Couldn't be me; I think they're cool as hell for chilling out on their phone and ignoring the boss. Shit lets me slack off more too. Uncritical support to the younger generations in their fight against capitalist norms.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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Our apprentice got told he had to get his act together by our deputy head of department and replied “no I don’t”.
Sorry….what does this meme mean?
It's 
but roblox, it looks like
That apprentice is cooler than most of us
BASED
lmao, what a king.
my closest brush with being that cool was approaching the end of a lunch break with a bunch of my younger subordinates. we were all half dozing in the shade on a hot sunny day.
assistant to the big boss comes over at like 1 minute to go and starts in with his clipped "ok guys lets get back on our feet" and i sat up and said, "fine, i have to take a shit anyway".
i wasn't even trying to be funny, just irriated and mouthy. but some of the guys told me later that summer that they were still laughing about it.
it was a one-off seasonal contract job and i wasn't trying to come back, unlike most of the people there, so i had a little extra spine towards the petty tyrants.
I had one kid ask me to get him forklift certified, and when we were done he was like "okay FYI I just asked you to do this because I just applied for a forklift operator role at another company and said I was already certified. Sorry if that was a dick move."
And I was like, "Ha! No, whatever dude get that bag. Fuck put me down as a reference."
bro actually upskilled for free and hasn't been tainted by the fake 'loyalty' of the corporate world and pressure of unreciprocated duty
the kids are alright
I'm getting old and whenever my coworkers make complaints about their kids I always identify way more with the kids. Like my coworkers will complain their kids don't learn cursive, they don't have career plans, they sit on discord and talk about climate change, and they don't want to go to church.
And yeah those kids sound awesome. Cursive is nonsense and career plans are pointless right now, especially if you're like 15. I keep waiting for the moment where I'm supposed to be shocked and appalled at the new generations younger than me, but it hasn't happened. Maybe because I have no kids myself but the youth still hasn't done anything to completely alienate me. Maybe the emphasis on connecting with strangers on social media, or thinking you might get famous on Instagram, but that just seems like all of society and not just kids.
Like when are kids gonna invent a new shocking style of music like punk or like 90s conscious hip hop. The closest thing is the hyperpop stuff but even that seems kinda tame to me. Come on youth, make something that freaks me out. I wanna finally feel like an adult before I'm 50.
And it'll happen to youuuuuu!
nah im almost 40 and still retain a deep hatred for old people. 20 year olds are so fucked now for many reasons. I'm worried their educations are shit because they just ask the robot for answers and can't use basic problem solving, but maybe that's more an alpha problem. If they had the same opportunities my grandparents had(graduate high school, immediately get good paying job with pension) then there'd be some basis for thinking theyre lazy.
they just ask the robot for answers and can't use basic problem solving
Old people are doing this too just as much as young people
old people have had decades without it to develop. Younger kids won't. Having it be a crutch in the last third of your life(when the brain declines) vs having it as a crutch from day one, is extremely different.
Hey that isnt a Simpsons gif
Good point I hadn't thought of that
Young people in general are often those who have been propagandized their whole lives and do not have any tangible counterexamples. So they can be very bad at solidarity. At the same time, those who do reject the propaganda and the violence inherent in the capitalist system are your strongest and most active advocates and will throw down their lives for your actions (sometimes they are too eager to do this). Simply be strategic about your demos.
the AI brainrot is real though although we should be compassionate when we are beating them when they don't understand simple stuff, we were raised right after all
Gen Z might have just barely escaped getting an education with AI. GenAlpha though, they will ask the robot for answers for everything.
At the last few large protests in my city, three or four different high school kids spoke about the large school walkouts they organized at their high schools for the jan 20 and jan 30th strikes. These were significant walkouts. A couple of them even made the connection between the genocide in Gaza and oppression at home. idk some of these kids are a lot more tuned in than I was at their age.
skill issue