#replaceable

[goodgrammaritan]

"Some people aren't that special. I used to think I was, but I learned. When nobody believes in you, it's too hard to believe in yourself. When I was ill, I drifted too far away from my friends, got too small in their eyes, but that means I was never big to begin with. I'm replaceable. I'm forgettable. I'm not someone who can change the universe."

Rae, Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

[memietroubadour]

I can't even explain what's going on in Zam's stream, going to screenshot this tweet and maybe it helps

they also referenced the Jepexx ai tweets and doubling down but vaguely

[happysongturtle]

Is it weird that I'm ok with feeling replaceable?

I'm happy being there for someone... and then silently fading away once they find someone that makes them happier.

It still hurts, but I just want them happy.

Even if it's never with me.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/starbucks-2671873357?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR6cA5aqePz1KvFBF9_Io3RzjvvHI7tnBhegD5JRPVFHTl-1mObjnLBCzKySTQ_aem_k7xsKIkUL5w6q0kw8lQeWQ

This is apparently the biggest issue right now. Having to wear a uniform like every other worker. This is why Trump won.

By: Danielle Berjikian

Published: Apr 30, 2025

Starting May 12, Starbucks workers will be required to wear a black or blue shirt, along with khakis or dark denim. This is not something unheard of in the hospitality industry, but many entitled employees are throwing tantrums over this.

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It's worth remembering that it was a Starbucks employee who went viral in a video crying about how she was rostered for an 8 hour shift on a weekend. This is not the most emotionally stable workforce.

Regarding the dress code, as you can tell from the video posted online, and particularly from the woman with the beard, this is the result of raging, out-of-control narcissism.

They're not protesting something serious like the company not paying them for hours worked, refusing them breaks or unsafe work conditions. They're being "subjected" to a professional dress code consistent with the Starbucks corporate presentation.

The core complaint is that they expect that when they come to work - you know, to do a job professionally in order to earn money and be paid - that this environment must also a forum to "express themselves." They say this explicitly in the video. This is idiotic and the result of children who were never told "no," and who were celebrated for being mediocre, coupled with the bizarre concept of "bring your whole self to work." The idea that work should fulfill all your personal emotional needs, and that failure to accommodate, embrace and celebrate all of the banal and tedious aspects of what you refer to as your "identity" is unfair and even harmful, is detached from reality and needs to stop.

You work to live. You don't live to work.

They think the workplace is about themselves, not about the customers or about the service or about the products, or even just about doing a good enough job to warrant your ongoing employment and income. No, work should be about me, me, ME. It's about my feelings, my validation, my identity, me expressing myself.

Let's not forget that this is an entry-level position. These are unskilled jobs. (For clarity, like any job, yes, you do need to use particular skills to perform a particular job, but as far as Starbucks is concerned anyone can walk off the street and learn them.) Which is to say, these people are far from irreplacable. They do not have any leverage.

The real minimum wage is always $0.

Your neopronouns, "gender identity," genital piercings, condescension and ability to get offended at literally anything are not qualifications. Nor are you entitled to a job.

The correct response should be as Netflix did and inform them that if they're unhappy dressing in a professional manner that conforms to the Starbucks brand, then Starbucks may not be the right place for them. You can either meet very reasonable requirements of being dresed professionally and punctual (see below), or you can try to find a place that does let you wear a leather harness and rainbow tutu and arrive whenever - or if - you feel like it. Good luck with that.

https://ceoworld.biz/2024/07/15/gen-z-workers-and-punctuality-in-the-workplace-a-generational-divide/

A recent survey by Meeting Canary, an AI tool for analyzing work meeting behaviors, revealed that 47% of Gen Z respondents consider arriving 5 to 10 minutes late as still punctual.

These unskilled positions are the ones that organizations are already the most eager to replace entirely with AI, touch screens and robots, so throwing tantrums derived from narcissism and entitlement is really not the way to go here.

And no, it's really not surprising that people are completely exhausted and done with this shit.

Shut up and pour the coffee.

[icanfeelthekhaos]

Just want somebody to fight for me, be afraid to loose me. Be so scared of me being not in their life that they try everything in their power to keep me. My everything isn’t enough anymore and nobodys scared to lose me.

Im utterly replaceable to everybody.

[iamborderanddealingwithit]

É sentir medo de ser esquecido e substituído. É ter receio de ser deixado para trás. É querer e ao mesmo tempo não querer apresentar duas pessoas queridas para você. É querer a pessoa daquele jeito só para você. É saber que está errada e não saber como mudar isso. É o carinho de uma maneira mais primitiva. É ciúmes.

-Gabriela Souza não gosta de sentir ciúmes 04 de Setembro de 2017

[memietroubadour]

Derapchu digging his grave with Aimsey right now

[i-j0s]

[random-xpressions]

Bitter truth: you're replaceable. Earlier you know, better for your own peace of mind.

Random Xpressions

[saintbia]

I have grown to resent my friends’ boyfriends.

Why am I so easily replaced by one who only knows their outside

When I have been in and out and in and out?

Why am I so easily dismissed

When my calendar, at their whim, has been full and empty and full and empty?

Why is it that when I was in love

I never made my special one my sun

Or made the love of my life my weekend plans?

Does it make me stronger? Weaker? Lesser? Better?

Neglectful?

Attentive?

I don’t care.

I want my friends back.

[bridgebitxh]

Always being the problem & never being able to become the solution, Is like hammering a screw where the nail should been...

[mattsmemes]

[jerushat75]

Everyone can be replaced, even when you think you are the only one who knows how and why something should be done.

Never forget, knowledge and years of service mean absolutely nothing.

The company is all that matters. They’ll try to make you feel special, but…you’re just a body in a position. Nothing more.

[howifeltabouthim]

In the long term, it appeared exceptionally difficult to alter the past except through massive intervention. If any individual was not born, for example, they seemed to be replaced by someone similar.

Iain Pears, from Arcadia

[memietroubadour]

I cannot explain what is even going on right now, other than I fucking hate freak duo /sarcasm /somewhat /idk anymore man