People Are Sharing The Boomer Trends They're Ready To See Go Extinct, And I Don't Disagree

Buzzfeed ^ | 12/1/21 | Shelby Heinrich

[DallasBiff]

1. "The 'customer is always right' excuse, and not allowing employees to adequately defend themselves. The customer is the CUSTOMER. The service you get is a privilege, not a right, and you better believe you can be denied service."

2. "The 'workhorse' mentality they want in employees. My job does not need to be my life when I’m getting paid a Medicare wage. My sanity is worth more to me than my work. Quit asking your employees to give all of their energy to their jobs."

[ansel12]

I only looked at the boomer posts, things like “I’ve never met one worth the piss it would take to drown one. Every Boomer I’ve ever met seemed to think that the substance of work consists of placing one’s hands on one’s own hips and talking about work while head shaking.”

Or “Boomers unionized the factories” and of course, his take on the unmanliness of our last warrior generation that produced 10 million veterans.
“Baby Boomers do because manhood, as they understand it, is all show and no go (words before deeds with them)”
“You’ll just have to remind me what great world-saving crusade GenX took a pass on. By my reckoning, they’ve fought in more conflicts with less support than any previous generation.”

[Pelham]

Or “Boomers unionized the factories”

Lol. Yeah that whole AFL-CIO merger that we pulled off when we were 7-10 years old.

[bella1]

Of all the labels given, Baby Boomers is the only legit label because it was a baby boom. The children born to men who fought in WW2 who returned, married and started families. And the last generation born before the birth control pill. That is why there were so many if us. The rest of the labels are made up, in my opinion.

[Pelham]

“The rest of the labels are made up, in my opinion.”

All of the “generation labels”, including that of “baby boomers”, are categories that were invented by marketing agencies.

“Baby boomer” originally was used by store buyers and merchandisers and ad agencies as shorthand in their marketing plans. A term of convenience. At some point it bled over into general circulation articles and everybody began using it.

The current trend is to divide the baby boomer generation into two parts, instead of letting it run from 1946 to 1964. Now “boomers” are the 1946-1954 cohort and “Generation Jones” runs from 1954-1965.

[ncdrumr]

...not some snot-nosed, progressive, self-entitled brats.

Are you referring to Gen X? The Boomers and Millennials are often described as this, not Gen Xers (the generation in between). Gen X grew up under Reagan. They're pretty much the last conservative generation.