Tl;Dr - "It could be worse" is a shit reason to tolerate bad behavior and that bad behavior is harmful over time. Also do we just WANT to turn into people who shake our fists and yell "These damn kids these days" - we have all the opportunity to be the first generation here to champion lifelong learning to treat people well - doesn't require giving up "whatever" - it does require not being a judgy jerk face.

In a way, we do. We're on the line between our parents who gave little or no credence to abusive behaviors and millenials, generally and alpha who are far more empathetic. Their empathy also comes with, what I see as, even less tolerance for bs than we have.

They aren't whining about about a boss wanting something done to expectation, they have a legit complaint about both the unreasonable expectations of "productivity" (that we were taught was THE only way to get, keep and promote in a job - not knowing that those days were long gone) in order to satisfy capitalist greed. The largest number of employees are simply and only squeezed for the benefit of others. There's no reason for that to excuse rude, callous and prolonged nasty words from a "boss". Who is also the beneficiary of your work. The other thing is, as a separate issue, being an authoritative and harsh jerk isn't rhe only way to manage people and its actually the worst way to do it.

What does anyone ever get from going balls to the wall for an employer? People with halfway decent jobs are struggling with basic living expenses nevermind if they or another family member has any kind of health condition or accident. There's no housing crisis, there is a corporate ownership of private housing crisis. The unchecked profit hoarding and exploitation of people is beyond unconscionable. We've also learned a lot just in the time or generation has been alive about what long term stress and "mean words" do to us mentally and physically.

I considered myself a super kind, empathetic and accepting person but after raising a millenial, a gen z and 2 gen z-alphas - I have learned that I had a great deal to learn. It's not that we just don't have empathy - we tend to judge who is worthy of it. That's not very cash money of us. We can also stand to recognize that people disliking spending a full third of lives being talked down to for no particular reason other than their boss is being pressured by their boss to pressure you into putting more into your job than you're being compensated for - is exploitative, and over time it does harm us mentally and physically. And likely emotionally, it was always older people at work that were telling me to suck it up, that's just life. Well. It doesn't have to be and it would absolutely be better for everyone if it wasn't.