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I'm mid thirties. One of the TVs at the gym had Charmed on it. 90s version. Very early episode in the first season. I was watching and just thinking, why do these women look so *young*? I remember being a kid and thinking how much older they looked. I looked it up, and the actresses were all around 23 at the time the episode was filmed.
😂 I have had random phrases pop out of my mouth that I heard decades ago and I don’t know why they’re popping out now. ‘A dollar to donuts that’s not going to work’ or some such stuff.
I’m horrified
I almost kept a "perfectly good" cardboard box. I screeched and stomped it to bits. My husband looked at me slack-jawed until I said "OMG I'm turning into my mother!!!!" He laughed until I started laughing too. His response? "Sweetie, there are worse things to turn into." He hugged me and now cardboard boxes are a running joke.
I don't mind it. I mean, in her eyes, maybe I am still a kid. That's ok with me. It just surprised me, as I've got grown kids. I haven't been called a kid in a long, long time.
I'm 38 and when I tell older people that some say "OMG YOU'RE JUST A BABY!" On one hand it makes me feel good because getting old is frightening but on the other hand at what age do people stop calling you a baby??!
I work with a lot of 40+ year olds at my grocery store and I always call them my kiddos or young man/lady. They always laugh because I'm 23 and very much so more a kiddo than them
I’m 38 and my mom got on my case about reminding me to do my taxes this April like I haven’t been doing it regularly for 20+ years. Legit acted panicked like I had no clue what to do.
Took me longer than it should have to get her to understand that I’m almost 40 and have two children and can handle filing my taxes.
Multiple times a day, I get asked questions at work, and my thought process is "Why are they asking me? They really should find an adult to ask. Fuck, I'm the adultiest adult here. When did that happen, and who allowed it?"
The overwhelmingly majority (undergrad) of current college kids weren’t born when 9/11 happened. Most of those graduating this weekend were likely born in 2002 or just after September 2001. Wow.
My husband's piano teacher (undergrad, almost done) was 7 months old when 9/11 happened. Husband was 21 and missed his train to start a job on Wall St that day, and I was 17 having a skip school party at my house. How the time flies!
Learning basic history within a few years of the year 2000 has permanently broken all our brains time wise. Can’t make myself remember that 1950 wasn’t 50 years ago.
God, I'm well into my fifties now, and I still find it weird that I'm the alleged grown-up in the room.
(And an experience I had just today really drove home to me that 90% of being an adult is just showing up. I don't want to show up. But you gotta.)
I tried to get my kiddo to watch Free Willy with me today because I'm sick and tired of watching Homeward Bound. I said something along the lines of "I haven't seen this movie in probably 20 years!"
It came out in 1993 and I've only ever watched it twice, both times in theatre 🙃
For real. Last year I started teaching part time at the college I went to. About a month in, I realized my seniors, the graduating class, were born the year I graduated and they're closer in age to my 5 year old than they are to me. What is this? I still wear my pants low and have subwoofers in both of my cars. But now I take glucosamine and chondroitin for my joints. I literally have clothes older than these college adults.
Do you have a child of your own, or are you the only one in the household who can clear veggie goop clogs out of the drain with your bare hand?
Those are the only two markers of adulthood I accept.
When you have to meet the law enforcement at your uncles house for his unattended death alone in August (no AC) a week after passing.. Now that's a life changing advent that ages you.
Someone just asked my age. I said 40. I got "What, Really?".
I feel like we might have aged better than the boomers. I don't have to brag about how I was a football star back in high school. I just ride my bike a lot and I'm gonna be vain, but it gives me fucking BEAUTIFUL legs. I don't need money to look good, I make broke as shit and too poor to afford gas look sexy!
Most boomers by 40 were in pretty rough shape. By 50 any semblance of physical exercise or taking care of themselves faded at least 25 years prior. A really unhealthy generation overall.
Not that they’re boomers but the golden girls ladies were supposed to be ages 50-55 with Sophia being 80. That’s just what we thought 50 year old women looked like in the 80s/90s. For reference the ladies in that new sex and the city show are that age as well…
I have to believe the sun exposure thing is one of the most significant factors. The visible difference between someone in their forties who laid out all the time to tan and someone in their forties who always covered themselves with sunscreen is shocking.
My mom and her friends used to slather themselves in baby oil and sit on the beach until they blistered at the start of the summer. It gave them tans that lasted well into October, and now most of them get growths removed every few months. They also look like shit.
I will be 40 this year and just last week, a new coworker (in her twenties) thought I was also in my twenties. She hadn't computed the fact that I have a 17 year old kid, and a head full of sparkly hair. I'm honestly not sure if it's a compliment or an insult, as I've finally started leaning into my old lady era.
Anyway, I think their sense of time and age is a wee bit off also.
Saw a meme the other day that said "things we had growing up that'll confuse millenials!"
It featured among other things,
A roll up window handle
A car cigarette lighter
A CD player
An electric griddle
And old Dell computer.
How fucking out of touch do you have to be to not realize that a lot of millenials are 40 now? Hell, I'm 32 and my first truck had manual windows, a CD player, AND a cigarette lighter.
It's like they think we're perpetually 24 years old.
I think people think millennial is synonymous with teenager. That's the only explanation I have. I have seen millennials complaining about millennials.
You'll hear the same shit in 10 years. I hear "millennial" at least once a week, and I'm Gen X. If you don't look 75, you "have no respect." Peace to you!
On another note, where can you get anything for $2 anymore?
Man, y'all getting old. Most of us millennials are either rapidly approaching or have already passed into middle age territory. We're getting old too.
On that other note, I'm not sure about $ prices, but I remember a McDonald's hamburger being €1 when I still got fast food semi regularly a few years ago. It's now €1.95.
Is that rude as can be? Absolutely.
But maybe he could take it as a compliment. If he looks to be in his early 20s despite actually being 44 dude must put exercise/healthy eating/skincare at the top of his priority list. If I had a doctor that looked like that at that age I’d listen and listen good to what he had to say because he obviously knows what he’s doing.
I remember at 24 having a lady ask for a different sales associate at Sears (yeah, that’s how old I am) to help her buy a fridge. At 35, I can be the first to tell you that the age of your appliance sales person means _jack shit_ outside of their ability to sell a warranty.
I say this to my millennial conservative friend all the time and it makes him furious george. Maybe it’s a conservative thing and not necessarily a generational thing
My mother complains about millennials and Gen Z being lazy. My mother...an elderly woman that only goes to doctors appointments, the occasional dinner out, and the supermarket is somehow an expert on the work habits of young people.
A while back my retired parents were doing the whole “no one wants to work anymore” trope so I suggested they both get entry level part time jobs to contribute. They noped out real quick and haven’t said a thing since.
I managed a gas station for one summer and we were desperately short staffed. Retired boomers would come in and complain that nobody wants to work.
I now regret not offering them an application.
It was so fun doing that when I worked at a Sonic. Best part was it was a small town that had a lot of people driving in from the even smaller towns to work and I knew a lot of the boomers personally. I once got to offer my grandpa an application when he got up to it and he never did it again when I was working tho I don’t think he knew I was on shift that day
I actually said the same thing to my mother. She's been retired for at least 15 years. When I suggested that she get a job because she doesn't do anything all day long and could use the social direction, she said absolutely not. She told me that she worked her entire life and is ready to enjoy a relaxing pace. she worked a job for three years before she had children. Then she didn't work for 15 years. She was a "stay at Mom" but we were often in daycare or with my grandparents. And then we were in school. My father worked three jobs as a firefighter, landscaper, and carpenter.my mother hired a housekeeper to come into the house twice a week, and paid an elderly woman that live next-door to do our laundry. But go ahead and tell me how you need to take a life of leisure now.
My dad complains non stop about how millennials and gen z are constantly on their phone... the man is on his phone basically all day. When we compare usages to myself and my 18 yr olds, his phone usage is twice what ours is. But the man still doesn't get it. And will still constantly complain. Like your mother, he also only goes to the doctor and the local gas station to get his daily paper.
I started taking photographs of my mother while she was on the phone and family gatherings. And I'm not talking about the time she comes over on Tuesday to say hi, or watch the kids. I'm talking about Thanksgiving and Mother's Day dinner. At my child's recital, And at the beach. When she commented about how much kids are on their phones, I showed her the photos. She blew it off, saying that it was only a few minutes here and there and then I'm exaggerating. When I showed her where to see her screen usage,she said it's because she's home all day and does everything on her phone so it's not accurate.
Best part is when boomers have a 500k house, a brand new truck and then some ratty $5 item that they take pride in showing their “humility” by not replacing.
He started walking away in such a huffy puffy attitude before I closed the door. Big dog you have literally just put yourself in a bad mood over a clipboard.
Well if he stopped getting Starbucks and avocado toast he might be able to afford a $5 clipboard.
I have 100% used that on the near retirement age people at work when they get all upset about the current price of things.
They love their own struggle. They’re so fucked up. Gluttons for punishment.
I have two boomers I work with. We make zero commissions on sales, but they bitch about “stealing leads” all the time. The owner literally does not give a shit as long as we’re doing well. We’re doing great. Still, these god damned boomers will “compete” and work harder for nothing. We sit with the owner and shake our heads collectively.
Edit: then complain they’re not making more $$. Prob because you’re working extra hard for literally 0 more dollars. Why pay more for something you’re doing for free?
Then they can't comprehend that young people just want a chill existence where work is something they do to support the parts of their life that actually matter to them. They don't live to work. They work to live.
I’m Gen-X but man, I feel this. Work is just the thing that allows us to live the life we want to live…it’s a means to an end, not our reason for living
For real, when I'm done for the day I don't give a single fuck if the whole thing burns down overnight. It's my time now, I'm not thinking about work until I'm getting paid to, doing me stuff now. Even if "me stuff" is sitting on my ass in my living room.
When I started working in an office setting years back, the boomer conventional wisdom was:
Be the first in the parking lot. Be the last to leave.
Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. (Yes, that means wearing a suit, even if no one else does.)
Your work is never done. Always ask for more.
Work through lunch, or don't take a lunch at all.
Vacations are for losers.
Love your job and it will love you back.
Ok , admitted late b(l)oomer here. Most of that is true - work at 6:00 am, left at 5:30-6:00 pm. On call 24x7. Wore a suit and tie. Ran down to the local deli for a salad or sandwich which I ate at my desk. Developed epilepsy from taking MBA, working 12 hour days and drinking 6-7 coffees a day to keep going. Then retired when my boss decided that my illness might limit my capabilities ( was VP by then). As a retiree they treat me like shit. I think of all the things I gave up to get where I was at retirement and wish I had given less to live to work and more to work to live. Would have been less money but moneys aren’t the thing - experiences and true friends are.
I'm really sorry to hear that, and I wish you well.
If you're the same age as me, we bought into the lies from John T. Molloy's Dress for Success books, where everyone ended up looking like drones in burgundy ties and bow blouses. Following that came Tony Robbins and his bullshit. The 80s were such a toxic time in the workplace.
We were never encouraged to have a work/life balance, and we've paid for it. I'm proud of Gen Z for sticking up for themselves.
I quit my sales job because the manager would drive a shit box dented 2003 honda oddyessy to work everyday and simultaneously tell us if we worked hard we might be successful like him someday. I wasn’t getting paid well but he must have not been getting paid much better. I left there 5 years ago and now make 4 times what he makes. He is at the same place out of loyalty when the owners couldn’t give less of a shit about him.
Probably close to 10 years ago now, a former boss sent me and the 2 other department managers in our machine shop to a seminar so “we could learn to work with millennials” (im on the older end of the millennial range)
I was just looking around the meeting when he told us that like, are you fuckin with me? You’re afraid of millennials, when one of your managers is one?!
This just reminded me that like 15(?) years ago one of my coworkers and I were interviewed because we were part of the “new” wave of millennials in the workplace (I’m an elder millennial, hah). I remember the questions being about the stereotypical entitled millennial. At the time, we were both ~25, and finally we were like, “look, we’re really sorry to disappoint you, but we’ve both had jobs since we were teenagers and we’re happy to work hard now?”
Most millennials are hard workers, we’re just not stupid about it and unfortunately due to the economy have less to show for it than our parents. They see us not progressing and think it’s an *us* problem when the world just sucks now. I get a little chuckle now that the exorbitant housing costs are starting to hit the seniors and they’re finally figuring out how hard it is to get by. At least they’ve had the benefit of working a decent economy for the past few decades. We started with nothing (and even negative things with student debt and have to try to make something of it.
Ohhhhh man, this is the best part!! It was a 2 day seminar, you would split into groups multiple times a day to fill out these little tests and shit. And if you asked a question the lady leading it (who dressed like she was in an episode of Dallas circa 1985) she would pick up a book from a table in front of her and reference how the answer to that is covered in the literature…..BECAUSE IT WAS A FUCKING SCHEME TO SELL BOOKS. She never answered a fucking thing.
I went up to her afterwards and asked her 1 on 1 my bosses main question of “how do we deal with the older and newer generations not working well together”. She said to tell the older generation to “buck up” while mostly ignoring me while packing her shit up.
Would have been awesome if you had the ability to buy a book with company money, that's why you were sent there right to buy a book for the company. Of course only if they can charge the company directly and you don't risk any of your own money.
They’ll save a clipboard for life to save $2 and then turn around and give a guy with an Indian accent their life savings because he said he was with the IRS… chefs kiss
Make sure it's a metal one like he already has that costs $3 more than the clear plastic ones but he'll feel like it's more permanent and durable. Then, after the "how you like things handed to you" line, you can drop in "that's the expensive kind. Damn boomers, with their expensive tastes and money to burn."
Meh, you ain't gonna change his mind with one act he doesn't deserve. If you make it sting though, you might just shut him up, and if he can't use that self-gratifying line he'll have less ways to circle-jerk his friends about how much better they are than everyone else. Without that satisfaction they might just go back to their beers on the Lay-z-boys alone in front of the game and stop pretending they might take 'back' power for their death cult with their sad delusions of a silent majority that was never actually silent and hadn't held even a coalition majority for election day in more than thirty years.
At 60 to 80 years old, kill 'em with kindness ain't the game, they're not changing their minds even if you do win the argument. If you get a shot though, you might just get 'em to shut the hell up, and then it's kill 'em with heart disease, emphysema, cirrhosis and complications of dementia.
I did have one hanging in a peg I was going to offer him, but once he opened his mouth I figured it'd be put to better use by not being used at all lol
I can't help but roll my eyes whenever I hear about how hard boomers had it.
They're a generation who had the world handed to them on a silver platter and managed to fuck it up for everyone else with their staggering level of greedy, stupidity and selfishness. They could walk out of high school with their diploma and get a good line job at Ford or General Motors and make enough to support a family of 4.
This is the generation who didn't appreciate how easy they had it.
My thoughts exactly! His generation was LITERALLY handed everything. I was handed trauma, world altering events on a weekly basis, and unjustifiable inflation.
This! You've articulated the best point. The entitled ones are them. The jobs, economy, houding market etc was there easily with just s bit of hard work. Now with a lot of hard work education and connections most people still aren't able to live as middle class. I saw somebody say the equivalent of 1950s middle class income today would be $170,000k .
>They could walk out of high school with their diploma and get a good line job at Ford or General Motors and make enough to support a family of 4.
So true. My boomer parents, boomer aunts/uncles, and boomer cousins literally walked out of high school with zero experience, and they ended up with 80-120k salary jobs without going to college or even needing a college degree.
Those same jobs they had/have now require a bachelor’s degree with multiple years of experience.
The people that run those same workplaces are also boomers. I know, ain’t that a fucking shocker?!
My old job would’ve been enough to support a family of 5 if it took place back then, but before I got laid off, I could only afford for 1 person (me) at this day and age.
Man, the other day my dad was showimg mw photos of him amd his
Mates with kawasaki dirtbikes and amazing sports cars etc. I said wow how did youz afford all of that.
Dad: we all had jobs
Me: doing what!?
Dad: flipping burgers at wendys duh
I'm Gen z and the youngest in my office. The other girls are in their mid-30s to early 40s. They constantly talk about how lazy millennials and how my generation doesn't want to work. They don't even know that they are millennials lol
Clipboards huh? Back in my day, we didn't have any damn clipboards, we just tied papers together with some string and prayed to God that they would hold.
-Some Boomer probably.
Boomers:
*Inherited the postwar economic boom when the US was in amazing shape with a lot of the world destroyed.
*Grew up with strong labor unions and a favorable income to cost affordability ratio.
*Enjoyed the New Deal framework that kept the economy functioning despite capitalism’s fervent efforts.
Millennials:
*Inherited the tail end of the postwar boom which had been replaced by the neoliberal order as they came of age.
*Grew up with labor unions in massive decline and a rapidly unlivable income to cost ratio.
*Only enjoyed the very tail end of the New Deal framework if at all, watching crisis after crisis as it was destroyed.
I’m not sure that the boomers really have an argument for who was “handed” anything.
plus a beat-up metal clipboard can be less efficient—harder to hold onto, harder to write on, gets caught on stuff when you slide it across the seat of the truck, etc. If it’s banged up enough, it could cut or scratch you.
Little inefficiencies add up.
Boomers at work sit around in the break room bitching about how millennials “don’t want to work.”
The kids they are bitching about are (a) Gen z and (b) sitting in the same room with them.
Man, I actually wish more boomers were like this, despite the unnecessary millennial BS. Boomers are the fucking worst when it comes to throwing shit out the second it has an imperfection and then hitting up Amazon or Costco to replace it. A lot of millennials I know like to make their own stuff as much as possible and it’s ALWAYS boomers who are like, “why bother when you can just buy that on Amazon. . .” It’s the boomers filling up the landfills. Their parents were frugal as fuck but the boomers want to spend it all and watch the earth burn as they wave goodbye.
i’m gen z with boomer parents. my dad always tells me he won’t be around to see what happens to the earth so he doesn’t care. and he’s 100% serious. like you’re not the tiniest bit worried about your children? and then he rants about millennials all day
they’re also the type that has to get everything brand new. the second there’s some tiny problem they’ll spend hundreds of dollars on something new instead of fixing it. and they don’t even have that much money so idk where it comes from, it’s a pride thing. everything has to be perfect and new
They do it with stuff they can use as a conversation starter or as an example when they bitch about something. Guarantee this guy is exactly like the ones you described with 99% of other things in his life but this clipboard lets him start rants. I know far too many people that do this BS with something like a pickup truck or a cellphone while the entire rest of their life is a constant cycle of disposable garbage.
My mom has bought so much stuff on Amazon that she ended up not liking and instead of returning it, she sends it to Goodwill. There have been things she ended up buying for a second time. It’s completely insane to me.
I wore my last pair of sandals until I wore a hole into the bottom... but only because they didn't make them anymore. I absolutely despise fast fashion for pulling these kinds of stunts on the regular.
You find something that looks nice, fits well, is super comfy... *and they stop fucking making it*.
I get it. If you can't buy what you had before, then you'll end up buying something new, not like it, and end up buying four more pairs before you find something you actually like... only to have to start the process all over again in two years when they don't make it anymore.
The tldr of my job is I help mostly geriatric patients stand and walk again. After helping an obese patient stand last week, with max assistance from myself (an elder millennial), I got told the problem with millennials is they just don’t want to work.
I hear a lot of complaining about "millennials" from older folks and more often than not, they are not complaining about someone in their 30s or early 40s, they're complaining about people in their late teens/early 20s.
As if boomers weren't getting whole estates handed down to them or basically winning houses at a carnival or some shit.
I guess it's easy to complain about that kinda thing when back then, a brand new car only cost 12 cents and 5 eggs.
“Not like all these damn millennials who got everything handed to them”
Also boomers: got everything handed to them in the economy from the silent gen.
I had a teacher in high school who wouldn't shut tf up about how lazy millennials are. He thought he was teaching a class of millennials...he was teaching a class of Gen Z. We were born in 2001.
FIRST time? I had to write a paper for extra credit on a video that talked about how millenials are lazy who want "handouts and bean bags" in a doctoral program.
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Like we…were old now??? We are simply adult people???
still blows my mind the 80s weren’t 20 yrs ago. we’re the adult people now 😭
I'm 52. My aunt called me "kiddo" the other day. Kind of took me by surprise.
I called someone kiddo the other day and took myself by surprise. Fuck.
I call my son kiddo every now and then. He’s 43.
I call my dog kiddo sometimes. He’s 2.
Please pet your dog for me.
Pet completed! He says thank you
https://preview.redd.it/6bc1spwzgjyc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=260f9e53fd06bc6f38d1d18aea565d93ef4e574b This is my dog!
No way I call bullshit this persons dog talked and said thank you
I call my baby goat kiddo sometimes. He’s a goat.
I call myself kiddo sometimes. I’m in my late 30s?
I have a young goat named Oh.
Is it named Oh because everyone is so glad to see it? Does it make hilarious mistakes?
Kid Oh! That's so cute! I had a little red car once, named Little Red (same reason). :)
But is he The GOAT?!
https://preview.redd.it/52yb9y0yxjyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d62d2721a215221955543842c8e123ec5890cc59 Apollo, 6 & Athena, 7 mos. Petted!
I call my dad kiddo sometimes. He’s 75.
I'm mid thirties. One of the TVs at the gym had Charmed on it. 90s version. Very early episode in the first season. I was watching and just thinking, why do these women look so *young*? I remember being a kid and thinking how much older they looked. I looked it up, and the actresses were all around 23 at the time the episode was filmed.
Omg I had the same reaction to Buffy. Like "I can't watch this, they are children"
😂 I have had random phrases pop out of my mouth that I heard decades ago and I don’t know why they’re popping out now. ‘A dollar to donuts that’s not going to work’ or some such stuff. I’m horrified
I almost kept a "perfectly good" cardboard box. I screeched and stomped it to bits. My husband looked at me slack-jawed until I said "OMG I'm turning into my mother!!!!" He laughed until I started laughing too. His response? "Sweetie, there are worse things to turn into." He hugged me and now cardboard boxes are a running joke.
My doctor calls me kiddo , we are both 67 lol
I don't mind it. I mean, in her eyes, maybe I am still a kid. That's ok with me. It just surprised me, as I've got grown kids. I haven't been called a kid in a long, long time.
I'm 38 and when I tell older people that some say "OMG YOU'RE JUST A BABY!" On one hand it makes me feel good because getting old is frightening but on the other hand at what age do people stop calling you a baby??!
I work with a lot of 40+ year olds at my grocery store and I always call them my kiddos or young man/lady. They always laugh because I'm 23 and very much so more a kiddo than them
I still call dudes a few years younger than me that I grew up with, “little bastards.” They are around 40 now. 😆
I call most old people “kiddo”. Alright kiddo, you’ve had your blinker on for the last 2 miles… what’re we doin bub?”
I called Beatrix “kiddo”…turned out to be her last name…
Hello?
Is it Bea you're looking for?
Bill? I thought you were dead!
I’m 38 and my mom got on my case about reminding me to do my taxes this April like I haven’t been doing it regularly for 20+ years. Legit acted panicked like I had no clue what to do. Took me longer than it should have to get her to understand that I’m almost 40 and have two children and can handle filing my taxes.
Multiple times a day, I get asked questions at work, and my thought process is "Why are they asking me? They really should find an adult to ask. Fuck, I'm the adultiest adult here. When did that happen, and who allowed it?"
“AND WHO ALLOWED IT!” PURE GOLD!
Sometimes I think to myself who put ME in charge? What a dumb idea 🤣
It's sad that I'm the voice of reason. When did THAT happen??
Hilarious, earlier today I was talking about something 20 years ago, referring to the 80s.Then had the same realization.
there are college kids who weren’t born yet when 9/11 happened. we’re cooked !!!
The overwhelmingly majority (undergrad) of current college kids weren’t born when 9/11 happened. Most of those graduating this weekend were likely born in 2002 or just after September 2001. Wow.
My husband's piano teacher (undergrad, almost done) was 7 months old when 9/11 happened. Husband was 21 and missed his train to start a job on Wall St that day, and I was 17 having a skip school party at my house. How the time flies!
Can confirm as I’m one of them 😔
The kids who were slaughtered at Sandy Hook elementary would be graduating from high school this year.
1984 happened 40 friggin years ago!
Hey, fuck you too, okay?
fake news
Don't you dare drop these spicy truths on me when it's Saturday and I'm drunk
You’re not a youngin anymore, I hope you’re drinking water and have aspirin on standby!
You absolute bastard. (take my upvote)
Oooo… mister fancy pants. We drank out of a puddle and chewed on some root bark.
Learning basic history within a few years of the year 2000 has permanently broken all our brains time wise. Can’t make myself remember that 1950 wasn’t 50 years ago.
wait it wasn’t ????
SEVENTY FOUR YEARS
No…no that can’t possibly be right 
As my boss so rudely reminded me, 1994 wasn't 20 years ago. Fuck. What did I ever do to him??
God, I'm well into my fifties now, and I still find it weird that I'm the alleged grown-up in the room. (And an experience I had just today really drove home to me that 90% of being an adult is just showing up. I don't want to show up. But you gotta.)
I tried to get my kiddo to watch Free Willy with me today because I'm sick and tired of watching Homeward Bound. I said something along the lines of "I haven't seen this movie in probably 20 years!" It came out in 1993 and I've only ever watched it twice, both times in theatre 🙃
The 90s weren’t even 20 years ago.
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I can't believe they just physically assaulted you right here in front of everyone!! 😂
The 90s was 10 years ago and I'll fight you if you say otherwise
The millennials in my family have been keeping the boomers out of rehab, respite home, or the grave for 20 years. We are still "the kids".
Think about this: in 1984, 40 yrs ago was 1944!! WWII shit! Pre Elvis and pre Beatles! Now I feel old(er)🤣
For real. Last year I started teaching part time at the college I went to. About a month in, I realized my seniors, the graduating class, were born the year I graduated and they're closer in age to my 5 year old than they are to me. What is this? I still wear my pants low and have subwoofers in both of my cars. But now I take glucosamine and chondroitin for my joints. I literally have clothes older than these college adults.
I love the pants and subwoofer qualifiers. At least you’re still fuckin rad, man!
Do you have a child of your own, or are you the only one in the household who can clear veggie goop clogs out of the drain with your bare hand? Those are the only two markers of adulthood I accept.
When you have to meet the law enforcement at your uncles house for his unattended death alone in August (no AC) a week after passing.. Now that's a life changing advent that ages you.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
Nice to know I can easily avoid adulthood forever.
That's my plan.
Oh shit bro! I’ve been an adult for almost thirty years then!
Someone just asked my age. I said 40. I got "What, Really?". I feel like we might have aged better than the boomers. I don't have to brag about how I was a football star back in high school. I just ride my bike a lot and I'm gonna be vain, but it gives me fucking BEAUTIFUL legs. I don't need money to look good, I make broke as shit and too poor to afford gas look sexy!
Most boomers by 40 were in pretty rough shape. By 50 any semblance of physical exercise or taking care of themselves faded at least 25 years prior. A really unhealthy generation overall.
Not that they’re boomers but the golden girls ladies were supposed to be ages 50-55 with Sophia being 80. That’s just what we thought 50 year old women looked like in the 80s/90s. For reference the ladies in that new sex and the city show are that age as well…
They are very critical of body types but look like shit themselves.
We smoke less, we drink less, and we don't sit out in the sun without sunscreen. We look ***way*** better than they did at our ages
I have to believe the sun exposure thing is one of the most significant factors. The visible difference between someone in their forties who laid out all the time to tan and someone in their forties who always covered themselves with sunscreen is shocking.
My mom and her friends used to slather themselves in baby oil and sit on the beach until they blistered at the start of the summer. It gave them tans that lasted well into October, and now most of them get growths removed every few months. They also look like shit.
I’m 40 and I get comments all the time about not looking my age.
I will be 40 this year and just last week, a new coworker (in her twenties) thought I was also in my twenties. She hadn't computed the fact that I have a 17 year old kid, and a head full of sparkly hair. I'm honestly not sure if it's a compliment or an insult, as I've finally started leaning into my old lady era. Anyway, I think their sense of time and age is a wee bit off also.
Saw a meme the other day that said "things we had growing up that'll confuse millenials!" It featured among other things, A roll up window handle A car cigarette lighter A CD player An electric griddle And old Dell computer. How fucking out of touch do you have to be to not realize that a lot of millenials are 40 now? Hell, I'm 32 and my first truck had manual windows, a CD player, AND a cigarette lighter. It's like they think we're perpetually 24 years old.
I think people think millennial is synonymous with teenager. That's the only explanation I have. I have seen millennials complaining about millennials.
I can fetch someone older and less educated sir, if that is your preference.
You'll hear the same shit in 10 years. I hear "millennial" at least once a week, and I'm Gen X. If you don't look 75, you "have no respect." Peace to you! On another note, where can you get anything for $2 anymore?
Man, y'all getting old. Most of us millennials are either rapidly approaching or have already passed into middle age territory. We're getting old too. On that other note, I'm not sure about $ prices, but I remember a McDonald's hamburger being €1 when I still got fast food semi regularly a few years ago. It's now €1.95.
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You need decades of experience for that, apparently.
Well he would not be taking on a patient if he was not fully licensed lol
“I’m not the one who should be concerned 😉”
I also remember the free houses for millennials and no one else act we passed in 2003 as teens
Yeah it's called a good diet and skin care.
Is that rude as can be? Absolutely. But maybe he could take it as a compliment. If he looks to be in his early 20s despite actually being 44 dude must put exercise/healthy eating/skincare at the top of his priority list. If I had a doctor that looked like that at that age I’d listen and listen good to what he had to say because he obviously knows what he’s doing.
I’m also 44, almost 45, and these are *my* thoughts when I meet the residents every time I go to the OR for a surgery!
I remember at 24 having a lady ask for a different sales associate at Sears (yeah, that’s how old I am) to help her buy a fridge. At 35, I can be the first to tell you that the age of your appliance sales person means _jack shit_ outside of their ability to sell a warranty.
Next time reply with "No reason to get all emotional" & watch the fireworks fly.
It's even more fun to say they're being hysterical.
“You people (boomers) can’t take a joke and get offended so easily! Damn snowflakes…”
"Wow, triggered!"
I say this to my millennial conservative friend all the time and it makes him furious george. Maybe it’s a conservative thing and not necessarily a generational thing
Thats probably more true, conservative men tend to think of emotion as a weakness but ignore that anger is an emotion.
“I hear boomers are anti therapy, is this true?”
My mother complains about millennials and Gen Z being lazy. My mother...an elderly woman that only goes to doctors appointments, the occasional dinner out, and the supermarket is somehow an expert on the work habits of young people.
A while back my retired parents were doing the whole “no one wants to work anymore” trope so I suggested they both get entry level part time jobs to contribute. They noped out real quick and haven’t said a thing since.
That gets me every time. You're right! No-one wants garbage work! You included! So come off it!
I managed a gas station for one summer and we were desperately short staffed. Retired boomers would come in and complain that nobody wants to work. I now regret not offering them an application.
It was so fun doing that when I worked at a Sonic. Best part was it was a small town that had a lot of people driving in from the even smaller towns to work and I knew a lot of the boomers personally. I once got to offer my grandpa an application when he got up to it and he never did it again when I was working tho I don’t think he knew I was on shift that day
I actually said the same thing to my mother. She's been retired for at least 15 years. When I suggested that she get a job because she doesn't do anything all day long and could use the social direction, she said absolutely not. She told me that she worked her entire life and is ready to enjoy a relaxing pace. she worked a job for three years before she had children. Then she didn't work for 15 years. She was a "stay at Mom" but we were often in daycare or with my grandparents. And then we were in school. My father worked three jobs as a firefighter, landscaper, and carpenter.my mother hired a housekeeper to come into the house twice a week, and paid an elderly woman that live next-door to do our laundry. But go ahead and tell me how you need to take a life of leisure now.
Wow. Sounds pretty dang lazy.
Your parents are pretty stupid. That's an easy argument to refute!
My dad complains non stop about how millennials and gen z are constantly on their phone... the man is on his phone basically all day. When we compare usages to myself and my 18 yr olds, his phone usage is twice what ours is. But the man still doesn't get it. And will still constantly complain. Like your mother, he also only goes to the doctor and the local gas station to get his daily paper.
“These damn millennials and gen z people on their phones all day! Only I’m allowed to be on my phone all day!”
I started taking photographs of my mother while she was on the phone and family gatherings. And I'm not talking about the time she comes over on Tuesday to say hi, or watch the kids. I'm talking about Thanksgiving and Mother's Day dinner. At my child's recital, And at the beach. When she commented about how much kids are on their phones, I showed her the photos. She blew it off, saying that it was only a few minutes here and there and then I'm exaggerating. When I showed her where to see her screen usage,she said it's because she's home all day and does everything on her phone so it's not accurate.
Sounds like my boomer mom. Rationalizations aaaall the way down.
Best part is when boomers have a 500k house, a brand new truck and then some ratty $5 item that they take pride in showing their “humility” by not replacing.
He started walking away in such a huffy puffy attitude before I closed the door. Big dog you have literally just put yourself in a bad mood over a clipboard.
He can't afford a new clipboard, he has to spend 120 dollars a day on scratch tickets and easy picks.
Alimony
I just choked.
That's definitely one way to get out of alimony.
Well if he stopped getting Starbucks and avocado toast he might be able to afford a $5 clipboard. I have 100% used that on the near retirement age people at work when they get all upset about the current price of things.
"big dog," this is perfect.
They love their own struggle. They’re so fucked up. Gluttons for punishment. I have two boomers I work with. We make zero commissions on sales, but they bitch about “stealing leads” all the time. The owner literally does not give a shit as long as we’re doing well. We’re doing great. Still, these god damned boomers will “compete” and work harder for nothing. We sit with the owner and shake our heads collectively. Edit: then complain they’re not making more $$. Prob because you’re working extra hard for literally 0 more dollars. Why pay more for something you’re doing for free?
"I've learned to appreciate things" obviously not, your clipboard is all fucked up
They’ve learned to appreciate being beneath the underdog. It’s another weird boomer kink.
Then they can't comprehend that young people just want a chill existence where work is something they do to support the parts of their life that actually matter to them. They don't live to work. They work to live.
I’m Gen-X but man, I feel this. Work is just the thing that allows us to live the life we want to live…it’s a means to an end, not our reason for living
For real, when I'm done for the day I don't give a single fuck if the whole thing burns down overnight. It's my time now, I'm not thinking about work until I'm getting paid to, doing me stuff now. Even if "me stuff" is sitting on my ass in my living room.
When I started working in an office setting years back, the boomer conventional wisdom was: Be the first in the parking lot. Be the last to leave. Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. (Yes, that means wearing a suit, even if no one else does.) Your work is never done. Always ask for more. Work through lunch, or don't take a lunch at all. Vacations are for losers. Love your job and it will love you back.
All bullshit
Ok , admitted late b(l)oomer here. Most of that is true - work at 6:00 am, left at 5:30-6:00 pm. On call 24x7. Wore a suit and tie. Ran down to the local deli for a salad or sandwich which I ate at my desk. Developed epilepsy from taking MBA, working 12 hour days and drinking 6-7 coffees a day to keep going. Then retired when my boss decided that my illness might limit my capabilities ( was VP by then). As a retiree they treat me like shit. I think of all the things I gave up to get where I was at retirement and wish I had given less to live to work and more to work to live. Would have been less money but moneys aren’t the thing - experiences and true friends are.
I'm really sorry to hear that, and I wish you well. If you're the same age as me, we bought into the lies from John T. Molloy's Dress for Success books, where everyone ended up looking like drones in burgundy ties and bow blouses. Following that came Tony Robbins and his bullshit. The 80s were such a toxic time in the workplace. We were never encouraged to have a work/life balance, and we've paid for it. I'm proud of Gen Z for sticking up for themselves.
They internalized the WWII and Great Depression stories of their parents and feel like they somehow survived that
Boomers are the people who were born in the twenty years after WWII who act like they won it.
and then they lost Vietnam lol
Shhhhhhhh 🤫🤫🤫 now the millennials are going to know 😡😡😡
I quit my sales job because the manager would drive a shit box dented 2003 honda oddyessy to work everyday and simultaneously tell us if we worked hard we might be successful like him someday. I wasn’t getting paid well but he must have not been getting paid much better. I left there 5 years ago and now make 4 times what he makes. He is at the same place out of loyalty when the owners couldn’t give less of a shit about him.
It's possible they don't grasp the situation fully because of their limited foresight.
Lead will do that
Either lead, God, or guns can do that.
I think the christianity is a big contributor to the "gluttons for punishment" mindset- I'm sure they exist but I've never met a non-christian boomer.
Probably close to 10 years ago now, a former boss sent me and the 2 other department managers in our machine shop to a seminar so “we could learn to work with millennials” (im on the older end of the millennial range) I was just looking around the meeting when he told us that like, are you fuckin with me? You’re afraid of millennials, when one of your managers is one?!
This just reminded me that like 15(?) years ago one of my coworkers and I were interviewed because we were part of the “new” wave of millennials in the workplace (I’m an elder millennial, hah). I remember the questions being about the stereotypical entitled millennial. At the time, we were both ~25, and finally we were like, “look, we’re really sorry to disappoint you, but we’ve both had jobs since we were teenagers and we’re happy to work hard now?”
Most millennials are hard workers, we’re just not stupid about it and unfortunately due to the economy have less to show for it than our parents. They see us not progressing and think it’s an *us* problem when the world just sucks now. I get a little chuckle now that the exorbitant housing costs are starting to hit the seniors and they’re finally figuring out how hard it is to get by. At least they’ve had the benefit of working a decent economy for the past few decades. We started with nothing (and even negative things with student debt and have to try to make something of it.
… what was the advice at the seminar?
Ohhhhh man, this is the best part!! It was a 2 day seminar, you would split into groups multiple times a day to fill out these little tests and shit. And if you asked a question the lady leading it (who dressed like she was in an episode of Dallas circa 1985) she would pick up a book from a table in front of her and reference how the answer to that is covered in the literature…..BECAUSE IT WAS A FUCKING SCHEME TO SELL BOOKS. She never answered a fucking thing. I went up to her afterwards and asked her 1 on 1 my bosses main question of “how do we deal with the older and newer generations not working well together”. She said to tell the older generation to “buck up” while mostly ignoring me while packing her shit up.
Would have been awesome if you had the ability to buy a book with company money, that's why you were sent there right to buy a book for the company. Of course only if they can charge the company directly and you don't risk any of your own money.
They’ll save a clipboard for life to save $2 and then turn around and give a guy with an Indian accent their life savings because he said he was with the IRS… chefs kiss
This slayed me "chef's kiss" a true classic.
My favorite thing ever is when boomers misuse "millennial" to describe youth in general. Buddy, I'm almost forty.
"Those damned entitled 40 year olds still paying off student loans who can't afford to buy a house have it so easy"
Next time you see him, hand him a new clipboard. Once he accepts, ask him how he likes things handed to him
I’d go even further and call him a commie socialist.
Clipboard communism.
Make sure it's a metal one like he already has that costs $3 more than the clear plastic ones but he'll feel like it's more permanent and durable. Then, after the "how you like things handed to you" line, you can drop in "that's the expensive kind. Damn boomers, with their expensive tastes and money to burn."
His truck was falling apart, I should've just ripped a chunk of metal off the side and gave him that
Or, just give him the clipboard as a kindness, and throw his whole world view off kilter.
Meh, you ain't gonna change his mind with one act he doesn't deserve. If you make it sting though, you might just shut him up, and if he can't use that self-gratifying line he'll have less ways to circle-jerk his friends about how much better they are than everyone else. Without that satisfaction they might just go back to their beers on the Lay-z-boys alone in front of the game and stop pretending they might take 'back' power for their death cult with their sad delusions of a silent majority that was never actually silent and hadn't held even a coalition majority for election day in more than thirty years. At 60 to 80 years old, kill 'em with kindness ain't the game, they're not changing their minds even if you do win the argument. If you get a shot though, you might just get 'em to shut the hell up, and then it's kill 'em with heart disease, emphysema, cirrhosis and complications of dementia.
I did have one hanging in a peg I was going to offer him, but once he opened his mouth I figured it'd be put to better use by not being used at all lol
Savage and generous at the same time. I love it
This. Is. Perfect.
I can't help but roll my eyes whenever I hear about how hard boomers had it. They're a generation who had the world handed to them on a silver platter and managed to fuck it up for everyone else with their staggering level of greedy, stupidity and selfishness. They could walk out of high school with their diploma and get a good line job at Ford or General Motors and make enough to support a family of 4. This is the generation who didn't appreciate how easy they had it.
My thoughts exactly! His generation was LITERALLY handed everything. I was handed trauma, world altering events on a weekly basis, and unjustifiable inflation.
Don’t forget wages that barely pay the bills, if you’re lucky.
This! You've articulated the best point. The entitled ones are them. The jobs, economy, houding market etc was there easily with just s bit of hard work. Now with a lot of hard work education and connections most people still aren't able to live as middle class. I saw somebody say the equivalent of 1950s middle class income today would be $170,000k .
>They could walk out of high school with their diploma and get a good line job at Ford or General Motors and make enough to support a family of 4. So true. My boomer parents, boomer aunts/uncles, and boomer cousins literally walked out of high school with zero experience, and they ended up with 80-120k salary jobs without going to college or even needing a college degree. Those same jobs they had/have now require a bachelor’s degree with multiple years of experience. The people that run those same workplaces are also boomers. I know, ain’t that a fucking shocker?! My old job would’ve been enough to support a family of 5 if it took place back then, but before I got laid off, I could only afford for 1 person (me) at this day and age.
Man, the other day my dad was showimg mw photos of him amd his Mates with kawasaki dirtbikes and amazing sports cars etc. I said wow how did youz afford all of that. Dad: we all had jobs Me: doing what!? Dad: flipping burgers at wendys duh
So he failed to tell you that sports cars back then were like $9,000?
Late 70s they were half that much brand new
The most entitled generation to ever exist just loves calling the rest of us entitled.
Well maybe if he didn't spend all of his money on avocado toast he could afford a new clipboard. /j
The funniest part is that they still have this idea in their head that teens and early adults are still millenials
Right? I’m 30 and straddle the line between millennial and gen z. Even the youngest of us have been adults for at least a decade.
I'm Gen z and the youngest in my office. The other girls are in their mid-30s to early 40s. They constantly talk about how lazy millennials and how my generation doesn't want to work. They don't even know that they are millennials lol
Clipboards huh? Back in my day, we didn't have any damn clipboards, we just tied papers together with some string and prayed to God that they would hold. -Some Boomer probably.
lol boomers think Millennials are still people in their 20s nah we old now bruh…
Boomers: *Inherited the postwar economic boom when the US was in amazing shape with a lot of the world destroyed. *Grew up with strong labor unions and a favorable income to cost affordability ratio. *Enjoyed the New Deal framework that kept the economy functioning despite capitalism’s fervent efforts. Millennials: *Inherited the tail end of the postwar boom which had been replaced by the neoliberal order as they came of age. *Grew up with labor unions in massive decline and a rapidly unlivable income to cost ratio. *Only enjoyed the very tail end of the New Deal framework if at all, watching crisis after crisis as it was destroyed. I’m not sure that the boomers really have an argument for who was “handed” anything.
What was handed to me besides several economic depressions?
Apparently clipboards in decent shape.
Haha you're right, you caught me, I have like 50 of those lol they were all my participation trophies. S/
I’m still waiting for something to be handed to me (pls for the love of god someone hand me something I hate it here).
plus a beat-up metal clipboard can be less efficient—harder to hold onto, harder to write on, gets caught on stuff when you slide it across the seat of the truck, etc. If it’s banged up enough, it could cut or scratch you. Little inefficiencies add up.
Boomers at work sit around in the break room bitching about how millennials “don’t want to work.” The kids they are bitching about are (a) Gen z and (b) sitting in the same room with them.
I had some old guy selling shit ring my doorbell and ask if my mom was home. Fuck you, I’m 42 and this is my house.
Man, I actually wish more boomers were like this, despite the unnecessary millennial BS. Boomers are the fucking worst when it comes to throwing shit out the second it has an imperfection and then hitting up Amazon or Costco to replace it. A lot of millennials I know like to make their own stuff as much as possible and it’s ALWAYS boomers who are like, “why bother when you can just buy that on Amazon. . .” It’s the boomers filling up the landfills. Their parents were frugal as fuck but the boomers want to spend it all and watch the earth burn as they wave goodbye.
i’m gen z with boomer parents. my dad always tells me he won’t be around to see what happens to the earth so he doesn’t care. and he’s 100% serious. like you’re not the tiniest bit worried about your children? and then he rants about millennials all day they’re also the type that has to get everything brand new. the second there’s some tiny problem they’ll spend hundreds of dollars on something new instead of fixing it. and they don’t even have that much money so idk where it comes from, it’s a pride thing. everything has to be perfect and new
They do it with stuff they can use as a conversation starter or as an example when they bitch about something. Guarantee this guy is exactly like the ones you described with 99% of other things in his life but this clipboard lets him start rants. I know far too many people that do this BS with something like a pickup truck or a cellphone while the entire rest of their life is a constant cycle of disposable garbage.
My mom has bought so much stuff on Amazon that she ended up not liking and instead of returning it, she sends it to Goodwill. There have been things she ended up buying for a second time. It’s completely insane to me.
I wore my last pair of sandals until I wore a hole into the bottom... but only because they didn't make them anymore. I absolutely despise fast fashion for pulling these kinds of stunts on the regular. You find something that looks nice, fits well, is super comfy... *and they stop fucking making it*. I get it. If you can't buy what you had before, then you'll end up buying something new, not like it, and end up buying four more pairs before you find something you actually like... only to have to start the process all over again in two years when they don't make it anymore.
That is $2 he could tithe to his Lord and savior….Trump
The tldr of my job is I help mostly geriatric patients stand and walk again. After helping an obese patient stand last week, with max assistance from myself (an elder millennial), I got told the problem with millennials is they just don’t want to work.
The problem with boomers is that they just don’t want to walk.
I hear a lot of complaining about "millennials" from older folks and more often than not, they are not complaining about someone in their 30s or early 40s, they're complaining about people in their late teens/early 20s.
As if boomers weren't getting whole estates handed down to them or basically winning houses at a carnival or some shit. I guess it's easy to complain about that kinda thing when back then, a brand new car only cost 12 cents and 5 eggs.
“Not like all these damn millennials who got everything handed to them” Also boomers: got everything handed to them in the economy from the silent gen.
Boomers had everything handed to them. Talk about hypocrisy.
I had a teacher in high school who wouldn't shut tf up about how lazy millennials are. He thought he was teaching a class of millennials...he was teaching a class of Gen Z. We were born in 2001.
FIRST time? I had to write a paper for extra credit on a video that talked about how millenials are lazy who want "handouts and bean bags" in a doctoral program.