Really arrogant! Coffee is not a matter of course!
A water flat rate? There must be! At least one workation a year? A matter of course! Wellness offers? I can’t come without them anymore. It is unbelievable how arrogant (young) employees are who are looking for new work jobs beyond good and evil. A comment.
Bad working conditions, low wages and then a long commute to work? Employees had to accept these factors for years or even decades.
The reason for this was that for a very long time employers set the rules for the labor market. The motto is: I’ll give you a job and that’s why I’m allowed to set the rules – so far so obvious.
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Employees make the rules in the labor market
But the tide has literally changed. Why is that? A quick look at the news reveals that. There are more and more professional groups in which there are hardly any specialists left.
This starts with nursing staff and educators, goes through employees in the catering trade and extends to ground staff at airlines. And that’s just a small excerpt. In fact, there are significantly more areas with a similar ratio.
9 to 5? We only want New Work Jobs!
What does that mean in consequence? The power imbalance in the labor market has reversed. The existing skilled workers with a good education can actually choose their job.
That means: A medical assistant (MFA) with the appropriate training in the field of emergency medicine can quit her job without hesitation and still find a new job with a high probability within a few days – and that according to her own ideas.
Between work-life balance and wellness workation
This is exactly the picture that emerges in numerous sectors. That is why the demands of employees are increasing more and more. New work jobs – i.e. jobs in a modern environment where the employee is the new boss – are de facto a prerequisite.
And in more and more places and with more and more people, this creates an unbelievable arrogance and vanity. However, such feelings and attitudes are highly inappropriate.
As an example are Social Media Conversations to name, in which (mainly young) people make fun of the offers of employers. All that remains for a coffee and water flat rate in the office is “Just shut up honestly.”
Twelve weeks of workation and a height-adjustable table are then ironically referred to as “Gailer Shize”.
Addendum: Height-adjustable tables. Gailer Shize!!! 🙄🙄🙄 pic.twitter.com/wW4ypBBo50
— 💉💉💉Michael van Engelen (@vanengelen_m) December 10, 2022
Leave your arrogant bubble – or report to the employment office
This degrading attitude of more and more employees is taking on dimensions that are no longer imaginable. Many of those complaining forget that such benefits are anything but normal for the vast majority of people outside of the tech and marketing world.
For example, anyone who works in a social institution, in the media industry, in crafts or with authorities and institutions similar to authorities can only laugh at the whining about new work jobs.
A coffee or even a water flat rate is an absolute rarity there. The way to the customer is working time? Most craftsmen should only laugh at that. In the comment columns, however, such comments are only provided with insults.
Height-adjustable tables are only available with a doctor’s certificate, if at all. The answer of the New Work ignoramuses: “They just want to take us for stupid.”
The story can be told indefinitely. Ultimately, it is a story of ingratitude and conceit. For example, anyone who, after a decade of working life, has an overtime arrangement and a coffee flat rate for the first time knows that this is not normal.
That’s why I’m happy about every employer who takes even small steps – even if it’s just mineral water or a bowl of fruit. To all those who complain, I have only one wish: Please leave your bubble, talk to other professionals and descend from your throne.
Note: This is a comment. A comment is a piece of journalistic opinion reflecting the opinion of the author and not factual reporting.
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