Imagine dunking on her for venting about something that most adults also experience and suffer through. Couldn’t be me.

its also insane that anyone can work full time and not make enough to survive.

This video showed all three of the types of brain rot that drive me crazy. We had the "I did it so you have to", "It's currently working for me so why are you complaining", and the "just change your mindset" troglodytes that will keep us in the stone ages forever. I will never understand people that actively work against their best interests.

Homegirl was not lying. I don't know why they gave her so much shit. She speaks for so many of us in the real world.

I worked 9-6 as a preschool teacher and made under 15 an hour, it was disgusting. There’s a reason there’s no teachers nowadays

One of the only times you'll hear people on the internet defending greedy corporate practices is when there is a pretty girl complaining about them.

Working a normal job really sucks. The worst job ive had was working at a warehouse on 11 1/2 hour shift with an hr commute on top of that. I literally fell asleep after getting home after forcing down whatever fast food i was able to get.

homegirl was absolutely cooking. i think charlie was on point as well when he said that people are dogpilling on her cause of the “i suffered, so you had to suffer too” mentality. which is aggravating! we should always be trying to make things easier for everyone that comes after us. the griding mentality is not conducive to actually living.

"I work 80 hours a week" that's not the flex you think it is

Im literally going thru the same shit right now i have no idea how anyone can actually hate on her because its so real. I have an hour commute each way and work an 8 hour day. Thats 10 hours of my day i feel like i have absolutely no time to do anything that i want to do it feels like im only working every minute of my life. Im so exhausted when i get home from work i cant even bring myself to sit in my gaming chair and play video games which is my favorite hobby

The fact that things have gotten to the point that people with "good" jobs still can't afford to live is insane. If you work 40hrs a week You shouldn't struggle to pay your basic bills and put food on the table.

"Shut up and deal with it Gen Z. This is real life." "Wait, why is everyone depressed and not having children any more? Why does everyone notice the world is slowly collapsing and doesn't care?" 🙄

The commute is the worst part IMO. If you work in any major city, you basically have to spend at least an hour each day driving, since rent is more than half your salary anywhere closer. At least you might have some sense of accomplishment from the 8 hours of work, but the time you spend commuting is entirely wasted

I love when the "i work 85 hours a day why do you complain about 9-5" people show up anytime a worker in a bad situation just vents.

100% agree I remember starting my work, sleep, work sleep cycle and thinking "I can't do this. I don't want to do this" 2 hours of cycling to work (1hr there, 1hr back) and always working weekends. Big diffrence between surviving and living.

I feel for her. I work retail and heaven forbid if we get the head honchos coming in for a surprise visit, then they want us pulling 9-10hrs that day to ‘look good’. Not a problem when they do show up, its when they don’t that riles everyone up.

the trauma response of “if i suffer then so shall you” is such an american experiment and it makes me so ipset

I think everyone dogged on her just because they saw the word 'gen z'

Yeah I don’t get roasting her either. She just experienced her first taste of the “real world.” Of course she’s upset and needed to vent

ISTG some people literally seem to think that compassion is some sort of flaw. The fact of the matter is - the working market IS terrible and long commutes always make things 1000% worse. My dad once worked a job with this same commute and was underpaid and honestly, it turned him into a real rage fiend and shell of himself for years. I've had multiple long ass commutes and it made my insomnia terrible. But people seem to think that if you don't want to have your life completely taken over by work and fumes, you're somehow "spoiled."

The woman’s first 30 seconds of her take is why I refuse to work in an office anymore. Remote only. Limits the options, but the benefits outweigh the rewards of commuting to the office for me. People dunk on the take because “hOw cAN yOu cOmpLaIN aBoUt tHE sTaTuS quO?” It’s ridiculous. The idea that everyone has to suffer because we did is an awful take and extremely selfish. Charlie is right. It does NOT have to be like that, but because more people aren’t currently challenging that opinion we’ll be stuck like this.

Everyone who dunked on her either DONT work like that and do not understand, or they DO and they’re just equally depressed trying to take it out on her

I haven't finished the full video yet but I agree with her. My dad commuted on the train into the city an hour and a half both ways every day for at least 20+ years, he would come home tired and leave before I woke up for school in the morning. When I finished college he told me never to do what he did and it makes you miss a lot of moments in life and time you will never get back. I know you need to work to live but that job isn't worth missing your life, there are other jobs out there.

I just got into it with my boss the other day about being emotionally and physically exhausted. I work 9-7 and my commute is an hour there and an hour back. I’m exhausted and she had the gall to say, “It’s really not that bad. You’re job isn’t that hard.”

I've become radicalized honestly, and my first real 9-5 office job is why. My first jobs were all basic shit retail etc within a few minutes from my house, and yeah 8 hours a day sucks but I survived and never thought much of it. Now fast forward to my current 9-5 office job. Yes, I am making more money. But 9-5 isn't actually accurate. First off it isn't 8 hours, it's 9 because of a mandatory hour lunch (which I'd honestly rather not take and just be here 8 hours to be 100% with you), 8-5, and I have a half hour commute here and half hour back. 10 hours of my life every day for 5 days a week. 50 hours a week. Bare in mind I only get paid for 8 of those hours a day, 40 a week. So 2 hours a day, 10 a week, are just evaporated into mist. Suddenly since getting this job I find myself sleeping less, 5-6 hours a night on average with plenty of days being 3-4, because I just need more time to myself, especially when you factor in chores and house maintenance and just general life tasks that need done. I am stressed, exhausted, depressed. THIS shit is what causes midlife crises. It's not because someone is 35 or 40. It's because someone is 35 or 40 in a cubicle with no free time to themselves. And I STILL don't make enough. Forget political terms for a moment. Take that biased shit out of your heads. If you complain about this woman's take, YOU are the problem. It's not her work ethic, not her being lazy, not her being entitled, etc. It's the difference between being a corporate slave that works tirelessly to earn your bosses and shareholders a fat passive income while you get ground to dust, and simply wanting a better life. And no, the ladder to prosperity and meritocracy are lies, 95% of you will never see anything from that no matter how hard you work. Stop being complacent and demand better for fucks sake. "Well we all had to go through it :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:". Ok?? So make sure no one else has to, or are you that self absorbed?

People would rather suffer as a collective than elevate the status quo

I work usually 50 hours a week. 40 if I’m lucky. I get to see my daughter for maybe three hours a day. Again if I’m lucky. I gotta choose between my kid or hobbies. (Obviously I choose my kid). But time for hobbies would be great.

Twitter really tried to turn this into a who's more miserable flex

Poor girl. She is indeed right, I went through that myself (as a lot of people do) and it is awful. There is really no time for life at all. I work 8-5 now but I work from home so it is not bad, but when I had to go to the office I used so many hours of my day just getting there, I was miserable.

I think the problem so many people have about working long hours (on top of having no time for yourself) is that even when you are working 40 plus hours a week, you still can’t afford to live.

9-5 job with an hour commute, you're up at at least 6-7 am to get ready, leave around 8 to do your day. And with the commute home, you're home around 6. If you cook all your meals and live alone, it's a hassle to cook when You're tired and it's late with work early the next morning. This girl has a point but it's easy to be like "welcome to the club"

She's just venting and the fact that she has to commute to a 9 to 5 job and can barely get anything done outside of work is a nightmare for me. I just got a new wfh job starting in Dec and I've been job hunting for nearly 4 months after graduating. Something like this scenario is a nightmare for me. I had a job working at a college nearly an hour bus ride away from me and it was a night shift. It was super nice and I was taking a gap year before transferring schools, but the commute was the worst part.

i love how students are so overworked in school and college, spending the whole day working then going home and doing more work. and for college you spend most of your time doing work. then we finally get out of school and oh my god back to the 9-5 we had in highschool. there's really no freedom to live

She didn't even say anything out of the ordinary.. This is how 99% of the world thinks just no one has blown up this much when talking about it. Also I absolutely HATE the fact influencers and wealthy people are making fun of her... AS IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE EASIEST LIFE EVER POSSIBLE! Also, she is a college student... She must be so emotially and mentally drained!

the math is pretty simple 8 hours for work 8 hours for sleep that only leaves 8 hours in the day to do what you want. So a 1 to 2 hour commute on that really makes life miserable specially when you factor in how much stuff closes down in the later hours of the day. It's an awful experience that makes no sense.

I feel her, it's horrible working on site or in person. I used to have a 7 am to 5:36 pm work schedule and because housing in the city is extremely expensive I lived a little farther from my job location, fortunately my job offered transportation but they picked up a lot of people on the way and I was the first one they had pick up, they literally picked me up every day at 4:00 am then to go back home I had to walk to the bus and then take the bus that took an hour to go back home, I was arriving home around 7:00 pm. And to do what at home, do chores, eat, sleep and repeat, it's depressing. Thank God I'm working from home now.

I think a lot of people think they’ll just live forever and that one day all their troubles will just disappear. 9-5 (11-7 for me) 5 days a week isn’t normal. My heart goes out to you if you work more than that. It’s damn near 1/3 of your entire life man. Depending on your beliefs, after you die that’s it. No more, zero more experiences, no more laughter and fun. Yet we work all the time and most of us can barely pay our damn bills even if we make more than minimum wage. It’s insane but we don’t do anything about it. We’re so indoctrinated into it. Elementary school through high school just preps you for it also, they make you into a factory worker when that environment is toxic to a child’s mind yet it’s been unchanged for years and years. Live as much as you can please, do as much as you can, learn as much as you can, experience as much as you can. I wish each of you a better future.

Twitter users when you tell them that a 9-5 does not allow for mental care which results in an over all worse worker

I was Mad people dog piled her . Work should be less hours , you literally work every day to not enjoy life!!! Wtf do u even work for, at least a work week should only be 4 days no more than that .

As someone who works an 8-5 out of college with a child on the way. It is brutal and tough. And no that doenst make you “soft” and yes people out there have a lot longer shifts and more struggles but that doesn’t mean certain people can’t feel this way about it

I saw it on Reddit and I was positively surprised that pretty much every top comment was sympathising with her and comments calling her entitled/whiny/bratty were getting heavily downvoted.

I left my $25/hr job and went to a $17/hr job just because I was overworked and had no time to myself or with my wife. Now I have no stress and have much more time for hobbies and a relationship. To each their own but it feels like the world just expanded lol.

I hate people who think, “ I suffered, so everyone after me should suffer!”

I used to work at least ten hours a day at a reputable landscaping company. I'd wake up at quarter to 5am and wouldn't get home until after dark. The depression, lack of sleep, and lack of time to eat ruined my mental and physical health. I had no social life and my boss would always talk about how we're a family and we all have to make sacrifices when I never even had time to see my own real family. I worked there for almost a decade with promises of promotions that never came and it felt like such a huge waste of time.

I’ve been struggling with this and my parents don’t see why I’m upset! It’s so hard to deal with. Thank you!

And imagine having two kids on top of that

They dog piled her because they know shes right but they refuse to acknowledge it for themselves

I did 4 years of commuting 2 hours each way to my job. I nearly killed myself and still am having trouble getting back in the workforce because I don't want to put my life at risk again, but I can't afford to move, and I can't afford to stay here without a job. I feel for her, and for people stuck in situations like that.

I miss my previous work schedule. Work decided to try 7 day work week with a week day shift ( 4x 10 hr/day ) and weekend shift ( 3x 12 hr/ day with 10% shift bonus to make up 4 hrs ). I volunteered for the WE shift and it was fantastic. Being off 4 days, when I went back in on Fri, I felt great and actually hated my job less.

Nah, I'm with her. I worked corporate for 3 years after college and I HATED it. The one breather i got the entire time was maybe playing an hour of Persona 3 before getting to bed for the same exact commute the next morning. And you do it for what? Often for an end result you'll never see and won't get any reward from. It was so a bad when I get even a whiff a project I'm on may be corporate, I'll cut off contact like I'm lancing plague boils. I escaped and never look back, I either self employ or find good paying gigs, and at most these jobs I'm making a lot more than those soulless 9-5s that just saw me as another resource to be exploited. My sister, on the other hand, got a corpo 9 - 5 a few years after college. She doesn't really enjoy it, but she keeps doing it because... It's just sorta what adults do. Sadly I've seen it just snuff out any and all drive she once had for all her other passions and pursuits. Even the money, which is her big thing, doesn't take her very far in our current financial climate.

The only reason I stay sane is because I love the people I work with. They are my family. If not for that I couldn't stand it

9-5 would have less complaints if you made enough to live comfortably. Imagine how she would feel if she could afford a place by her job?

This is why nothing in this country ever gets fixed and only kicked down the road to future generations. Healthcare is all but unaffordable-- try and fix it and the people who accepted it will complain about about how you want everything for free or how they dealt with it and so should you. Housing prices. College tuition prices. The list just goes on and on. They let the system break them and so should you.

She's 100% correct

Mfs talked shit about her and then complained to me saying the same shit in the same week.

She is really not wrong, most of people don't even get the chance to see the sunlight after a workshift, its awful honestly.

I work 8 hours a day at a factory. The commute is thankfully short, but the job is so monotonous and boring that it drives me insane. I get home pretty tired so yeah, not much time for stuff

I'm doing a 9-5 internship rn and yeah, she has a point

I'm a lowly fast food manager, making 15/hr, struggling, and all of my days blend together. Theres rude people I know are gunna come through every morning. You know what's really crazy? People come through the drive-thru at like 11am and think it's gunna be teenagers. They're AT SCHOOL

"i just entered the work force and am struggling to find my place in life" is just... a normal life experience everyone went through. often times i think people attack girls like this because they're remembering parts of their own lives they have weird shame over.

i agreed with her 100 percent tbh. i struggle the same way every day. driving an hour to work and back everyday is rough. half your paycheck goes to gas the other half to bills and if your lucky you can eat more than 10$ worth of food everyday. used to have agreat job as a plant manager 5 minutes walking distance from my house but the place had to shut down due to trumps canadian steel tariffs. i put everything into that job literally broke my back at age 22 and struggle to get out bed everyday since. the 9-5 is killing me. been doing it for 18 years.

That’s exactly the solution I came up with. It creates more jobs and I have noticed in the first half of my shift I can fly through work. It’s the second half where I know I have to be back the next day and the next, and only get to enjoy a couple hours with my wife. I start to go what’s the point of working so hard.

Aw man, this is something that lingers in my mind constantly. I’m 23 and work 8 hour shifts, Saturday-Monday, and go to nursing school Tuesday-Friday. I am fucking exhausted constantly, there is zero time for vacation or social interaction. It’s a disgusting way of living, and I hate that people feel as if this is how it should be.

I work 20 hours and go to school full time. I don’t even know how I find time to workout and talk to my friends…I try so hard, yet it feels like it’s never enough..what is this life. This can’t go on, it’s draining

Your first full time job after school is such an eye opening experience. You’ve really joined adulthood at this point and it can be a real shock to the system. Everyone gripes about their job from time to time. No need to skewer her about it.

Yeah I honestly think the 9 to 5p thing is stupid as well 😂 also since everyone has the same schedule, even the banks and post offices, good luck ever getting your stuff done. And you are always driving home in traffic with the sun directly in your face on the horizon.

As someone who works 9-5, I literally wouldn't wish this on anyone.

I work at a carwash from 8-6 with only a 30 minute break after 2 and a half hours with a one hour commute all together while going to college, she is right. It absolutely sucks

I reacted just like this girl when I first entered the workforce. The shift from student to worker and the difference in time management is indeed life altering. The 9-5 does suck but we all either get used to it or adjust the best we can.

This isn’t for pity, I just want to say what my experience is. I know this isn’t a job, but I am feeling the same way. I’m in college right now and it’s fucking hell! I wake up, I walk to campus to get breakfast, I have to go to the library to work on like 3 essays that are due that day. Then for the entire day, I have classes until 5:00 PM and then I have to go home and just work for the rest of the night on more essays and by that time, I am so fucking tired. This is all I do all day, every day. It’s miserable! If I decide I want to take a mental health day or if I am sick and can’t do work, I get set back like 20 pages of written work. I have no friends. I have no time to meet girls. There is nothing to do around campus. Now, I just got a job, so now I have to balance work with my school work also. I am so burnt out!

My 8 hour work day becomes a 12 hour day with commute and time to become agreeable to society. If you're expected to have 8 hours of sleep that leaves 4 hours to exist. Subtract an hour at the gym, a half hour to shower after, and an hour to cook and eat dinner. I have a daily 90 minutes to "live". Mental health issues are a constant struggle and this is all so I can afford to "survive", not thrive. Anyone who thinks this girl is incorrect is delusional and have been privileged enough to be blessed with ignorance to how society shits on normal people.

yes this is how 95% of adults live

People who have knuckled under all their life and taken whatever scraps are chucked their way seem to react with a lot more hostility to the people who stick their neck out and say how awful the system is than the people who enforce the shitty system

I work 50 hours a week with a 1/2 hour commute. I still live in my parents basement and pretty much have no time to have any sort of relationships because on my days off I just sleep the depression off 🤷‍♀️

The next gen is gonna roast each other with "your mom records herself crying and actually posts it"

Yeah dude. My first job was about an hour commute with a 45 minute unpaid lunch. I was trading more than 12 hours of my life to work between prep, commute and the actual hours I worked. It pushed me to a really dark place. People don't understand that work isn't just the "8 hours" anymore. Even now, I have an hour commute and an hour lunch, so even now I give up 11+ hours a day for 8 hours of exploitative pay. We just get used to the pain and we need to be kind to people being exposed to the true minor horrors of reality. Life is hard, no matter who you are, and the lack of empathy people show is disgusting.

Work from home doesn't solved anything, if you work from home, then the company thought you will be availabe 24/7.

The ability to work from home is a privilege for people not in the customer service industry. I get upset because it feels like a class thing. I manage a grocery store and I work 8-15 hours a day, 10 most days. But someone needs to put your vegetables on the shelf. I just hate that people can work from home and make 4-5 times more than me.

Everyone is ganging up on her because they believe she is mad about an 8-hour workday. There are A LOT of TikTokers that do just that. But this is a big reason that 4 day work weeks are so sought after, to give you 3 days off.

Why are we pretending 9-5 has no days off

The 9-5 grind isn’t even worth it anymore. It barely covers anything, if at all. God help you if you’re doing 10-12 hour shifts and you don’t even get paid enough to make it worth it.

The really sad thing is I bet if the first comment was someone genuinely feeling bad for her then everyone else would have too. The sheep hive mind of twitter just have to join in on what everyone else says. It's honestly on the same level on reddit. ☠☠

AFTER COLLEGE!!!? Girl I started working 9-5 when I was 15 years old.

Worked a 9-5 after graduating college. Am extemely blessed to have found a 20hr/week job that pays the bills. I didn’t mind the 9-5 at the time since “that’s what you’re supposed to do,” but now I can’t see myself going back to 9-5 unless it’s remote. Free time is absolutely invaluable

Most people are empathetic, not sympathetic, so as soon as you pull the "poor me" card, they'll instantly have lost patience with you. I've worked full time for 20 years and i agree with her completely. She's not doing anything wrong, I just think sadly, if you word things solely about yourself, the masses will jump on you. I feel what has rustled many people's feathers, is that she has worded her argument in the 1st person, which will instantly make people take a dislike to her. If she had formed her argument to encompass the majority, and spoke about everyone, all those people would agree with her but she made it only about herself which just aggravates people, even the ones in the exact same (or worse) situation.

Working from home is a double edged sword, it's nice not physically going to work but you you meet a lot of people that become friends when you work on location.

It’s the same argument as fraternal hazing, just because the old heads were abused, the younger generation has to be abused too so they “earn” it like they did. Never really understood that mindset.

Welcome to adulthood, I worked construction from 5am-6pm and still went to the gym afterwards

I felt the same way when I was her age and still feel that way now. You just have to stay sad and get used to it. I wish things were better, but they are not.

People will make arguments on behalf of corporations because if they work hard enough and always support the company and never complain, then one day they'll be the BIG BOSS™. And if any concessions are made for the workers when you're a worker, then you're missing out on the benefit of exploiting the workers when you're the BIG BOSS™ and that's money out of your future pocket.

Folks in Japan thinking “wait a minute” 🤔

i always love it when charlie throws in osrs examples lmfao they always are so accurate too

My wife spend 2 hours a day Mon-Fri in the car commuting in Johannesburg, South Africa. It sucks and I sympathise with her. I agree with Charlie. She just wanted to vent man. And it is facts

There really are double standards on both sides, the fact that people overreacted to her in such a specific way…

Everyone making fun of her is a corporate boot licker. Change my mind.

Literally the same way i felt out of college. My office job was just down the street, but I was miserable everyday and found much more enjoyment out of retail of all things. Now I’m trying to break into a new career that keeps me active, but the standard has now become that employers ghost you on almost all of your applications so🤷‍♂️

I love those takes of Charlie, he is not afraid of going against the masses (ofc he knows his community has his back and that he isn't wrong as far as he knows). When I first saw this I thought that she was absolutely right, I see why people get like "mad" but she only made valid points. Ofc most people have to do a 9-5 job but it's still taking away a lot from your free time. I've heard that in some countries they test the 4 day work week, where you work the same amount of hours but only for 4 days a week. Meaning you work 9-5 Monday-Thursday and Friday-Sunday is the weekend (which I personally love, not that I have those work days but the idea is great). They want to test if productivity increases if they lower the amount of days that you have to work, apparently in the countries that it got tested in it did worked and they permanently adapted it (don't quote me on that, I'm not really sure I heard it a while ago don't know which countries either. I think it was some Norwegian ones, they're always a few steps ahead with they're work/life balance. Feel like they got everything sorted out perfectly fine, school, work, criminality). Anyway if I'm not mistaken they want to test this at a few jobs for half a year in germany 2024 so they can see if this will work and maybe also permanently adapt it, would be exciting since I live and work here in germany. (just realized that I completely switched topics from what I started, I guess a little fun facts on the side [don't take it as facts tho, I'm not really sure about all of that. I'm typing everything out from memory because I'm to lazy to google, I've read/heard it somewhere a while ago and then never again])

I just started a new job out of necessity to better provide for my wife and son. Pay and benefits are pretty good, but yeah I literally have an hour to see them each day max before I have to sleep and do it again

videos like this are what make charlie such a good guy. in the position hes in, he doesnt need to work 9-5 jobs or deal with that stuff that people complain about so it would be so easy to not see things from their perspective, yet he still does

"Twitter dog piled her". No surprise there.