Reply to: Why Millennials Are Leaving Six-Figure Tech Jobs

[NotAllThere]

It's Swiss law not English law.

I don't know about Switzerland but I am aware some countries force you to give your estate equally to all your children and you can't write them out of your will.

But you can disinherit if they bring shame on the family. Told you it was weird. It's not Swiss law in fact. It's Napoleonic.

[Whorty]

Yes they are.

A lot more houseshares don't have a living room as this is now a bedroom. Either landlords deliberately do it, or tenants actually ask so they can reduce the rent. (Even in the tulipholes I lived in we had a bedroom. I looked up what some of my landlords had done in the years since I'd moved out and they all had put in extra bathrooms.)

Every single house share I've lived in had the lounge as bedroom - in 2 of them, it was actually my bedroom. So this is not new as was happening at least 34 years ago (Sheffield as a student, London when I was working)

[SueEllen]

But what if that was never going to be part of their inheritance? You might have divvied up your estate in an entirely different way.

It's Swiss law not English law.

I don't know about Switzerland but I am aware some countries force you to give your estate equally to all your children and you can't write them out of your will.

[ladymuck]

I was happy to give a sum toward the deposit. But that was to shift the mortgage into a lower interest rate overall, and we had the cash free. Interestingly, my daughters had to sign a document allowing part of their inheritance to be given away to their brother for this to happen. Swiss law can be a bit weird.

But what if that was never going to be part of their inheritance? You might have divvied up your estate in an entirely different way.

[LondonManc]

Only the vocal ones you hear whining on the internet.

If you personally know any they are grateful that they weren't stuck in a houseshare during the pandemic, and were either already at home or could move home.

They're the same ones expecting to move straight into a semi-detached in a leafy suburb.

[NotAllThere]

But the youth of today expect the parents to pay the house deposit. I mean they get the parents to stump up 20 or £30K as a gift. If they don't they basically hate the parents and hope they die asap.

I was happy to give a sum toward the deposit. But that was to shift the mortgage into a lower interest rate overall, and we had the cash free. Interestingly, my daughters had to sign a document allowing part of their inheritance to be given away to their brother for this to happen. Swiss law can be a bit weird.

[SueEllen]

But the youth of today expect the parents to pay the house deposit. I mean they get the parents to stump up 20 or £30K as a gift. If they don't they basically hate the parents and hope they die asap.

Only the vocal ones you hear whining on the internet.

If you personally know any they are grateful that they weren't stuck in a houseshare during the pandemic, and were either already at home or could move home.

[agentzero]

I do find it funny that that generation is always complaining that they can't afford a house, the 'boomers' have it all etc etc .... how do they think we got there? We worked stupid hours, in crap jobs, for crap companies, whilst living in rented shared housing during the early years of our careers to get where we are now. Problem seems to be that the current generation want it all now, and don't seem to think they have to work for it.

I've lived in some pretty sh*tty places and worked feck loads of hours. Maybe some of these kids need to moan less, and work more

One thing that is definitely missed is that this sort of overwork means people of your generation and older have a raft of illnesses that are directly caused by these pathological lifestyles you have mentioned. Heart attacks, strokes and bodily damage, a form of delayed burn out. Perhaps people are more sensible now and recognise the stupidity of working so hard, throwing yourself at endless work and very high stress only to die or be handicapped from age 50 onwards - unable to live a life to the full because of such handicap caused by overwork of the past.

We can cite the same scenario from miners, fabric workers and whomever else we wish from 100 years ago, but they died young and there should be zero respect for people who throw themself into damaging work that will shorten their life or severely reduce the quality of life for the sake a job, a job that does not define you. You define you.

[_V_]

We had no problem with the deposit but 10% of £60k is what SAS spends on fine wine or 3-4 months wages at the time. 10% of £200k is a years wage.

But the youth of today expect the parents to pay the house deposit. I mean they get the parents to stump up 20 or £30K as a gift. If they don't they basically hate the parents and hope they die asap.

[vetran]

Which is why lots of adults in their 20s and early 30s are living with their parents (or any other relations who will put them up).

We had no problem with the deposit but 10% of £60k is what SAS spends on fine wine or 3-4 months wages at the time. 10% of £200k is a years wage.

[LondonManc]

Which is why lots of adults in their 20s and early 30s are living with their parents (or any other relations who will put them up).

I know, we've got one.

[SueEllen]

Plenty of people wide of the mark talking about the cost of the mortgages for kids. It's not the mortgages that are a problem for them because they can afford rent; it's saving the 10-15% deposit up that's killing them.

Which is why lots of adults in their 20s and early 30s are living with their parents (or any other relations who will put them up).

[LondonManc]

We don't need more houses really. What we need is HMG to stop continually propping up the housing market.

There needs to be a wholesale correction in the price of a home but because prices are hyper inflated, it would put millions into negative equity so they have to keep topping up the air in the bubble.

By not building more affordable houses, HMG are propping up the housing market. Problem for house builders is that there is little profit in affordable housing. One solution is to create a government run construction division that specialises in green, affordable houses that are all the same size and design. May look boring but beggars can't be choosers. Make them so that they can be anything from standalone detached to a full run of town houses slotted next to each other. Integrate ethernet cabling etc so that they if people move, they know what they're getting wherever they go. 2, 3 and 4 bedroom versions. Make it so. Not that a Tory government would do such a thing because it's for the people or that Labour would do it because it's far too entrepreneurial but hey-ho.

[vetran]

The methodology is tulip if it doesn't take in account how it will be abused in the real world.

In the real world many companies and managers will take parts of agile and use them to micro manage and pile pressure onto developers.

In Scrum just calling them 'Sprints' implies the developers should be working flat out and be out of breath at the end of every two week period!

Too true our lot feel that using agile means they can fail to document requirements or do any project stuff then try to lump it all on IT. They do like to talk a lot and assure anyone who listens about how easy it will be.

[Fraidycat]

You don't get it, do you? If clients are doing that, they're not doing Scrum - they're just doing their own thing. They can call it what they want - Waterfall, Wagile, Waterscrum, Scrumfall or any of the myriad terms people use, but it's not Scrum.

As a supplier, you should be able to tell them that. If you feel you can't, then you're probably being (and being allowed to be) treated like an employee. In that case, change your employer, or change your employer.

Every client who attempts to do scrum, does it differently. There is no one size fits all.

As a supplier i dont give a tulip if they get it wrong, as a contractor i get paid well. I do whatever makes the client happy as long as my fat invoices get paid. They wont listen to me anyway even if i tried.

It is the lower paid younger permies who are getting burnt out (the topic of this thread). Sweat shop conditions, constant high pressure work coupled with low pay.