"Suzy Welch, an NYU business professor, previously said the trend is fuelled by Gen Z’s ‘strong desire to avoid anxiety at any cost’ because they haven’t made hard decisions or done hard things.

Pike believes the discussions around mental health and mental illness must continue and that Gen Z will eventually learn to cope with difficult feelings.

‘There may be times where a Gen Z young professional may have a threshold around stress or anxiety or mood that actually over time an expanded comfort with a wider range of emotional experience will actually be a maturing experience for them,’ she said.

‘Success grows out of learning how to get back on the horse, learning how to build the skills, how to ask for help, and how to build capacity in ways that didn’t exist. That’s part of maturing in the workplace.’"

So fucking tone deaf, gotta love the baiting of success. Success to Business Insider of course meaning committing your life force to that grind culture to make the owner’s ego score lines go up.

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    Yeah I do software development and yesterday I was WFH got some music going churning out code getting lots of stuff done and then my boss starts sending me emails trying to put pressure to stress me the fuck out and barely anything else got done the rest of the day. Today I took a sick day for a mental health day. Will he get the point? Probably not.

    It just really comes down to petty people with power. They want to make things shit for the people working for them just to express their power over them.