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JoJo
I saw that on Reddit. Of course, it was on the r/lostgeneration sub where the heading was "greedy boomers snap up all the housing and resent offspring for living at home". I'm sick and tired of the millenniels whining about the evil baby boomers, and how good they had it. Yeah right, try growing up during the cold war and being told that the world could blow up any day or facing the draft.[/oldfogeyrant]
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JoJo
I saw that on Reddit. Of course, it was on the r/lostgeneration sub where the heading was "greedy boomers snap up all the housing and resent offspring for living at home". I'm sick and tired of the millenniels whining about the evil baby boomers, and how good they had it. Yeah right, try growing up during the cold war and being told that the world could blow up any day or facing the draft.[/oldfogeyrant]
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Peace
It's funny. My sister is 60, and she found a job. I know other older workers who all found work. If us old fogey types can find work, then it should be a piece of cake for a millennial. Oh wait, it couldn't be that maybe those young workers are complaining, always on their phones, expecting $60k as a starting salary, and wanting everybody to cater to them, could it?
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JoJo
I saw that on Reddit. Of course, it was on the r/lostgeneration sub where the heading was "greedy boomers snap up all the housing and resent offspring for living at home". I'm sick and tired of the millenniels whining about the evil baby boomers, and how good they had it. Yeah right, try growing up during the cold war and being told that the world could blow up any day or facing the draft.[/oldfogeyrant]
When I started employment it was still legal for employers to blatantly request male only applicants for jobs.
My entire working life had frequent gender discrimination for myself and other women, both blatant and subtle.
Although things are still not fair, it is much improved from 35 years ago.
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JoJo
I saw that on Reddit. Of course, it was on the r/lostgeneration sub where the heading was "greedy boomers snap up all the housing and resent offspring for living at home". I'm sick and tired of the millenniels whining about the evil baby boomers, and how good they had it. Yeah right, try growing up during the cold war and being told that the world could blow up any day or facing the draft.[/oldfogeyrant]
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Peace
It's funny. My sister is 60, and she found a job. I know other older workers who all found work. If us old fogey types can find work, then it should be a piece of cake for a millennial. Oh wait, it couldn't be that maybe those young workers are complaining, always on their phones, expecting $60k as a starting salary, and wanting everybody to cater to them, could it?
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My husband kind of laughs it off, but even HE has had to deal with this mentality where he works. He has been in his job for over twenty years now and has a lot of great experience and knowledge. As far as the Ms are concerned, he should just fuck off and die because he's older. They talk about wanting to bring in 'new blood' but when they do, more fuckups ensue. Entitlement is high and work productivity isn't. He isn't treated like and equal, and a lot of people don't listen to his advice on certain things, even if it is rock solid.
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nightfire
I wonder if the entitlement comes from the the media and such always gushing on about youth and their 'mastery' of technology and being 'tech-natives,' pumping them up over how 'important' they are and how they will take over as some sort of progressive wave of the future. I think they get a big ego from this, because the emphasis on youth is really big in the media, and Millenials are 'young' right now.
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Which is true, all of the phones, tablets and computers are little more then glorified button pushing in response to a stimulus. It might be however that they have often heard parents (not necessarily their own) declare their own inadequacy with technology, mention (with thinly veiled pride) how smart their kid is and that this kid figured out how to program the DVR or helped them with how to use the mobile phone. Kids (and teens) hearing this might assume 'old people' have not a great proficiency with technology, and not that those bright virtual buttons and multiple stacking menus look intimidating.Quote
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nightfire
I wonder if the entitlement comes from the the media and such always gushing on about youth and their 'mastery' of technology and being 'tech-natives,' pumping them up over how 'important' they are and how they will take over as some sort of progressive wave of the future. I think they get a big ego from this, because the emphasis on youth is really big in the media, and Millenials are 'young' right now.
Oh that fucking "digital native" narrative really pisses me off, as someone in the tech field. Who do they think designed those devices that younger people are supposedly so proficient with? It wasn't young people...
I read up once about the digital native idea and it isn't scientifically supported. It is a marketing idea, introduced by someone who wanted to sell the idea of schools paying his company to convert their textbooks into games, supposedly the ideal "learning environment" for youth. The truth is more what I've observed: younger people are highly proficient at manipulating digital interfaces because they've been part of their environment, but there are very few who show any more understanding of the underlying technology than a lab rat understands the mechanism that releases food when it presses the button it has learned to trigger.
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nightfire
Which is true, all of the phones, tablets and computers are little more then glorified button pushing in response to a stimulus. It might be however that they have often heard parents (not necessarily their own) declare their own inadequacy with technology, mention (with thinly veiled pride) how smart their kid is and that this kid figured out how to program the DVR or helped them with how to use the mobile phone. Kids (and teens) hearing this might assume 'old people' have not a great proficiency with technology, and not that those bright virtual buttons and multiple stacking menus look intimidating.Quote
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nightfire
I wonder if the entitlement comes from the the media and such always gushing on about youth and their 'mastery' of technology and being 'tech-natives,' pumping them up over how 'important' they are and how they will take over as some sort of progressive wave of the future. I think they get a big ego from this, because the emphasis on youth is really big in the media, and Millenials are 'young' right now.
Oh that fucking "digital native" narrative really pisses me off, as someone in the tech field. Who do they think designed those devices that younger people are supposedly so proficient with? It wasn't young people...
I read up once about the digital native idea and it isn't scientifically supported. It is a marketing idea, introduced by someone who wanted to sell the idea of schools paying his company to convert their textbooks into games, supposedly the ideal "learning environment" for youth. The truth is more what I've observed: younger people are highly proficient at manipulating digital interfaces because they've been part of their environment, but there are very few who show any more understanding of the underlying technology than a lab rat understands the mechanism that releases food when it presses the button it has learned to trigger.
The other thing with the tablets (and laptops) is that they seem to be replacing physical textbooks. Kids just look stuff up instead of reading and memorizing, and they can use these devices to cheat more easily. I think that there was a fight years ago by some schools to not have this type of technology forced on them, there wasn't enough proof that this stuff even helped and that like you said, it was just a marketing ploy.
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nightfire
Which is true, all of the phones, tablets and computers are little more then glorified button pushing in response to a stimulus. It might be however that they have often heard parents (not necessarily their own) declare their own inadequacy with technology, mention (with thinly veiled pride) how smart their kid is and that this kid figured out how to program the DVR or helped them with how to use the mobile phone. Kids (and teens) hearing this might assume 'old people' have not a great proficiency with technology, and not that those bright virtual buttons and multiple stacking menus look intimidating.
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