Why I don't like Boomers (spinoff)

[Anonymous]

I think my issue is the sense that Boomers don't understand how worried the following generations are about long-term implications of the impact of the SS and Medicare payouts to the Boomers, and how we fear that these entitlement programs will cripple our economy. My parents (who have plenty of money, trust me) insist that they will be drawing down every penny of SS they can "because we paid into it more than we will get out". OK, yeah - well, so have we. And both my husband and I anticipate that we won't get SS and that our federal and payroll taxes are going to skyrocket at some point in the future. But in all our conversations with family and friends who are Boomers, not ONE has offered up any willingness to consider a decrease in their benefits. As we only have 1 family member who is likely to need SS just to live, we are mystified as to what we are missing. How is it that when a multitude of experts talks about the serious negative implications of the SS and Medicare entitlement programs, a HUGE section of our country shrugs their shoulders and says "well, I expect to get everything I was told I would get and the rest of you can just DEAL with it!" Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I was born in '73 and have recently discovered that some Boomers are actually pleasant people BUT if we're generalizing, I hate them because they decided that I have to do EVERYTHING as part of that idiotic "having it all" blather, and if I can't do EVERYTHING single-handed (because that's the way it can be for women who don't have considerable support at home in the real world-- the one that bites) then I should have chosen to focus on a career until I was crusty and gray instead of reproducing at a biologically appropriate age when the plumbing still worked... as I chose to do. They're the reason why I need to buckle down to my second shift of home-related work now that I've just arrived home (at 9:30) after an already busy day instead of sleeping.

That's why Gloria Steinem didn't have children and married in her sixties. She couldn't have it all either.

[Anonymous]

Because they've always been collective narcissistic twats.

[Anonymous]

The BB's thought they were the subversive counter culture but then bought into the establishment. They got to have it both ways. Now it turns out they're going to hog everything... and they wonder why we're pissed off? They still think of us as children.

[Anonymous]

Well, I am a baby boomer, born at the end of the baby boom. I got out of college in 1981, the last recession. I know exactly what it is like to not be able to find a job after college. I don't drive a volvo, I drive a japanese car, shop at H-mart and Target and Magruders and Giant. I never stop at Starbucks, I buy diet Cokes at convenience stores, if I don't bring my own water or iced tea with me.

I don't like boomers because they won't get out of the way and let Gen Xers start to run things. I find most of them very self-absorbed and have a sense of entitlement. All of my siblings are boomers and they generally have the same traits of behavior.

Maybe the reason we boomers won't get out of your way and retire is we won't have social security when we are older and we have to hold on to our jobs as long as possible. I don't know about self-absorbed. I haven't found that, but I must say you sound self absorbed and rude, are you sure you are not a boomer too? You sort of sound like what you are complaining about.

[Anonymous]

I must say, as a lonely Gen X-er I'm really guiltily enjoying the Boomer hate here recently! I deal with relatively few fellow late X-ers these days because most of the other parents around me are at least early X-ers if not Boomers, and I'm junior professionally (trying to have it all, just not at the same time-- unpopular choice around here thanks to Boomers and their ethic) so I work most closely with Gen Y.
BTW, they pay very little attention to us and often see Boomers as their adversaries, too. We're chopped liver, and just a small portion at that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The BB's thought they were the subversive counter culture but then bought into the establishment. They got to have it both ways. Now it turns out they're going to hog everything... and they wonder why we're pissed off? They still think of us as children.

They still think of themselves as children. Exhibit A: The poster after you said something about "when I get old"...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I must say, as a lonely Gen X-er I'm really guiltily enjoying the Boomer hate here recently! I deal with relatively few fellow late X-ers these days because most of the other parents around me are at least early X-ers if not Boomers, and I'm junior professionally (trying to have it all, just not at the same time-- unpopular choice around here thanks to Boomers and their ethic) so I work most closely with Gen Y.
BTW, they pay very little attention to us and often see Boomers as their adversaries, too. We're chopped liver, and just a small portion at that.

Yes, Gen Y is equally oblivious. They look at X'ers as "old"... def chopped liver. Plus compared to the numbers of BB's and Y'ers, Gen X is tiny. I remember when my friends and I graduated from college in 1993 (we all had to work at Eddie Bauer for lack of better jobs), our favorite song was "Loser." ... I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? That describes our angst pretty aptly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a pp from the Giant thread about boomers and how I don't like them. i don't like them b/c they had it VERY easy regarding job opportunities and seem to take for granted how easily things did come to them. Most of the boomers I know also don't seem to fathom why younger people don't have everything they have. I was born in 1970 too and although I shop at WF, drink lattes and have a volvo it's used, paid with cash, consider lattes a treat and shop at WF because it's closer to my house and I like their food. Anyway, I don't like boomers because they won't get out of the way and let Gen Xers start to run things. I find most of them very self-absorbed and have a sense of entitlement. All of my siblings are boomers and they generally have the same traits of behavior. Oh, and can I mention Chicos as the fashion place of choice for many boomer women? Or that store iJill? WEIRD!

Well, other than the president, of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 1970 also.

So how are we X'ers different then? Is it b/c they like Steely Dan and we like the Pixies (way cooler IMHO)?

What are the fundamental differences? For one thing, I feel like we X'ers have much less of a sense of entitlement than the Boomers, and for that matter, Gen Y.

okay I was the first Gen-X poster...and I love Steely Dan. God- maybe I was born in the wrong generation...

[Anonymous]

My parents were born in 1941 and 1943...they are before Boomers aren't they? What are the decades defined as Boomer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I must say, as a lonely Gen X-er I'm really guiltily enjoying the Boomer hate here recently! I deal with relatively few fellow late X-ers these days because most of the other parents around me are at least early X-ers if not Boomers, and I'm junior professionally (trying to have it all, just not at the same time-- unpopular choice around here thanks to Boomers and their ethic) so I work most closely with Gen Y.
BTW, they pay very little attention to us and often see Boomers as their adversaries, too. We're chopped liver, and just a small portion at that.

Yes, Gen Y is equally oblivious. They look at X'ers as "old"... def chopped liver. Plus compared to the numbers of BB's and Y'ers, Gen X is tiny. I remember when my friends and I graduated from college in 1993 (we all had to work at Eddie Bauer for lack of better jobs), our favorite song was "Loser." ... I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? That describes our angst pretty aptly.

I guess I meant that we're not even a collective threat to their aspirations. We don't have the power to stand in their way, as the Boomers still do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My parents were born in 1941 and 1943...they are before Boomers aren't they? What are the decades defined as Boomer?

Boomer is technically post WWII b/c when the GI's came back there was a "baby boom" for obvious reasons. From 1945 on... till about '65, I think...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I am a baby boomer, born at the end of the baby boom. I got out of college in 1981, the last recession. I know exactly what it is like to not be able to find a job after college. I don't drive a volvo, I drive a japanese car, shop at H-mart and Target and Magruders and Giant. I never stop at Starbucks, I buy diet Cokes at convenience stores, if I don't bring my own water or iced tea with me.

I don't like boomers because they won't get out of the way and let Gen Xers start to run things. I find most of them very self-absorbed and have a sense of entitlement. All of my siblings are boomers and they generally have the same traits of behavior.

Maybe the reason we boomers won't get out of your way and retire is we won't have social security when we are older and we have to hold on to our jobs as long as possible. I don't know about self-absorbed. I haven't found that, but I must say you sound self absorbed and rude, are you sure you are not a boomer too? You sort of sound like what you are complaining about.

What is a boomer doing trolling a parenting website? Are you a grandparent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I am a baby boomer, born at the end of the baby boom. I got out of college in 1981, the last recession. I know exactly what it is like to not be able to find a job after college. I don't drive a volvo, I drive a japanese car, shop at H-mart and Target and Magruders and Giant. I never stop at Starbucks, I buy diet Cokes at convenience stores, if I don't bring my own water or iced tea with me.

I don't like boomers because they won't get out of the way and let Gen Xers start to run things. I find most of them very self-absorbed and have a sense of entitlement. All of my siblings are boomers and they generally have the same traits of behavior.

Maybe the reason we boomers won't get out of your way and retire is we won't have social security when we are older and we have to hold on to our jobs as long as possible. I don't know about self-absorbed. I haven't found that, but I must say you sound self absorbed and rude, are you sure you are not a boomer too? You sort of sound like what you are complaining about.

What is a boomer doing trolling a parenting website? Are you a grandparent?

Maybe her X kids still live in her basement and don't pay rent!