30 Millennials Share Stereotypes That They Hate To Be Associated With
Interview With AuthorQuick! When I say the word ‘millennials,’ what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Do you attach a whole bunch of small stereotypes after you imagine young professionals who prioritize leisure over their work?’ Or do you get confused what the differences between millennials and zoomers are? You might not be alone. Millennials tend to get stereotyped a lot in the media and online, but what’s even more frustrating is just how these stereotypes don't go away no matter how old millennials get... and the word gets used as a catch-all phrase for anyone young and wild and dumb.
Redditor NukeEnergy, who has an absolute top-tier name that we wish we thought of first, asked the elder millennials on the site to share what stereotype aggravates them the most. And the responses were enlightening, showing just how different generations look down on millennials in (often not so) subtle ways. Have a scroll through some of the best responses, upvote the stereotypes that you think should never happen in the first place, and if you’re millennials yourselves, dear Pandas, join the conversation and share your thoughts below. Bored Panda reached out to the original poster of the thread, redditor NukeEnergy. Check out what they had to say below, as well as for analysis of what makes each generation unique.
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When we are looked down upon for needing to use YouTube, etc. for learning tasks (e.g. changing a tyre) that our parents were taught by our grandparents but the former never took the time to teach us.
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.
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).
“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?”
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
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."
We got blamed for spring break covid outbreaks. WE ARNT IN COLLEGE ANY MORE.
“Millenials” has just become a term for “young person with ideals I don’t agree with.”
Unless you're a Millennial, in which case you call those people "Zoomers".
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.
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
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."
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I, for one, am tired of hearing about the things we've "killed". Tastes change all the time, this is not new.
"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.
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.
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).
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?
Average rent in my city is more than minimun wage! Add to that utilities, bills, oh and you also have to eat. God forbid you have to pay tuition (my fiancé pays cause he didn't get a degree when he was younger and is trying to now). Buying a flat, a house (insert bitter laugh) is a dream. I don't even qualify for a large enough credit, and if i did, I'd probably still be returning it when I'm 60 or 70. Buying a house is just not a priority. Having food on the table is, and making good memories.
Load More Replies...If your part of the world is the UK I completely agree, I own a house but the market needs to drop drastically. It's been pushed up enormously by foreign investors (mainly the Chinese) and hedge funds speculating, the problem is that none of the political parties want to stop it. Did you know there was recently a vote on stopping tax evasion which would have stopped a lot of the offshore speculation, the MP's voted against it (it would upset their mates).
This September my parents paid off all debts from school and houses so yay
My rent is $1400 a month. That’s why I can’t afford to save money to buy a house. Instead of raising the minimum wage why don’t we just lower the cost of s**t
Exactly. My rent is in close range to yours which is also a mortgage payment for average single family home in my area. Problem is coming up with the down payment.
Load More Replies...I remember my mother eating avocados pretty much all the time when I was a kid (in the early 80's).
I wish I could afford a house but prices where I live are starting at £350k for one bed flat and it's about 75% your salary to rent anything (on your own with partner 50%) so it's difficult to save money
In my part of the world, the minimum wage is 2.68 per hour, and the average price of a cheap corrugated iron and wood shack is about 140k. 5.5k per year. 25 years salary. This one in particular grinds me gears because I work full time with two side hustles, and people still say I must be lazy because I wind down at the end of the week with some computer games.
As someone in their 50s I bought my first home on the 3x salary calculation when I was 26 and earning a very low wage. I realised as soon as they abandoned that formula it was going to spell misery for everyone from that moment onward. I think what’s happened since is immoral and disgraceful and can be laid at the door of the banks - not a particular generation. A home is a right and not a privilege. Greed has won out and it stinks to high heaven.
at least 10x. if you want to live anywhere near employment opportunities, ammenities, or anything..
I had an argument with my son-in-law about cost of living increases in wages. He said that those didn't work because then cost of items just go up. Okay, unless you have a job where you make a boat load of money you can't afford to buy a home. There is no way someone can afford a house if they are already working 2 jobs just to pay rent, buy food, pay utilities, and all the extras that hit you upside the head.
I'm not sure where you're shopping, but if 10x is the average around you....wow.
Average US 3 bedroom "starter home" - half a million. Average US salary - $38,000 - almost starvation wages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The use of the term “millennial” to refer to the general 'young person.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"yOu CaN't UsE a RoTaRy PhOnE!?!?"
And you can't use a telegraph. Technology changes ya quack.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
As a non American, you need to change that system, it's really broken.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
When people call teens and early 20s millennials. That was like 10-15 years ago.
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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!
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.
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.
Load More Replies...One day we'll stop labeling each other and just see people for the individuals they are. Yeah, I'm laughing too.
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.
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...
Load More Replies...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.
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.
They’re taking it from Reddit. This is Reddit digest sometimes.
Load More Replies...Just by the way, there is no “rivalry” between gen z and millenials. Buzzfeed is trying to start s**t.
I DESPISE stereotypes. I have gotten into very heated arguments with my grandfather who has a ban habit of stereotyping peoplez
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.
just wondering, on the lower end of gen z, when can I start complaining about alpha
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I read through the first ten entries. I never heard of any of these "stereotypes."
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.
Millennials don't like people complaining about them, then make an entire thread to complain about it. Hilarious! Literally complaining about complaining.
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.
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.
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Load More Replies...The first millenials are in their 40s and the last ones in their late 20s. So 30s seems a good average number.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...One day we'll stop labeling each other and just see people for the individuals they are. Yeah, I'm laughing too.
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.
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...
Load More Replies...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.
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.
They’re taking it from Reddit. This is Reddit digest sometimes.
Load More Replies...Just by the way, there is no “rivalry” between gen z and millenials. Buzzfeed is trying to start s**t.
I DESPISE stereotypes. I have gotten into very heated arguments with my grandfather who has a ban habit of stereotyping peoplez
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.
just wondering, on the lower end of gen z, when can I start complaining about alpha
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I read through the first ten entries. I never heard of any of these "stereotypes."
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.
Millennials don't like people complaining about them, then make an entire thread to complain about it. Hilarious! Literally complaining about complaining.
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.
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.
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Load More Replies...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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