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Peter Ian Staker 3 years ago

50 year old here (well, near as dammit), just taught myself to plaster using YouTube, laid block paving using YouTube, I use it loads.

16points

Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

Gen X here. Same.

16points

Not-so-MadMax 3 years ago

Yes I agree, it doesn't bother me that people look down on me for using youtube. But it kinda smarts that my parents never bothered to teach me anything. I kinda thought I was the only one until this post.

8points

Carrie Podhirny 3 years ago

I'm Gen X and use YouTube. I saved $75 repairing my fridge this way. No one should be looked down upon for problem solving using the tools at your disposal.

7points

Ben Steinberg 3 years ago

I'll join the Gen-X crowd and say, 'the same for me'. But I'll add, my 85-year old mother also thinks You-tube is brilliant for learning things. Can't understand why anyone would put that down.

7points

David Retsler 3 years ago

I don't get this. How is this any different from reading it in a book?? You're learning!

7points

Edward Shaw 3 years ago

utter nonsense. you learn what you need, when you need it.

6points

StIJN 3 years ago

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K Miller 3 years ago

Omg I hate that whole 'looking down on people, or mocking people for not knowing something'. No one is born knowing everything, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with trying to learn about something. I also don't think that attitude is exclusive to older generations looking down on millennials, I remember as a kid being teased for not knowing things. No one should every stop learning and expanding their minds.

5points

Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

Or you weren't interested in learning. It goes both ways.

4points

Tabitha L 3 years ago

I feel this. My mom constantly tells me how she used to make her own clothing. But never taught me how to sew.

4points

Sean Harrison 3 years ago

It's not that watching videos is bad, it's that once you watch a video about something, you think you're an expert on the subject.

3points

Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 3 years ago

If you don't know, at least know how to learn it. That's what I was taught. The biggest one for me was getting handed a dictionary when I asked the definition of a word. Then it became "you know where the dictionary is."

3points

Adrienne Early 3 years ago

I never understood when teachers told me "if you don't know how to spell it, look it up in the dictionary! " But if I don't know how to spell it...

0points

CincyReds 3 years ago

I mean it seems like YouTube is todays version of an encyclopedia. I a m very grateful that it exists!

1point

mac 3 years ago (edited)

Well, what if you are stuck in BFE with no service and need to change a flat? It's a life skill everyone should learn, period!

1point

Susan Egan 3 years ago

I'm 64 my dad taught me lots of things, without his patience and showing me the stuff he worked on I would never have tackled the projects I do. I love YouTube. My dad was an engineer. He could take apart the lawnmower and knew how to fix the starter. YouTube made it so much easier for me. I have no trouble tackling car problems, electric wiring, bike repair, tool and machine repair (dishwasher, dryer and furnace to name a few) because my dad would. YouTube videos supported me every time. Even today women are much less likely to try. My sister didn't want to change a wall switch that sparked she felt like it was too big a job. I coached her with the steps the told her to check it out on YouTube and give it a try. She was pretty proud of herself. BTW both my kids have been taught to change tires and oil. They know where to look for fuses and what they look like when blown.

0points

J 3 years ago

Every generation blame another generation; I feel sorry for the younger generations because they have inherited the s**t show that the older generations caused and will never have the advantages that they had. Older generation don't realise how good they had it and how bad it is now. I am generation X and I have tried to help my son to pay off his university debt and assisted him by making sure he is on the property ladder by buying a house with a joint mortgage, he will inherit this when I'm gone. I am sorry that this isn't available to you all, not every parent is in the same situation to help out :(

0points

Martha Higgins 3 years ago

However you find information is terrific.

0points

Diane Phillips-Herman 3 years ago

My kids didn't want to take time to learn anything.

0points

Satya Bain 3 years ago

I'm a boomer who grew up "doing" things. I use YouTube all the time to learn new things. Thank you for this tool.

0points

M Kate McCulloch 3 years ago

As a parent to millennials, while you all cannot find a job that pays even close to a living wage, we had to have two income families to get by. So, since our parents had single income families, someone had time to teach - we didn't and you all have suffered. Still - clever of you to learn which ever way you can... Kudos..

0points

Mike Rodrick 3 years ago

YouTube is the best teacher to do nearly anything. It's the only positive thing on the internet.

0points

Lisa Chambers 3 years ago

I think it is mostly amusing because others generally had to go to the library or ask for help. I drive a specific model of car that has an odd way to open the hood. I spotted a teenager on the side of the road struggling to open it, so I stopped and helped her. She was trying to see her phone (youtube how to) and open it at the same time which wasn't easy. I thought back to how I learned how it opened and remembered having to look in the car manual in the glove box.

0points

lisa lahey 3 years ago

Every generation inherits the garbage from the previous one. It's life. Deal with it.

0points

Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Think the millennials cry is that the old fogies can not teach us anything.

0points

Paul Mitchell 3 years ago

I tried to teach my kids that sort of thing but they never showed any interest I learning it, so I gave up. They are getting by fine.

0points

Linda Haney 3 years ago

S**t talk about your parents that's shitty. Maybe they don't know from way back when what you need to know now. Everyone's mom and dad don't know what you need to know now.

0points

Robin DJW 3 years ago

Looked down on for trying to D.I.Y? That's awful. I use YouTube to get help doing stuff all the time, and I'm a boomer. It's a good day when you learn something new.

0points

Isog Sargent 3 years ago

Oh FFS. No one taught me these things either (I'm in my 60s) and I managed to figure it out.

0points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

So you did exactly what are you critizising. Using resources to learn something.

1point

TheBookwormPotato 3 years ago

*tire*

0points

Lo 2 years ago

Tyre in Britain, I believe

0points

Alexandru' 3 years ago

Who does that? It's called resarch. You do it with the available tools.

-1point

Corey Brown 3 years ago

Did you even ask???

-2points

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.

beeinbris , Austin Distel Report

Final score:

220points

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I want cake 3 years ago

I've been in sales and customer service since I was 17 and also worked as a cleaner for two years and a bit, and most of the people who treated me like s**t were older people and rich people of any age (and yes, as a salesperson you can tell who's rich, mostly by the sheer expense of purchases and the platinum credit card, or the stack of large bills in their wallet).

42points

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?”

fishmom5 , Peter Dawn Report

Final score:

213points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

And nowadays not even with a degree you have a job. I needed to leave Spain because with two masters in biology and speaking fluent english I couldnt even find a job as cleaning lady. Most of my friends are or were in similar situations. Only now that we are in our 30s some start to have jobs

69points

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.

mfsbiwti , mauro paillex Report

Final score:

183points

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troufaki13 3 years ago

Covid spreaders come in all ages

55points

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.”

KayMaybe , Brooke Cagle Report

Final score:

180points

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

Unless you're a Millennial, in which case you call those people "Zoomers".

43points

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.

SteadyRiot Report

Final score:

173points

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troufaki13 3 years ago

But on the other hand there are the influencers who promote over-consumerism to the point that people don't have money to eat but they will buy that expensive handbag a girl from instagram advertised

57points

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.

Fallout541 , Jim Reardan Report

Final score:

173points

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

Absolutely correct.

48points

Notmybestusername3 Report

"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.

Final score:

171points

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Jon S. 3 years ago

I've never seen this 'a trophy for everyone' culture. It may have kicked in after I got through school (I'm UK based and finished in 2002). But I suspect it is grossly exaggerated.

14points

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.

theprozacfairy , Erik Binggeser Report

Final score:

160points

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Something 3 years ago

The whole Tide Pod Challenge was mostly satire.

43points

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.

RetardOnARocket Report

Final score:

152points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Not that the people following this have any more chances. We started college in 2008 so by the time I left there was zero jobs available for us (60% unemployment for young people). Once the economy recovered a bit we got a pandemic and are getting another crisis. We never stood a chance to have a good life.

33points

#11

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.

lazarus870 , todd kent Report

Final score:

147points

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Daria B 3 years ago

Let's not forget the ever rising housing and real estate costs. And the fact that salaries don't grow as fast (can even decline, on a general level).

57points

#12

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

brelincovers Report

Final score:

142points

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Neva Nevičica 3 years ago

Some of us closer to 40 :D

40points

FieriFlavortown0 , Tim van der Kuip Report

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.

Final score:

131points

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

Oh, don't mind her. She was just jealous.

53points

#14

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.

Aztaris Report

Final score:

129points

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Something 3 years ago

So now millenials are killing "Millenials Killed [Blank]"?

37points

ElectionAssistance Report

#15

"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.

Final score:

126points

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Firefoxy3121 3 years ago

I feel like there's a story behind that second thing

20points

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).

MeltingDog , Douglas Bagg Report

Final score:

115points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Yeah. Average rent in my parents city is the same as the minimum salary (which most young people have and will keep having due to recesion). We barely can afford rent, how are we ever going to buy a home?

35points

#17

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.

12ed11 , Adrian Swancar Report

Final score:

108points

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A.J Milne 3 years ago

This reminds me of that Dhar Mann video, where the guy's sister was too lazy to get a job

13points

#18

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.

jessek , David Tran Report

Final score:

103points

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

On behalf of Gen X, thank you for remembering we exist.

85points

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.

#19

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.

HoneycombJackass Report

Final score:

98points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)

That if they even pay you. Stupid unpaid internships. They should be illegal. They are the reason why nobody hires scientists anymore. They can hire students for free. They lie to you saying that its "experience" but when you go to the job market it turns out that "it doesnt count as real experience". F*****g scam.

45points

#20

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

Josh4Rsd , Harry Metcalfe Report

Final score:

95points

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로희 3 years ago

My office is doing this for a few years now. We do a PR targeting the millennials and apparently boomers in the office think millennials are high schoolers and undergraduate students.

27points

#21

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.

AnotherLolAnon , Hello I'm Nik Report

Final score:

93points

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Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Internet challenges are stupid and dangerous and stupid.

29points

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.

The_user_of , Josh Hild Report

Final score:

93points

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David Retsler 3 years ago

Then you have assholes for neighbors. My neighbor's 20-year-old daughter shoveled our driveway when I was out of town and my wife was laid up recovering from knee surgery. Without being asked, she came over and shoveled the drive and walk. Your generation has its asshole but it also has your terrific folks like my neighbor's daughter. If you're looking for assholes, you'll find them If you look for greatness, you'll find that too.

43points

#23

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.

Iamjackslama Report

Final score:

89points

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the redqueen 3 years ago

And generation X never says a word..............we have front row seats to this back-and-forth smack down, and we're all quiet because we don't want to miss any bit of it ! ( whoever came up with that "ok boomer" jab....totally KO'd the " millennials ruined the fabric softener industry" attempted low-blow." Haha.

27points

#24

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

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

MeatyOakerGuy Report

Final score:

80points

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Neva Nevičica 3 years ago

You certainly could use it if you had to, it's not nuclar physics. It's just not there anymore. I feel sorry for people who think that using a rotary phone is the peak of human inteligence.

26points

thatcondowasmylife Report

“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.

#25

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.

Final score:

72points

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

Complaining about older generations is part of growing up. And - to be fair - they're inheriting a nightmare. It's even worse than what you or I inherited. Young people got every right to be angry. None of us were radical enough.

13points

#26

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

ooo-ooo-oooyea , XPS Report

Final score:

70points

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Daria B 3 years ago

My favourite is 50% from home. It means, some days of the week you're at home, others you're in the office. I like the dynamics of it. Right now, however, we've been 100% at home for a couple of months or so.

12points

#27

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.

ksk3 , Darren Halstead Report

Final score:

69points

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Peter Ian Staker 3 years ago

As a non American, you need to change that system, it's really broken.

38points

“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.”

#28

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.

TheSilverCrystal Report

Final score:

67points

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Vorknkx 3 years ago

Good one. When people begin a sentence with "Young people nowadays" while looking at me, I feel like punching someone.

15points

#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.

simonsb Report

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66points

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

I want more Millennials in national politics. Y'all know how things work *and* you expect to live a while. Boomers know they don't have to live with the consequences of their actions.

12points

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#30

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.

Alokir , Jeswin Thomas Report

Final score:

54points

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troufaki13 3 years ago

Hey! We still think the 90s was 10 years ago so this makes sense! :D

52points

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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!

#31

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.'

Final score:

30points

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Ben Steinberg 3 years ago

Not to disrespect your experiences, but when Gen-X did those things, people said...nothing, 'cuz anything we did was ignored...

1point

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#32

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.

seriousbangs Report

Final score:

30points

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pusheen buttercup 3 years ago

My dad will often complain about millennials, and when I remind him I am one, he goes "yeah but not you, you're different. You're my kid" XD

5points

#33

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.

etoiles-du-nord Report

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29points

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Evil Little Thing 3 years ago

Covering up Edward's bullshit. Don't even bother with that guy.

6points

#34

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".

ryfitadf Report

Final score:

28points

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Vorknkx 3 years ago (edited)

Boomer logic: if you don't eat gravel and rusty nails for breakfast (after spending the night on a bed of broken glass), you are utterly spoiled and entitled.

7points

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#35

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.

72PlymouthDealer , Solen Feyissa Report

Final score:

27points

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Sleazy Weaver 3 years ago

Gen Z here, my mother (who's 12 days too young to officially be a boomer) spends so much time doing absolutely nothing on Facebook & acts as if I'm the one doing useless things online... when in reality I'm practicing digital art & animation to prepare for a career in my field of choice.

11points

#36

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.

Chromosis Report

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25points

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

It doesn’t matter what we have, we still aren’t legit adults. They LITERALLY call us the Peter Pan Generation

0points

#37

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.

TepidTeas Report

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24points

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the redqueen 3 years ago

Gen x here. I have let my doorbell ring and ring, and not moved one inch off of my couch; I work 6 days a week, and I am the type of gal that likes to treat that one off day as sacred, so I am picky about that time-it's all I get. Don't get me wrong- I have friends over constantly, I love them! And yes, on my one sacred "off" day. And some of those off days, are just for me. And my friends know, dropping by without calling will do nothing-but leave your ass standing on the porch. And anybody else? Sorry. Not home for you. Heheh

4points

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#38

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!

ab37 , Giorgio Trovato Report

Final score:

23points

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El Dee 3 years ago

I'm Gen X, had Boomer parents and have a millennial daughter - I have NEVER seen a participation trophy!!

3points

#39

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.

Omega-10 , Plann Report

Final score:

23points

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Daria B 3 years ago

Before the pandemic, when trains were sardines level crowded during rush hours, I felt someone's elbow pushing against my back. Turned my head around to see this old-ish lady comfortably typing on her phone, basically creating an invisible shield of air around her, as we were all stuck up to one another.

4points

#40

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.

chud_munson Report

Final score:

23points

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

That sounds more like a class thing than an age thing. She might be using the word "Millennial", but the wealthy blaming the poor for being poor and treating them like disposable commodities happens in every generation.

21points

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#41

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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Final score:

23points

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#42

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.

NukeEnergy , Mariana Medvedeva Report

Final score:

20points

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the redqueen 3 years ago

No, it's because you ruined the fabric softener industry. ( Seriously. I read this-kid you not.) Now millennials have ruined the Snuggle bears 4.8 million dollar end of year bonus check. You millennials will be the death of us all( BAhaahahaha.......fabric softener destroyers, hahahaha..)

5points

#43

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.

InterestingCloud9 Report

Final score:

20points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

That is true. Everybody reacts as if millennials were born with smartphones and internet. I am 30 and I was one of the few people I knew to have a PC at home because my mum and grandad were big nerds. Most of my classmates never touched a computer until high-school. We had mobile phones when we were 14-15 but I never saw a smart phone until I was in college.

11points

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#44

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.

QuietlySmirking , David Hinkle Report

Final score:

19points

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El Dee 3 years ago

Nope - I call BS. The WORLD might be what the previous generations made of it but WHO YOU ARE is, as an adult, up to you. MY thoughts are that each generation is an improvement on the last. I see young people today being able to come out as gay when young teens and being helped through this by their peers. Back in Boomer Days there would have been isolation and prosecution. The world has come a long way and has much further to go, all of this is due to the people of each successive generation..

-3points

#45

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.

moonbearstartiger Report

Final score:

19points

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tomruns12 3 years ago

I had my first job when I was in Grade school. I have 4 college degrees and multiple certificates in various trades. I work 2 jobs for a total of 13 hours a day and manage my own rental. Please tell me again how lazy I am.

4points

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#46

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.

taptaptippytoo Report

Final score:

18points

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

They also won't shut up about how cool the 60s were because nothing will ever be as cool as the 60s.

5points

#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.

CinnamonNOOo Report

Final score:

17points

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Vera 3 years ago

One of the most annoying stereotype Gen Z is facing: "We're all partying our way through this pandemic...". No, we're not. I (and my family and year mates) have not seen anyone in real life for almost a year. There are Covid deniers in every generation. Additionally, there are people that take Covid very seriously in every generation too. Let's not forget that.

11points

#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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Final score:

17points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Thats mostly the politicians fault not the normal people. Most of them would love to retire.

4points

#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

Final score:

16points

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Erin E 3 years ago

Make one, dude.... Boomer that doesn’t get it much?? (Edward Shaw)

1point

#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.

four2andnew Report

Final score:

16points

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Erin E 3 years ago

How do people not get millennials were named for the time they would be entering the workforce. NOT that they were born around the millennium. Yeesh.

0points

#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.

fancy-free Report

Final score:

15points

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

Also, y'all are way more politically engaged than Gen X (me) and Boomers, who claimed they were, but were really just high.

9points

#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

Final score:

14points

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Daria B 3 years ago

I feel like this one depends on the circles you were hanging at. Even in the 2000s, there were bars known to be filled with violent drunks, and bars known for peaceful and happy drunks.

3points

#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

Final score:

13points

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

Back when the Boomers were young adults, the older generations said "Young adults today are a bunch of lazy hippies expecting handouts. I had to work for what I got" -- Then in the 90s "The MTV generation expects instant gratification, and doesn't know how to work for a living"... it goes on and on. This isn't about millennials, it is about old people not liking young adults, and refusing to remember that their generation did many of the same things, and that society and the economy changes, so they can't compare their actions/successes

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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.

6points

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.

18points

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.

16points

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...

2points

mph seti 3 years ago

My mom was basically forced into retirement because the people she worked for could hire someone half her age, and pay them half the money to do the same job. I don't blame "millennials" for this at all, because it isn't their fault. It's the fault of the wealthy clinging to their wealth regardless of how old they are.

8points

WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

BP, could you stop repeating the same boring song over and over again? By this time we all got it; young people are blaming older people for something they can't help and vice versa. But in reality young people aren't blaming older people for something they can't help and vice versa. You make it seem like there's a generation war going on, while in reality everyone has to deal with the same problems.

8points

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

They’re taking it from Reddit. This is Reddit digest sometimes.

-2points

SirPatTheCat 3 years ago

Just by the way, there is no “rivalry” between gen z and millenials. Buzzfeed is trying to start s**t.

6points

Viviane 3 years ago

For me in Canada, it's simple: Prices have gone up, minimum wage hasn't kept up.

4points

What's In Your Head? 3 years ago

I really can't believe this is a thing. -__-

3points

Arctic Fox Lover 3 years ago

When you're a gen Z and you have no part in this~

3points

Micheal With A B 3 years ago

I DESPISE stereotypes. I have gotten into very heated arguments with my grandfather who has a ban habit of stereotyping peoplez

3points

ZenChickChristine 3 years ago (edited)

I’m Gen X. I’ve worked with only a couple of Millennials who fit the lazy description. They didn’t last long in the position and griped like mad when they lost the job on account of their behavior. They were far and away in the minority but they were terribly vocal and their actions cast a bad light on their cohort. Those that worked hard (ie most of them) were quiet about it. They didn’t need any accolades. *Edited to add - that lazy descriptor is generationless but tends to get chucked at whoever is perceived as the young’ns. My grandparents had that view of many kids in my generation.

3points

Maya 3 years ago

Why does everybody just HAVE to come up with stereotypes for every generation????? For the memes???

2points

Swyft 3 years ago

just wondering, on the lower end of gen z, when can I start complaining about alpha

2points

Swyft 3 years ago

younger if that would be a better word

1point

EQXL 3 years ago

The succes of a generation is a result of their parents generation.

2points

Lacey Heward 3 years ago

This was validating. Thank you!

2points

Blackheart 3 years ago

These posts are getting kind of tired. My sister is a millennial and I am an Xer. We are different, but get on quite well. Why doesn't everyone just stop this and get along? This blaming and shaming is getting thin.

1point

Sky Render 3 years ago

Honestly the issue at this point is social, not generational; it's just convenient to draw lines there. The US in particular is trending toward the same social issue that crippled Japan in the 90s and 2000s: the upper management of the workforce is not cycling out. It doesn't matter how old someone is, if you refuse to train up a new batch of head honchos to replace the current batch every decade or so, you will find that capitalism begins to falter. It absolutely relies on upward mobility being a thing, even if in the short term it might seem like it doesn't.

1point

Yeah, you heard 3 years ago

Evidently one of the biggest problems is that no one seems to know who millennials are. People aged 1-50 seems the perception of boomers.

1point

kiagh Tawney 3 years ago

I just hate being bunched with 12 year olds. I am not battling to go to college at 23 to refered to as a child. I haven't been constantly working since 16 to be called lazy. I would love to be lazy but to live I can't. I wish I had money so I could have a house, not worry about my job and live knowing that I will never get to retire

0points

alloutbikes@yahoo.com 3 years ago

Born in 1963, labeled a boomer. My parents were born in 39 and 42. They were boomers. So it goes across the generations. They see gray hair and it's a boomer. We see younger than us and it's a millenial. But no one is prejudiced.

0points

Christina Uhlir 3 years ago

What does this all have to do with age? Every generation has its irresponsible, arrogant,selfish, destructive, cruel a-holes and wonderful, caring, compassionate people.

0points

Sebastian Melmoth 3 years ago

People change to fit the times, one just has to appreciate the differences are mostly for the better. Many rural areas grow into urban ones so the practices change. Every generation is accused of having killed off old traditions and the like so it’s not just endemic to millennials or gen Z. Every generation rebels, in a way, to the ones that came prior so that humanity doesn’t stagnate. Millennial’s/ Gen Z’s children will rebel against them and accuse them of the same things just as millennials and gen z will accuse their children of killing off the practices they were accustomed to. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, I guess. If one fights progress, they’ll feel left behind and lash out. Also, it’s only a few loud ones who are crying out against the next generation, most people understand things will change and accept it. So tired of all this division among people.

0points

Wilf 3 years ago

It's the sense of shifting goalposts that gets me. I worked hard as a kid, was told a university degree and professional qualifications would get me a good career....but I graduated into a global recession, spending the best part of a decade on short term contracts barely meeting sky high rent bills. My dad was a school teacher who bought his first house in suburban London aged 24 (my mum didn't even work).... but my wife and I were both 34 with a combined salary of £100,000 a year before we could do the same. My parents spent time living and working in Europe and then voted to remove that same right from my generation. We did all the right things. We played by the rules set by our parents generation, and somehow we managed to come out behind. No wonder millennials feel some resentment for the generation that drew up the ladder after them.

0points

Marnie 3 years ago

I guess I don't spend enough time on the internet, because I have not seen all the millenial bashing that is apparently going on. Just the odd comment here and there.

0points

Vincent Jay 3 years ago

I read through the first ten entries. I never heard of any of these "stereotypes."

0points

Artahmiss 3 years ago

Lots of generational conflicts discussion below. For me, the biggest takeaway is seeing how many people my age are also struggling: it's impossible to live and it's not for lack of trying. I'm surprised by the emphasis on not being judgemental vs looking at the experiences these people are having.

0points

Jarrod Nichols 3 years ago

Millennials don't like people complaining about them, then make an entire thread to complain about it. Hilarious! Literally complaining about complaining.

0points

Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago

The next time some jerk starts going on about how "young people these days are so hypersensitive and just looking for things to be offended about!" I'm going to slap them with a list of Moral Panics of the 1960s and tell them to shut the hell up.

0points

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none anon 3 years ago

I don't wish to sound condescending but I feel this has to be said. It will pass. Being the generation after the "boomers", we (wrong side of 40 now) get criticized for a ton of things that didn't go as planned because we aren't "responding" like we "should". But being what we are in the naughty 80s, we couldn't care less, at least I didn't. Just keep living your life the way you want to and work towards the things you want. It's easier said than done, I'll tell you as much. It certainly wasn't smooth sailing for me, far from it. Truth is, one day you'll wake up and these things just don't matter anymore.

0points

none anon 3 years ago

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PARKER JEFFREY 3 years ago

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Haha! From a would be Lewis were I not female :)

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RoseTheMad 3 years ago (edited)

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

The first millenials are in their 40s and the last ones in their late 20s. So 30s seems a good average number.

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

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Daria B 3 years ago

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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 🙄

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

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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.

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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.

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Yoga Kitty 3 years ago

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mph seti 3 years ago

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

They’re taking it from Reddit. This is Reddit digest sometimes.

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SirPatTheCat 3 years ago

Just by the way, there is no “rivalry” between gen z and millenials. Buzzfeed is trying to start s**t.

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Viviane 3 years ago

For me in Canada, it's simple: Prices have gone up, minimum wage hasn't kept up.

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What's In Your Head? 3 years ago

I really can't believe this is a thing. -__-

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Arctic Fox Lover 3 years ago

When you're a gen Z and you have no part in this~

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Micheal With A B 3 years ago

I DESPISE stereotypes. I have gotten into very heated arguments with my grandfather who has a ban habit of stereotyping peoplez

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ZenChickChristine 3 years ago (edited)

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Maya 3 years ago

Why does everybody just HAVE to come up with stereotypes for every generation????? For the memes???

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Swyft 3 years ago

just wondering, on the lower end of gen z, when can I start complaining about alpha

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Swyft 3 years ago

younger if that would be a better word

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EQXL 3 years ago

The succes of a generation is a result of their parents generation.

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Lacey Heward 3 years ago

This was validating. Thank you!

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Blackheart 3 years ago

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Sky Render 3 years ago

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Yeah, you heard 3 years ago

Evidently one of the biggest problems is that no one seems to know who millennials are. People aged 1-50 seems the perception of boomers.

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kiagh Tawney 3 years ago

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alloutbikes@yahoo.com 3 years ago

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Christina Uhlir 3 years ago

What does this all have to do with age? Every generation has its irresponsible, arrogant,selfish, destructive, cruel a-holes and wonderful, caring, compassionate people.

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Sebastian Melmoth 3 years ago

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Wilf 3 years ago

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Marnie 3 years ago

I guess I don't spend enough time on the internet, because I have not seen all the millenial bashing that is apparently going on. Just the odd comment here and there.

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Vincent Jay 3 years ago

I read through the first ten entries. I never heard of any of these "stereotypes."

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Artahmiss 3 years ago

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Jarrod Nichols 3 years ago

Millennials don't like people complaining about them, then make an entire thread to complain about it. Hilarious! Literally complaining about complaining.

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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago

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A. Jones 3 years ago

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Nubmaeme 3 years ago

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none anon 3 years ago

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none anon 3 years ago

Test

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PARKER JEFFREY 3 years ago

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Haha! From a would be Lewis were I not female :)

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RoseTheMad 3 years ago (edited)

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

The first millenials are in their 40s and the last ones in their late 20s. So 30s seems a good average number.

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