05-30-2019, 05:12 PM
(05-30-2019, 02:03 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(05-30-2019, 11:42 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:When did the job hopping trend start? the 00s? What caused them to also start the trend of firing people easily for things like "not being the right fit"? or some nonsense like that?(05-30-2019, 10:15 AM)David Horn Wrote:(05-30-2019, 09:35 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote: It seems like they get all of the bad. Is there any good side that extends to our lives, not the life of some hypothetical children in the future?
Civics tend to bear burdens in youth and collect their due in later life. That certainly beats the opposite, where a soft beginning leads to an unmanageable elderhood. Many Silents suffered when the market went south just as retirement loomed, though others where well protected by pensions. Boomers are less protected by pensions, and an economic crisis might leave a lot of us in poverty, just when recovery is impossible. We still have to see this play out.
FWIW, I think I'm in decent shape, regardless.
Also -- Civic youth rarely get the opportunity for flamboyant expressions of self (Liberace is the most flagrant exception), and they usually reach economic adulthood after they have saved the world and put more emphasis on quality than on display in such things as real estate, cars, etc.
Late-wave Boomers started a trend of job-jumping in which they took 'survival' jobs that they did for six months to a year while looking for something else. Long-term employment became a rarity, and most businesses abandoned pensions as a reward.
Late 1970s, with the rapid growth in cr@ppy jobs in retail (when the shopping malls were blooming) and fast food. People knew that those low-paying jobs were never good for anything more than paying commuter costs, buying some clothes, and putting a couple of years' experience on a resume for a career in white-collar work. Meanwhile, educated young adults avoided manufacturing jobs that still paid fairly well. Our sales clerks were too good for what they were paid, and talented people got steered away from the manufacturing sector so that there wasn't the supply of skilled workers in manufacturing. In the 1980s, the Reagan administration acquiesced with Big Business to weaken unions and thus drive down costs.
Big Business made few investments in the training of workers to advance on the job, and young workers knew it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.