Who are these loser millennials?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers did the same smear job on Gen X.

Yup, everyone hates the younger generation. It's just what older people do and have done forever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They also like talking about themselves incessantly.

I blame their helicopter parents for this. And for social media/the invention of selfies. If I see another millennial trying to take a selfie with 30 different angles of her duckface by the rooftop hotel pool, I'm gonna push her in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One thing I found interesting is at conferences for work the boomers and gen X era go to dinner every night and get drunk.

The millennials take advantage of whatever there is to offer in the area going hiking, skiing, zip lining, white water rafting, city tours, museums, etc

Yeah, I noticed that. I went back to my hotel room and tried to catch up on the work I missed during the day due to the pointless conference. It's not a vacation. It's travel for work. GenX.

I don’t know any Xers or boomer working at night they are getting wasted.

-Xer

Tail end Xer here. Yeah, I go out for dinner and drinks on work trips. It's a great networking opportunity. Makes me far more valuable at my job to spend the time on a trip getting to know colleagues in other offices and/or at potential customers and partners than it does writing a few lines of code or making a power point. I just get up early and do anything that must be done that day. The rest gets done on the plane ride home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers did the same smear job on Gen X.

Yup, everyone hates the younger generation. It's just what older people do and have done forever.

Except as Xers we didn’t get therapy, we didn’t whine about it, we sort of embraced it because life is too short and you can’t have everything. If achieving peace, contentment, solace, and joy make me a GenX “slacker” I very much accept the title. By far the vast majority of unhappy and angry people I see are the boomers and millennials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boomers did the same smear job on Gen X.

Yup, everyone hates the younger generation. It's just what older people do and have done forever.

Except as Xers we didn’t get therapy, we didn’t whine about it, we sort of embraced it because life is too short and you can’t have everything. If achieving peace, contentment, solace, and joy make me a GenX “slacker” I very much accept the title. By far the vast majority of unhappy and angry people I see are the boomers and millennials.

So like I said, yup, everyone hates the younger generation. It's just what older people do and have done forever.

PS: Millennials didn't invent therapy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 34 (1986) and consider myself an older millennial. I work in the tech space and have dealt with a number of millennials. I noticed that a lot of their behavior and expectations was derived from their parents.

It’s really hard to filter the whiny millennials out. The biggest red flag to me in hiring is if someone has never worked a part time job.

I will say it’s really annoying to me to hear the “I can’t afford it” excuse for anything. You could afford (house, car, pet) if you didn’t spend all of your money on an expensive degree, clothes and avocado toast.

That is a really interesting indicator to look for. What type of field/industry/job title? Just curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boomers did the same smear job on Gen X.

Yup, everyone hates the younger generation. It's just what older people do and have done forever.

Except as Xers we didn’t get therapy, we didn’t whine about it, we sort of embraced it because life is too short and you can’t have everything. If achieving peace, contentment, solace, and joy make me a GenX “slacker” I very much accept the title. By far the vast majority of unhappy and angry people I see are the boomers and millennials.

So like I said, yup, everyone hates the younger generation. It's just what older people do and have done forever.

PS: Millennials didn't invent therapy.

There are many Xennials standing in the gap.

[Anonymous]

As a gen-x manager, I find millennials draining. As someone upthread pointed out, it’s the need for positive feedback, picking and choosing projects based on whether it makes them feel fulfilled, and the inability to shut up and listen and learn that makes me crazy. Part of that is based on characteristics of my generation. - many of our parents were silent generation and we were a lot of latchkey kids. It was kind of ingrained that no one really cared what we thought and you just be quiet and get things done. I’m actually uncomfortable when people gush about my work, and I don’t need rewards - I figure if someone is unhappy they’ll let me know. My workplace is not there to make me feel validated as a human being. I don’t normally think about providing lots of positive feedback. I am very aware of being respectful of peoples’ time out of work and wanting people to have down time, but when it’s your turn to take the grunt work and spend actual time becoming good in what you do, you need to do it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an older millennials ( early 30s) and everyone I know and younger does not meet the accepted negative narrative of millennials. They are:

- well educated and ambitious about their jobs. Whether they’re in engineering, finance or public policy, they are go getters and hustlers. They take their careers seriously and are eager to climb the ladder.
- health obsessed. Peloton every day, work out and eat healthy is a lifestyle.Green juices and self care is a mantra.
- productive hobbies like hiking, learning languages, traveling and cooking.
- pet ownership and home ownership for those who can afford it.
- spotless and clean homes that look like pottery barn catlog
- serious relationships or in the quest for one.

I don’t relate to these lazy entitled millennial stereotypes at all!

j

You lost me at "green juices and self care is a mantra"

Pre-ten-tious.

Everything on list is self entitled and laziness.

A baby boomer list would be
-being a good neighbor - helping older neighbors, keeping house nice outside.
- good son or daughter - helping mom and Dad. Fixing things, getting groceries
- hosting Thanks giving Christmas to give parents and uncles/aunts a break
- going to church or temple etc making sure kids are raised in religion
- Being a good worker and pride in job at work
- being charitable

As you ride your peloton and drink green juice others who are older on a fixed income cover for you

Where do I sign up for this program where an old person on a fixed income buys me a peloton? Oh, you're full of it. Got it.

They do. My Widowed Mom was in a fixed income, my brother and I mowed her lawn , shoveled her with, fixed things in house. My sister drive her doctors appointments, my other sister would go over chit chat with her and help get with grocery shopping.

I see parents on my block today host Christmas and Easter, paying for lawn service, dragging groceries as there 25-40 year old kids jerk offs and act like kids.

You can get some exercise helping your mom and mother in law

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a gen-x manager, I find millennials draining. As someone upthread pointed out, it’s the need for positive feedback, picking and choosing projects based on whether it makes them feel fulfilled, and the inability to shut up and listen and learn that makes me crazy. Part of that is based on characteristics of my generation. - many of our parents were silent generation and we were a lot of latchkey kids. It was kind of ingrained that no one really cared what we thought and you just be quiet and get things done. I’m actually uncomfortable when people gush about my work, and I don’t need rewards - I figure if someone is unhappy they’ll let me know. My workplace is not there to make me feel validated as a human being. I don’t normally think about providing lots of positive feedback. I am very aware of being respectful of peoples’ time out of work and wanting people to have down time, but when it’s your turn to take the grunt work and spend actual time becoming good in what you do, you need to do it.

+100.

[Anonymous]

Jesus christ. Millennials are almost 40. Many have multiple kids. They own homes and are managers now at their jobs. I have no idea why idiots still think they're immature college kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jesus christ. Millennials are almost 40. Many have multiple kids. They own homes and are managers now at their jobs. I have no idea why idiots still think they're immature college kids.

Actually, Gen Y (millennials) have abysmal marriage, birth and home ownership rates. And their net worth is peanuts vis a vis older generations at the same age. I say that to say the "adolescent" reputation is because overall they're broke, in debt, and not reaching traditional adulthood and investment milestones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus christ. Millennials are almost 40. Many have multiple kids. They own homes and are managers now at their jobs. I have no idea why idiots still think they're immature college kids.

Actually, Gen Y (millennials) have abysmal marriage, birth and home ownership rates. And their net worth is peanuts vis a vis older generations at the same age. I say that to say the "adolescent" reputation is because overall they're broke, in debt, and not reaching traditional adulthood and investment milestones.

Says more about the shitty state of the country and wealth inequality than gen y.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an older millennials ( early 30s) and everyone I know and younger does not meet the accepted negative narrative of millennials. They are:

- well educated and ambitious about their jobs. Whether they’re in engineering, finance or public policy, they are go getters and hustlers. They take their careers seriously and are eager to climb the ladder.
- health obsessed. Peloton every day, work out and eat healthy is a lifestyle.Green juices and self care is a mantra.
- productive hobbies like hiking, learning languages, traveling and cooking.
- pet ownership and home ownership for those who can afford it.
- spotless and clean homes that look like pottery barn catlog
- serious relationships or in the quest for one.

I don’t relate to these lazy entitled millennial stereotypes at all!

j

You lost me at "green juices and self care is a mantra"

Pre-ten-tious.

Everything on list is self entitled and laziness.

A baby boomer list would be
-being a good neighbor - helping older neighbors, keeping house nice outside.
- good son or daughter - helping mom and Dad. Fixing things, getting groceries
- hosting Thanks giving Christmas to give parents and uncles/aunts a break
- going to church or temple etc making sure kids are raised in religion
- Being a good worker and pride in job at work
- being charitable

As you ride your peloton and drink green juice others who are older on a fixed income cover for you

Where do I sign up for this program where an old person on a fixed income buys me a peloton? Oh, you're full of it. Got it.

They do. My Widowed Mom was in a fixed income, my brother and I mowed her lawn , shoveled her with, fixed things in house. My sister drive her doctors appointments, my other sister would go over chit chat with her and help get with grocery shopping.

I see parents on my block today host Christmas and Easter, paying for lawn service, dragging groceries as there 25-40 year old kids jerk offs and act like kids.

You can get some exercise helping your mom and mother in law

None of this answered my question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus christ. Millennials are almost 40. Many have multiple kids. They own homes and are managers now at their jobs. I have no idea why idiots still think they're immature college kids.

Actually, Gen Y (millennials) have abysmal marriage, birth and home ownership rates. And their net worth is peanuts vis a vis older generations at the same age. I say that to say the "adolescent" reputation is because overall they're broke, in debt, and not reaching traditional adulthood and investment milestones.

Says more about the shitty state of the country and wealth inequality than gen y.

Ahh. Now we roll out the “wealth inequality” trope. Every generation has had to deal with sh!+. It was usually around 18-24 when the other generations said time to buckle down, graduate, start a family, and suck it up. Millennials seem to have put this off until their thirties and are now finally discovering the world isn’t fair, no one cares how you feel, and you grin and bear it. That’s called life (or adulting for those who prefer that term).