Pratai@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Way to completely misunderstand the point of the article:
“Gen Z being open about mental health issues is a “watershed moment” in the workplace and sparking meaningful change in the long term, according to Pike.”
~ Pointing out the progress made in brining theee things to the surface.
"At the same time, in the effort to talk about mental health and share around mental illness, there can also become an expanded discourse of experience that at times loses track of normal fluctuation of human experience and mental illness,"
~ pretty self-explanatory here if you’re not polarized and understand how nuance works.
“Feeling stressed out when you have a deadline or feeling sad, disappointed or anxious are “normal life experiences.”
~ again, self-explanatory, but the gist is that anxiety and stress are normal and oftentimes even beneficial. It’s part of nature and as animals, it’s healthy that we have this. Expecting a completely stress-free working environment is absolutely ridiculous and unrealistic.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because line must go up!
Pratai@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Because again, NUANCE. Not all jobs are the same and some are stressful by their nature. No one here is saying that a McDonald’s job should be stressful or involve anxiety. But believe it or not- some jobs REQUIRE you to work in stressful environments.
Stress and anxiety can be healthy. Look it up. Or of course you can continue to argue about articles written by people who actually have researched the subject extensively, and understand how it works.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So what you’re saying is expecting a completely stress-free working environment is realistic for most jobs except for a few high pressure ones?
Pratai@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
No, that’s not what I’m saying. Nor is it what they’re saying. But you go ahead and see what you want to see.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Because there are deadlines at work, or busy times, or certain cases where the person doing the work is doing it the first time and needs to figure things out.
There can be things done to make the job low stress, but you can only do so much.
stoly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The point here isn’t that stress can come even from stuff you like to do. The point here is that you can create work for people to do that doesn’t harm them emotionally in the process.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
But that isn’t being communicated from asking for a “no stress” job.