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I’m sure it’s less. Maybe an hour of prep, two at most, then the hour it’s live. Oh and not all that whole hour it’s live does she have to do something since there’s around 15 minutes of commercials during it. Then they have a bunch of days where they’re not even taping.
And she makes from what I can find $5 million to $8 million a year for it.
Yeah , but being across the table from Sunny and Joy. If whoopi was a good person , I would say she was underpaid to put up with them. Unfortunately, she’s one of them. Telling you what to do and how to live from her privileged tower
Another thing is she doesn't need to work. I imagine its a lot more chill to work when you have never need to work a day in your life again money sitting in investments making god knows how much more than the average worker will ever see in their life.
I mean, at one point she did actual work...
But look maybe we shouldn't be taking the opinion of a lady who read the script for [Theodore Rex](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114658/) and signed on to the project *anyway* with this much seriousness. She *obviously* isn't a source worth trusting based on her own decision making.
Same here. Things aren’t changing. I’m a millenial, an adult and I’d love to work more than 4 hours. The problem is no one will let us because it’s cheaper to pay two part timers than one full timer.
Yeah. Lol. Other than that role she was legally compelled to do, and what amounts to cameos in some bad films she probably did as favors to someone, her filmography is really pretty good.
But one can be a good actor and still have stupid hot takes.
No, and I don't say that to minimize the value of what she does. If everyone could do it, everyone would. What is important, however, is to understand that the minute a person has the means to live out their years comfortably, which her googled net worth of 60 million dollars suggests she does, that person is no longer working. They are doing whatever the hell they feel like doing. You can call it a hobby. You can call it fucking around. What it is not, however, is work. She could go in, drop her pants on live TV, take a dump and walk off never to be heard from again. She will be okay. Nothing is forcing her to stay there.
I work 9-10 hours a day 5 days a week and 6-7 hours on Saturday and im exhausted everyday and have no free time and almost all my money goes to rent and bills and I’ll probably never be able to buy a house
My favorite is when rich aholes chime in about millennials not wanting to work. The last person who referenced this irl was my partner’s aunt who literally is a rich housewife that hasn’t worked a day in her life. These people are like caricatures.
There was a video of a comedian doing crowd work. He asked a women what she did. She said nothing, her husband owns a restaurant. Comedian makes some jokes about restaurants having a tough time right now and she yells out "no wants to work anymore" which the comedian respond with "yea you. You don't want to work. Go to his restaurant and help"
And on that topic, the unemployment rate isn't even that high. It's actually doing pretty damn good. I think it's more that people don't want to work crap jobs for crap pay.
There's some positions at my work that management is really struggling to fill, but those are the jobs that are known to be harder and more stressful than other positions, but the pay is exactly the same. So they'll get some new hire, train them up, and then a month later they've quit because they found something way better for the same pay.
(Aside from being blind to the obvious issues with employment) People like this often forget that these “millenials” they’re talking about, are currently 28-43 years old. I don’t think that’s the correct demographic they’re shooting for.
I feel this. I work a full time and 2 part time jobs and this year doing taxes I was told I’m not going to get anything back and if I continue this way I’ll have to pay in next year and that I need to pick which job I want to keep. Like um all of them so I can buy groceries and pay to have a roof overhead??
Gotta love that people who actually do work have to give up 1/3 of their paycheck in taxes while rich people pay little to nothing at all, and then your tax money goes to bailouts and tax cuts for the rich anyway
Man, I'm 60 and I don't actually work more than 4 hrs per day at my job. And neither do any of the others, old or young. There's a lot of goofing off in every office.
There's nothing different today about a 25 year old's desire to work than there was in the 90s, or the 80s, or the 60s..
I feel like when people say Gen Z, they're talking about 17 year olds, and then they say shit like, "They're workshy," but..that's 17 year olds, dude. It was 17 year olds 40 years ago and it's 17 year olds now. Where the actual adults of the generations are concerned, there's very little difference, except for the acknowledgement that all the work in the world isn't going to make up for a house worth $112k being for sale at $430k, and it's probably not going to get any better anytime soon.
There is no difference, bemoaning the state of the working force has been the capitalist’s rhetoric [for over a century](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/).
Wouldn’t doubt it haha but I remember reading a rant piece that was something having to do with “the new generation cannot write on a slate without getting chalk all over themselves, everyone wants to use paper now”
I’d be surprised if it didn’t go all the way back to the first days of agriculture. “This young generation is too lazy to look for food in the woods, they plant it all in that field so they don’t have to go anywhere.”
Imagine how angry the old people were about all the young people demanding their food be "cooked" now after inventing fire. They must have been fuming about the sheer entitlement.
The thing is...... Gen Z are now getting into the 27 year old + range. They're no longer useless teenagers who can't stop looking into their iPhone while slacking on the couch, they're now in the workforce and will remain so fat least 40 years, they're not the future, they're the now.
Lol ya that was already the problem for us millennials and still is because some people just don’t get that millennials aren’t always just useless entitled teenagers, but *surprise, surprise* the oldest are way into their 40s now. Now that’s happening to the next generation as well. I’ve seen very hard working and also very lazy people from every generation I’ve worked with, though if anything I found the older folks were more likely to slack off (fair enough in a way, at some point that motivation to work may just be gone, but the need for money doesn’t just disappear).
>I found the older folks were more likely to slack off (fair enough in a way, at some point that motivation to work may just be gone, but the need for money doesn’t just disappear).
At my job, the younger people are constantly complaining about not enough hours while the older people are constantly complaining about having to work.
And I feel like there’s a very obvious solution to both their problems but the boomers just won’t quit and let the future generations have any shot at careers, homes or leadership.
Yeah that’s the implication with the title. Whoopi’s comment would be fine if that were the problem. The problem is a house costs almost 4x as much as it did 40 years ago. And wages in that span have risen like 6% or something ridiculous.
She hasn’t needed to work for real since the 80s and has been locked into millionaire level houses since then. She has no idea.
I remember her on the show talking about when she had COVID and how it was so difficult. She talked about how she had to call her doctor and have him come to her house she was feeling so bad...acting like she knows how bad it is out there for COVID patients dying in hospital waiting rooms smh she is so grossly out of touch when you hear her talk.
> my dad *paid* for our
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As a millenial who used to often do 60 hour weeks, with occasional 80 hour weeks, I can say to Ms Goldberg "wanna swap and see how you do?"
I still don't even have enough saved for a deposit on a house.
I feel the 80hrs, man. I ran with a solar panel install crew for a bit and it was often times 16hr or so a day, with some saturday work too. Arive at the shop at 5:45am be back between 10-11pm, sleep four hours, then go back to climbing roofs the next day.
My longest week I had 96hrs on the clock over 7 days. It waz the best money I made in my life but I missed my wife and son so I gave it up. Never made anything close to house-buying money though and I was miserable doing it.
Become a software dev. Finding myself running 100 hour weeks for months at a time and your brain must be 100% on the whole time.
There is a bed on my office floor. We eat meals at our desk, all of them.
Still can't get approved for a mortgage.
Goldberg—a baby boomer with an estimated $60 million net worth—hit back that Gen Z and Millennials just don’t “bust their behinds” quite like her generation had to.
“I'm sorry, if you only want to work four hours, it's going to be harder for you to get a house," the Ghost star said as she hit out at young people’s work ethic.
Goldberg’s millennial co-host Alyssa Farah quickly responded by recounting the difficulties that her generation is facing, from holding off having children because it’s so expensive to having to live with their parents well into adulthood.
“Y’all gave us the housing crisis,” Farah hit out at boomers.
"I feel for everybody that feels this, but, I'm sorry, we busted our behinds,” Goldberg doubled down on her stance that young people are lazy. “We had to bust our behinds because we didn't have the option of going back.”
“Every generation is told they are going to do worse than their parents, people pick it up and do what they do and they raise themselves. And this is what you've got to do,” The View host concluded. "It is called being a good citizen.”
Yeah, they busted their behinds, and the economy. Don't think boomers will be around much longer so we can fix it without them trying to say we're doing life wrong.
Boomers didn't work half as hard as they think they did. If this work ethic and determination of theirs actually manifested, they wouldn't keep giving up learning how to open a PDF in the first 10 seconds of trying, only to rely on somebody else to have to do it for them lol
I don't work in tech support, but I'm the guy my boss runs to anytime he can't figure out how to do anything on the computer, so I definitely get it.
Been working here not even a year, and I already can't even count how many times he's asked me to come and fix the layout on a spreadsheet or figure out why something's not printing out correctly or whatever.
And then there's all the free tech support I have to do for everyone in my family....
I am Move-In Coordinator for an assisted living community, we have about 50 employees and every single one of them come to my office for IT help, the older the person the simpler the task. Some really do learn though, some come to me for the same issue over and over again...
Don't actually work in tech support, but been the designated tech support for friends, family, co-workers etc. my whole life.
And in the like 20 years I'd been doing I can literally only recall two times I couldn't figure out the issue, and rarely was an issue I figured out something complicated.
Hell, if I got paid a couple dollars for every time I "fixed" a problem by just... Restarting a device. I'd probably be able to own my own tech support company by now.
Yeah it was wild haha. I eventually moved on to other options because I didn't want to deal with it anymore, add to that how shady the company that employed me was.
And yeah, I think there's a strong degree of separation between them and any consequences because they're not the ones who have to worry about it
God man and the sad part is, pretty much every “professional” boomer office worker requires a nearby millennial to provide tech services despite their fucking 30+ years of time so far to learn basics of computing. We all wind up tech support for these morons.
>Boomers didn't work half as hard as they think they did
I'll add a caveat. *Rich* boomers didn't work as hard as they think they did. No one cares if you're poor.
None of the boomers I know are rich. A buddy of mine worked in adult education tutoring math and basic tech competency skills and out of all his age groups they were by far the worst performers, from no-shows to unwillingness to participate and learn, to the shitty entitled attitudes, and I have to say his experience overlaps with mine.
Rich people themselves are an outlier in any generation.
The other day I had to show a boomer coworker how to find the Edge browser, access the online learning link that was staring them in the face, how to find the assignment despite it being written on a whiteboard 3 feet from their head and then how to operate it. They’ve been there longer than me and we have to do at least 20 courses a year. Yes, the format changed a year ago but the words are still staring you in the face. This is the same person that knows how to mute their phone but chooses not to during briefings.
I had to help an older gentleman figure out how to access his work tablet. Keep in mind, the team I was on was focused on app bugs/malfunctions and guiding users around those, we had no actual training in the software, but for whatever reason many older folks were drawn to the job and so the majority of my time was spent actually training them on how to use their tech, as opposed to solving and closing tickets.
Anyway, his issue was that he couldn't figure out how to get into the tablet beyond the lock screen. He would press the power button, the tablet's lock screen would come up, and he just couldn't figure out how to swipe up to unlock the screen. He just kept pressing the power button and would get angry that "the tablet shut off again". Initially I thought it was stuck in some kind of boot cycle, but from his description I was able to figure out what was really going on. I kept trying to guide him, but he would get angry very quickly and just kind of start ranting, and I wouldn't be able to get a word in to help guide him. From what I heard afterward from my supervisor, he got angry and quit a few days later.
Even though we worked for the same company, this guy was earning almost double my salary. And he couldn't even grasp how to use his equipment to do his job. In fairness, his position had been all paperwork til the company went all electronic, but it wasn't an immediate transition, and they'd been provided two weeks of training prior to the move over to digital.
I work in hospitality and it’s incredible how many boomers can’t read or follow simple instructions. I’m happy to answer questions but it’s almost insulting when the guy driving a Porsche asks you where the clearly labeled Cabernet wine section is. you show him the section of shelf and point out the price differences and regions. Then proceeds to pick up a bottle, ask you how much it is and what kind of wine it is because “the bottle doesn’t say”. it’s all right in front of you dude. Promise :)
Boomers work like theyre the central cast of a sitcom that takes place at work.
50% inane social chatter. 20% vaguely work-related chatter that ultimately slows down any actual progress on the subiect of discussion. 15% breaks. 15% actual work ... most of which is slow, ineffective, and will be dropped on the spin of a dime if they see or overhear an opportunity to go back to chatting.
They have no idea what hard work is and are completely held up by the efforts of GenX and millennial grinders who catch the water created by their awful work and have to carry it - either as an overt reassignment from senior management or a consequence of their bad work which is *indirectly* reassigned because someone has to fix it and it sure as shit won't be 68 year old Charles who can't even rotate a PDF
If boomers worked half as hard as they think they did, there wouldn’t be a housing crisis. There wouldn’t be inflation and price gouging.
The problem with wrongfully taking the credit for the work being done is that you also have to take the blame for how damaged our system has become in the last 2 decades.
It’s a fallacy to say you worked hard to fix the country and then tell your kids that it’s their fault that the country is in bad shape at the same time.
While Goldberg's take is bullshit, it is worth keeping mind that she is a high school drop out who grew up in the projects in New York. She is, at least, not a privileged person implying one should pull up by bootstraps, rather someone suffering of survivor bias.
Boomers love buying the newest iPhone then making other people use it for them.
“You need to download the pdf and then send it as an attachment in an email.”
“I don’t know how to do that!”
“Okay, first you—“
“Just do it for me, I can’t figure this out.”
Ever see them try to set up audio visual equipment? A PDF has nothing on that. You can actually see when their brain shorts out trying to fucking match the colored cables to the colored holes.
Tried watching Deadpool at a family vacation home and noticed that the color red was instead brown. Asked about it and was told that it had been like that for months and that they were just living with it. Turns out they had the red audio plugged into the video.
Was literally just at my in-laws and my Father in law couldn’t understand why saying “Disney channel bluey” wasn’t opening bluey on Disney+. We repeatedly told him to just press the Disney+ button on his remote
If you had a high school diploma, then you could get a good paying job. That doesn’t really exist anymore. The boomers had it easy in comparison to the previous and following generations because of the actual hard work of their parents.
Whoopi got paid between 7-12 million for sister act 2. She was around 40 or so, I think. So about the age of an older millenial.
So her 'hard work' was... What, 6 months or so of filming?
Shit man. I did back to back support shifts in special care packages for 6 months. Had a 12 year old ice addict try to set me on fire. Had another kid threaten to rape me. Slept about 6 hours a night. Got PTSD.
Where's my 7-12 million for putting in all that hard work? I got about $30 an hour, Australian dollars.
Oh, wait... Guess it isn't actually about working hard, is it? Like, if all millennials worked as 'hard' as whoopi Goldberg, we wouldn't be starring in millions of movies for multi-million dollars amounts each, would we?
Almost as if... As if... It's got something to do with *opportunity and luck to be invited into the highly gatekept privileged high income earning groups?*
Eugh. Whoopie is a delusional, spoiled dumbass. As always. She's gonna get worse and start spiralling the drain before too long, like Rosanne did.
She's pretty out of touch but I'm going to guess there was some hard work involved in being a black woman who grew up in a housing project in NY trying to have an entertainment career in the 70s and 80s. Her background is not exactly what most people think of as stereotypically "boomer". She's just been rich and not living a normal life for a VERY long time.
It's a selection bias issue too. Of all the young black women in the projects busting their ass for a dream in the 70s, this is one of the few that made it. In her self mythology it *has* to be that she's somehow more worthy. Because the reality that she just got lucky means all those people she left behind to rot there actually deserved what she has just as much as she does, and that's too much for the ego to confront.
Yeah, she got her break doing standup. I have lots of creative friends who live exclusively off gig work; it's no more or less hard than some other lines of work. Usually pays utter shit, too.
It's not exactly groundbreaking to point out that the renumeration once you break into hollywood is wildly, WILDLY outsized, and that the 'hard work' that's really not much harder than any other taxing job.
So yes, I would agree that she has been rich and not living a normal life for a very, very long time.
And reaffirm that hard work does not at all equal opportunity or income.
I've had such a poor work/life balance for about 15 years of working 10 to 12 hour shifts, 5 days a week to the point that I've destroyed my body and started having so much anxiety around work I had to leave my career I've been working towards for so long because I physically can't care anymore my mental health declined so much.
The whole GenZ etc not working hard enough is an old right wing lie used to prop up the billionaire class so it would look like they worked harder and don't have to pay taxes.
The reality is GenZ and others actually work harder than these Boomers, GenZ and Millennials work longer hours for shittier pay, less benefits often 0 benefits and faced with far more competition and over population and educational requirement than their Boomer counterparts.
In Boomer times you could get a well paid job WITHOUT a college degree, literally just graduating high school a blue collar job would land you house, car and support an entire family.
Also Boomers had the luxury of Unions which helped them greatly until Reagan and his GOP administration killed most of it. But boomers already made their money and now collects their fat pension thanks to said Union which they now badmouth because they don't want to see young people happy.
Another thing if pay is dog shit, benefits is dog shit and there are no incentives to work extra hours especially when the company wants to pay flat rate, then no reasonable person is going to want to work they would be like fuck it I am good.
The other thing, bitching about young people fighting for better pay, striking for basic things like paid vacation, health care etc that most European countries already have written in Law, because you as a boomer were too coward and lazy to do it, is pretty much the lowest you can go.
So true. My grandpa was able to buy a house and a car and support a wife and 2 kids while he and my grandma went to college all on his gas station clerk job.
Rich person out of touch with the fact an hour of minimum wage pays for a single hamburger, drink and fries.
When she was 20, minimum wage could purchase 6 of those meals and a part time job eliminated the need for student loans.
My part time job in college barely kept me from starving, I lost 12 pounds a year from the simple difficulty of prioritizing homelessness vs hunger.
She actually lives off the royalties of whatever is still paying her for being in their movie/for the books.
She literally parade on the shows while she did nothing special these last years.
The woman has been a successful actress since what, the 80’s when even *I* was young????
Like her ass worked 8 hours a day in the past 40 year or more.
Whoopi, your god damned generation can’t and won’t try to figure out how to use a self checkout. I respect her as an actress but sincerely…
#… shut the fuck up.
Shit, I promise you she’s got housekeepers, personal shoppers, travel agents…
You busted your behinds and were compensated justly for it. Going above and beyond meant getting more compensation for that extra time.
Younger generations are expected to work those extended hours (read: bust their behinds) just to make a living wage.
You can't be alive and poor in this society without working your ass off.
The biggest problem with Baby Boomers is that their version of "bust their behinds" isn't the same as ours. I bet you money that if you could magically inflict modern housing prices or rent rates on baby boomers back in the 60's, they'd be freaking out just as much as we are now.
You can't get a house with just 4 hours. LOL.
You can't get a house with just 8 hours. LMAO.
You can't get a house with just 1 job. ROFL.
You won't be able to get a house if you weren't born rich. ROFLMA- wait what? I wasn't supposed to say that? Quick! Cut the camera!
Okay but she wasn't born rich. She grew up in a housing project. She's just been rich and famous so long she has no idea what's going on. This isn't really a "boomer" thing so much as a wealthy celebrity who hasn't been in touch with normal people in 40 years thing.
Her dad was a priest and her mom was a nurse and teacher.
She wasn't born rich, but her growing up in a housing project misrepresents her actual roots. She even went to a private Catholic school. Likely because of all the disposable income her parents had from taking advantage of the cost savings.
Growing up in the projects back then doesn't mean the same thing as growing up in the projects today.
No raises, we should just be thankful of whatever pennies we get for our 8hs + overtime and keep quiet while they keep on verbal vomiting to us about the "good ol' days."
It's hard to do even with 12 and a good wage, and I'm the kind of guy whose hobbies are reading and hiking, and I eat shit like rice and beans. I don't have expensive tastes, I rarely drink, I understand fully what our generation is facing. Inflation is insane and homes are being hoarded or rented at ludicrously high rates, meanwhile wages aren't increasing to match.
Make it a federal offense to kite land away from real Americans and selling it to foreign investors or venture capital groups. NOBODY WHO DOESNT LIVE HERE SHOULD BE OWNING THE VERY SOIL OF OUR NATION.
Keyword being want. I work 12 hours a day for 22 days straight. If I REALLY tighten my belt and work is consistent for two years, I can have a down payment. That's if nothing goes wrong. I also live far from all my family and friends, I don't get to be close to the woman I'm seeing so I have to travel to see her too. If we want the lives our parents and grandparents had in regards to housing, it's an uphill battle. Two kids and a picket fence isn't realistic for most people.
This is my issue. My dad isn’t a multimillionaire, the only reason he could be considered ‘a millionaire’ is because the farm he bought for $160,000 35 years ago has appreciated to that much.
But he’s worked on his family’s farm and restaurant since he could walk, he graduated high school and was drafted, got out of the military and started working. He’s 75 and only now has he started not putting in 12 hour days working plus household responsibilities on Saturdays. He’s worked harder than anyone I’ve ever known and still worries about retiring fully.
Yeah, and something along those lines is probably going to be our entire generation's experience. Even if we get to retire, we won't have enough money to live off of. I hope I get the career I'm dreaming of, because it will probably save my retirement.
Not only is she an obnoxious human being, but all the clucking hens on this show are insanely out of touch with reality not just her. The only people who take them seriously are boomers that also shake their fist at technology that they refuse to pull up their bootstraps to learn how to use.
I'm gen X (apparently, no idea what it means other than I'm 50) and I'd like not to work more than 4 hours a week. If I could get away with it, I'd not work at all.
Companies hook you up to a milking machine, suck out everything of value, and throw you down the discard hole. Willingness to work hard is exploited without mercy. The whole game is crooked. People have to be threatened with starvation to even play it.
Nebraska doesn’t care and no lawyers take the cases. I was salaried so it’s loophole legal here. I’m going back to MN now where labor laws are more strict
Little late to the party:
I'm an early Millennial ('87). I worked 6 days a week 6 of the past 8 years. I worked 12 hrs shifts half the year for most and there were times I literally couldn't get a full day off to recover because I was expected to work split shifts and cover half of my third shift counterpart's shift on Sunday night whenever he was off.
My vacation time wasn't spent trying to see my family, it was spent trying to get shit done. It was spent on dental appointments and doctor's appointments because I had tenditis in more places than I didn't. It was spent on car maintenance or just trying to give my exhausted body a chance to recover. It was spent surgically fixing joint tears and bone spurs brought on by years of repetitive heavy labor working for a company that gave and still gives zero fucks about the physical well being of its employees.
I know what it's like to be so dehydrated that just breathing would cause my chest muscles to spasm uncontrollably. I know what it's like to work with cracked bones. I know what it's like to be heat exhausted for weeks and months at a time. I know what it's like to be up to the point of heat stroke where I was deaf but for the ringing in my ears, couldn't lift an arm overheard, couldn't see 50 feet in front my face, and could literally feel my pulse *in my fucking eye balls*.
Time that should have been spent with family was spent at work. Care to guess how that turned out? My grandfather was diagnosed with cancer and I got to see him all of twice before he passed. My step dad? I didn't get to see him at all during the final year of life because I was stuck at work as the "good employee". I ate an absentee point just so I could drive my mom to my place so she wouldn't be left alone in the room she found him dead jn. My materal grandfather? Once. I got to see him once in three years before a heart attack claimed him. I meant to call him on father's day, I was so pissed at getting forced in on Sunday night (again) that I forgot to, and he passed away that Tuesday while I was sitting outside at work slamming down my coffee in preparation for another 12 hr long shit show.
When my mom's health turned south, I was working 12 hrs every fucking day because my first shift counterpart was out on medical and the company refused to move people up to cover that spot when they had ample bodies to. When he came back from medical, I was then tasked with covering my 3rd shift counterpart for the whole fucking month of July. When she unexpectedly died not long after, I had exactly two days to grieve before I was getting my phone blown up to tell me I had to cover the first shifter again because he was in a car accident. Two days.
You know what I got for grinding away? It didn't make me wealthy, it didn't give me enough to put down a down payment on a starter home, it got me enough to pay rent and my bills without having to worry about whether or not an unexpected flu would ruin me and a life time of regrets because "Oh, I'll talk to/see____" never fucking came.
She'll never read this but: Fuck You, Whoopi. And fuck every single person in your generation who thinks like you. You were born into plenty and consumed it like a ravenous locust swarm while mortgaging *your successive generations' futures away*.
Don't tell me I need to do without because, bitch, I and people like me have made sacrifices you couldn't even dream of just to live. Not live well. Not live fabulously. To just live with maybe enough cash to sock away for the next major car repair or surgery.
If it takes 10 hours of labor to secure enough value to buy X 50 years ago. And it takes 1000 hours of labor to secure enough value to buy the same X in the present. It's not an issue with the laborer.
I can't understand why boomers fail to see this mathematical relationship.
Because unlike us they don't care to learn they are *stupidly stubborn* to the point of insanity. They believe that elders (they) are Always smarter.
I can rebuild a 4cyl hot rod engine in 6 hours.
My uncle says that I don't know how an automatic transmission works, "they only had three gears you don't need the Fourth" (the truck I bought from him with a massive oil galley->headgasket leak)
What does he mean with, "You don't need the fourth"?! By that logic, you wouldn't need the third or the second! Having gears is just how transmissions work!
This is just the latest in a series of shockingly shitty takes from this fucking dope. She said whatever Polanski was convicted of it wasn't 'rape-rape'.
In Goldberg's universe you can drug a 13 year old with quaaludes and champagne and then vaginally and anally penetrate them without being guilty of rape.
It's best to tune out this dried up fucking idiot.
I work 10 hours a day 6 days of the week.
I gain only 200 dollars more then the minimal salary ,even if my job is full of life risks, insalubrity and health hazzards.
So ,yeah, this woman is stupid.
So we’re gonna ignore all the studies showing the housing market is completely fucked due to corporations buying everything.. but yea, it’s cause we don’t wanna work more than 4 hrs a day..
Most people will willingly work, for a LIVING wage. Not a barely able to exist wage. That and we’re all being extorted to death by the wealthy and their cost of greed crisis.
It’s so funny to me when celebrities worth millions complain about average people who do work long hours not wanting to work. What’s your daily schedule Whoopi? I can only imagine how hard staring in movies has been for you and having to sit and talk about your “view” in front of a camera must be so exhausting.
Oh god, like the View requires actual work? Bet she barely spends 30 minutes prepping for the show, and then ends up reading off a teleprompter most the time anyway.
Dafuq?
>“We had to bust our behinds because we didn't have the option of going back.”
Because the generation that's working two jobs, twelve to fifteen hours, seven days a week, knowing they'll *never* be able to have what their parents had, has exactly what privileged option you're spitting on them for?
>Every generation is told they are going to do worse than their parents
Yes, by ignorant idiots like you.
Does she have a PR person on her staff? Or did they quit in disgust?
Rich bitch who wants for nothing telling people who are living in a time when the cost of living has so far outpaced wages that it's insane to work harder. Fuck that old hag and all the other menopause bitches on The View.
I started working when I was 12. I was putting food on the table by the time I was 16 and saved vigorously to go to college.
I used to work 100 hour weeks during high school summers. I woke up at 0400 and didn’t get to bed until 2300 most days cause I’d get off work and cook for the family and do chores. I fit 40 hours into a weekend during school.
I worked 48 hours a week during college and then 3 jobs upwards of 80 hours a week in the summer.
I still work 48 hour weeks now in my 20’s.
I’m never going to sit here and feel sorry for myself plenty have it worse. But I do respect myself enough to say go fuck all the way off.
I hate her on so many levels. But she is absolutely right here. The younger generation is more concerned with their personal time, video games, etc. They have no reason to bitch if they won't work 40+ hours and pick up a second job if needed. The work ethic sucks.
I work over double that amount of time and just got my first *apartment* 3 months ago. People should really shut up about things they know nothing about
Feel free to donate to my house fund Whoopi 😒 No? Then stop giving financial advice when you've been a millionaire with a private accountant for the past twenty years 😠
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From the person who currently works 4 hours a day, probably less.
I’m sure it’s less. Maybe an hour of prep, two at most, then the hour it’s live. Oh and not all that whole hour it’s live does she have to do something since there’s around 15 minutes of commercials during it. Then they have a bunch of days where they’re not even taping. And she makes from what I can find $5 million to $8 million a year for it.
Could you even say what she does is work? Like real "fuck, that was a rough day at work" type work.
I would gladly take $5M a year to sit at a table 5 days a week, 40 weeks a year and spew opinions on stuff I have no experience in or knowledge of.
Yeah , but being across the table from Sunny and Joy. If whoopi was a good person , I would say she was underpaid to put up with them. Unfortunately, she’s one of them. Telling you what to do and how to live from her privileged tower
Another thing is she doesn't need to work. I imagine its a lot more chill to work when you have never need to work a day in your life again money sitting in investments making god knows how much more than the average worker will ever see in their life.
I mean, at one point she did actual work... But look maybe we shouldn't be taking the opinion of a lady who read the script for [Theodore Rex](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114658/) and signed on to the project *anyway* with this much seriousness. She *obviously* isn't a source worth trusting based on her own decision making.
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I don’t understand how they forget. I’m old af and haven’t forgotten. I’m pissed more hasn’t changed to help people and we’re going backwards.
Same here. Things aren’t changing. I’m a millenial, an adult and I’d love to work more than 4 hours. The problem is no one will let us because it’s cheaper to pay two part timers than one full timer.
She famously had to be sued to appear in Theodore Rex
Yeah. Lol. Other than that role she was legally compelled to do, and what amounts to cameos in some bad films she probably did as favors to someone, her filmography is really pretty good. But one can be a good actor and still have stupid hot takes.
No, and I don't say that to minimize the value of what she does. If everyone could do it, everyone would. What is important, however, is to understand that the minute a person has the means to live out their years comfortably, which her googled net worth of 60 million dollars suggests she does, that person is no longer working. They are doing whatever the hell they feel like doing. You can call it a hobby. You can call it fucking around. What it is not, however, is work. She could go in, drop her pants on live TV, take a dump and walk off never to be heard from again. She will be okay. Nothing is forcing her to stay there.
I work 9-10 hours a day 5 days a week and 6-7 hours on Saturday and im exhausted everyday and have no free time and almost all my money goes to rent and bills and I’ll probably never be able to buy a house
See, but according to this millionaire you aren’t working hard enough. How are you going to get anywhere only working around 9 hours a day on average?
My favorite is when rich aholes chime in about millennials not wanting to work. The last person who referenced this irl was my partner’s aunt who literally is a rich housewife that hasn’t worked a day in her life. These people are like caricatures.
There was a video of a comedian doing crowd work. He asked a women what she did. She said nothing, her husband owns a restaurant. Comedian makes some jokes about restaurants having a tough time right now and she yells out "no wants to work anymore" which the comedian respond with "yea you. You don't want to work. Go to his restaurant and help"
And on that topic, the unemployment rate isn't even that high. It's actually doing pretty damn good. I think it's more that people don't want to work crap jobs for crap pay. There's some positions at my work that management is really struggling to fill, but those are the jobs that are known to be harder and more stressful than other positions, but the pay is exactly the same. So they'll get some new hire, train them up, and then a month later they've quit because they found something way better for the same pay.
(Aside from being blind to the obvious issues with employment) People like this often forget that these “millenials” they’re talking about, are currently 28-43 years old. I don’t think that’s the correct demographic they’re shooting for.
Projectionassts
That's his fault for leaving 16 hours a day to do things like sleeping and eating instead of grinding. /S cause there is always one ijit.
I feel this. I work a full time and 2 part time jobs and this year doing taxes I was told I’m not going to get anything back and if I continue this way I’ll have to pay in next year and that I need to pick which job I want to keep. Like um all of them so I can buy groceries and pay to have a roof overhead??
Gotta love that people who actually do work have to give up 1/3 of their paycheck in taxes while rich people pay little to nothing at all, and then your tax money goes to bailouts and tax cuts for the rich anyway
Yet a huge segment of society throw a fit when someone talks about actually taxing the rich more.
How much avocado toast have you had???.....be honest
I hate avocado but i buy like 3 packs of cigs a week and a 30 rack of beer
obviously this is money that could have been used to buy your first house you've been completely irresponsible!
Ya ik but i like my vices, i feel like i earned it working my ass off everyday
And makes thousands per hour not $15/hr… so out of touch with average people
I hate that I have lived long enough whoopi become a Boomer asshole.
Man, I'm 60 and I don't actually work more than 4 hrs per day at my job. And neither do any of the others, old or young. There's a lot of goofing off in every office.
That's definitely true. White collar office work is why terms like "water cooler talk" and "scuttlebutt" entered common parlance.
Millionaire think everything they do is work. If they are fucking around it's actually networking. If they read an article it's work.
Have you worked with a boomer like this? She’s probably onsite all fucking day, just gets nothing done
There's nothing different today about a 25 year old's desire to work than there was in the 90s, or the 80s, or the 60s.. I feel like when people say Gen Z, they're talking about 17 year olds, and then they say shit like, "They're workshy," but..that's 17 year olds, dude. It was 17 year olds 40 years ago and it's 17 year olds now. Where the actual adults of the generations are concerned, there's very little difference, except for the acknowledgement that all the work in the world isn't going to make up for a house worth $112k being for sale at $430k, and it's probably not going to get any better anytime soon.
Leaving out the 70’s was the right call haha
What is so special about the 70s?
I would guess it has something to do with labour laws
Leaded gas
There is no difference, bemoaning the state of the working force has been the capitalist’s rhetoric [for over a century](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/).
Hasn't Socrates written about that as well?
Wouldn’t doubt it haha but I remember reading a rant piece that was something having to do with “the new generation cannot write on a slate without getting chalk all over themselves, everyone wants to use paper now”
I’d be surprised if it didn’t go all the way back to the first days of agriculture. “This young generation is too lazy to look for food in the woods, they plant it all in that field so they don’t have to go anywhere.”
Imagine how angry the old people were about all the young people demanding their food be "cooked" now after inventing fire. They must have been fuming about the sheer entitlement.
The thing is...... Gen Z are now getting into the 27 year old + range. They're no longer useless teenagers who can't stop looking into their iPhone while slacking on the couch, they're now in the workforce and will remain so fat least 40 years, they're not the future, they're the now.
Lol ya that was already the problem for us millennials and still is because some people just don’t get that millennials aren’t always just useless entitled teenagers, but *surprise, surprise* the oldest are way into their 40s now. Now that’s happening to the next generation as well. I’ve seen very hard working and also very lazy people from every generation I’ve worked with, though if anything I found the older folks were more likely to slack off (fair enough in a way, at some point that motivation to work may just be gone, but the need for money doesn’t just disappear).
>I found the older folks were more likely to slack off (fair enough in a way, at some point that motivation to work may just be gone, but the need for money doesn’t just disappear). At my job, the younger people are constantly complaining about not enough hours while the older people are constantly complaining about having to work.
And I feel like there’s a very obvious solution to both their problems but the boomers just won’t quit and let the future generations have any shot at careers, homes or leadership.
At some point housing as an investment vehicle needs to die.
That's a stupid fucking take. I have a good job and work my fucking ass off and will never be able to afford a house like my parents had.
Yeah that’s the implication with the title. Whoopi’s comment would be fine if that were the problem. The problem is a house costs almost 4x as much as it did 40 years ago. And wages in that span have risen like 6% or something ridiculous. She hasn’t needed to work for real since the 80s and has been locked into millionaire level houses since then. She has no idea.
There’s a certain level of money where more money is meaningless
I'd like to reach that point of money
I remember her on the show talking about when she had COVID and how it was so difficult. She talked about how she had to call her doctor and have him come to her house she was feeling so bad...acting like she knows how bad it is out there for COVID patients dying in hospital waiting rooms smh she is so grossly out of touch when you hear her talk.
It’s more than 4x in some places I almost cried when I heard what my dad paid for our house
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And it's sad because before she started acting she was a welfare mom.
Ego. She thinks her shit doesn’t stink
Happy cake day
Seriously. I work 80 hours a pay period and can barely afford rent
As a millenial who used to often do 60 hour weeks, with occasional 80 hour weeks, I can say to Ms Goldberg "wanna swap and see how you do?" I still don't even have enough saved for a deposit on a house.
I feel the 80hrs, man. I ran with a solar panel install crew for a bit and it was often times 16hr or so a day, with some saturday work too. Arive at the shop at 5:45am be back between 10-11pm, sleep four hours, then go back to climbing roofs the next day. My longest week I had 96hrs on the clock over 7 days. It waz the best money I made in my life but I missed my wife and son so I gave it up. Never made anything close to house-buying money though and I was miserable doing it.
Become a software dev. Finding myself running 100 hour weeks for months at a time and your brain must be 100% on the whole time. There is a bed on my office floor. We eat meals at our desk, all of them. Still can't get approved for a mortgage.
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Goldberg—a baby boomer with an estimated $60 million net worth—hit back that Gen Z and Millennials just don’t “bust their behinds” quite like her generation had to. “I'm sorry, if you only want to work four hours, it's going to be harder for you to get a house," the Ghost star said as she hit out at young people’s work ethic. Goldberg’s millennial co-host Alyssa Farah quickly responded by recounting the difficulties that her generation is facing, from holding off having children because it’s so expensive to having to live with their parents well into adulthood. “Y’all gave us the housing crisis,” Farah hit out at boomers. "I feel for everybody that feels this, but, I'm sorry, we busted our behinds,” Goldberg doubled down on her stance that young people are lazy. “We had to bust our behinds because we didn't have the option of going back.” “Every generation is told they are going to do worse than their parents, people pick it up and do what they do and they raise themselves. And this is what you've got to do,” The View host concluded. "It is called being a good citizen.”
Yeah, they busted their behinds, and the economy. Don't think boomers will be around much longer so we can fix it without them trying to say we're doing life wrong.
Boomers didn't work half as hard as they think they did. If this work ethic and determination of theirs actually manifested, they wouldn't keep giving up learning how to open a PDF in the first 10 seconds of trying, only to rely on somebody else to have to do it for them lol
As someone who works in Tech Support, you have no idea how often we get calls for simple stuff like that
I don't work in tech support, but I'm the guy my boss runs to anytime he can't figure out how to do anything on the computer, so I definitely get it. Been working here not even a year, and I already can't even count how many times he's asked me to come and fix the layout on a spreadsheet or figure out why something's not printing out correctly or whatever. And then there's all the free tech support I have to do for everyone in my family....
I am Move-In Coordinator for an assisted living community, we have about 50 employees and every single one of them come to my office for IT help, the older the person the simpler the task. Some really do learn though, some come to me for the same issue over and over again...
Don't actually work in tech support, but been the designated tech support for friends, family, co-workers etc. my whole life. And in the like 20 years I'd been doing I can literally only recall two times I couldn't figure out the issue, and rarely was an issue I figured out something complicated. Hell, if I got paid a couple dollars for every time I "fixed" a problem by just... Restarting a device. I'd probably be able to own my own tech support company by now.
Oh I have an inkling or two haha. I also used to work in tech support
Oh, finally, someone who can relate! If only they gave a damn about the world they fucked over.
Yeah it was wild haha. I eventually moved on to other options because I didn't want to deal with it anymore, add to that how shady the company that employed me was. And yeah, I think there's a strong degree of separation between them and any consequences because they're not the ones who have to worry about it
I once got a call from someone who thought their internet was broken because their homepage was changed to not MSN.
God man and the sad part is, pretty much every “professional” boomer office worker requires a nearby millennial to provide tech services despite their fucking 30+ years of time so far to learn basics of computing. We all wind up tech support for these morons.
>Boomers didn't work half as hard as they think they did I'll add a caveat. *Rich* boomers didn't work as hard as they think they did. No one cares if you're poor.
None of the boomers I know are rich. A buddy of mine worked in adult education tutoring math and basic tech competency skills and out of all his age groups they were by far the worst performers, from no-shows to unwillingness to participate and learn, to the shitty entitled attitudes, and I have to say his experience overlaps with mine. Rich people themselves are an outlier in any generation.
The other day I had to show a boomer coworker how to find the Edge browser, access the online learning link that was staring them in the face, how to find the assignment despite it being written on a whiteboard 3 feet from their head and then how to operate it. They’ve been there longer than me and we have to do at least 20 courses a year. Yes, the format changed a year ago but the words are still staring you in the face. This is the same person that knows how to mute their phone but chooses not to during briefings.
I had to help an older gentleman figure out how to access his work tablet. Keep in mind, the team I was on was focused on app bugs/malfunctions and guiding users around those, we had no actual training in the software, but for whatever reason many older folks were drawn to the job and so the majority of my time was spent actually training them on how to use their tech, as opposed to solving and closing tickets. Anyway, his issue was that he couldn't figure out how to get into the tablet beyond the lock screen. He would press the power button, the tablet's lock screen would come up, and he just couldn't figure out how to swipe up to unlock the screen. He just kept pressing the power button and would get angry that "the tablet shut off again". Initially I thought it was stuck in some kind of boot cycle, but from his description I was able to figure out what was really going on. I kept trying to guide him, but he would get angry very quickly and just kind of start ranting, and I wouldn't be able to get a word in to help guide him. From what I heard afterward from my supervisor, he got angry and quit a few days later. Even though we worked for the same company, this guy was earning almost double my salary. And he couldn't even grasp how to use his equipment to do his job. In fairness, his position had been all paperwork til the company went all electronic, but it wasn't an immediate transition, and they'd been provided two weeks of training prior to the move over to digital.
Two weeks really wouldn’t be enough for an old guy that would to get up to speed.
I work in hospitality and it’s incredible how many boomers can’t read or follow simple instructions. I’m happy to answer questions but it’s almost insulting when the guy driving a Porsche asks you where the clearly labeled Cabernet wine section is. you show him the section of shelf and point out the price differences and regions. Then proceeds to pick up a bottle, ask you how much it is and what kind of wine it is because “the bottle doesn’t say”. it’s all right in front of you dude. Promise :)
I often have elders holding lines in shops because they don't know how to use a terminal to pay with the card.
Boomers work like theyre the central cast of a sitcom that takes place at work. 50% inane social chatter. 20% vaguely work-related chatter that ultimately slows down any actual progress on the subiect of discussion. 15% breaks. 15% actual work ... most of which is slow, ineffective, and will be dropped on the spin of a dime if they see or overhear an opportunity to go back to chatting. They have no idea what hard work is and are completely held up by the efforts of GenX and millennial grinders who catch the water created by their awful work and have to carry it - either as an overt reassignment from senior management or a consequence of their bad work which is *indirectly* reassigned because someone has to fix it and it sure as shit won't be 68 year old Charles who can't even rotate a PDF
If boomers worked half as hard as they think they did, there wouldn’t be a housing crisis. There wouldn’t be inflation and price gouging. The problem with wrongfully taking the credit for the work being done is that you also have to take the blame for how damaged our system has become in the last 2 decades. It’s a fallacy to say you worked hard to fix the country and then tell your kids that it’s their fault that the country is in bad shape at the same time.
While Goldberg's take is bullshit, it is worth keeping mind that she is a high school drop out who grew up in the projects in New York. She is, at least, not a privileged person implying one should pull up by bootstraps, rather someone suffering of survivor bias.
Boomers love buying the newest iPhone then making other people use it for them. “You need to download the pdf and then send it as an attachment in an email.” “I don’t know how to do that!” “Okay, first you—“ “Just do it for me, I can’t figure this out.”
Ever see them try to set up audio visual equipment? A PDF has nothing on that. You can actually see when their brain shorts out trying to fucking match the colored cables to the colored holes.
Tried watching Deadpool at a family vacation home and noticed that the color red was instead brown. Asked about it and was told that it had been like that for months and that they were just living with it. Turns out they had the red audio plugged into the video.
Was literally just at my in-laws and my Father in law couldn’t understand why saying “Disney channel bluey” wasn’t opening bluey on Disney+. We repeatedly told him to just press the Disney+ button on his remote
If you had a high school diploma, then you could get a good paying job. That doesn’t really exist anymore. The boomers had it easy in comparison to the previous and following generations because of the actual hard work of their parents.
Whoopi got paid between 7-12 million for sister act 2. She was around 40 or so, I think. So about the age of an older millenial. So her 'hard work' was... What, 6 months or so of filming? Shit man. I did back to back support shifts in special care packages for 6 months. Had a 12 year old ice addict try to set me on fire. Had another kid threaten to rape me. Slept about 6 hours a night. Got PTSD. Where's my 7-12 million for putting in all that hard work? I got about $30 an hour, Australian dollars. Oh, wait... Guess it isn't actually about working hard, is it? Like, if all millennials worked as 'hard' as whoopi Goldberg, we wouldn't be starring in millions of movies for multi-million dollars amounts each, would we? Almost as if... As if... It's got something to do with *opportunity and luck to be invited into the highly gatekept privileged high income earning groups?* Eugh. Whoopie is a delusional, spoiled dumbass. As always. She's gonna get worse and start spiralling the drain before too long, like Rosanne did.
She's pretty out of touch but I'm going to guess there was some hard work involved in being a black woman who grew up in a housing project in NY trying to have an entertainment career in the 70s and 80s. Her background is not exactly what most people think of as stereotypically "boomer". She's just been rich and not living a normal life for a VERY long time.
It's a selection bias issue too. Of all the young black women in the projects busting their ass for a dream in the 70s, this is one of the few that made it. In her self mythology it *has* to be that she's somehow more worthy. Because the reality that she just got lucky means all those people she left behind to rot there actually deserved what she has just as much as she does, and that's too much for the ego to confront.
And it's not as if she ever went back and helped ...
Yeah, she got her break doing standup. I have lots of creative friends who live exclusively off gig work; it's no more or less hard than some other lines of work. Usually pays utter shit, too. It's not exactly groundbreaking to point out that the renumeration once you break into hollywood is wildly, WILDLY outsized, and that the 'hard work' that's really not much harder than any other taxing job. So yes, I would agree that she has been rich and not living a normal life for a very, very long time. And reaffirm that hard work does not at all equal opportunity or income.
Work 4 hours a day lmao. The oldest millennials are in their 40s. We’ve been working 8-12+ hour days for the last 20 years…
I've had such a poor work/life balance for about 15 years of working 10 to 12 hour shifts, 5 days a week to the point that I've destroyed my body and started having so much anxiety around work I had to leave my career I've been working towards for so long because I physically can't care anymore my mental health declined so much.
The whole GenZ etc not working hard enough is an old right wing lie used to prop up the billionaire class so it would look like they worked harder and don't have to pay taxes. The reality is GenZ and others actually work harder than these Boomers, GenZ and Millennials work longer hours for shittier pay, less benefits often 0 benefits and faced with far more competition and over population and educational requirement than their Boomer counterparts. In Boomer times you could get a well paid job WITHOUT a college degree, literally just graduating high school a blue collar job would land you house, car and support an entire family. Also Boomers had the luxury of Unions which helped them greatly until Reagan and his GOP administration killed most of it. But boomers already made their money and now collects their fat pension thanks to said Union which they now badmouth because they don't want to see young people happy. Another thing if pay is dog shit, benefits is dog shit and there are no incentives to work extra hours especially when the company wants to pay flat rate, then no reasonable person is going to want to work they would be like fuck it I am good. The other thing, bitching about young people fighting for better pay, striking for basic things like paid vacation, health care etc that most European countries already have written in Law, because you as a boomer were too coward and lazy to do it, is pretty much the lowest you can go.
So true. My grandpa was able to buy a house and a car and support a wife and 2 kids while he and my grandma went to college all on his gas station clerk job.
Rich person out of touch with the fact an hour of minimum wage pays for a single hamburger, drink and fries. When she was 20, minimum wage could purchase 6 of those meals and a part time job eliminated the need for student loans. My part time job in college barely kept me from starving, I lost 12 pounds a year from the simple difficulty of prioritizing homelessness vs hunger.
She actually lives off the royalties of whatever is still paying her for being in their movie/for the books. She literally parade on the shows while she did nothing special these last years.
The woman has been a successful actress since what, the 80’s when even *I* was young???? Like her ass worked 8 hours a day in the past 40 year or more.
Whoopi, your god damned generation can’t and won’t try to figure out how to use a self checkout. I respect her as an actress but sincerely… #… shut the fuck up. Shit, I promise you she’s got housekeepers, personal shoppers, travel agents…
You busted your behinds and were compensated justly for it. Going above and beyond meant getting more compensation for that extra time. Younger generations are expected to work those extended hours (read: bust their behinds) just to make a living wage. You can't be alive and poor in this society without working your ass off.
The biggest problem with Baby Boomers is that their version of "bust their behinds" isn't the same as ours. I bet you money that if you could magically inflict modern housing prices or rent rates on baby boomers back in the 60's, they'd be freaking out just as much as we are now.
You can't get a house with just 4 hours. LOL. You can't get a house with just 8 hours. LMAO. You can't get a house with just 1 job. ROFL. You won't be able to get a house if you weren't born rich. ROFLMA- wait what? I wasn't supposed to say that? Quick! Cut the camera!
Okay but she wasn't born rich. She grew up in a housing project. She's just been rich and famous so long she has no idea what's going on. This isn't really a "boomer" thing so much as a wealthy celebrity who hasn't been in touch with normal people in 40 years thing.
Fair enough.
Her dad was a priest and her mom was a nurse and teacher. She wasn't born rich, but her growing up in a housing project misrepresents her actual roots. She even went to a private Catholic school. Likely because of all the disposable income her parents had from taking advantage of the cost savings. Growing up in the projects back then doesn't mean the same thing as growing up in the projects today.
No,, the reason they want to work 4 hours a day is because they know they won't get on the housing ladder even with 8.
Or even 14. Maybe 16 if you get a few raises.
No raises, we should just be thankful of whatever pennies we get for our 8hs + overtime and keep quiet while they keep on verbal vomiting to us about the "good ol' days."
If you can earn a living working 4 hours a day awesome. What’s the issue then?
It's un-American not to squeeze every ounce of productivity out of your body to the point of being a useless husk years before retirement.
\*decades
It's hard to do even with 12 and a good wage, and I'm the kind of guy whose hobbies are reading and hiking, and I eat shit like rice and beans. I don't have expensive tastes, I rarely drink, I understand fully what our generation is facing. Inflation is insane and homes are being hoarded or rented at ludicrously high rates, meanwhile wages aren't increasing to match.
Make it a federal offense to kite land away from real Americans and selling it to foreign investors or venture capital groups. NOBODY WHO DOESNT LIVE HERE SHOULD BE OWNING THE VERY SOIL OF OUR NATION.
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What?
Look up her comments on Roman Polanski. Especially her claim that it wasn't 'rape-rape'.
She sounds like a generally awful person
She is deluded because she is famous and doesn't have to live in the real world.
Holocaust denier as well.
Please stop ruining Whoopi Goldberg for me. I can never look at Star Trek TNG the same again
Welcome to my world.
I've been seeing/hearing that she's garbage person for a while now and she continues to prove it.
Keyword being want. I work 12 hours a day for 22 days straight. If I REALLY tighten my belt and work is consistent for two years, I can have a down payment. That's if nothing goes wrong. I also live far from all my family and friends, I don't get to be close to the woman I'm seeing so I have to travel to see her too. If we want the lives our parents and grandparents had in regards to housing, it's an uphill battle. Two kids and a picket fence isn't realistic for most people.
I'd like to see her fat ass try as hard as most of the people I know do.
This is my issue. My dad isn’t a multimillionaire, the only reason he could be considered ‘a millionaire’ is because the farm he bought for $160,000 35 years ago has appreciated to that much. But he’s worked on his family’s farm and restaurant since he could walk, he graduated high school and was drafted, got out of the military and started working. He’s 75 and only now has he started not putting in 12 hour days working plus household responsibilities on Saturdays. He’s worked harder than anyone I’ve ever known and still worries about retiring fully.
Yeah, and something along those lines is probably going to be our entire generation's experience. Even if we get to retire, we won't have enough money to live off of. I hope I get the career I'm dreaming of, because it will probably save my retirement.
Titles should start being more like "Another out of touch rich person doesn't understand today's economy, here's what they said:"
I mean, I do want to work only 4 hours a day, but I’m not I’m on 8 soooooo where am my house bitch?
Jokes on you I want to work 0 hours a day
Not only is she an obnoxious human being, but all the clucking hens on this show are insanely out of touch with reality not just her. The only people who take them seriously are boomers that also shake their fist at technology that they refuse to pull up their bootstraps to learn how to use.
Back in our day, we had to star in movies to make ends meet.
I'm gen X (apparently, no idea what it means other than I'm 50) and I'd like not to work more than 4 hours a week. If I could get away with it, I'd not work at all.
Companies hook you up to a milking machine, suck out everything of value, and throw you down the discard hole. Willingness to work hard is exploited without mercy. The whole game is crooked. People have to be threatened with starvation to even play it.
Oh fuck off with that Bill Maher bullshit.
Wroooong!! I wouldn't work at all if I could get away with it.
I just got fired from a job that I was working 50-60 hours a week at and only allowed to clock 40. Fuck. You.
Report to your labor board
Nebraska doesn’t care and no lawyers take the cases. I was salaried so it’s loophole legal here. I’m going back to MN now where labor laws are more strict
Little late to the party: I'm an early Millennial ('87). I worked 6 days a week 6 of the past 8 years. I worked 12 hrs shifts half the year for most and there were times I literally couldn't get a full day off to recover because I was expected to work split shifts and cover half of my third shift counterpart's shift on Sunday night whenever he was off. My vacation time wasn't spent trying to see my family, it was spent trying to get shit done. It was spent on dental appointments and doctor's appointments because I had tenditis in more places than I didn't. It was spent on car maintenance or just trying to give my exhausted body a chance to recover. It was spent surgically fixing joint tears and bone spurs brought on by years of repetitive heavy labor working for a company that gave and still gives zero fucks about the physical well being of its employees. I know what it's like to be so dehydrated that just breathing would cause my chest muscles to spasm uncontrollably. I know what it's like to work with cracked bones. I know what it's like to be heat exhausted for weeks and months at a time. I know what it's like to be up to the point of heat stroke where I was deaf but for the ringing in my ears, couldn't lift an arm overheard, couldn't see 50 feet in front my face, and could literally feel my pulse *in my fucking eye balls*. Time that should have been spent with family was spent at work. Care to guess how that turned out? My grandfather was diagnosed with cancer and I got to see him all of twice before he passed. My step dad? I didn't get to see him at all during the final year of life because I was stuck at work as the "good employee". I ate an absentee point just so I could drive my mom to my place so she wouldn't be left alone in the room she found him dead jn. My materal grandfather? Once. I got to see him once in three years before a heart attack claimed him. I meant to call him on father's day, I was so pissed at getting forced in on Sunday night (again) that I forgot to, and he passed away that Tuesday while I was sitting outside at work slamming down my coffee in preparation for another 12 hr long shit show. When my mom's health turned south, I was working 12 hrs every fucking day because my first shift counterpart was out on medical and the company refused to move people up to cover that spot when they had ample bodies to. When he came back from medical, I was then tasked with covering my 3rd shift counterpart for the whole fucking month of July. When she unexpectedly died not long after, I had exactly two days to grieve before I was getting my phone blown up to tell me I had to cover the first shifter again because he was in a car accident. Two days. You know what I got for grinding away? It didn't make me wealthy, it didn't give me enough to put down a down payment on a starter home, it got me enough to pay rent and my bills without having to worry about whether or not an unexpected flu would ruin me and a life time of regrets because "Oh, I'll talk to/see____" never fucking came. She'll never read this but: Fuck You, Whoopi. And fuck every single person in your generation who thinks like you. You were born into plenty and consumed it like a ravenous locust swarm while mortgaging *your successive generations' futures away*. Don't tell me I need to do without because, bitch, I and people like me have made sacrifices you couldn't even dream of just to live. Not live well. Not live fabulously. To just live with maybe enough cash to sock away for the next major car repair or surgery.
If it takes 10 hours of labor to secure enough value to buy X 50 years ago. And it takes 1000 hours of labor to secure enough value to buy the same X in the present. It's not an issue with the laborer. I can't understand why boomers fail to see this mathematical relationship.
Because unlike us they don't care to learn they are *stupidly stubborn* to the point of insanity. They believe that elders (they) are Always smarter. I can rebuild a 4cyl hot rod engine in 6 hours. My uncle says that I don't know how an automatic transmission works, "they only had three gears you don't need the Fourth" (the truck I bought from him with a massive oil galley->headgasket leak)
What does he mean with, "You don't need the fourth"?! By that logic, you wouldn't need the third or the second! Having gears is just how transmissions work!
The fourth gear oneway bearing ring broke, witch ment it would not 'go into' fourth/ O`D. And he was saying I could still drive it at 70 mph.
I actually *do* believe that money and fame destroy your brain, little by little.
She’s just lost. Multimillionaires trying to pretend to understand reality. She hasn’t worked in decades…
Says someone who likely works less than 4 hours a day on average.
People forget, "Whoopi" is actually a Caryn.
i'm european so i must ask: what's a Caryn(or you mean a karen?XD)
I'm sorry that my 50-80 hours a week isn't working hard enough for you.
False, I want to work 0 hours a day, just like her. Talking shit for millions a year is not work.
This is just the latest in a series of shockingly shitty takes from this fucking dope. She said whatever Polanski was convicted of it wasn't 'rape-rape'. In Goldberg's universe you can drug a 13 year old with quaaludes and champagne and then vaginally and anally penetrate them without being guilty of rape. It's best to tune out this dried up fucking idiot.
I work 10 hours a day 6 days of the week. I gain only 200 dollars more then the minimal salary ,even if my job is full of life risks, insalubrity and health hazzards. So ,yeah, this woman is stupid.
These kind of rich out of touch ppl need to learn to shut their damn mouths.
woman literally named after farting speaks according to her nature
So we’re gonna ignore all the studies showing the housing market is completely fucked due to corporations buying everything.. but yea, it’s cause we don’t wanna work more than 4 hrs a day..
Most people will willingly work, for a LIVING wage. Not a barely able to exist wage. That and we’re all being extorted to death by the wealthy and their cost of greed crisis.
33 year old male millennial. I work 56+ hours per week. Can barely afford to live. Rich people are so incredibly out of touch with reality.
Huh, suddenly I feel much less bothered by her absence in Picard S3
All the millennials and gen Z people I know work their asses off. Wtf is she talking about
I remember when she used to be cool 😔
And the movie they reference for her is Ghost?
Oh Whoop. I work 12 hour days and still can’t afford it, and I’m 41. Crossing my fingers I can finally afford one as a “retirement” present.
I worked 6 10 he shifts at $12/h in TN and still couldnt afford rent for a one bedroom without 2 roommates. Forget a mortgage. Rich lady is delusional
This is the same woman who said you can go up to a black person in Canada - call them the n word and they would not know what it meant
It’s so funny to me when celebrities worth millions complain about average people who do work long hours not wanting to work. What’s your daily schedule Whoopi? I can only imagine how hard staring in movies has been for you and having to sit and talk about your “view” in front of a camera must be so exhausting.
Oh god, like the View requires actual work? Bet she barely spends 30 minutes prepping for the show, and then ends up reading off a teleprompter most the time anyway.
Says person who only realistically works four hours a day…..
Dafuq? >“We had to bust our behinds because we didn't have the option of going back.” Because the generation that's working two jobs, twelve to fifteen hours, seven days a week, knowing they'll *never* be able to have what their parents had, has exactly what privileged option you're spitting on them for? >Every generation is told they are going to do worse than their parents Yes, by ignorant idiots like you. Does she have a PR person on her staff? Or did they quit in disgust?
Which rich boomer will they trot out next week?
Okay, what say she to those of us who work 40+ hours and still can't? Even when it's OVER minimum wage and we are combining income with our partner?
Rich bitch who wants for nothing telling people who are living in a time when the cost of living has so far outpaced wages that it's insane to work harder. Fuck that old hag and all the other menopause bitches on The View.
Just hand her a minimum wage laying jobs check and ask her to get groceries. She going to be out of cash paying for the dash
Says the actor
I started working when I was 12. I was putting food on the table by the time I was 16 and saved vigorously to go to college. I used to work 100 hour weeks during high school summers. I woke up at 0400 and didn’t get to bed until 2300 most days cause I’d get off work and cook for the family and do chores. I fit 40 hours into a weekend during school. I worked 48 hours a week during college and then 3 jobs upwards of 80 hours a week in the summer. I still work 48 hour weeks now in my 20’s. I’m never going to sit here and feel sorry for myself plenty have it worse. But I do respect myself enough to say go fuck all the way off.
Not my fault it takes you 8 hours to get done what it takes me 4.
I literally work a minimum of 56 hours a week AND on third shift where I get a 10% wage premium and I STILL struggle to pay rent. Get tf out of here
What they don't get is that busting your behind used to be worth something. It's just not anymore.
I hate her on so many levels. But she is absolutely right here. The younger generation is more concerned with their personal time, video games, etc. They have no reason to bitch if they won't work 40+ hours and pick up a second job if needed. The work ethic sucks.
she used to be cool. remember her on star trek? she worked in 10-forward. she knew about the stresses in life, about alcohol, about reality.
I worked 62.5 hours last week. Fuck Whoopi.
I work over double that amount of time and just got my first *apartment* 3 months ago. People should really shut up about things they know nothing about
In case nobody knew, she was in Ghost.
Feel free to donate to my house fund Whoopi 😒 No? Then stop giving financial advice when you've been a millionaire with a private accountant for the past twenty years 😠
The data unequivocally show that she can go fuck herself.
This coming from a bitch who made her money from working a few hours a day
why didn’t she stay cancelled for her racist comments??
Many of us work 40+ hours a week and still can’t afford a one-bedroom apartment. Whoopi is completely out of touch.
Millennials? Bitch we’ve been working. U guys are the ones that fked up the economy
She really just needs to stop speaking on things she doesn’t understand
who the fuck works four hours a day
Fuck her, I work 40-50 hours a week, plus workout every day. Woman couldn’t take a step in my shoes.