30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With

you should never be looked down upon for looking up what you need to know. You are finding information, learning, being able.

Gen X here. Same.

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.

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

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

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).

I work in a call center for a bank and talk to all ages young and old. Although I do agree that most of the people I deal with that are entitled and rude are boomers, entitled rude people come in all ages. I wish people could hear themselves on the phone sometimes. Y’all think Karen’s only exist at grocery stores and fast food places? Lol think again. It’s way worse when their face is hidden.

unfortunately, not all of us over 50 are like that. But we're viewed as being that. And vice versa I know. This age s**t is pathetic. People are simply a**e-holes all around.

Most of the entitled people I deal with on a daily basis are like the OP said the 50 plus group. The restaurant I work at has been pickup or delivery only since the Covid pandemic and this one lady I know wants to know when it will be open again because she is having "dining out withdrawal". Another older customer got mad because his sandwiches were not ready when he arrived at the store. He arrived before the time we told him they would be ready.

I took a second job working as a cashier for 6 months about 2 years ago, and I whole heartedly agree, it's generally the older generations that are the rude ones. There are exceptions of course, but for the most part, people my own generation or younger are much more polite, and/or forgiving, especially about things that you have no control over. I had a lady get irate at me over the fact that I couldn't return several of the items she brought back to the store. Most of them wouldn't scan in our system(meaning we didn't sell them), and she even admitted that she might have bought them at a different store (she didn't have a receipt of course).

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

I have been a janitor since 2006 to help pay off my student loans ... at the very college I went to for 5 years

As a Gen X myself Im sorry y'all got fed that garbage about have to go to college. Truth of the matter is thats what we were told and it worked to some extent. But now a days at least in technology fields its far more important to have up to date learning through free online classes Udemy.com and Codeacademy.com would be two I recommend. Fact of the matter is we didnt know what the future held, the internet just became a household thing for most folks in the mid 90s. The world changed in a big big way in the last 25ish years due to that and no one really knew better.

Yeah I really hate this stereotype. The messed up thing is most of us were basically trained after high school college no questions asked. Well I wasn’t raised normal and was not allowed to explore and make mistakes as a teenager instead I made them the first few years of college. I honestly wish I was allowed to take 1-2 years off before I began, but noooo that didn’t meet my parents narrative.

On top of the degree, you need to have 50 million years of experience to get a job in ANYTHING!

Covid spreaders come in all ages

Basically the boomer mentality is everyone’s a millennial who isn’t a boomer.

"WE ARNT"? You sure you were ever in college?

...for about a decade, since we are in our 30s right now.

Who says this one?

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

This is so true. I am a millenial and we get blamed for a lot of things. People say that we are lazy, but I have a job and I work very hard. People say that millenials were the ones that were not social distancing and yet a lot of the people that I saw that were not social distancing were the older folks.

Labels, get used to it. We were Hippies (long hair and jeans). Now I'm an "Old person". Worse a white liberal democrat woman. Depending on the person I'm talking to my label changes. BTW I don't know what a millennial is, what the years are I'm only reading these out of interest.

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

Because I don't need diamonds. Why would I buy stuff I don't need?

DeBeers, is and screamingly corrupt and unethical business and monopoly of diamond mining and distribution. The invented demand for diamonds as an engagement ring in the late 1800's. DIdn't exist before then. If anything deserves to fail as a business, they do. And bravo for not supporting a manufactured "tradition" built on the backs of whole nations of exploited workers.

Why buy Diamonds? their entire market from value to scarcity is completely manufactured. They're also all soaked in blood.

Besides, diamonds aren't rare. They are an artificially inflated commodity and perhaps some are simply tired of being expected to pay out the ass for something that can be created relatively cheaply in a lab (*cough*DeBeers*cough*)