Nah this is just a straight fact at the point when women entered the work force in numbers it was during the generation gaps when most children where in school so companies seeing a uptick in applicants just started hiring people for less $ an hour and targeted more desperate people like single mothers or more naive people like people applying for thier first job after high school/college to do the lower paying longer hour jobs like fast food/retail manager, warehouse workers, and people in shipping/receiving like trucking. It's literally the definition of capitalism if I can find someone/employee to do it for less $ why wouldn't I it has nothing to do with "Women" entering the workplace its still the same point of the people with money just being massive greedy d***s.

That's a gross generalization. My mom is in the boomer generation and she sees how bad the economy is and how tough it is to get a job and keep a job. Yeah, they have very out of date views on things, but as a xennial, I'm thinking "wtf just happened to the world?" too. Boomers weren't all that better off. Not all of them were in unions and owned houses, had better pay, and had the opportunity and means to go to college. None of the elders in my family went to college. Every one of them struggled with something. The ones that had bought and paid off houses weren't always earning their money honestly, as I've been hearing down the grapevine through other family. I even just learned that a house we used to live in was rented, not bought, and rented cheap. But when you're a kid parents just didn't talk about the household budget, show us their finances and reveal much. Our parents weren't truthful and now we're learning the hard way.

Don't put unions on too high of a pedestal. They are the reason for the demise of most of the domestic manufacturing jobs. Everything from cars to socks. Find one that was made start to finish in the United States. You'd be hard pressed to do so. Unions are to blame. When it became more profitable to move operations over seas due to the ever increasing demands of unions companies did so in large numbers. That's why the made in China mark is so prevelant.

Absolutely NOT true. Unions are the reason we had a strong vibrant middle class back when unionization was common. The decline in union membership over the last few decades tracks with the decline in the American middle class during the same time frame. Employers will ALWAYS seek out cheaper labor wherever they can find it. And OF COURSE a third world country like China is going to have cheaper labor than a first world country like the U.S. Organized labor has nothing to do with that.

Just a thought, but you may have misunderstood what the older generation was saying. The message I received from them wasn't of criticism, but rather life advice. They told me not to expect everything all at once. I graduated college and thought I should have a $400k home and a fancy car, but after talking to my grandparents, I released they had that stuff because they worked for years to get there. So I too must work up to those luxuries.

I think I understood my boomer dad pretty well when he told me he bought his first house when he was 21.

I apologize if I offended you or anyone else. I was only expressing how I received the messages. Which was not of criticism. If you don't mind me asking, you say father bought his first house at 21, but how nice was the house? My grandfather bought his first house when he was early twenties, but it wasn't fancy and needed a lot of work, which my grandparents did themselves.

Don't apologize for your valid opinions. No one has a right to not be offended. If someone is offended by your opinions they can pound sand. They would have two problems; getting mad and getting over it. My parents bought their first home in the early 60's. By bought, they took out a mortgage that they didn't finish paying for about 20 years. It was about $20k and about 800 square feet. No ac in south Tampa. I remember my dad putting in a window shaker in the late 70's and we thought we were in heaven. My parents worked hard for many years and did without things they needed to provide us with things we wanted. We were not rich, lower middle, but we never knew it. My two siblings and I all had new bikes. We all had the latest fad thing to fit in at school and didn't understand the sacrifices our parents made for us. Now with kids of my own I understand what they endured. I am so grateful I shared my gratitude with them before they passed.

Tru dat. House in 1950's and 60's cost 2 to 3 years salary. Now, it's 20 to 30 times that. It has become obscene, this highly Distorted System of Capitalism, which is why it's dying, in life support, in end stage, essentially collapsing under it's own weight. And, when that happens, we Proles and Serfs and Plebs will of course suffer the most. Unless we show up on a Unified Front, take back not only the Commons BUT our rights to the most basic needs of human life, i.e., housing, healthcare, food, & so forth. The Power is indeed in the Powerless 99%; and the 1% need to be shown that theirs is an illegitimate claim to excess property ownership, hoarding wealth, and buying up the friggin politicians - morally bankrupt and ethically vacuous that they are - those p******g Sociopaths!

If they have worked for it they have every bit of right to it. Claims of Hoarding wealth usually come from those who have not been taught how to earn, save and spend wisely. These are usually also the ones who want that wealth taken and given to all. That isn't right no matter the amount made by a person. A person should earn, keep what they earn and here is what is often missing no matter the level of wealth be it a $100 or a $100million: look around yourself and treat those around you as you want to be treated.

Housing prices depend greatly on geographic location. Which is based on the principles of supply and demand. If someone chooses to live in the same expense neighborhood, then they should expect to pay 30 times their salary. There are however, many neighborhoods where the cost of living is more manageable. Matter a fact, my house cost half my annual salary, but then again not many people want a live in the middle of midwest nowhere surrounded by corn fields.

I've lived my entire life in Florida. With retirement on the horizon places like you describe sound better and better.

I've lived in the midwest my whole life. Closest neighbors being over a mile down the road. Not too far, but far enough that I never see them. I couldn't imagine living in a city. The low cost of living is just an added bonus.

This had nothing to with interviewing techniques. As the article clearly stated, it was a case of the clueless employer being unwilling to come even close to paying the fair market rate for the job in question. The employer flat-out refused to pay more. So what else is the employee to do but to cut her losses and end the discussion? The woman here did nothing wrong -- this is all on the stingy employer who is unwilling to pay a decent wage.

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People are just lazy and greedy because of covid free money.

Not an f-ing thing. Just spouting blah blah...