Ohnooze
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You just wasted a bunch of time with that post. I said I missed the 80s and 90s because of the attitude of the employees today. This feeling of entitlement and over dramatic meltdown for something as simple as having to go into the office. I actually didn't get into the work force until the mid 90s but the general attitude of that time was work hard and do what you have to, to move up in the world. Today's attitude seems to be "you owe me".Oh man, you're really doing yourself no favours with that insane statement. If you were working in the 80s then you're probably a Boomer which means that YOU are of the worthless generation. YOU enjoyed things like powerful unions, wild Christmas office parties, a sturdy benefits package, vacation and sick days and a whole other slew of things that corporations ceased to offer their employees in the name of increasing their bottom lines (when they were already quite healthy to begin with).
When it comes to how employees are paid and treated, the conditions of the 80s and 90s would be considered a pipe-dream today. All you've done is show just how out-of-touch your generation is with modern reality. I miss the 90s too because employers were A LOT more generous with what people were paid than they are today. The only people who make meaningfully more money than they did back then are executives and their pay increases have been obscene when compared to the lack of pay increases for everyone below them.
Here's how productive people like you were back in the 80s compared with today and you can also see what the wage increase over the same time period was.
Today's generation is owed a lot more than just working from home. Compared to today, your generation in the 80s and 90s looks pathetic from a productivity standpoint and like a bunch of thieves from a pay standpoint. People today are more than twice as productive as your lazy generation was but isn't really paid any more than you were. Your hypocrisy is so blatantly obvious that I'm literally shocked that you were brave enough to post such crap. You're either as ignorant as a pig farmer or you have your own agenda to push. Either way, you've just been exposed.
As far as your chart goes that says absolutely nothing about the productivity or work habits of individuals. We are far more efficient today than we were due to technology. For example in my business (engineering) we no long have to do calculations by hand....we have computer programs to model it all out and spit out numbers. Also we no long draw construction drawings by hand but had CAD and 3d programs that have made things far easier and faster. You're delusional if you really think your generation is more productive due to work habits. It's simply not the lest bit true...I see it every day. We literally fired a guy a few months back because he decided he would come in the office only when he wanted to. Then we fired him he told us how "his generation wasn't going to put up with this ****". This new generation is full entitled and lazy people who don't want to work. Not everyone is that way obviously but it's a growing trend for sure.
EDIT: I have been exposed? Really...? lol