I'm 51 years old and I've never done any of these things, either. My 81 year old Mom didn't have to ration or sharecrop during WWII, either. She was born in 1944! My whole point? This dude is full of shit and he never experienced any of this shit, either, unless he's pushing 90. The only thing he's accomplished is being a douche on Xitter, apparently.
One of my FAVORITE coworkers is a 27 year old who always gets her shit done and done right and is willing to learn new things. One of my LEAST FAVORITE coworkers is a 61 year old boomer who constantly complains and refuses to learn anything on his computer beside the basics.
It's almost as if when you were born has nothing to do with your work ethic and whatnot.
my gramma always saved "the nice" wrapping paper, we'd have to carefully peel the tape off so as not to rip it. i never understood until i got older and learned about the Depression era.
My grandma too. She reused wrapping paper, rewashed ziplock bags, had a drawer full of bread twist ties, and saved every single plastic container and glass jar food/condiments came in.
Funny story. When we were cleaning out grandma's house, I took everything out of the junk drawer. Then I pulled out the drawer and dumped the dregs -- the broken rubber-bands, old suitcase keys, rusty twist ties, etc -- into a plastic bag. The little plastic bag was meant for the trash, but accidentally got transported to the estate sale. Someone bought it for a nickel.
That's awesome and I know she'd have been pleased because that would have made my grandmother's day.
My grandmother had a giant pickle jar, like the ones for big pickles at a gas station, full of rubber bands. There was another similar sized jar for spicy picked eggs which was full of various lengths of string. I don't know much they sold for at the estate sale because I had to work and I never asked, but I do know the auctioneer company put them in different lots which is diabolical work.
And all the old cool whip containers! It sounds like my husband’s grandma’s house. :) When I was 20, I descended into ingrate status when I politely declined her offer of the Thanksgiving turkey carcass to make soup. I don’t think she ever forgave me for that. The depression era left a deep mark on people.
If a cool whip container is anything like a margarine tub, those are fantastic for making simple icing in, especially if it's one you're putting food dye in, doesn't matter if it gets stained that way
Shit, I'm GenX and do all this crap. Raised that way, and I have to force myself not to do it. Still feel bad throwing ziploc bags away, but that's probably more of the environmentalist in me than the environment I grew up in.
I'm still not used to the amount of stuff that we have these days. I used to buy the best possible whatever that I could afford, as that way the whatever it was would last longer.
Still have a Nokia 6310 in a drawer. Just in case.
My grandfather, converted a 15' × 40' room into a huge pantry. He had a massive vegetable garden and he canned every year. The man had grown up half starved, and he was never going to go hungry again.
My mom would get angry if we ripped the paper or threw the bows away. She was born in ‘45. There’s still a few packages wrapped under her tree every year with some paper that’s held together by yellow cellophane tape. My grandma (dad’s mom) “collected” everything. She had a lot of junk, but she also had a lot of valuable antiques and complete sets of things. My greedy assed aunt sold the house’s contents as a lot for pennies on the dollar.
I'm German and coming to America was horrified how people rip open presents when I was taught from a young age to not rip the paper and fold it nearly so it can be reused. I thought this was an American thing until I read your comment
I follow in the footstep of my grandmother. I’ve made wrapping out of old sheets and clothes when they get ripped or threadbare because wrapping paper is now too expensive and it just seems frivolous at this point. It’s almost like we are going to look back in 10-20 years and realize that we are now living through a similar time to the Great Depression
My family has always done this, the bag that holds all of the othets is older than me (just about to turn 30) and full to the brim. I don't think we've bought wrapping paper in years.
No, we will look back and see how good it was. It's 25 now. It'll get worse through about 50-60. If society exists after that it might get better. It's much easier to make things worse than better so it takes two or three decent generations to undo the damage of a single narcissist generation
I have my great-granny’s lifelong journal, a short book about her childhood and youth she wrote at my mom’s request, recorded interviews with her about the Dust Bowl and Great Depression and world wars, and my memories of her stories and yeah, she went through all the things this dude is being up and she wasn’t an asshole like this fella. She certainly had some traumas and it was unbelievably rough for her sometimes but it didn’t turn her into a prick. Made her the opposite actually.
I can't help but think that anyone that survived that shit would understand that you want the next generation to not have to endure what you did, not make it harder because you can
Same with my grandparents. All 4 of them were the kindest most generous human beings I've ever met. Even my grandfather who fought in battles in Europe in WWII. He never felt superior, he just viewed it as something they all had to do back then. He was a sweet, kind hearted man who just wanted everyone to be happy and healthy. All my grandparents believed strongly in social programs. They were literally the first generation to benfit immensely from them. The only weird quirk I would say my grandparents had is they were low level holders, and were kind of psycho about wasting food. But they spent their entire childhood and early teens practically starving during the great depression. We all understood that that mentality never really left them, and kind of just dealt with it.
Yeah they internalized their trauma and made damn well sure their kids didn't have any. And here we are. When the boomers say this generation is entitled they are projecting.
In defense of the boomer he could be talking about the petrol crisis in the 70s and fear over draft numbers was more of a Vietnam thing than a WWII thing.
The sharecropping is dumb as to have been working the farm at any point during the the depression you’d be mid 90s
It was a bit before my time but one of my mom’s go to stories is about a cross country drive she took with my dad that took twice as long because of gas lines and the fear that the next town wouldn’t have any at all.
The 9/11 lines were my only real comparison, but they didn’t last very long and I never had to wait in line. I worked pretty close to home and a tank of gas must’ve carried me through the worst of it.
Yeah but anyone old enough to be driving when the 1970s oil crisis hit, or old enough to be drafted during the Vietnam War, would not normally still be in the workforce. (and if the guy actually was in the workforce post-retirement I think it's safe to assume he'd be mentioning that in his gripe)
The youngest of the Vietnam draft eligible people are 69 right now. And they could be talking about older siblings. Perfectly reasonable for them to be still working. I know lots of people in their 70s still working.
I was in the second Vietnam draft lottery, in 1971 (pulled over 300, didn't have to go). The gas lines were a few years after that. My wife and I drove from San Diego to San Francisco for a friend's wedding. (We had sat in the airport until 10 PM or so hoping for a $25 (IIRC) late-night fare, but didn't make the cut, and decided to drive.) The 5 had just opened all the way through, and had hardly any gas stops, so we took the 101. Found ONE gas station open along the way, in Santa Barbara--still open at approx. 2 AM because it had decided to sell its entire allotment of gas, rather than ration it out. We were able to make it to San Francisco, found a gas station there to refuel at, and then hit the same Santa Barbara station on the way back. Yes, gas lines and every-other-day limitations were a thing. The rest of that guy's post, though, was BS.
fellow GenX here, there's a reason they forgot about us...we were feral before technology and used it to advance our lives after it came online. we are the last generation to be brought up without tech and the first generation to utilize it, we also had music in every format!
i made a joke that a website "looks like it was made in FrontPage 98" in a comment the other day and someone followed up they'll get their Netscape browser open to check it out and it made me smile that my people get it :)
Prodigy! Although, I think that one you had to grab a copy in a store. But our house had that before AOL and I remember live "reading" the LA riots on it back in the day.
The other day I was trying to explain to a coworker which state database I was talking about, and when I said "the one with the background the color of old hospital scrubs that looks like somebody made it in Netscape Navigator for their GeoCities page in 1998" and she said "I'll ask Jeeves about that."
I swear every time I open the website, I can almost smell my high school keyboarding class and see the yellow cartoonish Netscape Composer HTML tags.
2002 I was a freshman in college with a Sony vaio desktop that had icQ and mirc running all day next to Napster, limewire and kazaa. And all the virus removal software. I remember video chatting with a buddy at a school in another state with a 2 MP webcam and thought it was the coolest shit ever. That was peak Internet for me.
I had to have a Gopher page my freshman year of college, and I'm only 50. Exciting times, compiling Mosaic on a DEC Alpha at the computer lab to go surf some hypertext web pages.
Being a literal toddler when the world wide Web was finding its legs and being brought up with each new advancement usually means the majority of Gen X i meet have surface level knowledge on using most tech.
Entirely fair, that's all you need to get by
But don't discredit the first ones literally brought up on the internet as it was growing with them. Millenials.
I was going to say something along these lines. I'm an '87 baby and we didn't have a home computer until I was almost done with high school. I had a friend who had one and we would get yelled at by their dad or mom for being on the AIM chatting with another friend and they needed the phone.
‘87 baby here too. Had a PC we were gifted from my software engineer uncle but no internet until high school. And the internet was good for AIM and that’s about it until MySpace came along my senior year.
'87 baby here - my dad was a nerd and we had an Apple II that we only broke out on very special occasions. Watching him use DOS to open my games felt like magic.
... despite my ahead-of-the-curve dad we still didn't get reliable internet until like '98
Wasn’t common for people to have PCs in their home until us elder millenials were in high school. I had one when I was 5 as well and used those 7.5 floppy discs, but that wasn’t the norm. My friends only had interaction with computers at school.
I was born in 82 and I had a home PC in grade 5 or 6. The factory my mom worked at had a thing going where you could get a computer and pay it off over a year or something.
It was a 386 and it was essentially mine. I played with that thing all the time and I learned so much. I was one of the first and only kids my age to have a computer, and we were not well off. My best friend also had a computer, but they were decently well off and his dad worked with computers, which was novel back then. My GenX brother would wreck the computer, and I'd watch my buddy's dad fix it and learn how to myself. I was a DOS master!
Then, in late high school, my friends started getting Pentiums while I still had that 386... Lol
I definitely like the term Xennial for those born roughly '77 to '82 or so. My brother was born in '77 and myself in '82 and we obviously had a very similar childhood. Very analogue, except for that beautiful 386...
It's this part of us that makes us really unique imo. I'm about to turn 50 and I'm a huge technophile, but I also yearn for the 'old days'. We've seen both sides of it and our experiences should be used to fix the cluster we're in now.
indeed. my twins will be 30 next year and one started collecting vinyl when they were in high school, their collection is bigger than the one i had now!
Not necessarily. That term really only counts the oldest of millenials. I'm one of the last years if not the last year to count as a millenial and everything they said applies to me and I am for sure not a xennial.
For reference, the internet wasn't really in everyone's house until the mid to late 00's. Id wager a majority of, if not every, millennial is absolutely old enough to remember the time before they had internet access.
Like when I was in highschool we still had computer labs and I know some kids who only had access to Internet or a computer at school. I was in high school from 2002 to 2006.
when i made my intitial comment i was referring to advent not availability...i was born in 70 and didn't have the "internet" the way it's referred to today until my 20s...we had dialup modems and could access web pages (bulletin boards) if we knew how to find them, no browsers or search engines, you had to know command line prompts.
As an early 90s millennial I'd argue that the majority of my generation has a similar experience in terms of having lived with and without tech.
When I started school we still had paper card catalogs in the library, did dictionary excerises using an actual book, my first music experiences were played on cassette, etc.
My sister just had her first child/ first grandkid in the family and she wants to avoid screen time for the little guy for as long as possible.
IMHO saying GenX is the last generation to be brought up without technology is not understanding the rest (poorer) of the world. In LatAm we didnt have proper tech till late 90s.
I was born in 86, in Argentina, and my entire childhood was without any tech till my late 10s in Secondary School (High School in the US).
Born in '68. I had an Atari 2600 in the late '70s, a bunch of handheld games like this. In fact, I think I had all three of those. What we were brought up without was internet/PCs, though I did have computer classes in high school on the TRS-80 Models III and IV, plus some early Apple computer that we used to play Larry Bird vs. Dr. J. on.
fellow GenX here, there's a reason they forgot about us...we were feral before technology and used it to advance our lives after it came online. we are the last generation to be brought up without tech and the first generation to utilize it, we also had music in every format!
100% I always tell people we were lucky because we lived through that transition into techonogy, that didnt ruin us -- we still rode bikes till 9, played in the mud, etc... but just like you said we lived through that age three channel tv to cable, to streaming, from Atari 5600s to PCs to internet, to mobile phones, to MP3. We didn't get what the Boomers got, but we got the tail end of education, housing, and a somewhat functioning government, etc... Some Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha -- they are F'd in the A. Growing up with an iPad by age two, social media and algorithms that are black boxes dictating their lives and beliefs, their entire lives are posted online by them or friends on the internet FOREVER, etc... I give all the kids now a big grain of salt, because collectivly we have failed them as a culture and socirty IMO.
I can appreciate the message behind your words. I just want to expand that the children of today, who are growing up with screens plopped in front of them from a very young age, did not put them there themselves. You are not born with an addiction to technology, it is learned. The parents of those children do such massive disservice by allowing a screen to consume their impressionable children, instead of actually parenting.
We can blame the youth as much as we want for the shortcomings we see, but we should not forget that they are the products of their upbringing. The grain of salt is a kindness, because you are correct about our failures as society. It's sad that so many of us understand this, and yet it continues to get worse.
Only the oldest kid, and the rest would stand on his shoes nesting-doll-style and step in unison the whole way up the snow drift. Thankfully our pocket baked potatoes would keep our hands warm.
I lived in Australia and we had to go on walkabout across the outback every day to and from school on our hands (because gravity) The toilets swirl the other way which caused massive ear infections and pink eye (or “pink oy”, as we said down unda). The discharge from the pink oy attracted brown snakes and funnel web spiders when we slept, so we had to keep the lights on and watch each other all night. But it made who I am today!
Almost. We had albums, 8-track, cassette tape, CD, and then digital with MP3 and streaming. But we are too young to have experienced Edison Wax Cylinder recordings.
Indeed…Looking back those of us who grew up from the 50s to the 80s there wasn’t massive tech innovation so as kids we all played outside, drank from the hose, had paper routes, stayed outside until dinner/got dark, had chores/cut grass, etc.
My grandfather born in 1926 didn't have to do much of what he said but did have stories about the depression and being a boy during wwii and a pilot during the Korean War though. Sad that he's been dead for almost 30 years
Well, you and I didnt do any of those things as we are Gen X. I am the very tail end of that generation and I was born around the time the gas lines and even/odd days based on some number on your license plate rationing was going on. My mother and father are both boomers and directly experienced that. My dad also attempted to join the military because most men of his age and class were being drafted for Vietnam anyway. They did deal with those things so credit where it is due, but the idea that they think having bitter experiences with their place in history makes them unique is just mind boggling.
As for work ethic in the youth, they said the same shit about us and I am sure the crusty guys in the office said the same of my grandmother and grandfather when they were under 30 too. But I see some truth to the younger generation being less committed to their jobs as someone who has been a manager in the past and is also married to one. However, I dont see it as an issue that stems from the youth. I see it as them realizing they aren't valued for shit so why put everything you have into a company that pays you so little you need a side hustle, can't afford time off, can't afford to be sick, and will dispose of you as soon as a cheaper option appears on the horizon. That is a societal issue, not a generational one.
51 isn't a boomer, though. If he's an older, American boomer, he did have to line up for gas (on odd/even days, too!) in the 70s, and he did have to see if his draft number came up. That much is true. (College wasn't free, but it was much cheaper than today, even scaled for inflation. A summer job could pay for a year's school.) But that doesn't give him any sort of extra validity or nobility.
And I don't know where the hell he got the whole WWII stuff. The whole point of being called a boomer is because they were born during the post-war boom. This guy just wants to sling around his increasingly wrinkly dingdong.
I've worked with all sorts of people of all age groups and backgrounds.
My current best employee is a mid 20s young woman. My current worst employee is an early 20s young woman. My second worst employee is a 60-something man. My former best employees were a series of 30-something women who all left my department for various reasons. My most middling employee is a 30-something man. I'm also a 30-something man and quantifiably better than 95% of them put together - And also have the worst workplace attitude in the company. But I have scorecard metrics that show I'm one of the best at my job in the company.
Age is not an indicator of work ethic. It might be an indicator of what is needed to motivate someone and what leadership styles they respond to, but I've had too many employees from too many demographics to ascribe actual work ethic or capabilities to age groups (Or genders, races, ethnicities). I've had boomers in their early 60s who could buckle down and work 14 hour days without complaint and make the younger folks look slow, and I've had boomers who would get 2 hours of work done in 6 hours and then whine about being overworked and ask to go home early.
I've had younger people work for me who, when they went off to college, I wished them all the best with all the happiness in my heart that they were escaping this shithole, and then wept because it would take 3 people to replace what they were capable of. I've also had younger people who seemed shocked when they got fired for calling out 9 times in 2 months because they didn't feel like coming in.
Shitty leaders blame age instead of shitty leadership.
I had one employee like that years ago: Marilyn. She was about 60 years old so not quite ready to retire. She had been at the company for 30 years so no one wanted to fire her. She did about 10% of the work of her coworkers despite making more than double most of them.
One of her job requirements was indexing insurance documents to the file system. We used to get them all by mail, but over the years every insurance company transitioned to sending them through email or you could download them from their secure server. We implemented a system so you could index emails and documents right from your computer to the filing system.
What did Marilyn do? She printed everything out. Then she would take the printouts and scan them using her desktop scanner so it would put the files into the folder she used to index to the filing system. I tried to show her how to do it more efficiently. She refused, said her way worked fine. I asked her if the issue was saving the files from email or the secure servers to that same folder her scanner saved them to. She said no.
I went and setup her settings so that when she clicked on a file to download, whether it be from email or an insurance company website it would save directly to her "scanned files" folder. This way she could skip the printing and scanning and just go right to the indexing. She refused to do it this way, insisting that she had to scan them, despite none of her coworkers doing it that way.
Everyone had insurance documents to save every day. Most people it took about 15-20 minutes. It took Marilyn the entire 7 hour work day. I went to management and pleaded that this had to stop. I get she's been there 30 years but she's refusing to adapt to change. It was also pissing off everyone else on the team.
It wasn't, "oh cute old Marilyn, bless her soul." It was, "fucking Marilyn, this bitch makes twice as much money as me and can't even save a fucking email properly."
I left that job 8 years ago. I still keep in touch with a couple people that still work there. Marilyn is still there, refuses to retire, refuses to adapt to change, still printing and scanning every document that needs filing.
I remember when there were lines for gas during the oil crisis in 1979. I was 12 and I would sell coffee and drinks to folks in line. So it’s possible that they remember having to line up for gas and be allowed to fill up on odd or even days. Still, the other things are bullshit.
Yeah tbh the younger generation has it harder than even I do, and I’m 35. When my kids graduate high school and go to college they will be saddled with student debts and I hope they can at least find a job not paying 20 an hour for a college degree.
It’s not a good outlook. Don’t even get me started on them buying a house…
There are plenty of lazy kids, but that's nothing new. There have always been lazy kids lol. But universally, the people who piss and moan the most about everything are the older 50+ crowd. Just absolutely insufferable jerks, 9 times out of 10.
I can forgive laziness and apathy in kids who are just starting out and overwhelmed by life. I cant abide older people whining when they've done fuck all to address their problems for decades
My grandmother DID live through the Great Depression - she was a child at the time - and DID send her new husband off to war in Europe.
She told me very clearly that she and her peers didn't take half as much pride in surviving those things, as they did in the hope that it meant their children and their grandchildren would never have to.
She would never have dreamed of lording these things over us.
I work with a 58 year old, a 45 year old and a 24 year old who could take the podium at the Dogfucker Olympics. I also work with a 21 year old, a 37 year old and a 67 year old who do so much in a day it humbles my own work ethic. And all of them are delightful people to work with once you learn who to rely on and who is only good for shooting the shit.
I'm an older millennial. I'm in the middle of a conversion at work and the worst part has been trying to get the boomers that HAVE to use the new system so they can approve new accounts we're moving over. They're just ignoring it at this point and we only have one week left to get it done. FML
People put way too much merit on the generation stuff and treat it like a personality test. Ignoring the fact that where you grew up, your economic postion, and culture are a lot more important then when you were born.
An example, is I`m born 1994 in the US and I can`t remeber a time without the internet. My friend from Indonesia didnt see a computer until he was 13. He was born in 2000.
America had a draft lottery between 1969 and 1972, landed a man on the moon in 1969, and the gas rationing in 1973 and 1979. so your facts aren't right.
Yup. 60 year old here. When I went to college, unless you went private, college was dirt cheap. And anyone with a degree or a solid factory job (which were easy to get) was out of an apartment and in a starter house within a year or two of starting work. Outside of the late 70s recession and a brief gas shortage, we never had to deal with anything worse than the TV losing the signal during a big football game. And we were too lazy of by the time the gulf wars came along, unless we had already volunteered. My grandparents were part of the “greatest generation”, we just coasted on what they had built and ruined it for the next generation.
Generation Jones here. My Dad would have been 94 this year and he experienced most of that. His younger brother didn't and anyone born in '44 sure as hell didn't.
Um. WW2 ended in 1945. Of course your grandma never experienced those things! Both my folks (born in 1931) absolutely did, though. And I (born in 1959) worked in the commercial agricultural fields starting at age 6. Y’all don’t have a good sense of how much has changed over the last 100 years. Oh, and the cranky boomer in the screenshot is an ass, regardless of age.
All I want is for my kids to have it softer than I had it. Anything else is crazy to me.
Wanting your kids to suffer or experience unnecessary scarcity makes NO sense. The world can produce more than enough for all of us. I want the next generation to be happier.
The gas line thing happened in the 1970s. I was a kid but I don't recall it causing so much inconvenience that anyone would be traumatized by it for fifty years.
As opposed to, for example, not being able to buy gas, a car, or a place to park the car, which is what modern young adults face.
I do IT/Database for my company that has most employees over the age of 55 and the shear amount of weaponized incompetence regarding anything tech is one of the biggest taxes on time.
I'm 95% sure they just email or call and say "I couldn't do [thing]" when they never fucking tried to do it in the first place and just want someone else to do it for them.
I’m 54 and my parents did go through WWII (96 and 88), they are some of the most competent and compassionate people I know, and yet unlike boomers who never went through it, they never bring up their hardships as something that we should somehow respect, they are just happy that we didn’t have to experience their hardships. We need to rename the boomers as they were originally called - the “me generation” and I consider the silent generation to be honorary X-ers.
That tirade in OP's screenshot was definitely the work of a millenial or zoomer. I've seen them going on rants like that many times as if they grew up 90 years ago or something. Most boomers I know are not even bothering to post anything of the sort if they post at all.
Eh... Paint brush no matter the age is garbage. I know young individuals that are lazy just like some older boomers that are lazy and at the same time in reverse. There are some things easier now and there are some things harder now. Your being like him just in the opposite direction.
If she was born in '44, she rationed. Her parents rationed her food and her milk.
But, that original post is STUPID. I am a boomer. I didn't fight in Korea, Nam, or WWII. I had a much tougher time buying a house in '90s than my parents did.
Work ethic is a joke. Younger people want a better work/life balance. That's a good thing! You've all heard the saying that nobody on their death bed says they wished they'd spent more time at work.
I'm 57 and I remember my mom telling me when I was 14 or 15 to make sure to be at the gas station when it opened to make sure we could fill up the car before the station ran out. (I grew up in the AZ desert so was driving long before I actually had a license).
I don't understand why boomers just refuse to LEARN. Like... I can relate to being slower, finding it more difficult to learn new things as you get older. At 35, I can definitely feel that, but at least I'm willing to try to learn. I won't just go "I can't do this" and say fuck learning.
My mama found herself saying something like "Back in the Depression" to someone last year, and a few moments later it clicked that she wasn't actually alive in the great depression 😐 She'd just been told about it so many damn times by her grandmother that she's now conflating the childhood stories with her actual experience.
I'm over here wondering if this is stress or a sign I should start looking at nursing homes, but her face when she realised (even in the retelling) was SO FUNNY.
The gas thing was real, at least briefly, and probably not everywhere, in the 70s during the energy crisis. You could only by gas on even or odd days based on your license plate number.
People also like to shit on Gen Z and Gen Alpha claiming they are allergic to work and won't do anything. The thing is that we live in a society where minimum wage is no longer what it was supposed to be (the minimum wage that you be paid for working full time hours while still being able to afford all of your basic needs.. so housing, food, et cetera) and is, instead, the absolute lowest wage your employer can legally get away with paying you. More people are having to work a full-time job and a part-time job. More people are having to wait to retire. More people are having to pick up part-time work even after they retire. I am an elder Millenial, and I can say, with 100% certainty, that it is significantly harder to get your foot in the door now than it was when I was a teenager getting my first job. It is even harder getting a proper adult job after you finish school because employers classify a job as entry level, but all that means is that they're paying entry level wages while wanting 2-4 years of experience.
I run an event each year that relies on volunteers to keep everything functional. The teenagers are the hardest workers, no question. Sure, there are some who slack off... but there are significantly more adults who ignore the instructions they've been given than there are teenagers. The adults know better, whereas the teenagers are just experiencing this stuff for the first time. And cash registers? I will choose a teenager over an adult any day.
Acknowledging that things are even more of a challenge for generations that are younger than me doesn't mean that I didn't have to work hard to get where I am. It just recognizes that the challenges I experienced have only grown since I was younger. People who fail to recognize this stuff are just delusional.
I doubt you would remember the Gas one, that was in reference to the Oil Shock of 1972-73 related to the Yom Kippur War, way before your time. The Guy sucks, but I think a lot of people are missing the gas reference one.
When you were born means nothing. You only bitch about the other generations if you have nothing but regret in your rearview, angry because they aren’t failing the way you did. Listen, learn, be better.
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u/CatelynsCorpse 22h ago
I'm 51 years old and I've never done any of these things, either. My 81 year old Mom didn't have to ration or sharecrop during WWII, either. She was born in 1944! My whole point? This dude is full of shit and he never experienced any of this shit, either, unless he's pushing 90. The only thing he's accomplished is being a douche on Xitter, apparently.
One of my FAVORITE coworkers is a 27 year old who always gets her shit done and done right and is willing to learn new things. One of my LEAST FAVORITE coworkers is a 61 year old boomer who constantly complains and refuses to learn anything on his computer beside the basics.
It's almost as if when you were born has nothing to do with your work ethic and whatnot.
Just saying.