When you’re in the real world, you have to work for a living. But when you’re in the coddled special snowflake millennial world (or maybe a liberal campus), you can work with all of the amenities of a five-star hotel. Because, as we all know, no job can be done without a frozen yogurt machine.
In Thursday night’s episode “Step One: Shelter” of CBS's comedy The Great Indoors, the millennial office workers face the horrors of working without a foosball table, massage chair, nap pod, or fro-yo machine.
So…they have to face actual work, is what I’m hearing. Here I thought I was pushing boundaries turning on a fan at my workplace.
Mason: Uh, where's the foosball going?
Brooke: Don't worry, we'll explain everything.
Roland: Everyone, Outdoor Limits continues to evolve from the world's most robust adventure magazine into the world's slightly less profitable but still jolly robust adventure website. So Brooke and I have decided that, um... Brooke will be cutting some of your perks.
Brooke: Dad!
Emma: Brooke, my massage chair? How am I going to sit at my standing desk?
Brooke: I'm sorry, I wish it didn't have to be like this, but, well, until the website becomes more profitable, some perks will have to be...
All: Boo!
Roland: Oh, boo!
Mason: But Brooke, a modern office without yoga classes, dry cleaning and a waffle bar just sounds ridiculous.
Emma: And if you get rid of everything fun, then my only reward for hard work is... Money?
Jack: It's like this is a job.
Yes, the only reward they will receive for their job is money. Never mind that millions of Americans (and a high percentage of millennials) don’t even have that steady privilege, they pout about having to get rid of foosball!
A generation or two ago, these 20-somethings could hold down full-time heavy effort jobs while starting families. Now they can’t even write Buzzfeed articles without perks. Though I guess if my job spoiled me with a massage chair, I’d probably boo its loss. Such is the misery of a coddled millennial, but fortunately we have The Great Indoors to document it for us to laugh at.
