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BlatheringLeah Finnegan
8/18/14 11:59am
We had a meeting at work recently where a fiftysomething manager was ragging on millenials for wanting to be promoted. He hadn't given it any thought whatsoever other than laughing at them for wanting more and fearing for his own job. In actually talking to them, as I am an old and need guidance, I learned they didn't want to be CEO the next day. They wanted to have levels, or titles, that showed their growth and development in the job. It was partly a status symbol but more wrapped into self-worth and the idea of achievement being rewarded. Yet instead we get barking boomers upset about a new generation trying to change anything. That's unproductive.
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  Queen of BithyniaBlathering
  8/18/14 12:33pm
  Asking as an ignorant millennial, does this mean olds didn't used to have the concept of promotions? Did we invent them?
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  ARP2Queen of Bithynia
  8/18/14 12:41pm
  Oh they did. But since you're all a bunch of lazy moochers, you should be happy to work 80 hour weeks and have a job. You just haven't earned your promotion. How do you earn it? Well you can't, because they got theirs and again, you should feel lucky you have a job.
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ardenatworkLeah Finnegan
8/18/14 12:26pm
"Coddled and helicoptered"
By Baby Boomers
"catered to by 24-hour TV cable networks"
owned by Baby Boomers
"fussed over by marketers and college recruiters"
who are Baby Boomers
"dissected by psychologists, demographers and trend-spotters"
Baby Boomers
"They would rather earn $40,000 a year at a cool job than $100,000 at a lame job"
Because as we were growing up you Baby Boomers told us all we should follow our dreams, then you people took away our bargaining rights at those jobs, made it so that we need 6 years of experience and a Master's Degree just for an unpaid internship position, and none of you will fucking retire so we can take your place.

Sorry, who's the problem again?
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  foolyooardenatwork
  8/18/14 12:40pm
  where are these $100,000 a year jobs? I can't even find a $40,000 a year right now.
  
  -Millenial
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  EL34ardenatwork
  8/18/14 12:42pm
  You did the Lord's work right there, amigo. Cheers.
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JT_Pearland146Leah Finnegan
8/18/14 12:00pm
People pick on Millenials because they are a convenient target. I remember GenX being called the slacker generation. Take heart Millenials, pretty soon you can start taking shots at the generation behind you.
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  Your New FriendJT_Pearland146
  8/18/14 12:33pm
  I feel bad for GenX. They got labeled lazy or yuppies, they got to the house-buying and children-having age, and got the rug pulled out from under them in the recession. A lot of them will never be able to recover from that. But that's no fun to talk about, so now we talk about my generation instead.
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  Nina SwanYour New Friend
  8/18/14 3:22pm
  Generation X here, doing just fine. While everyone else was complaining about us being lazy anti-authoritarian slackers, we were in our little basement startup offices and grad student labs quietly building the modern-day Internet. You're welcome.
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Lisa_StrataLeah Finnegan
8/18/14 12:26pm
Millennials know this litany, too. "People have been calling me a narcissist since I was 3," says Hannah, the character Lena Dunham plays in "Girls," her comedy of millennial manners. It's a small joke on Hannah but a bigger one on the anxious, hovering adults who supplied the clucking soundtrack when she was growing up.

This!!! This!!! A million times. It just shows how Finnegan can get that the joke is on the adults in the TV show but fails to recognize it in the bigger picture. The joke is on you boomers! Where do you think all these millenials come from!?!?! Um, they're your generations children! Any criticism for how they've been raised by helicopter parents should be an insult to your generation's parenting skills. But boomers are so self-absorbed they can't even fathom that their own children might grow up and then when they do critique them, they insult them for the way they were raised, completely unaware that they were the ones who raised them. Now who sounds like the self-absorbed, narcissistic generation out of touch with reality?

No wonder, then, that "millennials are the nation's most dogged optimists," as Pew reported in a new study this spring. "They believe their own best days are ahead."

You want to know why?!?!? Because we know the boomers won't live forever. And one day we won't listen to diatribes about how we simultaneously demand and reject the American dream.
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  apogee17Lisa_Strata
  8/18/14 12:30pm
  I've applied this same general concept to how some folks deal with African-Americans in this country. But instead of it only being for a stretch of a single generation, it's applied across hundreds of years of American history.
  
  Point being: when you treat a group of people in a certain manner, don't be surprised at their reactions.
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  jmarkow1Lisa_Strata
  8/18/14 12:36pm
  Actually, Millenials are NOT Boomer's kids; they are the Boomer's grandkids for the most part. The Boomer generation was roughly 1946-1964, with the original Boomers being 1946-1956. We raised the Gen-Xers to hover and be helicopter parents.
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adultosaur married anna on the astral planeLeah Finnegan
8/18/14 12:24pm
i would like to earn 40000 at any job. pls.
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  TheTailEndadultosaur married anna on the astral plane
  8/18/14 12:35pm
  Learn how to write properly and we'll talk.
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  adultosaur married anna on the astral planeTheTailEnd
  8/18/14 12:37pm
  lol @ the idea that you're a ~job creator~
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glatt69Leah Finnegan
8/18/14 12:42pm
Older millennial signing in here, mini vans are amazing. We're a childless couple with one vehicle (by choice) and that vehicle is a mini van. Their practicality is unmatched. I wait with bated breath for the newer body styles to hit Craigslist so I can create this monstrosity: Disney World can fuck right off though.

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  Leah Finneganglatt69
  8/18/14 12:44pm
  thank you for commenting. you be your bad self with your mini van. namaste.
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  glatt69Leah Finnegan
  8/18/14 12:47pm
  If not me, who will speak for the mini vans?
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Joseph ForrestLeah Finnegan
8/18/14 1:34pm
I was born in the middle of 1979. What am I? Am I a millenial or did I not make the cut-off? Goddamn, these labels are so confusing and seemingly pointless. I hereby declare myself a X-Millenial.
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  Leah FinneganJoseph Forrest
  8/18/14 1:37pm
  you are MILLENNIAL!
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  IvrinielJoseph Forrest
  8/18/14 1:48pm
  An X-Millenial? Is that a spin-off book from X-Force?
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Hannibal the CannibalLeah Finnegan
8/18/14 12:01pm
They would rather earn $40,000 at a cool job than $100,000 at a lame job.

I'd settle for $20,000 at any job, thanks.
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CkellzLeah Finnegan
8/18/14 12:31pm
How about we just let all the boring asshole old farts die first. Then we can fixed all the shit they fucked up for us.
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  wkiernanCkellz
  8/18/14 1:03pm
  That's what we said, and look how bad that turned out. For crying out loud we didn't even hang on to the improvements made when we were young. E.g., those fucking Klan sympathizers, about whom everybody in the early seventies said "hooray those filth are finally gone and good riddance," well they're back, running a major teevee network and one of the two major American political parties.
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  philphilCkellz
  8/18/14 1:15pm
  "Then we can fix all the shit they fucked up for us."
  
  You're welcome.
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TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Leah Finnegan
8/18/14 12:09pm
Young people suck. Then they get old and continue to suck. Unless they don't.

Speaking generationally is an exercise in being wrong. The Greatest Generation were not all patriotism and sacrifice, Boomers are not all wasteful, entitled assholes (hi Elizabeth Warren!), Gen Xers were not a bunch of slacker skaters, and Millennials are not a bunch of Social Justice cyborgs.

P.S. Speaking as a Millennial, if you have a boring $100k job just laying around, I could take it off your hands, maybe?
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