Posted on 09/18/2011 2:04:40 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
NEW YORK -- In Tiffany Spaulding's 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry, she has worked for three companies, two of which no longer exist, and relocated to four states.
Now 39 and living in Brookfield, Conn., she hasn't had a promotion in five years and says she sees no chance to advance, stuck behind a wall of baby boomers. She would quit and turn her hobby of jewelry design into a business, she says, if not for the home and school loans that eat up half her salary.
Spaulding, according to a new report, is a typical member of the relatively small group called Generation X, 46 million Americans born between 1965 and 1978: They're ambitious, squeezed by debt and frustrated by people who aren't retiring on schedule. More than a third hope to leave their jobs in three years, a survey of more than 1,100 members of Generation X by the Center for Work-Life Policy found.
WE have mastered complaining? Let me tell you what I hear from my Gen-X friends about Baby Boomers:
Whiners, complainers, it’s never good enough, oh Miss Scarlett the trouble I’ve been through, will not change, will not adapt, will not admit their wrong, drama queens, nit pickers, play the system, self serving, kindom building, glory hounds, unproductive, slacking on their laurels, you have to carry their load because it takes them 10X to do what you can do without thinking, can’t see the forest for the trees, and absolute 100% control freaks and unrelenting ego-driven. Oh yeah, and LIBERAL.
Alot of boomers I know will crash a business or organization into the ground rather than give up control or admit they’re wrong. Rope-a-dope all day long while Rome burns. I’ve seen it time and again.
Most Gen-X are conservative or libertarian. We are a fraction of the boomer generation. I was barely out of college when Bill Clinton took over and started polluting the culture for the next 10 years with his 60’s plastic-banana wacka-wacka porn culture.
Give me a break.
I love it when some young inexperienced kid out of college tells me how “its not fair”
I always tell them that that is something they never teach you in college, is it...
Congrats!
Thanks!!!!!
Congrats! Cookiesssssssssssssssssss!
Thanks nut....
That’s the truth!!!
The school of no work no eat was the alma mater of many..a lot us graduated magnum cum laude, lol.
Many congratulations on your daughter!
The operative phrase in your post:
“Let me tell you what I hear from my Gen-X friends...”
Followed by two paragraphs of complaining. That is really amusing.
Nowhere is this trend more annoying than in Show Biz. Some of the “leading men” on the new shows this season are really too old for the parts they play.
Really...Hank Azaria as a stud? What is he? 62 or 63? making out with a twenty-something girl? It’s really disgusting!
Oh, and I am very old...way past Boomerdom.
Please, Boomers, get out of the way and make room for my grandchildren!
There are SLACKERS in EVERY generation, folks. Heck, there are slackers in families - my sister is one. My ex another one. Me, I have worked since I was 10....and then worked FULL TIME while going to college FULL TIME. (and this was before computers). And, I don’t complain. I’m thankful I was born in THIS country and had the opportunities. But, I see plenty of RV’ing folks who seem to wile the time away....I’d be bored sick. Yeah, I’m getting old....60.
Holy COW are you old!!!
Bwaaahh!! :)
From your post it appears that you have done so.
Congrats!
I am boomer, but I would have to agree with you. The people at the national level of politics and top management of fortune 500 financial institutions are at least my age. It is fairly obvious they had no idea WTF was going on.
BINGO!!!
So true and finally someone said it. I can even recall conversations from my now 92 grandma about people her age she worked with that were lazier than a rotten sack of potatoes.
I estimate about most generations are divided into thirds. 1/3 are overachievers, another 1/3 are plodders, or start a little screwed up but eventually get it right by 25 or so, and a 1/3 are moochers and bottom feeders.
Granted, the minimum standard has lowered from my grandmas day, but even kids right out of college - there are alot of good ones. The Rush Limbaugh subgeneration is what I call them and I love ‘em to death.
It is because you don't have a freaking clue why things are done a certain way.
Without thinking is their mantra. This is why punk-ass kids start in the mail room.
They really should be pushing a broom but they don't know how to do it and would whine like the children they are if they were handed one.
<Because among friends, relatives, and acquaintances, the early exit seems fairly common.
I frequent a board for academics. The new PhDs (at least in the humanities) have been moaning for years that the boomers aren’t leaving. They were promised that there would be plenty of jobs because all of these folks have to retire, but they aren’t retiring. As long as you have your mind, you can be a professor for years; it’s not like you’re digging ditches.
And when someone finally does retire, often the college doesn’t continue the line. Either they hire an adjunct or the remaining professors divvy up the work, so the new folks are still out of luck.
Just a note - a lot of the boomers are caught between children and parents. It’s not that they’re in debt, though certainly many of them are, but many are also trying to do the right thing by their parents and children. Something’s got to give, and more frequently these days, that is retirement at 65.
That generation screwed mine in a million ways. We live with their shriveled up consequences in way too many ways. Honestly. I hate 'em. Sorry kids. I have friends that are boomers and loads of family but the fact is they robbed my generation of so much. Pigs. Needless to say I don't have many good things to say about 'em.
No. We're just smarter, more insightful, and get that spazoid, me, me, meism is stupid.
Typical...boomer...non-sequitur.
Boomers are like catching your neighbor red-handed stabbing your wife to death and them saying ‘but...but...I stole the knife from YOUR drawer, so what do YOU got to say for yourself?’
Only a boomer would call someone pointing out their incompetency whining, and act as if they were entitled to be incompetent and everyone should toughen up and put up with it.
Thanks for giving me the classic example to illustrate to the class.
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