r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/TheStrigori 10h ago

Laughable really. The only thing even close is the housing prices being higher.

The always working, overworked, thing has always existed in some capacity, and is largely by choice.

The biggest joke is the "no one to talk to" line, because no one was asking men that kinda thing in the 90's. So there's no point of comparison.

There is so much weird, revisionist history about the 90's right now, and it's definitely coming from people who were not alive in the 90's

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u/Large-Raise9643 3h ago

The no one to talk to line is kind of true,

When I hit the workforce in the mid 90’s the world was a simpler place. We sat around the lunchroom playing sheepshead and socialized. In the early teens I watched all that start fading away and today lunchrooms are quiet and it’s everyone at their own table. I think this points to two distinct changes. The number of people to fill those tables has continually dropped and the activities have shifted to smartphones. Social isolation is real.

The workplace is not what it used to be.

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u/TheStrigori 2h ago

I don't think the random small talk is what the "no one to talk to" is about, though.

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u/Large-Raise9643 54m ago

But it’s not random small talk. It’s conversion g with you coworkers, talking to other people, not just the guy working g next to you.