Why I don't like Boomers (spinoff)

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Anonymous wrote:I am a boomer born in 1960. I have neither a pension nor a Volvo, but I do have an 11-year-old. I graduated college in 1982 during a recession. I recall paying 18% interest on my first car. How does all of this make me entitled?

Yes, this. I'm a boomer born in 1959 and graduated from college in 1981 during a recession.

The interest rate on our first house was 10%.

[Anonymous]

To 23:53 - nope Gen Y doesn't know how to work hard. Gen Y plays on the computer 24/7 and calls it "work." Try spending 50 hours a week, every week, in an office wearing office attire and pantyhose and then let's talk.

[Anonymous]

To 9:37 - why the hell should Boomers allow all those things? I made it without telecommuting, casual Fridays, etc.


Do it the way we did it - give up your 3 cars, shopping at WF, all your latest and greatest technology and live on one income. DUH. Don't tell me it's all about grad school debt - your standard of living is just way too high.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Boomers could be grandparents. Many boomers have children too young for college. If born in 64 the boomer is 46. People in their fifties can still have children in high school. Do you think all the posters had babies at 22 and have a freshman DC at a private school?

I'm a boomer born in 1959 and have a fourth-grader and a second-grader.

Get a clue.

I wrote the if born in 64....I'm older than you and still have children too young for college. My HS DC peers have parents ranging from 30's to 70 's. These people posting are clueless. I am appalled that they would demean the angst and pain of the Vietnam era. Do they think people like them were not affected? Men they would have known might not have had to go? Lightweight fools .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tail end boomers could have high school/college kids. Of course, they often do have younger kids, but that's part of what's wrong with them.

This discussion is ludicrous and many of you would not be able to attend certain colleges if some boomer women didn't get through the beginning years while the school adjusted to being coed. Boomer women put the cracks in the glass ceiling and put up with a he11 of a lot more at work than women starting out today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To 9:37 - why the hell should Boomers allow all those things? I made it without telecommuting, casual Fridays, etc.


Do it the way we did it - give up your 3 cars, shopping at WF, all your latest and greatest technology and live on one income. DUH. Don't tell me it's all about grad school debt - your standard of living is just way too high.

That's exactly the point. Why do you insist that others need to suffer just because YOU did? Why not make the working world a little better for us all? Why do I need to fight YOUR battles?

You have no clue what you're talking about re my standard of living. We make 120k combined, have a 10 yr old paid for car, rent an apartment and are scrimping to pay for my grad school debt and dh's undergrad debt and to buy a house SOMEDAY. Lord knows when that will be. We'd also like to have another child, but can't do that either, unless I fling myself down the next rung on the ladder due to inflexible mentality like yours ("If i had to do it, so do you") - thanks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tail end boomers could have high school/college kids. Of course, they often do have younger kids, but that's part of what's wrong with them.

This discussion is ludicrous and many of you would not be able to attend certain colleges if some boomer women didn't get through the beginning years while the school adjusted to being coed. Boomer women put the cracks in the glass ceiling and put up with a he11 of a lot more at work than women starting out today.

Don't worry - they make us younger generations pay for those "cracks" - in the form of doing the same exact thing. but now it's woman on woman violations instead.

[Anonymous]

I have to agree with the social security gripe about boomers. My dad is wealthy; but he plans to take every cent of his SS because "he is entitled to it". He is angry at the govt and since the govt took this money with the promise to pay it back, he is going to get it back, by golly.

He can't stop to think about his children - that yes the govt screwed us all; now you are mortaging your kids' and your grandkids' future to fix a problem created by YOUR elected reps.

I have been working FT for almost 20 years (born 1971) and part time before that. But I've already accepted that I won't get SS. Aned I certainly don't want to add to the burdens my children face in this f'ed up world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been working FT for almost 20 years (born 1971) and part time before that. But I've already accepted that I won't get SS. Aned I certainly don't want to add to the burdens my children face in this f'ed up world.

Hell, I'm a boomer (early 1960s) and I won't see SS either.

[Anonymous]

My parents are boomers and while my Mom gets it, my Dad does not. He truly believes that he doesn't need to worry about the environment or SS as he thinks we will figure it out in time and it is not a worry.

[Anonymous]

To 11:41

"That's exactly the point. Why do you insist that others need to suffer just because YOU did?"


It's not that you "need to suffer," it's that you whine when you don't get all the lifestyle accommodations you seek, even though your workplace is much more flexbile than the workplace of 1985. You don't realize how far things have come in your lifetime.

"Why not make the working world a little better for us all?"

Because there's a cost to doing so, one which I don't think the workplace needs to bear. I don't want flex time, I just want time off. I like to know my coworkers are in the office during 9 to 5, and I don't want to get on a conference call at 9 pm.

'Why do I need to fight YOUR battles?"

I believe you have it backwards. You want the boomers to accomodate you and help you win your battles. My battles are won. I'm retiring in 15 years.

[Anonymous]

To 11:44 - can you give examples?

Is working a straight 9 to 5 schedule, 5 days a week, simply too tough for Gen Y women who have two kids? If so, I'm going to tell you to put on your big girl panties because that's the epitome of whining.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Born in 1960; he's a boomer.

[Anonymous]

Wow there is a lot of anger towards Boomers! Naive me, I never realized it. I'm a late boomer ('64) with 2 young children (5 & 6). I had to pay for my own college education, worked like a dog for many years (and still do). While my DH and I have a comfortable life, I see many younger (Gen X & Y) with the same as us. Anyway, I am not bitter about those who had it all given to them. I don't think it is a boomer / gen x / gen y issue. There are have and have nots in every generation and if you spend your time blaming others instead of just focusing on what you can do for yourself, you will be a very bitter person. As I read this thread, I see a lot of bitter people writing in blaming boomers for all the wrongs in America. Yep, they had some things given to them (SS, Medicaid, Medicare, etc.), but at the same time, they paved the way for all the technological advances we enjoy. Anyway, just my 2 cents.

[Anonymous]

What in the hell does pantyhose have to do with anything?