I saw a chick at work today literally sit there, talking on her phone for a half hour, doing nothing because the boss wasn't around. Oh and she's pregnant but not married. Big surprise.
I know an insurance salesman that said last week he's looking for a few boomers just to sit at booths for 5 hours and chill (even text all day), and chat with anyone that walked up. Easy job. He said if those booths turned into 2 sales per month, it paid for all expenses. But after 6 months he still can't find anyone to sit there regular. Closed down a booth in March. Sure boomers can be reliable, he said; but where did everyone go?
Sure boomers can be reliable, he said; but where did everyone go?
Explanation I’ve heard. People realized that ultimately most Businesses saw them as expendable and “Non-Essential” because of the lockdowns. So the sentiment was that they didn’t want to work at a soul-crushing Job they didn’t like anyway for people who saw them as expendable
Forced Covid shots caused deaths and injuries. Those who didn’t get the shots already have full time jobs because their co-workers are constantly sick. In addition employers made it clear, “You don’t get the jab, you are fired. We don’t need someone who is free thinking and won’t comply so that I, as a business owner, can be rewarded.” The younger generation is lazy and management turns a blind eye. You reap what you sow.
Those who didn't get the shots already have full time jobs? Where?
The last Applebee's waitress I had complained that she was only there, because she put in hundreds of applications over the last 6 months with zero interviews. Yet there are "help wanted" signs everywhere.
Yet my acquaintance will hire boomers to sit on their butt all day in the hopes that 2 people a month talk to them.
Something's broken. Something big.
Some companies did give religious exemptions and those hard workers have full time jobs, so they aren’t looking. Smaller businesses did not mandate the shots, they weren’t influenced or beholden to the government because they knew government ignores small businesses and favors conglomerates with their handouts and bribes. So those people also are not looking for work. Big business has themselves to blame. They clearly let employees know that they could be replaced if they did not comply and now they are getting a big FU from future and past employees. People have not gotten to the financial precipice yet. When prices really escalate for food and gasoline and they are unable to meet the mortgage and credit card payments there will be panic. Many companies are laying off and as the economy gets worse, those who squeaked by with religious exemptions may be cut in the next wave. I think, despite the help wanted signs, businesses are being cautious about hiring. I see many older people taking cashier jobs in the grocery stores. This tells me many are living on unemployment, food stamps, housing subsidies, and credit cards. That will eventually come to an end, as the government can no longer keep printing money and prices rise hire and the recession turns into a full fledged depression.
Perhaps they don't know. I bet a lot of older folks assume that nobody would be interested in them because they would assume the boomers would soon be retiring. Maybe this guy needs to get the word out better. Where is he located? If he's near me, I'll spread the word, lol.
Retiring "soon" is relative. You can accomplish a lot with a 6 month contract. (I wish I had one).
This guy's on the Gulf Coast, and there's lots of 60+ down here, but 95% of them come down to never work again. At least that's their plan. If their savings or pension gets hit, they'll be looking for work again. Example, clif high calls it "bloody May", when everything goes down 80%. I don't know if it'll be May, but maybe some boomers within 100mi of me will reappear for work later this year.
You're right, I shouldn't have said 'everything'. Just the purchasing power of the dollar. It's clif's prediction, and it's here (podcast).
I only brought it up, that if 10% of this prediction happens, some of those boomers that lose some purchasing power in their T-bonds might come work for my insurance buddy.
Oh, thanks for explaining. And yeah, they probably would be, poor things. It must suck to work your whole life, put a little aside for retirement, then have to come out of retirement and back to work because of the decisions being made by some idiots in D.C.
I'm a retired boomer. Before Covid, lots of small businesses were looking for help. I was considering helping out, but when Covid came and owners started demanding medical interventions on employees, I wanted no part of it.
This company does not reward me for my hard work, there are no bonuses or any room for growth, so why should I kill myself for 12.50 an hour? With no insurance? Theyll let you burn yourself out then just hire somebody else, rinse and repeat.
My co-worker: "I've been here 7 years and so I deserve a pay rise. I do everything here and this business would fail without me. The owner doesn't value his employees."
Reality: Co-worker hasn't turned up on time once since I started here nearly a year ago, anywhere from 5 minutes to 3 hours late, regularly calls in "sick" at least once a week, spends most of the day on his phone, complains how much he hates the job, complains he never has enough money.
Me: Always turn up on time, work hard the entire shift, improving productivity by automating time consuming tasks, good attitude, customers love me and praise me to the business owner, love my job.
Business owner to me: "Thank you for being so reliable. I'm going to give you a pay rise making you the highest paid staff member, even above the manager. Also, here's a key to the business because you are so trustworthy and reliable... even the damn manager can't be bothered to turn up on time most days so it's comforting that you'll be here to open the business. I'm thinking of making you manager. I need to get rid of the other Staff and hire more people like you... do you know any others with the same work ethic as you have?"
Conclusion: Many people who think they are hard workers really aren't. Good business owners/managers reward good/hard work. Good workers are rewarded quietly so as not to piss off the others. If you aren't being rewarded, you likely aren't actually one of the good workers. There are some workplaces that are the exception to this, but in my experience most places reward actual good workers.
I have spent the better part of my career returning companies to sanity after boomers ruined them.
A lot of boomers who think they are all that, arent. A lot of bosses that think they are great are actually terrible.
A large percentage of people are bad at areas outside of a few specific skills - and this is across all jobs and age cohorts.
There are a billion reasons for this. The young today act as immature as you did at their age, but at their age you had the backstop of family, most gen z'rs have come from broken homes and if they cant pay their own rent, they cant crash at their parents to help them back on their feet. Millenials and Zs were both raised by broken AF generations - Gen X and Silents who were tortured by Boomers into Apathy and overzealous emotionalism, respectively.
On top of that, the businesses were turned into sociopathic vampires by those self same boomers, with some help by silents and gen-x's.
Do some comparisons of the world from 40+ years ago and now.
In the 70s, you could work at mcdonalds 40 to 60 hours a week and put yourself through college and go out for some reasonable fun.
Now, McDonalds wont give you more than 20 hours so they dont have to care about benefits, but also wont work with you to have three jobs just to afford a room in someone's house.
If you get in at a major company that isnt fast food, you have asshole bosses who dont give you a task to complete and resources to make you effective, they give you a robotic process and care more that you are 3 seconds slower than your coworker than the fact that you exist and have a brain that needs to be trained.
Time was, youd suffer in your 20s, learn the hard knocks, even learn from some minor failures all as part of being mentored. By your 30s, you had grown, were effective, and beginning to climb in your career.
Now, you get constantly berated. If you fail at a robotic process - even if you have a better process or even think you have a better process - you are punished for speaking out.
The war children 'just magically had it' and everyone else has sucked since. No ownership of what you let happen to the world, the business climate, the economy. Just rose colored glasses that ignore the fact that you were handed a golden platter and not only squandered it for yourselves, but let your governments fuck it for generations to come.
Boomers netted all of the rewards, though. They bought houses when they were 6 grotes and a handshake, then gleefully sold them to their kids for 750,000 and 12% while telling those same kids that they were trash because they couldnt afford things after paying 2500/month. 'Maybe buy fewer starbucks, man.'
While I did pick the low hanging fruit, I opine that there's more than inflation, here. There's systemic erosion of buying power, systemic transferring of useful jobs overseas, systemic globalization, systemic erosion of education, systemic destruction of family units, systemic undervalue of labor. ALL of this while boomers were - and are - in charge and telling everyone that they are trash and that they were going to make things better.
Best honest response. There are are an uncountable (to me) companies that are run successfully. Thats not to say they could not be run more efficient and profitable, but they are sound. Generally these type of companies do not seek consulting other than for expansion or marketing. I agree that there are many large corporations that are sinking or already underwater. I see this directly with some of the MFG’s we represent. From my view, most of the issues I see at these MFG’s are mis-management. They bring in 30 somthing’s who are out to change the world and re-invent the wheel on long term strategy and create market disturbance that trickles down to the consumer resulting in brand negativity for the consumer. From my prospective in the mid-level market between MFG and consumer who is using this product for their enterpise, I encounter a large amount of small to mid size successful companies. It seems to me that the ability to follow and shift evolving needs of the consumer (stitching together real world business needs) while the MFG flounder in board meetings to catch up in the market is where the winners are.
Sorry for the long answer, the short answer are business’s who get to the point and provide product and services reliably at a fair price that consumers want, on time and go a bit out of their way to make sure the consumer is satisfied with follow up customer support.
Those 30 yo managers are the symtom part of my argument. They are poison because they werent taught in their 20s, so now they are needing to learn from real failure that hurts a business.
Ill accept that im not hired on until theres problems, but ive seen a lot of smaller companies with the same disease.
100% agree!
Knowledgeable experience from ground up is usually a strong foundation. I am a believer in investing in the young and letting them learn from the bottom up and cross train. Let them realize small failures (cause and effect) before they have a chance to make big ones. The ones who
Make the grade will be the leaders tomorrow.
So they gave you a small raise and they're going to get rid of a few people, and then you'll be doing additional jobs for that small raise?
They're holding a promotion over your head, which isn't in writing and they said they'll hire more people, which I assure you they won't.
Boomers really are out of touch.
I see it this way: if God can't trust you with the little things ($12.50/hr), why in the heck are you thinking he'll trust you with millions?
Blows my mind this attitude.
I'm not a boomer. Nor do I care what coworker x or y is doing. I work hard, and love challenges. I do make more than $12.50/hr now, but I started on the bottom at other jobs and worked my way up. My first full time job, I was probably making close to 12.50/hr, and saw it as a temporary job. I was there for 6 years, and it was the six best years of my life. I got rid of the attitude, and consistently was given bonuses, awards. It wasn't always fun, and some of the people weren't the best, but the attitude definitely helps.
Easy fix to that, get another job. Many jobs are stepping stones to your career. Never miss an opportunity to stand out positively in a job. Its a good ethics builder for your next opportunity.
Short term 401K commitment... Lower medical insurance due to being no family coverage... Plus work ethic (generally) because they've been through at least 2 recessions and have lost jobs before... Not looking to be senior VP 6 months in...
Don't pat yourselves too hard on the back.
Boomers were a product of the generation before them.
They failed to give the same chances to other generations.
They allowed cultural rot and corruption to spread up until the point where we are today.
From the time I was born until Biden pulled out of Afghanistan, my nation had been at war, but there was never victory. I learned what economy meant because it was always bad. America seemed to be in Malase until Donald Trump. So don't be down on young people, we were born into a defeatist, godless, an over-sexualized nation with a war that started when I was in an incubator and ended when I was a legal adult. We got to break the Malase we were born into.
We have all been played, pretty much from the beginning. I pray that humanity (not just Americans) wake up and realize we are basically being farmed by this monetary system and its sycophants and Orcs. They are not the Jews, the Muslims, the Catholics, the Chinese or the Americans, but they are the Synagogue of Satan.
None of us have seen the hard times our parents, Grand Parents or Great Grandparents faced with War and economic hardships. (Dependent on your age). Our biggest obstacle has been corruption and social rot. i am a boomer and we have been in some war most of my life. Economic down turns with interest rates around 20% at the bank mortgage companies. Seen manufacturing come to a halt until there was Liability reform. Waited in several blocks of lines for hours getting gas in rural America.
Your points are valid and true, But saying boomers had it easier is not.
I understand what you mean. I don't want to appear hostile or divisive, but there were some good years economically during the years a Boomer was born.
You even were middle-aged and got to see Schwarzkopf win a war. The Boomers lived to see the entire 2nd world collapse in defeat because of their belief in Capitalism. They got to see a man walk on the moon.
They also got to see terrible things, like a war that was also based on a false flag.
But we Zoomers are defined by our false flags, our world is weekly false flags, from 9/11 to Sandy Hook. The reason they can be memory-holed is that we are numb to it all, so no one asks questions like no one asks why the sun sets. it was and is a part of life. Mass shooting drills were the new "Duck and Cover" but no Boomer was fried by atomic weapons as a child by the FBI.
I mean no disrespect when I say any of this, but Boomers were not like Zoomers who were bombarded with everything all at once. Vax, Internet addiction, abundant porn, lack of fathers, or any showing of being raised by a human rather than a phone or the school system. Repeat this for 20 or so years and you have created someone who is likely apathetic, depressed, medicated, or holds on to those spirits and accepts them.
Boomers have faced hardship, but not to the level of social engineering younger folks have. They got the watered-down stuff, Zoomers get straight doomer juice and give up early.
It will only get worse if people do not awaken.
It is only by the grace of God I am awake, or alive.
I’m over 50 and currently unemployed after being with the same company over 20 years. (BU management turned to shit. I had to go.) So all of this is good news to me.
Hope things turn around for ya, I think a lot of it is how & who runs the company. There are companies that have yet to awken to the value of us in the over 50 club.
My issue is I'm not gonna work for crumbs while they keep inflating the dollar. Noone wants to pay fair value. Boomers more willing to eat shit and take shit pay apparently.
Unemployed and lazy workers increase cost of goods and lower wages via a company's bottom line, unemployment insurance and workmen's comp (lack of focus leads to injury).
That is what I noticed. I told my sister the other day that the companies are hiring people 50 and up because they want responsible people. These companies know young people don’t want to work and are in welfare.
Thank God all of my children have a great work ethic. They work harder than pretty much anyone they work with. My dad used to tell me “Don’t take a man’s money without giving him a day’s work.”
This is why Social Security changed it that they if you are at your full retirement age they will not take money from your Social Security check if you work. It used to be you had to work until 70 to not get money deducted from Social Security and you can make as much as you want.
I believe the reason they changed this is because no one wants to work but the older people and they wouldn't work because of the previous law.
I have always been against and always will be against discrimination. The okay boomer thing was one of the most ignorant and disrespectful things I've seen gain traction, besides hating white straight men. I'm equally against discriminating against any generation as a whole. I don't want the young blaming the old for letting Nazis and pedophiles run the world, and I don't want old blaming the young for being soft coddled pussies.
When the baby boomer generation was growing up, they learned very well that if you work hard and keep your head on straight, you can make a nice living for yourself. What their grandkids learned, is that you can break your back working over 40 hours your whole life, missing kids sporting events for the greater good of the family, and still have your pension taken away, lose your job if you say something the government doesn't agree with, and get raped with taxes on everything as the cost of everything increases.
Let's be honest, hard work is good for the spirit and is necessary to survive. But what incentive do these generations have entering the workforce, watching their parents and grandparents that sacrificed so much and still can't afford their medical costs or funeral costs? If the fruits of your labor are stolen from you, hard labor on anything other than physical fitness or gardening or building survival infrastructure, or growing your own business, seems futile.
I'm finding this to be true, and I'm one of them. I can easily work 12-16 hour days 6 or 7 days a week and enjoy and take pride in my work. However, the frustrating thing is having to wait for people who have no fire in the belly, desire to perform, or any sense of urgency or pride of doing a great job. It isn't hard to out work many of these people.
I told y'all this months ago. Probably two years ago I started noticing a lot of older people working in local stores. I mean people past retirement age. There is another factor - some retirees are having to go back to work because they need the money thanks to Joe Biden's inflation. On laziness - I'm often astounded at how lazy the young workers are. And the way they treat older folks is disgusting. Their parents should hang their heads in shame for producing these useless slugs.
Yup that is true. We boomers are not lazy like the young people today. We go to work and actually work not sit there on a phone texting all day.
Exactly ... I out produce all my much younger colleagues.
Same
I saw a chick at work today literally sit there, talking on her phone for a half hour, doing nothing because the boss wasn't around. Oh and she's pregnant but not married. Big surprise.
Over-eaters and over-breeders. Truly, the dregs that will suffer through The Great Awakening the worst...
I know an insurance salesman that said last week he's looking for a few boomers just to sit at booths for 5 hours and chill (even text all day), and chat with anyone that walked up. Easy job. He said if those booths turned into 2 sales per month, it paid for all expenses. But after 6 months he still can't find anyone to sit there regular. Closed down a booth in March. Sure boomers can be reliable, he said; but where did everyone go?
Explanation I’ve heard. People realized that ultimately most Businesses saw them as expendable and “Non-Essential” because of the lockdowns. So the sentiment was that they didn’t want to work at a soul-crushing Job they didn’t like anyway for people who saw them as expendable
Forced Covid shots caused deaths and injuries. Those who didn’t get the shots already have full time jobs because their co-workers are constantly sick. In addition employers made it clear, “You don’t get the jab, you are fired. We don’t need someone who is free thinking and won’t comply so that I, as a business owner, can be rewarded.” The younger generation is lazy and management turns a blind eye. You reap what you sow.
Those who didn't get the shots already have full time jobs? Where?
The last Applebee's waitress I had complained that she was only there, because she put in hundreds of applications over the last 6 months with zero interviews. Yet there are "help wanted" signs everywhere.
Yet my acquaintance will hire boomers to sit on their butt all day in the hopes that 2 people a month talk to them.
Something's broken. Something big.
Some companies did give religious exemptions and those hard workers have full time jobs, so they aren’t looking. Smaller businesses did not mandate the shots, they weren’t influenced or beholden to the government because they knew government ignores small businesses and favors conglomerates with their handouts and bribes. So those people also are not looking for work. Big business has themselves to blame. They clearly let employees know that they could be replaced if they did not comply and now they are getting a big FU from future and past employees. People have not gotten to the financial precipice yet. When prices really escalate for food and gasoline and they are unable to meet the mortgage and credit card payments there will be panic. Many companies are laying off and as the economy gets worse, those who squeaked by with religious exemptions may be cut in the next wave. I think, despite the help wanted signs, businesses are being cautious about hiring. I see many older people taking cashier jobs in the grocery stores. This tells me many are living on unemployment, food stamps, housing subsidies, and credit cards. That will eventually come to an end, as the government can no longer keep printing money and prices rise hire and the recession turns into a full fledged depression.
Perhaps they don't know. I bet a lot of older folks assume that nobody would be interested in them because they would assume the boomers would soon be retiring. Maybe this guy needs to get the word out better. Where is he located? If he's near me, I'll spread the word, lol.
Retiring "soon" is relative. You can accomplish a lot with a 6 month contract. (I wish I had one). This guy's on the Gulf Coast, and there's lots of 60+ down here, but 95% of them come down to never work again. At least that's their plan. If their savings or pension gets hit, they'll be looking for work again. Example, clif high calls it "bloody May", when everything goes down 80%. I don't know if it'll be May, but maybe some boomers within 100mi of me will reappear for work later this year.
What do you mean, everything goes down 80% in May? Is this some sort of prediction that everything will lose 80% of it's current value?
You're right, I shouldn't have said 'everything'. Just the purchasing power of the dollar. It's clif's prediction, and it's here (podcast).
I only brought it up, that if 10% of this prediction happens, some of those boomers that lose some purchasing power in their T-bonds might come work for my insurance buddy.
Oh, thanks for explaining. And yeah, they probably would be, poor things. It must suck to work your whole life, put a little aside for retirement, then have to come out of retirement and back to work because of the decisions being made by some idiots in D.C.
Did you walk up hill to work, in 2 feet of snow going both ways.
I agree most people from my time are hard workers. Today these kids have no idea what work actually means.
Lol I’ve worked with plenty of boomers... cut the shit.
I'm not even a boomer (Gen X), and I out-work all of my millenial and gen z co-workers.
I'm a retired boomer. Before Covid, lots of small businesses were looking for help. I was considering helping out, but when Covid came and owners started demanding medical interventions on employees, I wanted no part of it.
Unpopular take in a thread full of boomers but:
This company does not reward me for my hard work, there are no bonuses or any room for growth, so why should I kill myself for 12.50 an hour? With no insurance? Theyll let you burn yourself out then just hire somebody else, rinse and repeat.
My co-worker: "I've been here 7 years and so I deserve a pay rise. I do everything here and this business would fail without me. The owner doesn't value his employees."
Reality: Co-worker hasn't turned up on time once since I started here nearly a year ago, anywhere from 5 minutes to 3 hours late, regularly calls in "sick" at least once a week, spends most of the day on his phone, complains how much he hates the job, complains he never has enough money.
Me: Always turn up on time, work hard the entire shift, improving productivity by automating time consuming tasks, good attitude, customers love me and praise me to the business owner, love my job.
Business owner to me: "Thank you for being so reliable. I'm going to give you a pay rise making you the highest paid staff member, even above the manager. Also, here's a key to the business because you are so trustworthy and reliable... even the damn manager can't be bothered to turn up on time most days so it's comforting that you'll be here to open the business. I'm thinking of making you manager. I need to get rid of the other Staff and hire more people like you... do you know any others with the same work ethic as you have?"
Conclusion: Many people who think they are hard workers really aren't. Good business owners/managers reward good/hard work. Good workers are rewarded quietly so as not to piss off the others. If you aren't being rewarded, you likely aren't actually one of the good workers. There are some workplaces that are the exception to this, but in my experience most places reward actual good workers.
I have spent the better part of my career returning companies to sanity after boomers ruined them.
A lot of boomers who think they are all that, arent. A lot of bosses that think they are great are actually terrible.
A large percentage of people are bad at areas outside of a few specific skills - and this is across all jobs and age cohorts.
There are a billion reasons for this. The young today act as immature as you did at their age, but at their age you had the backstop of family, most gen z'rs have come from broken homes and if they cant pay their own rent, they cant crash at their parents to help them back on their feet. Millenials and Zs were both raised by broken AF generations - Gen X and Silents who were tortured by Boomers into Apathy and overzealous emotionalism, respectively.
On top of that, the businesses were turned into sociopathic vampires by those self same boomers, with some help by silents and gen-x's.
Do some comparisons of the world from 40+ years ago and now.
In the 70s, you could work at mcdonalds 40 to 60 hours a week and put yourself through college and go out for some reasonable fun.
Now, McDonalds wont give you more than 20 hours so they dont have to care about benefits, but also wont work with you to have three jobs just to afford a room in someone's house.
If you get in at a major company that isnt fast food, you have asshole bosses who dont give you a task to complete and resources to make you effective, they give you a robotic process and care more that you are 3 seconds slower than your coworker than the fact that you exist and have a brain that needs to be trained.
Time was, youd suffer in your 20s, learn the hard knocks, even learn from some minor failures all as part of being mentored. By your 30s, you had grown, were effective, and beginning to climb in your career.
Now, you get constantly berated. If you fail at a robotic process - even if you have a better process or even think you have a better process - you are punished for speaking out.
The war children 'just magically had it' and everyone else has sucked since. No ownership of what you let happen to the world, the business climate, the economy. Just rose colored glasses that ignore the fact that you were handed a golden platter and not only squandered it for yourselves, but let your governments fuck it for generations to come.
This entire comment is about inflation. A bit unfair to lay it all on boomers.
Boomers netted all of the rewards, though. They bought houses when they were 6 grotes and a handshake, then gleefully sold them to their kids for 750,000 and 12% while telling those same kids that they were trash because they couldnt afford things after paying 2500/month. 'Maybe buy fewer starbucks, man.'
While I did pick the low hanging fruit, I opine that there's more than inflation, here. There's systemic erosion of buying power, systemic transferring of useful jobs overseas, systemic globalization, systemic erosion of education, systemic destruction of family units, systemic undervalue of labor. ALL of this while boomers were - and are - in charge and telling everyone that they are trash and that they were going to make things better.
Now go consult for some companies that are not dumpster fires or PE pump and dumps and get back with us.
Honest question: which companies would those be?
Best honest response. There are are an uncountable (to me) companies that are run successfully. Thats not to say they could not be run more efficient and profitable, but they are sound. Generally these type of companies do not seek consulting other than for expansion or marketing. I agree that there are many large corporations that are sinking or already underwater. I see this directly with some of the MFG’s we represent. From my view, most of the issues I see at these MFG’s are mis-management. They bring in 30 somthing’s who are out to change the world and re-invent the wheel on long term strategy and create market disturbance that trickles down to the consumer resulting in brand negativity for the consumer. From my prospective in the mid-level market between MFG and consumer who is using this product for their enterpise, I encounter a large amount of small to mid size successful companies. It seems to me that the ability to follow and shift evolving needs of the consumer (stitching together real world business needs) while the MFG flounder in board meetings to catch up in the market is where the winners are. Sorry for the long answer, the short answer are business’s who get to the point and provide product and services reliably at a fair price that consumers want, on time and go a bit out of their way to make sure the consumer is satisfied with follow up customer support.
Those 30 yo managers are the symtom part of my argument. They are poison because they werent taught in their 20s, so now they are needing to learn from real failure that hurts a business.
Ill accept that im not hired on until theres problems, but ive seen a lot of smaller companies with the same disease.
100% agree! Knowledgeable experience from ground up is usually a strong foundation. I am a believer in investing in the young and letting them learn from the bottom up and cross train. Let them realize small failures (cause and effect) before they have a chance to make big ones. The ones who Make the grade will be the leaders tomorrow.
So they gave you a small raise and they're going to get rid of a few people, and then you'll be doing additional jobs for that small raise? They're holding a promotion over your head, which isn't in writing and they said they'll hire more people, which I assure you they won't. Boomers really are out of touch.
It wasn't small.
Only if they can find better workers.
I work from the moment I get there until the moment that I leave. It doesn't matter what tasks I do, I'm always working, as a worker should.
No, I already do management duties. I don't need the title, I'm already being paid more than the manager.
Not a boomer, I'm 45.
probably popular opinion among the young that the boomers struggle to comprehend
I see it this way: if God can't trust you with the little things ($12.50/hr), why in the heck are you thinking he'll trust you with millions?
Blows my mind this attitude.
I'm not a boomer. Nor do I care what coworker x or y is doing. I work hard, and love challenges. I do make more than $12.50/hr now, but I started on the bottom at other jobs and worked my way up. My first full time job, I was probably making close to 12.50/hr, and saw it as a temporary job. I was there for 6 years, and it was the six best years of my life. I got rid of the attitude, and consistently was given bonuses, awards. It wasn't always fun, and some of the people weren't the best, but the attitude definitely helps.
Easy fix to that, get another job. Many jobs are stepping stones to your career. Never miss an opportunity to stand out positively in a job. Its a good ethics builder for your next opportunity.
Short term 401K commitment... Lower medical insurance due to being no family coverage... Plus work ethic (generally) because they've been through at least 2 recessions and have lost jobs before... Not looking to be senior VP 6 months in...
Actually on time for work!
Don't pat yourselves too hard on the back. Boomers were a product of the generation before them. They failed to give the same chances to other generations. They allowed cultural rot and corruption to spread up until the point where we are today.
From the time I was born until Biden pulled out of Afghanistan, my nation had been at war, but there was never victory. I learned what economy meant because it was always bad. America seemed to be in Malase until Donald Trump. So don't be down on young people, we were born into a defeatist, godless, an over-sexualized nation with a war that started when I was in an incubator and ended when I was a legal adult. We got to break the Malase we were born into.
We have all been played, pretty much from the beginning. I pray that humanity (not just Americans) wake up and realize we are basically being farmed by this monetary system and its sycophants and Orcs. They are not the Jews, the Muslims, the Catholics, the Chinese or the Americans, but they are the Synagogue of Satan.
They are the psychopaths, plain and simple.
None of us have seen the hard times our parents, Grand Parents or Great Grandparents faced with War and economic hardships. (Dependent on your age). Our biggest obstacle has been corruption and social rot. i am a boomer and we have been in some war most of my life. Economic down turns with interest rates around 20% at the bank mortgage companies. Seen manufacturing come to a halt until there was Liability reform. Waited in several blocks of lines for hours getting gas in rural America.
Your points are valid and true, But saying boomers had it easier is not.
I understand what you mean. I don't want to appear hostile or divisive, but there were some good years economically during the years a Boomer was born. You even were middle-aged and got to see Schwarzkopf win a war. The Boomers lived to see the entire 2nd world collapse in defeat because of their belief in Capitalism. They got to see a man walk on the moon. They also got to see terrible things, like a war that was also based on a false flag.
But we Zoomers are defined by our false flags, our world is weekly false flags, from 9/11 to Sandy Hook. The reason they can be memory-holed is that we are numb to it all, so no one asks questions like no one asks why the sun sets. it was and is a part of life. Mass shooting drills were the new "Duck and Cover" but no Boomer was fried by atomic weapons as a child by the FBI.
I mean no disrespect when I say any of this, but Boomers were not like Zoomers who were bombarded with everything all at once. Vax, Internet addiction, abundant porn, lack of fathers, or any showing of being raised by a human rather than a phone or the school system. Repeat this for 20 or so years and you have created someone who is likely apathetic, depressed, medicated, or holds on to those spirits and accepts them. Boomers have faced hardship, but not to the level of social engineering younger folks have. They got the watered-down stuff, Zoomers get straight doomer juice and give up early. It will only get worse if people do not awaken. It is only by the grace of God I am awake, or alive.
You need reading comprehension, Buddy.
Funny how times change, I remember companies running guys off over 50.
I’m over 50 and currently unemployed after being with the same company over 20 years. (BU management turned to shit. I had to go.) So all of this is good news to me.
Hope things turn around for ya, I think a lot of it is how & who runs the company. There are companies that have yet to awken to the value of us in the over 50 club.
And pull up yer darn pants!
My issue is I'm not gonna work for crumbs while they keep inflating the dollar. Noone wants to pay fair value. Boomers more willing to eat shit and take shit pay apparently.
Unemployed and lazy workers increase cost of goods and lower wages via a company's bottom line, unemployment insurance and workmen's comp (lack of focus leads to injury).
Sho got that right (imho)
I saw a complaint in some forum in which the poster complained that when you're older and do a customer service job, people expect you to be a dummy.
I just assume they actually know what they're doing. They may have any number of reasons why they have taken the job.
That is what I noticed. I told my sister the other day that the companies are hiring people 50 and up because they want responsible people. These companies know young people don’t want to work and are in welfare.
Thank God all of my children have a great work ethic. They work harder than pretty much anyone they work with. My dad used to tell me “Don’t take a man’s money without giving him a day’s work.”
Has any generation not viewed younger generations as being lazy or spoiled or entitled?
This is why Social Security changed it that they if you are at your full retirement age they will not take money from your Social Security check if you work. It used to be you had to work until 70 to not get money deducted from Social Security and you can make as much as you want.
I believe the reason they changed this is because no one wants to work but the older people and they wouldn't work because of the previous law.
I'm finding this to be true, and I'm one of them. I can easily work 12-16 hour days 6 or 7 days a week and enjoy and take pride in my work. However, the frustrating thing is having to wait for people who have no fire in the belly, desire to perform, or any sense of urgency or pride of doing a great job. It isn't hard to out work many of these people.
Since the Boomers no one has been drafted
I told y'all this months ago. Probably two years ago I started noticing a lot of older people working in local stores. I mean people past retirement age. There is another factor - some retirees are having to go back to work because they need the money thanks to Joe Biden's inflation. On laziness - I'm often astounded at how lazy the young workers are. And the way they treat older folks is disgusting. Their parents should hang their heads in shame for producing these useless slugs.
I literally just read this article tonight. Hilarious and true!
Younger generation want higher profile positions without having to earn it. I see it all the time.
Damn Right! I just had that discussion with someone. The store can't get people that are willing to work.
Oh awesome now you get the limited jobs in addition to free credit, parabolic asset growth and basically free houses.