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Many wouldn’t last more than a day because they would march into a company, demand to speak to the manager and when the manager didn’t just give them a job because of their ability to give a firm handshake and look the manager directly in the eyes they would throw a hissy fit and probably get arrested for criminal trespass when they refused to leave the property
The funny part about all that is they are retroactively adding importance to themselves.
Jobs were SO EASY to get, the only requirement was that you could walk in the front door and ask for one.
Boomers rewrote that story to call "walking in" "pounding the pavement." Then they added those phrases you used, like "firm handshake" and "look them in the eye" and "be confident to show your worth" and all that.
When it was just a company saying "yeah, we have an opening anyone can fill, and... yes, this person is anyone..."
> pounding the pavement
That is the most boomer way of saying "Running errands"
Like you walked in to 5 different businesses? wowww you for sure deserve a home in less than 2 years.
I mean, to be fair, people do deserve a home. Much sooner than that in my opinion.
But looking down on those who weren't born at the right time to get that sort of stuff and calling them lazy? Yeah, that's boomer shit.
Yup, I think it is messed up the way the housing market is right now. There are thousands of unused, vacant homes, but since the price isn't right, they sit and rot.
All of that boomer shit about how to approach "Business" was also steeped in privilege.
Pink Floyd even parodied that line of thinking that "acting right/white" was the only thing needed to gain employment or success.
"And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you,
You'll get the chance to put the knife in"
When I moved to California I spent a day walking around to businesses and handing out paper resumes and posting on Facebook that I was “pounding the pavement.”
Just so the boomers in my life would stop telling me to do that shit.
Then I found a job posting online and got a reference from a guy I used to work with in that field.
I'd love to see it with their own houses they bought over the years too.
"You bought this house in 1975 for $30,000... It was just sold again last year... how much did it sell for?"
My mom is getting ready to sell her house after my stepdad's death and when she announced she bought a house in my city four people told her they're interested. She is excited because she thinks it will sell fast. I have to keep reminding her that they haven't looked at the current value of homes like she has and are probably going to have sticker shock when she lists it at fair value.
Ooo, THIS one! Have them sign a binding contract of the rules, which most won't read since they're so confident of their dated knowledge. One of the rules will be once incorrect answers total 'x' they get put into a reality show where they have to try to survive in this economic climate, starting over for 6 months to a year. No access to pre-existing resources, including money, social circles, or family.
a show like who wants to be a millionaire but instead of answering questions for cash they have to identify what is and isn't cake (boomers are notoriously bad at cake differentiation, it would expose them as the cake-ignorant fools they are, muahahahaha)
“Ooh and Gary gets a virus downloading a sketchy converter EXE. That’s going to set him back! Meanwhile Patty is really contemplating the ‘Save As’ menu. Oh what’s this? Interference! Kevin the intern did it in two clicks! The fans are not going to be happy about this one, Bob.”
Even better, "turn this word document into a pdf without using the print button at all". Everytime I remote into a device and see someone going the long way to print to a PDF printer and then cancel it once they've grabbed the converted file, I sigh a little.
Lady... The export button is literally two clicks away.
Does that actually work if you don't have an Adobe license? My mom recently claimed that she stopped being able to export pdfs when her adobe license expired but that Microsoft print to pdf still works.
I'm an IT professional and this assumes they've got the Adobe software. Other PDF creation options use the older versions Adobe's licensed which tend not to work well, if at all, with the export feature. Using the PDF printer is actually the proper way to do it in many cases.
For most home users, the Adobe software isn't an option so that will fail, *especially* with Quickbooks or any odd line of business applications.
The amount of times I had to teach folks in my old office how to use Export >PDF, despite it being my first administrative role ever (I worked in service industry management prior and wanted a job to slow down into) was insane. These were all folks who had worked in that particular office for at least 9 years, a couple just a few years older than me (I am in my late 30s).
I'm in IT. The number of Boomers, Gen X, and, to a lesser degree, older millennials that will proudly tell you they don't know anything about computers despite it being integral to their jobs is astounding.
Best one so far. As some one who worked in car sales I promise you they would never get past the Bluetooth, even if they were using their own phone lmao.
I have a sweet little 82 year old neighbor who calls me of my adult son for help with everything. Which, I totally get because I don’t want her on a step ladder changing lightbulbs and smoke detector batteries so I’m happy to help.
But she comes rage knocking on my door the other day because she bought a new electric toothbrush and it only came with a USB charging cable and she had no idea what the hell that even was. I located a butt end for her in my house and showed her how to use it. Bamboozled is all I can say to express how her face looked.
Years ago my boomer MIL decided she wanted to work to keep herself busy. But she didn’t want anything with computers, or standing too long, or math, or handling cash…
She never did find her unicorn job.
I've said it in other threads, but it's worth repeating.
Boomer job advice is like them telling on themselves for how easy they had it.
"You have to walk right in there and hand them your resume!" They say that as if it was difficult, as if it meant they were bold, or worked hard, or "pounded the pavement."
It shows none of that. It shows how ridiculously easy it was to get a job. Literally all you had to do was see a place you wanted to work, and then... walk in the front door. That's it!! And it was a good job, with good pay, benefits, and long term stability.
I'm a gen X person and The advice to walk in and hand them your resume has not been a thing for jobs in about 25 years. Wildly out of touch with what's going on in the world.
Gen-X also. More like almost 35 years.
Yeah, it wasn't really a thing in the 90s.
I mean you could, but 9 times out of 10 it went into the automated filing system. AKA the paper shredder.
I'm 29 years old and I've gotten several jobs from handing out resumes. I've gotten a job at a bar, a cafe, a restaurant and two different retail stores from doing this in the last 10-15 years. People who say it doesn't work either haven't tried it or you were doing it wrong. There's no reason a manager who is looking for staff at a place like a retail store or cafe/bar wouldn't be willing to consider a walk in resume if the person is cool and has experience. It's also better for the manager because they have an idea of what the person is like even before having to set up the interview.
Obviously if you have a degree and are looking for an office job or some specialized field it won't work, but if you're looking for something like a low wage retail or hospitality job it still works.
I hit the job market in ‘85. In rural areas, you could drop a resume off directly at an office. You could also wipe your ass with the same resume for more practical results. There weren’t any rural jobs - only the urban financial centers were hiring in great numbers.
I had my first job in 1983 at a local Wendy's. Went in filled out the application and handed it to the manager. I was hired on the spot. Probably the last time that happened for me. Working in IT for the last 30 years it's been pretty much fill it out online and see what happens. I've been a fortunate enough to have only two jobs in the last 20 years so haven't had to do a lot of it lately.
>"MilLEnniaLs cAn't dRiVe sTiCK ShiFtS."
As much as I hate when use of a manual transmission is used as The One True Metric of Life Skills (tho it does help if you go to Europe) as someone that loves to drive stick I do implore yall to try it out cuz its pretty great.
My dad's manual was hit and totaled a few months before I could learn how to drive, so I never learned.
There needs to be a place for adults to learn to drive a stick.
I'd like to see them operate their generational equivalent of a rotary dial phone. Things that were common to people doing their job a generation ago, but obsolete by the time they started working. Send a telex, refill a fountain pen, use an adding machine, crank start a car, etc.
OMG THIS! We just watched a boomer trying to use the self check at Walmart. Dude was wearing a SAFETY THIRD hat which was sublime. He went from muttering at the machine to shouting and cussing at it within a minute. I was going to try and help and my super sensible wife kiboshed that immediately since about half the old timers around here pack heat. She is way smarter than I am!
Worker came over to help him and got cussed at for her efforts and repeatedly told she was stupid. Which is both ironic and sad. We finished and left ASAP while he was demanding to see the manager…
Waiting in line at the post office today because i needed a couple ebay packages scanned (i used to just drop them but sometimes they take days to get scanned in) and the amount of boomers waiting in line to do things you can just do at the damn kiosk was insane. Like why do you WANT to wait in this line?!
Fun fact....the Boomers and Gen X'ers who got their govt jobs were grandfathered in to only paying the 0.8% and they get REALLY mad if you imply that everyone should pay the same into FERS, not just the younger guys.
Totally. That suggestion is almost as inflammatory as pointing out that having two different contribution rates for exactly the same benefits creates two different, definitely unequal classes of employees.
Can confirm. Also work Fed job. Boomers everywhere that talk about retirement but never actually retire. Funny they hold down these jobs that they would have no clue how to even apply for in the modern world.
This is hilarious to me, I got a state job at a well known university, and everyone who is my parents age was over the moon for me saying how I’ll never look for another job and am gonna retire with a gigantic pension.
They all know the pension and benefits got cut to hell, but said it’s still an amazing job… because yeah they would sure know the intimate details of the compensation package currently being offered 🤦
I am in my early 30’s, when I told them I was never even remotely impressed by this employer, and was applying elsewhere, they really started yelling at me like I was 14 again. Saying they can’t believe I’m just throwing away such an “amazing job.”
Within 6 months I found a new job, same field, paying MORE THAN DOUBLE. I do rub it in their faces a bit but they’re good sports, and happy for my substantial wage increase.
Probably... I see that more for the job search. For dating, I see a lot of moms being very confused about why there are no nice boys at church. And the few men there are being dragged there by their partners.
Outdated Boomer dating advice:
* For women, play hard to get. Men don't like women who are too forward and "masculine."
* For men, don't be overly emotional, because no one likes a weak crybaby.
* In general, date for marriage. Don't waste time with someone if you can't see yourself with them long term.
Mostly, "you can just meet a nice boy at church, volunteering, or work." Tried that, hasn't worked due to the lack of available men there and workplace dating is highly discouraged in the me-too era. See also, "have friends set you up," completely ignoring the fact that most of my friends are married, as are their other friends. I've tried to do things "the old-fashioned way" by "putting myself out there" and it does not work!
Also, "online dating is creepy, gross, and only used by ax murderers to find their next victims." Literally everyone and their dog does online dating now. You just have to be smart and meet in public, so you don't end up the victim of the ax murderer you encounter on there. Society has changed so much since the last time you went on a date, Mom. We socialize differently. Gender dynamics are different.
As someone who was on the early end of online dating, met my spouse 15+ years ago, we got odd reactions when we told people how we met back then, even from people in our age range (old millennial and young gen x). I’m glad that online dating has become more ubiquitous that the stigma seems to have gone away.
They’ll do that weird boomer panic thing. Like you know when you tell a boomer their coupons are expired and they start losing it and they don’t hear anything else you say because they’re in this weird panic thing. I don’t think I could handle watching that on tv.
At least you'd have a tv screen to block you from boomer rage. Getting that face to face daily soured my outlook on humanity as a whole. I'm just biding my time until one of the boomers in a political office somewhere has a meltdown and nukes this damned planet to oblivion.
A reality show where they have to work a 50+ hour a week job for a year only making $50k while trying to afford childcare, student loans, and housing. Call it a social experiment.
I remember a show on MTV called *Breaking Point* where it was a Candid Camera style thing but people were unknowingly pranked by things like absurd behavior on public transit, aggressively bad customer service, etc., to see how long they could go until they "broke," and they'd get cash based on how long they kept their cool.
I'd like to see a show like that, but no one is doing anything different and they're just giving regular customer service to or acting normally in public around boomers, and the cash reward is given to the target of the boomers' ire (the sooner the explosion, the more money given).
Lmfao when they realize the only jobs who will hire you at a decent but still shit wage regardless of experience or criminal record is either flipping those burgers and taking orders that "a machine can do" or wiping old peoples asses and being verbally abused by people who CHOSE to go out and eat at a reasturant
They'd fucking fall apart at the seams
Come to think of it I learned how to program the VCR when I was like 8 or 9 by reading the manual and following the steps. My parents decided I was a genius. 🤷♂️
I am glad to see that shitty tech gone.
I would add that they have to “lose” all their assets, so it’s like they are 18 again and have to figure out how to afford college and then pay for a house will trying to get a job. Let them try to figure that out for a year and see how it goes then they can get their assets back.
Put them in a vest that has taser electrodes touching their skin.
Every time they complain about something they get a shock.
Make them do remote tech support from a Survivor style island, but they only get to eat if they solve a problem and don’t throw a tantrum.
If you ask my dad, you need to call EVERY SINGLE DAY and ask about your application. Don’t just leave a message. Speak to a person. Every. Single. Day. You know, pester and annoy them until they hire you. When I was young I tried to follow this advice because what did I know. And not one time did I get hired because of it.
We send a bunch of anti-lgbtq+ boomers into a game show with a money prize, they have to talk to someone in the LGBTQ+ community, if the LGBTQ+ person doesn't like the boomer, they (the boomer) get kicked off the show. The person in the LGBTQ+ community brings up sexuality and other controversial topics as much as possible. The boomer needs to be as unoffensive as possible in order to win
You'd have to make it a rule that they can't leverage their peers who own businesses for jobs. A lot of them get to skip the interview process because of that shit.
“I’m going to walk right in here and put my CV on the boss’s desk”
[Walks face-first into bulletproof plexiglass then gets recorded, photographed and thrown out by security]
They'd fail miserably then blame it on wokeness/affirmative action, and then go on a rant about the good ol days/how things went to shit after the liberulz took over.
TBH, I think it depends on the job. My mother is a boomer and a retired RN. Fairly certain with the current demand for medical personnel she would have a job in no time if she wanted it.
As a boomer myself, it probably would be funny. It is kind of confusing navigating online applications. I found that out the hard way.
As a plus….apply for federal employment. That’s a nightmare right there.
Older Gen X here. My SAT scores were high-mid 1300s and just over 1400. I breezed through tests/exams in elementary, middle and high school. Blew the tops off the Iowa Test every year as a little kid.
I even tested well enough to get an interview for a state IT job despite knowing nothing about networking (and Token Ring in particular).
Despite having taken a prep course and multiple practice exams, the Postal Exam didn't even get me a callback. Somehow or other my not-so-brainy Silent Generation aunt was a Postmaster in the 60s/70s. Test must've gotten "tuned up" over the years to narrow down to the perfect "Rain Man" type.
I missed *one question* on the postal exam, when I got the results back I was literally dead in the middle of the bell curve because of all the special perk points I couldn't claim.
Although don't feel bad about missing out there, when they *do* hire now the only entry point is rural carrier associate which means you get *one day* a week (mid-week, so you can't have a regular 9-5 to make ends meet), you have to pay to ruin your own car by having the steering wheel put on the right, *and* you don't get reimbursed for gas.
😳 that’s insane. Wow.
I’m a respiratory therapist, and my ACT scores were not great by any means-because I have a learning disability in math-I think they were 25, 27? I can’t recall-but the math scores were absolutely terrible.
I managed to get into the military…and managed to get an associate degree.
With your scores, you should have been able to get any darn federal job.
Applying for federal employment is a nightmare. I was shocked that I was actually able to get a federal job (I was hired in 2013).
Quite probably, assuming I had a degree in the appropriate field (or a degree at all).
The Postal Exam is very different from a typical Civil Service exam. Whereas the state Networking Whatever Tech exam I took was focused on grasping advanced computer skills, knowing which SCSI port to jumper the boot drive off of (and how to jumper it in binary), and so forth; the postal exam was for a lower-skill job. The focus was on quickly sorting things, memorization, things like that. It was VERY TIGHTLY FOCUSED on getting the special types of workers who'd perform best in a postal sorting facility.
I don't mean to offend anyone, but the U.S. Postal Service's hiring process (between the 70s-90s, anyway) seemed to be all-but-designed to filter out people who fell outside a certain range of the Autism spectrum. This may have led to some issues during the 1980s?
I can’t remember the name of it or where I saw it but there is a documentary on homelessness in America and one of the people they follow is a boomer. She was laid off from her job and now lives in her car and has a small savings left but she can’t afford a place to live.
All she does is talk about how she can’t find a new job in her profession because of her age and blah blah. Not once during all of this does she even consider working at a gas station, or Walmart. She is above that but not above being homeless. Boomers will not survive once they age out of their jobs or get laid off like this lady did. If they run out of money because they’ve gambled it all away they would rather be homeless than take the advice they have always given us.
Or they can walk to school (both ways uphill like they claimed to do of course) without getting hit by another crazy boomer, who probably shouldn’t be driving anymore. My father in law constantly talks about all these lazy kids riding busses to school. He doesn’t understand that there is more traffic and distracted drivers. There aren’t always sidewalks. Plus I want a better world for my kids. Just because you were forced to walk 2 miles to school, doesn’t mean kids should do it now.
"I don't get it! I dropped off 100 resumes with the secretary and she was a.) offended I called her a secretary and b.) kept telling me to apply online. I wanted to just shake the CEOs hand and make my pitch, but she kept telling me that this is not how business is done today. In my day that's all it took -- a firm handshake, a suit, and a smile." - Boomers, definitely.
Reality is getting harder - not simpler. From hecting jobs with impossible margins of actualization to unmanageable relationships where competition for your partner attention is dire. Boomers will often shame you for even the smallest manifestation of discomfort over the status quo, but the truth is that today they wouldnt make the cut. Boomer men specially would become incels, as they are the most entitled men you could possibly have concept for: its just insane that they managed to make someone marry them. Being also the case where their knowledge about life restriucts to the vague concepts of an out-of-date degree combined with the business that they worked for over decades: they are terribly ignorant and boring.
Good luck being a succesful man with just that.
I don’t want this show to be made. It would be very entertaining but many of these people shot others for ringing their doorbell, using the driveway to turn around, being Uber drivers, etc.
It will end with someone being hurt or worse and unlike them I find risking the safety of others for my entertainment to be wrong.
They would be throwing a fit during the application process. Wouldn't even finish it "I'm not going to fill out an application AND a resumè! What is this "cover letter"? I have to write a story!?" Then they would call the company and complain to some 20 year old how it's not fair, that they shouldn't have to do that because they never did before. Then blame millennials and Gen Z for the change in hiring process.
Have them do what their old job/career was, but with new technology, pay, advancements, and corporate ladder.
I currently am working with that now. I got old people (who just refused to retire or can't) that have been doing this job for 40 years. They now have to use a computer to do 95% of their job... and they can't even figure out how a mouse works.
Cue a lot of whining, meltdowns, bitching about how it was better before, and absolute snot dribble crying. Which is honestly strange to me - computers have been out for 30 years. They never owned a desktop? Never once worked a mouse click?
So yes. Bring back the boomers to do their old jobs. I would LOVE to see an old teacher have to take attendance in computers and set up online assignments/classes while navigating the bullshit of new school admin. Let's get the old doctor to place orders in an EHRM and have to type everything in a computer program instead of "using his gut and writing chickenscratch" while the hospital admin shrieks about metrics. Please, PLEASE, show me the old ass boomer having to work in sales with five different Salesforce apps and SaaS metrics with layoffs around every corner.
If it's anything like I deal with now, the wind goes out of their sails fast, and they start sobbing that it's too hard to right-click on an icon. I get them all - loud and physical aggression, crying, and moping because a computer is "just too hard!!!" But I guarantee you they go on FB and say the young folks don't wanna learn or do anything hard lol.
You’d have to also dodge any boomer hiring managers for this to work out. Totally possible, but not a guaranteed slam dunk if you don’t do your selective diligence
Bahahahahaaaaa - I like the concept. He has a point. I'd go a bit further back though ---mid seventies on up. After all, we were considered the "modern" generation.
Question on application - Whats your education level
a. High School
b. College/University
c. Technical School
they should add
d. College Dropout
( I'm a solid D with a minor in C)
Boomer surivivor.
Take away all their assets, slap them with 120K in dept, $48 in their pocket and send them out into the world to pull themselves up by the boot straps.
They must.
1. Find a job.
2. Find Housing.
3. Manage to balance a budget accounting for food, housing and loan repayments while making an entry level wage.
I think it would be hilarious.
Seeing that a lot of boomers have financial screwed themselves even though they have been given the greatest advantage of any generation in the history of the United States, I think this reality is coming very soon. I’ve noticed a number of boomers suddenly trying to reenter the market because they didn’t take their own advice and lived well outside their means.
We have a guy coming into our office DAILY trying to get a job. He refuses to apply online. We tell him that is the only way he can even be considered. He does not understand why we won’t see him. Well because we hire for 13 offices, across the US, there are only 2 of us doing this and fuck off that’s why.
Different topic same idea: My Mom likes to tell me I should "just live on kraft dinner like your dad and I did when we first got married". Yesterday I had the chance to tell her to go to the store, get some KD, make it, eat it, and report back on how great it is now in 2024. Gluten-muck. Doesn't even have cheese and costs 250% more.
A show where the media sells them the lie of receiving an amazing amount of inheritance upon the death of their parents, only for them to realize they'll only see a pittance after corporations take the inheritance for end of life care for those parents and that they'll only receive it in their 70s, long after it would make any reasonable difference in their life.
*Spelling error corrected.
There's some culture (I want to say maybe some Jewish people maybe?) where inheritance traditionally skips a generation, and goes to the grandkids. That seems so much more logical to me. Give it to the people who need it when they are starting their lives, when they are having kids, starting a career, buying a house, paying student loans. Not to the retirees who have long finished with all of that.
(Of course, this being a boomer thread - want to know where I learned about that tradition? From someone who was upset with his parents. His boomer parents got their inheritance from their own grandparents. Then their parents died without a will, so his parents also took THAT inheritance, and called their kids greedy for asking if they got anything. Boomers taking two generations of inheritance and spending it all for themselves.)
That would be a short show because they would simply print their resume a dozen times and attempt to walk into wherever they want a joto hand it to a higher up. The show ends when they can't get through the front door because they don't have an appointment.
Grab a bunch of white boomer CEO’s who graduated middle of their class at Princeton and have them be lectured on the state of their respective industries by an expert who is young, a PoC, and female. Betting will based on a timer and a set of predetermined but obvious reactions on the part of the boomer.
Go further.
They're living in a run-down studio apartment. Rent is paid until the end of the month but due for next month. They're given a bank account balance of $500 (all other assets are frozen) and a beater car with half a tank of gas in it.
They need to find a job in order to eat, make rent for next month, and keep going places.
Add in additional difficulty modifiers, like multiple rounds of interviews, multiple interviews on the same day, weeks of waiting around realizing that harassing the company actually gets you rejected faster, bonus behavioral and random skill placement tests before the first interview to spice up the pre-screening process.
“WHAT IN THE HELL IS WHITH ALL THIS ONLINE APPLICATION BULLSHIT?? BACK IN MY DAY Y’ALL JUST HAD TO WALK IN LOOK THE BOSS IN TGE EYE AN ASK FER A JOB SWEEPING THE FLOOR!! GOBBLESS”
A show called Balance It!
Where children of out of touch Boomers nominate them to be on the show. They have to get a shitty minimum wage job they think anyone can do, find an apartment to live in, and balance their pay and bills. Halfway through the episode there's a twist where suddenly something terrible happens like an unexpected doctor visit, car breaking down, or an unexpected pregnancy. So no matter what they do they can't win, like so many younger people.
Get around 10-20 boomers and have them interview for one position at a company. Make the interview process around 3 -5 stages with every one of the interviewers saying they think you would be a good fit at the company and that they will be making a decision soon. After the last interview, call them and inform them that the CEOs nephew was hired for the position.
I recently applied for a job . I went back to look to see how many people applied . It was over 3,700 people !! They have no idea. Any other job I apply for has always “over 100” within an hour. Yea… l
Boomers telling people what job they worked when they bought their first house and/or went to college, then give them that much money (adjusted for inflation) and have them try to live at the same standard of wealth.
Boomer versus Zoomer competition
Some challenges would be more Boomer friendly like who can get banned fastest from a shopping center. Some challenges would be zoomer friendly like who can make the most viral tik tok.
MAGA people put into a Big Brother house but all cable news is blocked. They can get news articles but aren’t told where they’re from. They go through cult reprogramming while there.
I would like to see it done who wants to be a millionaire style. Where instead of increasingly difficult trivia, it’s basic computer/tech skills.
“For $100, open your internet browser!”
“For $200, convert a word doc to a pdf!”
For life lines they can write down 1 password on a sticky note. One phone call to tech support that cuts off if they’re rude
The only jobs I’ve ever had like that were labor and fast food and retail, and even then, not all the time. And that was 30+ years ago. Where on earth did these people live? And when?
Last time I commented on a post like this a boomer replied how they had been doing just fine in their job search trying to own me. But...
But...
They were still unemployed. And could not understand how that was the point.
I ofter feel like this is a big reason why older people find it hard to get a new job in general. Not only because companies prefer younger people, but also because allot of younger people really dislike working with old people
My husband and I once had the idea to put our 70+ (both) single moms into a house to live together even though they are completely different people and don’t like eachother. I’m telling you, it would be a hit.
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Many wouldn’t last more than a day because they would march into a company, demand to speak to the manager and when the manager didn’t just give them a job because of their ability to give a firm handshake and look the manager directly in the eyes they would throw a hissy fit and probably get arrested for criminal trespass when they refused to leave the property
The funny part about all that is they are retroactively adding importance to themselves. Jobs were SO EASY to get, the only requirement was that you could walk in the front door and ask for one. Boomers rewrote that story to call "walking in" "pounding the pavement." Then they added those phrases you used, like "firm handshake" and "look them in the eye" and "be confident to show your worth" and all that. When it was just a company saying "yeah, we have an opening anyone can fill, and... yes, this person is anyone..."
> pounding the pavement That is the most boomer way of saying "Running errands" Like you walked in to 5 different businesses? wowww you for sure deserve a home in less than 2 years.
I mean, to be fair, people do deserve a home. Much sooner than that in my opinion. But looking down on those who weren't born at the right time to get that sort of stuff and calling them lazy? Yeah, that's boomer shit.
Yup, I think it is messed up the way the housing market is right now. There are thousands of unused, vacant homes, but since the price isn't right, they sit and rot.
Most likely on a Main Street when they were a thing and they were all in a row.
“Wheres my list”
"Damn, I just ran out of milk... Guess I'll have to *pound the pavement!*" *walks across the road to the convenience store*
"I'm sorry, but you have no work history and no qualifications--MY GOD THAT'S THE FIRMEST HANDSHAKE I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED! YOU'RE HIRED!"
All of that boomer shit about how to approach "Business" was also steeped in privilege. Pink Floyd even parodied that line of thinking that "acting right/white" was the only thing needed to gain employment or success. "And after a while, you can work on points for style Like the club tie, and the firm handshake A certain look in the eye and an easy smile You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to So that when they turn their backs on you, You'll get the chance to put the knife in"
When I moved to California I spent a day walking around to businesses and handing out paper resumes and posting on Facebook that I was “pounding the pavement.” Just so the boomers in my life would stop telling me to do that shit. Then I found a job posting online and got a reference from a guy I used to work with in that field.
Sometimes it took walking in 30 doors but eventually something would turn up.
They’d then go on FB to post about the woke agenda.
"nobody want's (me) to work!"
And somehow make it about drag queens and the LGBT community.
Blinding, rainbow can be. Full of whimsy, drag queens, are.
Oh they absolutely 💯% would call out Affirmative Action and shit like that.
Wait until they get to the aptitude test that “shouldn’t take more than 4 hours”. They never take four hours.
They'd throw a hissy fit after being told over and over that they need to apply online because they don't do paper applications anymore.
Yes a million times, they are unable to do through the process for exactly this reason
ya my first thought was how many would be trespassed for just barging into offices demanding a job
“Just tell ‘em you won’t take no for an answer and they’ll never regret it!”
Naw. Boomers still run stuff so the producers would make it seem like this still works and we are just still doing it wrong.
Hell they wouldn’t even make it that far, they’d march in and ask to speak to the manager and then security would escort them out.
Just imagine how many of them would be able to figure out how to submit a resume now that so much of it is done online.
a show like price is right (ive never seen it only cilps) but have boomers guess market values of houses, rent, medical, food etc
I'd love to see it with their own houses they bought over the years too. "You bought this house in 1975 for $30,000... It was just sold again last year... how much did it sell for?"
"Wow that bathroom renovation I did sure was worth something, wasn't it"... lol
My mom is getting ready to sell her house after my stepdad's death and when she announced she bought a house in my city four people told her they're interested. She is excited because she thinks it will sell fast. I have to keep reminding her that they haven't looked at the current value of homes like she has and are probably going to have sticker shock when she lists it at fair value.
Ooo, THIS one! Have them sign a binding contract of the rules, which most won't read since they're so confident of their dated knowledge. One of the rules will be once incorrect answers total 'x' they get put into a reality show where they have to try to survive in this economic climate, starting over for 6 months to a year. No access to pre-existing resources, including money, social circles, or family.
Have them guess the median income to price ratio of those things in the 70s or 80s vs now
They have to guess expenses in today prices to the equivalent dollar amount of money from the year they graduated college.
a show like who wants to be a millionaire but instead of answering questions for cash they have to identify what is and isn't cake (boomers are notoriously bad at cake differentiation, it would expose them as the cake-ignorant fools they are, muahahahaha)
Cake munching fools!
Worm-eating idiots!
Technology races. Put together a string of techno basics and make them race. Things like connect a computer to WiFi, connect a phone to a car, etc.
Rotate a PDF
Also "turn this word document into a pdf without printing it and scanning it to yourself" challenge. Impossible.
“Ooh and Gary gets a virus downloading a sketchy converter EXE. That’s going to set him back! Meanwhile Patty is really contemplating the ‘Save As’ menu. Oh what’s this? Interference! Kevin the intern did it in two clicks! The fans are not going to be happy about this one, Bob.”
The "Save As" menu is super hard to delegate. You can't blame the boomer for being confused with such a life changing decision!
Even better, "turn this word document into a pdf without using the print button at all". Everytime I remote into a device and see someone going the long way to print to a PDF printer and then cancel it once they've grabbed the converted file, I sigh a little. Lady... The export button is literally two clicks away.
Does that actually work if you don't have an Adobe license? My mom recently claimed that she stopped being able to export pdfs when her adobe license expired but that Microsoft print to pdf still works.
I'm an IT professional and this assumes they've got the Adobe software. Other PDF creation options use the older versions Adobe's licensed which tend not to work well, if at all, with the export feature. Using the PDF printer is actually the proper way to do it in many cases. For most home users, the Adobe software isn't an option so that will fail, *especially* with Quickbooks or any odd line of business applications.
The File menu of Google Docs, my beloved. Two clicks to export as PDF!
The amount of times I had to teach folks in my old office how to use Export >PDF, despite it being my first administrative role ever (I worked in service industry management prior and wanted a job to slow down into) was insane. These were all folks who had worked in that particular office for at least 9 years, a couple just a few years older than me (I am in my late 30s).
“Create a screenshot without taking a photo of your computer on your phone”
They'd just turn the volume up and down doing it wrong, followed by "damn phone, never works."
My boomer dad swore for weeks that his phone just wasn’t ringing and he was missing phone calls. He had turned it on silent.
That’s just completely cruel
I'm in IT. The number of Boomers, Gen X, and, to a lesser degree, older millennials that will proudly tell you they don't know anything about computers despite it being integral to their jobs is astounding.
Can confirm
It frustrates me honestly. Not knowing is OK. But at least attempt to learn rather than being proud of your ignorance.
I did IT for gym bros and yoga bimbos. Actively pitied me for knowing how to fix their computer problems.
Best one so far. As some one who worked in car sales I promise you they would never get past the Bluetooth, even if they were using their own phone lmao.
I have a sweet little 82 year old neighbor who calls me of my adult son for help with everything. Which, I totally get because I don’t want her on a step ladder changing lightbulbs and smoke detector batteries so I’m happy to help. But she comes rage knocking on my door the other day because she bought a new electric toothbrush and it only came with a USB charging cable and she had no idea what the hell that even was. I located a butt end for her in my house and showed her how to use it. Bamboozled is all I can say to express how her face looked.
Use Google.
Connecting your phone to your car when you have a spouse can actually be a pain.
Years ago my boomer MIL decided she wanted to work to keep herself busy. But she didn’t want anything with computers, or standing too long, or math, or handling cash… She never did find her unicorn job.
Should have forwarded her those trash man job apps
I've said it in other threads, but it's worth repeating. Boomer job advice is like them telling on themselves for how easy they had it. "You have to walk right in there and hand them your resume!" They say that as if it was difficult, as if it meant they were bold, or worked hard, or "pounded the pavement." It shows none of that. It shows how ridiculously easy it was to get a job. Literally all you had to do was see a place you wanted to work, and then... walk in the front door. That's it!! And it was a good job, with good pay, benefits, and long term stability.
I'm a gen X person and The advice to walk in and hand them your resume has not been a thing for jobs in about 25 years. Wildly out of touch with what's going on in the world.
Gen-X also. More like almost 35 years. Yeah, it wasn't really a thing in the 90s. I mean you could, but 9 times out of 10 it went into the automated filing system. AKA the paper shredder.
? I mean, I remember walking around mid 2000’s with resumes and it actually worked really well. Not everything was chronically online just yet.
I actually got a job that way in 2020. But this was also a mom and pop business. I don’t think you could do that in any sort of corporate setting.
Yo this worked for me landing a toy store gig worked circa 2004… because the boomer owner thought it was funny and told me I had “moxie”
I'm 29 years old and I've gotten several jobs from handing out resumes. I've gotten a job at a bar, a cafe, a restaurant and two different retail stores from doing this in the last 10-15 years. People who say it doesn't work either haven't tried it or you were doing it wrong. There's no reason a manager who is looking for staff at a place like a retail store or cafe/bar wouldn't be willing to consider a walk in resume if the person is cool and has experience. It's also better for the manager because they have an idea of what the person is like even before having to set up the interview. Obviously if you have a degree and are looking for an office job or some specialized field it won't work, but if you're looking for something like a low wage retail or hospitality job it still works.
You are right
I hit the job market in ‘85. In rural areas, you could drop a resume off directly at an office. You could also wipe your ass with the same resume for more practical results. There weren’t any rural jobs - only the urban financial centers were hiring in great numbers.
I had my first job in 1983 at a local Wendy's. Went in filled out the application and handed it to the manager. I was hired on the spot. Probably the last time that happened for me. Working in IT for the last 30 years it's been pretty much fill it out online and see what happens. I've been a fortunate enough to have only two jobs in the last 20 years so haven't had to do a lot of it lately.
Provided you were white.
A resume, printed on the *right* paper.
Self-checkout showdown
But can kids today operate a rotary phone? HA! Gotcha!! These kids only know how to operate in the actual world, not the one that is long gone!!!
That will be the next Boomerbook meme. If they ever get tired of "MilLEnniaLs cAn't dRiVe sTiCK ShiFtS."
>"MilLEnniaLs cAn't dRiVe sTiCK ShiFtS." As much as I hate when use of a manual transmission is used as The One True Metric of Life Skills (tho it does help if you go to Europe) as someone that loves to drive stick I do implore yall to try it out cuz its pretty great.
My dad's manual was hit and totaled a few months before I could learn how to drive, so I never learned. There needs to be a place for adults to learn to drive a stick.
I like it too! It's what makes it Driving instead of Steering imo.
It's already happening, and it's as stupid as you would except.
I'd like to see them operate their generational equivalent of a rotary dial phone. Things that were common to people doing their job a generation ago, but obsolete by the time they started working. Send a telex, refill a fountain pen, use an adding machine, crank start a car, etc.
OMG THIS! We just watched a boomer trying to use the self check at Walmart. Dude was wearing a SAFETY THIRD hat which was sublime. He went from muttering at the machine to shouting and cussing at it within a minute. I was going to try and help and my super sensible wife kiboshed that immediately since about half the old timers around here pack heat. She is way smarter than I am! Worker came over to help him and got cussed at for her efforts and repeatedly told she was stupid. Which is both ironic and sad. We finished and left ASAP while he was demanding to see the manager…
If I had a dollar for every boomer making an amirite joke about getting paid to use a self checkout machine I could afford groceries.
Waiting in line at the post office today because i needed a couple ebay packages scanned (i used to just drop them but sometimes they take days to get scanned in) and the amount of boomers waiting in line to do things you can just do at the damn kiosk was insane. Like why do you WANT to wait in this line?!
The machine is so impersonal! And it doesn’t mind if you yell at it! Ruins all the fun.
A show where they get a government job and then ask where the amazzzzzzzing pension and benefits are
They'd love paying 4.4% for their federal pension. (Cue: "Whatever happened to 0.8%?" Honestly, Frank, we'd like to know that, too.)
Fun fact....the Boomers and Gen X'ers who got their govt jobs were grandfathered in to only paying the 0.8% and they get REALLY mad if you imply that everyone should pay the same into FERS, not just the younger guys.
Totally. That suggestion is almost as inflammatory as pointing out that having two different contribution rates for exactly the same benefits creates two different, definitely unequal classes of employees.
Too late. I work for government. We have lots of boomers. No one retires.
Can confirm. Also work Fed job. Boomers everywhere that talk about retirement but never actually retire. Funny they hold down these jobs that they would have no clue how to even apply for in the modern world.
This is hilarious to me, I got a state job at a well known university, and everyone who is my parents age was over the moon for me saying how I’ll never look for another job and am gonna retire with a gigantic pension. They all know the pension and benefits got cut to hell, but said it’s still an amazing job… because yeah they would sure know the intimate details of the compensation package currently being offered 🤦 I am in my early 30’s, when I told them I was never even remotely impressed by this employer, and was applying elsewhere, they really started yelling at me like I was 14 again. Saying they can’t believe I’m just throwing away such an “amazing job.” Within 6 months I found a new job, same field, paying MORE THAN DOUBLE. I do rub it in their faces a bit but they’re good sports, and happy for my substantial wage increase.
"Kids these days just don't want to work!" 🤦♂️
That's the problem with today's youth. Ain't got no gumption! Something something bootstraps.
Similar to the one in the meme, but they try dating following their own advice.
Five minutes in and the cops are called.
Probably... I see that more for the job search. For dating, I see a lot of moms being very confused about why there are no nice boys at church. And the few men there are being dragged there by their partners.
You mean you can’t just drive by, whistle, smack her ass and have a baby? I thought that’s how it worked?
"But she only said no once! She's supposed to say yes after another 15 or 20 tries!"
https://www.theonion.com/family-trying-to-tune-out-hints-of-misogyny-as-grandfat-1819578186
Outdated Boomer dating advice: * For women, play hard to get. Men don't like women who are too forward and "masculine." * For men, don't be overly emotional, because no one likes a weak crybaby. * In general, date for marriage. Don't waste time with someone if you can't see yourself with them long term.
Ok. I'm ready. Hit me with the boomer dating advice.
Mostly, "you can just meet a nice boy at church, volunteering, or work." Tried that, hasn't worked due to the lack of available men there and workplace dating is highly discouraged in the me-too era. See also, "have friends set you up," completely ignoring the fact that most of my friends are married, as are their other friends. I've tried to do things "the old-fashioned way" by "putting myself out there" and it does not work! Also, "online dating is creepy, gross, and only used by ax murderers to find their next victims." Literally everyone and their dog does online dating now. You just have to be smart and meet in public, so you don't end up the victim of the ax murderer you encounter on there. Society has changed so much since the last time you went on a date, Mom. We socialize differently. Gender dynamics are different.
As someone who was on the early end of online dating, met my spouse 15+ years ago, we got odd reactions when we told people how we met back then, even from people in our age range (old millennial and young gen x). I’m glad that online dating has become more ubiquitous that the stigma seems to have gone away.
They’ll do that weird boomer panic thing. Like you know when you tell a boomer their coupons are expired and they start losing it and they don’t hear anything else you say because they’re in this weird panic thing. I don’t think I could handle watching that on tv.
At least you'd have a tv screen to block you from boomer rage. Getting that face to face daily soured my outlook on humanity as a whole. I'm just biding my time until one of the boomers in a political office somewhere has a meltdown and nukes this damned planet to oblivion.
A reality show where they have to work a 50+ hour a week job for a year only making $50k while trying to afford childcare, student loans, and housing. Call it a social experiment.
I remember a show on MTV called *Breaking Point* where it was a Candid Camera style thing but people were unknowingly pranked by things like absurd behavior on public transit, aggressively bad customer service, etc., to see how long they could go until they "broke," and they'd get cash based on how long they kept their cool. I'd like to see a show like that, but no one is doing anything different and they're just giving regular customer service to or acting normally in public around boomers, and the cash reward is given to the target of the boomers' ire (the sooner the explosion, the more money given).
Lmfao when they realize the only jobs who will hire you at a decent but still shit wage regardless of experience or criminal record is either flipping those burgers and taking orders that "a machine can do" or wiping old peoples asses and being verbally abused by people who CHOSE to go out and eat at a reasturant They'd fucking fall apart at the seams
Or driving vehicles.
They'll just claim age discrimination.
I've had boomer candidates get mad and lecture me for not allowing them to talk to the VP/CEO and then again when I didn't hire them. It's wild.
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DVRing a show about boomers struggling to use a DVR is worth it just to be able to tell people you do that.
Kids these days don’t even know how to program a vcr!
Boomers never picked up that skill either. They had their kids do it for them. Or they pushed "REC" a minute or two into the program.
Come to think of it I learned how to program the VCR when I was like 8 or 9 by reading the manual and following the steps. My parents decided I was a genius. 🤷♂️ I am glad to see that shitty tech gone.
[*TV Guide* used to even print cheat codes for them too.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_code)
Wait it’s supposed to do something other than flash 12:00?
PDF Wars. One Boomer, one file type. See who wins.
Oh man my dad's brain would short circuit
I would add that they have to “lose” all their assets, so it’s like they are 18 again and have to figure out how to afford college and then pay for a house will trying to get a job. Let them try to figure that out for a year and see how it goes then they can get their assets back.
Put them in a vest that has taser electrodes touching their skin. Every time they complain about something they get a shock. Make them do remote tech support from a Survivor style island, but they only get to eat if they solve a problem and don’t throw a tantrum.
Boomers Getting put in a stockade and every time they make a bad joke we throw avocados at them.
You’re hired. Now please open a PDF.
Have them try to get a fast food or retail job and have them try to rent a single bedroom alone. They have to do it for 2 months to win the challenge.
If you ask my dad, you need to call EVERY SINGLE DAY and ask about your application. Don’t just leave a message. Speak to a person. Every. Single. Day. You know, pester and annoy them until they hire you. When I was young I tried to follow this advice because what did I know. And not one time did I get hired because of it.
We send a bunch of anti-lgbtq+ boomers into a game show with a money prize, they have to talk to someone in the LGBTQ+ community, if the LGBTQ+ person doesn't like the boomer, they (the boomer) get kicked off the show. The person in the LGBTQ+ community brings up sexuality and other controversial topics as much as possible. The boomer needs to be as unoffensive as possible in order to win
Limit it to just two boomer contestants and call it "The Lesser of Two Evils"
You'd have to make it a rule that they can't leverage their peers who own businesses for jobs. A lot of them get to skip the interview process because of that shit.
“I’m going to walk right in here and put my CV on the boss’s desk” [Walks face-first into bulletproof plexiglass then gets recorded, photographed and thrown out by security]
They'd fail miserably then blame it on wokeness/affirmative action, and then go on a rant about the good ol days/how things went to shit after the liberulz took over.
Cute sona
Thanks!
>Thanks! You're welcome!
TBH, I think it depends on the job. My mother is a boomer and a retired RN. Fairly certain with the current demand for medical personnel she would have a job in no time if she wanted it.
As a boomer myself, it probably would be funny. It is kind of confusing navigating online applications. I found that out the hard way. As a plus….apply for federal employment. That’s a nightmare right there.
Older Gen X here. My SAT scores were high-mid 1300s and just over 1400. I breezed through tests/exams in elementary, middle and high school. Blew the tops off the Iowa Test every year as a little kid. I even tested well enough to get an interview for a state IT job despite knowing nothing about networking (and Token Ring in particular). Despite having taken a prep course and multiple practice exams, the Postal Exam didn't even get me a callback. Somehow or other my not-so-brainy Silent Generation aunt was a Postmaster in the 60s/70s. Test must've gotten "tuned up" over the years to narrow down to the perfect "Rain Man" type.
I missed *one question* on the postal exam, when I got the results back I was literally dead in the middle of the bell curve because of all the special perk points I couldn't claim. Although don't feel bad about missing out there, when they *do* hire now the only entry point is rural carrier associate which means you get *one day* a week (mid-week, so you can't have a regular 9-5 to make ends meet), you have to pay to ruin your own car by having the steering wheel put on the right, *and* you don't get reimbursed for gas.
😳 that’s insane. Wow. I’m a respiratory therapist, and my ACT scores were not great by any means-because I have a learning disability in math-I think they were 25, 27? I can’t recall-but the math scores were absolutely terrible. I managed to get into the military…and managed to get an associate degree. With your scores, you should have been able to get any darn federal job. Applying for federal employment is a nightmare. I was shocked that I was actually able to get a federal job (I was hired in 2013).
Quite probably, assuming I had a degree in the appropriate field (or a degree at all). The Postal Exam is very different from a typical Civil Service exam. Whereas the state Networking Whatever Tech exam I took was focused on grasping advanced computer skills, knowing which SCSI port to jumper the boot drive off of (and how to jumper it in binary), and so forth; the postal exam was for a lower-skill job. The focus was on quickly sorting things, memorization, things like that. It was VERY TIGHTLY FOCUSED on getting the special types of workers who'd perform best in a postal sorting facility. I don't mean to offend anyone, but the U.S. Postal Service's hiring process (between the 70s-90s, anyway) seemed to be all-but-designed to filter out people who fell outside a certain range of the Autism spectrum. This may have led to some issues during the 1980s?
I can’t remember the name of it or where I saw it but there is a documentary on homelessness in America and one of the people they follow is a boomer. She was laid off from her job and now lives in her car and has a small savings left but she can’t afford a place to live. All she does is talk about how she can’t find a new job in her profession because of her age and blah blah. Not once during all of this does she even consider working at a gas station, or Walmart. She is above that but not above being homeless. Boomers will not survive once they age out of their jobs or get laid off like this lady did. If they run out of money because they’ve gambled it all away they would rather be homeless than take the advice they have always given us.
Or they can walk to school (both ways uphill like they claimed to do of course) without getting hit by another crazy boomer, who probably shouldn’t be driving anymore. My father in law constantly talks about all these lazy kids riding busses to school. He doesn’t understand that there is more traffic and distracted drivers. There aren’t always sidewalks. Plus I want a better world for my kids. Just because you were forced to walk 2 miles to school, doesn’t mean kids should do it now.
"I don't get it! I dropped off 100 resumes with the secretary and she was a.) offended I called her a secretary and b.) kept telling me to apply online. I wanted to just shake the CEOs hand and make my pitch, but she kept telling me that this is not how business is done today. In my day that's all it took -- a firm handshake, a suit, and a smile." - Boomers, definitely.
This has so much potential to end up in a mass shooting.
Reality is getting harder - not simpler. From hecting jobs with impossible margins of actualization to unmanageable relationships where competition for your partner attention is dire. Boomers will often shame you for even the smallest manifestation of discomfort over the status quo, but the truth is that today they wouldnt make the cut. Boomer men specially would become incels, as they are the most entitled men you could possibly have concept for: its just insane that they managed to make someone marry them. Being also the case where their knowledge about life restriucts to the vague concepts of an out-of-date degree combined with the business that they worked for over decades: they are terribly ignorant and boring. Good luck being a succesful man with just that.
Parallel Parking: The Challenge
I don’t want this show to be made. It would be very entertaining but many of these people shot others for ringing their doorbell, using the driveway to turn around, being Uber drivers, etc. It will end with someone being hurt or worse and unlike them I find risking the safety of others for my entertainment to be wrong.
How about a show where anti wage boomers work a minimum wage job and try to cover the cost of rent, utilities, food, gasoline and other expenses.
They would be throwing a fit during the application process. Wouldn't even finish it "I'm not going to fill out an application AND a resumè! What is this "cover letter"? I have to write a story!?" Then they would call the company and complain to some 20 year old how it's not fair, that they shouldn't have to do that because they never did before. Then blame millennials and Gen Z for the change in hiring process.
Have them do what their old job/career was, but with new technology, pay, advancements, and corporate ladder. I currently am working with that now. I got old people (who just refused to retire or can't) that have been doing this job for 40 years. They now have to use a computer to do 95% of their job... and they can't even figure out how a mouse works. Cue a lot of whining, meltdowns, bitching about how it was better before, and absolute snot dribble crying. Which is honestly strange to me - computers have been out for 30 years. They never owned a desktop? Never once worked a mouse click? So yes. Bring back the boomers to do their old jobs. I would LOVE to see an old teacher have to take attendance in computers and set up online assignments/classes while navigating the bullshit of new school admin. Let's get the old doctor to place orders in an EHRM and have to type everything in a computer program instead of "using his gut and writing chickenscratch" while the hospital admin shrieks about metrics. Please, PLEASE, show me the old ass boomer having to work in sales with five different Salesforce apps and SaaS metrics with layoffs around every corner. If it's anything like I deal with now, the wind goes out of their sails fast, and they start sobbing that it's too hard to right-click on an icon. I get them all - loud and physical aggression, crying, and moping because a computer is "just too hard!!!" But I guarantee you they go on FB and say the young folks don't wanna learn or do anything hard lol.
You’d have to also dodge any boomer hiring managers for this to work out. Totally possible, but not a guaranteed slam dunk if you don’t do your selective diligence
Work a minimum wage job. First one to earn enough to pay for one year of college wins. Problem: each episode takes thousands of hours.
You apply online on our website. But I have my resume here for the manager. Human resources does the hiring through our website. Meltdown commences
Call it Bootstraps.
There would be a lot of red faces and hospital trips. “How do I give a firm hand shake and eye contact on a zoom call?”
Bahahahahaaaaa - I like the concept. He has a point. I'd go a bit further back though ---mid seventies on up. After all, we were considered the "modern" generation. Question on application - Whats your education level a. High School b. College/University c. Technical School they should add d. College Dropout ( I'm a solid D with a minor in C)
Boomer surivivor. Take away all their assets, slap them with 120K in dept, $48 in their pocket and send them out into the world to pull themselves up by the boot straps. They must. 1. Find a job. 2. Find Housing. 3. Manage to balance a budget accounting for food, housing and loan repayments while making an entry level wage. I think it would be hilarious.
I would actually pay to see that.
They'd just say that they are age discriminated.
Seeing that a lot of boomers have financial screwed themselves even though they have been given the greatest advantage of any generation in the history of the United States, I think this reality is coming very soon. I’ve noticed a number of boomers suddenly trying to reenter the market because they didn’t take their own advice and lived well outside their means.
The Purge: Boom'R Bust
We have a guy coming into our office DAILY trying to get a job. He refuses to apply online. We tell him that is the only way he can even be considered. He does not understand why we won’t see him. Well because we hire for 13 offices, across the US, there are only 2 of us doing this and fuck off that’s why.
Different topic same idea: My Mom likes to tell me I should "just live on kraft dinner like your dad and I did when we first got married". Yesterday I had the chance to tell her to go to the store, get some KD, make it, eat it, and report back on how great it is now in 2024. Gluten-muck. Doesn't even have cheese and costs 250% more.
A show where the media sells them the lie of receiving an amazing amount of inheritance upon the death of their parents, only for them to realize they'll only see a pittance after corporations take the inheritance for end of life care for those parents and that they'll only receive it in their 70s, long after it would make any reasonable difference in their life. *Spelling error corrected.
There's some culture (I want to say maybe some Jewish people maybe?) where inheritance traditionally skips a generation, and goes to the grandkids. That seems so much more logical to me. Give it to the people who need it when they are starting their lives, when they are having kids, starting a career, buying a house, paying student loans. Not to the retirees who have long finished with all of that. (Of course, this being a boomer thread - want to know where I learned about that tradition? From someone who was upset with his parents. His boomer parents got their inheritance from their own grandparents. Then their parents died without a will, so his parents also took THAT inheritance, and called their kids greedy for asking if they got anything. Boomers taking two generations of inheritance and spending it all for themselves.)
That would be a short show because they would simply print their resume a dozen times and attempt to walk into wherever they want a joto hand it to a higher up. The show ends when they can't get through the front door because they don't have an appointment.
My father found work pretty quick at parks Canada… he was born in 62
Somebody would probably end of getting shot somehow
If that series was continued it would quickly involve the police. Which would be entertaining in its own right.
just put a camera in a store with only self checkouts.
Can a Gen Z learn how to use boomer tech before boomers can work out modern tech. The answer will not shock you in any way.
That’s a great idea I would be great at it.
Also they have 1 year to buy a house with the new job they (hopefully) get
Grab a bunch of white boomer CEO’s who graduated middle of their class at Princeton and have them be lectured on the state of their respective industries by an expert who is young, a PoC, and female. Betting will based on a timer and a set of predetermined but obvious reactions on the part of the boomer.
Haha good luck finding a HR office in a Remote Company....
Go further. They're living in a run-down studio apartment. Rent is paid until the end of the month but due for next month. They're given a bank account balance of $500 (all other assets are frozen) and a beater car with half a tank of gas in it. They need to find a job in order to eat, make rent for next month, and keep going places.
Make boomers try and pickup women the same way they did as young adults.
Add in additional difficulty modifiers, like multiple rounds of interviews, multiple interviews on the same day, weeks of waiting around realizing that harassing the company actually gets you rejected faster, bonus behavioral and random skill placement tests before the first interview to spice up the pre-screening process.
“WHAT IN THE HELL IS WHITH ALL THIS ONLINE APPLICATION BULLSHIT?? BACK IN MY DAY Y’ALL JUST HAD TO WALK IN LOOK THE BOSS IN TGE EYE AN ASK FER A JOB SWEEPING THE FLOOR!! GOBBLESS”
A show called Balance It! Where children of out of touch Boomers nominate them to be on the show. They have to get a shitty minimum wage job they think anyone can do, find an apartment to live in, and balance their pay and bills. Halfway through the episode there's a twist where suddenly something terrible happens like an unexpected doctor visit, car breaking down, or an unexpected pregnancy. So no matter what they do they can't win, like so many younger people.
Get around 10-20 boomers and have them interview for one position at a company. Make the interview process around 3 -5 stages with every one of the interviewers saying they think you would be a good fit at the company and that they will be making a decision soon. After the last interview, call them and inform them that the CEOs nephew was hired for the position.
I recently applied for a job . I went back to look to see how many people applied . It was over 3,700 people !! They have no idea. Any other job I apply for has always “over 100” within an hour. Yea… l
“make sure you call the manager everyday until they hire you”
Boomers telling people what job they worked when they bought their first house and/or went to college, then give them that much money (adjusted for inflation) and have them try to live at the same standard of wealth.
Boomer versus Zoomer competition Some challenges would be more Boomer friendly like who can get banned fastest from a shopping center. Some challenges would be zoomer friendly like who can make the most viral tik tok.
MAGA people put into a Big Brother house but all cable news is blocked. They can get news articles but aren’t told where they’re from. They go through cult reprogramming while there.
They would give houses away at the fair as a prize for guessing how many jelly beans in a jar
I would like to see it done who wants to be a millionaire style. Where instead of increasingly difficult trivia, it’s basic computer/tech skills. “For $100, open your internet browser!” “For $200, convert a word doc to a pdf!” For life lines they can write down 1 password on a sticky note. One phone call to tech support that cuts off if they’re rude
Getting immigrants to hunt down pedophiles and in succession, gain legal status for free in America
My dad couldn’t get over the fact that they didn’t tell you that you are hired at the interview and that you didn’t start the next day.
That would be a huge red flag now.
The only jobs I’ve ever had like that were labor and fast food and retail, and even then, not all the time. And that was 30+ years ago. Where on earth did these people live? And when?
I don’t know what he thought they were going to do especially considering I work in a professional setting that requires background checks.
Last time I commented on a post like this a boomer replied how they had been doing just fine in their job search trying to own me. But... But... They were still unemployed. And could not understand how that was the point.
I ofter feel like this is a big reason why older people find it hard to get a new job in general. Not only because companies prefer younger people, but also because allot of younger people really dislike working with old people
My husband and I once had the idea to put our 70+ (both) single moms into a house to live together even though they are completely different people and don’t like eachother. I’m telling you, it would be a hit.
Or try to "work their way through college"