Pretty much, most of the gen x I work with are indistinguishable from boomers at this point.
kids don’t want to work these days
people need to just save more money
immigrants are taking all the jobs
[2hrs of scrolling]
I was in a “generational diversity” course at work recently where we would break apart and talk about what behaviors are common among each generation and why, and how to be good leaders for each generation. We started with the “greatest” generation and the “silent” generation and worked our way down in age. Everything started so respectful and nice for the old folks, even excusing their shortcomings when one was actually brought up due to how they were raised and the tough circumstances they grew up under. By the time we got to millennial and gen z, things took a turn. Even the instructor was laying on the judgement pretty thick. “They have had everything handed to them growing up so they don’t appreciate hard work”, “[…] participation trophies […]”, etc
That seems so weird to begin with. Particularly since there aren’t many Greatest Generation left, and Silents are well into retirement.
I don’t think I could’ve sat there and not fucked that teacher up emotionally.
If you don’t want kids to have participation trophies don’t give them participation trophies. You didn’t go out and buy yourself a trophy for everything, did you?
kids don’t want to work these days
Work at these shitty jobs? No, they don’t, and I don’t blame them!
I guess I’m lucky to live & work somewhere where the system kinda works, but the boomers are a great well of institutional knowledge, and the kids are working hard and changing the game. The ball was kind of dropped in the late 90s & 00s, but now millennials have surpassed gen x in terms of responsibility & authority in my industry and the zoomers I’ve had the opportunity to train are legit. I’m not sure what happened to gen x, but they all seem kind of sad and/or lost.
Those are the genx’ers that now have wealth… the genx’ers without a pot to piss in are… err… pissed.
Almost like its wealth disparity, not age, is causing the problem after all!
shocked picachu meme.
Alternatively.
“No, it’s our children who are wrong”
