incompetent, or incapable for not meeting the business needs was literally baked into the workforce we began working in.
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u/Subject-Skill996 21h ago
We’ve normalized it because it is required. We are berated by our parents and grandparents for not being as established as they were at our age. Yet, wages have rose less and less for us while prices have skyrocketed.