45 Absurd Pieces Of Advice From Baby Boomers Who Don’t Understand How The World Works Today

same. and im gen z (yes. the dreaded youngsters boomers /j) and i’ve been told this. my mom was like, “oh. he just likes you” and i said “no he needs to leave me alone before i smack the lightbulbs out of him” i was a very sassy 10 year old

The prob is our boomer parents said it to us, looking back yeah that was f’d up

don't tar all us GenX'er's lol.... some of us are really messed up 😁

Then later chastise you for going after a "bad boy" or loser. I'm Gen X, its what we were told too. Passing down garbage like that is emotional immaturity. But also remember Gen X women were s**t shamed on a near daily basis so it was baked into us to blame ourselves or other victims.

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Maybe they wanted to make you feel better.

NO! As a gen x woman, I am tired of this s**t and the excuses men make for trash behaviour. If young boys don't know how to express affection without violence, they've got s**t parents. Also, s it's not surprising that you're up on another comment, more upset that Xers are being "tarred with the same brush" than that women have had to deal with this sexist garbage for literally ever.

It might be true with some young children but even then, the statement downplays bullying.

That'd be the shortest show ever.

It's very simple, just go in there, demand to see the CEO and hand him your CV. You'll get a job easily!

Me too and I only miss the boomer label by 2 years. I think all parties involved miss out on great opportunities because of the stupid algorithm. Agencies specializing in Talent acquisition and the best corps know this too. If you have a degree, a few years of experience in a field that's booming, it's worth the money to hire a head hunter. They can get past the usual hurdles. You know you've made it when the head hunters call you!

SAME

Me too!!!!

Good for you, cutting toxic people out of your life!

2008 was one of the worst times to lose your job. No one was hiring. For like 2 years! People lost their homes... well I don't have to tell you how bad it was! If your brother couldn't see that you were one of millions this happened to, then yeah - I wouldn't talk to him either!

Hey at least you tried before telling us it’s super easy.

There is a very high turnover in call centre jobs... If ai were you, I'd just search for openings in your area online. May be routed through an agency.

It sometimes is like that. When the parents no longer want to fully support their teenage child, they demand that child work to pay for the things they want and need, or to make them more independent faster. My mom made me look for work before I got my SIN number. That didn't work out well. She got me to go get my SIN (Social Insurance Number in Canada). Went back to job searching with no luck. I had no idea what a resume was, how to make one. My folks were still complaining why they wouldn't hire me.

Must have been nice back in the days when banks paid more than pennies on the dollar on money in savings accounts. Even back in the 80s when I was a kid it was still around 2% but now it's more like 0.1%. You may as well keep your money under a mattress.

This is an US problem. In a normal world holidays are paid, independent of the worker goes on an individual holiday or the company does a break.

person not aware of inflation: "Then you can by a town house!" /s

Or pay taxes.

And that's the latest generations fault for voting for a bigger turd than last time!!

Yes. It can be $ 10, 100 or 1000. Pay you first. Have a budget.

Newer generations work equally as hard and get very little in return. What was handed to you was stability, knowing that if you worked hard you were almost certain to have a good life. Owning a house was not even a possibility, it was a certainty. Young people don't have that. That's what the handed to you means. Boomers live life on easy mode.

Deny it all you want but the post-WWII generation was handed a very favorable economic situation for around 30 years. Yea, many boomers worked hard but you got way more bang for your buck than current generations do. It’s funny to see you whine about money being “inflated away” in one one comment then citing the much, much worse inflation there was in the 80s.

Yes but working back then in a factory and your wife being a stay at home mom still bought you a house, a nice care and put food on the table. Nowadays young adults have to continue living with their parents even though they have jobs.

Cheap college and numerous opportunities for genuine entry level jobs even without a degree in a boom economy. That’s what was handed to you. What you did with it, or what happened after you had your foot in the door matters, but not as much. Nowadays, college is cripplingly expensive, the economy is s**t in comparison, and entry level jobs all require several years of specific experience—-the kind of experience entry level jobs are supposed to give you—-before they’ll even consider talking to you. While I’m not saying it was easy, you at least had the chance to get started without having to work a gig or retail or fast food job while searching and applying for career-starting jobs. And don’t even talk to me about trying to start a new career later in life, and the ageism you get subjected to.

Nothing handed to you? Of course this varies by country, but in the UK there was no charge to go to university at one point, and council housing was abundant. Then Thatcher introduced right to buy and you could buy your council house at a huge discount. By the time I was 18, university was £3500 a year (it tripled the year I left to £9000) and there was hardly any council housing left. Oh and a huge number of libraries had been closed, arts grants dismantled... and so on and on and on

Hey, Bob, relax. I'm a boomer and I've been homeless twice and broke all my life. I had to deal with my mom and my brother totally not understanding why I had to declare bankruptcy and how landlords require a perfect credit score and a certain income before they'd rent to you. My mom would see apartments and tell me they couldn't possible cost over $400 a month (in 2012!). Neither one of them believed me when I told them the reality of job hunting, rent increases (100% at one place), how expensive college was, and how many "entry level" jobs required a college degree. My mom would put down people for saying they felt stressed in their jobs - and she hadn't worked a job since 1952! Nobody is saying you haven't worked hard for what you have. But you need to recognize that working hard doesn't get you what it used to. Times have changed and what got you ahead is not what works today. Give us advice if you want, but don't yell at us for ignoring it if we know it isn't going to work.

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no, your parents actually made the sacrifices, and your generation overwhelmingly had low prices for education and homes, less competition, and not to mention because of advances in healthcare which is keeping you alive and in power, while simultaneously racking up debt, causing massive inflation, and basically taking huge risks to make short term profits, oh and finally ruining our environment. all of this and still refusing to actually fix any of the problems you created.

Some of you, especially you "Bob", need to look up the definition of "anecdotal evidence". Also, getting defensive and angry (+ commenting on every single one of these posts) makes you a prime example of a "boomer". Sorry no-one beyond your own circle will be grateful for your personal sacrifices.