Is my generation really the bad generation?

[Eclipse Dragon]

Millenials seem fine to me. Frankly they're willing to work longer hours, don't seem to mind that wages are being blown out of the water by living costs, and ballooning student debt guaranteeing they'll take any award rate I offer them.

Millenials are an employer's wetdream.

It might be because I worked in retail but I see the opposite. They ***** and moan about not going to parties and always want to leave early or skip work entirely. I've seen more people quit/fired than stay at that job.

It's retail... it takes a overally optimistic, extremely extroverted person to even begin to like a job in that industry. Most older people working in retail would rather not be working in retail, but they've already been working there long enough to accept that this bullshit is there life now.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

as an unwilling participant of this generation we have some good some bad. here is the bad

Spoiler

annoyingly most of those fools didn't vote.

As far as good goes we at least work hard and do our fair share. Haven't seen many good clips of my generation. Although wouldn't mind seeing some anyway.

Oh please ... Millenials are far more calm than those egotistical, LSD chugging fruit loops like the Baby Boomers. Baby boomers would turn streets into a warzone because someone asked to either raise taxes and provide government financing, or that people have to pay the tv licence.

They overturned police cars en masse and beat the shit out of the fuzz in London

Millenials wouldn't care about something like that.

Baby Boomers can seriously kiss my arse. Fainting at the sight of the Beatles, singlehandedly responsible for dismissing safe sex platforms despite the HIV epidemic, narcissistic personality cults that lead to things like Jonestown. Millenials are nowhere near as bad as Baby Boomers. Gen Xers are the ones you should be proud of. So far they've been the most stable of the bunch.

They brought us 80s music, crazy hair, and all the things that make you feel somewhat content with life ... right up until they made you depressed with it ... and then angry with it ... and then we 80's kids brought you the millenial apathy movement because we ran out of emotions to commodify and repackage into a consumer product! ^_^

Just listen to how Baby Boomers talk. Ask one about the 60s. The *myth* of the 60s is the true legacy of the Baby Boomers. It was just mostly bad music, way too many drugs, and the occasional good apple in Simon & Garfunkle.

Hendrix wouldn't make it big until right at the end. Neither would Yusuf Islam or James Taylor.

And don't get me started on the resurgence of European terrorism during the 'Age of Aquarius'. People (Baby Boomers) like to talk up big about the threat of terrorism .... far more frequent in the 60s and 70s.

 

[RaikuFA]

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Probably is a cultural thing. I try and put in as much work as I can at my job but there's only so much I can do there.

Millenials seem fine to me. Frankly they're willing to work longer hours, don't seem to mind that wages are being blown out of the water by living costs, and ballooning student debt guaranteeing they'll take any award rate I offer them.

Millenials are an employer's wetdream.

It might be because I worked in retail but I see the opposite. They ***** and moan about not going to parties and always want to leave early or skip work entirely. I've seen more people quit/fired than stay at that job.

It's retail... it takes a overally optimistic, extremely extroverted person to even begin to like a job in that industry. Most older people working in retail would rather not be working in retail, but they've already been working there long enough to accept that this bullshit is there life now.

I dunno. I worked retail since I was 18, did it for 10 years and I have social anxiety, even got some EOTM awards.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

I dunno. I worked retail since I was 18, did it for 10 years and I have social anxiety, even got some EOTM awards.

Out of curiosity, did you enjoy it? Yeah you won awards, so you must have been good at it, but that's not the same thing.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Probably is a cultural thing. I try and put in as much work as I can at my job but there's only so much I can do there.

Yeah ... well ... I was always less about work, more about squirreling away money. I think in Australia growing up in the 80s and 90s you kind of had a keen appreciation of money. I can't complain. I was in the right time with the right amount of money, and a decent amount of youth ala 80s kid Reaganaut gambling (and luck) to take advantage of the mining boom.

There is a benefit to being young and willing to risk. Something even that were immensely beneficial to me in my early 20s, something only in my early 30s I don't feel like repeating. I must admit, if you looked at my resume 5 years ago you'd think I were a workaholic. But I did it mostly because I am lazy. My goal since I was 17 was to not have to work again by the time I was 35.

I do see it as a cultural thing. I must admit the 80s and 90s shaped me more than any number of years after the new millenium dawned.

There's lateral cultural similarities, but there's also a gulf of differing experiences. So I don't really believe to much in these barely defined generational gaps. There's economic reasons to explain why one size can never fit all.

 

[RaikuFA]

I dunno. I worked retail since I was 18, did it for 10 years and I have social anxiety, even got some EOTM awards.

Out of curiosity, did you enjoy it? Yeah you won awards, so you must have been good at it, but that's not the same thing.

Not really. I just went in every day with a smile and rang up people.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

I dunno. I worked retail since I was 18, did it for 10 years and I have social anxiety, even got some EOTM awards.

Out of curiosity, did you enjoy it? Yeah you won awards, so you must have been good at it, but that's not the same thing.

Not really. I just went in every day with a smile and rang up people.

I've run into a few people who actually like working retail. They scare me.

Of course, you have to actually be friends with someone in retail to get the skinny. I tend to front a much cheerier attitude for my normal co-workers. Keeps up morale much better than being a Grumpy Gus.

EDIT: Which, due to quirks of human nature, also kept up my own morale and an actual cheerie attitude. "Fake it 'till you make it" can actually work emotionally. Humans are weird.

 

[God'sFist]

Oh please ... Millenials are far more calm than those egotistical, LSD chugging fruit loops like the Baby Boomers. Baby boomers would turn streets into a warzone because someone asked to either raise taxes and provide government financing, or that people have to pay the tv licence.

They overturned police cars en masse and beat the shit out of the fuzz in London

Millenials wouldn't care about something like that.

Baby Boomers can seriously kiss my arse. Fainting at the sight of the Beatles, singlehandedly responsible for dismissing safe sex platforms despite the HIV epidemic, narcissistic personality cults that lead to things like Jonestown. Millenials are nowhere near as bad as Baby Boomers. Gen Xers are the ones you should be proud of. So far they've been the most stable of the bunch.

They brought us 80s music, crazy hair, and all the things that make you feel somewhat content with life ... right up until they made you depressed with it ... and then angry with it ... and then we 80's kids brought you the millenial apathy movement because we ran out of emotions to commodify and repackage into a consumer product! ^_^

Just listen to how Baby Boomers talk. Ask one about the 60s. The *myth* of the 60s is the true legacy of the Baby Boomers. It was just mostly bad music, way too many drugs, and the occasional good apple in Simon & Garfunkle.

Hendrix wouldn't make it big until right at the end. Neither would Yusuf Islam or James Taylor.

And don't get me started on the resurgence of European terrorism during the 'Age of Aquarius'. People (Baby Boomers) like to talk up big about the threat of terrorism .... far more frequent in the 60s and 70s.

I only say unwilling because I wish I was born earlier so I could have grown up with my siblings but I digress. Yeah baby boomers, as far as things go, have pretty much ruined any chances that I will achieve much but hey my parents are baby boomers so I can't get that mad. Yeah I also get that these pale in comparison to some of the riots in that generation.Just wish we were a bit more patriotic and didn't burn flags and chant "we want dead cops" just cause we refuse to be self aware.

 

[Madmatty]

Fight that trend don't hang out with the winey idiots and you should be ok. Also be as politically incorrect as possible

 

[Madmatty]

I'm a 90s kid and I try to defy the stupid tumblrisms they come up with because I don't want the winey bitches among us to have any influence and destroy freedom of speech and expression