From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....
"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."
This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?
genuinely this reminds me of that one tumblr post about that cult indoctrination technique where they make unreasonable requests of you, and when you refuse, suddenly it’s YOUR fault for having a sense of self-care. it’s YOUR lack of commitment, YOUR lack of dedication — not the insane request of a company that does not actually care about you.
the idea that failure is an individual failing and not the oppressions of a broken system.
this is just flat-out manipulation. it really always has been, but this is the form it’s taking nowadays. crazy
*sigh*
Hey OP it would've been nice of you to include a link. A lot of people are upset because of the interpretation that this is talking about vacation... it's not.
"...Gen Z are taking time between jobs to have time out."
Like. Yeah, it's still misleading to call it a micro retirement, but it's at least talking about time Not Employed At All, and not just...vacation / time off while returning to the same work. It's talking about leaving space and time between one job and the next.
Full article here (if you have Firefox you can tap the icon in your url that makes it text only and avoid the paywall to read more):
As “The Great Retiree Return” trend rises, so does the Gen Z "micro-retirement" trend. Discover what these age reversal trends mean and how
That's an entirely different article than the one I was quoting, hence why it's saying something different and the text in the screen shot I included isn't anywhere in that article.
This is the original article, which they've also rewritten to make it a little less god-awful- they original version of it is still available on archive.org.
