Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" reached number one on the Billboards in 1981, 42 years ago. Don't let anyone tell you previous generations didn't complain about work. And at least back then you made enough to buy a house.
and then she released another version of the song to advertise one of those shitty fiverr type sites and called it 5 to 9 shit has just gotten worse we should all kill ourselves or smn
Person: * complains about job * Worker drone: wow, you think ur 90 minute commute is bad? I travelled 4 hours on horseback to work graveyard shift at the blowjob factory. I work 90hrs a day for 3 corn kernals an hour and you don't hear me complaining😡
@@Taylor-gb5gfi meaaaaan it's literally a distinctively entirely different thing. It's called commute not work travel. Where you live, what you do for work, and how long you take to travel are all entirely unrelated.
I'm with the 9 to 5 girl. People dunk on her because it's like "welcome to being an adult sweety" but that's just because we're used to the bullshit. Modern work culture takes way too much time away from our lives
Not everyone is built for the 9 to 5 and some people are more domestically inclined in their thinking and planning but nowadays a single income home is a pipe dream regardless.
My 8-5 didn't really bother me until I got a taste of that beautiful work from home life during covid. Now it's fucking miserable going to the office everyday.
That work from home but was honestly true. Working from home eliminating thatt was sweet. Made traffic better for those that had to be on the road . It was incredible
Same. My current job is hybrid and I'm like "wtf, I can dodge commute entirely and still have a job?" The extra hours in a week is insane. I work as a software dev and it sounds like things are slowly becoming more office based and if I want to continue WFH most days, I won't be getting an insane income, but I don't care. This shit rocks. Our dev team is slowly pushing the bounds of how often we can stay home without the business getting upset. Each few months, less and less people I see coming into the office. Some weeks none of us go in. The only time anything has ever been said about attendance was back when we had an intern working from home too much and the CEO didn't like seeing his chair empty.
"100 years ago grampa worked 100 hour weeks in the abestos mine"- Yeah and they beat their bosses to death in front their families until the conditions got better
No they fucking didn't lol, automation and technology just made jobs easier, plus we started outsourcing all the horrible jobs to third world countries.
I forget where I saw that a study found that every extra minute on a commute over 30 is correlated with 1% more job dissatisfaction. So it does sound extremely reasonable that a 90 minute commute would make you feel like shit
@@blindeyedblightmain3565did 3 months, and had a great chance to quit when i had to fight for inheritance. i aint spending 2 hours on a shitty train that would go under maintenance ever god damn week in exactly my work schedules, i hate to bother my dad to send me to work because we cant afford the fuel cost.
I think the 9 to 5 girl just simply recorded her version of the realization that everyone who has a 9 to 5 has had, where you just give up and go "Guess this is my life now so I dont starve to death"
Yeah. She's saying what everyone is thinking when they're that age and start their career, but saying it out loud is taboo. Probably because it reminds people they're in the same boat and they feel uncomfortable about it too. Sort of like how some people live unhealthily and someone mentions how they're trying to diet and exercise and they get uncomfortable because it reminds them they should be doing that too.
@@NicholasW943 Saying it out loud is taboo because society is ruled by the mega wealthy. And the mega wealthy are mega wealthy because they abuse and exploit people like her. It's a disgusting system.
@@NicholasW943it's because of this ridiculous idea of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" the idea that hard work is the only thing you need to be successful is the lie in the American dream
The thing that people forget is that the 40 hour work week is that it was invented when often only one person per household worked. It was only worked by the man, and he had a wife who would cook and take care of the house for him. Now, both people in a relationship have to work and therefore have half the time and energy to take care of chores, and way less time for hobbies and enjoying life. And of course that's assuming you have a partner to help you, a lot less people are getting married now and are having to shoulder it all by themselves. Not to mention we are doing this for smaller wages than ever. The 9-5 girl is right.
I hate the invention of 36-41 hour weeks. It's this fucking thing where one person who has no private life goes "BOY I SURE LOVE WORKING ALL DAY!" and employers starting adapting their work environment around this single lunatic. It's the same shit that happened in school where the teacher would go "You guys, the math test was absolutely doable! Look at Franklin, consecutive regional mathematics champion, who scored yet another A+ on his test AND wrote me a poem when he was bored from waiting for all of you!". If someone wants to be the dunce that throws away their life, let them - but let other people who apply for your job choose hours from 35 downwards man. Not this "Full-time job applications only!" shit we have these days.
And in a lot of cases the woman still does the majority of the house work in a relationship, while having a full time job. Add to that the time it needs to raise a child and it's almost impossible to balance everything without help
I think people need to appreciate that people didn't stop working 14 hours a day, 6 days a week by "sucking it up and dealing with it". The few rights you currently have at work are due to people being so fed up with their conditions at work that they unionized and directly fought for the wellbeing of them and their family. If you crap on someone for disliking the current system, you're not being grateful for how "good" we now have it, you're insulting the people who got us to this point.
Hey remember when those rail workers were on strike and the whole industry + the government said "hey no, we need that work done right now so urgently it would be hugely disruptive if you were on strike right now" and instead of saying "yes, that is the point of a strike. Give us better working conditions because we are vital to the ENTIRE COUNTRY FUNCTIONING and our jobs fucking suck, or the country will lose its vitals" they instead said "Yes dear" and ended the strike got in line for the penis flattener then most of them just got fired in retaliation which is illegal but nobody was punished for that? Because that's pretty indicative of the entire "suck it up and deal with it" mindset in a nutshell tbh
@@Terrible_nameYes and it seems we arent fedup enougb either yet. We all live with SO MUCH less luxury then the people rich and in power. So if we all stand together and strike they will freak the fuck out and give us what we wan. They stand on our backs we just gotta let them fall to ger what we want. One day we will be fed up enough for it all
I mean she's not wrong either. It's extremely tough to have the energy to do anything after work. It's not a joke. I watched it happen to my brother and it happened to me. Actually doing stuff after work, you have to put in serious effort to get over the after work slog and push yourself to be productive.
@@Terrible_nameI think it’s because they knew the people wouldn’t support them, and they’d get screwed. Also, you can’t strike against todays government
@@MINIMAN10000 I find I have to leave from work directly to whatever I have to do next. I have singing classes on friday which happens to be right in the middle of my usual commuting path from work to home, so I can just drop from the bus without too much energy spent However, If I place a foot in my home, I have zero energy to do anything else.
Idk if you can call empathy normal these days. People love to get mad and see themselves as superior. Always have, but social media definitely made it worse.
Going to work in the dark feeling like shit because you didn't get a good night's rest, going to home feeling like shit because you've been overworked and squeezed empty like a Caprisun. And then you go on social media and some terminally online 'worker' (hint: they probably work in IT and have a really amazing job that pays well and doesn't inconvenience them at all because they work 1 of the 8 hours only) belittles you.
this is genuinely why im considering moving out of norway. for half of the year im getting my soul crushed seeing the sun set 0-4 hours before im off work
@@sayantanmazumdar3lol it’s such a silly take too, because it’s not like he can say “and look at me, I turned out fine.” No you didn’t man, you’re a miserable piece of shit that is hated by most people who know you 😂
Its truly sad how many people broken by capitalism are shitting on the 9-5 girl who is merely saying everything we are all feeling, if in a slightly annoying way. Its like getting mad at the guest that visits your dogshit filled house for saying "Damn, smells like dogshit in here, did something die?" just because you dont smell it anymore.
really just says that some people will agree or disagree with you solely on how you deliver your opinion or even just how you appear. you could even be saying something they'd agree with normally but if they don't like you or how you say it they'll disagree. very stupid.
@@GratefulNPC Any "non-capitalistic" countries you might be thinking of are most likely capitalism but run by the authoritarian government, so I can see where you're coming from.
my father was actually the one that told me about the 9-5 girl, and he said similar things about "welcome to the real world" all i could think about was how much of his complaining that i listened to throughout childhood, if he had access to tiktok....
It's self-destructive bullshit if you really think about it. There's the mega wealthy that sits around and exploits their workers, the old worker that's worn out and the young worker that's complaining about being worn out - and who does the old worker complain about? The fucking young worker. Not their boss. Not the fact they've been worn out this bad. Imagine how absolutely fucked up it would be for a sexual assault victim to put themselves underneath an SA post going "LOL WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD SALLY, IT AIN'T ALL SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS!!". That is literally what's happening to 9-5 girl.
man i had the impulse to go "40 minutes??? mine is 90!!!!" but 40 minutes is also brutal and it sucks waking up early just to do the same damn job you coulda been doing in your pajamas, hope you adjust to it okay or maybe even get something better soon
@@neen4456that's always the impulse. You have it hard? Well I have it harder!!! Kind of sad, that even if we don't want it, it still comes out occasionally.
Living a healthy balanced life with good habits? What a disgustingly selfish and unreasonable request! Won't somebody please think of the profit margins!!
I know there is always someone who has it worse, but my first fulltime job out of university needed me to wake up at like 6:30 to get there by 8, and then clock out was completely up to management if it would be a 10 or 12 hour day which we didn't know until we were told to go home. Leaving before sunrise and getting home after sunset for a barely above minimum wage job is tough for ones mental health.
I'm generally against "X doesn't like Y so Y is probably a good guy" thing but Matt Walsh being the X might be the exception. It's like he was designed in a lab to be the most psychotic conservative pundit that isn't outright a Nazi possible.
idk how people were so rude to the 9-5 girl, sure by age 30 you're probably used to working 40 hours a week, but when you're that young and you realize this is your reality for the next like... 30-40 years of your life that shit hits hard. Not even mentioning how fucking awful inflation is these days, so you work 40 hours and for some people they can barely even afford rent still, at least all the boomer 35-60 year olds could buy a house by like age 25.
@@xravenx24fe weird that you think the problem is an attitude and not the material conditions literally laid out by the commenter that people have to grind harder for worse living conditions. rolling over like a dog in the face of societal problems is nothing to be proud of and it certainly isn't what brought about child labor laws and weekends.
@krustykringle The most dirt poor classes in the USA have horrible spending habits. Literally everyone has a smart phone, crack heads get food stamps, this isn't rural China, this isn't the savannah in Africa, this is America, and no matter what someone says they're entitled to, they're always barely struggling while they're complaining. Omg everyone's poor but everyone that actually says they live off Ramen is a liar, go hang out with people. Everyone eats out multiple times a week, no one cooks. Everyone replaces their clothes every year. Never tell me people are poor when most people can't even accumulate generational wealth in the most powerful economy in human existence because they're too greedy to save it for their family. The USA has problems but everyone just follows the programming, they live a high spending lifestyle and put in zero effort towards reducing their quality of life.
Tbh I’d love to see a reform where people would only need to work 4 days in a week so they can live normal lives. But highly doubt that’ll ever happen.
i feel like this is the smallest and most realistic possible ask. living for the weekend is some of the most miserable shit i've experienced. one extra day would make a crazy difference
the UK was running tests of this and all of them said it'd be beneficial... And the Tories decided to scrap it because it's bad for taxpayers apparently 🙃
@@Hsel-lc1wt Classic Tories move. Or just conservatism move. Social program works, defund said program, program no longer has funding to be as effective, say it doesn’t work, defund program more until it no longer exists.
9-5 is great on paper, I'm fine with giving a third of my day to keep a roof over my head, but commuting fucking sucks (in America at least) and it absolutely annihilates my motivation to do anything more than basic survival and my coping mechanisms. As far as I can tell, she wasn't even complaining about the work, just the time that commuting takes out of her day
I don't think 9-5 specifically is great, but the hours themselves aren't terrible. Not having to commute at all has been an absolute game changer for me and being able to do 8-4 instead of 9-5. My buddy is the same but does 7-3 and he likes it even more.
One of the worst jobs i worked was a 8:15 to 5. I didn't have a car and my city had terrible public transportation. I'd have to catch a 6:30 bus to get there in time and i had to wait downwind from a glass recycling facility that had the weirdest stank on my way home.
I like the argument "im not going to take time to make the algorithm better at making me spend more time on this website, it can figure it out for its damn self"
Man so before even getting into the video I had to look up what this was all about and it's just depressing. A 21-year old girl with a heart condition died hours after ingesting the "lemonade", because she wasnt aware of the caffeine. That's a fucking child, just sniped out of life by the most random shit imaginable, I cannot put these feelings into words. I'm just heartbroken for her and her family. Also, the article I read went more into detail on the contents. For context, I am european (disregard the username) and I am just genuinely shocked at what is allowed and seen as normal in the US apparently. The lemonade is round about 500ml (20 oz) and contains 390 mg of caffeine. That's, according to the article, as much as 6 espressos. It's 2,5 cans of monster energy drink here in germany, 5 bottles of club mate (a popular refreshment / energy ice tea). That's fucking INSANE to me. Who is this for?? I guess my point is that not only did the poor girl not know about the caffeine, she didnt stand a fucking CHANCE because she unknowingly chugged down the equivalent of 2,5 monster cans. I'm just... lost dude. This is insane. E: Also can we take a moment to take in the responses the "9-5 girl" got? Like holy shit. She's in genuine distress over being monetarily trapped in a loop of exhaustion and no free time and all these people can do is pile on?? Matt fucking Walsh of all people is in there??? This video fucked me up in more ways than one bro god damn I did not expect such an emotional rollercoaster from my comfort streamer 😂😭
The lemonade was getting a lot of attention here in the US even before the girl died because yeah, it is ridiculous. It may be normalized to chugg a monster energy but everyone knows that lemonade is fucked
We have relatively low regulation on how much caffeine can be in one beverage and if it needs to be labeled. 400 mg is a lot but not unheard of on the high end of energy drinks. And when you have those in the market it's easy to get tolerated to it and need more to wake up. At one point I was having like 800 mg to wake up.
Yeah, and while there are variances, the inception of the 40 hour work week, generally: - Included breaks/lunch, nowadays thats usually stapled on as an extra hour/half hour (that you can't really utilize as personal time because you can't do most things within that window (IE grocery shop and drive to your house and back), already making it 9-5:30 or 9-6 etc - Typically would apply to one member of the household, while the other would handle some of the life duties - Commuting was also generally less aggressive. A byproduct of the housing market doing whatever you call its last decade (or more) of insanity has pushed most affordability out of any major urban centre. Even with all that, none of this is new. My Grandfather was complaining about his commute (about 40 minutes worth) before I was born lol. Work-at-home kind of helps (if available), but at the cost of having a company offload a bunch of its utility and day to day maintenance costs and responsibilities onto you.
4:20 lol WHAT millennials literally invented the word adulting precisely for that purpose. Every generation ever has had an emotional reaction to becoming an adult and learning that you have to be 100% responsible for supporting yourself. It fcking SUCKS
i worked 10 to 10 in a restaurant and its honestly so much better because you only work 3 days first week and 4 days 2nd week for just over 40 hours average per week. The sheer amount of uninterrupted free time is amazing. It's not like i can really do anything with the 1-2 hours of free time after a 9 to 5 job anyways so working 12 hour shifts with only sleep in-between is pretty good. Less work days also means less commute.
That actually sounds pretty good, I envy you! Back when I worked as a waiter at a restaurant, I did 9am to 3-4pm then went back at 7pm to midnight. 6 days a week. Also, the restaurant partecipated to a couple of local events and in those occasion I'd work from 9am to 3am, with maybe a lunch break. It was fucking brutal. They also paid me shit and the owners were insufferable. So yeah, I wouldn't recommend.
my teachers used to steal from me if i brought anything to school that looked like a thing that the school also had, 100% the teachers just took the legos from the kid and just threw it in the pile and just feigned ignorance, i refuse to believe a child proud enough to bring that shit to school would lose it and i refuse to believe she would have no idea where it went
@@deetvleet by definition yeah that's stealing, they didnt do it to save money they just assumed i was a thief and a liar then did the exact thing they accused me of, then their ego wont allow them to admit their mistake even if i brought my mum to school to get my shit
@@hisokalperv1096 bring it up at the start of every class period. Raise your hand. Make them annoyed. You have the truth on your side. What are they going to do? Punish you? They are not right. So any punishment for speaking up and demanding justice and the truth will not be punished. They are simply attacking you at that point. Record everything. Make a paper trail. They will get your legos back or they will expell you. Make them show how cruel and evil they really are by being persistent and truthful.
The longest job ive had was a 10-5 warehouse / retail job with a literal 5 minute commute That gave me a solid 4/5 hours free time every day, and doing that genuinely made me question how anyone with a 9-5 with a lengthy commute couldnt be depressed, constantly tired, and have barely any time for the things they enjoy in life
I remember seein my dad and mom stress about a 9-5 growin up. Now she’s a nurse and she has even more hours and it hurts her legs. Yea some jobs suck and everyone complains about the ones they hate.
9-5 is hell. I am lucky enough to crank out 30 hours in a weekend as a bartender so I can be left alone during weekdays. Pay isn't great but it isn't bad either.
Immediately came to the comments to defend 9-5 girl while watching the video, only to see everyone on the right side here, and NL too. This community rules.
Initially I was thinking "Boohoo, everybody deals with it" And then I actually watched the video and started thinking about what her life is like and felt real sad for her. There's so much shit people that are accustomed to those work hours have in their lives that makes shit easier to cope with, that they just don't consider for someone fresh out of college.
What gets me is this kid had such a blessed life that only after graduating did she work a full-time job. I would feel so guilty if I spent 22 blissful years just relishing life. To then realize my parents were working for my sake for at least as long. Then going and posting an emotional clip about how hard my own life is.
@@TheRestedOne I would much rather have a kid that was able to coast than one who gets sucked into the same hellish grind as everyone else, and definitely would feel like I failed if they not only fell into the latter but then came to post "yeah, but too bad because life sucks for everyone" in response to someone pointing out how shitty this system is. The goal is for conditions to improve with each passing generation, not to have everyone suffer the exact same amount each time. Who cares if she had an easy childhood? That's a good thing, we should want more people to have easier childhoods. And easier adulthoods if we can help it, good things are good actually. It's not like she's asking for special treatment now either, the point is that this kind of schedule is brutally unfair (and inefficient, I'm pretty sure studies have indicated that shorter work weeks are consistently more productive) to everyone trapped in it. We should all be treated better, not just her.
@@TheRestedOne As somebody who worked 30 hours a week on top of college classes for 3 years of college I can still sympathize with her because the college atmosphere facilitates friendships and other relationships that a full time corporate job doesn't. She could very easily have had a part-time job during college as well, it's a massive assumption to insinuate she coasted through life for 22 years. When you work 40 hours a week with a 90 minute commute to work every day you quite literally don't have time to create or maintain relationships outside of the weekends.
ngl I couldn't do my 8-4:30 job if I lived far, I get what she means. like 40 hrs isnt the problem, its if you have to add 3 hours per day on commute that drains you bad. I live like a block away from my job so I'm lucky
Originally I didn't watch the video of 9-5 girl so I assumed she was just whining about something silly and people were dog piling her because she didn't have it that bad. When I found out she was complaining about the same shit literally all the rest of us have been but some of us felt the need to put her down for complaining JUST LIKE THEY WERE is insane to me. As you get older and work more you get used to all of the time and energy it take but it sucks ass, and it certainly doesn't help when you have older peers who can't help but talk shit when there are genuine issues that really should be changed. I'm just saying I saw some of my friends trying to give her grief in comments, so you know the next time they whine about work I'm gonna give em hell cause they're way more grown than her and should know better.
It's insane how workers beat down on another worker for not wanting to put up with the abuse they experienced themselves. Like "Nu uh honey I cried into my toilet while puking because of how much I hated my life, you gotta experience it, too!". Fucking insane stuff.
When I was a kid my absolutely sewed nametags on my clothes for this explicit reason. She was however also a kindergarten teacher herself, but I wasnt the only one with name tags. There are also baskets with name tags on them above every kids place in the "wardrobe\hallway".
Ngl last 5 years have really negatively polarized me against Venture Capitalists... those guys need to SHUT UP. Like I don't think there's an imminent class war or whatever, but i stg those guys will cause one by just being annoying
all the people need to start to get a chance to live as humans is for wednesday to be an offday work two days, rest a day, work two days, rest two days (dont hit me with i work on satur-sunday all i can do for you is feel pity)
I worked 80 hour weeks when I was young, which has no bearing on the fact that a 35 hr week can be soul destroying. The ideal work week is 4 10's because even a 5 hr work day is a total wash.
I feel like every generation tried to make the life of the next generation a little better, and then at some point about 20/30 years ago people just gave up and decided it was easier to just just deal with it than to actually bother making a change
The hate doesn't really make sense, everything she said was pretty much accurate and valid statements a large majority of people agree with. (her commute btw is 4 hours a day an it's been proven long commutes make you more irritable, hate your job, and become socially distant). 9-5 only started because work hours were longer than that in the early 1900s and basically slave labor. A union formed wanting 8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours recreation. There is no reason 100+ years later we are still using the same system that clearly doesn't work in modern times. Just because something has been done one way doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. And those who say "well I did it so you can too" are the people who refuse change because it will give someone else an easier time than they had it. It's a vicious cycle of pointlessness.
@@kinsmart7294 Why do you guys say dumb shit like this? Do you think it's that easy? "Just find another job in the exact location you need it to be"? Wow, so true!
@@jamesmccomb9525 Commute and a gas stipend. If I'm spending time and money on gas to go to the office to do shit I could be doing at home, why am I not compensated for it?
@@jerrodshack7610 What else you gonna do? Tear down capitalism? That's fine and dandy but won't happen in the immediate future and you gotta eat until them. Searching for another job is the best bet
When I worked in a factory, I'd get home exhausted and in pain, eat and fall asleep, and repeat. Life sucked. I work remote in tech now and my quality of life is so much higher
Adults tried to scare us about college for my entire high school career. My first semester of college i scheduled all my classes Monday-Thursday so I would have Fridays off and I still spent far less time at school Mon-Thurs than I did in high school AND I didn't far less time on homework. I immediately recognized that the next four years would be the easiest years of my life. One semester I decided to force myself to work at least 40 hours per week split between class time, homework, and my job. I was always way ahead of my class work and never even saw the letter B the whole semester. College is literally easy mode.
Haha, well it could also be you are incredibly smart. I struggled some in college especially with math, I mean I had to get a tutor, went to extra after college class sessions with the teacher, and even went to an entirely other campus the teacher taught at. (Same school just another location.) Haha for some it really is a bit on how smart you are, others have to struggle to get a single thing. Then when you get out of college, its like none of what you learned really mattered, jobs are not like college at all. Though I only went for two years to get an associates degree. College just feels like a scam at this point to me. I’ve seen some people in school that seemed to just ease through everything. Really sucks haha to seemingly have to put in twice the effort as some people to get like half the result. I still dont know how I passed Chemistry, I didnt understand jack about it. Practically had to guess on the tests, just got lucky. Like the weird chemistry hexagon things, mixing and matching them on paper, went way over my head.
Bro I studied my ass off in college, taking classes in everything from philosophy (my major) to Greek, to molecular biology and discrete math. Then I went to a top grad school and got an M.A. in a year. Higher ed can be absolutely grueling if you push yourself to take difficult courses at a challenging school. On the flip side, I have an amazing WFH job that pays well and doesn't require much effort, so I get to raise my children, lift weights, cook and spend quality time with my wife. So the sacrifice definitely seems worth it in retrospect. Obviously, hard work in college doesn't guarantee easy work after, but my hunch is that people who coast for four years generally wind up with horrible, soul-draining jobs.
9 to 5 girl learned her life was over and is upset and old people who already abandoned their life already make fun of her for wanting to live her life and enjoy it.
I'm almost a year into my 9(truly 8)-5 and all my friends from college have been saying the same thing. Yes, I'm fortunate that I'm not deep in the coal mines or a textile mill but it's mentally messing with me. I give props to my parents and anyone that age that's worked 30-40+ years straight at 9-5s because I feel my soul being sucked out of me every day I have to start the commute. It's such a basic complaint but I just wish that most of your "healthy" years weren't trapped inside an office where you barely see the sun. I know people say that you can find something else that isn't sedentary but man I wish that life didn't revolve around working for a majority of the time when you are at your healthiest. I don't want to wait around until I'm retirement age (which isn't a guarantee that people get there) to finally relax.
The people hating on her are saying "yeah, life sucks, welcome to adulthood", which shows they agree with her, but their point is "shut up and stop complaining", which isn't a solution to anything. Are you really happy that you take pride in having a shitty work-life balance? Does it make you feel good about yourself that your life sucks? It makes no sense. It's almost Stockholm syndrome.
I would love the option to work less and live poorer. To have more time but less resources. And it seems to me like it should very much be possible if the housing market was regulated better. But now, it costs about 60% of a basic income to to just pay average rent. I don't want overseas holidays, I dont want to eat at restaurants or go to bars, I dont want new clothes, I dont drink coffee, smoke/vape, i have a crappy PC that fulfils my needs. I can live as cheaply as possible and still have to work at least 80% of a basic job just to have a roof, which wasnt the case for a room like this 20 years ago.
Having to reckon with the fact that after college you’re just working 9-5, 5 days a week without breaks until you die (pretty much) Is really depressing
Girl you are right! The grind IS insane! We did the math, we don't have to work five days a week, 9-5, it's all because of corporate greed and you're right to feel this frustrated! We need to make art! Connect with friends! Breathe in the autumn air! Fucking live!
@zeroghost115 There are literal statistical studies that after 32+-2hours of work in a week the productivity level of an average employee declines. That math.
Everybody dunking on that girl has just been beaten down by the same system she's complaining about. Just because you've done it long enough to be numbed by it, doesn't make it any less soul crushing. You shouldn't be bragging about working 80 hour weeks, the work culture in the states is fucking horrific.
When I was a little guy, almost 20 years ago now; My Christian, hard working, blues enjoying mom really liked the song "Coming Undone" by Korn because of the stress in her life, mostly with her job.
yeah, working 9 to 5 sucks because everyone else also works 9 to 5. good luck getting important shit done during the week. i had to swap a weekend off for a weekday so i have time for errands.
Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" reached number one on the Billboards in 1981, 42 years ago.
Don't let anyone tell you previous generations didn't complain about work. And at least back then you made enough to buy a house.
and then she released another version of the song to advertise one of those shitty fiverr type sites and called it 5 to 9 shit has just gotten worse we should all kill ourselves or smn
Person: * complains about job *
Worker drone: wow, you think ur 90 minute commute is bad? I travelled 4 hours on horseback to work graveyard shift at the blowjob factory. I work 90hrs a day for 3 corn kernals an hour and you don't hear me complaining😡
She didnt even complain about her job, she complained about her commute 😂😂
@@pate7179 I meaannnnn, that is complaining about your job, if she tells her boss she's not commuting anymore she wouldn't have a job.
@@Taylor-gb5gf and there's still nothing wrong with complaining about your job. Working sucks and everyone knows it. Let people vent.
@@Taylor-gb5gfi meaaaaan it's literally a distinctively entirely different thing. It's called commute not work travel. Where you live, what you do for work, and how long you take to travel are all entirely unrelated.
@@christopherthompson5400 don't look up the definition of commute
I'm with the 9 to 5 girl. People dunk on her because it's like "welcome to being an adult sweety" but that's just because we're used to the bullshit. Modern work culture takes way too much time away from our lives
Go to Japan then complain lol. I honestly don't believe we have it bad in America at all
Not everyone is built for the 9 to 5 and some people are more domestically inclined in their thinking and planning but nowadays a single income home is a pipe dream regardless.
@@disregard7275 oh it's worse somewhere else? then i guess i feel fine now!
@@disregard7275 this is the mindset that prevents us from progressing
@@FrshChees91 Real gamers know its not about how bad you have it, as long as you can see yourself as above others
The librarian is slowly turning into NLs Jarvis lmao
Jimmy pull that up
Librarian show me that guys balls
"Jarvis, show me this man's balls"
the rogan-jamie archetype
Slowly?
My 8-5 didn't really bother me until I got a taste of that beautiful work from home life during covid. Now it's fucking miserable going to the office everyday.
Yup. And the sad thing is so many jobs that still could be WFH are having WFH ripped from us
That work from home but was honestly true. Working from home eliminating thatt was sweet. Made traffic better for those that had to be on the road . It was incredible
yeah it takes me like a week to get out of vacation mode, this isn't normal lol
Same. My current job is hybrid and I'm like "wtf, I can dodge commute entirely and still have a job?" The extra hours in a week is insane. I work as a software dev and it sounds like things are slowly becoming more office based and if I want to continue WFH most days, I won't be getting an insane income, but I don't care. This shit rocks.
Our dev team is slowly pushing the bounds of how often we can stay home without the business getting upset. Each few months, less and less people I see coming into the office. Some weeks none of us go in. The only time anything has ever been said about attendance was back when we had an intern working from home too much and the CEO didn't like seeing his chair empty.
I'm old enough to remember when "Librarian, pull that shit up" was a joke
NL having good takes on the 9-5 girl is giving me life.
well, he is lowkey pretty based
he's just a normal guy
People that make fun of her are already brainwashed to only work
S/o to NL for being normal it's such a niche
His body is a machine that turns cold brew and Coke Zero into +2’s and Peloton watts
35 year old washed up twitter users are really dunking on this chick like they didn't invent the word "adulting" when they were her age.
I didn't dunk on her and I still feel called the frick out
Living in a world where old fucks were twitter users and said things like "adulting" feels surreal
"100 years ago grampa worked 100 hour weeks in the abestos mine"- Yeah and they beat their bosses to death in front their families until the conditions got better
If this is the RETVRN to tradition people want, i'm on board
@@limerslimerI have notifications turned on for when Coal Wars 2.0 comes around.
Based
hype
No they fucking didn't lol, automation and technology just made jobs easier, plus we started outsourcing all the horrible jobs to third world countries.
I forget where I saw that a study found that every extra minute on a commute over 30 is correlated with 1% more job dissatisfaction. So it does sound extremely reasonable that a 90 minute commute would make you feel like shit
90 minute commune for a close to minimal pay job is fucking insane. Did that as my first job for half a year before quitting.
@@blindeyedblightmain3565did 3 months, and had a great chance to quit when i had to fight for inheritance.
i aint spending 2 hours on a shitty train that would go under maintenance ever god damn week in exactly my work schedules,
i hate to bother my dad to send me to work because we cant afford the fuel cost.
I think the 9 to 5 girl just simply recorded her version of the realization that everyone who has a 9 to 5 has had, where you just give up and go "Guess this is my life now so I dont starve to death"
Yeah. She's saying what everyone is thinking when they're that age and start their career, but saying it out loud is taboo. Probably because it reminds people they're in the same boat and they feel uncomfortable about it too. Sort of like how some people live unhealthily and someone mentions how they're trying to diet and exercise and they get uncomfortable because it reminds them they should be doing that too.
@@NicholasW943 Saying it out loud is taboo because society is ruled by the mega wealthy.
And the mega wealthy are mega wealthy because they abuse and exploit people like her. It's a disgusting system.
@@NicholasW943it's because of this ridiculous idea of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" the idea that hard work is the only thing you need to be successful is the lie in the American dream
The thing that people forget is that the 40 hour work week is that it was invented when often only one person per household worked. It was only worked by the man, and he had a wife who would cook and take care of the house for him. Now, both people in a relationship have to work and therefore have half the time and energy to take care of chores, and way less time for hobbies and enjoying life. And of course that's assuming you have a partner to help you, a lot less people are getting married now and are having to shoulder it all by themselves. Not to mention we are doing this for smaller wages than ever. The 9-5 girl is right.
40 hour week wasnt invented, it was fought for. we don't have to stop there
That is exactly it! Society is still very much organized around this concept, despite it just not being the reality of life anymore.
I hate the invention of 36-41 hour weeks.
It's this fucking thing where one person who has no private life goes "BOY I SURE LOVE WORKING ALL DAY!" and employers starting adapting their work environment around this single lunatic. It's the same shit that happened in school where the teacher would go "You guys, the math test was absolutely doable! Look at Franklin, consecutive regional mathematics champion, who scored yet another A+ on his test AND wrote me a poem when he was bored from waiting for all of you!".
If someone wants to be the dunce that throws away their life, let them - but let other people who apply for your job choose hours from 35 downwards man. Not this "Full-time job applications only!" shit we have these days.
And in a lot of cases the woman still does the majority of the house work in a relationship, while having a full time job. Add to that the time it needs to raise a child and it's almost impossible to balance everything without help
I think people need to appreciate that people didn't stop working 14 hours a day, 6 days a week by "sucking it up and dealing with it". The few rights you currently have at work are due to people being so fed up with their conditions at work that they unionized and directly fought for the wellbeing of them and their family. If you crap on someone for disliking the current system, you're not being grateful for how "good" we now have it, you're insulting the people who got us to this point.
Hey remember when those rail workers were on strike and the whole industry + the government said "hey no, we need that work done right now so urgently it would be hugely disruptive if you were on strike right now" and instead of saying
"yes, that is the point of a strike. Give us better working conditions because we are vital to the ENTIRE COUNTRY FUNCTIONING and our jobs fucking suck, or the country will lose its vitals"
they instead said "Yes dear" and ended the strike got in line for the penis flattener then most of them just got fired in retaliation which is illegal but nobody was punished for that?
Because that's pretty indicative of the entire "suck it up and deal with it" mindset in a nutshell tbh
@@Terrible_nameYes and it seems we arent fedup enougb either yet. We all live with SO MUCH less luxury then the people rich and in power. So if we all stand together and strike they will freak the fuck out and give us what we wan. They stand on our backs we just gotta let them fall to ger what we want.
One day we will be fed up enough for it all
I mean she's not wrong either. It's extremely tough to have the energy to do anything after work. It's not a joke. I watched it happen to my brother and it happened to me. Actually doing stuff after work, you have to put in serious effort to get over the after work slog and push yourself to be productive.
@@Terrible_nameI think it’s because they knew the people wouldn’t support them, and they’d get screwed. Also, you can’t strike against todays government
@@MINIMAN10000 I find I have to leave from work directly to whatever I have to do next. I have singing classes on friday which happens to be right in the middle of my usual commuting path from work to home, so I can just drop from the bus without too much energy spent
However, If I place a foot in my home, I have zero energy to do anything else.
9-5 girl is straight spitting. Shit is traumatic when you first jump into it
I just don’t understand how people have lives man
It's still traumatic, after 3 jobs of having to go there I'm still sick of that shit.
is every day needs to change
Wow, life is difficult, so profound
@@grit1Eat a shoe.
NL gets yet another W take just by being kinda normal about things
The abnormality of being normal always boggles my mind.
Idk if you can call empathy normal these days. People love to get mad and see themselves as superior. Always have, but social media definitely made it worse.
sane and compassionate
The fact that being normal is so based now is so pathetic. The internet was a mistake
@@B2Roland Human life was a mistake
Going to work in the dark and getting off when its dark again is genuinely soul destroying, man.
Going to work in the dark feeling like shit because you didn't get a good night's rest, going to home feeling like shit because you've been overworked and squeezed empty like a Caprisun.
And then you go on social media and some terminally online 'worker' (hint: they probably work in IT and have a really amazing job that pays well and doesn't inconvenience them at all because they work 1 of the 8 hours only) belittles you.
this is genuinely why im considering moving out of norway. for half of the year im getting my soul crushed seeing the sun set 0-4 hours before im off work
@@SmugLilBuggerI work in IT, can I have one of those one hour a day jobs because I am constantly drowning.
Matt Walsh posting the longest version of "well your parents had to walk to school in the snow uphill both ways" I have ever seen.
Every Matt Walsh commentary sounds exactly the same. " I didn't enjoy my youth, you shouldn't too".
@@sayantanmazumdar3lol it’s such a silly take too, because it’s not like he can say “and look at me, I turned out fine.”
No you didn’t man, you’re a miserable piece of shit that is hated by most people who know you 😂
@@sayantanmazumdar3 He really is just a miserable human being. lol
@@sayantanmazumdar3 Its mainly about trans people and how much he hates them but yeah
@@sayantanmazumdar3what about when he professes his love for minors?
Its truly sad how many people broken by capitalism are shitting on the 9-5 girl who is merely saying everything we are all feeling, if in a slightly annoying way. Its like getting mad at the guest that visits your dogshit filled house for saying "Damn, smells like dogshit in here, did something die?" just because you dont smell it anymore.
+2 LMAOO
Tbf a lot of the non capitalistic countries have worse working hours, so it's more broken by hardship of life or something, idk
really just says that some people will agree or disagree with you solely on how you deliver your opinion or even just how you appear. you could even be saying something they'd agree with normally but if they don't like you or how you say it they'll disagree. very stupid.
young women getting yelled at by bitter old dudes, more at 11
@@GratefulNPC Any "non-capitalistic" countries you might be thinking of are most likely capitalism but run by the authoritarian government, so I can see where you're coming from.
my father was actually the one that told me about the 9-5 girl, and he said similar things about "welcome to the real world"
all i could think about was how much of his complaining that i listened to throughout childhood, if he had access to tiktok....
It's self-destructive bullshit if you really think about it.
There's the mega wealthy that sits around and exploits their workers, the old worker that's worn out and the young worker that's complaining about being worn out - and who does the old worker complain about? The fucking young worker. Not their boss. Not the fact they've been worn out this bad.
Imagine how absolutely fucked up it would be for a sexual assault victim to put themselves underneath an SA post going "LOL WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD SALLY, IT AIN'T ALL SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS!!". That is literally what's happening to 9-5 girl.
Started a 8-5 job 2 weeks ago with a 40 minute commute each way. She is spitting frfr
man i had the impulse to go "40 minutes??? mine is 90!!!!" but 40 minutes is also brutal and it sucks waking up early just to do the same damn job you coulda been doing in your pajamas, hope you adjust to it okay or maybe even get something better soon
@@neen4456 40 is about the max I can handle any longer would wear me out after a week or 2
@@neen4456that's always the impulse. You have it hard? Well I have it harder!!!
Kind of sad, that even if we don't want it, it still comes out occasionally.
@@neen4456 90min commute is crazy man, that's 3 hours per day. On top of a standard 8 hour work day you lose 11 hours of your life to work alone.
@@neen4456thank you for having empathy, we need more of that
if you're against 9 to 5 girl you probably think landlords should get tips
nah but they are on their hands and knees all day every day slaving their day away just for you like come on that deserves at least $50 tip per trip 🙄
I know a guy who disagrees with 95girl. He also kisses his dad on the lips at bed time.
If you're against 9 to 5 girl you probably are a landlord
@@charlespanache7047 sanest incestuous boomer
30% of your income IS NOT ENOUGH
What an entitled lady. She want to ... cook her own meals, work out, and see friends.
Living a healthy balanced life with good habits? What a disgustingly selfish and unreasonable request! Won't somebody please think of the profit margins!!
I know there is always someone who has it worse, but my first fulltime job out of university needed me to wake up at like 6:30 to get there by 8, and then clock out was completely up to management if it would be a 10 or 12 hour day which we didn't know until we were told to go home. Leaving before sunrise and getting home after sunset for a barely above minimum wage job is tough for ones mental health.
As soon as I see Matt Walsh shitting on someone my respect for them immediately jumps 200% no matter who they are.
His first bullet point saying get married and be a stay at home mom is truly psychotic
@@atomknight8361 It's Matt Walsh. The man has not had a non-psychotic point in 10 years.
@@atomknight8361Be grateful he didn't find an excuse to repeat his stance on the age of consent or the fertility of teenagers.
I'm generally against "X doesn't like Y so Y is probably a good guy" thing but Matt Walsh being the X might be the exception. It's like he was designed in a lab to be the most psychotic conservative pundit that isn't outright a Nazi possible.
@@atomknight8361 yeah which makes soooooooo much sense considering she said she has no time for dating.
idk how people were so rude to the 9-5 girl, sure by age 30 you're probably used to working 40 hours a week, but when you're that young and you realize this is your reality for the next like... 30-40 years of your life that shit hits hard. Not even mentioning how fucking awful inflation is these days, so you work 40 hours and for some people they can barely even afford rent still, at least all the boomer 35-60 year olds could buy a house by like age 25.
Okay? So you guys are just us millennials, but with a worse attitude? Okay lol well have fun coping, we did ages ago, it's not so bad after a while
@@xravenx24fe weird that you think the problem is an attitude and not the material conditions literally laid out by the commenter that people have to grind harder for worse living conditions. rolling over like a dog in the face of societal problems is nothing to be proud of and it certainly isn't what brought about child labor laws and weekends.
@krustykringle The most dirt poor classes in the USA have horrible spending habits. Literally everyone has a smart phone, crack heads get food stamps, this isn't rural China, this isn't the savannah in Africa, this is America, and no matter what someone says they're entitled to, they're always barely struggling while they're complaining.
Omg everyone's poor but everyone that actually says they live off Ramen is a liar, go hang out with people. Everyone eats out multiple times a week, no one cooks. Everyone replaces their clothes every year. Never tell me people are poor when most people can't even accumulate generational wealth in the most powerful economy in human existence because they're too greedy to save it for their family. The USA has problems but everyone just follows the programming, they live a high spending lifestyle and put in zero effort towards reducing their quality of life.
Tbh I’d love to see a reform where people would only need to work 4 days in a week so they can live normal lives. But highly doubt that’ll ever happen.
i feel like this is the smallest and most realistic possible ask. living for the weekend is some of the most miserable shit i've experienced. one extra day would make a crazy difference
the UK was running tests of this and all of them said it'd be beneficial... And the Tories decided to scrap it because it's bad for taxpayers apparently 🙃
Had a temp job working 10 hour days 4 days a week wed-sat and it was so much better than the 5 day work week
@@Hsel-lc1wt
Classic Tories move. Or just conservatism move. Social program works, defund said program, program no longer has funding to be as effective, say it doesn’t work, defund program more until it no longer exists.
4 days of 8 hours or 5 days of 6 hours. And we could still easily produce everything we need.
9-5 is great on paper, I'm fine with giving a third of my day to keep a roof over my head, but commuting fucking sucks (in America at least) and it absolutely annihilates my motivation to do anything more than basic survival and my coping mechanisms.
As far as I can tell, she wasn't even complaining about the work, just the time that commuting takes out of her day
I don't think 9-5 specifically is great, but the hours themselves aren't terrible. Not having to commute at all has been an absolute game changer for me and being able to do 8-4 instead of 9-5. My buddy is the same but does 7-3 and he likes it even more.
3 days a week 12 hour shifts are where it's at imo
Showing us a Matt Walsh tweet is cruel and unusual punishment Librarian
For real though, that's intellectual terrorism. Braincells are known to terminate themselves in response to being reminded of his existence.
I'm so glad I'm seeing Matt Walsh hate in the comments! He's a total goon.
matt who? (dismissive)
me getting nauseous because I read a Matt Walsh tweet: I think I hauve covid
y'all are so weak willed it's insane
11:10 NL casually stating sleeper cell codephrases to cause any opps in the chat to mind melt on the spot because he was slandering Saturn
Instant +2
bro i bet librarian's google-fu goes hard with all this practice
"Librarian, show me this guy's balls and get me a coffee"
One must hope scathighs is doing okay. Northernlion harem FeelsStrongMan
He found a new harem I guess...
One must imagine scathighs happy
One of the worst jobs i worked was a 8:15 to 5. I didn't have a car and my city had terrible public transportation. I'd have to catch a 6:30 bus to get there in time and i had to wait downwind from a glass recycling facility that had the weirdest stank on my way home.
I can't believe this is how I find out Scathighs is gone. RIP to a real one.
Matt Walsh Jumpscare at 5:23
Thank you for the warning, I had time to mentally prepare myself thanks to you.
"If it was remote you would get off at 5pm" Yeah, I wish
I like the argument
"im not going to take time to make the algorithm better at making me spend more time on this website, it can figure it out for its damn self"
The middle finger edit scares me everytime. He pops those birds up at light apeed
Man so before even getting into the video I had to look up what this was all about and it's just depressing. A 21-year old girl with a heart condition died hours after ingesting the "lemonade", because she wasnt aware of the caffeine. That's a fucking child, just sniped out of life by the most random shit imaginable, I cannot put these feelings into words. I'm just heartbroken for her and her family.
Also, the article I read went more into detail on the contents. For context, I am european (disregard the username) and I am just genuinely shocked at what is allowed and seen as normal in the US apparently. The lemonade is round about 500ml (20 oz) and contains 390 mg of caffeine. That's, according to the article, as much as 6 espressos. It's 2,5 cans of monster energy drink here in germany, 5 bottles of club mate (a popular refreshment / energy ice tea). That's fucking INSANE to me. Who is this for??
I guess my point is that not only did the poor girl not know about the caffeine, she didnt stand a fucking CHANCE because she unknowingly chugged down the equivalent of 2,5 monster cans. I'm just... lost dude. This is insane.
E: Also can we take a moment to take in the responses the "9-5 girl" got? Like holy shit. She's in genuine distress over being monetarily trapped in a loop of exhaustion and no free time and all these people can do is pile on?? Matt fucking Walsh of all people is in there??? This video fucked me up in more ways than one bro god damn I did not expect such an emotional rollercoaster from my comfort streamer 😂😭
The lemonade was getting a lot of attention here in the US even before the girl died because yeah, it is ridiculous. It may be normalized to chugg a monster energy but everyone knows that lemonade is fucked
We have relatively low regulation on how much caffeine can be in one beverage and if it needs to be labeled. 400 mg is a lot but not unheard of on the high end of energy drinks. And when you have those in the market it's easy to get tolerated to it and need more to wake up. At one point I was having like 800 mg to wake up.
@@user-gg6xt4hy8e that's almost a whole gram dawg, god damn
Yeah, and while there are variances, the inception of the 40 hour work week, generally:
- Included breaks/lunch, nowadays thats usually stapled on as an extra hour/half hour (that you can't really utilize as personal time because you can't do most things within that window (IE grocery shop and drive to your house and back), already making it 9-5:30 or 9-6 etc
- Typically would apply to one member of the household, while the other would handle some of the life duties
- Commuting was also generally less aggressive. A byproduct of the housing market doing whatever you call its last decade (or more) of insanity has pushed most affordability out of any major urban centre.
Even with all that, none of this is new. My Grandfather was complaining about his commute (about 40 minutes worth) before I was born lol.
Work-at-home kind of helps (if available), but at the cost of having a company offload a bunch of its utility and day to day maintenance costs and responsibilities onto you.
4:20 lol WHAT millennials literally invented the word adulting precisely for that purpose. Every generation ever has had an emotional reaction to becoming an adult and learning that you have to be 100% responsible for supporting yourself. It fcking SUCKS
Doesn't help that it's not 9-5 anymore. It's 8-5 or 8:30-5 because lunch isn't paid and they need 8 hours out of you lol
i worked 10 to 10 in a restaurant and its honestly so much better because you only work 3 days first week and 4 days 2nd week for just over 40 hours average per week.
The sheer amount of uninterrupted free time is amazing. It's not like i can really do anything with the 1-2 hours of free time after a 9 to 5 job anyways so working 12 hour shifts with only sleep in-between is pretty good. Less work days also means less commute.
That actually sounds pretty good, I envy you!
Back when I worked as a waiter at a restaurant, I did 9am to 3-4pm then went back at 7pm to midnight. 6 days a week.
Also, the restaurant partecipated to a couple of local events and in those occasion I'd work from 9am to 3am, with maybe a lunch break. It was fucking brutal.
They also paid me shit and the owners were insufferable.
So yeah, I wouldn't recommend.
my teachers used to steal from me if i brought anything to school that looked like a thing that the school also had, 100% the teachers just took the legos from the kid and just threw it in the pile and just feigned ignorance, i refuse to believe a child proud enough to bring that shit to school would lose it and i refuse to believe she would have no idea where it went
you think your teachers were stealing from you?
@@deetvleet by definition yeah that's stealing, they didnt do it to save money they just assumed i was a thief and a liar then did the exact thing they accused me of, then their ego wont allow them to admit their mistake even if i brought my mum to school to get my shit
@@hisokalperv1096 bring it up at the start of every class period. Raise your hand. Make them annoyed. You have the truth on your side. What are they going to do? Punish you? They are not right. So any punishment for speaking up and demanding justice and the truth will not be punished. They are simply attacking you at that point. Record everything. Make a paper trail. They will get your legos back or they will expell you. Make them show how cruel and evil they really are by being persistent and truthful.
The longest job ive had was a 10-5 warehouse / retail job with a literal 5 minute commute
That gave me a solid 4/5 hours free time every day, and doing that genuinely made me question how anyone with a 9-5 with a lengthy commute couldnt be depressed, constantly tired, and have barely any time for the things they enjoy in life
I remember seein my dad and mom stress about a 9-5 growin up. Now she’s a nurse and she has even more hours and it hurts her legs. Yea some jobs suck and everyone complains about the ones they hate.
9-5 is hell. I am lucky enough to crank out 30 hours in a weekend as a bartender so I can be left alone during weekdays. Pay isn't great but it isn't bad either.
“Librarian post the link” “Librarian hook us up”
Bet you’re regretting that VIP now 😂
nah this is what i signed up for lmaoo
Immediately came to the comments to defend 9-5 girl while watching the video, only to see everyone on the right side here, and NL too. This community rules.
Initially I was thinking "Boohoo, everybody deals with it" And then I actually watched the video and started thinking about what her life is like and felt real sad for her. There's so much shit people that are accustomed to those work hours have in their lives that makes shit easier to cope with, that they just don't consider for someone fresh out of college.
What gets me is this kid had such a blessed life that only after graduating did she work a full-time job.
I would feel so guilty if I spent 22 blissful years just relishing life. To then realize my parents were working for my sake for at least as long. Then going and posting an emotional clip about how hard my own life is.
@@TheRestedOne I would much rather have a kid that was able to coast than one who gets sucked into the same hellish grind as everyone else, and definitely would feel like I failed if they not only fell into the latter but then came to post "yeah, but too bad because life sucks for everyone" in response to someone pointing out how shitty this system is. The goal is for conditions to improve with each passing generation, not to have everyone suffer the exact same amount each time.
Who cares if she had an easy childhood? That's a good thing, we should want more people to have easier childhoods. And easier adulthoods if we can help it, good things are good actually. It's not like she's asking for special treatment now either, the point is that this kind of schedule is brutally unfair (and inefficient, I'm pretty sure studies have indicated that shorter work weeks are consistently more productive) to everyone trapped in it. We should all be treated better, not just her.
@@TheRestedOne Dude, what are you even talking about?
@@TheRestedOne As somebody who worked 30 hours a week on top of college classes for 3 years of college I can still sympathize with her because the college atmosphere facilitates friendships and other relationships that a full time corporate job doesn't. She could very easily have had a part-time job during college as well, it's a massive assumption to insinuate she coasted through life for 22 years. When you work 40 hours a week with a 90 minute commute to work every day you quite literally don't have time to create or maintain relationships outside of the weekends.
I work 6am to 2:30pm with 30 minute commute. I avoid the horrible rush hour but I still hate working so many hours
ngl I couldn't do my 8-4:30 job if I lived far, I get what she means. like 40 hrs isnt the problem, its if you have to add 3 hours per day on commute that drains you bad. I live like a block away from my job so I'm lucky
Working my job is genuinely less stressful than going to class
Did you photoshop in his middle fingers at 16:09? I'm high right now and this is freaking me the fuck out
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
I saw the One Guy who said “generate a nude Tane” stay riding high solider.
*xqc on his 15th charged lemonade* DUD DUD THIS MANG MMMM MANGO CITRUS FLAVOR IS CRAAAAXY DUD
Originally I didn't watch the video of 9-5 girl so I assumed she was just whining about something silly and people were dog piling her because she didn't have it that bad. When I found out she was complaining about the same shit literally all the rest of us have been but some of us felt the need to put her down for complaining JUST LIKE THEY WERE is insane to me. As you get older and work more you get used to all of the time and energy it take but it sucks ass, and it certainly doesn't help when you have older peers who can't help but talk shit when there are genuine issues that really should be changed.
I'm just saying I saw some of my friends trying to give her grief in comments, so you know the next time they whine about work I'm gonna give em hell cause they're way more grown than her and should know better.
It's insane how workers beat down on another worker for not wanting to put up with the abuse they experienced themselves. Like "Nu uh honey I cried into my toilet while puking because of how much I hated my life, you gotta experience it, too!". Fucking insane stuff.
When I was a kid my absolutely sewed nametags on my clothes for this explicit reason. She was however also a kindergarten teacher herself, but I wasnt the only one with name tags. There are also baskets with name tags on them above every kids place in the "wardrobe\hallway".
Ngl last 5 years have really negatively polarized me against Venture Capitalists... those guys need to SHUT UP. Like I don't think there's an imminent class war or whatever, but i stg those guys will cause one by just being annoying
all the people need to start to get a chance to live as humans is for wednesday to be an offday
work two days, rest a day, work two days, rest two days
(dont hit me with i work on satur-sunday all i can do for you is feel pity)
NL should really play Moving Out
+2
I worked 80 hour weeks when I was young, which has no bearing on the fact that a 35 hr week can be soul destroying. The ideal work week is 4 10's because even a 5 hr work day is a total wash.
12:21 - that "Are you, like... an eternal? Are you a Celestial, or something?" fucking *killed* me for some reason 🤣
I feel like every generation tried to make the life of the next generation a little better, and then at some point about 20/30 years ago people just gave up and decided it was easier to just just deal with it than to actually bother making a change
The hate doesn't really make sense, everything she said was pretty much accurate and valid statements a large majority of people agree with. (her commute btw is 4 hours a day an it's been proven long commutes make you more irritable, hate your job, and become socially distant).
9-5 only started because work hours were longer than that in the early 1900s and basically slave labor. A union formed wanting 8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours recreation. There is no reason 100+ years later we are still using the same system that clearly doesn't work in modern times. Just because something has been done one way doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. And those who say "well I did it so you can too" are the people who refuse change because it will give someone else an easier time than they had it. It's a vicious cycle of pointlessness.
Time in commute should be paid full wages as part of the job. There would be no commute if there was no job.
@@jamesmccomb9525 Or, you know. You could get a job closer to home?
@@kinsmart7294 Why do you guys say dumb shit like this? Do you think it's that easy? "Just find another job in the exact location you need it to be"? Wow, so true!
@@jamesmccomb9525 Commute and a gas stipend. If I'm spending time and money on gas to go to the office to do shit I could be doing at home, why am I not compensated for it?
@@jerrodshack7610 What else you gonna do? Tear down capitalism?
That's fine and dandy but won't happen in the immediate future and you gotta eat until them.
Searching for another job is the best bet
When I worked in a factory, I'd get home exhausted and in pain, eat and fall asleep, and repeat. Life sucked.
I work remote in tech now and my quality of life is so much higher
I never got the 9-5 take. When we started taking internships in school, everybody raved about how awesome it was.
Here’s a quote from Ninjago, the number one way to defeat your enemy is to make them your friend.
this is such a banger vid
The music choices at the end are beautiful, thank you librarian
Hey i was the one that said I was dying about the tweet I stand by it lol sorry for making him go off for 10 minutes :)))
keep feeding the content machine
Adults tried to scare us about college for my entire high school career. My first semester of college i scheduled all my classes Monday-Thursday so I would have Fridays off and I still spent far less time at school Mon-Thurs than I did in high school AND I didn't far less time on homework. I immediately recognized that the next four years would be the easiest years of my life.
One semester I decided to force myself to work at least 40 hours per week split between class time, homework, and my job. I was always way ahead of my class work and never even saw the letter B the whole semester. College is literally easy mode.
Haha, well it could also be you are incredibly smart.
I struggled some in college especially with math, I mean I had to get a tutor, went to extra after college class sessions with the teacher, and even went to an entirely other campus the teacher taught at. (Same school just another location.)
Haha for some it really is a bit on how smart you are, others have to struggle to get a single thing. Then when you get out of college, its like none of what you learned really mattered, jobs are not like college at all.
Though I only went for two years to get an associates degree. College just feels like a scam at this point to me.
I’ve seen some people in school that seemed to just ease through everything. Really sucks haha to seemingly have to put in twice the effort as some people to get like half the result. I still dont know how I passed Chemistry, I didnt understand jack about it. Practically had to guess on the tests, just got lucky. Like the weird chemistry hexagon things, mixing and matching them on paper, went way over my head.
College is just an expansion of high-school. Only diference is that you choose what you want to learn
someone majored in business lmao
Bro I studied my ass off in college, taking classes in everything from philosophy (my major) to Greek, to molecular biology and discrete math. Then I went to a top grad school and got an M.A. in a year. Higher ed can be absolutely grueling if you push yourself to take difficult courses at a challenging school.
On the flip side, I have an amazing WFH job that pays well and doesn't require much effort, so I get to raise my children, lift weights, cook and spend quality time with my wife. So the sacrifice definitely seems worth it in retrospect.
Obviously, hard work in college doesn't guarantee easy work after, but my hunch is that people who coast for four years generally wind up with horrible, soul-draining jobs.
I was going to protest about work culture but then i realized that i was passing on a golden opportunity to act better than people
YOU MADE HIM DO THE MIDDLE FINGER LMAO I HAD TO SLOW IT DOWN
The work and shut up crowd needs to be honest that 9-5s are more like 6-8s
9 to 5 girl learned her life was over and is upset and old people who already abandoned their life already make fun of her for wanting to live her life and enjoy it.
16:10 Wait just a fucking minute. Are those middle fingers edited in?
he's not allowed to show obscene gestures live(its against twitch terms of service) so librarian edits in the fingers
@@deetvleet That was my assumption, but for a second I thought I was going insane.
Hilarious homie edit though.
I'm almost a year into my 9(truly 8)-5 and all my friends from college have been saying the same thing. Yes, I'm fortunate that I'm not deep in the coal mines or a textile mill but it's mentally messing with me. I give props to my parents and anyone that age that's worked 30-40+ years straight at 9-5s because I feel my soul being sucked out of me every day I have to start the commute. It's such a basic complaint but I just wish that most of your "healthy" years weren't trapped inside an office where you barely see the sun. I know people say that you can find something else that isn't sedentary but man I wish that life didn't revolve around working for a majority of the time when you are at your healthiest. I don't want to wait around until I'm retirement age (which isn't a guarantee that people get there) to finally relax.
Ive only worked 8 to 4 or 7 to 3 before. 9 to 5 sucks so much id hate to work that.
The people hating on her are saying "yeah, life sucks, welcome to adulthood", which shows they agree with her, but their point is "shut up and stop complaining", which isn't a solution to anything.
Are you really happy that you take pride in having a shitty work-life balance? Does it make you feel good about yourself that your life sucks? It makes no sense. It's almost Stockholm syndrome.
"100 years ago, grampa woke up on the farm at age 12"
librarian, the fingers at 16:11 are *cursed* . Thank you, loved them.
lol to the idea that Matt Walsh spends 13 hours a day at work in the Propaganda Mines
i'm always surprised to see smol ame on these clips
now you can see her in the comments
I love the "did you see this tweet" segment
Every generation complained about sucky working conditions. That's why they fought for better working conditions and won.
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I would love the option to work less and live poorer. To have more time but less resources. And it seems to me like it should very much be possible if the housing market was regulated better. But now, it costs about 60% of a basic income to to just pay average rent. I don't want overseas holidays, I dont want to eat at restaurants or go to bars, I dont want new clothes, I dont drink coffee, smoke/vape, i have a crappy PC that fulfils my needs. I can live as cheaply as possible and still have to work at least 80% of a basic job just to have a roof, which wasnt the case for a room like this 20 years ago.
Having to reckon with the fact that after college you’re just working 9-5, 5 days a week without breaks until you die (pretty much) Is really depressing
"back me up on this origin. Stay outta this dlguiga"
if i had that lemonade i would immediately shit my fucking pants
This made me giggle
Girl you are right! The grind IS insane! We did the math, we don't have to work five days a week, 9-5, it's all because of corporate greed and you're right to feel this frustrated! We need to make art! Connect with friends! Breathe in the autumn air! Fucking live!
Here's a solution. Start a company and pay your employees a living wage working for you for 20 hours a week!
What math lmao
@@kegaket6772 StArT a CoMpAnY oR yOu CaNt CoMpLaIn (braindead take)
@zeroghost115 There are literal statistical studies that after 32+-2hours of work in a week the productivity level of an average employee declines. That math.
@@kegaket6772 Totally would if my healthcare wasn't linked to my employer meaning quitting my job is literally gambling with my life and future
Imagine if Panera just had a bowl of adderall at the counter instead.
I'd be bummed to be in 9-5 girl's position. Be nice if had stuff to do in the city so i could just go home on time some nights
Everybody dunking on that girl has just been beaten down by the same system she's complaining about. Just because you've done it long enough to be numbed by it, doesn't make it any less soul crushing.
You shouldn't be bragging about working 80 hour weeks, the work culture in the states is fucking horrific.
When I was a little guy, almost 20 years ago now; My Christian, hard working, blues enjoying mom really liked the song "Coming Undone" by Korn because of the stress in her life, mostly with her job.
Bro I’m crying did u edit him flipping us off at 16:09
yeah, working 9 to 5 sucks because everyone else also works 9 to 5. good luck getting important shit done during the week. i had to swap a weekend off for a weekday so i have time for errands.
1:30 holy shit, I’ve never heard someone laugh like a prize wheel before
"its not a badge of pride" is the best quote
... What's up with the edited double bird flip at the end?