I think some of the perceived "rudeness" is just misinterpreted gen z social anxiety. Shout out to the "gen z stare" this is the best video I've seen with examples: https://www.tiktok.com/@dantejamees/video/752596765491436263...

Not necessarily rudeness, moreso unwillingness to do fake-cheerfulness over the top "customer is always right" obsequiousness.

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miladyincontrol 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The sad part I hear about the "gen z stare is its just youth entering the workplace.

How many Millenials were described as aimless slackers in the workplace in just about the exact same way, gen x as gloomy and unmotivated, and so on. Idle hands, gilded youth, layabouts, beatniks, etc theres countless terms adjacent.

Its a tale old as time older generations acting like the younger arent interested in work "in the right way", and one I do not want to perpetuate

	▲	legacynl 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Its a tale old as time older generations acting like the younger arent interested in work "in the right way", and one I do not want to perpetuate You can generalize that statement to include other things besides work. E.g. the music from my teenage years was much better than that slop kids are listening to now. I guess it's just old people's way of saying "I like my life, and I think that the conditions of my life contributed to that, so therefore you should want the same conditions so you can turn out just like me"