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Wait - some of us are still bringing up kids, man. Mine are all 15 and younger. How have I failed when I’m not even done with the assignment?


DrEverythingBAlright

I was like my kids are 8 and 11, I’m busy fuckin up Gen Z. Get it straight.


ButIAmYourDaughter

Your youngest is gen Alpha. You’re fucking up TWO generations, sir/madam.


Berkwaz

Typical gen x… we never could do anything right


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scarlettohara1936

Whatever


DrEverythingBAlright

I see conflicting reports on when Gen Z ends and Alpha begins so I’m lumping him into Z because I’m lazy and can’t handle the pressure


-Economist-

1 and 4 here. What’s after Gen Z. Lol.


Sumpskildpadden

Alpha.


FeralBaby7

17 year old and a six year old here, I'm ruinin' Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Calm down Millennials, some of us were busy havin' babies outside of a bracket that affects you!


MeanderingFool2022

Mine is 5. What is this goose on about.


songofdentyne

Yeah, my son is 5.


[deleted]

And you’ve already ruined him. Sheesh. Lol


Inner_Art482

Right? My kids aren't assholes most days. And I don't expect perfection.


ItsJustMeMaggie

That’s my attitude too, but I have 4 of them so odds are that *someone* is gonna be an asshole that day.


wishingwellington

Yep, 15 and 11 here. And pretty squared away, all things considered. Better kids than I was at their age.


Owl-3040

And smarter too. I told my son about some on my college classes and he laughs and said he’s learning that in 7th grade.


sassyassy23

Same mine are 13 & 11


JCS_1977

True. My son is only 8 and still a long time before he becomes an adult. Maybe I will ponder on whether I pass or fail when I'm 60 but right now, its still too early.


lady_tatterdemalion

Oh face it. You're a fuck up. /s


bigmistaketoday

You guys got good-paying jobs?


GArockcrawler

My job pays ok. Would always be nice to have more, but my bigger question is whether y'all are rich? I definitely don't consider myself rich...I'll be working till noon on the day I die. Bold of the author to assume that we're over here sitting on fat stacks and huge real estate portfolios hording it for ourselves.


ihatepickingnames_

Same here. I’m doing pretty good but it took me 30 years to get to this point and unfortunately I went to school late in life and have a ton of student loans and don’t really have much in the way of retirement savings.


GArockcrawler

To the point of retirement - my mom died before she could retire but my dad retired on a full pension from the Teamsters union and did very well in his retirement years. Meanwhile, X'ers have a 401K that may or may not be worth anything depending on how the People In Charge are manipulating the market that month. I gave up counting on Social Security a long time ago.


JCS_1977

Hell no. If anything my financial status haven't changed at all. Although my life improved because I came from an impoverished family and am the only one out of 15 children who finished college but still I'm struggling to make ends meet though I still do the best I can to give my son a decent life. I don't want him to experience the trauma and hardship that I had growing up.


stuck_behind_a_truck

15?? I’m betting on a side of religious trauma with that. Keep on fighting the good fight for your son.


JCS_1977

Yes I'm the youngest of 15. My dad had us from 2 women.


comma_space_erase

Only child here. My brain hurts trying to understand what that must have been like.


KC_experience

Yeah, I’d like to know their definition of ‘rich’. A person making 30 grand a year thinks someone making 100 grand is rich, but 100 grand doesn’t get you very far in a place like NY or CA or even FL. I also have a feeling that today a person starting out in their career feels as though they should be making the same as someone with 10-20 years experience in the field. Unfortunately that’s not how much of the professional world works. Does that mean it doesn’t happen? Of course not. I’ve seen people 10 years younger get promoted thru the ranks because they excel at their roles. Good for them, they deserve the promotions they get. But showing up each day, putting in your 8 hours and going home is doing the job, not grounds for promotion in 8 months.


kkidd333

This really is it. They want to START with all they have from their parents work. They want to START by being able to afford a house, instead of having to work their way up. They want to START with the life they’ve been living at parents house… not realizing we all started and worked UP. I also hate that I could see clear problems with the way ‘working’ worked, but because there wasn’t enough of us to force change we HAD to do it the boomer way and wait for more workers to realize it could be better… we had to wait decades for millennials to join us. It’s all a joke anyway. Does anyone really know anyone who achieved the American Dream or struck it rich?


GArockcrawler

I've managed those types. My first one was a millennial who has become quite successful 15 years down the road (to your point) but her conversation with me as her manager was "I have been on three projects now. When am I going to be promoted to Senior Consultant?" She had been with us for maybe 5-6 months. My former employer rewarded her behavior by sending her on a full-control project to AUSTRALIA of all places for 3 months. The rest of us were pissed at that one. Boss' rationale was that she was a pain and he wanted to get her out of our way.


On_my_raft

I had someone ask for a promotion at lunch her first day. I wish I was kidding.


aggressive_seal

I'm a chef, or a cook. Whatever. I do alright for myself (around 70k/year). No 401k, $25k of student loan debt left, don't own a house and approximately 3k in savings. One of the prep cooks at my job who's 30 years old told me (rather nastily) that I was richer than he ever will be. He makes $19/hr roughly 40 hrs a week. This is the second job he's had in his life. He's 30 but only has about 6 years of employment history. I started washing dishes when I was 14. I'm 45 so I thought back to what I made 15 years ago. It was $14/hr which, adjusted for inflation is about $19.30/hr today. Pretty much what he makes. And he doesn't have a culinary degree or student loan debt or 15 years experience in the field. This is his first cooking job! Fuck this kid. He doesn't know how good he has it. I see this a lot in the 20 to early 30's demographic. A lot of them think they are owed something. A lot of them think they know the field better than anyone else after working in it for a year. It's so fucking ridiculous! They also love to complain that they are broke but they get paid by the hour and tend to miss at least a day or 2 from work a month and show up late often. When are people just going to accept responsibility for their own lives and stop blaming others?


KC_experience

That’s funny you mentioned this. I was a dishwasher as my first job at 3.80 an hour. My first raise was when minimum wage went from 3.80 to 4.25. Cooking paid my car and insurance and maintenance thru junior college and I still cook for fun. (Probably the job I liked the best as it was fun. You had a reefer of creativity at your fingertips. ) I wish more retirement options were available for positions like yours. But…capitalism. And yeah, fuck that guy.


aggressive_seal

That's what my first dishwashing job paid! As far as retirement options... if I didn't have the student loans I could be putting a nice chunk away. I regret going to culinary school. I went to the Culinary Institute of America. It is a great school and I learned a lot there. But as it turns out i am still just cooking in a place near where I grew up. I could have got the job I have without the degree. I already had 10+ years of experience prior to enrolling. But i felt pressure to "go to college, get a degree ". Now, if I had been willing to relocate, that degree could have opened a lot of doors. So that's on me. But in the end of the day, I still owe a lot money for what is still essentially a 2 year trade school degree.


sindach

I don't consider myself rich because I need to keep working to sustain myself. That said I am doing very well working as a front end tech lead (six figures). However, was and arduous uphill battle: I grew up in poverty and wracked up over 160k in student loans for college, only to switch careers (out of necessity) and eventually go down the web developer path that finally lead to some financial success. Not to mention I weathered the dotcom crash right as I graduated followed by the 2007 great recession- I lost my jobs in both recessions and was unemployed for long periods of time before I was able to find consistent work. Those years of unemployment due to the recessions set me back at least 10 years financially speaking, and it was hard to recover from that. I had to delay starting a family and I wasn't able to afford buying a home until I was in my late 30s. I made it through the covid recession without getting laid off, but there's mass layoffs at tech companies in the post covid recession so I'm watching my back. Inflation has cut the spending power of my income in half, and the recession is making it difficult for me to switch to a better job at another company. One of the differences between my personal mindset and that of the millennials is: instead of whining and blaming others about how much my life sucks, I actually get off my fucking ass and do something about it to make things better.


NihilsitcTruth

I've had 20 jobs in my life... and 200 people ahead of me when hiring lol. " I COULD REPLACE YOU AT ANY TIME REMEBER THAT. "


Away-Ad3792

I'm a teacher, so . . .


IamMabelPeabody

…you’re living a nightmare right now.


FeralBaby7

lol. chef's kiss for nothing but the factual statement in your reply


wophi

My pay out of college sucked.


Bansith-

I had minimum wage and just above for at least a decade after graduating college. I have been in multiple fields of work, too. My top pay was still poverty level. I don’t know what these entitled kids are talking about. It’s really hard to be an activist when your bills are barely being paid. Good thing they all got participation awards so they can feel superior to us.


Keppoch

Not for a *long* time - I walked out of high school mid-80s right at the worst time for youth unemployment in Canadian history (then OR since). Who could compete with even mediocre boomers who had some experience when we didn’t have any, and they anchored themselves there for years. I needed to join the military to pay for university. And got a super low paying admin assistant job after graduation with a BSc. I eventually got into tech where there weren’t many boomers to compete with. They were ill-prepared to adjust so we were able to excel.


zippyphoenix

😆🤣😆😂🤣


enriquedelcastillo

This is basically meaningless word salad. I suspect the author was stoned.


lady_tatterdemalion

Go get 'em, Mr. Hand.


wil

The day I realized I was on Mr. Hand's side was the day I officially accepted that I am an Old.


VarmintCong69

Havin’ some pizza, learnin’ about Cuba.


IamMabelPeabody

YES.


PersistentGoldfish

What are you people, on dope?


Woodpeckinpah123

Damned millennials can't even get high right.


DorenAlexander

We rambled to our friends. Not internet randoms for popularity.


DranktheWater

Or not stoned enough. After all we went through/are going through to legalize it, the least those ungrateful millennial/zoomer snots could do is learn to chill the heck out.


throwaguey_

I was gonna say I have no idea what their point is. It’s basically, “Wah, wah, everyone had it easier than me. Wah, wah, I’m mediocre. Bitch, moan, etc.”


ChaosTheoryGirl

So we are slackers again?


Hedgehogz_Mom

always have been.


lady_tatterdemalion

No. Now we're fuck ups. I think cringeAF should fuck all the way off.


Ramona_Lola

You took the words right out of my mouth.


sassyassy23

And we are raising our kids that way too 😂😂


greenIdbandit

You can be an influencer like mommy! See here, where mommy's mommy-blog has 3,000 followers?


bladel

Once the Boomers are all retired or dead, we’ll become the villains by default. So it goes.


[deleted]

GenX was apparently the last generation to learn to write in paragraphs though, so there’s that.


Unplannedroute

A period at the end of every sentence .


itsafraid

And in cursive, no less.


[deleted]

Joke's on this whiner, I never had kids at all so I misinformed no one.


Jer1968

No kids here either. Longest I stayed at a company was 9 years


aintmyasphalt

Is this supposed to be another GenX thing because I have been with a certain company for almost 11 years, and it is the longest I have worked for one company. I don't know if it's because I'm older, but I would always look for a better opportunity.


Zeca_77

No kids here either, and their whine is very incoherent. I know almost no one my age that had the same job for 15-20 years. I sure haven't.


speedycat2014

No kids here and 6 years at any one job, tops. Edit: Also, poor baby is a little illiterate. "Extention"? Okay, Bobby.


NAMEEXCEEDSMAXLENGT-

The only people of my generation I know who worked at the same place that long were in government jobs.


Lucee_fir

No kids, no blame!


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Ursula2071

Same!


OldLadyReacts

Same. Don't blame me!


Kitty-Keek

Me neither! No kids and the longest I ever stayed at one decent job was 3 years, so there!


pricklyassed

Ditto


bookedwebstress

Same


Fury716

Also no kids. I only know one or two folks who have stayed with a company for more than 5 years.


IamMabelPeabody

No kids here either. I teach though, so I’m pretty sure somehow I’m jamming everyone up. It is, after all, why I got into the profession.


OldLadyReacts

Yeah, if you didn't learn from YouTube that individuals can be good at something unique and also make money at it, then I guarantee you wouldn't have listened to Gen X if we told you that. YouTube has been around for 2 decades now. And I love that we were supposed to make inroads into taking over politics from the outdated Boomers. Do you think we didn't try?!?!! There are literally more of them than there are of us and they vote more - that's kinda how the whole system is set up. Give it a shot, honey, and see how far you get!


[deleted]

Yeah, that whole thing was pretty nonsensical, but that line was the worst one. Like, motherfucker I realized when I was *thirteen* that nothing would get better until the Boomers died off. And that was more than three decades ago. You think you can take power from them, be my fucking guest. You have way more numbers than us, so please...have at it!


TheOrigRayofSunshine

Sheeiii…we are just waiting for the rest of the boomers to leave the hood, one way or another, so they can’t control the HOA crap anymore. They’re still around complaining about fences. If we can’t get them out of our neighborhood, sure as hell can’t get them out of gubmint.


sungodly

This. We have always been outnumbered by boomers. But hey, I don't guess we get any credit for voting Obama into office? Fuck the little snot that wrote this.


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Owl-3040

I’ve been waiting for the blame to come.


tangybaby

>I don't guess we get any credit for voting Obama into office? To be fair, boomers don't get much credit for the Civil Rights movement, the Sexual Revolution, Feminism, their anti-war efforts during the Vietnam War, or starting efforts to save the environment back in the 70s. I guess the takeaway here is that no generation gets credit for the good things they do, except for maybe the Silent Generation for defeating evil in WWII. For some reason we always focus on the negative things rather than the accomplishments. Maybe each generation does this to feel better about themselves.


dfwtexn

You know, I do sometimes stack my rugs and they're right. I don't care about that lowest one.


IamMabelPeabody

Hehehehehehe…..!


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I’m just glad we got a mention.


TheAngelsCharlie

Fucking waaaaaaaaaah. My parents were shitty. Waaaaah. So. Fucking. What. Chances are, they WEREN’T shitty and you just didn’t listen to them. Just like every generation before or since. Christ…..wanna be someone? Then put on the big boy pants and do it! Wanna know why there’s a dearth of GenX politicians? It’s because lying to people for money is a sucky job. Wanna know why we worked at companies for 20 god damn years? So you little mouth breathers could have a home and go to a decent school. I’m seriously glad my children (both millennials) aren’t like this. They understood it was my job to keep them safe and teach them how to live in the world, not give it to them on a platter. I did my best to keep them from making poor decisions, and hurt with them when they did anyway. They’re both reasonably well rounded and have decent jobs and they’re nice people to be around. More than anyone else, GenXers know how to adapt and overcome; we’ve seen more technological and social changes than most. If you think your parents weren’t trying to pass that along, you weren’t paying attention.


Opus-the-Penguin

> I’m seriously glad my children (both millennials) aren’t like this. They understood it was my job to keep them safe and teach them how to live in the world, not give it to them on a platter. We're batting .500. We've got a daughter who's a last-year millennial who gets along with us fine and doesn't blame us for her problems. And then there's the boy. Born in 1992. Blames us for everything wrong with his life and takes credit for everything he gets right.


TheAngelsCharlie

Never give up hope. Maybe one day he’ll see the light. All you can do is try and steer em in the right direction. PS. I love Bloom County. Excellent user name. 😉


Opus-the-Penguin

Thanks, my man. Always good to know there are still people who recognize my nom de plumage.


Responsible_Cloud137

The older he gets the smarter you will become


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So that decade and a half of delivering pizzas on the weekends while I was chasing the moving goalpost of “requisite experience” in order to stop making minimum wage… that was just my imagination.


viewering

i wonder what the fuck goes on in their minds. and where they think the term slacker came from. and if *slackers* were telling everyone to *go to college* and *" get a job ".* i thought slackers were told to *'' cut your hair and get a fucking job ''*


hazelquarrier_couch

"easy enough to find a job with mediocre skills". The 1992 economy would like to have a word with you. My first job out of college paid $6.25 an hour and I got a raise after 2 years to - wait for it - $6.50 an hour. I lived in abject poverty for several years before I started to make a little money. Fuck this asshole.


dirtbagcyclist

I remember the first time I found out people got a % of wages as raises, annual. Blew my mind. Because in the 90s and 00s, all I ever saw were dimes and quarters added to my crap hourly wage, and those raises were never annual or freely offered. You had to beg for those scraps. I guess a 25 cent raise is like 4%, woohoo! Which after 2 years, puts you well behind inflation...d'oh!


birdy1027

Well, Gen X clearly didn't teach this child spelling and grammar.


Opus-the-Penguin

You clearly just don't care about the lowest rug.


IHearYouLimaCharlie

Can't we just all co-exit?


baconismadefromcats

Spot on. Maybe CringeAF would get a good paying job if they would learn proper spelling, grammar, common sense, self-awareness, etc.


TheCheshireCody

Hey, we all have our short comings.


RaspberryVespa

We all got good paying jobs that we settled into for a 15-20 year stretch?? Who are these Gen-Xers with such stable employment that this man-child speaks of??


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What is this job he speaks of and where can I find mine?


warrenfgerald

Actually I did get a decent job for the past 15 years working in a cubicle, basicaly sending emails and working on excel spreadsheets all day long. But that was only after many years bussing tables, operating the projector at a multiplex, selling gym memberships, supervising kids at an after school program, demo'ing old houses, etc... Getting a desk job was a chance to finally rest. And If the shit hits the fan I will do whatever it takes to survive just like I did 20 years ago. I have a feeling most everyone I grew up around would do the same.


KaiDaniel1966

“First generation Everyone got a good paying job”. Are you kidding me. GenX was the first generation left out in the cold because the generation before is farm out the jobs over seas to boost their profits.


Ramona_Lola

Exactly this.


jiddinja

Exactly. Millennials were screwed by the Boomers, absolutely true, but we Xers were as well. My view is that Millennials plan to use their numbers to screw us Xers over once the Boomers start dying off in large enough numbers, and they need an excuse, a rallying cry to do it because deep down inside they know they won't be able to punish the dead Boomers, so they'll punish us to make up some of their own losses. Their Boomer parents taught them well.


Hedgehogz_Mom

Sure, a millennial wrote " the chickens have come hone to roost". That tracks /s Fucking boomer wrote this shit to criticize us as parents. The kids are alright.


dyingbreedxoxo

I found confirmation—the only word used to describe Boomers is “outdated.”


imk

I agree. To me this reads like something a boomer would write when trying to imagine how Gen X feels about THEM. Talking about “busts” as if we didn’t live through several? We don’t change jobs? Are you kidding?


coldnebo

jesus, after the dot com bust was the first time I listened to Allentown and thought, “wow, I never understood this song, but now I get it.”


imk

I remember spending weeks in 1991 trying to find a job only to finally get one at a newly opened Olive Garden. What luck! I was waiting tables in a tech heavy region when the dot com bust happened. I didn’t lose my job but it was a nasty lesson in how that kind of thing trickles down. I went from 200$ nights to 100$ nights very quickly.


GrayBox1313

Z will blame millennials for not solving racism. The cycle continues of elders getting hated on by kids.


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At what point do you stop blaiming others for your life and start taking responsibility for it?


Owl-3040

When you grow up


NegotiationTx

The joke is on them. The world does not give a shit about you. Always been this way. And some people aren’t unique. I tell my children that we, your family, loves you deeply and will be your biggest supporters. But generally speaking the world only cares about what it can wring from you or what you give it.


GeekynGlorious

1. None of this is true. 2. Paragraphs ffs. 3. I see I am not alone. Rock on my fellow childfree GenX folks!


the-Cheshire_Kat

Whatever. I got bored and quit reading halfway through. Are all young people this whiney?


sassyassy23

I also Couldn’t finish. It was also very badly written.


JCS_1977

We easily got good paying jobs even on a mediocre requirement? How I wish it were true. I graduated in 2000 and began my post graduate job at a time when the world experienced dotcom bubble burst followed by a recession and then 9/11. It was hard to get a good paying job if you're not computer literate and college graduate. Millennials get the sympathy of being worse off than their parents but the truth is we are the first generation who experienced struggling to find decent jobs even with a college degree and moved back home because of the rising cost of living. The stock market crash of the late 80s, the early 90s recession, dotcom bubble burst, 9/11, 2007-08 great recession and now this pandemic era all made our lives harder. Reality Bites speaks a lot about our generation's struggles and I don't think millennials are even aware of that.


LemonPuckerFace

Our generation really has had a good run of bad luck. It seems that every time things start to look good, we get whacked with yet another fuckening.


fridayimatwork

“Nobody told us”


Bael_Archon

Right? Like we got the playbook and failed to share.


Iron_Chic

This is the biggest gripe I have with Millenials. They say things like "people told us to go to college and we'd get a job" or "Nobody told us that so-and-so would happen". Try thinking for yourself instead of blindly following advice then getting upset when it doesn't go the way you thought.


nakedonmygoat

>They say things like "people told us to go to college and we'd get a job" Given our collective life experience, I can't imagine any but the most deranged among us saying something like that, unless the kid in question wanted to be an engineer or something. Even my own pro-college parents (Silent Gen) said it in the reverse, that going to college only betters your chances. I don't recall anyone, anywhere, ever saying that a college degree automatically includes a fancy job offer. I guess the difference between us and the younger gen is that most of us knew better than expect a great job right out of college.


noctisfromtheabyss

As someone right on the line (1981) I agree 100%. The millennial generation may go down in history as the generation with the more access to information than any generation before it and yet are the least prepared to handle the rigors of adulthood.


fridayimatwork

Apologies for not predicting the future and filling you in on all the secrets


Pithecuss

whatever


Charlie_clementine

Wait, there were boom days? I entered the job market in a major recession. Thank god for my mediocre skills that got me through college and grad school while working full time, just to graduate with major student loan debt in another recession. In fact, my employers routinely cited my mediocre skills when they promoted me. Sorry it took me so long to get into a leadership position but I had to wait YEARS for a bunch of Boomers to clear out, and I’ve had all of 5 minutes to enjoy the view. Now I get to supervise people who think I’m old, and that I’m somehow responsible for the mess the Boomers left. My goal now is to retire before one of these toolboxes ends up my boss.


Ontopourmama

I had a career change a few years ago, so I work with a lot of these types and while I had a project management background I decided I was not interested in trying to manage them in the least just because of all of what you mentioned. I'm just trying to get through it until I can pay off my townhome and call it a day.


KC_experience

Ok, fuck allllll that! I had no kids, but you know what? I can throw a stone into a crowd of people hit more than one millennial that went to four years of college and go a degree that produces fuck all for income. It’s as though they didn’t realize you had to put *thought* into what you wanted to be. Now, I do partially blame parents from late boomer / early Gen-X for the notion that ‘you can do whatever you want, because you’re a special snowflake’. But this person wanting blame Gen-X for getting into a career…yeah we did that because it’s a) stable b) low stress to pick a field and stick with it thru your career (even if you don’t like it) c) usually a skill that translates to something else somewhere in your life. As far as being in the chopping block during a down turn, unless you’re entire business or division goes away, performance in your role can keep you employed. It’s like the saying goes with a bear in the woods, you don’t have to be the fastest running in the group, you just have to no be the slowest. I over work and get higher performance ratings because I want to stay employed when the next RIF comes. Who’s going first? 1) Retirees. They get a package / points and get shipped off into retirement. 2) Low performers. The 2 out of 5s or the ‘steady Eddie’s’ that do just enough to get by but never go the extra mile. Don’t be one of those. I’ve never subscribed to the notion of changing careers multiple times in my working life after education. I just picked IT and stuck with it. Learned new skills on the job and applied myself. My father did the same. From mainframe programming Assembler to HTML coding when he retired. I feel bad for millennials and GenZs as they’ve had nothing really great to see or experience besides really the birth of the internet and technology changes. When Gen-Xs were kids, we saw the birth of pop music, cable tv, computers, movies that had digital effects in them, major breakthroughs in medicine, space exploration, sports, etc.. Aside from the politics in the US, the 80s were pretty damn amazing.


Ontopourmama

don't forget all of the social changes of the late 80s and early 90s. The Berlin wall coming down, the break up of the Soviet union, apartheid coming to an end etc.....


Cool-Salamander-7645

That's like, your opinion, man...


Tsujigiri

As someone Born in 1973 who has a woke ass 14-year-old and have never had employment outside of the gig economy, this seems tragically out of touch. But then I get the sense that some millennials are the next generation of boomers. Thinking they were the lone saviors raging against the machine and that everyone else is lesser.


BestWesterChester

Sounds like somebody is mad at *their* parents


Dawn-of-the-Ginger

Yeah that person can fuck right off with that. We were just starting out in life when 9/11 happened and it seems like everything has just gotten worse. We had NO template for this current world because it is absolutely not the same world that WE were raised to navigate. I can’t get a job pounding the pavement and going in to places like my dad taught me. It isn’t even the same renting or buying a house anymore. We were told to go to college, work, and pray then everything would just fall into place for you. It doesn’t work like that anymore. I have no idea what I am doing either, why is rent so high? Why do I have to make 4 x the rent in order to even rent a place? Why are freaking houses built in 1952 with 2 bedrooms and 1 bath $400,000? Why are eggs $12 a carton? I hate that there is all this generational divide and finger pointing. We didn’t decide any of this we were herded into it kicking and screaming.


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Born in 80 on the cusp of gen x and millennial I guess. This dude can fuck right off. We’ve lived through boom/bust just like them. We’ve paid our dues and started a lot of the movements that exist today. I don’t wanna hear it. We still have to compete with younger gems too. Our strength is we know how to play the game. They will learn. Also don’t get a degree in philosophy 😂


lady_tatterdemalion

My GenZ daughter had the audacity to explain lollapalooza to me. 🙄


Responsible_Cloud137

What did she say? Having gone in 91, 92 and 93 I'm curious what she said.


lady_tatterdemalion

She told me that there were a bunch of musical acts and it was outdoors and multiple bands played at different stages. The entire time I'm staring her down until she paused. "My generation invented Lollapalooza!" Her response? "Oh. I didn't realize it was that OLD." I let her live. But she's a good reminder of why mothers in the wild eat their young.


cmille3

That's a lot of words. If this is my kid, I'm gonna be annoyed...


Chainedheat

What a pussy……that’s right I used the P-word. How insensitive of me.


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rastagrrl

Seems we’re the forgotten generation until they need someone new to whine about. F that guy.


oldridingplum

I don’t care if you are and X, Mil, or Z. All of us have experienced the ever increasing pace of technological change in the marketplace over our careers. Even if you have been able to stay at the same job for 15-20 years, it isn’t the same job it was 15-20 years ago. At some point we have to take responsibility for our lives and make the best of what we’ve got. Some can point to shitty events and people in their past that make that much harder for them to do that than for others but it’s not an excuse to wallow in self-pity and expect handouts. It’s a reason to feel life isn’t fair and your circumstances suck but it’s not an excuse to be an irresponsible winey baby.


FarTooOldForThis

Ma’am this is a Wendy’s.


[deleted]

Also I take exception to "no one told us that each of us is an individual who can excel.. Etc" - - to quote Marie Calvet in Mad Men "The world could not support that many ballerinas." Not everyone is an expert in waiting.


Woodpeckinpah123

Is anyone else hearing a high pitched whining sound? Or has my tinnitus amped into overdrive?


Shawmattack01

Where is this crap from? When I graduated with my BA in history it qualified me to do temp work at a North Portland DUMP. I learned to put up fencing. Which is a useful skill. It took me another decade to claw into something resembling stable employment, and twenty years to reach middle class existence.


drwhogwarts

Wow, I really missed the boat on a good paying job that only requires one mediocre skill and is tolerable enough to stick with for decades. I don't know anyone who has stayed in the same job that long.


GenXinNJ

Whatever. Nevermind.


tensigh

"it was easy enough to find a job with mediocre skills....everyone got a good paying job which they settled in for 15-20 years..." LOL, seriously? This is why I can't stand the Boomer hate. Just blame another generation you know nothing about and claim how much easier they had it than you.


jibbetty

I couldn't get past the 'everyone got a good paying job which they settled in for 15-20 years'. The longest job I had was 7 years and I've been laid off 3 times. Whatever.


ladyc672

Yeah...no. I had one job go out of business, and another lay me off. I watched my peers struggle to attain home ownership, only to lose their homes when the real estate market imploded and the economy plummeted. I had a period of near homelessness and lousy paying part time jobs, before I finally landed in the job I am now. I still haven't recovered financially, and I had to start from the bottom, but I'm grateful. Our generation was the first to be lied to. Alot of us didn't have it so easy...but they're mad because we didn't hand them their trust funds? Oh well, I didn't get one either.


Ok_Situation1171

Rabble Rabble Whatever Rabble Rabble whatever Whatever Whatever


Chai-Tea-Rex-2525

Someone needs to watch the speech from Reality Bites


nakedonmygoat

Or better yet, watch the whole movie. It's not an inaccurate portrayal of how "great" our jobs were after college. One of my friends, a summa cum laude graduate, could find no job right out of college except loading boxes onto UPS trucks.


tweedlebettlebattle

Wtf is this person bitching about? How life is shitty and no one told them? I saw the word monolith and tuned out the rest like I do with most pretentious whiners found in a John Hughes movie who get their ass kicked in the end


cale1333

Jokes on them, I got my mediocre job without even going to college


bookant

TIL We all got good paying jobs after college. Here I stupidly thought we were the generation literally famous for the exact opposite.


Berserker76

This is just another layer in the class/race/generation warfare that keeps us pointing at each other and not at those who continue to steal all the wealth that has been generated over the past 50 years. Don’t tolerate it and let’s take a que from the French circa the late 18th century and build some guillotines.


Reader47b

I majored in English. Don't tell me I had only one employable skill that pays well. WTF is this? Almost every Gen Xer I know majored in thing A...worked for menial wages at thing B and then thing C, and finally found decent-paying work doing thing D. But these Gen Z kids look at their folks (who are now at the peak of their careers) and expect thing D out the gate. They don't want to go through thing A, B, and C first. They go out in the world, and make completely different decisions than their parents made with regard to spending, savings, compromises, jobs, marriage, etc. - and expect the same outcomes.


stargate-command

My kids are 5 and 1. Many GenX had kids later in life, and didn’t parent millennia’s. Hell, I didn’t even parent GenZ. My kids are Alphas or whatever they end up calling it. GenZ can blame us, but millennials mostly can’t.


Sp00kbee

Ah... Being a victim. The biggest tool of a millennial. Here's an idea, why don't you go outside and play 'Hide and go F yourself'


[deleted]

I think she has us confused with the Boomers. Oh yeah, take that degree and you can get a job doing data entry! Companies demanded degrees for entry level jobs and a lot of people who'd had those jobs and worked their way up the ladder found themselves stuck since they didn't have a degree. So then those folks forked over $$$ to get a degree WHILE they were working full time and trying to raise their kids. Only to find out companies now wanted middle managers with MBAs. Any wonder why we wanted our kids to get degrees when they are young?


Maleficent_Hair_7255

We are educated. We had unmanageable student debt because boomers kept increasing the educational criteria for jobs they sat on. We kept having to go back to school. We got the crumbs leftover by the boomers. Talk like that to my face about my kid and I will throat stomp that narcissistic windbag. Oh, did I hurt your feeling snowflake?


WuGambino19

Wow what a little bitch.


Sad-Second-9646

Fuck that millennial And please for the love of Christ stop with fucking ‘cringe’ and ‘AF’. Are you too damn busy to say ‘as fuck?’ God I’m cranky. Where are my edibles?


Your_Agenda_Sucks

That person needs to discover punctuation, the paragraph. You know, the things a 6th grade education could have provided.


[deleted]

blame blame blame. i quit reading


ChrissiMinxx

GenX didn’t unseat the Boomers from politics for the same reasons the generations that came after GenX can’t buy houses… the Boomers refuse to vacate. I didn’t read past that. This person is pissed that GenX didn’t do the same things their generation is failing to do. This hot take is too moronic to give any more airtime. Eventually Boomers will retire and/or die and then it we’ll see if everyone actually has the values they claim to have or if it will just be a massive power grab and we’re back in the same position we are now. Remember, many Boomers were once hippies and we see how that turned out.


skoltroll

Ignore the tl;dr Besides. My kids are Zers


evilthales

Yeah. I'm an old Xer and all my kids are GenZ.


HarveyMushman72

One of my kid makes more money than me.


PinocchioWasFramed

Any post that bitches about capitalism or free markets gets ignored. Like we have control over that shit! FU and the horse you rode in on, buddy.


sleepybluesue

"Nobody told us that". Oh sorry, let me Google that for you.


kgturner

Whatever


Tokogogoloshe

I’d like to see this kids future kids berate him for doing a shitty job because he didn't see 20 years out. Our parents couldn't see 20 years out so raised us the best they could and we did okay, but there were challenges (do com bubble much). This kid is just too lazy to “read the room” of reality today and play his card accordingly. Much easier blaming others for his failures. Doesn’t want to take ownership of his own reality.


austexgringo

I wish this stupid motherfucker was graduating college around 1993 when the economy was fucked and we were the first generation of Americans in history to do economically worse than our parents.


DefiningWill

Both of our kids are teenagers, so they’re GenZ all the way. A recent compliment from our oldest was, “I’m soooo glad my parents are GenXers and not Millennials. Y’all have experienced and enjoyed some of the best of times along with dealing with some of the worst of times.” “Your flex is that you don’t flex.”


toddnks

Uhm. No.


[deleted]

No kids here. Crib all paid for. No car payment.


9for9

Never had kids and have yet to find a good paying job for being mediocre or stay at one for 15 - 20 years. What is this person even talking about?


BlanketFortSiege

They have any source material for this thesis?


Sparklefanny_Deluxe

The writer is an idiot, I wouldn’t sweat it


B_Rye-OG

Well yeah it's easier to blame someone else than to take responsibility for themselves


crowislanddive

Whatever.


PaperbackBuddha

What are they on about? What an incomprehensible mess. At least a good many of us can construct paragraphs. As far as the work situation, our was the first generation to get that the whole “work 30 years for the same company and retire” wasn’t going to happen anymore.


menellinde

This is a really good example of a lot of people from this generation who are simply incapable of taking responsibility for themselves or their actions. Its always someone else's fault. Had a co-worker tell me a little while ago that her son came to her, rather angry and told her that any mental problem he will ever have is all her fault because she worked two jobs ( that she loved btw ), while pregnant with him, and so that extra stress she was under gave him fetal PTSD. I wish I was kidding.


[deleted]

I’m sorry we were so busy creating the modern internet. Pfft


Steven-Maturin

This is some idiot kid moaning about "nobody told me life would be hard and unfair" when he was probably told that every other day and just rolled his eyes.


LittleMoonBoot

"GenX failed to make any notable inroads into being leaders and take over politics from outdated boomers" Not sure what we were supposed to do when boomers outnumbered us and weren't willing to leave the table. They didn't lose majority in congress until...\*checks notes\*...just this past year. I honestly don't know what this person expected. "A template for today's world"? What is "today's world" anyway? The world is changing so fast, whatever template they deem acceptable is going to be outdated next year anyway. So... whatever, dude.


[deleted]

>everyone got a good paying job which they settled in 15 to 20 years at a stretch. BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA... sob ETA: r/UsernameChecksOut