BG, reality check, but most people don’t have those perks, free, subsidized or otherwise. And yes, I had to dress up in suits every day for years and years and still do for biz meetings. And yes I know people who were sent home because their top was too low. I and many other colleagues had to put up with sexist remarks, sexual harrassment, getting screamed at by clients, cursed out, 15 hour days, long hours at client meetings or in the office. No I didn’t work from home, yes I had to play politics, pretending to like higher ups, living on planes and extensive travel, had to lift heavy boxes to unpack or pack up booths at trade shows. No its not a descriptor of youth, its called work and corporate America BG…and you know what, I had it better than most because I got paid well to put up with this. But a lot of people actually don’t get paid well to work in much less desirable environments. And no, most people I know don’t wear flip flops to work, nor do they work from home. Lots of people have to drive or commute 30 mins or 2 hours each way. I have friends who work in underserved neighborhoods and get peed and shit on by kids they counsel, hit or bitten by kids, and have to leave their work escorted by security guards because people get shot in the neighborhood all the time.
And these are just the white collar jobs. The blue collar jobs, people I know break their bodies or toil over their jobs for low wages. They don’t make enough to afford health insurance for their family so they live without. Their companies don’t offer retirement contributions, forget pensions. They don’t have nice cars, homes, or anything fancy. They work long hard hours in sometimes shitty or dangerous conditions.
