Driving me insane that all of these "trends" of "bad" zoomers or millenials is literally that generation's regression to the mean. Sorry, but half-assing it so you don't get burned out is how it's always been done. You tried to turn people born after 1985 into good little drones that would work extremely long hours for no compensation, and that worked for a while, but people get tired eventually.
Pandudes rock
If you've ever considered doing a master's at Waterloo this is a good preview of the campus.
Those meetings come after you make the change where they tell you they actually expected the button would get smaller.
Make the descriptions less vivid so it has the vibe of outtakes which hadn't had their cg rendered yet.
2014: looking at zillow and dreaming of buying a condo
2024: looking at zillow and wondering how much Mandarin courses cost
The main thing I hate about inflated expectations in job postings and interviews is I keep expecting to do interesting and challenging work. And the jobs keep being like "make a powerpoint and summarize your results to someone that does not know what a number is".
It's probably not rare for writers and podcasters to have a PR gig, it's like your last chance to get paid for writing. But also, they tend to be a bit more ashamed and quit as soon as they have reasonable incomes from writing gigs.
Books should have outtakes and bloopers at the end.
Best scene in the Wire
More like virial marketing amirite?
The other thing that drives me insane was living through articles about how lazy and entitled millenials were while everyone I knew was overqualified for their jobs and working unpaid overtime.