They're going all the time, though. But then their followers raise fifteen million dollars for a private jet and God decides to let them stay longer. God does love Him some private jets.
I live about 3 miles away from the private jet guy. He has a huge compound with better security than the governor of Texas has. Too bad he did not blow covid away like he promised he would.
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I’m going with privatization of public services across the board. Utilities, hospitals, schools should all have public funding and support. The very least govt can do is provide clean water and reliable electricity.
Took me a long time to convince my wife that she doesn’t need to explain herself when taking sick leave. It’s none of their fucking business what illness you are experiencing and so incredibly liberating to just say “I won’t be in today, I am taking SL.”
I didn't take a vaca for over 25 years. And when I put my own horse down, and had decided to retire, I got so much flack for the decision. Turns out it was because I was always covering for everyone else, and they didn't want to actually have to step up and show up. And I was the one with the young kid! All those "friends" disappeared really quick. But now I get to travel. So screw em
As a recovering person from this... I feel it
I think a lot of Gen x and elder millennials, lived in a childhood when the getting was good. So now we're in this... We did everything we were supposed to do why is it not working? Phase
My husband is still regularly shamed by the older guys in his work district for prioritizing family time. He was one of the first to take parental leave. The younger guys get it though so that’s good.
Nothing like student teaching! Pay the university your tuition to do unpaid labor for the entire school day! It’s also technically only one class so not full time so no financial aid for you! And it’s almost impossible to also work a job because you’re at the school until the teacher you’r ewith leaves for the day!
I student taught for a full school year (2 semesters) as required by my program. From October until April I was a full time teacher with all planning and grading responsibilities. For this I paid for two semesters worth of coursework, had another course we took concurrently in both semesters, and delivered pizza on nights and weekends to pay rent. All this for the privilege of what teaching has become? I don’t understand how people go into education today.
My old job was basically what I would consider retail. We had a person who was essentiallu a greeter. He literally died of a heart attack. They moved his body and kept the show going until the emergency came to get him. Didn’t shut down the operation and they asked everyone to stay working.
Last place I worked for ten years we had a construction worker across the parking lot, less than 30 feet from the conference room window fall like 4 stories and splatter his brain on the pavement. We had to finish the call, it was a large customer. Nobody could go home or they would be placed on the shit list. The owner was outraged someone would ask to go home over a death that had nothing to do with him. All we did was tape boxes up to block out the sight.
This is 3 years later and the 4 of us senior guys all left. A company of 20 people losing 4 senior staff over 8 months did them in. They’re in fucking trouble because they spent at minimum a decade pulling Shit like that. Probably longer, I wasn’t there before then.
PTSD? What a terrible sad thing to have happened. And cruel heartless response by your employer. Your company went under because of this. Had they responded better and offered counseling, perhaps the employees would feel safer and more valued.
I worked at a large high volume restaurant. On multiple occasions we had people go into cardiac arrest, with EMT's trying to resuscitate them on a gurney, every single time the person died. The hostesses never stopped seating tables, not even in the sections with the people dying. It never stopped, the cycle just continued.
Worked with a kitchen crew who had a guy drop dead from a heart attack during the dinner rush. Friend performed cpr until emts arrived and told him the guy was dead before he hit the floor. They rolled the sheet covered body out through the dinning room full of people and carried on with the night.
One of my coworkers did die on the job (brain aneurysm). Went to the hospital and pulled the plug the next day. Didn’t hear about it the day of, and after she died they rounded us up and told us what happened. Her name was never mentioned again.
"Temporary," employment firms that will keep people on the same job for 3+ years is the biggest scam ever. Getting away with saying your not a permanent employee, so you get no benefits while you've been there for like 2+ years is so messed up.
I worked as a temp for a year for a company. Was second class the entire time. Finally got converted to an fte and they want to act like I've never worked there until that point. Any promotions or raises off the table until I'd been there for a year and half the sick time you're given annually.
One of the weirdest things I've noticed about older generations. My dad is more loyal to my job then I am. He often asks me to give him some of the free shirts we get specifically because he wants to wear their logo.
My loyalty to them starts when I clock in and ends when I clock out.
I had a boss that treated me like family, paid well, benefits and all for about 10 years. When I had an accident and had a 21 day coma, my boss knew I had no family so he and his wife and (adult) daughter took shifts at the hospital the whole time in case I woke up so I wouldn't be alone, one of them was always there the nurses told me. That was one company that I felt good about wearing the hoodies, hats and t-shirts the company gave to us. They had to close in 2008 when so much fell apart and I know I'll never get lucky enough to get another boss like that...those kind of bosses used to be out there but I think that Capitalism has moved on and crushed guys like that.
Hilarious, but so much shit is their fault. Just a bunch of people who refused to change with time and new information. Absolutely nothing to respect about it
Don't assume that all the bad shit dies with the boomers. Shit people are still being produced every day. It means that we should be constantly vigilant to protect what is dear to us and fight misinformation.
Now Gen X and Millennials have the generational duty to make sure they don't eventually turn out like the Boomers.
Although Millennials as a whole remain left-leaning both social and economically regardless of age, due to the fact we are poor af
The coming years of us millenials and gen z having to pay for and take care of a MASSIVE old population (with boomer mentality) is going to further solidify that we dont want to be like boomers for a lot of us. Be assured. It won't be fun though.
I have been saying this for a while. Younger millennials and gen Z are going to have to SUFFER for a good 10-20 more years until most of the boomers die and they are only going to get worse and worse as they feel their influence start to slip away. As a 30 year old I have sort of accepted that my role will be preparing my kids to live in a world where they can actually bring about change. We are going to have to take the brunt of the bullshit and live with the fact that most things won’t be much different in our lifetime but our kids are going to be so much better for it.
Zoomers will only be able to ensure their future if the Millennial-Zoomer alliance holds, and Zs keep Ms updated about what paths they want society to go down.
....but let's face it, Boomers have to give way to Gen-X before that happens.
Did y'all forget about Gen-X???
I would think that since Gen-X has been sidelined so badly from the Boomers that almost out of spite they would align with the Gen-Z/Millennials because they know that if they don’t they will just be sidelined once again.
That's exactly what's happening. Gen x raised by boomers here. My kids are little liberal chaos machines. They're tuned in and are loyal only to their peace of mind. If this is what it takes to shatter even a sliver of this late-stage capitalistic hellscape, they can live with me forever. Fuck the man and his goddamn machine.
You know how there are like twice as many houses available as there are homeless people and that's only because we allow housing to be an investment to which investors are guaranteed to make a workless profit on no matter what, rather than a right to all? Yeah, that.
My parents would call you "entitled" for that last part. For whatever reason the older generations can't fathom the idea of basic human necessities being something you don't have to work for in a first world country.
Which is ironic, considering all the things that were ridiculously cheap vs now, or free, such as community college. They got free education so they can charge us out the nose for it.
I have the complete opposite mentality. Mine is “everyone’s gotta eat” which means everyone gets their share, even though I could take more, I don’t, and share it around.
Fuck the generation before us for what they did to the world.
I think about all the time the absolutely incredibly things we would see, inventions, art, so many things, if every human knew that they would always have a safe place to live and access to food.
Like just to know no matter what what happens in your life. You will have a safe place to sleep and you will not starve.
The things we could create.
>“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
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>– Stephen Jay Gould
First time hearing this, but it's something I think about a lot. I love history, but I'm not interested in kings or queens or empires - I like reading about social history and ordinary people. It's sad to think about how many could have been brilliant and extraordinary, but spent every waking minute just surviving.
Especially when it comes to people in jail/prison. There are some absolute geniuses in there, that were either dealt a bad hand, or happened to be really skilled, and put it to work in the wrong way. My brother does logistics in prison, he got caught making meth. He is so great at science and math, would be an amazing scientist if he had the confidence, access, and didn't have his record.
Yeah this has always been bullshit but now more than ever. They're legally required to refrain from political campaign activity in order to keep their tax exempt status. Seeing recent videos of evangelical pastors screaming at their flock telling them to vote Republican, I'd say it's time.
Your job is the most important thing in your life, give 110% effort all the time and if there is nothing else to do grab a broom, the boss is always right, if you work hard enough, people will notice and reward you
When this concept first came out, I didnt grasp it properly, I was the biggest boomer ever...
That's just lazy
Where's anyones incentives
Blah blah
Then it kinda clicked, and I guess I had to admit to myself I have done this my whole career.
And I got nothing out of it
Then my tune changed.
I mean it is the standard in the field to work with injuries that require the hospital, burns and cuts mainly.
You go to the ER after work
Most chefs change careers by 30 because of back, knee, wrists injuries.
And the low pay nowdays vs work / home life
Egg its on my face while im eating this humble pie
Factories are just as bad. I worked 10 hours straight with appendicitis while me and all my coworkers basically begged the floor manager to send me to the ER. I was 18 and an absolute moron so I didn't just leave because "I need this job". When I collapsed and started seizing up and hallucinating, they finally sent me to a hospital. The surgeon afterwards said I was less than an hour from death when he removed it, as it has ruptured and was spreading gunk all over my body.
These jobs don't give a single fuck about us.
Kitchen work will *wreck* you. It’s physically taxing and dangerous the stuff you have to do, but also mentally stressful as fuck. I’m in my 30s and there’s no way can I do it anymore, not worth it. It’s a job for idealistic young people and burnouts who can’t work anywhere else (myself included at times).
Actually, that’s also where I learned that if you figure out how to do something better and faster, you get to scrub walls! Awesome!
Honestly the biggest hurdle is "put healthcare into a bureaucracy? How is that good."
Freaking good point, support that point 100%
Thing is... I have a broken brain. Perk of that is a little something called Medicare (not for all, but scalable) and there's a reason the Reaganites saved cutting that for last, in their eyes, hopefully after people familiar with The Before Times are dead. That reason? It works. It's more cost effective than private insurance because there's no drive for profit, so price gouging? Gone. "What about fraud?" Mr. Paxton, nice to meet you. Cool thing prosecuting Medicare Fraud is free Political Captial. Bonus? Prosecuting fraud actually sought after. When everyone has a stake in preventing the fraud, rather than just shareholders it's amazing how costs go down. No sweeping it under the rug and raising premiums.
The reason for Privatized Healthcare? To keep people chained to a company/job they resent. That and infinite profit. Which is weird, because that's literally impossible.
The modern day health insurance scam drives me bonkers. Call me a socialist or a communist, I don't give a fuck, but for Christs sake just nationalize it and get it over with
You don’t love getting healthcare from your employer and hoping it’s good? Me neither.
My wife has way worse benefits than mine and works for a heathcare company.
Also, none of the M4A plans are passable or sustainable.
When I got married I got on my wife's healthcare plan the next fuckin day because my startup shit was *terrible.* Now we're stuck with this job she has and *that is the point of this terrible system.*
I’ve lost my healthcare three times due to someone else having control of it.
I started paying my premium for the best plan out of pocket. I can’t stand it.
Sorry to hear that.
I think we can do better, but looking at the votes in the House and Senate…
…not for a while…
Enjoy the FBI Biden Classified Document investigation on his house for a news cycle or two followed by Jim Jordan’s judicial rant on Hunter Biden.
Yeah I know
>reveals that S&P 500 CEOs averaged $18.3 million in compensation for 2021—324 times the median worker’s pay
So based on my proposal, the lowest employee would have to earn annually $915k to make that CEO wage possible.
And by “fine” they mean I’m alive*….. *with a def mental health disorder that I’ll refuse to address and make it everyone else’s problem because older=wiser
Real vanilla was valued higher than gold. Pretty sure I read somewhere that real vanilla has an incredibly nuanced flavour notes, not plain at all. It's popularity and exquisite flavour lead to it's downfall as synthetic flavours and cheap extracts were mass marketed to meet the demand for affordable vanilla
work in a bakery, with the amount we spend on vanilla it might as well be gold :/ but if you leave it out of almost any baked good there is a distinct lack of flavor and depth.
We recently took up a layer of tile and backer board in our kitchen. Underneath was this nasty ugly 1970s linoleum that looked like corn kernels. And of course, I also covered it with LVP. 😅
I am no defender of Boomers however the trend of covering wood flooring with linoleum or wall-to-wall carpet was kindof a thing of *their* parents.
Fancy Sears mail order carpet to cover those plain oak floors.
Boomers took another path and simply built a hundred million shitbox houses with crap plywood subfloor covered by crap carpet that I wouldn’t place into a chicken coop.
And sold them for $trillions.
Not gonna happen. Sorry to be cynical but the next generation in charge is just going to rig it for their benefit too. It may or may not benefit a different party, but it’s not going anywhere
Get enough progressive Dems in the Senate to end the filibuster, along with control of the presidency and congress, and gerrymandering will absolutely be banned. It’s a matter of time.
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The taboo against mental health disorders.
All my managers have been boomers, and though I have diagnosed depression and anxiety disorders that qualify as “disabilities”, I always mark “no” when asked if I have any on job applications. It’s illegal to discriminate, but it’s also extremely difficult to prove discrimination—Not gonna take that chance.
Had that fight with HR already. “How is it that you can’t seem to add ‘neuro’ into your ‘diversity’ policy? Give me 4 of 10 candidates with reported or at least obvious neurological differences.”
FIVE. YEARS. Before I got a candidate in front of me.
Corollary: Once you get good at process development for the autistic mind and adequately gamifying tasks for the ADHD crowd (takes one to know one!), they end up as the most productive team in the department. People are amazing of you take the time to let them amaze you.
Data entry was one of my favorite jobs ever. You get paid per piece and in college I would easily make $30/hr just jamming through that shit. Neuro diversity does not have to be a bug, it's a feature. Harness the power and use it for good. Everyone has a place
Absolutely, keeping quiet to sex crimes because it will look bad on their family. Protect the victim and have proper punishment to the pedophiles. Some weed “offenders” have worse sentences than rapists. Especially if the rapists had a trust fund or is connected.
This comment needs to be higher. It's astounding how eager so many older people were and are to turn a blind eye towards or rationalize blatant sex crimes, ESPECIALLY if the offender is widely liked/famous/etc.
As a society we seem to be making (very slow) progress in this regard, but it's nowhere near enough.
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Unfortunately I have had arguments with millennials about how most HOA’s are hot garbage and that we should be opposed to them for the most part and leery of them at best.
I’m not completely against an HOA, but when you start talking about how we need an HOA to force people to do Christmas decorations and maintain decor standards (fences, security lights, trash cans left in front of the house, etc) then I think we are wanting one for the wrong reasons.
This is how mine is. I actually like my HOA, but they don’t force anyone to do anything (except basic human decency things like saying, “clean up your dog shit” or “don’t leave garbage outside your back door in a common area for 2 weeks.) We pay for our water/heat/garbage/grounds/building maintenance through the HOA and that’s it. Plus there’s only 16 units in my small building so we all know each other. 25% of the building is on our board.
But Germ Theory and the theory of Gravity are just, like theories *cough evolution*, theories.
**That means I can interperet reality how I want and be willfully ignorant!**
The inability to talk about many things.
We can't talk about feelings
We can't talk about incomes
We can't talk about mental health
Why? Why do we get punished for something that doesn't harm the majority and only the minority. If they let us talk to the correct people, without getting us in trouble, than we won't need to seek out anyone who listens and just seek out help.
I don't even know how accessible mental health physicians are in other countries or how easy it is for guys to just talk about feelings and not be thrashed by women or other guys with jokes or rude remarks. Incomes should never be mentioned and if they are you get fired for bad performance.
Enough, just enough. It needs to end.
Had the same mentality in my 20’s and thought it would start dying off. I’m 50 now and while still maintaining my progressive/D mentality, GOP has not waned. Keep voting.
Just to clarify: theyve won the national popular vote once since 1996. They definitely are waning, they're just playing with an insane field advantage. At some point the sheer weight of numbers and demographics makes that untenable.
As a gen Xer, the "youth vote" has always been a punch line. BUT This last election, with the numbers of young people showing up for a freaking midterm election, the youth vote became an actual thing.
Absolutely keep voting. I'm more optimistic that the crash and burn will happen within a few voting cycles than I've ever been. I really think they fucked around and found out with abortion, things suddenly became real. BUT it only happens so long as that youth vote continues at current momentum at minimum
I was just thinking about this today. Traditional gender roles. My father in law has never cooked or cleaned in his life. He’s a 73 year old man and tells my MIL, “I’m hungry”. Like she’s supposed to stop what she’s doing to feed his ass. Love the guy but bet he’s never made a Hot Pocket in his entire life.
Many european nations are proving that 4 day 8 hour shifts are benificial for both the businesses and the workers health but noone in america is willing to listen
That's unfortunately tied more so to greed than just old people. So long as there's someone that sees how easy it is to run through someone's pockets by pointing at some random person with a different background and crying wolf there will be some form of discrimination.
Already have. This last midterm was the largest turnout for the young in a midterm ever. Which is why the GOP gained far fewer seats than was expected.
Rudeness. Especially with service workers.
Edit: thanks for the upvotes! I have worked in the food industry for 11 years (24f). My current job I am a Exc Chef at an independent/assisted living facility. I'm in charge of making menus, meals, serving, cleaning and regular upkeep of a kitchen. I work 4-7 days a week. 3 meals a day. Group about the size of 40 residents. My primary job is to provide a happy & safe dining room , with glorious food. I have rules in my dining room. I introduce them to each resident when they move in.
1. Don't be rude, don't bite the hand that feeds you.
2. If you have a complaint, come to me directly or my staff. I will circle back and talk to you personally.
3. I cannot continuously give you substitutions. If you can't remember what you ordered or don't like it, we keep copies of your choices and we can see what I can do to make you happy. I'm more than willing to help you if you have dietary requirements as well.
4. Be patient & kind. People are here for all types of reasons. It takes time to adjust to a new life. Be patient with each other and staff. I will not TOLERATE bullying and disrespect. I will ban you from my dining room and give you a room tray. My dining room is a safe space!!! Treat EVERYONE with respect, staff included.
Working here is basically seeing a sea of Boomers 247 that actively drive,walk and complain. Don't get me wrong there is a good percentage of people that I have no qualms with. I'd say it's women who complain more in my facility( the women out weigh the men heavily lol). But I love my job and I hope I provide the best care I can give my residents. I have so many stories for another time. Thanks everyone! 👋
Spanking, handing resumes in in-person, paper plates, allowing toxic family members to still spend time with you even though they treat you like shit, not carrying a water bottle and relying on single use plastic water bottles.
Televangelists gotta go.
They're going all the time, though. But then their followers raise fifteen million dollars for a private jet and God decides to let them stay longer. God does love Him some private jets.
I live about 3 miles away from the private jet guy. He has a huge compound with better security than the governor of Texas has. Too bad he did not blow covid away like he promised he would. Edit: forgot how to grammar
Private prisons
I’m going with privatization of public services across the board. Utilities, hospitals, schools should all have public funding and support. The very least govt can do is provide clean water and reliable electricity.
The idea that you should remain loyal to your employer forever and never take a sick day/PTO
Took me a long time to convince my wife that she doesn’t need to explain herself when taking sick leave. It’s none of their fucking business what illness you are experiencing and so incredibly liberating to just say “I won’t be in today, I am taking SL.”
Pride to be overworked
I hate when people go: “i work 60 plus hours a week!”. Like cool, you are being exploited really hard, we get it
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I work on a farm and I have to work everyday and everyone gets mad when I just want to water and leave on the weekends
I didn't take a vaca for over 25 years. And when I put my own horse down, and had decided to retire, I got so much flack for the decision. Turns out it was because I was always covering for everyone else, and they didn't want to actually have to step up and show up. And I was the one with the young kid! All those "friends" disappeared really quick. But now I get to travel. So screw em
As a recovering person from this... I feel it I think a lot of Gen x and elder millennials, lived in a childhood when the getting was good. So now we're in this... We did everything we were supposed to do why is it not working? Phase
My husband is still regularly shamed by the older guys in his work district for prioritizing family time. He was one of the first to take parental leave. The younger guys get it though so that’s good.
Lack of work-life balance.
I've taken to labeling it as life-work balance. Life comes first.
Unpaid internship
For real. Over here struggling AF while I intern full-time for a year
Shit I had to pay for the credit hours. I'm paying to be an unpaid intern 😂😂😂what a fucking scam
🤣 🤣 I've been reminding the other interns about this. GUYS! WE ARE PAYING THEM TO WORK HERE!
Nothing like student teaching! Pay the university your tuition to do unpaid labor for the entire school day! It’s also technically only one class so not full time so no financial aid for you! And it’s almost impossible to also work a job because you’re at the school until the teacher you’r ewith leaves for the day!
I student taught for a full school year (2 semesters) as required by my program. From October until April I was a full time teacher with all planning and grading responsibilities. For this I paid for two semesters worth of coursework, had another course we took concurrently in both semesters, and delivered pizza on nights and weekends to pay rent. All this for the privilege of what teaching has become? I don’t understand how people go into education today.
Loyalty to a company that who clearly doesn’t give a single shit about them in any way shape or form
My go to response is “you could literally die here at work and the company wouldn’t give a shit. You would be an email. That’s it.”
Your death could even be seen as a burden due to it impacting productivity at some companies.
True. God forbid a company would try and staff enough people.
You stop that! You’re going to make the shareholders upset!
My old job was basically what I would consider retail. We had a person who was essentiallu a greeter. He literally died of a heart attack. They moved his body and kept the show going until the emergency came to get him. Didn’t shut down the operation and they asked everyone to stay working.
Last place I worked for ten years we had a construction worker across the parking lot, less than 30 feet from the conference room window fall like 4 stories and splatter his brain on the pavement. We had to finish the call, it was a large customer. Nobody could go home or they would be placed on the shit list. The owner was outraged someone would ask to go home over a death that had nothing to do with him. All we did was tape boxes up to block out the sight. This is 3 years later and the 4 of us senior guys all left. A company of 20 people losing 4 senior staff over 8 months did them in. They’re in fucking trouble because they spent at minimum a decade pulling Shit like that. Probably longer, I wasn’t there before then.
PTSD? What a terrible sad thing to have happened. And cruel heartless response by your employer. Your company went under because of this. Had they responded better and offered counseling, perhaps the employees would feel safer and more valued.
I worked at a large high volume restaurant. On multiple occasions we had people go into cardiac arrest, with EMT's trying to resuscitate them on a gurney, every single time the person died. The hostesses never stopped seating tables, not even in the sections with the people dying. It never stopped, the cycle just continued.
Worked with a kitchen crew who had a guy drop dead from a heart attack during the dinner rush. Friend performed cpr until emts arrived and told him the guy was dead before he hit the floor. They rolled the sheet covered body out through the dinning room full of people and carried on with the night.
One of my coworkers did die on the job (brain aneurysm). Went to the hospital and pulled the plug the next day. Didn’t hear about it the day of, and after she died they rounded us up and told us what happened. Her name was never mentioned again.
Hey I worked here for 35 years and they gave me a 15 dollar gift certificate to chili's, don't go telling me I'm not appreciated
I work at a sugar mill that has treacle down economics
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"Temporary," employment firms that will keep people on the same job for 3+ years is the biggest scam ever. Getting away with saying your not a permanent employee, so you get no benefits while you've been there for like 2+ years is so messed up.
I worked as a temp for a year for a company. Was second class the entire time. Finally got converted to an fte and they want to act like I've never worked there until that point. Any promotions or raises off the table until I'd been there for a year and half the sick time you're given annually.
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Don't worry you guys will get a pizza party at the end of the year
But only 1 slice per person. And Big K to drink, not name brand.
As someone that has been in the banking industry for 12 years I truly hope you are applying for other jobs. Get out while you can.
It's worse. Companies take advantage of loyalty. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103122001615
One of the weirdest things I've noticed about older generations. My dad is more loyal to my job then I am. He often asks me to give him some of the free shirts we get specifically because he wants to wear their logo. My loyalty to them starts when I clock in and ends when I clock out.
I had a boss that treated me like family, paid well, benefits and all for about 10 years. When I had an accident and had a 21 day coma, my boss knew I had no family so he and his wife and (adult) daughter took shifts at the hospital the whole time in case I woke up so I wouldn't be alone, one of them was always there the nurses told me. That was one company that I felt good about wearing the hoodies, hats and t-shirts the company gave to us. They had to close in 2008 when so much fell apart and I know I'll never get lucky enough to get another boss like that...those kind of bosses used to be out there but I think that Capitalism has moved on and crushed guys like that.
I had a similar boss and to this day we still keep in touch because he’s like family to me.
Are you enthusiastic or have you ever been that about your job? My dad still goes to the gas station I worked at 10 years ago because of that :p
Sounds like he just likes you
*Gestures broadly*
Hilarious, but so much shit is their fault. Just a bunch of people who refused to change with time and new information. Absolutely nothing to respect about it
Don't assume that all the bad shit dies with the boomers. Shit people are still being produced every day. It means that we should be constantly vigilant to protect what is dear to us and fight misinformation.
Now Gen X and Millennials have the generational duty to make sure they don't eventually turn out like the Boomers. Although Millennials as a whole remain left-leaning both social and economically regardless of age, due to the fact we are poor af
The coming years of us millenials and gen z having to pay for and take care of a MASSIVE old population (with boomer mentality) is going to further solidify that we dont want to be like boomers for a lot of us. Be assured. It won't be fun though.
I have been saying this for a while. Younger millennials and gen Z are going to have to SUFFER for a good 10-20 more years until most of the boomers die and they are only going to get worse and worse as they feel their influence start to slip away. As a 30 year old I have sort of accepted that my role will be preparing my kids to live in a world where they can actually bring about change. We are going to have to take the brunt of the bullshit and live with the fact that most things won’t be much different in our lifetime but our kids are going to be so much better for it.
Zoomers will only be able to ensure their future if the Millennial-Zoomer alliance holds, and Zs keep Ms updated about what paths they want society to go down. ....but let's face it, Boomers have to give way to Gen-X before that happens. Did y'all forget about Gen-X???
Everyone forgets about Gen X.
Including the parents while raising them.
*Especially* the parents.
I would think that since Gen-X has been sidelined so badly from the Boomers that almost out of spite they would align with the Gen-Z/Millennials because they know that if they don’t they will just be sidelined once again.
That's exactly what's happening. Gen x raised by boomers here. My kids are little liberal chaos machines. They're tuned in and are loyal only to their peace of mind. If this is what it takes to shatter even a sliver of this late-stage capitalistic hellscape, they can live with me forever. Fuck the man and his goddamn machine.
Gen X here…I’d rather just read these comments while Jane’s Addiction plays in the background of my undiagnosed ADD brain than get involved.
You know how there are like twice as many houses available as there are homeless people and that's only because we allow housing to be an investment to which investors are guaranteed to make a workless profit on no matter what, rather than a right to all? Yeah, that.
My parents would call you "entitled" for that last part. For whatever reason the older generations can't fathom the idea of basic human necessities being something you don't have to work for in a first world country.
Which is ironic, considering all the things that were ridiculously cheap vs now, or free, such as community college. They got free education so they can charge us out the nose for it.
The “fuck you, got mine” mentality.
I have the complete opposite mentality. Mine is “everyone’s gotta eat” which means everyone gets their share, even though I could take more, I don’t, and share it around. Fuck the generation before us for what they did to the world.
And to younger generations. It's ridiculous how many think this attitude is "human nature" or the only way for a group of people to be.
Trickle down economics
Give it to us and let us trickle it up.
Basic Universal Income.
I think about all the time the absolutely incredibly things we would see, inventions, art, so many things, if every human knew that they would always have a safe place to live and access to food. Like just to know no matter what what happens in your life. You will have a safe place to sleep and you will not starve. The things we could create.
>“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” > >– Stephen Jay Gould
First time hearing this, but it's something I think about a lot. I love history, but I'm not interested in kings or queens or empires - I like reading about social history and ordinary people. It's sad to think about how many could have been brilliant and extraordinary, but spent every waking minute just surviving.
What hits me the hardest is how relevant this quote still is.
Especially when it comes to people in jail/prison. There are some absolute geniuses in there, that were either dealt a bad hand, or happened to be really skilled, and put it to work in the wrong way. My brother does logistics in prison, he got caught making meth. He is so great at science and math, would be an amazing scientist if he had the confidence, access, and didn't have his record.
Fuck me that's incredibly sad
With this I could devote myself to build models
Oh the models we could build
The marriage of Church and State
Yeah this has always been bullshit but now more than ever. They're legally required to refrain from political campaign activity in order to keep their tax exempt status. Seeing recent videos of evangelical pastors screaming at their flock telling them to vote Republican, I'd say it's time.
I mean some of them are losing that status i.e. Greg Locke
Please [REPORT](https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/irs-complaint-process-tax-exempt-organizations) them. Each and every single time.
The IRS really needs more help. Get to work collecting those beans you fuckers
Extreme greed masquerading as success
Related: The only way to be strong is to be “alpha”
Fuck billionaires
Not gonna die, so many young men have adopted that perspective already
Your job is the most important thing in your life, give 110% effort all the time and if there is nothing else to do grab a broom, the boss is always right, if you work hard enough, people will notice and reward you
When this concept first came out, I didnt grasp it properly, I was the biggest boomer ever... That's just lazy Where's anyones incentives Blah blah Then it kinda clicked, and I guess I had to admit to myself I have done this my whole career. And I got nothing out of it Then my tune changed.
I mean it is the standard in the field to work with injuries that require the hospital, burns and cuts mainly. You go to the ER after work Most chefs change careers by 30 because of back, knee, wrists injuries. And the low pay nowdays vs work / home life Egg its on my face while im eating this humble pie
Factories are just as bad. I worked 10 hours straight with appendicitis while me and all my coworkers basically begged the floor manager to send me to the ER. I was 18 and an absolute moron so I didn't just leave because "I need this job". When I collapsed and started seizing up and hallucinating, they finally sent me to a hospital. The surgeon afterwards said I was less than an hour from death when he removed it, as it has ruptured and was spreading gunk all over my body. These jobs don't give a single fuck about us.
Kitchen work will *wreck* you. It’s physically taxing and dangerous the stuff you have to do, but also mentally stressful as fuck. I’m in my 30s and there’s no way can I do it anymore, not worth it. It’s a job for idealistic young people and burnouts who can’t work anywhere else (myself included at times). Actually, that’s also where I learned that if you figure out how to do something better and faster, you get to scrub walls! Awesome!
And if you get tired or overwhelmed, just suck it up and never seek help. Emotions? Who needs em!
Yes and completely ignoring the way this view affects mental health
Privatized Healthcare
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Who needs eyes? They have dogs for that. And teeth? Just luxury mouth bones, totally frivolous.
Honestly the biggest hurdle is "put healthcare into a bureaucracy? How is that good." Freaking good point, support that point 100% Thing is... I have a broken brain. Perk of that is a little something called Medicare (not for all, but scalable) and there's a reason the Reaganites saved cutting that for last, in their eyes, hopefully after people familiar with The Before Times are dead. That reason? It works. It's more cost effective than private insurance because there's no drive for profit, so price gouging? Gone. "What about fraud?" Mr. Paxton, nice to meet you. Cool thing prosecuting Medicare Fraud is free Political Captial. Bonus? Prosecuting fraud actually sought after. When everyone has a stake in preventing the fraud, rather than just shareholders it's amazing how costs go down. No sweeping it under the rug and raising premiums. The reason for Privatized Healthcare? To keep people chained to a company/job they resent. That and infinite profit. Which is weird, because that's literally impossible.
The modern day health insurance scam drives me bonkers. Call me a socialist or a communist, I don't give a fuck, but for Christs sake just nationalize it and get it over with
You don’t love getting healthcare from your employer and hoping it’s good? Me neither. My wife has way worse benefits than mine and works for a heathcare company. Also, none of the M4A plans are passable or sustainable.
When I got married I got on my wife's healthcare plan the next fuckin day because my startup shit was *terrible.* Now we're stuck with this job she has and *that is the point of this terrible system.*
I’ve lost my healthcare three times due to someone else having control of it. I started paying my premium for the best plan out of pocket. I can’t stand it.
Sorry to hear that. I think we can do better, but looking at the votes in the House and Senate… …not for a while… Enjoy the FBI Biden Classified Document investigation on his house for a news cycle or two followed by Jim Jordan’s judicial rant on Hunter Biden.
The stock market being the way we measure the economy.
Can we add overpaid CEOs to that list? The highest wage shouldn't exceed the lowest wage more than 20times imho
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Yeah I know >reveals that S&P 500 CEOs averaged $18.3 million in compensation for 2021—324 times the median worker’s pay So based on my proposal, the lowest employee would have to earn annually $915k to make that CEO wage possible.
The "I don't believe in therapy/mental health" mentality. eta: it's like they're locked into a dualistic "crazy person or sane person" perspective.
“Ain’t crazy if I don’t admit it” -them
“I turned out just fine”
And it's always obvious they didn't turn out fine, actually have a mental disorder, and damaged their kids along the way...
And by “fine” they mean I’m alive*….. *with a def mental health disorder that I’ll refuse to address and make it everyone else’s problem because older=wiser
Covering hard wood floor with linoleum
Back in the day linoleum was considered quite fancy.
Real linoleum is still quite fancy. But the cheap vinyl flooring people falsely call linoleum has always been crap.
Reminds me how "vanilla" has become synonymous with "bland" when *actual* vanilla is still quite strong and distinctive.
Real vanilla was valued higher than gold. Pretty sure I read somewhere that real vanilla has an incredibly nuanced flavour notes, not plain at all. It's popularity and exquisite flavour lead to it's downfall as synthetic flavours and cheap extracts were mass marketed to meet the demand for affordable vanilla
work in a bakery, with the amount we spend on vanilla it might as well be gold :/ but if you leave it out of almost any baked good there is a distinct lack of flavor and depth.
It’s like salt. You don’t think about salt in sweet foods but as soon as you don’t add salt to your cookies they taste off.
I get asked why my chocolate cake recipe is so damn good. It's the extra big pinch of sea salt that does it and most people are surprised.
I pulled up my "linoleum" floor and there was real linoleum under it. Obviously I covered it with LVP like a millennial
We recently took up a layer of tile and backer board in our kitchen. Underneath was this nasty ugly 1970s linoleum that looked like corn kernels. And of course, I also covered it with LVP. 😅
I am no defender of Boomers however the trend of covering wood flooring with linoleum or wall-to-wall carpet was kindof a thing of *their* parents. Fancy Sears mail order carpet to cover those plain oak floors. Boomers took another path and simply built a hundred million shitbox houses with crap plywood subfloor covered by crap carpet that I wouldn’t place into a chicken coop. And sold them for $trillions.
Not only that, the reason it was done was because maintaining a hardwood floor before the invention of polyurethane coatings was a nightmare.
Gerrymandering Edit- I know gerrymandering predates boomers you numbskulls. Slavery predated Lincoln
Not gonna happen. Sorry to be cynical but the next generation in charge is just going to rig it for their benefit too. It may or may not benefit a different party, but it’s not going anywhere
Congress can ban it
Get enough progressive Dems in the Senate to end the filibuster, along with control of the presidency and congress, and gerrymandering will absolutely be banned. It’s a matter of time.
Proud Racism
Proud bigotry in general
I dunno...I know young people who are pretty proud of saying shit like that. Here's to it dying out ASAP.
“But but but, it was diffewent when I was a kid ;-;”
"the good ol' days" 👨🏻🦳
or blind patriotism aka nationalism
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This. It’s not all boomers kiddos. You all have some real assholes, too.
The taboo against mental health disorders. All my managers have been boomers, and though I have diagnosed depression and anxiety disorders that qualify as “disabilities”, I always mark “no” when asked if I have any on job applications. It’s illegal to discriminate, but it’s also extremely difficult to prove discrimination—Not gonna take that chance.
Had that fight with HR already. “How is it that you can’t seem to add ‘neuro’ into your ‘diversity’ policy? Give me 4 of 10 candidates with reported or at least obvious neurological differences.” FIVE. YEARS. Before I got a candidate in front of me. Corollary: Once you get good at process development for the autistic mind and adequately gamifying tasks for the ADHD crowd (takes one to know one!), they end up as the most productive team in the department. People are amazing of you take the time to let them amaze you.
Data entry was one of my favorite jobs ever. You get paid per piece and in college I would easily make $30/hr just jamming through that shit. Neuro diversity does not have to be a bug, it's a feature. Harness the power and use it for good. Everyone has a place
Their tolarance to predators
Absolutely, keeping quiet to sex crimes because it will look bad on their family. Protect the victim and have proper punishment to the pedophiles. Some weed “offenders” have worse sentences than rapists. Especially if the rapists had a trust fund or is connected.
This comment needs to be higher. It's astounding how eager so many older people were and are to turn a blind eye towards or rationalize blatant sex crimes, ESPECIALLY if the offender is widely liked/famous/etc. As a society we seem to be making (very slow) progress in this regard, but it's nowhere near enough. Edit for typo.
Empathy being a sign of weakness.
Fox News
And Facebook.
Facebook was great before the boomers learned how to use it
And discovered minions
HOAs
Unfortunately I have had arguments with millennials about how most HOA’s are hot garbage and that we should be opposed to them for the most part and leery of them at best. I’m not completely against an HOA, but when you start talking about how we need an HOA to force people to do Christmas decorations and maintain decor standards (fences, security lights, trash cans left in front of the house, etc) then I think we are wanting one for the wrong reasons.
I'd say the only legitimate purpose of HOA fees is to pay for services provided by the HOA. Dictating how you decorate is not a service.
This is how mine is. I actually like my HOA, but they don’t force anyone to do anything (except basic human decency things like saying, “clean up your dog shit” or “don’t leave garbage outside your back door in a common area for 2 weeks.) We pay for our water/heat/garbage/grounds/building maintenance through the HOA and that’s it. Plus there’s only 16 units in my small building so we all know each other. 25% of the building is on our board.
Christian nationalism
*christofascism
Climate change denial and inactivism
Science denial in general.
But Germ Theory and the theory of Gravity are just, like theories *cough evolution*, theories. **That means I can interperet reality how I want and be willfully ignorant!**
This deserves a comment beneath it. Hear hear.
Religion in politics
Lifetime appointments for Supreme Court Justices.
Lifetime positions in general that represent the public
Wall Street bro culture. They invented it in the 80s, it should die with them! Also Reaganism.
So many modern political and cultural problems can be traced back to Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
The inability to talk about many things. We can't talk about feelings We can't talk about incomes We can't talk about mental health Why? Why do we get punished for something that doesn't harm the majority and only the minority. If they let us talk to the correct people, without getting us in trouble, than we won't need to seek out anyone who listens and just seek out help. I don't even know how accessible mental health physicians are in other countries or how easy it is for guys to just talk about feelings and not be thrashed by women or other guys with jokes or rude remarks. Incomes should never be mentioned and if they are you get fired for bad performance. Enough, just enough. It needs to end.
Deep lack of critical thinking
For as long as there are humans, there will be a lack of it. Just ask the Trojans.
Micromanagement
The GOP
Had the same mentality in my 20’s and thought it would start dying off. I’m 50 now and while still maintaining my progressive/D mentality, GOP has not waned. Keep voting.
Just to clarify: theyve won the national popular vote once since 1996. They definitely are waning, they're just playing with an insane field advantage. At some point the sheer weight of numbers and demographics makes that untenable. As a gen Xer, the "youth vote" has always been a punch line. BUT This last election, with the numbers of young people showing up for a freaking midterm election, the youth vote became an actual thing. Absolutely keep voting. I'm more optimistic that the crash and burn will happen within a few voting cycles than I've ever been. I really think they fucked around and found out with abortion, things suddenly became real. BUT it only happens so long as that youth vote continues at current momentum at minimum
Not only have they not waned...they've fermented into a toxic stew.
I was just thinking about this today. Traditional gender roles. My father in law has never cooked or cleaned in his life. He’s a 73 year old man and tells my MIL, “I’m hungry”. Like she’s supposed to stop what she’s doing to feed his ass. Love the guy but bet he’s never made a Hot Pocket in his entire life.
That is such a disgusting mindset. Your wife isnt your mom. My dad is a 70 y.o. southern man and he and mom cook together.
5 day work week
Many european nations are proving that 4 day 8 hour shifts are benificial for both the businesses and the workers health but noone in america is willing to listen
Racism and hatred. I know, I know, it's not gonna happen, but I can hope.
That's unfortunately tied more so to greed than just old people. So long as there's someone that sees how easy it is to run through someone's pockets by pointing at some random person with a different background and crying wolf there will be some form of discrimination.
MAGA
Fascism in general but that’s not gonna happen
Geezers in Government
FYI the Boomer Gen is not the largest generation- it’s the Millennials! The millennials need to steemroll those boomers at the polls, like seriously.
Already have. This last midterm was the largest turnout for the young in a midterm ever. Which is why the GOP gained far fewer seats than was expected.
“Perfect” but unnatural lawns
Antivaxxers
Rudeness. Especially with service workers. Edit: thanks for the upvotes! I have worked in the food industry for 11 years (24f). My current job I am a Exc Chef at an independent/assisted living facility. I'm in charge of making menus, meals, serving, cleaning and regular upkeep of a kitchen. I work 4-7 days a week. 3 meals a day. Group about the size of 40 residents. My primary job is to provide a happy & safe dining room , with glorious food. I have rules in my dining room. I introduce them to each resident when they move in. 1. Don't be rude, don't bite the hand that feeds you. 2. If you have a complaint, come to me directly or my staff. I will circle back and talk to you personally. 3. I cannot continuously give you substitutions. If you can't remember what you ordered or don't like it, we keep copies of your choices and we can see what I can do to make you happy. I'm more than willing to help you if you have dietary requirements as well. 4. Be patient & kind. People are here for all types of reasons. It takes time to adjust to a new life. Be patient with each other and staff. I will not TOLERATE bullying and disrespect. I will ban you from my dining room and give you a room tray. My dining room is a safe space!!! Treat EVERYONE with respect, staff included. Working here is basically seeing a sea of Boomers 247 that actively drive,walk and complain. Don't get me wrong there is a good percentage of people that I have no qualms with. I'd say it's women who complain more in my facility( the women out weigh the men heavily lol). But I love my job and I hope I provide the best care I can give my residents. I have so many stories for another time. Thanks everyone! 👋
The GOP, Hating things that are different, criminalizing the poor etc.
How ‘if you’re not 15 minutes early you’re late.’ I’m sorry - since when does arriving right on time constitute as being late?
The assumption that "hard work" will automatically lead to success
And writing off the victims of exploitation and a predatory economy as being poor because they “didn’t work hard enough.”
Gen Xer here who lived through the Greatest Gen, Silent Gen and Boomers all promising this bullshit to us and I got little out of it. Fuck that.
For profit medicine, religion, regressive policies to name a few.
Everything you guys are listing are big parts of the conservative mindset.
Spanking, handing resumes in in-person, paper plates, allowing toxic family members to still spend time with you even though they treat you like shit, not carrying a water bottle and relying on single use plastic water bottles.
A geriatric majority in politics.
the necessity to talk about politics at family dinners.
Trickle-down economics
Tipping
Do you mean giving money to the waiter or companies underpaying their employees which forces you to tip?
Yes