I don’t understand why they pick these jobs. If you are super sensitive you just shouldn’t work in the service industry cause there is always gonna be some asshole. Much less work in a service industry that’s known for its asshole customers like being a barista like so many of these redditors seem to pick. Most don’t even have the excuse that these jobs are the best that they can get, most r/antiwork users went to college or are in college, it’s just they either picked a bullshit degree or where not good enough in the field they chose.
Your comment on the gifted and talented complex was so poignant btw, what a disaster we have wrought by taking kids doing slightly better then their peers in like the 3rd grade or whatever and inflating their egos to high heaven, I’ve literally never heard of a GAT kid turning out well. They all found out the hard way they weren’t that gifted either in high school or at the latest in college, maybe some were legit gifted but got complacent and lazy idk.