ok i'll try to explain it one last time:

• first of all, this is not about the employees of the corporation. yes you have to be a cog to stay employed, yes policies make your life easier, no i'm not begrudging anyone for doing this.
• second of all, every interaction is also a negotiation -- always socially and sometimes financially and sometimes a combination of both. if i ask a stranger to do me a favor, this is a negotiation where i leverage some form of communal capital to get what i want.
• the tricky part is when a corporation is indirectly involved in this negotiation, too. the transaction of a person asking a favor from an employee is now complicated by the corporation's interests.
• the corporation's position on this issue is to pretend to not negotiate, and furthermore to leverage their own employee's social value and capital in this negotiation. so the company basically gets to abuse the humanity of its workers in order to both get better deals when possible and to shut down any negotiations it doesn't like
• this is where it ties back to my earlier point: if a person thinks it's dealing with an unthinking robot, the person will accept worse deals. the corporations know this and fully embrace it. they try to depersonalize as much as possible in order to maximize their profits
• the part where "lol old people are such children demanding shit" is an observation of this interaction, except viewed from a perverse lens being filterd by their own institutionalization
• this is not normal behavior for millennials to accept, and the companies are realizing they can get away with it

that's my observation, that this is a worrying and bad trend that leads towards a path of corporations exploiting humans who have been conditioned to offer no resistance

also, an unrelated note, ad hominem isn't what you're describing. insulting someone isn't a logical fallacy. if i say that you're <bad thing> because you believe <idea i'm against>, that's not actually an ad hominem. there is no break in the logic. i'm just insulting you while i take a position. an actual ad hominem is "you're wrong about <idea i'm against> because you're <bad thing>. ^{the more you know}