Maxxed Out Is Exposing The Auntie-Pocalypse

Eight episodes in, there is a disturbing trend, many of the women in the show are post career or shifted career-based business owners, with an issue of managing funds and business operations.

Hush Chile’

Most of the incidents show over 55 Black women throwing tantrums about money management issues and entitlement. Even in the face of a project crashing and burning, their tantrum usupers the goal of getting the finances for the business aligned. When anyone tries to help they get the “Hush.”

Missed Independent

The scary thing is how these independent women actually rely on more than just themselves. This show is exposing the so called independent women relies on family friends, rarely with the intent to actually pay for service or pay back. When the correction comes into the picture, suddenly their independence comes back into play and it’s a stubborn behavior to fix very simple problems.

Systemic Mismanagement

Real talk, this attitude has plagued many educated women who control school budgets, worked in federal jobs (before last year), HR departments, and even in local governments. With operations all being held hostage by stubborn inabilities to correct. And knowing how hard it is for women, especially Black women to gain respect in the work place, many young Black people are willing to deal with the childishness of these grown ass adults, because in the end it does reflect the workplace monolith. The reality, many of these women haven’t been ready to share workplace accolades post 1990s.

Accountability Like Matrix Bullets

The show spends over 40 minutes of the women in disbelief their financial ideology is the issue. Shit is exhausting and even the hosts facial expressions prove this isn’t necessarily an “all Black” women issue but something happening with over 55 Black women who move like Violet in Willy Wonka.

Old Habits of A Toxic Workforce

These women and how they operate have been allowed to control the workforce in the Black community for over 40 years. As more Black professionals entered the workforce, these women did not take the evolution of the black worker with open arms but, instead became hyper territorial and “mean girls”. Maybe out of fear of becoming too nostalgic of breaking old ceilings, now requiring renovations with more stairs and stories.

The Hardest of Heads

With younger Black generations coming in with tech, and expanded skills, they’ve unfortunately become punching bags for these women. Now facing the fact they’re no longer modern business women but elders that have to play their positions, younger people are finding out the hard way, these types are most like not going to pay for services rendered. Even to the point of gaslighting why they don’t feel the service done wasn’t really needed, to not pay, or expect to be chauffeured with no plans for gas money.

Ironically many younger Black women have fell victim to not only workplace bullying but men stressing out trying to please this age group out of respect. Unfortunately with all of the skills held in the community, younger generations have seen business after business; school after school shutter due to the inability to this group’s unwillingness to listen.

Has the workplace favoritism of Black women in this specific age group created monsters? Yes. And no amount of reasoning has been able to get though, not politics, COVID-19, Facebook, nothing. (Well maybe DOGE). But other than public shame, if they’re the gatekeepers of Black employment, how can a stuck community grow if the Auntie’s experience should have been more of an asset and less of an ass?

The show exposes beyond the support and illusion of a fully fledged office, many of these stubborn women never knew what the hell they were doing. Left alone, self ran business exposes skill weaknesses that probably could’ve been fixed at work but we’re refused, now feeling the pain in real time. If you’ve been working in purchasing for 25+ years, it’s wild not knowing how to budget a business.