Sometimes, I just stumble across things on YouTube and decide to write about them. This is one of those times. Honestly, I could make an entirely new YouTube channel just responding to these people, but I’m just going to do it here. At least this way, I don’t have to listen to them whine.

There is a small industry of people responding to Gen-X whiners and yes, I support that entirely. So here’s the video that I saw, it’s short if you want to watch it, but I wanted to respond on my own, even though I think this guy did a fantastic job.

So first off, he says nobody wants to work “up to” 40 hours a week. Who cares? Nobody gives a damn what you want. If you want to eat, you work. Grow up. Besides, who works only 40 hours a week? I don’t remember the last time I worked “only” 40 hours a week. I start somewhere around 50 and it goes up from there. I’ve had jobs where I started about 7am, went home somewhere between 8-9pm, 5-6 days a week. Plus, you’re on salary so you don’t get paid extra for all the overtime. You just work. Fuck off. Don’t whine to me about “only 40 hours”. You work your ass off and you stop complaining. Stop being a putz.

Luckily, I don’t have to do a lot of that today since I’m in upper management. My wife though, since she’s going to get another major promotion in January, is working her butt off. 10 hours a day, plus, if they get behind, she’s there on Saturday mornings too. She’s in upper management too!

Then there’s the ever-popular whine about having all this college debt to pay off. You took it on, stupid. I paid my entire college tuition out of my own pocket and never had any debt. I started working, officially, at 16. Nobody these days does. Unofficially, I was probably 14-15, mowing lawns and doing yard work and that wasn’t just running around money. If I had bills to pay, my parents didn’t pay it, I did. After I turned 18, I paid rent to my parents. It wasn’t necessary, but it was a learning experience to be self-sufficient. My parents never bought me a car. They never paid my bills. I did, out of pocket, 100% of the time. Stop whining.

I worked hard and by the time I turned 18, my employer wanted me in the management team. I worked 40+ hours a week, sometimes two jobs, plus went to college full time. I had very little social life because I was so busy working. By the time I graduated from college with multiple degrees, all paid for by myself, I had multiple companies that wanted to hire me, not to mention where I already was. I had proven myself a hard worker and could write my own ticket because I didn’t get a degree in underwater basket weaving. My degrees had a future and I didn’t squander it like these imbeciles do. Screw them.

This is the thing I don’t get about modern kids. They’re lazy. They expect that the world will provide for them because that’s exactly what their parents did. Their parents never taught them any responsibility. Any time they needed something, out came the wallet. I never had that. Oh, my parents could have easily, but they were trying to teach me to be self-reliant. Therefore, I had to earn it. If I wanted anything other than birthday and Christmas, I had to work to get it on my own. Granted, that didn’t refer to necessities. I got food and clothes and shelter, until I was 18, paid for, but if I wanted anything special? It came out of my pocket.

One thing I remember growing up was specific T-shirts. Everyone, back in the day, had Ocean Pacific clothes. I just looked, they still exist. They weren’t cheap. I really, really wanted some and my parents said, if I wanted it, I had to go and work for it, so I did. Then, I went out and bought what I wanted. I never had a car, bought by my parents. I bought every car I ever owned with my own money, plus all the gas and insurance to go along with it. I’ve never had to rely on other people. I found a way. What the hell is wrong with people today who can’t, or more properly won’t, do the same?