Boomers Rule!

[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.

No such thing as 9 senior leaders. There is CEO,CFO, COO, CIO maybe CAE, CRO, CHRO or Head of Legal.

The sr.,Exec team who attend Board meetings. Usually just CEO, CFO, CIO at tech companies are real sr. Leaders.

This is where boomers are hanging in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Because they are used to the billionaires throw a bone or two to them, then fight against one another for it.

[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.

Incoherent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Fantasy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Pensions? Haha. I’m 64 and pensions were gone from most places way before I started working. Even the federal gov phased out the old pension program before I graduated from college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Fantasy.

Not fantasy. There's data. I had a friend in workforce analytics. Some people on his team got let go because they assumed more Boomers would retire and faster. In other words they inaccurately forecasted attrition rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Pensions? Haha. I’m 64 and pensions were gone from most places way before I started working. Even the federal gov phased out the old pension program before I graduated from college.

PP. I worked for the federal government for a while too. I am 57. And mgmt was clogged with people who had the old program. Then I went corporate. Missed pensions by 2 years. My friend who is a PA teacher has a pension and is already retired. They were not completely gone in the era of older Gen-X. There were grandfathered older workers (almost all Boomers) and people with new terms. I think they lasted longer in the manufacturing sector.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Pensions? Haha. I’m 64 and pensions were gone from most places way before I started working. Even the federal gov phased out the old pension program before I graduated from college.

64 is almost Gen X

[Anonymous]

Let’s not forget that Gen X is behind all of our technological advances.

[Anonymous]

Boomer who retired at 62 and am living my life - happy to let others continue the daily grind while we travel, relax, learn and enjoy new hobbies, and visit the kids and eventually grand kids. No interest in rejoining the rat race.

Have health insurance through previous employer (for life), and won't draw SS until age 70

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Only the unhappy ones. I don’t disagree with your sentiment, I just don’t see it in real life that much - if you skip media, including social media, you only see this in the a vocal, minority.

[Anonymous]

OP both jobs that called me full remote for over six years. None of the 40-55 year olds who work there have developed any sr. Leadership skills working from home.

I have attended perhaps 200 in person Board meetings and 200 regulator and external auditor meetings. And worked directly 5 CEOs in person. I do think you can do your job remote but learning how to lead large teams, deal with crazy CEOs and Bosrd members is more Art than work and more EQ than IQ.

My current Board I often feel I am playing chess while they play checkers. Only because I have seen it done on multiple boards and I know what works as have seen a lot.

The young people are not seeing a lot anymore in pajama pants on zoom while watching Netflix in the side at a meeting. I know on Covid I did not. RTO is perhaps about sr leadership succession planning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

While I agree with this, I don't necessarily blame the boomers because they had no one to model differently. What gets me is that so many think they "earned" something and now they're Republicans parroting the "meritocracy" promoted by Vance, et al. Dude, we work just as hard and are just as good at our jobs. We may be less good at self-promotion, but. Still, I'd much rather be Gen X than a boomer. Most of us have empathy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why, though? Did you not save? Who would WANT to be working at 70?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Only the unhappy ones. I don’t disagree with your sentiment, I just don’t see it in real life that much - if you skip media, including social media, you only see this in the a vocal, minority.

+1, a lot of this weird generational discourse seems to be for those who have no life outside of being online. It's astrology for people without whimsy.