30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With

Quick! When I say the word ‘millennials,’ what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Do you attach a whole bunch of small stereotypes after you imagine young professionals who prioritize leisure over their work?’ Or do you get confused what the differences between millennials and zoomers are? You might not be alone. Millennials tend to get stereotyped a lot in the media and online, but what’s even more frustrating is just how these stereotypes don't go away no matter how old millennials get... and the word gets used as a catch-all phrase for anyone young and wild and dumb.

Redditor NukeEnergy, who has an absolute top-tier name that we wish we thought of first, asked the elder millennials on the site to share what stereotype aggravates them the most. And the responses were enlightening, showing just how different generations look down on millennials in (often not so) subtle ways. Have a scroll through some of the best responses, upvote the stereotypes that you think should never happen in the first place, and if you’re millennials yourselves, dear Pandas, join the conversation and share your thoughts below. Bored Panda reached out to the original poster of the thread, redditor NukeEnergy. Check out what they had to say below, as well as for analysis of what makes each generation unique.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With When we are looked down upon for needing to use YouTube, etc. for learning tasks (e.g. changing a tyre) that our parents were taught by our grandparents but the former never took the time to teach us.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With That we're entitled. Having worked with the general public for over a decade, I can assure you the overwhelming majority of entitled and rude behaviour comes from the over 50s crowd.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With “You must go to college and get a degree. You don’t want to be flipping burgers or changing the oil in some rich guy’s car.”

does that, incurs a lot of debt

“These irresponsible millennials and their elitist liberal educations! If they’d been smart, they’d go to community college and transfer/go to trade school. They won’t just take a job, any job to pay the bills. They could flip burgers. Why should we pay for their mistakes?”

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Meanwhile, Eddy Ng, the James and Elizabeth Freeman Professor of Management at Bucknell University, explained to us that the oldest millennials are 40 years old at this time, having been born in 1980/1981. "Much of the stereotypes about them largely remain—raised with high self-esteem, entitled, unrealistic work expectations, even though most are actually settled into their careers and have taken on managerial and leadership roles."

Professor Ng said that millennials were reported to emphasize work/life balance, and were a lot less focused on work than other generations, preferring more leisure time. You can do a small check-in with yourself to see if that's true for you (it's pretty accurate for me).

"Gen Zs on the other hand show signs of greater work centrality, taking on work whenever they can. This may be due to a structural shift in the economy, where quality work is less available. As a result, Gen Z are more likely to have 'side hustles' in addition to regular work."

30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With We got blamed for spring break covid outbreaks. WE ARNT IN COLLEGE ANY MORE.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With “Millenials” has just become a term for “young person with ideals I don’t agree with.”

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With Being blamed for not buying things. Like, Milennials are killing X product line. Welp, the Boomers who won't retire are clinging to the top level jobs, so we don't have the opportunities they did to move up and earn more money, so we have to be choosy about the things we spend our money on. Not to mention, most of us are trying to be mindful of our consumerism as a whole, not buying tons of stuff for the sake of having tons of stuff.

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NukeEnergy’s thread was the top awarded post on Reddit recently. It got over 200 awards and more than 42.6k upvotes on the r/AskReddit subreddit at the time of writing. It’s not just baby boomers and Gen Xers that sometimes look down on millennials, it’s zoomers, too (though for different reasons, of course).

NukeEnergy revealed that they're a millennial, right at the Gen X cutoff (so around 1980), and shared their thoughts that people their age might not be as loyal to the companies they work for the generations that went before them. "My parents both got pensions from their companies, but they had to work there for 20 years to be fully vested. Nobody gets that anymore, so company-hopping is more common for people my age."

30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I kinda laugh when boomers call us snowflakes when they seem like the bigger bunch of wimps in history. Anytime they get a taste of their own medicine they act like it’s a assault on their freedom.

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"Oh you millennial kids just want trophies for everything"

Bruh i was 6, you were the parents who organized the league, made it so no one kept score, and ordered, bought, and handed out the trophies. We had literally no part in you living out the fantasy that your kid was good at something. You lived vicariously through us then blamed us for the results of your shifty desicions.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With As a younger millennial, I hate ppl bringing up that I eat tidepods.

Ma’am ppl my age were out of college and in the working world by the time tik tok challenges were a thing.

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Redditor NukeEnergy told Bored Panda that they had no idea that the thread would be so popular. "I went to bed when it had about 100 upvotes and woke up to 20k."

They pointed out that everyone should read through the thread and draw their own conclusions about whether or not any of the stereotypes about millennials, aka Gen Y, are true. However, in their opinion, any kind of stereotyping is wrong. "Stereotypes about race and sexual orientation are harmful, why wouldn't lumping a huge age group together and labeling them as lazy, self-serving snowflakes?" they said. NukeEnergy also wanted to give a shout-out to "the 'K' family pool house crew" and suggested that people consider supporting the Philabundance charity.

#10

Being labeled as a millennial.

Born in 87'. Had home internet on 94'. Got pulled out of schools freshman year bc 9/11. First election I could vote in was McCain/Palin (people like to forget the tea party like it wasn't the foundation of everything Trump). Many friends dead by combat or suicide from the early days of Afgan/Iraq war. Graduated college into the aftermath of the 08' recession. Hyperinflation of markets and assets when we had none to begin with pushing us further behind. This is the short of it.

We aren't millennials. We are a lost generation. We never stood a chance, and to see everyone older than us spite us, and everyone younger than us look down upon, really f***ing blows.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With That people don't own a house because they're "lazy". I have taken the time to explain the loss of buying power, stagnant wages, automation, contract employees, lack of job security, cost of living in other areas, etc. play way more into it.

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that i'm a young kid, we're in our 30s now.

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While stereotypes can be harmful, researchers do tend to find a lot of similarities among members of the same generations, in terms of their values, as well as how they perceive work and life. Generalizations might tend to gloss over what makes individual members of each generation unique, but they do highlight what tends to unite them.

The BBC has a very handy guide for telling all the different generations apart. However, different researchers have different ways of categorizing these very same generations, so one scientist’s millennial might be someone else’s Generation Xer.

#13

30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I had to go on a business trip and work with an older lady who was just about ready to retire. I manage tradeshows and travel around North America to convention centers and hotels organizing events. She had an old school way of checking inventory by hand. I'm pretty good with excel and salesforce, so I had a faster way of doing it.

I got the job done like I've been doing for years and left so I could go enjoy Vancouver. We've all heard the saying "Work Smarter, not harder". She couldn't get it through her head that the work day was done for me. I found out from another colleague that she called me a lazy entitled millenial with no work ethic. So that's the stereotype I hate. I busted my ass and paid my way through college. I worked long hours and kissed ass to get to the position I'm in. I know plenty of other young professionals that have done the same. This idea from baby boomers that we're entitled or lazy gets tiresome.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I, for one, am tired of hearing about the things we've "killed". Tastes change all the time, this is not new.

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"Millennials don't know how to..."

Please, I rewired a rotary phone and washed cat pee out of my grandmother's 28.8kbps modem. Older millennials had analog childhoods and digital adolescence. We can do nearly anything and expect the world to radically change every ten years max.

Sorry we killed the diamond ring/luxury hat/blacksmithing/plastic straw industry, maybe you should have paid us reasonable wages and not crashed the housing market right as we graduated college.

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NukeEnergy acknowledged that there's a slight overlap between Gen Y and the other generations, however, they added that they don't have an opinion about the exact definition of millennials.

"We are all people, the only difference is our age," the original poster shared their opinion that there are more things that unite all the generations than divide them.

#16

30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With We can't afford houses because apparently we spend too much on avocado toast.

No, in the 80s and 90s houses were about 3 to 4 times the average annual income. Now it's close to 10 (at least in my part of the world).

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I'm getting really tired of hearing about us lying around expecting handouts and not working. Especially when it's a situation where the person saying it is standing in a room with a lot of millennials, all of whom have jobs, which is every single time I've heard this said in real life. Like, who here is lying around doing nothing? Whose your example? Oh it's your neighbour's best friend's cousins son, he doesn't have a job and lies on the couch all day. Okay.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I've seen old people refer to generation x members down to junior high students as "millennials", it just means "person under 50 who I don't like", apparently.

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It’s all so tiring when you realize you’re being blamed by everyone for not meeting their vastly different standards. And it’s also making us think about how some of us really don’t identify with any of the main generations, even if we might technically be part of them. (Depending on which researcher you ask, I’m personally also a millennial, but I tend to poke fun at them, and by extension myself, in a lighthearted way, too.)

For the BBC, millennials, aka Generation Y, were born anywhere between 1980 and 1995 and are described as lazy, confident, curious, and constantly questioning authority. I don’t know about you, but that describes me about as well as my horoscope (unironically, and I’m a Cancer, by the way). Even though I don’t feel like I’m part of Gen Y, there’s no denying that some general characteristics noticed by researchers overlap with how I view the world.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I’m 31. I played golf with my father around Christmas. Before I got fired he asked how my job was going. I said it was ok, stressful, and they were giving me more responsibility. He asked if they were gonna pay me more, and I just laughed for a good few minutes. He had a bewildered look and said “well that’s how it’s supposed to work isn’t it!? You need to stand up for yourself and demand more money” I seriously looked at him and asked where he’s been the last 20 years. Employers don’t like you’re tone of voice, they kick you to the curb and get someone else willing to be their robot and be programmed to how they demand you act and carry out tasks.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With The use of the term “millennial” to refer to the general 'young person.'

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With When someone makes mention of some "challenge" teenagers are doing like eating tide pods and people are like "Ugg, millennials."

Uhm, no. Just because 4-5 people did something stupid and then the news decided to take it and run with it and make it sound way more wide spread than it is, doesn't mean you get to generalize a whole generation.

Secondly, millennials are practically the age of the parents of the tik tok generation. It's not a generic term for any young person doing something you don't like.

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Meanwhile, Generation Z is a little bit of a pickle to categorize: some believe that those born in 1993 are already part of this generation while others think it’s 1997 or even the year 2000. Lucky you if you’re a Gen Y/Z hybrid! Have fun with that.

This isn't the first time that Bored Panda went into detail about millennials with Professor Ng. In a previous in-depth interview, he explained how North American demographers view Gen Y and the other generations.

“Generally, they have been socialized during the turn of the century with technology influencing everything they do. Because they have been raised in a relatively middle-class environment, they tend to be over parented (the terms ‘helicopter parents’ and ‘lawnmower parents’ were coined to describe the parents of millennials),” he explained.

#22

30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I just shoveled like 20 of my elderly neighbors driveways this morning after snowpocalypse.

By Wednesday, while chatting they'll talk about those lazy millennials like they're still 20 year olds. Bro, I'm 38 and got 4 kids and own the biggest house of this block. Am millennial. Can not convince them of this, ever.

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The two stereotypes that irk me the most are:

We don't work hard enough and want handouts. Since high school I've worked all kinds of jobs, restaurants, retail, I dabbled in construction while pursuing a trade, I've been to college, etc. and I still feel like I'm never going to have the lives my parents/grand parents have. The cost of living just isn't the same and I feel like every time I get a foothold on things the goal post gets pushed back. I'm not lazy, I'm just tired of trying so damn hard. I don't want handouts, I just want the tax dollars I pay to benefit me. These people are out of touch.

We're soft, over emotional snowflakes.

While working all these jobs the past 16 years I've seen folks my parent's age explode at Wal-Mart (calling employees cocksuckers) because they weren't helped soon enough. I've seen grown men (40+ years old) almost come to blows on a construction site over minor disagreements. I've seen boomers struggle to take advice from younger folks in their field despite the younger folks having the most up-to-date strategies. (Too set in their ways.) I've seen them bitch and moan over societal changes that don't effect them at all. I've seen how "moody" the older generations can be. Don't act like my generation is a bunch of emotional cry babies when you're in your office having a freakout because you can get your digital calendar to work right.

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#24

"yOu CaN't UsE a RoTaRy PhOnE!?!?"

And you can't use a telegraph. Technology changes ya quack.

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“As a result, millennials have higher self-esteem compared to previous generations (cross-temporal meta-analysis conducted by Jean Twenge). They tend to portray themselves as assertive, ambitious, and achievement-oriented (our own study). The general public and media have also referred to Gen Z (those born on or after 1995) as millennials. We should bear in mind that the oldest millennials are now about 40 years old (from the Gen Y cohort),” Professor Ng told Bored Panda.

According to the professor, millennials don’t conform to the traditional ways of doing things because they were raised in very different environments. They respect hierarchy less. They have a different view about ‘doing time’ at work because tech has changed how we all work.

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That we don’t work hard. We’re the most overworked and underpaid generation, I have a bachelor’s and master’s and $30k of debt and I worked TWO jobs while in school and couldn’t afford to pay for it. I’ve been busting my ass for a decade making $10-$13 an hour, working over 40 hours a week. No benefits. And the younger generation can suck my dick for claiming we aren’t radical enough, for the love of God we are simply trying to survive.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With Like many, I am working from home. I'll get a call from my mom "hey you are not working now, go do something for me". Thanks, working from home is waaaay s***ter than going to "real" work, atleast for me.

I do fit the stereotype of hating talking on the phone

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With As an american, its basically that we're inheriting a system that nobody trusts us to run. All the people who represent us are 2-3 times older than us, the older generations are refusing or unable to retire which is preventing us from actually entering the job market.

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“This inevitably creates a faultline in the workplace between older and younger generations of workers. Older workers (e.g., boomers) are rule-bound (they created the rules!), millennials ignore them and rewrite these rules. For example, older workers strictly observe the 9 to 5 workday whereas millennials would stream into the workplace at 10 but work during their ‘waking hours.’ Previous generations find these behaviors to be irritating,” Professor Ng detailed how the different generations have different approaches to life and work.

“Every generation is focused on themselves—even boomers and Gen Xers. It’s really interesting hearing Gen Ys (older millennials) complaining about Gen Zs (younger millennials). ‘Kids these days…’ Part of this can be explained by the anxiety or fear of being displaced. Boomers considered themselves as ‘the greatest generation’ (Tom Brokaw). This (irrational) fear is most acute when technology changed how we live and work.”

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Being blamed for all the s*** Gen Z does or being treated like a twelve year old. I'm almost thirty and I don't know what the f*** the kids are doing either.

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#29

The lack of respect we get really.

Older generations getting upset that we are starting to get into politics at the National level.

Y’all realize we are in our mid-late 30’s now right? And we straddle the cultural divide. We grew up without the internet and cell phones. Sure, the more well off amongst us had a computer and internet maybe by the mid 90’s but the younger generation can’t grasp how different it was.

We spent our formative years with a budding technology and a lot of us figured it out and embraced it. So, why shouldn’t we be the ones who are helping to move it forward? We see both ends, the magic of it because of how new it was and how ever changing, and we also know how to fix things.

We started with command lines and UNIX, Atari’s and Nintendo’s, chat rooms, IRC, some of the first online multiplayer game’s (thank you half life and quake), but we also grew up being able to go outside with friends all day without anyone worrying about us. We were the last generation to get that experience.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With When people call teens and early 20s millennials. That was like 10-15 years ago.

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The professor continued: “Millennials, having been born and raised in a digital era, are much more adept and versatile in incorporating technology in everything they do. The boomers find more difficulty transitioning from their pre-technology ways. They still wear an old-fashioned analog wristwatch (to tell time) and don’t understand why millennials need to be plugged in through their smartwatches.”

Which generation are you a member of, dear Readers? Why do you think millennials (and other gens) get stereotyped so much? What do you personally think are the biggest differences between the Silent Generation, baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z? Share your thoughts with everyone below!

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With When Millennials do s*** that Gen Xer's and Boomers did, but for some reason we get derided as the s***tiest generation to ever get whelped.

When Millennials take cooking classes and sewing classes and basic auto repair classes (and other s***t our parents were too lazy/busy to teach us, but no one ever talks about that part) we're derided as being helpless and needing 'Adulting Classes'.

When Gen X'ers and Boomers did literally exactly the same thing, it was celebrated at self-improvement and the American Dream and called 'Taking a class down at the Y/Learning Annex/Community College.'

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Not a millennial. Raised one. So sick of people who spent their 20s and 30s smoking saying my kid is a spend thrift because they buy a $4 coffee every day to get them through their 5th 12 hour shift.

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We’re better known as Xennials, because we relate more to the life experiences of Generation X kids than to younger millennials. It’s those of us born 78-83.

Anyway, I hate the stereotype that we don’t know how to work and that our parents fight our battles for us. Fool, 85% of us were latchkey kids that raised ourselves.

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So I'm 33 (millennial age, right?) and I deliver pizza. I have two coworkers who are both 66. If I ever don't get a tip, I just shrug it off. It hardly ever happens, and it's not required. When either of them don't get a tip, they throw pissy-fits. I don't hear the end of it.

So I just think it's funny that my generation is the one seen as "entitled".

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I get extra salty about the boomers that are CONSTANTLY on their phones playing Candy Crush or reposting misinformation on Facebook, but will be the first to say we are “addicted” to tech. Uh, ok. Surrrre. I believe that is just the shame talking’ because you can’t make a pivot table and I can, Kevin.

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That I am an entitled, unwilling, undriven individual who has no interest in having children, saving for my future, getting married, or buying a home.

This irritates me the most because I am a married with 2 kids, home owning, business owner, with a home that I pay the mortgage on. Evidently, that doesn't actually matter however because if I ever end up being correct about anything, I am really just "young and naïve" and can be ignored.

I am 33.

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Being mocked for not liking to answer the doorbell when you’re not expecting someone. Thanks guys but we’ve had stalkers and furthermore you’re probably giving away all your retirement to a Nigerian Prince as we speak.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With "Participation trophies"--these were for our BOOMER PARENTS, not for us! And now WE are blamed by THEM for being entitled because we got them!

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I hate that millennials get pinned as being addicted to their phones. Like, always behind a screen and not interacting with the real world.

I for one try really hard to have good phone etiquette and what I've noticed is, boomers can be really bad at this. Some of the older people in my office and family are the worst offenders when it comes to texting at the table or just checking out on social media.

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I’m so tired of the lazy comments.

I have a gen x friend who owns a business. She never misses an opportunity to s*** on her millennial workers, and can’t seem to hire or keep good workers. Asked what she’s paying — of course it’s minimum wage. She refuses to accept this is the problem with getting and retaining good staff. Also, she is wealthy, like out of touch wealthy.

It’s just so obvious that calling an entire generation group lazy is just a narcissistic way to avoid ever having to examine your own flaws or necessary changes/growth as a person.

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That it is our fault businesses fail and not the fault of bad buissness. We didnt ruin a certain industry, that industry failed because it didnt find a way to adapt to change.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I'll start, avocado toast is the reason we won't be able to retire.

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They also don’t understand that technology didn’t appear all at once for the entire generation, it can still be class based? As a younger millennial (27, born 94) many people round me also had a very analogue childhood as we were working class (as a community, not just my individual family) and didn’t get the smart phone/social media/digital everything train until 2010-2012 when I was 16-18. Had someone ask me if I knew how to use a VHS last year, as if everyone immediately switched to DVD/Blu-ray the second they came out.

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30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With We are what the previous generation made us and we have been shaped by the world we were raised in and then we are attacked for who we've (been perceived to) become as a result. It's like getting angry at the puddle of milk because you threw the carton on the floor.

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The whole lazy s***. Most of my friends or peers are so overworked they barely have free time and even when they do have free time, they are so burnt out many of them are seriously depressed and disassociate because the amount of effort put in is not equal to the value given back. This s*** is not how our species is supposed to live, and we are the generation really seeing that contrast and waking up from the perpetual motion machine everyone has been asleep to... we were born into a system that was broken and we realize this. Boomers have very little concept of money as it relates to today’s climate. Because they were able to get a two bedroom in the 70s for like 250 dollars while working at Walgreens. It’s like two different realities.

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That we're "snowflakes." Baby Boomers can't hear the word Boomer without screaming bloody murder, and they can't handle being told they might be wrong about anything without throwing a hussy fit, but they sh"t on us constantly about some perceived sensitivity.

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#47

When all the college kids were out partying during the pandemic were called Millennials, that was GEN Z. I had family blaming my generation for this.

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#48

Born in ‘85, here, and my biggest irritation is that so many Boomers refuse to retire (I get that some are unable to, but many more can, yet won’t). GET OFF THE GODDAMNED POT AND LET THE REST OF US S***, PLEASE.

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#49

30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With That we don’t take our jobs seriously. I had to sit my peer (55+) down and tell him that the millennials he was b***hing about were the same age as the “very qualified and mission focused” person he’s been working with for the past decade.

We’re* upper management.

*me and colleague in story specifically, not a generalization on millennials, to clarify

werewolf3five9 , William Iven Report

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#50

My parents are on the early end of Gen X ('66) and I tend to be on the lower end of the millennial generation depending on which sources you look at ('90). I constantly remind them that I am a millennial and I have been part of the work force for a decade now. Millennials are not some spring chickens with zero work experience demanding upper-managment salaries... we're people who have been working 10-20 years now demanding an actual COLA.

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#51

1981 here. The stereotypes are amazing.

Every time I hear an insult aimed at "millennials" I'm amazed (and amused) that anyone thought it was an insult. An entire demographic dedicated to making sure everyone is doing something they believe in, that we all get the support we need, and putting Applebee's out of business? I'm honored to be counted among them on a technicality.

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#52

30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With I call my dad's boomer friends out all the time, they act like s*** was so hard back then. "Spilling a drink on a dude's girl that's a fist fight", me "No it f***ing isn't shut up you try hard tough guy, people weren't killing each other in the 80s over spilled drinks and you know it".

If you believe boomers the 1980s were like a WWF match, reality, most people just minded their own damn business and worked every day, just like now.

darkfrostystorm , Josh Rocklage Report

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#53

30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With That im lazy and entitled. 60 hours a week logging while middle class boomers take 2 hour lunch breaks and take a half day off for golf.

BPT_Race_Verifier , Matt Seymour Report

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What do you think ?

Ozacoter 3 years ago

I will never understand the generational battles. Everybody thinks that they are the best generation. It is absurd. There are great and horrible people everywhere. Please millenials lets not repeat the mistakes of previous generations and dont hate the next one.

31points

Daria B 3 years ago

Rux said it right - "Doesn't really matter if it's old or new / It's just a generation / So if you have it in mind /Then you can join our line" I mean, there's always going to be conflicts due to age gaps, but ultimately, we don't need to fight, we can help each other out, for we complement each other.

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Erin E 3 years ago

It’s the same as being a fan of a sports team or thinking your town/part of the country is better than everyone else’s. You are apart of it, so it must be the best 🙄

3points

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

I don’t “get” Gen Z yet but I respect them. That’s the problem sometimes, for certain people. They might not respect what they don’t understand. You don’t have to get it! Because it isn’t made for you! Older generations don’t always understand us, and we don’t always understand them. Boomers went through some of the problems we did, but not all. We need to appreciate parts of their culture and they need to understand parts of ours more. But most people won’t, so whatever. Now I sound like Gen X!

2points

tuzdayschild 3 years ago

One day we'll stop labeling each other and just see people for the individuals they are. Yeah, I'm laughing too.

Hans 3 years ago

Our weekly dosage of generational conflicts give us today. I still cannot say that I ever feeled liked belonging to a "generation" or put anyone I meet into that box.

Yoga Kitty 3 years ago

I am totally with you on this, Hans. Everytime I see a post like this I have to re-read first which generation I actually "belong" to. There are nice and there are challenging people of every age; in some matters I might agree more with people older than me, in others more with people younger than me and most of the time it seems to be impossible to find anyone who thinks exactly like me. Who came up with the idea that people of a certain age were all alike or would live the same life? We are all individual souls with different experiences, different backgrounds, different skills and coping mechanisms. The world around us may be roughly the same but what each of us makes out of it can be very, very different. Is this whole generation thing just used for putting the blame on or shaming somebody? I really don't get it...

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