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brooke 🐝@textbookvillain · Sep 19, 2026

I saw this thread like a month ago, and it has been torturing the shit out of me ever since. It was a bunch of zoomers…

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Summary

A frustrated take on Gen Z workplace ethos: showing up to work with wet hair and poor grooming is disrespectful to your workplace, colleagues, and yourself. The author argues that basic standards of presentation matter and that dismissing professionalism norms as pointless leads to young people being unhireable and surprised when social expectations exist.

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  1. #1

    I saw this thread like a month ago, and it has been torturing the shit out of me ever since. It was a bunch of zoomers acting absolutely SHOCKED that people reacted badly when they showed up to work with wet hair. "People actually care about that?" And it's like...

  2. #2

    YES? Yes! The way you present yourself is a direct reflection of the respect you have for the place you're going, the thing you're doing, and the people you're doing it with (and, quite frankly, it reflects the respect you have for yourself). How you dress matters. Personal

  3. #3

    hygiene matters. Shit happens, but if you are consistently showing up places looking like you just rolled out of bed and could not make even a basic effort to look like a human being, people will begin to treat you with that same lack of care. And I'm not even sure why that

  4. #4

    thread specifically struck a chord, except that I very much do not want to live in a world where no one holds themselves or anyone else to any behavioral standards, where nothing matters, nothing means anything and everyone acts like untrained pets. And I'm sure someone will

  5. #5

    be like "lol who cares" but that's the thing, everyone fucking cares lol no one wants to live like that! And this is why there's a new post everyday on here about young people not being hired because they keep violating social norms. You see no value in the rules, so you

  6. #6

    think you don't have to follow them and that there's no point to them...then you complain that no one wants to work with you. Blow dry your fucking hair, take the pimple patches off, stop acting like you were raised in a barn. "I'm anti-professionalism" oh my GOD shut up!

  7. #7

    ok a LOT of hit dogs hollering, muting this but please folks, stop acting surprised that people notice how you show up to places, you are no longer in high school and the shocked pikachu face that people now have expectations of you is no longer cute!