This is frickin' hilarious and so on-point. I work at a company where I'm the oldest person on staff (I'm 36, but I"m also the boss) and most of the staff is under 30 and spoiled as all hell! They bitch and whine about every little thing, from having to work overtime for our small start-up to being hungover when they've partied too hard on a Sunday night. ("Um, WHOSE choice was it to do that? Not mine so why do I have to hear you talk about vomiting into your toilet?"). The GenYers (and my baby sister is one) have NO idea how good they have it. I had one of my favorite high school teachers die of AIDS when I was a sophomore in high school, and had to worry about my partner giving it to me b/c his last lover was HIV positive. Our Generations contributed to, witnessed and / or celebrated the fall of the Berlin wall, the fall of Apartheid in South Africa, and the creation of hip hop culture (REAL hip hop culture, not the diluted commercial sell-out shit that most Gen Yers think of as hip hop).
Someone i met recently complained that a GenYer had told him he was too old to wear a hoodie. Stupid GenYers, you think YOU invented hoodies? People have been wearing them since the 1950s!
I do think my GenX generation is going to have a tough time of aging, albeit not as tough as the boomers did, since they thought they were going to live forever. We're a little more realistic about that. The GenYers on the other hand have grown up with plastic surgery being considered nearly a medically necessary procedure. I think the GenXers will be the last generation of Americans to be mostly plastic-free for that reason.
As NovaBass said above: "And "Millennials" - when are you going to come up with something cool and new of your own? It's about time, isn't it?" I coudn't have said it better myself.
This is frickin' hilarious and so on-point. I work at a company where I'm the oldest person on staff (I'm 36, but I"m also the boss) and most of the staff is under 30 and spoiled as all hell! They bitch and whine about every little thing, from having to work overtime for our small start-up to being hungover when they've partied too hard on a Sunday night. ("Um, WHOSE choice was it to do that? Not mine so why do I have to hear you talk about vomiting into your toilet?"). The GenYers (and my baby sister is one) have NO idea how good they have it. I had one of my favorite high school teachers die of AIDS when I was a sophomore in high school, and had to worry about my partner giving it to me b/c his last lover was HIV positive. Our Generations contributed to, witnessed and / or celebrated the fall of the Berlin wall, the fall of Apartheid in South Africa, and the creation of hip hop culture (REAL hip hop culture, not the diluted commercial sell-out shit that most Gen Yers think of as hip hop).
Someone i met recently complained that a GenYer had told him he was too old to wear a hoodie. Stupid GenYers, you think YOU invented hoodies? People have been wearing them since the 1950s!
I do think my GenX generation is going to have a tough time of aging, albeit not as tough as the boomers did, since they thought they were going to live forever. We're a little more realistic about that. The GenYers on the other hand have grown up with plastic surgery being considered nearly a medically necessary procedure. I think the GenXers will be the last generation of Americans to be mostly plastic-free for that reason.
As NovaBass said above: "And "Millennials" - when are you going to come up with something cool and new of your own? It's about time, isn't it?" I coudn't have said it better myself.