Ya, what I hate the most is those corporates all now have gyms, free food and all sort of crap activities and couches to sleep on and what not. And the kids think that that's great! They don't see it for what it is.
The funny thing is those boomers actually got things done far more professionally than all those Indian workers spending all of their life at the office.
More than anything else millenials have been severely unorganized, which is weird since that's the generation that had it spoon fed to them with movies like bugs life, but still can't manage to band together for a strike, it really has seemed that millenials just collectively gave up and accepted being depressed slaves, and I get blaming the boomer+ CEOs but the blame and shame game does nothing, but that's the only game millenials as a generation seem to know how to play and when they can't cancel culture their way out of a dying rigged economy they just flail
Boomers were the last generation with an immersion in and understanding of civic society and organizing.
That's why they can get stuff done quickly and on a massive scale. For example, the youth were pretty familiar with all the chan/anon stuff. But when the boomers somehow got exposed to qanon their group skills kicked it. They really made the qnon movement huge.
I think is has something to do with being properly socialized. They interacted with other humans in their communities and interest groups. More millennial and gen z are afraid to answer the phone.
The reasons why boomers and earlier generations were able to have that group organization versus millenials would probably fill several books.
This is pretty accurate. I know boomers who consistently refused free smartphones/laptops whatever, and I guess originally blackberries, because they didn't want to be on the clock and expected to respond to emails while at home.
And they were good about easing into what they called 'retirement mode' about 5-7 years prior to retirement, which meant they did very little and offloaded the work onto eager little millennial. Smart.
I'm Gex-X, and one of the great myths we perpetuated was that working long, hard hours meant you possessed exceptional moral or character strength. Dedication to the point of self-sacrifice is/was very common. Many employers now expect the same level of sacrifice from Millenials, as you say, but compensation hasn't followed inflation, and I've even seen offered salaries and per-hour rates decrease for some positions in my field.
Maybe I've just been lucky but most jobs I worked respected my time. Was asked to do some overtime here and there, and I did it for some extra cash (and the fact I had no good excuses not to).
I had much less time when I tried to create my own business for a while. Still it is all experience so w/e.
yah.. the boomers never did any extra work... they made us do it when they were the boss...
funny how that works...
someones gotta pay for their 4 houses and rental props...
and vote liberal to keep the ponzi going...
You’re not wrong. I use the boomer tactics and am looked at as weird. And HR is not your friend.
Ya, what I hate the most is those corporates all now have gyms, free food and all sort of crap activities and couches to sleep on and what not. And the kids think that that's great! They don't see it for what it is.
The funny thing is those boomers actually got things done far more professionally than all those Indian workers spending all of their life at the office.
More than anything else millenials have been severely unorganized, which is weird since that's the generation that had it spoon fed to them with movies like bugs life, but still can't manage to band together for a strike, it really has seemed that millenials just collectively gave up and accepted being depressed slaves, and I get blaming the boomer+ CEOs but the blame and shame game does nothing, but that's the only game millenials as a generation seem to know how to play and when they can't cancel culture their way out of a dying rigged economy they just flail
True.
Boomers were the last generation with an immersion in and understanding of civic society and organizing.
That's why they can get stuff done quickly and on a massive scale. For example, the youth were pretty familiar with all the chan/anon stuff. But when the boomers somehow got exposed to qanon their group skills kicked it. They really made the qnon movement huge.
I think is has something to do with being properly socialized. They interacted with other humans in their communities and interest groups. More millennial and gen z are afraid to answer the phone.
The reasons why boomers and earlier generations were able to have that group organization versus millenials would probably fill several books.
By your powers combined...
This is pretty accurate. I know boomers who consistently refused free smartphones/laptops whatever, and I guess originally blackberries, because they didn't want to be on the clock and expected to respond to emails while at home.
And they were good about easing into what they called 'retirement mode' about 5-7 years prior to retirement, which meant they did very little and offloaded the work onto eager little millennial. Smart.
I'm Gex-X, and one of the great myths we perpetuated was that working long, hard hours meant you possessed exceptional moral or character strength. Dedication to the point of self-sacrifice is/was very common. Many employers now expect the same level of sacrifice from Millenials, as you say, but compensation hasn't followed inflation, and I've even seen offered salaries and per-hour rates decrease for some positions in my field.
Maybe I've just been lucky but most jobs I worked respected my time. Was asked to do some overtime here and there, and I did it for some extra cash (and the fact I had no good excuses not to).
I had much less time when I tried to create my own business for a while. Still it is all experience so w/e.
All I get from this post is that you are angry.