Boomers Rule!

[Anonymous]

Just saying. Since 2008 market crash companies really cut back on internships, formal mentoring programs, training programs. They also stopped regular promotion cycles.

Then in place to retain workers they did free or cheap perks. WFH, Flex Time, dress down, paternity leave type stuff rather than spending money training and promoting staff.

Then 2020 came and all opportunities to learn and be mentored stopped.

Now in 2026 the people who already reached VP pre 2008 phones are ringing off hook. But we are now old. You can’t not promote careers and do trading for 16 years.

My company is almost a Boomer Gen Z set up. Hire Boomer high pay to get it up and running with Gen Z being mentored and trained.

How did milenials and Gen X get missed on corporate ladder?

By time last of boomers retire in 2030 Gen Z will be new bosses.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, but being the whiniest generation to have ever lived is disqualifying for everything. Blame your parents for raising such a tantruming incompetent.

[Anonymous]

Not where I work (F500). The boomers are almost completely gone now. Because they retired! All the senior leadership are people in their 40s-50s, possibly into early 60s.

I see a lot of anger against the boomers online, but the anger is ignorant because boomers are already retired/rapidly retiring/rapidly dying off. Boomers are OLD! Remember this! They're not hogging jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just saying. Since 2008 market crash companies really cut back on internships, formal mentoring programs, training programs. They also stopped regular promotion cycles.

Then in place to retain workers they did free or cheap perks. WFH, Flex Time, dress down, paternity leave type stuff rather than spending money training and promoting staff.

Then 2020 came and all opportunities to learn and be mentored stopped.

Now in 2026 the people who already reached VP pre 2008 phones are ringing off hook. But we are now old. You can’t not promote careers and do trading for 16 years.

My company is almost a Boomer Gen Z set up. Hire Boomer high pay to get it up and running with Gen Z being mentored and trained.

How did milenials and Gen X get missed on corporate ladder?

By time last of boomers retire in 2030 Gen Z will be new bosses.

The last of the boomers will not be retired by 2030. Not by a long shot.

I'm at the tail end of the baby boom (1962 DOB) and have always identified more with Gen X. Barring a health condition, however, I have no intention of retiring in 4 years. DH just turned 70 and is still going strong in corporate world.

[Anonymous]

Most of the boomers have retired where I work. The Gen X are middle and upper management. Younger millennials are the new execs/C suite. Amazed - out of 9 “senior leaders” - one boomer, one Gen X, 7 are barely 40 (borderline Millennials/Gen Z).
Gen X was mostly overlooked. I’m Gen X. Annoyed, but I guess we’re just too blunt to be execs.

[Anonymous]

Hi J1 J2 guy! Did they take you off your clozaril again?

[Anonymous]

If boomers are still working they didn't manage their funds well and I feel bad for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If boomers are still working they didn't manage their funds well and I feel bad for them.

Seriously. I’m Gen X and retiring soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If boomers are still working they didn't manage their funds well and I feel bad for them.

14:07 here. Don't assume that. We have quite a bit in savings/ retirement but are working for the fun of it. Really. We both love our jobs, so why not?

[Anonymous]

Why do Americans hate each other so much? Why do you people always "define" and divide people? Like different generation, different races, different gender, different orientation... You are the most hateful people I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If boomers are still working they didn't manage their funds well and I feel bad for them.

No one should feel bad for them. Life on easy mode and did nothing but pull the ladder up behind them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the boomers have retired where I work. The Gen X are middle and upper management. Younger millennials are the new execs/C suite. Amazed - out of 9 “senior leaders” - one boomer, one Gen X, 7 are barely 40 (borderline Millennials/Gen Z).
Gen X was mostly overlooked. I’m Gen X. Annoyed, but I guess we’re just too blunt to be execs.

Upper management where I work are Millennial. Upper management where DH works is boomer.

[Anonymous]

Boomer here. Two separate jobs reached out to me last two weeks. Both large departments where none of staff which includes VPs, managers, staff with no one qualified to run area. I am almost 65. One today offered me 385k base, 400k sign on payable over 4 years in annual payments and added I also get around 100k bonus. She added if I say 4 years I clear 800k. On top of salary.

The other is a really big fintech that just merged. Two smaller depts combined into one big dept and once again no one to lead.

Some questions they wanted to know my level of board and audit committee involvements. Am I direct point of contact regulator? Is my boss directly the Board or CEO, have I led a start up as member of sr. Mgt to IPO. My level of IT, AI, Cyber, Risk Mgt.

How many regulators and firms I had senior roles in. Have you led large teams remotely, have I taken over depts and turned them around. And they seemed very interest in my success stories, such as getting licenses, managing vendor relationships, exact example how I led in times of crisis.

It was no way you could get that experience without being at senior mgt level for 20-25 years and jumping company to company, and they seemed to want brand name companies.

Hence impossible to have any of this experience without having lots of jobs, and it is hard to get jobs that level.

I may take job 400k stock sign on. Only cause I can easily work till 68-70. To get full vest. But also if it flames out old enough just retire. They most likely give some severance.

The merger one I was told the new board feels neither head of area qualified to run area to being to next level, both are in mid 50s. So I would have two heads of dept reporting to me who both wanted job . One a women and one a man. I did that once and a hot mess.

But still shocked how younger people in 40s to 50s not prepared, I should be retired. Yet companies are data mining LinkedIn.

I think companies are lazy. Someone let me do all this things no prior experience yet in 2026 companies only want people who had done it before.

Boomers pushed out silent generation, now Gen Z will push Boomers out only cause we are leaving work force at alarming rate.

Also find it amusing I have been hopping jobs every three years since 54 and no one cares. I am getting sign on, a few bonus checks then on to next sign on. The younger folks are job hugging and I am picking up more skills. Now all at once companies love job hoppers? This would be job 13 for me if I took it.

Please someone take my job, please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If boomers are still working they didn't manage their funds well and I feel bad for them.

I am poster. You really think people b in sr. Mgt work cause broke? Either ego or like me I enjoy it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not where I work (F500). The boomers are almost completely gone now. Because they retired! All the senior leadership are people in their 40s-50s, possibly into early 60s.

I see a lot of anger against the boomers online, but the anger is ignorant because boomers are already retired/rapidly retiring/rapidly dying off. Boomers are OLD! Remember this! They're not hogging jobs.

They hogged jobs, got pensions, blocked Gen-X from rising in large numbers, eliminated pensions, overstayed, then retired during Covid to golf in Florida on 50% pay for doing nothing.

They hugged jobs until Gen-Xers were too old to be shiny new high-rise potentials. That's how it happened. During the downturns, they laid off the slightly younger people (5-10 years younger).

I had a ringside seat.