Why are millennials hated and zoomers loved?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen Xer here.

The Millennials whine too much. Everything -- and I mean everything -- is an overwrought crisis. Doesn't matter what it is. Just move on already.

The Millennials also contradict themselves. I am strong and independent, but could you tell me whether I should order this in blue, or red? I can't decide for myself, I need help. If you're as independent as you say, then you shouldn't need my input for such a non-problem.

The Millennials come off as weak sauce. My Gen Z teens said the same thing without us ever talking about it before, which was funny.

This is interesting. I'm a gen-xer and have two daughters (one Millenial and one a Zoomer)... different as night and day. I could see my younger one saying this about the older one.

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Anonymous wrote:It is the age. Millennials were loved when they were zoomed aged. GenEx was loved when they were zoomed aged. Boomers were loved....

It is a promising age.

I don't think that Genx was ever loved. Our parents did not think we were special snowflakes.

We were ignored...just there.

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All I know is I hate people who are preachy and talk about privilege this, privilege that.

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X here, graduated during a recession and my income has never recovered. I actually liked millennials and younger generations. Most of us Xers dislike boomers, and they treated us just like they have treated the millennials.

Exactly this.

+1 I definitely agree with this post. Add to it... the housing crisis of the mid-2000's when many of us were new home buyers, the elimination of traditional retirement funds (move to 401ks) for anyone not working in .gov., etc...

It's not been easy to acquire the stability of my "boomer" parents, with their pensions, locked in retirement benefits, 30+ year employments (with one employer), etc...

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Anonymous wrote:Young Boomers, or the eldest of Gen X are the parents of millennials. Correct?

Boomers were born in 1945-1965.

Millennials were born in 1981-1996.

My parents were born in 1955 and I was born in 1986. So dead-center Boomers and an older millennial.

So, yes.

Only sort of. Not entirely.

It’s largely accurate though. I’m gen x and too young to have a millennial child. As are most of my peers. Our kids range 5 to mid twenties with most being more later teens.

It’s not really accurate. The second half of the Boomer generation gave birth to most millennials.

We are saying exactly the same thing.

If you define someone born exactly in the middle of the Boomer generation as a “young Boomer,” then sure.

I don’t identify with folks born mid 60s even though we’re technically the same generation. So the placement within a generation does matter.

But the point is boomer v millennial is parents vs offspring. But we imagine people much older and doddering/selfish or much younger and inexperienced/self indulgent when generalizing. And neither is accurate.

I mean, someone born in 1965 is the youngest Boomer, and yet is 56 years old. That’s fairly old.

Younger than most of Congress, sonny.

NP --lol, that is the problem and this is why millenials and zoomers want boomers to fade away and retire already

Xennial

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Anonymous wrote:I am an Xer. I like the millennials. I think they are moving us towards progress. I do feel bad for them. The Boomers really screwed them over and they weren’t ole enough to experience what I think was the last awesome, carefree decade of the 90s.

My husband and I are really old Millennials. In some ways we feel like we identify more with Gen X'ers. (I remember quoting the movie Reality Bites as a young teen... "life sucks then you die"). We are always talking nostalgically about our 80's childhoods and the great TV and fun of the 90's and into the early 00's pre-9/11. It really was carefree, and as undergrads in college we were old enough to sense the loss of innocence that came with 9/11. We feel like social media has kind of ruined everything and miss the old days when all we had was Instant Messenger.

I feel bad for people 4-5 years younger than us. They really did get screwed by the Great Recession, and are probably being more screwed by the current Covid recession than people my age because they're not as far along in their careers and may be just trying to buy their first homes when prices are so high.

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Because unlike you, Zoomers don't have a victimhood complex.

OP, a word of advice: take the chip off of your shoulder. It is not helping you.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the last few posts endearingly naive, and kind of cute for it. Please mentally bookmark it for late. You’ll know when to dig it out.

Naive how? Again, plenty of us are in our 30s and completely functional adults with spouses and kids. What about the observations we made is naive?

Oh most of it is spot on, but the ageism if off base to be sure. I feel for you having no privacy to screw off when younger in particular. Saying adults 15-20 years older than you have no savvy or discernment is going to bite you in time.

While I see how it may present as ageism, it’s a well-studied phenomenon that boomers are many times more likely than younger generations to share misinformation online.

Absolutely. I see that. But it’s not universal. It’s important to interact with individuals and not go by studies. The generalizations are super problematic. Life is not just tech and statistics.

do you take this final position for all research or just the research with findings you dont like

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Zoomers haven't really hit the workplace yet. The ones who have are lumped in as Millennials.

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Anonymous wrote:I go with the theory that Gen X hates those that came after them (Millennials). Meanwhile, Zoomers are the progeny of Gen X are beloved by them.

Zoomers are not much different from younger Millennials. Zoomers are all over social media - TikTok, YouTube, etc.

No gen x I know hates millennials. Its a weird persecution thing.

No. We do. Hate is strong but we are annoyed at how you don't like to pay your dues, and yet you lack the skills to make yourself useful/promotable.

And you get personally offended when we correct/edit you at work, whereas Genx ate a ton of shit. So maybe we admire you in the abstract for being so entitled -- but you're really annoying to work with.

One millennial co-worker actually cried to our boss that she was having an underperforming year because she. . . . got a puppy. And it was sooo much harder than she thought it would be. And our boss is a cancer survivor with kids and aging parers to look after.

( I do love me some Zoomers though)

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Millennials are the generation that brought us “emotional support animals”, hahaha. Um ok. It’s called a PET. But go ahead and make it a “thing” because you’re special.

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X here, graduated during a recession and my income has never recovered. I actually liked millennials and younger generations. Most of us Xers dislike boomers, and they treated us just like they have treated the millennials.

Exactly this.

+1 I definitely agree with this post. Add to it... the housing crisis of the mid-2000's when many of us were new home buyers, the elimination of traditional retirement funds (move to 401ks) for anyone not working in .gov., etc...

It's not been easy to acquire the stability of my "boomer" parents, with their pensions, locked in retirement benefits, 30+ year employments (with one employer), etc...

Pretty much agree. Although my parents weren’t boomers; they were the generation before boomers (Silent Gen?). It will be interesting to see how the younger Zoomers develop since it will likely be 2 years of remote school.

[Anonymous]

Younger Boomer who still works and part of it is the younger people have never really had to work.

Pretty much I can say around early 1990s real work stopped.

I think automation and everyone having a college degree was real cause. I recall at 23 I had a staff of 40 people. Wore a suit to work, was in office every day 8-7:30 pm.

By 33 I was sitting in a cube in dress down working basically 9-5.

We had so much stress and work to get done when I was 23 we had someone commit suicide off our roof and flew by our office window and no one looked up or went to window. I actually had someone at work arrested in handcuffs at desk due to some warrant, no one looked up.

a few older Gen x saw tail end, but pretty much folks who graduated college after 1995 never saw real work so hard to respect as no war stories

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Anonymous wrote:Younger Boomer who still works and part of it is the younger people have never really had to work.

Pretty much I can say around early 1990s real work stopped.

I think automation and everyone having a college degree was real cause. I recall at 23 I had a staff of 40 people. Wore a suit to work, was in office every day 8-7:30 pm.

By 33 I was sitting in a cube in dress down working basically 9-5.

We had so much stress and work to get done when I was 23 we had someone commit suicide off our roof and flew by our office window and no one looked up or went to window. I actually had someone at work arrested in handcuffs at desk due to some warrant, no one looked up.

a few older Gen x saw tail end, but pretty much folks who graduated college after 1995 never saw real work so hard to respect as no war stories

As someone who spent years grinding out 90+ hour weeks in management consulting I do not relate to this at all. I have PLENTY of war stories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Younger Boomer who still works and part of it is the younger people have never really had to work.

Pretty much I can say around early 1990s real work stopped.

I think automation and everyone having a college degree was real cause. I recall at 23 I had a staff of 40 people. Wore a suit to work, was in office every day 8-7:30 pm.

By 33 I was sitting in a cube in dress down working basically 9-5.

We had so much stress and work to get done when I was 23 we had someone commit suicide off our roof and flew by our office window and no one looked up or went to window. I actually had someone at work arrested in handcuffs at desk due to some warrant, no one looked up.

a few older Gen x saw tail end, but pretty much folks who graduated college after 1995 never saw real work so hard to respect as no war stories

Aspirational! Who would ever think to question this kind of work environment?