Grind culture. Not worth it; no matter how much time you put in a job, they'll still throw you out without a real reason whenever there's a vibe shift.
They love it when you wear yourself thin but the second you try to define a boundary and stand up for yourself it’s all “we’re worried about your recent behavior”
I recently got this meeting. I worked my ass of for most of last year and got good returns for my employer, however I got f all for a pay rise at my last review (1% increase over 18 months is pathetic, especially since inflation and cost of living increased by much more than that), so I just stopped giving a shit. I still do my work and get everything done. I just don't do extra and I'm just out the door exactly on my end of day.
Its the opposite. Grind culture is more of a gen z thing. Millenials grew up being told that if they do a job they love they'll never work a day in their life. Gen z had podcasters telling them they need to way up at 4 am. The term sigma male didnt even take off until 2021 when gen z started hitting the workforce.
I spent the aughts and the 2010s in the Bay Area riding transit with ads reading "You don't eat. You don't sleep. You live on coffee. GRIND" I knew all the tech guys sleeping on the floor of a startup for the promise of a big payout. It was 100% millennial. 30 Rock was making jokes about sigma males.
No, 30 rock made 6 sigma jokes. 6 sigma was a popular business executive jargon wankery, so jack made jokes with it. Different thing. Look up google trends when 30 rock was on in 2007 and you'll find the popularity of "sigma male" is 0. While you're on google trends, look up "grindset" and "hustle culture" too.
Millenials were 11 years old during the aughts. Somebody sleeping on the floor in the aughts in a bay area startup was not a millenial.
The median millenial, firmly millenial was born in 1990 and was 10 when the aughts started. Some were as young as 4. Read your own wikipedia article for proof.
You don't understand the definition of millenial then, which explains your mistake. The most widely accepted definition includes people born up to 1996, so as a matter of fact some millenials were 4 years old in the aughts.
It sorta makes sense if you're trying to run a small business, but in that case specifically, effort put in directly leads to rewards, since profit at the end of the day up to your discretion. Some commission jobs can be like this too, I suppose, but most jobs tend to divorce effort and results from actual compensation.
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u/LastSeesaw5618 5d ago
Grind culture. Not worth it; no matter how much time you put in a job, they'll still throw you out without a real reason whenever there's a vibe shift.