🎵"Boomers got the Vax" 🎵

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Anonymous wrote:"...people make a tidy living giving corporate presentations on this type of stuff. I just sat through one for course credits and he specifically characterized Boomers as spending everything they've got before they die and "sliding in [to the grave] with the wheels on fire." ... leaving nothing behind is a legitimate characteristic of that generation. As are selfishness, failure to protect the environment, and general sense that public goods (land, public services, etc) are to be used up by them without thought to leaving anything for other people."

"The training I sat through had an interesting bit about the rewards each generation finds most motivating. The generation before Boomers valued security over all, the Boomers value status, older Gen X value knowledge, younger Gen X and older Gen Y value inclusion, and younger Gen Y value freedom."

I hope your company has a great legal team. If they officially supported this training they are supporting age discrimination. If younger generations value "knowledge, inclusion" then someone younger should have stood up and said NO STEREOTYPES are acceptable including those related to age.

Sorry but there's no grounds for suit here. Learning that people who are different from you may value or fear different things, or may communicate in a different way, is a basic part of management training. If you refuse to hire someone because of their age, that's discrimination. Recognizing the potential for miscommunication or poor employee retention based on general characteristics is not. And while being common doesn't necessarily make it right, this is an incredibly common type training and if someone could sue it would have happened. The fact is that the workforce is changing in specific and predictable ways as the age of the workforce changes, and that managing people depends in part of what they value or fear which is in turn affected by their generation.

FYI, the bit about knowledge and inclusion were the rewards that people value in addition to the paycheck. That is, some people would like a paycheck + a title, some would like a paycheck + professional development, and some people would like a paycheck + inclusion on a decision-making team or big project.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberals suck at life and comedy

So true. That’s why Hollywood is such a financial and cultural failure.

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The training I sat through had an interesting bit about the rewards each generation finds most motivating. The generation before Boomers valued security over all, the Boomers value status, older Gen X value knowledge, younger Gen X and older Gen Y value inclusion, and younger Gen Y value freedom.

That is interesting. I think I mostly buy it; seems pretty accurate.

+1 (older Gen X)

Medium-range Gen X here and jesus, I'm just happy I finally paid off my stupid student loans! I don't need much anything else. Inclusion, knowledge, whatever. Well, a bit of money for retirement would be good.

Xennial here, and pretty much the same. My born-on-third-base, pulled-the-ladder-up-after-them Boomer parents really embody the stereotype (#notallboomers, yes, I know, but definitely my parents) and spent most of their adult lives acquiring things. Now that they are at retirement age, they are dealing with a lot of feelings of emptiness. They don't have the same social capital, and this confuses them. They didn't cultivate much of a purpose when they were younger; they are growing more invisible to the world at large, and their normal status symbols aren't cutting it for them anymore. Getting older has been very rough for them, whereas my Greatest Generation grandparents were like, "Great, we made it to 75! Let's have vodka tonics on the porch and watch the sunset!"

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, it’s just a string of tired boomer tropes set to a hip-hop beat.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t funny.

Are you kidding me, it was hilarious! It's time for Boomers to be able to take a little joke, especially when so much of it rings true

Do you say that to your Black friends when White performers dress up like them and make "a little joke"?

Yeah the more I think about this, the more I realize that that SNL skit is somewhat similar to an old-time minstrel show. Non-boomers dressed up as boomers, making fun of old people.

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, it’s just a string of tired boomer tropes set to a hip-hop beat.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t funny.

Are you kidding me, it was hilarious! It's time for Boomers to be able to take a little joke, especially when so much of it rings true

Do you say that to your Black friends when White performers dress up like them and make "a little joke"?

Yeah the more I think about this, the more I realize that that SNL skit is somewhat similar to an old-time minstrel show. Non-boomers dressed up as boomers, making fun of old people.

WTF??

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I can not wait until everyone that discriminated against older people get old. Or maybe since younger generations value inclusion they won’t be discriminated against? I see plenty of younger folks going’s nuts of what crap to put in Easter baskets and multiple trips to Disney with matching shirts that get worn once.

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Anonymous wrote:I can not wait until everyone that discriminated against older people get old. Or maybe since younger generations value inclusion they won’t be discriminated against? I see plenty of younger folks going’s nuts of what crap to put in Easter baskets and multiple trips to Disney with matching shirts that get worn once.

Calm down, boomer.

You all are exceptionally wasteful.

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Anonymous wrote:I can not wait until everyone that discriminated against older people get old. Or maybe since younger generations value inclusion they won’t be discriminated against? I see plenty of younger folks going’s nuts of what crap to put in Easter baskets and multiple trips to Disney with matching shirts that get worn once.

It's not discrimination against old people. We love silent generation and greatest generation.
It's boomers. They have been obnoxious at every age they've been in. That's the point.

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, it’s just a string of tired boomer tropes set to a hip-hop beat.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t funny.

Are you kidding me, it was hilarious! It's time for Boomers to be able to take a little joke, especially when so much of it rings true

Do you say that to your Black friends when White performers dress up like them and make "a little joke"?

Yeah the more I think about this, the more I realize that that SNL skit is somewhat similar to an old-time minstrel show. Non-boomers dressed up as boomers, making fun of old people.

WTF??

Yeah someone on this thread is completely bonkers.

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, it’s just a string of tired boomer tropes set to a hip-hop beat.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t funny.

Are you kidding me, it was hilarious! It's time for Boomers to be able to take a little joke, especially when so much of it rings true

Do you say that to your Black friends when White performers dress up like them and make "a little joke"?

Isn't it more like "punching up" when black comedians poke fun of white people or women make fun of men? Boomers have dominated our society forever. The SNL skit simply points out one more privilege that boomers enjoy over everyone else (vaccines).

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OP, thank you!! Boomers are getting offended here.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how it highlights in a humorous way how greedy and entitled boomers are. They are truly the generation that got theirs and then pulled up the ladder behind them.

I don’ know. It’s my gen x parents that are selfish.

Nice try, boomer.

Yep. 75er here with small kids, because expensive college, student loans, expensive real estate market, job insecurity etc. etc.

[Anonymous]

The perception I have as Gen x is that the older political class has jealously guarded their entitlements while slashing or underfunding programs that might help the younger generations pay for college, afford childcare or purchase a house. They benefited from an unprecedented economic boom and told everyone too bad when that boom ended.

Not to mention the horrific disregard for the environment that future generations are inheriting.

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Anonymous wrote:The perception I have as Gen x is that the older political class has jealously guarded their entitlements while slashing or underfunding programs that might help the younger generations pay for college, afford childcare or purchase a house. They benefited from an unprecedented economic boom and told everyone too bad when that boom ended.

Not to mention the horrific disregard for the environment that future generations are inheriting.

+1000! Did SNL realize such a fantastic discussion would ensue based on their hilarious video?

https://nypost.com/2020/02/08/gen-x-ers-are-being-stifled-by-greedy-boomers-who-refuse-to-retire/

Boomers, take a look at this article and see if you disagree.

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Anonymous wrote:The perception I have as Gen x is that the older political class has jealously guarded their entitlements while slashing or underfunding programs that might help the younger generations pay for college, afford childcare or purchase a house. They benefited from an unprecedented economic boom and told everyone too bad when that boom ended.

Not to mention the horrific disregard for the environment that future generations are inheriting.

+1000! Did SNL realize such a fantastic discussion would ensue based on their hilarious video?

https://nypost.com/2020/02/08/gen-x-ers-are-being-stifled-by-greedy-boomers-who-refuse-to-retire/

Boomers, take a look at this article and see if you disagree.

My 55 year old Dad is a selfish pr*ck. I’ll show it to him.