The subtitle of this article gives aways the game. Are you out of touch? Yes.

Any HR person that admits to tuning out because "it's a lot" and then isn't able to process or understand the completely fair issues this former employee is raising is missing their real issues: their own understanding of the HR gigl.

Seriously... you tuned out during an exit interview?

YIkes.

I understand the older person inclination to dismiss this all as "whining" or "entitlement" or a lack of general understanding in how life works.

But not that many generations ago, children and adults were working in insanely dangerous conditions inside factories and society said "Nope! Not going to accept this anymore". Things change. And I'm sure all the fat cats running those factories were saying a lot of the same things about those workers as this author is saying about this former employee.

In this article there are two directions this professional HR person could have taken:

1. An insightful look at why this new generation(s) isn't willing to sacrifice their life, health, time, and relationships for a company-employee relationship that no longer values anything but the company's financial growth.

2. Give a bunch of tl;dr summaries of how an indoctrinated older worker thinks younger workers should suck it up and deal.

Clearly #2 was the choice. As others have pointed out, companies have only grown their demands of employees since those "wonderful" days of the 1950s while reducing nearly every benefit to employees other than a paycheck. Stability, loyalty, trust, steady growth over time, reasonable expectations, reasonable salaries, etc. have all gone bye bye, yet we're all supposed to just be happy scraping by grabbing pennies the billionaires throw down to appease us?

8 people in the world hold as much wealth as 3.6 BILLION people. Yet, employees have to beg to stay at a decent hotel when we're on the road. Please.

And FYI: I'm coming on 50.