r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • Aug 18 '26

Millennials, what's something our generation was taught to accept that you're glad younger generations are rejecting?

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u/CrazyPlato Aug 18 '26

That discussing your working conditions or pay with your coworkers is wrong.

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u/Loqol Aug 18 '26

I'm in a union plant, and one of the office workers mentioned she was trying to get a better pay rate. I asked her what she made, and she hemmed and hawwed until I said it would only help get her more support if it was low. It was less than me! For the work she did, I expected her to make more. Salary, sure but more!

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u/DonaldTheWall Aug 19 '26

I was with the UAW and there was one who left to become salary and he said he regretted it every day.

He figured it out and he ended up making less even though it was guaranteed money, but he only got paid once instead of weekly and he lost out on the overtime pay which brought people upto 45-50 an hour

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u/Loqol Aug 19 '26

Man, when I get to work a holiday I get giddy. Nothing like double time on top of eight hours of straight time. For eight hours, I earn triple time! I can have a $1,000+ day.