@@davidmiles9016 right but the jobs that pay are boring as shit, and also if everyone did those the value of their labour would go down. The problem is interesting jobs that people want to do are controlled by the rich elite rather than given to people with good university degrees and working potential.
@@verzeda welcome to the real world, there are lots of boring jobs that need doing, that’s life, so it makes sense to get one that pays well rather than get in vast debt and end up in Starbucks
Unaffordable education, unaffordable housing, collapsing healthcare, insecure, poorly paid work and you may soon lose your human rights....I just cant imagine why so many young people have given up. Oh and no or a poor pension likely too.
Agreed. I am 65 and would not want to be starting out now. The whole world of work and indeed world itself as has been documented here has gone crazy. Where is the joy in being alive?
Agreed Im a 64 year old graphic designer that has pretty much morphed into a content creator. My world always has been exciting, but I don't know if Id want to start out again. I genuinely feel sorry for young people today.
I am 55 and can't think of anything worse than having to start out now, even though that would mean being young again it still isn't worth it, that is how bad things are.
Their futures were spent to fuel the present (now the past). These are the consequences of too much government spending/borrowing/printing. To be fair, if the young people of today were given the same opportunity, they'd rob the future of their wealth as well. After all, the future can't vote.
Sht wages and no future? Years ago young people couldn’t wait to leave home and start a family but who can afford to leave home now let alone raise a family of their own. It’s no wonder mental health issues are on the rise amongst the young.
Earning 5 times what I was when I started and paying no income tax at all on half of that money. You think that’s shit wages? Unfortunately people expect that they are going to walk into high paying jobs and that’s not the way the world works especially with the poor schooling most of the youth has received. Being treated poorly by employers is something that has gone on for a very long time. The times of jobs for life and employer loyalty have gone and it’s no surprise that people don’t want to give their loyalty to a company when they could find themselves discarded in 6 months time. We also have a culture of benefits available for people to play the system and that being too easy to manipulate to giving you considerable financial advantages over working. We need employers having influence on what skills are taught in school so that they get a workforce that is already equipped with the skills they need rather than having to invest in training youth hires with basic skills they should already have in top of the job skills they need to make them profitable hires. Once employed some employee loyalty to their their staff is required as is adequate reward for their work. Paying CEOs names of times what they pay their entry level staff isn’t working and career progression with associated salary improvements is vital.
I bought 4 houses on minimum wage. You don’t need a lot of money, you just have to understand money. No skills. No qualifications. Plus, I would recommend you live with your parents as long as you can. You’ll never have more disposable income and fewer bills. Use the time and the money wisely.
@@paulsara9694 True, but there is also a difference between "living" and "surviving". Work could pay us in stale bread and half gallons of milk instead of money, it would be an objective downgrade. People require more things than food to truly get the most out of life, food is the bare minimum
I sent 218 CVs and got no job. I've got 2 years of experience, a small network, a STEM degree. There's no way forward, we're forced to sit and wait for years, and the only thing we can do now is collect social security, play video games, watch movies, eat, sleep, work out etc.
Dont worry, your local leftist party is hard at work sending your jobs to India/China to lower operating costs for the wealthy elite! But dont worry. Their for the people!
Yeah, this is an underrated point. It's not like young people haven't tried. They got a valuable degree, got some internships, networked with their professors in college, and their inbox still has cobwebs. Because _so many_ young people are doing this.
Find something you are interested in and that makes you feel better (obviously within reason, don't pick yachting if you have bugger all money). And do that.
I assume you're in the UK, it is now incredibly onerous for employers to employ, just look at the latest Rachel Reeves budget, then read Thomas sowells "basic economics" specifically the chapters under "work and pay" that will at least explain why
It’s an easy question to answer and I’m not a young person. Young people will never own a home in their lives in the UK, let alone be able to buy a car brand new at the rate in which prices are rising. Where is the incentive to work nowadays? If you are 21 years of age and realized you would never own a home because house prices are quickly reaching 10 or 11 times the average UK salary, why would you even bother? The only reason old geezers are worried about this is because they know there is nobody to fund their pensions moving forward. The Ponzi scheme is coming to an end.
@@puppets.and.muppetsYes exactly. It's a common misconception that the pension money the older generation paid in is the money they'll take at retirement, when in reality it's the money contributed by the young working at that time.
That is partly due to less production but higher wages expected, I see a lot on their bloody phone in the work place, ciggy breaks and stood chatting etc, I used to be paid per hour and was expected to work that hour, a company is lucky if they get 40 mins work out of an hour, seen it, also seen firms move out of bone idle UK too!.
The US style capitalist system is designed to push wealth up the chain and work down the chain. Remember, the employee is a human resource (like you have a mechanical resource like a lathe machine on the manufacturing floor) that is put under a cost center, and costs are to be reduced ... = have less people or have people but make them work more to increase throughput and profits for every dollar / pound of fixed cost. We have switched from the ancient landowners and laborers to the new type of landlords (the corporations + the 1% rich who control most of the economy) and their laborers ( you and me) who are resources that need to be used and discarded. The old European symbiotic systems between corporations and workers is now blacklisted as socialist and needs to be discarded for free-market capitalism, we're told.
@@alexanderde-sowah857 The super rich only got there by using other people’s efforts and energy. We all woke up, and you’re all going to go bankrupt because you screwed the people over time and time again. & we have taught our children to no longer be your slaves!
@@alexanderde-sowah857Everyone works hard, but not every one gets rich. 2nd point 👉 you don't get the right to exploit people when you become rich. 3. We would surely hate those riches who are enjoying on our hard work
@@alexanderde-sowah857lol, for fact, labor workers work much harder than the rich people, the deferrence is that workers don't exploit their bosses till the last drop of juice like rich people do to their stuff!!!
This resonates with me, an elder millennial. I am neurodiverse, amazingly skilled, and was making pretty decent money until recently. But I could never afford a house, or a car no matter how much I saved. I completely exhausted my life savings trying to find a job the last 16 months. Hundreds of interviews and nothing to show for any of it. I am back to where I started in my mid 20s. Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, the system. Burn it down. Save yourselves Gen Z. Warm yourself on the smoldering ruins.
Gen Z are more aware of harmful relationships than any generation before. That includes employers. They are humanity's last hope of a turnaround by refusing to "play" at this point.
A friend the other day told me that his 20 y.o. son, super-keen to work, has made something like 40 job applications and in most cases has not even received the courtesy of a rejection message. He is inevitably becoming disillusioned with the whole process.
That's just plain rude. When I was a manager, everyone rejected at the application stage, got a standard letter. Everyone I interviewed, got a phone call from me personally.
Know the situation well. I saw it with my own son. In an era when form e-mails can be created and sent with the push of a button failure to send even an acknowledgement is unforgivably discourteous and contemptuous
@swojnowski453 well said, unfortunately this now seems to be the nor. It usually helps to register with an employment agency for temporary work and gain experience.
@@Redf322 The current problems are pretty much down to government inflating our GDP using immigrants, this has reduced access to housing, put unsustrainable stress on services and infrastructure and created massive social problems. It was a ruinous short termist strategy that has ultimately ruined the country.
I can tell you why I avoided working for quite a while until I found something I was comfortable with. Every single thing I looked at around me felt immoral to participate in. Job hunting felt like a manipulative ploy where I'd need to lie or brag in ways I'm not comfortable with. Additionally, participating in corporations felt like helping them to gain control of and exploit every living thing and resource on earth. I don't want to help them, I want to oppose them. I didn't join the labor force until I found a path that I felt was opposing the societal ills that I cared about. There are a lot of societal ills that I think a lot of young people are morally perturbed by.
I mean, FFS, half my tax dollars are going to slaughtering people my age on the other side of the glove for no discernible reason other than corruption. Who the hell wants to pay that shit? And the only way to not pay that shit is to not work. Or, some creative ideas I came up with. Some are surely looking at that and saying, "Screw that, I'd rather be homeless."
I can’t lie to save my life. I guess I don’t get to be incompetent at my job now. The sad fact of life is there are people alive today who are older than job interviews. There has to be a better way to allocate labor. They have to switch their spending on recruitment and training. All of this is a sick joke to grape mother nature and destroy the soul of humankind
Doing what exactly? I worked from the age of fifteen until I retired at sixty five. I am now seventy seven and still alive and well, a long way away from an early grave.
@yourseatatthetable My grandfather worked himself into an early grave. He was only 67 when he died. Only 2 years to enjoy his retirement. Was it worth it I wonder, especially as he fought for his country in ww1. He only left a legacy of just over £400.
@@CatherineBirch-m5r I can think of more than a few people I've known over the decades that suffered similar fates. In the richest country in the world, it is shameful that people literally have to do this.
@yourseatatthetable It was remembering my grandfather's fate, and watching my.father work hard all his life and not get more than a tiny house thst he had to pay a mortgage on for 30 years and also have to work overtime just to buy a colour tv, that made me live the lifestyle thst I did.
@@cliffwheeler7357 I watched 4 men die within a year of retiring; another two die from work related inflictions. I, myself, at the age of 14, working my first punch a clock job, got a server dose of carbon dioxide that put me in the hospital for a couple of days. I mowed a dozen lawns at the age of 10, shoveled snow, and worked summers for the local farmers, baling hay and mucking stalls. And here I am, at 59, working 45+ hours a week, split shift after split shift, never the same schedule each week. This morning, for example, I'll work for 6 hours, and then go back out this evening for another 4. In the 9 years that I've worked for my boss, three men have had accidents, falling off roofs, ladders, and one getting ran over accidently by a co-worker. My body aches; I am tired all the time; and no matter how much I work, it's all I can do to stay afloat. I even started mowing the strip club next door for cash during the summer months. So, p"sss off, friend.
What I hear in speaking to young people is that there simply isn't much point. The inequality that has grown to extremely damaging levels in the UK means for those of average means/backgrounds they simply cannot even see a way of renting, let alone buying anything. The GB economy has simply priced too many people out of having any kind of lives. They live at home until their mid thirties and get used to it, whereas we moved out post Uni or in my case at 17...Its not achievable now for many. The UK is a poisonous little island, owned by THIEVES, administered by FRAUDS and facilitated by LIARS....... and then they wonder why no-one is "patriotic" or wants to fight for the crown.
And let’s not forget the role of legacy media in all of this. Outfits like The Daily Mail and GB News - even the BBC - perpetuating this nonsense by vomiting out the narrative being forced upon us by neoliberals, including, I’m sad to say, the current government. Look at the EU and marvel at its continued progression. In contrast, we’ve become - and remain - a backward, regressive little nation, that thinks by being like America, we’re somehow going to rule the world again. It’s pathetic. Young people aren’t buying this narrative however (thank god) but they’re paralysed in acting because the system has them right where it wants them. Talk about Orwell’s warning to mankind.
The young have been let down by the education process. This is only the fault of the government who stipulate what is to be taught. The majority of parents only acquire the missing useful knowledge by the time they are no-longer parents and it is too late to get their children to unlearn things which have been taught from infancy.
I was working 80 hrs a week. Harder n harder to save for what I really want, I decided to give up I’m not working to death. My health is deteriorating for not having time to cook the food, eat it and to go to the gym and take care of myself. I’m done I’m only working the hrs I need to cover my bills and that’s it I’m done. I’m drained I want to have hope for the future but it’s harder and harder as the days go by. Good luck everyone.
I hope you're able to dedicate some time to some sort of meditation or prayer where you're not constantly overstimulated and exhausting yourself worse and worse with every passing day.
A few years ago, the daughter of a former colleague applied for a part-time job in a greetings card shop. The 2-day recruitment event included two written essays, three group discussions, an IQ test and two role playing episodes. She didn't get the job and felt pretty demoralised. A couple of years ago that particular chain of shops closed down.
Richard, thank you for your understanding of how bad things are for younger gen. I’m a millennial and things are so tough, so it really helps to see older gens look at this from a place of empathy and support.
45 yr old here. I think anyone with a brain can see how rough it is for the under 60 crowd and the younger you go the worse it is. Emphasis on the brain part. I was unemployed 2x in the past 10 yrs and looking for a job was a nightmare, I refused to do it the modern way after a few tries and got a job through networking and working myself up instead.
i’m happy you brought up autistic people because we are suffering pretty badly. 80% of all autistic people don’t even work in the first place! it’s worse now because of how job searching is nowadays. it’s a full time job within itself. you have to stare at a screen for hours a day doing pointless personality tests (which is hell for autistic people) only to not get contacted anyway because your resume got denied by AI. it’s even worse for those of us with rejection sensitivity. interviewing is horrible aswell because you are supposed to lie constantly. a lot of us don’t know when to lie…or what is acceptable to say. but we know when we are honest, we get denied. i would work if i could, but no one gives me a chance. yet every adult still thinks it’s all my fault anyway? as if i can force people to hire me. i always think about how just 50 years ago they were chaining autistic kids up to ACs in mental facilities, now they wanna blame/demonize us for not “trying hard enough” to assimilate and become machines for a society that treated us like we were less than human? i know that i am so much more than my employment status, but no one else feels that way…. anyway! i appreciate this video a lot, since older people don’t usually listen to us when we try to explain. ^^
Thank you for taking the time to write this, just wanted you to know that a slightly older person (mid 40’s) read this and felt for you and the situation you find yourself in. We must do more to help younger people. Certainly the most important thing we need to do is listen, and then work together to act and make change. Too many older people want to talk about what they think the answers are, rather than listening first.
Can confirm, even with a twelve hour shift four days a week with one boomer, that boomer will refuse to help your autistic self. I was working at the same place for three years and kept hearing "she doesn't know how! We can't have her make food, she doesn't know how. We have to be home to do the curlers because she doesn't know how." THEY NEVER EVER EVEN OFFERED TO TEACH.
@@soredoncan I recommend a few things, as someone with autism and other neuro divergences. Regarding rejection sensitivity, I've benefitted from stimulants for attention issues and motivation, and serotonin agonists which help perception and strengthening application of context specific information to the world. For emotional well being, I was really helped by the book 'Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents ' by Lindsay Gibson. It details a lot of the emotional infrastructure that was not taught/learnt at a young age, and how you can learn that yourself as an adult. I found it helped with emotional sensitivity and expression a lot.
Blame the councils who took all the money from the sell off of council houses and didn’t replace the council house stock. They were always good houses where young couples could start their married lives and start a family. They then replaced these with starter homes which cost a fortune weren’t big enough to swing a cat and when they started a family (the time they could least afford it ) they had to move because the houses weren’t big enough. No thought went into it at all.
@@ChristineMurphy-gs2fcthey were not allowed to use the money for rebuilds. They had to use it to replace the funding hole left by Tory government.. Please get your facts straight.
The right to buy should have never happened this has resulted in a massive reduction in available social housing. In my area the majority of the council houses bought through the right to buy scheme are now in the hands of greedy private landlords who charge extortionate rents for insecure homes where the tenant can be told to leave at a moments notice at the whim of the landlord!!!
@@peterensinger1770 100% correct, another brilliant idea from the Thatcher era. Probably one of the worst Prime Ministers we've ever had, although I think Starmer will be running a close second!
Not really disgusting to most young people they want massive million pound loans to buy property just like their Mummys and Daddies ! and of course The Landlord.
yes , and what i understand it's because those who have given up looking for work arent even counted. it's so dumb when i think about how official figures downsize the reality.
Yeah the jobcentre are more dehumanising than the employers. I’m on disability now with long COVID. But I’ve had two phone appointments with them in the last couple of months. The first one they cancelled by email less than two hours before it was due. So that one got rescheduled. Was due to have my second one on Monday and that time they just didn’t so hone up at all. Didn’t even get a cancellation email until three hours after the time the appointment was supposed to start. Seems to be standard level of disrespect they have for us. But of course if I was the one to not turn up they’d be threatening me with sanctions immediately. I remember one time a few years ago when I was actually jobseekering with them, my work coach gave me the wrong date for an in person appointment. So I turned up on the day and time I was told to, only to be told my appointment had been the day before. I explained that I showed up when I was told to and accepted that it was their mistake, I think I still had a card with the date they’d written down for me so I could prove it wasn’t me. then said that since I’d not shown up the day before i was now on a formal warning and any other breach would get me sanctioned. There’s only soo long you can put up with that kind of treatment while getting no response from any of the jobs you apply for before just dropping out
I see plenty of folks sitting around EVERY DAY in the town I live in. They gather at Midday to drink, smoke and fight until late evening. They always seem to have the few items they desire, and don't need to work or answer to anybody.
About to quit my underpaid most stressful job as a Special Needs T.A in a broken education system with no support, not enough staff and violence daily. The shit £19,000 as a single parent is a funking joke. I left school in 1989 and my first job as a jewellery finisher (no qualification) £14,000. My first flat in 1998 £58,000.
As a registered nurse looking after patients with chronic skin conditions … I have noticed for the last 5 years a general increase in patients between 18 and 30 significant flare of their skin condition due to stress and lifestyle anxiety.
@@sharonanderson5794 More likely due to smoking weed, drinking alcohol, not exercising or getting enough fresh air, crap diets and playing xbox all day
For what? I work full time as factory worker/operator and I could barely afford a studio apartment and little else. You can’t tell me the rich folks on their yacht in the Maldives are working harder than me. They don’t even deserve the pittance I get for breaking my back. Why should these kids work to make them richer?
Don't underestimate how hard the ultra-rich work - most of them work hours you wouldn't think possible. Doesn't mean there isn't a wage disparity problem - there is. But the ultra rich didn't get where they are by smoking cigars in a leather recliner all day.
@@deezelfairy Many of them inherited their wealth and though they may have worked hard to expand it there's nothing can compete with a flying start. How long does it take for a billionaire to earn £12? Something in the order of nanoseconds. It takes some people in work an hour of their time. Who is working harder, bearing in mind that some of these people have second and even third jobs just to survive? And they're working hours you wouldn't think possible too.
The job search & application process that you have described does not apply to young people only... I am in my mid 30s, recent graduate (masters) and I have been looking for a job since January. I have years of experience, several educations, number of certificates, and I struggle to go through all 5 or 10 interview stages that employer wants me to go through. It is exhausting. I am not working not because I don't want to, but because I am not allowed to. I was made redundant almost 2 years ago and was unable to get a job since. All of my friends who lost their job (many in their 20-30s) are unable to find a job, too. There is a quiet unemployment crisis going on, as well general unwillingness of people to work for 22,000 a year in a skilled job in London.
Same as you, I even have a really good cv and was lucky to find a remote position but that don't pay the bills so I have to live with my parent... And the boomers have balls to talk about use while we are more competent or even when we speak more than 3 languages.
Exactly, with bureaucracy it isn't the outcome that is important just the process so the more convoluted they can make the process the better for them.
£11.44 an hour, the minimum wage, which supermarkets and most jobs pay. Carers, shop workers,restaurants, fast food etc..that's all people are worth, then they have to rely on UC and get called scroungers, and told to get another job, fking ludicrous. These employers, especially the huge supermarkets, are making obcene profits, no wonder young folk are pissed off with it all.
In my village they actually limit the hours to 2.5 days a week, and its enough to call a person in 'full time employment' these days. Simply, there are not enough jobs left in this country, too much outsourcing and offshoring.
In addition, in supermarkets it's almost impossible to get contracted full-time hours so that you are desperate to pick up whatever anti-social shifts aren't covered at short notice. Before supermarkets were open 24/7, there was a life outside of work but working until 8:00 or 10:00 in the evening every shift and having to do that over every weekend means that life is all bed and work for minimum wage. Managers have been cut to the bone and much of the work previousy done by managers now has to be covered by "team leaders" who earn little more than they would without the title and different colour shirt. There is zero career progression. As staff numbers are cut back more and more and the remaining workers are expected to take up the slack, people stop even trying to achieve unachievable goals - they stop "going the extra mile" when every day is yet another marathon in bare feet over broken glass. Favours are a one way street - "Can you just stay an extra hour ?" "Can you come in tomorrow on your day off ?" "Can you change your shift pattern this week ?" and if you say ,"No" there's the guilt tripping. Try it the other way round - "Can I book time off for my parent's anniversary/my best friend's 21st/a wedding ?" and it'll depend on whether they can find cover with no effort or you are expected to try to find someone to cover. Good luck with that if you are one of the lucky ones contracted to work until 10:00 pm every Friday and Saturday. YES - I'M LOOKING AT YOU ASDA !
What are those supermarkets' costs exactly? I'll point out that people chose to work for that wage. If you don't like those wages, then skill up and find a better-paying job.
@Fiscally_Responsible_DMH52 Easier said than done..Tesco made nearly 3 billion in profits last year and expects the government to top up their employees' wages 🤦♀️
@@amywood2514 Or the employees could decide to skill up and find other work. Apparently, this concept is difficult to understand, but it's the people choosing their outcomes.
Finished my BSc in Sep 2021. My first ‘proper’ job was as a live-in nanny. Couldn’t get lab/research work because I had ‘no proveable skills’. Now writing my MSc thesis. I’ve had an interview and a few rejections, but the one thing I’m dreading is the despair that I felt last time. Having all the passion for your subject and no one give you the chance to succeed. My parents have just started relaxing the pressure because they’ve come to realise that I can’t just walk into a company or research institute and hand them my CV. I’m supposed to have a ‘prized’ STEM degree. I can’t imagine how much harder it is for those in humanities and the arts.
Same as I just finished my masters thesis and as well and no probably will get one of those recruitment jobs as for my field is to dam competitive. Most likely will leave this country as nothing here at all gives us incentives to stay here now.
People and governments always go over the top. Because STEM was booming in the 00s and 2010s, it was STEM this, STEM that, EVERYONE MUST GO INTO STEM..... And then the bust happened and now we are left with a massive over-saturation of STEM grads. I wonder what the next fad will be?
Agreed. I think I’ll just point out that gen z is the first to publicly give the middle finger to the cronies. Of course I’m glad all or most people of all generations feel this way now.
I think rory sutherlands explanation is much more correct on this matter. People max out their borrowings and bid the price up. The biggest raises in house prices have been when banks have been allowing loans at 4 and 5 times earnings and super long mortgages.
@@tricky1992000 I reckon that there should be some kind of limit or rule on how many houses someone can own. Too many people see a house as an “investment opportunity” as opposed to somewhere to live and raise a family in.
@@fanfeck2844 That's right. Check out the major rise in stock market indices across the world from about May 2020 to late 2021. How can listed company values have risen when they were supposed to be in lockdown and therefore unproductive? The answer is that central banks everywhere were printing pretend money (QE) and this triggered exuberance in the stock market. It indeed had to go somewhere. Never mind anything else, QE also ended up amounting to a transfer of wealth to those already wealthy. Yet the people who lost out still support the lockdowns and the money printing frenzy that accompanied them
You end up poor either way you go. Wages are a joke compared to cost of living. If working does not afford you an independent life whats the point? Housing, education, Healthcare, child care costs have outpaced inflation since the 1980s.
You already stripped everything from Millenials, so Gen Z are seeing the absolute hopelessness of it and deciding... nope. No thank you. I blame none of them.
@@dallysinghson5569 You are delusional if you think the past was always so easy. ie on some fantasy re write to preach to whiners of today. ie you are clueless. Try sleeping on the carpet for over 8 months since all wages when to rent. Today they tell you you are going to be laid off with the Warn Notice; since today folks are fragile and not use to hard times of past eras. Ie they let you know and give you time. In the past they just fired folks in mass with zero notice. Someone must be supporting you to make up such horse manure beliefs.
@@theanonymspysandwich In the past one worked to survive and get ahead. There were less boobs of government money to suckle on and sit at home and whine like children. That was part of being an adult. ie learning that life is not Hollywood and you had to hustle to get a head. Whining was for children or spoiled adults that had some trust fund. Today folks would rather whine like spoiled children than hustle. If you say why work you are either retired or have someone paying you to sit and whine. Decades ago one third of the poor ate dog food.
If you worked in the 80s ....you'd be working to pay off your mortgage If you work in 2024 , you're working to pay someone else's That's the difference. It doesn't pay to work. Might as well just go on benefits and claim hosting benefit
No reason people can't buy houses. Plenty for less than £200K in the North of England, easily affordable to a young couple on average wage of around £30K - £35K each
I worked my ass off for 18 hours a day in a company, gained 15 kgs and all sorts fo stomach disorder, and saved lot of money for company. in the end i was denied the variable pay which was minial. what do i get for working hard? just a new ferrari for CEO
@@intelligenceofacertainkindIt’s directly proportional to the average waist size then and now - the most physical reflection of how much sicker we are now.
That is not true! Never was true. And besides it isn't about houses. It's about movement and effort, not passively sitting and looking into a screen that is designed to make you...well...passive! Throw your smartphone into the Lake of Fire and see what happens in six months. Just saying.
It's not just young people many of us oldies have given up too. I'm in my late 50s and see the retirement age as chasing a moving target, it keeps going up, so I've decided to take things easy now. Just can't be arsed.
@jamesrindley6215 My thoughts exactly! I retired from being unemployed, and I was so relieved to be done with endless jobsearch logs to fill out, signing on and being sanctioned for nothing at all.
@@CatherineBirch-m5r Right. Jobs are often set up to be demeaning and demoralizing and the unemployment system is much the same or even worse. If you manage it in a smart way, it's possible to live quite cheaply. You find different pastimes and pleasures that don't involve spending a lot of money.
Hope you get to keep your job until retirement, nowadays if you are over 50 and are looking for work you are too expensive to hire and too close to retirement to be worth investing in for a company.
@@cloudwalker9572 Whether you are too expensive to hire is your choice of what demands you make. I think you have to be realistic that experience adds value only up to a point, and for many of us that probably peaked in our 40s. A person in their 50s probably has 5 to 10 good years of work to offer to a company. Given that a younger person will probably move on after a couple of years anyway, why would that be a disqualification?
Work? For what? So they cant afford basic necesseties like a home, a car and an groceries? Not only they expect slaves to work constantly, they also expect them to make more slaves? Pheh fuck it
Oh, no. The family structure was well on the way towards being dismantled when the economy established this nonsense. The badness in the economy happened at a smaller scale, but grew proportionally as the family structure disintegrated for various sociological and economic reasons.
Back in the 1960's only high skilled workers could afford a car, now I see people on benefits or so called crap wages with cars, mixed opinions on here.
@@Gazr965 I don't think it's reasonable to apply 60's standards to today. This is not a single variable problem. Enough about the structure and foundation of a society and it's economy has been ignored that the induced problems have gotten very complicated. The balance of economic costs and what is needed to be an active participant in society has dramatically changed. Someone without a cell phone, computer, and internet connection, is far less capable of being a person in the modern day than they would have been in the 60s. These are not luxury expenses, they are necessary to keep up with the economy, keep up with job applications, and news regarding various industries. Housing, food, and basic utilities, combined with the extremely unrealistic idea that an average person would have a stay at home spouse taking care of the various upkeep tasks of life while the breadwinner played their role in the family unit, has dramatically changed the landscape. It is my view that any simplistic breakdown of "this is where the problem is these days, you're suffering because of your personal and individual failures as humans that an average person from back in the 60s would not suffer from" that fails to recognize the changing societal landscape regarding technology and economic structures is doomed to be poison instead of helpful.
@@Gazr965what a load of cobblers. First mass production car was the model T in 1908. Designed to be cheap enough for the assembly line workers who made it to afford it. My grandad had a car from the end of WW2, he ran a small family shoe shop. Hardly a highly skilled super earner was he? Plenty of people could afford a car in the 1960s. One of the reasons we used cars less back then was because the railways were a lot more extensive then and we didn’t require as much travel. We require a lot of travel now (I’m aware there have been trends to the contrary last few years) and railways are limited putting great value on road travel, and yes being on the road has become significantly more expensive despite these requirements even in the last 10 years due to government mismanagement.
Same in Canada. Exact same thing. unaffordable housing, unaccessible healthcare, job paying minimum wages while asking to have 40 years of experience for placing stuff on shelves... No wonder they are giving up.
Honestly you get asked for experience in delivering parcels to peoples doors, with a satnav. As if that that requires any skill or experience. If you have a driving licence and are able bodied and you can’t do that then you need care, not a job. They still have the gall to ask for experience and make you do irrelevant “tests”.
Facts I worked as a custodian b4 years ago. Now if i interview for a custodian / janitor position they interview me and never call me back . They require at shit ton of experience for no reason .
In my 50s now, not only are the majority of companies I've worked for are no longer there, a lot of the buildings I've worked in are no longer there. Unless you're working for yourself, all work is wasted.
I started work at 19, couldn't believe how crap it was. Stopped at 21 and worked for myself ever since, now 56. In that time everything has changed and there was no point being loyal to a company. The tech changed my world so rapidly it was always going to be uncertain, I knew that at 21 but knew my skills would see me through. I hate bosses, the clients are my boss which is much better.
I'm 21 and just started by first job out of uni on Monday. I have a very good STEM degree from a very good uni and found the job hunting process absolutely soul-crushing, dehumanising and frustrating. And I think myself lucky cus it only took me 3 months!! The job I did end up finding is also not really what I want to be doing to be honest, it's quite a long commute and progression seems limited and I was sort of lied to by the job description as the real job is nothing like it. I've seen many of my peers take a lot longer to find jobs and then it's something completely unrelated to their degree with shit pay and no progression. What's the point when even with an exceptional degree you end up with a mediocre job and without that you're basically fucked
If it's bad for a bright person like you, it's worse for people without good degrees. We live in a broken economic and social environment, a broken, brutal dog eat dog system.
@@marianhunt8899I agree with you completely however I'm increasingly of the opinion that employers don't give a shit about your degree anymore, you just need the piece of paper. I feel a sense of regret that I put so much time and energy into a difficult degree when I should have put that effort into internships and work experience, which I actually did none of even though I tried. Employers care a lot more about previous experience through these methods than your grades in my experience. The degree is simply an incredibly expensive checkbox exercise these days for most roles
A degree is a foot in the door. The rest is based on the amount of working knowledge you can acquire. What I suggest you do is treat your job like if it's your own business. Learn how your role effects other departments and vice versa. Do that for 1/2 years. Then either consider moving to another job, the one that you really want or see how you are treated by your current company. If every graduate expected an easy ride to a lucrative job, then you don't know the world of business. And that is what you are about to learn. Get ready to set foot in the arena. All the best!
After leaving college I was hired by the local authority. Spent all day and most of the night writing database systems. Coding etc. After six months I quit from exhaustion.. and worked voluntarily for just the same money (they even paid my rent etc) on the dole. Can you imagine leaving a job because volunteering (the organisations I work for respect volunteers) is financially more rewarding and far more secure? Welcome to Britain. The local authority was full of know nothing, self important biatches who thought they had a right to treat you like crap, and wanted to motivate through fear. Sod that. When universal credit came online they stopped people volunteering.
Yes and stopped nixers ...I was just saying I have elderly parents and my own family and I have to do things like cut the hedges because you can't get anyone to do those things like clean windows or clear gutters ..nobody even sweeps the public road any more so I have to sweep a lot of the bloody road which used to employ council road sweepers and men used to be able to do a nixer. Cut a bush. Clean a window. Without needing insurance and to register as self employed and be cut off the dole. Its madness. They won't let people do things they could do without threatening to pull the rug out from under them if they dare try to do a small bussiness. My friend did his own bussiness tree cutting which is a seasonal job and in winter you have no work except after a bad wind. But he couldn't get any form fo support so he ended up going back on the dole. My other friend lost her leg in a car wrwck she had her own bussiness as a sort of woo therapist with reiki or something. To get disability she had to shut down her whole bussiness and prove it was shut down and then they told her she could get a job? She had her own bussiness???? They said she could drive herself with one leg to tescos and work the checkout in her wheelchair. But she couldn't be at home and do her therapies? When she had a good day and on her own terms. It's insane.
The other big issue is employers wanting 110 percent effort but only pay 60 percent of the effort and complain when workers start giving only 60 percent.
Absolutely 100% spot on. I'm of your generation Richard. Your insights, understanding, analysis and empathy for young people is impressive and disarmingly accurate. Oh that ministers and employers would start to grasp this; they need to do so with great urgency. This is both important and urgent for the sake of our young people, the UK economy and our country.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Over the last 10 years I've been watching my son go through this and it's been absolutely heart-breaking. Endless hoop-jumping to get a job. Wages that didn't allow him to buy a house where the jobs were. Managers promoted to their level of incompetence who made his life a misery. A lack of job security that has made him constantly anxious. Now thankfully (for now at least) he has a job that allows him to work from home in an area where property is cheap and for a business that treats him with respect. Such businesses are too few and too far between.
(If you chose to breed) You CHOSE to make that possible for your breeding results when you CHOSE to breed. Your breeding result is going through that all for your personal pleasure, because you wanted to breed. Just one of thousands of reasons why breeding is so cruel. Purposeful breeders choose to make a potential victim of any horror for their own personal pleasure of being a breeder. You created a potential r pe victim, a potential p dophile, a potential victim of the cost of living crisis, the housing crisis, any horrifying disease... for.your own personal pleasure. Cruel and selfish. (Unless you were unfortunately forced to breed/adopted/fostered.)
The entry level positions have been evaporating. Also, the incentives to work hard are decreasing. They no longer believe that they can have a family, a house, or a good retirement.
You forgot the 'assessed by an algorithm' part... buy yeah, stuff it. The most talented creative people I've encountered would never fit with this system...
Yes, when hiring we called this “flexibility” which carried equal weight with skills, and I hated doing it. understand that “flexibility” does in fact mean unquestioned obedience. These are never the best, most motivated employees, and often a managers nightmare. Corporations with their HR departments running things :(
As a small tech/engineering business with around 65 employees, we've refused to deal with agencies or use online application systems. We don't advertise the few vacancies that arise because there is always a steady stream of CV's and we genuinely keep any that could be relevant. A CV is the perfect document for any person to sell themselves, especially if they've not followed a strict template and been creative; I want to see their personality on paper. One of the most memorable CV's was in the form of a takeaway menu, it was from a 21 year old woman who had dropped out of a electrical engineering degree to help care for a family member with MND. I respect those values and her honesty, and everything on the CV screamed "intelligent person", turned out I was right; 12 years later she's our lead instruments engineer. I do wonder how many really good people slip through the net of these corporate recruitment processes, but their loss is our gain.
Wonderful you do it like that, but I wouldn't dare to be frank and honest in my CV because most employers expect a standardized sanitised list of skills and experiences. Nothing else
@@ProgamerEU Why not take a gamble, apply for something you think might be out of your reach but send them a CV that you believe fully represents who you are; what have you got to lose?
@@garysmith5025 I usually take a gamble and apply to jobs that are 80% fit of my skills with usually the only thing missing - YOE. The result - Possibility of my contact being blacklisted (not joking). Even if it sounds absurd SOME companies have your details already stored in their DB or IDK WHERE and when they track that you're application has been submitted and rejected somewhat recently it just goes to the trash. I've received a phone call few months ago regarding my CV and how my skills would be of great help for them (I had to use another email because of security reasons) and the HR lady straight up told me that they changed their mind because my previous one was already rejected and in 4 months I wouldn't have improved much since then. Bunch of HR bullshi.t 56
I suspect I've had autism and ADHD throughout my life. I've also suffered mental illnesses, anxiety and depression. And it's true, employers and employees treat you with contempt. I also suspect people from previous generations have suffered these, but were just labelled 'thick' or 'highly strung'. Unfortunately, I never had the luxury of not working. I had to work to survive. I suspect previous generations were the same.
@@wildberrygarden I never used the word 'snowflakes'. I just pointed out that mental conditions have always been around, never diagnosed, but survival made people work.
@Freesurfer688 yes I know, I wasn't referring to your comment (which I agree with). I meant that some people use that word when people talk about their mental health problems or don't act in a certain way, which doesn't help people who are struggling.
@@wildberrygarden I agree. In the past mental health conditions were not diagnosed or even known about, so the person in the workforce or at school was often bullied, called 'thick' or 'weirdo'. I agree with Richard that everyone has something constructive to bring and it's just a matter of identifying what it is and how to use their talents.
I got diagnosed with autism in 2022 whilst working at a high-demand, high stress job. I thought (foolishly) that being honest would allow me to work with my managers to build some balance, but they instead tried to PIP me and push me out. Never be honest with your employers about your mental health, they do NOT care about you
Being autistic means out of the few opportunities that are available, many employers are unwilling to hire us. Then the gap in our CV puts us at a major disadvantage going forward.
I have operations director in my workplace with autism, they “came out” with this more than a year after they got the job. Do you say you have autism at your interviews?
The root-causes are our highly unethical economic system which can only thrive on the exploitation of the poor, rising inequality, debt, and poverty. Lastly successive governments since 1979 have given unlimited freedom and power to corporations.
The system has been set up by the right to treat people as cattle for teh already rich to make money from. It results in a market without money and slow growth because they don't allow ordinary people to have money the political resistance to allowing even private sector wages to keep up with inflation shows the theft of wealth. Unnfortunately the same victims fall for all the red herrings of immigration etc that they keep voting for the party that does all this to them
It's sad how difficult things have become in the present generation. I was wondering how to utilise some money I had. I used some of it for e-commerce business, but that sank. I'm thinking of how to use what's left to invest, but I don't really know which way to go.
I understand how you feel. It's a little bit difficult to navigate things these days. You don't wanna lose whatever is left. I may suggest that you find a financial advisor who could give you thorough advice on how to go if you want to go the investment route. Also, the fact your business failed doesn't mean you should give up.
That's right. I have tried many failed businesses and it's just a step further. Don't despair. But to add, if you do decide to use a financial advisor, it's best you use someone who understands your special needs and can work with you. I learnt this from experience before finally finding one I can stick with. Now I make six figures from my investments alone, and even more from my businesses.
That's right. I have tried many failed businesses and it's just a step further. Don't despair. But to add, if you do decide to use a financial advisor, it's best you use someone who understands your special needs and can work with you. I learnt this from experience before finally finding one I can stick with.
Sophie Lynn Carrabus is the licensed advisor I use and i'm just putting this out here because you asked. You can Just search the name. You’d find necessary details to work with to set up an appointment.
Any excuse. Most people who work all their lives usually own their own home and have a decent amount of pension savings, plus luxuries like holidays and nice cars. If you worked 40 years and got nowhere you've done something wrong.
@thomasmorin749 My father worked hard all his life, and yes he finally owned his house after more than 30 years of no car, no home phone and no holidays abroad. The house was a rabbit hutch that the previous owners were most likely glad to get rid of. I hated it.
I worked hard bought a house always worked raised family . No holidays , no meals out I now off the property ladder through no fault of my own so no there are people who have worked hard and have nothing I think it's called been made redundant and only earning a minimum wage job ever since . Minimum wage is not a livable wage . @@TheDavecroft
You realy nailed with all this form filling etc.One of my 4 sons lately had the exact 💯 experience you described.I stayed tight lipped when my son spent 2 days preparing a test project for the company he was doing an interview with.He dident get the job.But what a waste of his time.I think he learned his lesson.Its not what you know its who you know.
yes and if you dont know any your lost most of the time. The Keeper Mentality is ruining it and These Days you dont get taught how to nourish yourself or your Soul, just emotional Capitalism ! but well i dont give up on this. there has to be Ways needing to be Explored! For us and the Ones who come after us.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said at 0:38 when you said people in education are of "benefit to us". The system is designed to create workers who work and pay taxes then get discarded at the end of their useful lives.
Many Workplaces unfortunately require vast amounts of experience even for entry level positions. I have friends being rejected from entry level positions at Restaurants and fast food jobs, with a lack of experience being mostly given. It’s paradoxical how entry level jobs require experience yet no entry level job will accept you and let you develop experience
Am I glad I found your channel! I’m nearly forty and an accountant, and I’ve been saying this to my colleagues and sometimes I wonder if they are living in a lalaland of make believe when they can’t see how our hiring processes and work conditions are setting up junior accountants to fail! Please keep making more videos!
Why would they work? no chance of affording a house, being taxed to oblivion - society and Government have removed all aspiration. Imagine being young, struggling to afford their high rent, watching others get it all for free.....
Plenty of affordable houses north of Watford. Lack of any work ethic is the problem. Easier to blame the government and hold your hand out for benefits than do a days work.
@@YourChoco That was my thought. Its pretty cheap to live somewhere with no jobs nearby, but then you have no money. Can maybe work out if you can get a job working from home. However anywhere in the north with good job opportunities isn't affordable. Manchester, for example, has the fastest rising rents and house prices outside of London.
Our dog eat dog economic system is failing many, many people. I totally understand why young people feel so defeated. The job application system is broken. Zero hour contracts are the final nail in the coffin.
And for the White majority being told they are the cause of the world ills, with every ethnic newcommer being prioritised ahead of them means it's easier to give up because success is virtually impossible.
Are you saying my dog ate your dog? Let me tell you, he didn’t. That was someone else’s dog. What has canine obedience got to do with young people anyway? I’m sorry for your loss.
eh? No he didn't. He said we live in dogeatdog world. Being failed at a large scale level. Some of them even enjoy the pain causing to young people. Including teachers. That is why we're stuck here. We've been subservient to a failed system.
They still eat dogs in Korea. I’ve never had one though, have you? It can’t be very good when your dog eats the economic system. Perhaps the Korean’s are on to something and it explains why they have such a good economy. I’m not going to eat my dog. He rolls in fox poo and it wouldn’t be very hygienic. I hear that eating under cooked dogs carries a high chance of worms so I’d probably start with someone else’s dog, a puppy perhaps that’s been recently vaccinated. I believe that when they are done properly in a Bob Martin sauce they are delicious. 😆
I am a retired professional but can relate to much of this having had three university graduate boys struggle with this. Perhaps it relates to boys more than girls as it seems that at a young age, girls are often more articulate than boys, and the HR firewall for many businesses seem to be very focused on this. One of the boys (with grade 2A* and 2A A levels) faced a similar problem trying to get into medical school. He had good writing skills and had already written two novels but getting into medical school requires a demonstration of empathy and at this age it seems to be more natural to girls rather than boys. Perhaps that is partly why medical school intake is largely female. Competition is also massive. When Jeremy Hunt was Health minister he stated that it was cheaper to bring in a qualified doctor from abroad rather than train one up in the UK, so that doesn't help. Fortunately for my son, having been rejected by all but one university my wife and I insisted that he went on a weekend course aimed medical school entry. He did and sailed through his entry into the last remaining one and has been very successful during his training and is now fully qualified. Another one of the boys got a chemical engineering masters from one of the Russell Group universities. Then when he came to trying to get a job, he hit a brick wall and it went on for months. Firstly it wasn't helped by the fact that businesses seem to minimise their graduate training programmes and as with medicine, will tend to bring in qualified experienced people from abroad as and when needed. There are agencies in the UK that do just this. Then there is the HR firewall and that is a real nightmare. In the end my wife and I had to take on getting him a job as a project with formal weekly meetings with him to discuss progress and strategy. Eventually, largely thanks to my wife, he got a job and so far has been very successful in it and has already been promoted.
Girls are spoon fed, praised, given attention, and never demonized. The complete opposite for boys. I experienced this over 20 years ago, in private education, and it has clearly only gotten worse. Factor in positive discrimination hiring practices and it compounds the issue even further. The establishment doesn't want well educated, self reliant, confident men. They want down trodden scraps that can be easily controlled out of sheer desperation.
The obvious difference to me is that girls are more naturally compliant. They are quite happy to dance to someone else's tune if it satisfies their material needs and places them somewhere in the social hierarchy. Men are less motivated by this and want independence and autonomy. Not subservience.
@@davidc4408 Maybe but we've had plenty of frustrations. A lot of young people will not have the benefit of people like my wife and I to drive things forward and I don't know where my two would have ended up without our help. I just feel sad that so much young potential never gets a chance.
I'm Gen X, Autistic I can't work for an employer anymore I always get sacked because I don't conform. I am so glad I didn't have children because they have been robbed of their future and AI is going to make it so much worse.
The next revolution that will leave humanity behind. Though that revolution is already here, the economic impacts will be very great. I see more people living singular lives and becoming more and more isolated than ever before....
You are encouraging such an attitude of "entitlement" this is the product of your delusionary "Marxist-Socialist fantasies" you are a danger to young people
not wanting to be controlled by someone else doesn’t mean that you are autistic lol.stop using this crap.nobody wants to work a job for the rest of their lives.smart/normal people lol.
Can’t conform or won’t? I tend to find autistic people are very adamant about doing things “the right way” when really they just don’t see why things are being done in a certain manner and would prefer doing things their way. That on top of being “weird” makes them very likely to be fired.
There's a lot of young people killing themselves these days, i see it all the time on Facebook, them going missing, then being found dead..so sad. The cost of living is disgusting, the price of a house is disgusting, whether buying or renting.. you're working to exist.. not live.
We need to be careful blaming outside influences for people unaliving ( sorry for stupid word- RUclips) themselves. 10 people might go thru the same thing only one decides death is the answer. It is a mental health issue or personal weakness of spirit that drives people to do it …..sorry not the cost of living or anything else.
@dcanes5720 Sorry, but this no future, low wages, not being able to get a house..a job that pays IS one huge reason for people killing themselves. I know of one guy who's wife fell pregnant with their second child, in his suicide note, he said he couldn't afford to have another kid. This stinking UK Governments corruption and mis- management, austerity is to blame. You do realise that these young people have known nothing but austerity, there's 10s of 1000s of food banks people working use. The town centres have turned into shit holes, great shops all shut down now due to bigger companies and supermarkets buying them up cheap..like ( Peter green) then shutting them down, along with Amazon ( who also pay shit wages)There's many reasons the country is in a real state...GOVERNMENTS POLICY. Nothing is changing with Liebour either, they're Tory on steroids.
Good points. Many young people have "seen through" the whole capitalist wage slave 'work till you die' ethic that older generations absorbed. Also, the globalization of capitalism and the impact of AI means that the jobs aren't there.
You're absolutely right, no one takes into account the experience of job seeking these days. You cant just hand your cv into places anymore, you have to apply online. That means manually inputting you information into countleas websites, jumping through so many more hoops, scrolling through endless job offers which are either not clear about who they actually are looking for or likely have already accepted someone for the position. Going to the job center is a joke. They just check that youve applied for at least 5 jobs that week and dont do anything to actually help you get a job other than suggest rewording your cv. I was stuck on universal credit for months and finally got a job at McDonald’s only because i had a friend who already worked there. I passed all my gcses with top marks and got 3 a levels. The unemployment crisis is always just blamed on young people not wanting to work, but everyone i know whos unemployed is actively really struggling to find a job.
I have ended up as an accidental employer. I had a stroke and then needed social care. I hated the care on offer. It was provided by agencies. So the council have an alternative here in sheffield which is a direct payment scheme. I employ two lovely young people that in generation Z. One of them who does the most hours has autism. I am pleased to say we all get along beautifully. Ive had other lovely young people in the past. They help me to live the life I want. Not the life that fits in boxes. I respect them all fully and they are incredibly good for me.
The rot set in about 45 years ago with the notion that it was all about the individual making himself or herself marketable. The invisible hand of the market would do the rest. Government skill centres began closing and entrepreneurial training companies started cropping up. You'd get a few months sitting in front of a bored trainer who would get you to commit slogans and cliches to memory and give you a useless certificate at the end. The government skill centres used to churn out people with basic skills in construction, computing, catering etc. The private trainers showed you how to write a CV that no one was ever going to bother to read. We have to get away from this idea that young people should be moulded to fit the needs of the market. It should be the other way around. We need to create a society in which people CAN contribute according to their abilities and can develop those abilities knowing that they will be rewarded for doing so.
The most demoralising part is growing up and being indoctrinated to "be your best self" and "everyone has something they are good at" I'm good at computer programming and computer software in general, there is no work for it in my country, I was sold lies upon lies for a few dollars and now I'm fucked for the rest of my life because unlike most people I dont have family to rely on. I'm just fucked.
Ohhhhhhhhh so you mean WE HAD THE ACTUAL ANSWERS IN PLACE but because OTHER PEOPLE actually DID THE DREAMS THEY REMOVED THE ANSWERS BECAUSE FUKK YOU I GOT MINE. WHATS THE FUKKING POINT
Bricklayer here. If you're young, don't be too disillusioned by this video as there are plenty of very well paid jobs in the construction industry. It is hard and you would eventually have to learn how to manage your own money (we're mostly self-employed once qualified although not all of us) but there is such a demand for hard workers with a trade. I'd recommend my industry to any lost young people in a heartbeat. They won't have job names to brag about but they would be able to earn (you really do EARN your money here though) a good living, move out of mum and dad's and buy their own homes. And the training doesn't put you in 10s of £1000s of debt
It's interesting because when I see building sites you rarely see young men on them below about 30. Maybe younger ones these days aren't as "hands on" with construction? Don't want to get their hands dirty.
As a small business owner (in the fast food chain) I want to add my piece. Due to the nature of our work and the fast paced environment, when Ive interviewed the candidate, its because they came to the shop, handed in their C.V and ive narrowed down our list to their C.V and maybe another. We are a small business of about 14 employees (me included) and I know the cost and effort that goes into everything as im very involved. I make it a priority to RESPECT the candidates time, I call them, organize a interview and by the end ive made my decision. For the life of me I cant imagine why a company would make their candidates jump through hoops just for a chance to be chosen! Shameful!! Those companies should be boycotted. Period!
I'm in my mid 40s and for me, the whole process of applying for jobs takes me so far out of my comfort zone it's literally stopped me from reaching my potential. The whole premise, that I should big myself up, in writing, then in an interview is the very definition of torture to me. It was an ordeal and I'm not on the spectrum, I don't think. I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that I've gone through life feeling like a square peg in a round hole. The societal drift towards individualism makes me feel more and more alienated from the rest of society.
Yes. It's like, we have to exaggerate all our skills, pretend not to have any gaps or weaknesses, then actually lie if required. It is sending such a big message that we are not OK as we are, and that getting the job involves hiding who you actually are, among other's who will be doing the same😂 I have to laugh, or might cry😢
@@MargaretDeakin-d6m'Please provide two references' are words that send a cold chill down my spine. I used to think, I don't know two people well enough to ask them to write a couple of paragraphs explaining how great I am! Is it not enough to torture me, why make me bring outside parties into this charade?
It isn't a difficult question to answer at all. To get people working hard they need to have a future worth working for. The current economic trajectory for our young people is utterly bleak so they see nothing worth striving for. Sure there will be some that are industrious regardless of this but most drift into apathy, normally followed by hopelessness and depression, the ill health you speak of is a result of that, nothing more. I really feel sorry for young people just starting out now, their future has already been destroyed by decades of bad governance and a parliament currently full of clueless clowns gives them no hope.
You need a carrot at the end, but you also need a stick. Open borders mean the UK must compete internationally. In many countries if you don't work you don't eat
It's as simple as that. But governments don't want to admit it because it would mean taking responsibility. Lower taxes, do something about the landlord mafia and offer decent wages. It's REALLY that simple!
Thanks, Richard, for providing a more human, insightful and nuanced response to the question than many others have attempted. I'm an old HR person by profession so, of course, was worried by your "job offer decision in a couple of minutes" .... but much less worried than by the real impact of the larger socio-economic forces you are describing. Employing organisations should think much harder about work, development and learning, fostering positive careers and organisational culture as we start to experience this rapidly arriving information-age revolution.
Once you have decided this is so, you are part of the problem. I don't hold that view. I think there are things we can do together to solve the problems we have.
I'm a 50 yr old with ADHD. When I was younger if you were a square peg, they just smashed you till you fit the round hole. I'm so glad that things are changing for younger ND people.
And if you didn't fit the round hole they just tossed you aside. I too am glad to see outreach for people with conditions. That's one positive of the last 20 years!
I'm a self made millionaire. I did some crappy jobs, when I was 26 I bought a second hand van, after a bit another couple, then a small truck, then a big truck, etc. There is literally nothing I did that couldn't be replicated now. BTW my inheritance from my parents was 10k, no house. They passed after I started business
Because all of the jobs providing mass employment when we were an industrial nation have gone. Now it's flipping burgers or working in a shop for 8to16 hours a week, Amazon warehouse picking or care work.
Outstanding analysis of this issue, 👏 well done. Thank you, I am 54 and have worked from the age of 18, with a Neurodivergence. So not this current generation, but fully understand the reasons you so clearly explained.
The biggest issue is that we have lost hope. we can no aspire to what out parents and grand parents achieved. Houses and even apartments are completely out of reach for us. no matter how hard we work we are paid so little for our effort this is a problem with having a minim wage that gets lower for the younger you are. all of this has destroyed our mental health making us lose hope for the future and feel depressed.
I'm 46 years old and have been diagnosed with ASD. I have a great deal of empathy for younger generations on the autism spectrum, as navigating the workplace environment can be a nightmare, especially when dealing with those in authority. Even though management is aware of your condition, they often continue to treat you with disrespect and contempt, which heightens anxiety and keeps you on edge. For decades, I’ve struggled with work, and while I’ve managed to stay in my current job for the past eight years, there are still days when I feel like walking away. It’s a constant challenge to engage with neurotypical people, and when circumstances become difficult, it can seriously affect your well-being.
Most jobs nowadays won't let your CV get reviewed unless they : A) see a very juicy wall of experience and skills B) see a degree with a juicy wall of internships Even many internships require experience. Starting your journey is nearly impossible for anyone that isn't lucky to know people of power within the company🤷♂.
I did an apprenticeship, and all I was, was just cheap labour, and my work responsibilities were the exact same as someone earning 50% more than me. Anyone that joined the company the normal way earned 50% more than me, and we did the same job, and HR made the apprenticeship process so strange, similar to the video, having to compete with 20 other people in a room to get a job, write out essays about your hopes, future, etc, only to be paid 50% less than someone that was employed the normal process. The job was also unskilled, you didn't need a brain for it, and HR made many promises to upskill you, to get you better, these things never materialized for anyone. Moreover, the company was not even that respected, there was far bigger more respected companies, and so I truly wondered how tough it would have been to compete for a position at that company if my current company was already that competitive.
@Henselt1 can I ask what apprenticeship you did? I get the low pay part. It's why a lot of youngsters drop out. The key is to pick an apprenticeship that will pay well come the end. Easier said than done of course. I had a friend who started on £50 a week as a sparky. Had a second job for the entire apprenticeship. Four years. He got small increments each year each time he passed an NVQ. When he passed, he was put on £625 a week in the late 90s. At 20, that was a phenomenal wage. It's safe to say he went on to be very successful. He now runs his own sparky business, earning six figures. I'm out of the game these days, so I don't know what wages are paid for an apprenticeship, but they were shocking 30 years ago, too.
Thank you for giving us a voice. I did physics and trained as a physics teacher in the UK. They told us we are like gold dust because we are so rare. After 1 year of working in an English school I understand why we are so rare. Literally anything is better than working as someone young in the UK. Now I live in Japan and nearly have enough money to buy a house and maybe I can even start a family and live a normal life. I'm not going back.
50 years ago, with 4 years of full employment, you could afford a house. The salary of one could afford a family of 4 with a wife at home. This would be the case of an average person, say a policeman, carpenter, etc. Nowadays, not even a 35 years old doctor can afford that! We experienced a massive loss of purchasing power!!
@@georgeton4991You'll run out of rich people's money after a couple years. What do you do then after ripping apart so much of the economic infrastructure?
Thanks Richard! I'm a 54 years young Autistic Person and I wish someone had said this 35 years ago as it would save me a lot of heartache. I don't know how up you are on all this but outside of a few large and forward thinking employers, the world gets actively worse for us with every call centre or online fulfilment centre that is built. Even little thing like the led indicators in newer cars adds to the 'noise' in the world that makes it hard for us to engage with it. And of course having Liz Kendal point at us as the new reason that neoliberalism isn't working doesn't help much either.
@@MarkGrindell many can, including, it is believed, James Joyce but then it’s what detriments come along with it. It’s the spiky skill set, good at one thing, terrible at others that causes problems.
You are encouraging such an attitude of "entitlement" this is the product of your delusionary "Marxist-Socialist fantasies" you are a danger to young people
@@christopherhoggins5008 To make complex things work you have to able to maintain concentration. That's all there is to it, really. But we now appear to have a "relabelling" where any ability to do anything to any degree of competence puts you squarely on "the spectrum";' the end point of this is what? Nothing of any significance ever actually gets done by anyone?
@@MarkGrindell The spectrum is a very lazy and woefully inaccurate term that tries to squash three dimensional issues into a straight line with normal somewhere on it and a whole heap of complex attributes that can be regarded useful (in society’s terms) or not. Whether it is an ability to focus / concentrate on a problem that betters society or the stats of a sports team or the cliched trains determines someone’s usefulness in the modern world. The ability of someone to thrive in the world with autism depends on the severity of certain traits, where they are born in the world and what type of society but mostly family wealth. While some may abuse terms like ‘on the spectrum’ others go the other way of telling people that they can’t be autistic because their uncle/cousin/nephew/whatever has it and the act completely different to you.
OMG your best video yet. I have seen this problem everywhere and it is destroying the young. HR is not fit for purpose in large organisations, especially Governemt.
Good vid and educational for me as a 64yr old trying to advise and help a 21yr old. Gives me a better understanding of the pressures they are under which are alien to me.
You mean like 6 weeks holiday a year, flexible hours, shorter working weeks, working from home? Not like my dad's generation who worked 6 days a week, 50 weeks a year? 'Horrendous work culture' my foot.
@@TheDavecroft your dad could afford a house. my gen will never be able to- and yea, i know what i am worth, and if people can't even talk to one with respect, stop demanding overtime unpaid, or to sacrifice unpaid time for company business, then they can FUCK right OFF. if i want to work, it's to make my life better, not worse. to work a job is a partnership between the worker and the company. i sell my time and energy and concentration, in exchange i want my due pay. i am NOT a slave to my state OR my boss, and conditions right now, do NOT justify killing yourself over some peanuts, just to have all of your work evaporate like it never existed.
Work your arse off and end up poor, or stay at home and do your own projects, play videogames and end up poor. Which is gen z going to pick?
The solution is to grasp where it is worth working your arse off, and it sure isn’t uni!
If you can stay at home and play video games and still not homeless. You are privileged af.
@@davidmiles9016 right but the jobs that pay are boring as shit, and also if everyone did those the value of their labour would go down. The problem is interesting jobs that people want to do are controlled by the rich elite rather than given to people with good university degrees and working potential.
@@verzeda welcome to the real world, there are lots of boring jobs that need doing, that’s life, so it makes sense to get one that pays well rather than get in vast debt and end up in Starbucks
On mum and dad's ticket or welfare?
Unaffordable education, unaffordable housing, collapsing healthcare, insecure, poorly paid work and you may soon lose your human rights....I just cant imagine why so many young people have given up. Oh and no or a poor pension likely too.
Agreed. I am 65 and would not want to be starting out now. The whole world of work and indeed world itself as has been documented here has gone crazy. Where is the joy in being alive?
Agreed Im a 64 year old graphic designer that has pretty much morphed into a content creator. My world always has been exciting, but I don't know if Id want to start out again. I genuinely feel sorry for young people today.
I am 55 and can't think of anything worse than having to start out now, even though that would mean being young again it still isn't worth it, that is how bad things are.
Education is free until you're 18. Health care is free even if you've contributed nothing, and an entire stock of cheap housing exists!!
Don't forget the ever increasing threat of WW3 kicking off in the middle east, climate change and the rise of AI!
How society treats its most vulnerable says a lot. We choose to give 18 year olds crushing debt, unaffordable housing, dehumanizing jobs.
its called "Future Investment" *ironie off*
Their futures were spent to fuel the present (now the past). These are the consequences of too much government spending/borrowing/printing.
To be fair, if the young people of today were given the same opportunity, they'd rob the future of their wealth as well. After all, the future can't vote.
If only. Here in Iowa they hire 12 year old illegal immigrants to clean the floors at the slaughter house 😅 let the system crash and burn
Yep whole system ran by a bunch of old, rich, demented fools who only care about themselves
Sht wages and no future? Years ago young people couldn’t wait to leave home and start a family but who can afford to leave home now let alone raise a family of their own. It’s no wonder mental health issues are on the rise amongst the young.
Earning 5 times what I was when I started and paying no income tax at all on half of that money. You think that’s shit wages? Unfortunately people expect that they are going to walk into high paying jobs and that’s not the way the world works especially with the poor schooling most of the youth has received.
Being treated poorly by employers is something that has gone on for a very long time. The times of jobs for life and employer loyalty have gone and it’s no surprise that people don’t want to give their loyalty to a company when they could find themselves discarded in 6 months time.
We also have a culture of benefits available for people to play the system and that being too easy to manipulate to giving you considerable financial advantages over working.
We need employers having influence on what skills are taught in school so that they get a workforce that is already equipped with the skills they need rather than having to invest in training youth hires with basic skills they should already have in top of the job skills they need to make them profitable hires.
Once employed some employee loyalty to their their staff is required as is adequate reward for their work. Paying CEOs names of times what they pay their entry level staff isn’t working and career progression with associated salary improvements is vital.
The rich have got too greedy.
Still, if they didn't spend so much on avocado toast and overpriced brown water (mochachocachinos) they could afford a house, apparently...
I bought 4 houses on minimum wage. You don’t need a lot of money, you just have to understand money.
No skills. No qualifications.
Plus, I would recommend you live with your parents as long as you can. You’ll never have more disposable income and fewer bills. Use the time and the money wisely.
@@StupidIsTheNorm Key question is, when did you do that, and where are the houses?
In a slave economy there is no real reward for working!
There is it's called eating.
Corporate feudalism
@@paulsara9694wind your neck in
Agreed @@paulsara9694
@@paulsara9694 True, but there is also a difference between "living" and "surviving". Work could pay us in stale bread and half gallons of milk instead of money, it would be an objective downgrade.
People require more things than food to truly get the most out of life, food is the bare minimum
I sent 218 CVs and got no job. I've got 2 years of experience, a small network, a STEM degree. There's no way forward, we're forced to sit and wait for years, and the only thing we can do now is collect social security, play video games, watch movies, eat, sleep, work out etc.
Dont worry, your local leftist party is hard at work sending your jobs to India/China to lower operating costs for the wealthy elite!
But dont worry. Their for the people!
Yeah, this is an underrated point. It's not like young people haven't tried. They got a valuable degree, got some internships, networked with their professors in college, and their inbox still has cobwebs. Because _so many_ young people are doing this.
STEM are useless degrees. My engineering degree is in a landfill.
Find something you are interested in and that makes you feel better (obviously within reason, don't pick yachting if you have bugger all money). And do that.
I assume you're in the UK, it is now incredibly onerous for employers to employ, just look at the latest Rachel Reeves budget, then read Thomas sowells "basic economics" specifically the chapters under "work and pay" that will at least explain why
It’s an easy question to answer and I’m not a young person. Young people will never own a home in their lives in the UK, let alone be able to buy a car brand new at the rate in which prices are rising. Where is the incentive to work nowadays? If you are 21 years of age and realized you would never own a home because house prices are quickly reaching 10 or 11 times the average UK salary, why would you even bother? The only reason old geezers are worried about this is because they know there is nobody to fund their pensions moving forward. The Ponzi scheme is coming to an end.
Well said.
you are one of the few people who can connect low employment with pension funding. most people dont understand how the two are connected.
@@puppets.and.muppetsYes exactly. It's a common misconception that the pension money the older generation paid in is the money they'll take at retirement, when in reality it's the money contributed by the young working at that time.
When you look at the world thru the lens of Ponzi investments and money laundering, it makes a whole lot more sense.
That is partly due to less production but higher wages expected, I see a lot on their bloody phone in the work place, ciggy breaks and stood chatting etc, I used to be paid per hour and was expected to work that hour, a company is lucky if they get 40 mins work out of an hour, seen it, also seen firms move out of bone idle UK too!.
Ungainful employment , I'm 64 and don't blame the young for telling these super rich to go to hell.
The US style capitalist system is designed to push wealth up the chain and work down the chain. Remember, the employee is a human resource (like you have a mechanical resource like a lathe machine on the manufacturing floor) that is put under a cost center, and costs are to be reduced ... = have less people or have people but make them work more to increase throughput and profits for every dollar / pound of fixed cost. We have switched from the ancient landowners and laborers to the new type of landlords (the corporations + the 1% rich who control most of the economy) and their laborers ( you and me) who are resources that need to be used and discarded. The old European symbiotic systems between corporations and workers is now blacklisted as socialist and needs to be discarded for free-market capitalism, we're told.
The super-rich were once young. They chose to work hard. You can hate them for all you want, but you can't have their lives.
@@alexanderde-sowah857
The super rich only got there by using other people’s efforts and energy.
We all woke up, and you’re all going to go bankrupt because you screwed the people over time and time again.
& we have taught our children to no longer be your slaves!
@@alexanderde-sowah857Everyone works hard, but not every one gets rich.
2nd point 👉 you don't get the right to exploit people when you become rich.
3. We would surely hate those riches who are enjoying on our hard work
@@alexanderde-sowah857lol, for fact, labor workers work much harder than the rich people, the deferrence is that workers don't exploit their bosses till the last drop of juice like rich people do to their stuff!!!
This resonates with me, an elder millennial.
I am neurodiverse, amazingly skilled, and was making pretty decent money until recently. But I could never afford a house, or a car no matter how much I saved.
I completely exhausted my life savings trying to find a job the last 16 months. Hundreds of interviews and nothing to show for any of it. I am back to where I started in my mid 20s.
Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, the system. Burn it down.
Save yourselves Gen Z. Warm yourself on the smoldering ruins.
Gen Z are more aware of harmful relationships than any generation before. That includes employers. They are humanity's last hope of a turnaround by refusing to "play" at this point.
A friend the other day told me that his 20 y.o. son, super-keen to work, has made something like 40 job applications and in most cases has not even received the courtesy of a rejection message. He is inevitably becoming disillusioned with the whole process.
Yes it's it's a shitstorm for job applications at ANY age
That's just plain rude. When I was a manager, everyone rejected at the application stage, got a standard letter. Everyone I interviewed, got a phone call from me personally.
Know the situation well. I saw it with my own son. In an era when form e-mails can be created and sent with the push of a button failure to send even an acknowledgement is unforgivably discourteous and contemptuous
40 job applications is nothing. People send 1200 and get little to no answer. It is better to move to a country and place where they need you.
@swojnowski453 well said, unfortunately this now seems to be the nor. It usually helps to register with an employment agency for temporary work and gain experience.
They are depressed because they have no future in the UK sky high rents along with sky high education costs and shit wages. The UK is utterly broken.
Yet they still come. Wonder how that works?
@@alexdavis1541are you talking in code, jimmy?
@@colincampbell4261 One that you evidently understand
@@alexdavis1541if there were no migrants this problem would still exist. Your energy is being diverted.
@@Redf322 The current problems are pretty much down to government inflating our GDP using immigrants, this has reduced access to housing, put unsustrainable stress on services and infrastructure and created massive social problems. It was a ruinous short termist strategy that has ultimately ruined the country.
I can tell you why I avoided working for quite a while until I found something I was comfortable with. Every single thing I looked at around me felt immoral to participate in. Job hunting felt like a manipulative ploy where I'd need to lie or brag in ways I'm not comfortable with. Additionally, participating in corporations felt like helping them to gain control of and exploit every living thing and resource on earth. I don't want to help them, I want to oppose them. I didn't join the labor force until I found a path that I felt was opposing the societal ills that I cared about. There are a lot of societal ills that I think a lot of young people are morally perturbed by.
I mean, FFS, half my tax dollars are going to slaughtering people my age on the other side of the glove for no discernible reason other than corruption. Who the hell wants to pay that shit? And the only way to not pay that shit is to not work. Or, some creative ideas I came up with. Some are surely looking at that and saying, "Screw that, I'd rather be homeless."
I felt exactly the same.
I can’t lie to save my life. I guess I don’t get to be incompetent at my job now. The sad fact of life is there are people alive today who are older than job interviews. There has to be a better way to allocate labor. They have to switch their spending on recruitment and training. All of this is a sick joke to grape mother nature and destroy the soul of humankind
@@evilryutaropro Yep, I'm just trying to move out to the country and escape this shit lmao
They've grown up watching their parents working themselves into an early grave.
Doing what exactly? I worked from the age of fifteen until I retired at sixty five. I am now seventy seven and still alive and well, a long way away from an early grave.
@yourseatatthetable My grandfather worked himself into an early grave. He was only 67 when he died. Only 2 years to enjoy his retirement. Was it worth it I wonder, especially as he fought for his country in ww1. He only left a legacy of just over £400.
@@CatherineBirch-m5r I can think of more than a few people I've known over the decades that suffered similar fates. In the richest country in the world, it is shameful that people literally have to do this.
@yourseatatthetable It was remembering my grandfather's fate, and watching my.father work hard all his life and not get more than a tiny house thst he had to pay a mortgage on for 30 years and also have to work overtime just to buy a colour tv, that made me live the lifestyle thst I did.
@@cliffwheeler7357 I watched 4 men die within a year of retiring; another two die from work related inflictions. I, myself, at the age of 14, working my first punch a clock job, got a server dose of carbon dioxide that put me in the hospital for a couple of days.
I mowed a dozen lawns at the age of 10, shoveled snow, and worked summers for the local farmers, baling hay and mucking stalls.
And here I am, at 59, working 45+ hours a week, split shift after split shift, never the same schedule each week. This morning, for example, I'll work for 6 hours, and then go back out this evening for another 4.
In the 9 years that I've worked for my boss, three men have had accidents, falling off roofs, ladders, and one getting ran over accidently by a co-worker.
My body aches; I am tired all the time; and no matter how much I work, it's all I can do to stay afloat. I even started mowing the strip club next door for cash during the summer months.
So, p"sss off, friend.
What I hear in speaking to young people is that there simply isn't much point. The inequality that has grown to extremely damaging levels in the UK means for those of average means/backgrounds they simply cannot even see a way of renting, let alone buying anything.
The GB economy has simply priced too many people out of having any kind of lives. They live at home until their mid thirties and get used to it, whereas we moved out post Uni or in my case at 17...Its not achievable now for many.
The UK is a poisonous little island, owned by THIEVES, administered by FRAUDS and facilitated by LIARS....... and then they wonder why no-one is "patriotic" or wants to fight for the crown.
We'll said. And your last paragraph sums up the UK brilliantly.
And let’s not forget the role of legacy media in all of this. Outfits like The Daily Mail and GB News - even the BBC - perpetuating this nonsense by vomiting out the narrative being forced upon us by neoliberals, including, I’m sad to say, the current government. Look at the EU and marvel at its continued progression. In contrast, we’ve become - and remain - a backward, regressive little nation, that thinks by being like America, we’re somehow going to rule the world again. It’s pathetic. Young people aren’t buying this narrative however (thank god) but they’re paralysed in acting because the system has them right where it wants them. Talk about Orwell’s warning to mankind.
Parasites calling the working class parasites.
The young have been let down by the education process. This is only the fault of the government who stipulate what is to be taught. The majority of parents only acquire the missing useful knowledge by the time they are no-longer parents and it is too late to get their children to unlearn things which have been taught from infancy.
It is precisely people like you that causes their predicament. You're obviously hideous
I was working 80 hrs a week. Harder n harder to save for what I really want, I decided to give up I’m not working to death. My health is deteriorating for not having time to cook the food, eat it and to go to the gym and take care of myself. I’m done I’m only working the hrs I need to cover my bills and that’s it I’m done. I’m drained I want to have hope for the future but it’s harder and harder as the days go by. Good luck everyone.
I hope you're able to dedicate some time to some sort of meditation or prayer where you're not constantly overstimulated and exhausting yourself worse and worse with every passing day.
greedy rich people
A few years ago, the daughter of a former colleague applied for a part-time job in a greetings card shop. The 2-day recruitment event included two written essays, three group discussions, an IQ test and two role playing episodes. She didn't get the job and felt pretty demoralised. A couple of years ago that particular chain of shops closed down.
I'm not surprised.
Karma is real
Good.
That right there is a corporate HR team creating BS to justify its existence, and a senior leadership team that lets it happen. This is why it died.
Ridiculous what is required for a low paying job. Some even want reference letters for entry-level positions.
Richard, thank you for your understanding of how bad things are for younger gen. I’m a millennial and things are so tough, so it really helps to see older gens look at this from a place of empathy and support.
45 yr old here. I think anyone with a brain can see how rough it is for the under 60 crowd and the younger you go the worse it is. Emphasis on the brain part. I was unemployed 2x in the past 10 yrs and looking for a job was a nightmare, I refused to do it the modern way after a few tries and got a job through networking and working myself up instead.
i’m happy you brought up autistic people because we are suffering pretty badly. 80% of all autistic people don’t even work in the first place! it’s worse now because of how job searching is nowadays. it’s a full time job within itself. you have to stare at a screen for hours a day doing pointless personality tests (which is hell for autistic people) only to not get contacted anyway because your resume got denied by AI. it’s even worse for those of us with rejection sensitivity. interviewing is horrible aswell because you are supposed to lie constantly. a lot of us don’t know when to lie…or what is acceptable to say. but we know when we are honest, we get denied.
i would work if i could, but no one gives me a chance. yet every adult still thinks it’s all my fault anyway? as if i can force people to hire me.
i always think about how just 50 years ago they were chaining autistic kids up to ACs in mental facilities, now they wanna blame/demonize us for not “trying hard enough” to assimilate and become machines for a society that treated us like we were less than human?
i know that i am so much more than my employment status, but no one else feels that way…. anyway! i appreciate this video a lot, since older people don’t usually listen to us when we try to explain. ^^
i was only halfway through while writing this XD i hate when i comment stuff that is already said in the video lol
Thank you for taking the time to write this, just wanted you to know that a slightly older person (mid 40’s) read this and felt for you and the situation you find yourself in. We must do more to help younger people.
Certainly the most important thing we need to do is listen, and then work together to act and make change. Too many older people want to talk about what they think the answers are, rather than listening first.
Can confirm, even with a twelve hour shift four days a week with one boomer, that boomer will refuse to help your autistic self. I was working at the same place for three years and kept hearing "she doesn't know how! We can't have her make food, she doesn't know how. We have to be home to do the curlers because she doesn't know how."
THEY NEVER EVER EVEN OFFERED TO TEACH.
@@soredoncan I recommend a few things, as someone with autism and other neuro divergences. Regarding rejection sensitivity, I've benefitted from stimulants for attention issues and motivation, and serotonin agonists which help perception and strengthening application of context specific information to the world.
For emotional well being, I was really helped by the book 'Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents ' by Lindsay Gibson. It details a lot of the emotional infrastructure that was not taught/learnt at a young age, and how you can learn that yourself as an adult. I found it helped with emotional sensitivity and expression a lot.
Work all week and give half your wage to a Landlord to help him buy the home you are renting. Disgusting.
Blame the councils who took all the money from the sell off of council houses and didn’t replace the council house stock. They were always good houses where young couples could start their married lives and start a family. They then replaced these with starter homes which cost a fortune weren’t big enough to swing a cat and when they started a family (the time they could least afford it ) they had to move because the houses weren’t big enough. No thought went into it at all.
@@ChristineMurphy-gs2fcthey were not allowed to use the money for rebuilds. They had to use it to replace the funding hole left by Tory government.. Please get your facts straight.
The right to buy should have never happened this has resulted in a massive reduction in available social housing. In my area the majority of the council houses bought through the right to buy scheme are now in the hands of greedy private landlords who charge extortionate rents for insecure homes where the tenant can be told to leave at a moments notice at the whim of the landlord!!!
@@peterensinger1770 100% correct, another brilliant idea from the Thatcher era. Probably one of the worst Prime Ministers we've ever had, although I think Starmer will be running a close second!
Not really disgusting to most young people they want massive million pound loans to buy property just like their Mummys and Daddies ! and of course The Landlord.
Unemployment is much higher than the official numbers.
Apparently one hour paid work in last month (or was it 3 mths?) constitutes "employed".
a lot of people simply give up after a long search, then drop out of the job center services as they are treated like crap.
yes , and what i understand it's because those who have given up looking for work arent even counted. it's so dumb when i think about how official figures downsize the reality.
@@Triadistic Even the so called Government admit to a Million+ unregistered insurgents.
Yeah the jobcentre are more dehumanising than the employers. I’m on disability now with long COVID. But I’ve had two phone appointments with them in the last couple of months. The first one they cancelled by email less than two hours before it was due. So that one got rescheduled. Was due to have my second one on Monday and that time they just didn’t so hone up at all. Didn’t even get a cancellation email until three hours after the time the appointment was supposed to start. Seems to be standard level of disrespect they have for us. But of course if I was the one to not turn up they’d be threatening me with sanctions immediately. I remember one time a few years ago when I was actually jobseekering with them, my work coach gave me the wrong date for an in person appointment. So I turned up on the day and time I was told to, only to be told my appointment had been the day before. I explained that I showed up when I was told to and accepted that it was their mistake, I think I still had a card with the date they’d written down for me so I could prove it wasn’t me. then said that since I’d not shown up the day before i was now on a formal warning and any other breach would get me sanctioned. There’s only soo long you can put up with that kind of treatment while getting no response from any of the jobs you apply for before just dropping out
300 years of experience is required for a $15 hr job. And it's part time.
Don't work - Be poor and relaxed
Work - Be poor, timeless, and stressed
I see plenty of folks sitting around EVERY DAY in the town I live in.
They gather at Midday to drink, smoke and fight until late evening.
They always seem to have the few items they desire, and don't need to work or answer to anybody.
About to quit my underpaid most stressful job as a Special Needs T.A in a broken education system with no support, not enough staff and violence daily. The shit £19,000 as a single parent is a funking joke. I left school in 1989 and my first job as a jewellery finisher (no qualification) £14,000. My first flat in 1998 £58,000.
@@clairelynch4056 youre lucky with the house
Let it rot western style?
This is dangerous
As a registered nurse looking after patients with chronic skin conditions … I have noticed for the last 5 years a general increase in patients between 18 and 30 significant flare of their skin condition due to stress and lifestyle anxiety.
Social media does that.
@@languso13 does social media give you psoriasis or atopic eczema?
@VerminaeSupremacy yes!
@@sharonanderson5794 More likely due to smoking weed, drinking alcohol, not exercising or getting enough fresh air, crap diets and playing xbox all day
@@VerminaeSupremacysocial media linked to stress, stress linked to skin conditions.
For what? I work full time as factory worker/operator and I could barely afford a studio apartment and little else. You can’t tell me the rich folks on their yacht in the Maldives are working harder than me. They don’t even deserve the pittance I get for breaking my back. Why should these kids work to make them richer?
Don't underestimate how hard the ultra-rich work - most of them work hours you wouldn't think possible.
Doesn't mean there isn't a wage disparity problem - there is. But the ultra rich didn't get where they are by smoking cigars in a leather recliner all day.
@@deezelfairy Many of them inherited their wealth and though they may have worked hard to expand it there's nothing can compete with a flying start. How long does it take for a billionaire to earn £12? Something in the order of nanoseconds. It takes some people in work an hour of their time. Who is working harder, bearing in mind that some of these people have second and even third jobs just to survive? And they're working hours you wouldn't think possible too.
The job search & application process that you have described does not apply to young people only... I am in my mid 30s, recent graduate (masters) and I have been looking for a job since January. I have years of experience, several educations, number of certificates, and I struggle to go through all 5 or 10 interview stages that employer wants me to go through. It is exhausting. I am not working not because I don't want to, but because I am not allowed to. I was made redundant almost 2 years ago and was unable to get a job since. All of my friends who lost their job (many in their 20-30s) are unable to find a job, too. There is a quiet unemployment crisis going on, as well general unwillingness of people to work for 22,000 a year in a skilled job in London.
Same as you, I even have a really good cv and was lucky to find a remote position but that don't pay the bills so I have to live with my parent...
And the boomers have balls to talk about use while we are more competent or even when we speak more than 3 languages.
Create an HR department and they will create a web of HR processes to justify their own existence.
Absolutely.
Exactly, with bureaucracy it isn't the outcome that is important just the process so the more convoluted they can make the process the better for them.
Human Resources - seldom resourceful and never humane.
So very true!
These days it's rarely an HR department. More often its a recruitment agency who have a vested interest in making recruitment processes lengthy
Wages are less than the cost of driving to work
£11.44 an hour, the minimum wage, which supermarkets and most jobs pay. Carers, shop workers,restaurants, fast food etc..that's all people are worth, then they have to rely on UC and get called scroungers, and told to get another job, fking ludicrous. These employers, especially the huge supermarkets, are making obcene profits, no wonder young folk are pissed off with it all.
In my village they actually limit the hours to 2.5 days a week, and its enough to call a person in 'full time employment' these days. Simply, there are not enough jobs left in this country, too much outsourcing and offshoring.
In addition, in supermarkets it's almost impossible to get contracted full-time hours so that you are desperate to pick up whatever anti-social shifts aren't covered at short notice. Before supermarkets were open 24/7, there was a life outside of work but working until 8:00 or 10:00 in the evening every shift and having to do that over every weekend means that life is all bed and work for minimum wage. Managers have been cut to the bone and much of the work previousy done by managers now has to be covered by "team leaders" who earn little more than they would without the title and different colour shirt. There is zero career progression. As staff numbers are cut back more and more and the remaining workers are expected to take up the slack, people stop even trying to achieve unachievable goals - they stop "going the extra mile" when every day is yet another marathon in bare feet over broken glass. Favours are a one way street - "Can you just stay an extra hour ?" "Can you come in tomorrow on your day off ?" "Can you change your shift pattern this week ?" and if you say ,"No" there's the guilt tripping. Try it the other way round - "Can I book time off for my parent's anniversary/my best friend's 21st/a wedding ?" and it'll depend on whether they can find cover with no effort or you are expected to try to find someone to cover. Good luck with that if you are one of the lucky ones contracted to work until 10:00 pm every Friday and Saturday. YES - I'M LOOKING AT YOU ASDA !
What are those supermarkets' costs exactly?
I'll point out that people chose to work for that wage. If you don't like those wages, then skill up and find a better-paying job.
@Fiscally_Responsible_DMH52 Easier said than done..Tesco made nearly 3 billion in profits last year and expects the government to top up their employees' wages 🤦♀️
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Or the employees could decide to skill up and find other work. Apparently, this concept is difficult to understand, but it's the people choosing their outcomes.
Finished my BSc in Sep 2021. My first ‘proper’ job was as a live-in nanny. Couldn’t get lab/research work because I had ‘no proveable skills’. Now writing my MSc thesis. I’ve had an interview and a few rejections, but the one thing I’m dreading is the despair that I felt last time. Having all the passion for your subject and no one give you the chance to succeed. My parents have just started relaxing the pressure because they’ve come to realise that I can’t just walk into a company or research institute and hand them my CV. I’m supposed to have a ‘prized’ STEM degree. I can’t imagine how much harder it is for those in humanities and the arts.
Same as I just finished my masters thesis and as well and no probably will get one of those recruitment jobs as for my field is to dam competitive. Most likely will leave this country as nothing here at all gives us incentives to stay here now.
People and governments always go over the top. Because STEM was booming in the 00s and 2010s, it was STEM this, STEM that, EVERYONE MUST GO INTO STEM..... And then the bust happened and now we are left with a massive over-saturation of STEM grads. I wonder what the next fad will be?
I feel your pain! I have a biochemistry BSc, am published author in Genome biology, have other work, and still no job!
@@martian8987 might not have a job but that's amazing achievement.
It's bloody hard, don't give up something will come up.
cost of living crisis = demotivated workers, its not just young ppl saying screw it either.
Agreed. I think I’ll just point out that gen z is the first to publicly give the middle finger to the cronies. Of course I’m glad all or most people of all generations feel this way now.
Landlordism and not having affordable housing is a big one.
I think rory sutherlands explanation is much more correct on this matter. People max out their borrowings and bid the price up. The biggest raises in house prices have been when banks have been allowing loans at 4 and 5 times earnings and super long mortgages.
When the BoE prints money to give handouts, that money has to go somewhere, and that’s usually assets
4.8 million BTLs
@@tricky1992000 I reckon that there should be some kind of limit or rule on how many houses someone can own. Too many people see a house as an “investment opportunity” as opposed to somewhere to live and raise a family in.
@@fanfeck2844 That's right. Check out the major rise in stock market indices across the world from about May 2020 to late 2021.
How can listed company values have risen when they were supposed to be in lockdown and therefore unproductive? The answer is that central banks everywhere were printing pretend money (QE) and this triggered exuberance in the stock market. It indeed had to go somewhere.
Never mind anything else, QE also ended up amounting to a transfer of wealth to those already wealthy. Yet the people who lost out still support the lockdowns and the money printing frenzy that accompanied them
Gen z has seen their older relatives get screwed by capitalism and are reluctant to follow them. Good for gen z
Screwed by Capitalism? You mean screwed by moving away from Capitalism?
@@PlutoPhobia-y7r Towards it though, and it's already causing failure
@@ltmundthere's also a difference between WoN (A .Smith) and That work by Marx.
@@ltmund how have we moved away from capitalism?
@@ltmund how have we even moved towards socialism?
You end up poor either way you go. Wages are a joke compared to cost of living. If working does not afford you an independent life whats the point? Housing, education, Healthcare, child care costs have outpaced inflation since the 1980s.
You already stripped everything from Millenials, so Gen Z are seeing the absolute hopelessness of it and deciding... nope. No thank you. I blame none of them.
In the past one worked to survive. There was no safety nets
The safety net was cheap cheap cheap housing and plenty of work not requiring experience of a degree.
@@dallysinghson5569 You are delusional if you think the past was always so easy. ie on some fantasy re write to preach to whiners of today. ie you are clueless. Try sleeping on the carpet for over 8 months since all wages when to rent. Today they tell you you are going to be laid off with the Warn Notice; since today folks are fragile and not use to hard times of past eras. Ie they let you know and give you time. In the past they just fired folks in mass with zero notice. Someone must be supporting you to make up such horse manure beliefs.
@@3beltwestyIn the past the farm you where taxed to run might have gotten ransacked by merchenaries. What's your point?
@@theanonymspysandwich In the past one worked to survive and get ahead. There were less boobs of government money to suckle on and sit at home and whine like children. That was part of being an adult. ie learning that life is not Hollywood and you had to hustle to get a head. Whining was for children or spoiled adults that had some trust fund. Today folks would rather whine like spoiled children than hustle. If you say why work you are either retired or have someone paying you to sit and whine. Decades ago one third of the poor ate dog food.
If you worked in the 80s ....you'd be working to pay off your mortgage
If you work in 2024 , you're working to pay someone else's
That's the difference. It doesn't pay to work. Might as well just go on benefits and claim hosting benefit
Lazy basket
No reason people can't buy houses. Plenty for less than £200K in the North of England, easily affordable to a young couple on average wage of around £30K - £35K each
yup, at least im not helping my captors that way
@@TheDavecroftoh of course everyone else is wrong and super smart dave can see it all, google dunning-kruger mate.
I bought a house 5 yrs ago at 23... it's not impossible.
I worked my ass off for 18 hours a day in a company, gained 15 kgs and all sorts fo stomach disorder, and saved lot of money for company. in the end i was denied the variable pay which was minial. what do i get for working hard? just a new ferrari for CEO
Greedy rich people.
Greedy rich people
After the war a house cost about a year's income. Today it's ten years. That's progress for you.
That was 8 decades ago. 8 decades before the war was the 1860's. It's not a useful frame of reference. It was a different era in history.
@@intelligenceofacertainkindIt’s directly proportional to the average waist size then and now - the most physical reflection of how much sicker we are now.
That is not true! Never was true. And besides it isn't about houses. It's about movement and effort, not passively sitting and looking into a screen that is designed to make you...well...passive! Throw your smartphone into the Lake of Fire and see what happens in six months. Just saying.
@@douglasskinner It’s true. Boomers had it best, and kept it to themselves. The grim reaper is near though, oh father time.
The more they war the more we work
It's not just young people many of us oldies have given up too. I'm in my late 50s and see the retirement age as chasing a moving target, it keeps going up, so I've decided to take things easy now. Just can't be arsed.
@jamesrindley6215 My thoughts exactly! I retired from being unemployed, and I was so relieved to be done with endless jobsearch logs to fill out, signing on and being sanctioned for nothing at all.
@@CatherineBirch-m5r Right. Jobs are often set up to be demeaning and demoralizing and the unemployment system is much the same or even worse.
If you manage it in a smart way, it's possible to live quite cheaply. You find different pastimes and pleasures that don't involve spending a lot of money.
Hope you get to keep your job until retirement, nowadays if you are over 50 and are looking for work you are too expensive to hire and too close to retirement to be worth investing in for a company.
You and me both mate
@@cloudwalker9572 Whether you are too expensive to hire is your choice of what demands you make. I think you have to be realistic that experience adds value only up to a point, and for many of us that probably peaked in our 40s. A person in their 50s probably has 5 to 10 good years of work to offer to a company. Given that a younger person will probably move on after a couple of years anyway, why would that be a disqualification?
Work? For what? So they cant afford basic necesseties like a home, a car and an groceries? Not only they expect slaves to work constantly, they also expect them to make more slaves? Pheh fuck it
Oh, no. The family structure was well on the way towards being dismantled when the economy established this nonsense.
The badness in the economy happened at a smaller scale, but grew proportionally as the family structure disintegrated for various sociological and economic reasons.
Back in the 1960's only high skilled workers could afford a car, now I see people on benefits or so called crap wages with cars, mixed opinions on here.
@@Gazr965 I don't think it's reasonable to apply 60's standards to today. This is not a single variable problem. Enough about the structure and foundation of a society and it's economy has been ignored that the induced problems have gotten very complicated.
The balance of economic costs and what is needed to be an active participant in society has dramatically changed. Someone without a cell phone, computer, and internet connection, is far less capable of being a person in the modern day than they would have been in the 60s. These are not luxury expenses, they are necessary to keep up with the economy, keep up with job applications, and news regarding various industries.
Housing, food, and basic utilities, combined with the extremely unrealistic idea that an average person would have a stay at home spouse taking care of the various upkeep tasks of life while the breadwinner played their role in the family unit, has dramatically changed the landscape.
It is my view that any simplistic breakdown of "this is where the problem is these days, you're suffering because of your personal and individual failures as humans that an average person from back in the 60s would not suffer from" that fails to recognize the changing societal landscape regarding technology and economic structures is doomed to be poison instead of helpful.
@@Gazr965what a load of cobblers. First mass production car was the model T in 1908. Designed to be cheap enough for the assembly line workers who made it to afford it. My grandad had a car from the end of WW2, he ran a small family shoe shop. Hardly a highly skilled super earner was he? Plenty of people could afford a car in the 1960s.
One of the reasons we used cars less back then was because the railways were a lot more extensive then and we didn’t require as much travel. We require a lot of travel now (I’m aware there have been trends to the contrary last few years) and railways are limited putting great value on road travel, and yes being on the road has become significantly more expensive despite these requirements even in the last 10 years due to government mismanagement.
Same in Canada. Exact same thing. unaffordable housing, unaccessible healthcare, job paying minimum wages while asking to have 40 years of experience for placing stuff on shelves... No wonder they are giving up.
Honestly you get asked for experience in delivering parcels to peoples doors, with a satnav. As if that that requires any skill or experience. If you have a driving licence and are able bodied and you can’t do that then you need care, not a job. They still have the gall to ask for experience and make you do irrelevant “tests”.
Facts I worked as a custodian b4 years ago. Now if i interview for a custodian / janitor position they interview me and never call me back . They require at shit ton of experience for no reason .
In my 50s now, not only are the majority of companies I've worked for are no longer there, a lot of the buildings I've worked in are no longer there. Unless you're working for yourself, all work is wasted.
I started work at 19, couldn't believe how crap it was. Stopped at 21 and worked for myself ever since, now 56. In that time everything has changed and there was no point being loyal to a company. The tech changed my world so rapidly it was always going to be uncertain, I knew that at 21 but knew my skills would see me through. I hate bosses, the clients are my boss which is much better.
because when you pay 80% of your wages on rent, what is the point
I'm 21 and just started by first job out of uni on Monday. I have a very good STEM degree from a very good uni and found the job hunting process absolutely soul-crushing, dehumanising and frustrating. And I think myself lucky cus it only took me 3 months!!
The job I did end up finding is also not really what I want to be doing to be honest, it's quite a long commute and progression seems limited and I was sort of lied to by the job description as the real job is nothing like it.
I've seen many of my peers take a lot longer to find jobs and then it's something completely unrelated to their degree with shit pay and no progression.
What's the point when even with an exceptional degree you end up with a mediocre job and without that you're basically fucked
Welcome to capitalism nothing new here😢
If it's bad for a bright person like you, it's worse for people without good degrees. We live in a broken economic and social environment, a broken, brutal dog eat dog system.
@@marianhunt8899I agree with you completely however I'm increasingly of the opinion that employers don't give a shit about your degree anymore, you just need the piece of paper. I feel a sense of regret that I put so much time and energy into a difficult degree when I should have put that effort into internships and work experience, which I actually did none of even though I tried. Employers care a lot more about previous experience through these methods than your grades in my experience. The degree is simply an incredibly expensive checkbox exercise these days for most roles
@@kangaroo1888whats your alternative?
A degree is a foot in the door. The rest is based on the amount of working knowledge you can acquire. What I suggest you do is treat your job like if it's your own business. Learn how your role effects other departments and vice versa. Do that for 1/2 years. Then either consider moving to another job, the one that you really want or see how you are treated by your current company.
If every graduate expected an easy ride to a lucrative job, then you don't know the world of business. And that is what you are about to learn. Get ready to set foot in the arena. All the best!
After leaving college I was hired by the local authority. Spent all day and most of the night writing database systems. Coding etc. After six months I quit from exhaustion.. and worked voluntarily for just the same money (they even paid my rent etc) on the dole. Can you imagine leaving a job because volunteering (the organisations I work for respect volunteers) is financially more rewarding and far more secure? Welcome to Britain. The local authority was full of know nothing, self important biatches who thought they had a right to treat you like crap, and wanted to motivate through fear. Sod that.
When universal credit came online they stopped people volunteering.
Good for you, you've seen thru the BS
Yes and stopped nixers ...I was just saying I have elderly parents and my own family and I have to do things like cut the hedges because you can't get anyone to do those things like clean windows or clear gutters ..nobody even sweeps the public road any more so I have to sweep a lot of the bloody road which used to employ council road sweepers and men used to be able to do a nixer. Cut a bush. Clean a window. Without needing insurance and to register as self employed and be cut off the dole. Its madness. They won't let people do things they could do without threatening to pull the rug out from under them if they dare try to do a small bussiness. My friend did his own bussiness tree cutting which is a seasonal job and in winter you have no work except after a bad wind. But he couldn't get any form fo support so he ended up going back on the dole. My other friend lost her leg in a car wrwck she had her own bussiness as a sort of woo therapist with reiki or something. To get disability she had to shut down her whole bussiness and prove it was shut down and then they told her she could get a job? She had her own bussiness???? They said she could drive herself with one leg to tescos and work the checkout in her wheelchair. But she couldn't be at home and do her therapies? When she had a good day and on her own terms. It's insane.
Let me guess. A ratio of 10 managers who do nothing to every 1 actual worker. I have experienced a similar thing.
@zoidberg444 my friend has 9 managers for 29 staff. And that staff has got a workload of something like 7000 clients lol!
The other big issue is employers wanting 110 percent effort but only pay 60 percent of the effort and complain when workers start giving only 60 percent.
Absolutely 100% spot on. I'm of your generation Richard. Your insights, understanding, analysis and empathy for young people is impressive and disarmingly accurate. Oh that ministers and employers would start to grasp this; they need to do so with great urgency. This is both important and urgent for the sake of our young people, the UK economy and our country.
Actually, you only needed to say "for our young people".
Ministers have forgotten that they are supposed to serve their population. These days they serve something else and tax us to pay for it.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Over the last 10 years I've been watching my son go through this and it's been absolutely heart-breaking. Endless hoop-jumping to get a job. Wages that didn't allow him to buy a house where the jobs were. Managers promoted to their level of incompetence who made his life a misery. A lack of job security that has made him constantly anxious. Now thankfully (for now at least) he has a job that allows him to work from home in an area where property is cheap and for a business that treats him with respect. Such businesses are too few and too far between.
(If you chose to breed)
You CHOSE to make that possible for your breeding results when you CHOSE to breed. Your breeding result is going through that all for your personal pleasure, because you wanted to breed.
Just one of thousands of reasons why breeding is so cruel.
Purposeful breeders choose to make a potential victim of any horror for their own personal pleasure of being a breeder. You created a potential r pe victim, a potential p dophile, a potential victim of the cost of living crisis, the housing crisis, any horrifying disease... for.your own personal pleasure.
Cruel and selfish. (Unless you were unfortunately forced to breed/adopted/fostered.)
@@HihihiHello-b4m Hey Siri. Find me the definition of verbose stupidity
The entry level positions have been evaporating. Also, the incentives to work hard are decreasing. They no longer believe that they can have a family, a house, or a good retirement.
The companies need absolutely nobody. They need you as a consumer, not as someone on the payroll.
No one will be consuming without any money
On the road to dystopian corporatocracy, individuals shall be assessed for pliability, compatibility and earnestness of enthusiasm.
You forgot the 'assessed by an algorithm' part... buy yeah, stuff it. The most talented creative people I've encountered would never fit with this system...
Almost. They’re selected for compliance and unquestioning obedience.
Yes, when hiring we called this “flexibility” which carried equal weight with skills, and I hated doing it. understand that “flexibility” does in fact mean unquestioned obedience. These are never the best, most motivated employees, and often a managers nightmare.
Corporations with their HR departments running things :(
America has given us an ultimatum: get rich enough to survive old age (unlikely) or suffer horribly.
As a small tech/engineering business with around 65 employees, we've refused to deal with agencies or use online application systems. We don't advertise the few vacancies that arise because there is always a steady stream of CV's and we genuinely keep any that could be relevant.
A CV is the perfect document for any person to sell themselves, especially if they've not followed a strict template and been creative; I want to see their personality on paper.
One of the most memorable CV's was in the form of a takeaway menu, it was from a 21 year old woman who had dropped out of a electrical engineering degree to help care for a family member with MND. I respect those values and her honesty, and everything on the CV screamed "intelligent person", turned out I was right; 12 years later she's our lead instruments engineer.
I do wonder how many really good people slip through the net of these corporate recruitment processes, but their loss is our gain.
Wonderful you do it like that, but I wouldn't dare to be frank and honest in my CV because most employers expect a standardized sanitised list of skills and experiences. Nothing else
@@ProgamerEU Why not take a gamble, apply for something you think might be out of your reach but send them a CV that you believe fully represents who you are; what have you got to lose?
Though I think cvs alone now thanks to AI are problematic
@@dorothyb. Why? A CV written by AI sticks out like a sore thumb, and it's not like we would employ someone without speaking to them as well.
@@garysmith5025 I usually take a gamble and apply to jobs that are 80% fit of my skills with usually the only thing missing - YOE.
The result - Possibility of my contact being blacklisted (not joking). Even if it sounds absurd SOME companies have your details already stored in their DB or IDK WHERE and when they track that you're application has been submitted and rejected somewhat recently it just goes to the trash.
I've received a phone call few months ago regarding my CV and how my skills would be of great help for them (I had to use another email because of security reasons) and the HR lady straight up told me that they changed their mind because my previous one was already rejected and in 4 months I wouldn't have improved much since then.
Bunch of HR bullshi.t
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I suspect I've had autism and ADHD throughout my life. I've also suffered mental illnesses, anxiety and depression. And it's true, employers and employees treat you with contempt. I also suspect people from previous generations have suffered these, but were just labelled 'thick' or 'highly strung'. Unfortunately, I never had the luxury of not working. I had to work to survive. I suspect previous generations were the same.
Yes, people calling people 'snowflakes' or whatever really don't help.
@@wildberrygarden I never used the word 'snowflakes'. I just pointed out that mental conditions have always been around, never diagnosed, but survival made people work.
@Freesurfer688 yes I know, I wasn't referring to your comment (which I agree with). I meant that some people use that word when people talk about their mental health problems or don't act in a certain way, which doesn't help people who are struggling.
@@wildberrygarden I agree. In the past mental health conditions were not diagnosed or even known about, so the person in the workforce or at school was often bullied, called 'thick' or 'weirdo'. I agree with Richard that everyone has something constructive to bring and it's just a matter of identifying what it is and how to use their talents.
I got diagnosed with autism in 2022 whilst working at a high-demand, high stress job. I thought (foolishly) that being honest would allow me to work with my managers to build some balance, but they instead tried to PIP me and push me out. Never be honest with your employers about your mental health, they do NOT care about you
Keep doing this. Your message is important - you're helping fight back against the tyrants.
Being autistic means out of the few opportunities that are available, many employers are unwilling to hire us. Then the gap in our CV puts us at a major disadvantage going forward.
Look on the upside at least you didn't get chickenpox.
Just lie like fuck on your cv.
Try bus driving, mor autuists therethan you would have thought, work everywhere....
@@darthkek1953 At least with Chickenpox you get it once and it is over. Autism it stays with you forever.
I have operations director in my workplace with autism, they “came out” with this more than a year after they got the job. Do you say you have autism at your interviews?
The root-causes are our highly unethical economic system which can only thrive on the exploitation of the poor, rising inequality, debt, and poverty. Lastly successive governments since 1979 have given unlimited freedom and power to corporations.
Maybe its the Reagan-Thatcher effect finally catching up. 🤷♂
08 ruined everything ever since except for a small group at the top
The system has been set up by the right to treat people as cattle for teh already rich to make money from. It results in a market without money and slow growth because they don't allow ordinary people to have money the political resistance to allowing even private sector wages to keep up with inflation shows the theft of wealth. Unnfortunately the same victims fall for all the red herrings of immigration etc that they keep voting for the party that does all this to them
It's sad how difficult things have become in the present generation. I was wondering how to utilise some money I had. I used some of it for e-commerce business, but that sank. I'm thinking of how to use what's left to invest, but I don't really know which way to go.
I understand how you feel. It's a little bit difficult to navigate things these days. You don't wanna lose whatever is left. I may suggest that you find a financial advisor who could give you thorough advice on how to go if you want to go the investment route. Also, the fact your business failed doesn't mean you should give up.
That's right. I have tried many failed businesses and it's just a step further. Don't despair. But to add, if you do decide to use a financial advisor, it's best you use someone who understands your special needs and can work with you. I learnt this from experience before finally finding one I can stick with. Now I make six figures from my investments alone, and even more from my businesses.
That's right. I have tried many failed businesses and it's just a step further. Don't despair. But to add, if you do decide to use a financial advisor, it's best you use someone who understands your special needs and can work with you. I learnt this from experience before finally finding one I can stick with.
@@PhilipDunk Thank you for the advice. When you say financial advisor, are you talking about hedge funds? And how do I get in touch with one?
Sophie Lynn Carrabus is the licensed advisor I use and i'm just putting this out here because you asked. You can Just search the name. You’d find necessary details to work with to set up an appointment.
Young people look at their parents who worked all their lives and got nowhere and say why should we do the same.
Any excuse. Most people who work all their lives usually own their own home and have a decent amount of pension savings, plus luxuries like holidays and nice cars. If you worked 40 years and got nowhere you've done something wrong.
@thomasmorin749 My father worked hard all his life, and yes he finally owned his house after more than 30 years of no car, no home phone and no holidays abroad. The house was a rabbit hutch that the previous owners were most likely glad to get rid of. I hated it.
@@TheDavecroftalot of people live close to poverty in this world and own only a few things.
Self reveal.
I worked hard bought a house always worked raised family . No holidays , no meals out I now off the property ladder through no fault of my own so no there are people who have worked hard and have nothing I think it's called been made redundant and only earning a minimum wage job ever since . Minimum wage is not a livable wage . @@TheDavecroft
You realy nailed with all this form filling etc.One of my 4 sons lately had the exact 💯 experience you described.I stayed tight lipped when my son spent 2 days preparing a test project for the company he was doing an interview with.He dident get the job.But what a waste of his time.I think he learned his lesson.Its not what you know its who you know.
yes and if you dont know any your lost most of the time. The Keeper Mentality is ruining it and These Days you dont get taught how to nourish yourself or your Soul, just emotional Capitalism ! but well i dont give up on this. there has to be Ways needing to be Explored! For us and the Ones who come after us.
People don't play a game if they know it is rigged .
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said at 0:38 when you said people in education are of "benefit to us". The system is designed to create workers who work and pay taxes then get discarded at the end of their useful lives.
Many Workplaces unfortunately require vast amounts of experience even for entry level positions. I have friends being rejected from entry level positions at Restaurants and fast food jobs, with a lack of experience being mostly given. It’s paradoxical how entry level jobs require experience yet no entry level job will accept you and let you develop experience
its the older employees (40+) with experience that are being most discriminated against.
@@bigbarry8343 It's probably both, there isn't just one victim in this
We're importing millions of low-skilled labourers... unsurprising low-skilled work is getting hard to get.
And when you already have all this experience they need they say you are too old.
@@darthkek1953 This is largely because our own populace considers low-skilled work beneath them.
Am I glad I found your channel! I’m nearly forty and an accountant, and I’ve been saying this to my colleagues and sometimes I wonder if they are living in a lalaland of make believe when they can’t see how our hiring processes and work conditions are setting up junior accountants to fail!
Please keep making more videos!
Why would they work? no chance of affording a house, being taxed to oblivion - society and Government have removed all aspiration. Imagine being young, struggling to afford their high rent, watching others get it all for free.....
Plenty of affordable houses north of Watford. Lack of any work ethic is the problem. Easier to blame the government and hold your hand out for benefits than do a days work.
Where do they get food from if they don’t work?
@@TheDavecroftwhat about jobs Dave?
@@YourChoco
That was my thought. Its pretty cheap to live somewhere with no jobs nearby, but then you have no money. Can maybe work out if you can get a job working from home.
However anywhere in the north with good job opportunities isn't affordable. Manchester, for example, has the fastest rising rents and house prices outside of London.
@@DanielDavies-il9kz by living at home if their parents arent cruel enough to kick them out.
The governments of the UK failed them and didn't give them hope ,no wonder some have my issues.
100%, this question isn't hard at all, it is obvious why youngsters are giving up to anyone with eyes.
If they were looking for hope in a government, then they were looking in the wrong place.
Hope is for Disney movies not reality
Thank you for speaking up for us. It really feels like we don't have a voice and no one is listening to us.
Our dog eat dog economic system is failing many, many people. I totally understand why young people feel so defeated. The job application system is broken. Zero hour contracts are the final nail in the coffin.
Zero hours contracts are symptom not the cause, decades of bad governance has lead to a failing economy and nothing left to strive for.
And for the White majority being told they are the cause of the world ills, with every ethnic newcommer being prioritised ahead of them means it's easier to give up because success is virtually impossible.
Are you saying my dog ate your dog? Let me tell you, he didn’t. That was someone else’s dog. What has canine obedience got to do with young people anyway? I’m sorry for your loss.
eh? No he didn't. He said we live in dogeatdog world. Being failed at a large scale level. Some of them even enjoy the pain causing to young people. Including teachers. That is why we're stuck here. We've been subservient to a failed system.
They still eat dogs in Korea. I’ve never had one though, have you? It can’t be very good when your dog eats the economic system. Perhaps the Korean’s are on to something and it explains why they have such a good economy. I’m not going to eat my dog. He rolls in fox poo and it wouldn’t be very hygienic. I hear that eating under cooked dogs carries a high chance of worms so I’d probably start with someone else’s dog, a puppy perhaps that’s been recently vaccinated. I believe that when they are done properly in a Bob Martin sauce they are delicious. 😆
I am a retired professional but can relate to much of this having had three university graduate boys struggle with this. Perhaps it relates to boys more than girls as it seems that at a young age, girls are often more articulate than boys, and the HR firewall for many businesses seem to be very focused on this.
One of the boys (with grade 2A* and 2A A levels) faced a similar problem trying to get into medical school. He had good writing skills and had already written two novels but getting into medical school requires a demonstration of empathy and at this age it seems to be more natural to girls rather than boys. Perhaps that is partly why medical school intake is largely female. Competition is also massive. When Jeremy Hunt was Health minister he stated that it was cheaper to bring in a qualified doctor from abroad rather than train one up in the UK, so that doesn't help. Fortunately for my son, having been rejected by all but one university my wife and I insisted that he went on a weekend course aimed medical school entry. He did and sailed through his entry into the last remaining one and has been very successful during his training and is now fully qualified.
Another one of the boys got a chemical engineering masters from one of the Russell Group universities. Then when he came to trying to get a job, he hit a brick wall and it went on for months. Firstly it wasn't helped by the fact that businesses seem to minimise their graduate training programmes and as with medicine, will tend to bring in qualified experienced people from abroad as and when needed. There are agencies in the UK that do just this. Then there is the HR firewall and that is a real nightmare. In the end my wife and I had to take on getting him a job as a project with formal weekly meetings with him to discuss progress and strategy. Eventually, largely thanks to my wife, he got a job and so far has been very successful in it and has already been promoted.
Girls are spoon fed, praised, given attention, and never demonized. The complete opposite for boys. I experienced this over 20 years ago, in private education, and it has clearly only gotten worse. Factor in positive discrimination hiring practices and it compounds the issue even further.
The establishment doesn't want well educated, self reliant, confident men. They want down trodden scraps that can be easily controlled out of sheer desperation.
The obvious difference to me is that girls are more naturally compliant. They are quite happy to dance to someone else's tune if it satisfies their material needs and places them somewhere in the social hierarchy. Men are less motivated by this and want independence and autonomy. Not subservience.
Clearly a successful family - 1 doctor and 1 Masters in STEM from a Russell group university
@@davidc4408 Maybe but we've had plenty of frustrations. A lot of young people will not have the benefit of people like my wife and I to drive things forward and I don't know where my two would have ended up without our help. I just feel sad that so much young potential never gets a chance.
Permission is always the problem. You can be the best in the world at whatever, but unless you have permission…
Money printing paradox.
Print more money devalues the currency but it still make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
I'm Gen X, Autistic I can't work for an employer anymore I always get sacked because I don't conform. I am so glad I didn't have children because they have been robbed of their future and AI is going to make it so much worse.
So sorry for your experience, and good luck
The next revolution that will leave humanity behind. Though that revolution is already here, the economic impacts will be very great. I see more people living singular lives and becoming more and more isolated than ever before....
You are encouraging such an attitude of "entitlement" this is the product of your delusionary "Marxist-Socialist fantasies" you are a danger to young people
not wanting to be controlled by someone else doesn’t mean that you are autistic lol.stop using this crap.nobody wants to work a job for the rest of their lives.smart/normal people lol.
Can’t conform or won’t? I tend to find autistic people are very adamant about doing things “the right way” when really they just don’t see why things are being done in a certain manner and would prefer doing things their way. That on top of being “weird” makes them very likely to be fired.
There's a lot of young people killing themselves these days, i see it all the time on Facebook, them going missing, then being found dead..so sad. The cost of living is disgusting, the price of a house is disgusting, whether buying or renting.. you're working to exist.. not live.
We need to be careful blaming outside influences for people unaliving ( sorry for stupid word- RUclips) themselves. 10 people might go thru the same thing only one decides death is the answer. It is a mental health issue or personal weakness of spirit that drives people to do it …..sorry not the cost of living or anything else.
Yes. My 19 year old cousin was one of them. Her farewell note said "I can't see a future for myself" among other things.
@@dcanes5720 "Personal weakness of spirit"?? Wow. Just, wow.
@@BanjoPixelSnack Sorry to hear that 💔
@dcanes5720 Sorry, but this no future, low wages, not being able to get a house..a job that pays IS one huge reason for people killing themselves. I know of one guy who's wife fell pregnant with their second child, in his suicide note, he said he couldn't afford to have another kid. This stinking UK Governments corruption and mis- management, austerity is to blame. You do realise that these young people have known nothing but austerity, there's 10s of 1000s of food banks people working use. The town centres have turned into shit holes, great shops all shut down now due to bigger companies and supermarkets buying them up cheap..like ( Peter green) then shutting them down, along with Amazon ( who also pay shit wages)There's many reasons the country is in a real state...GOVERNMENTS POLICY. Nothing is changing with Liebour either, they're Tory on steroids.
This man is a pleasure to listen to. An important message, well presented.
Good points. Many young people have "seen through" the whole capitalist wage slave 'work till you die' ethic that older generations absorbed. Also, the globalization of capitalism and the impact of AI means that the jobs aren't there.
You're absolutely right, no one takes into account the experience of job seeking these days. You cant just hand your cv into places anymore, you have to apply online. That means manually inputting you information into countleas websites, jumping through so many more hoops, scrolling through endless job offers which are either not clear about who they actually are looking for or likely have already accepted someone for the position. Going to the job center is a joke. They just check that youve applied for at least 5 jobs that week and dont do anything to actually help you get a job other than suggest rewording your cv. I was stuck on universal credit for months and finally got a job at McDonald’s only because i had a friend who already worked there. I passed all my gcses with top marks and got 3 a levels. The unemployment crisis is always just blamed on young people not wanting to work, but everyone i know whos unemployed is actively really struggling to find a job.
Yeah and "moon on a stick" skill/attribute requirements for basic work. It's mental.
I have ended up as an accidental employer. I had a stroke and then needed social care. I hated the care on offer. It was provided by agencies. So the council have an alternative here in sheffield which is a direct payment scheme. I employ two lovely young people that in generation Z. One of them who does the most hours has autism. I am pleased to say we all get along beautifully. Ive had other lovely young people in the past. They help me to live the life I want. Not the life that fits in boxes.
I respect them all fully and they are incredibly good for me.
The rot set in about 45 years ago with the notion that it was all about the individual making himself or herself marketable. The invisible hand of the market would do the rest. Government skill centres began closing and entrepreneurial training companies started cropping up. You'd get a few months sitting in front of a bored trainer who would get you to commit slogans and cliches to memory and give you a useless certificate at the end. The government skill centres used to churn out people with basic skills in construction, computing, catering etc. The private trainers showed you how to write a CV that no one was ever going to bother to read.
We have to get away from this idea that young people should be moulded to fit the needs of the market. It should be the other way around. We need to create a society in which people CAN contribute according to their abilities and can develop those abilities knowing that they will be rewarded for doing so.
Correct
The most demoralising part is growing up and being indoctrinated to "be your best self" and "everyone has something they are good at"
I'm good at computer programming and computer software in general, there is no work for it in my country, I was sold lies upon lies for a few dollars and now I'm fucked for the rest of my life because unlike most people I dont have family to rely on. I'm just fucked.
it's called communism
Ohhhhhhhhh so you mean WE HAD THE ACTUAL ANSWERS IN PLACE but because OTHER PEOPLE actually DID THE DREAMS
THEY REMOVED THE ANSWERS BECAUSE FUKK YOU I GOT MINE.
WHATS THE FUKKING POINT
Bricklayer here. If you're young, don't be too disillusioned by this video as there are plenty of very well paid jobs in the construction industry. It is hard and you would eventually have to learn how to manage your own money (we're mostly self-employed once qualified although not all of us) but there is such a demand for hard workers with a trade. I'd recommend my industry to any lost young people in a heartbeat. They won't have job names to brag about but they would be able to earn (you really do EARN your money here though) a good living, move out of mum and dad's and buy their own homes. And the training doesn't put you in 10s of £1000s of debt
No young person with half a brain wants to ruin their body working a trade. Fucked back, knees and hands by 40? No thanks.
You lost most of the younger generation when you said 'hard workers'!
Well said
Definitely opportunities in industries where people need practical skills.
It's interesting because when I see building sites you rarely see young men on them below about 30. Maybe younger ones these days aren't as "hands on" with construction? Don't want to get their hands dirty.
As a small business owner (in the fast food chain) I want to add my piece. Due to the nature of our work and the fast paced environment, when Ive interviewed the candidate, its because they came to the shop, handed in their C.V and ive narrowed down our list to their C.V and maybe another. We are a small business of about 14 employees (me included) and I know the cost and effort that goes into everything as im very involved. I make it a priority to RESPECT the candidates time, I call them, organize a interview and by the end ive made my decision.
For the life of me I cant imagine why a company would make their candidates jump through hoops just for a chance to be chosen! Shameful!! Those companies should be boycotted. Period!
I'm in my mid 40s and for me, the whole process of applying for jobs takes me so far out of my comfort zone it's literally stopped me from reaching my potential.
The whole premise, that I should big myself up, in writing, then in an interview is the very definition of torture to me. It was an ordeal and I'm not on the spectrum, I don't think. I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that I've gone through life feeling like a square peg in a round hole.
The societal drift towards individualism makes me feel more and more alienated from the rest of society.
True 👍 only a psychopath would do it.
Yes. It's like, we have to exaggerate all our skills, pretend not to have any gaps or weaknesses, then actually lie if required.
It is sending such a big message that we are not OK as we are, and that getting the job involves hiding who you actually are, among other's who will be doing the same😂 I have to laugh, or might cry😢
@@MargaretDeakin-d6m'Please provide two references' are words that send a cold chill down my spine.
I used to think, I don't know two people well enough to ask them to write a couple of paragraphs explaining how great I am! Is it not enough to torture me, why make me bring outside parties into this charade?
@@leejohnson3209 don't let the bas----s grind you down....
The Islamists have taken over system.. they only prefer Pakistanis
It isn't a difficult question to answer at all. To get people working hard they need to have a future worth working for. The current economic trajectory for our young people is utterly bleak so they see nothing worth striving for. Sure there will be some that are industrious regardless of this but most drift into apathy, normally followed by hopelessness and depression, the ill health you speak of is a result of that, nothing more. I really feel sorry for young people just starting out now, their future has already been destroyed by decades of bad governance and a parliament currently full of clueless clowns gives them no hope.
You need a carrot at the end, but you also need a stick. Open borders mean the UK must compete internationally. In many countries if you don't work you don't eat
It's as simple as that. But governments don't want to admit it because it would mean taking responsibility. Lower taxes, do something about the landlord mafia and offer decent wages. It's REALLY that simple!
Thanks, Richard, for providing a more human, insightful and nuanced response to the question than many others have attempted. I'm an old HR person by profession so, of course, was worried by your "job offer decision in a couple of minutes" .... but much less worried than by the real impact of the larger socio-economic forces you are describing.
Employing organisations should think much harder about work, development and learning, fostering positive careers and organisational culture as we start to experience this rapidly arriving information-age revolution.
Why would anyone want to work for a pittance, while the CEO earns millions.
There is no future in the uk
This isn't a problem unique to the UK but I agree
Correction, there is no future in the west
Capitalism is eating itself.
@@Redf322 All ideologies do. Including yours
Once you have decided this is so, you are part of the problem. I don't hold that view. I think there are things we can do together to solve the problems we have.
I'm a 50 yr old with ADHD. When I was younger if you were a square peg, they just smashed you till you fit the round hole. I'm so glad that things are changing for younger ND people.
And if you didn't fit the round hole they just tossed you aside. I too am glad to see outreach for people with conditions. That's one positive of the last 20 years!
Unless you have inherited wealth, then you have no chance.
I'm a self made millionaire. I did some crappy jobs, when I was 26 I bought a second hand van, after a bit another couple, then a small truck, then a big truck, etc. There is literally nothing I did that couldn't be replicated now. BTW my inheritance from my parents was 10k, no house. They passed after I started business
@@hilarygibson3150 You're not "self-made". You had to use the infrastructure that was paid for by taxpayers !!!!!
Lot of women have 1 or 2 houses inherited, these days, that's why they look for the older guy
There are countless self made millionaires out there. It's a good thing they didn't have your attitude.
@@lindsaydobson You're not "self-made". You had to use the infrastructure that was paid for by taxpayers !!!!!
Because all of the jobs providing mass employment when we were an industrial nation have gone. Now it's flipping burgers or working in a shop for 8to16 hours a week, Amazon warehouse picking or care work.
Outstanding analysis of this issue, 👏 well done. Thank you, I am 54 and have worked from the age of 18, with a Neurodivergence. So not this current generation, but fully understand the reasons you so clearly explained.
The biggest issue is that we have lost hope. we can no aspire to what out parents and grand parents achieved. Houses and even apartments are completely out of reach for us. no matter how hard we work we are paid so little for our effort this is a problem with having a minim wage that gets lower for the younger you are. all of this has destroyed our mental health making us lose hope for the future and feel depressed.
I'm 46 years old and have been diagnosed with ASD. I have a great deal of empathy for younger generations on the autism spectrum, as navigating the workplace environment can be a nightmare, especially when dealing with those in authority. Even though management is aware of your condition, they often continue to treat you with disrespect and contempt, which heightens anxiety and keeps you on edge.
For decades, I’ve struggled with work, and while I’ve managed to stay in my current job for the past eight years, there are still days when I feel like walking away. It’s a constant challenge to engage with neurotypical people, and when circumstances become difficult, it can seriously affect your well-being.
Employers treat us with contempts . That’s fine. The comradery among colleagues is what made me go to work at a factory.
Any youngsters out there watching this, get an apprenticeship. Don't get into debt for a degree. Most degree's won't get you anywhere.
Most jobs nowadays won't let your CV get reviewed unless they :
A) see a very juicy wall of experience and skills
B) see a degree with a juicy wall of internships
Even many internships require experience.
Starting your journey is nearly impossible for anyone that isn't lucky to know people of power within the company🤷♂.
Experience > qualifications for most jobs
I did an apprenticeship, and all I was, was just cheap labour, and my work responsibilities were the exact same as someone earning 50% more than me. Anyone that joined the company the normal way earned 50% more than me, and we did the same job, and HR made the apprenticeship process so strange, similar to the video, having to compete with 20 other people in a room to get a job, write out essays about your hopes, future, etc, only to be paid 50% less than someone that was employed the normal process. The job was also unskilled, you didn't need a brain for it, and HR made many promises to upskill you, to get you better, these things never materialized for anyone. Moreover, the company was not even that respected, there was far bigger more respected companies, and so I truly wondered how tough it would have been to compete for a position at that company if my current company was already that competitive.
@Henselt1 can I ask what apprenticeship you did?
I get the low pay part. It's why a lot of youngsters drop out. The key is to pick an apprenticeship that will pay well come the end. Easier said than done of course.
I had a friend who started on £50 a week as a sparky. Had a second job for the entire apprenticeship. Four years. He got small increments each year each time he passed an NVQ. When he passed, he was put on £625 a week in the late 90s. At 20, that was a phenomenal wage.
It's safe to say he went on to be very successful. He now runs his own sparky business, earning six figures.
I'm out of the game these days, so I don't know what wages are paid for an apprenticeship, but they were shocking 30 years ago, too.
Thank you for giving us a voice. I did physics and trained as a physics teacher in the UK. They told us we are like gold dust because we are so rare. After 1 year of working in an English school I understand why we are so rare. Literally anything is better than working as someone young in the UK. Now I live in Japan and nearly have enough money to buy a house and maybe I can even start a family and live a normal life. I'm not going back.
50 years ago, with 4 years of full employment, you could afford a house. The salary of one could afford a family of 4 with a wife at home. This would be the case of an average person, say a policeman, carpenter, etc.
Nowadays, not even a 35 years old doctor can afford that!
We experienced a massive loss of purchasing power!!
They perceive they can't win the game. So they give up.
We need to tax the SUPER RICH.
@@georgeton4991You'll run out of rich people's money after a couple years. What do you do then after ripping apart so much of the economic infrastructure?
Modern work practices like zero hours contracts, hot desking and so on do nothing to make an employee feel valued.
Don't forget working from home, 'blended working', shorter hours, longer holidays, career breaks, 4 day weeks, etc etc......
@@TheDavecroft Most people don't get that luxury. What world are you living in?
I am 34 and I have been a corporate slave since 21 and I regret every day I stayed at work late or worked in a weekend. Let it rot!
Thanks Richard! I'm a 54 years young Autistic Person and I wish someone had said this 35 years ago as it would save me a lot of heartache. I don't know how up you are on all this but outside of a few large and forward thinking employers, the world gets actively worse for us with every call centre or online fulfilment centre that is built. Even little thing like the led indicators in newer cars adds to the 'noise' in the world that makes it hard for us to engage with it. And of course having Liz Kendal point at us as the new reason that neoliberalism isn't working doesn't help much either.
Gosh, You do not sound autistic in your writing. You are writing a lot of common sense too; it's not easy navigating a world like this.
@@MarkGrindell many can, including, it is believed, James Joyce but then it’s what detriments come along with it. It’s the spiky skill set, good at one thing, terrible at others that causes problems.
You are encouraging such an attitude of "entitlement" this is the product of your delusionary "Marxist-Socialist fantasies" you are a danger to young people
@@christopherhoggins5008 To make complex things work you have to able to maintain concentration. That's all there is to it, really. But we now appear to have a "relabelling" where any ability to do anything to any degree of competence puts you squarely on "the spectrum";' the end point of this is what? Nothing of any significance ever actually gets done by anyone?
@@MarkGrindell The spectrum is a very lazy and woefully inaccurate term that tries to squash three dimensional issues into a straight line with normal somewhere on it and a whole heap of complex attributes that can be regarded useful (in society’s terms) or not. Whether it is an ability to focus / concentrate on a problem that betters society or the stats of a sports team or the cliched trains determines someone’s usefulness in the modern world. The ability of someone to thrive in the world with autism depends on the severity of certain traits, where they are born in the world and what type of society but mostly family wealth. While some may abuse terms like ‘on the spectrum’ others go the other way of telling people that they can’t be autistic because their uncle/cousin/nephew/whatever has it and the act completely different to you.
OMG your best video yet. I have seen this problem everywhere and it is destroying the young. HR is not fit for purpose in large organisations, especially Governemt.
HR is the equivalent of the guards at Auswitcz and Dachau. Terrible people
Why have HR Departments become 80% female? It's weird and disproportionate.
Good vid and educational for me as a 64yr old trying to advise and help a 21yr old. Gives me a better understanding of the pressures they are under which are alien to me.
no future, out of touch employers and absolutely orrendous work culture.
You mean like 6 weeks holiday a year, flexible hours, shorter working weeks, working from home? Not like my dad's generation who worked 6 days a week, 50 weeks a year? 'Horrendous work culture' my foot.
@@TheDavecroft your dad could afford a house. my gen will never be able to-
and yea, i know what i am worth, and if people can't even talk to one with respect, stop demanding overtime unpaid, or to sacrifice unpaid time for company business, then they can FUCK right OFF.
if i want to work, it's to make my life better, not worse.
to work a job is a partnership between the worker and the company. i sell my time and energy and concentration, in exchange i want my due pay.
i am NOT a slave to my state OR my boss, and conditions right now, do NOT justify killing yourself over some peanuts, just to have all of your work evaporate like it never existed.