These are the only people with a work ethic these days.
Where I work we have a 74 year old man doing "utility" work, helping out in whatever department needs extra hands. He is always cheerful, always busy and arrives before his shift starts. When he doesn't have anything to do he asks for work.
Its not. But being prepared for a reduced ability to produce is. I can still work my ass off, even go until younger men im working with quit before me. Bit dont ask me to do that 2 days in a row. Takes me 3 to recover. But at my age im happy to recover.
Kek. I hear ya. We don’t travel or live in a fancy house. But we have a cabin we love where we haul food, water, fuel, firewood, etc. We have a routine, but when we arrive I cannot put everything away in one afternoon like I used to do. We need more recovery time.
I believe we were meant to remain together across generations; I'm not sure why protestants tend to break up as soon as 18 is reached, but I have a suspicion it was purposeful. Cities are poison, colleges were a scam for over a century. We all need to get extended families back together, start the seeds today- retirement should mean grandparents spending more time with the youngest, teaching and sharing, having a mission that keeps their energy, activity and interest up. Retiring earlier would be great, but we need a much better economy for that, it's happening, but we need to be the bridge generation.
Boomers call me every day asking me how to perform basic tasks on a computer because they refuse to learn. My job would be much easier if they would learn to use the damn tools needed for their job. Imagine a carpenter having to call for help on using a hammer or a level. Hell, one lady uses her mouse upside-down because she's so damn stupid.
Can you change out a car engine? I can. Can you plumb a house? I can.
Can you wire a house or repair a piece of electronics? I can. How about survive with a back pack for a week in the wilderness? Kill game and clean and prepare it? I can. So awesome you can type commands i haven't learned yet into a box and make it work for you. Once you tell me tje command ill be able to do thst too for myself. Get over yourself sonny, your skills are way behind most boomers.
Just curious, is it your actual job to help people when they call in? Yes! Then stop whining that you have to do your job even when it interferes with your game of Leisure Suit Larry.
Yes I can do all those things. I grew up fishing and can hunt. I work on my own car. Can you survive without your arthritis and diabetes medication for a week? Lmao just admit that you make excuses for members of your own generation being narcissistic imbeciles and then strawman my generation simply because you're ignorant of what it's like to be 35 and under in 2025.
Btw my job is handling data center infrastructure and managing security updates for critical systems that keep people from dying. If boomers didn't call in asking basic questions I could actually get my job done quicker.
And don’t forget the much more important other side of that coin
Your senior techs need to train the apprentices, they need to be given 10-15 or more hours per week to allow the apprentice to fail and then to fix it and explain what went wrong so those lessons can be passed down safely
unfortunately, noone is allowed to correct employees from being insubordinate anymore. Its derrogatory and demeaning, causing emotional stress on them.
The person training them will be written up and eventually fired or laid off. The system is broken to the core.
Truth! Smart guy - that is true wisdom. I have always encouraged retired people not to abandon the youth and/or the workforce. Instead of taking cruises or chasing little white balls around a green, volunteer time teaching children, especially home schoolers, or keep hands on working even if just part time. Any place is good where a lifetime of knowledge can be imparted to the next generations.
I spent over 8 years teaching children and young adults the Bible. It was probably the most rewarding 8 years of my life. Many of my students, who are now young adults, still come to me and remember the lessons they learned. It has always amazed me how the smallest word or gesture can leave such a huge impression on a young mind that they will carry throughout their lives. Hopefully, they in turn will pass those words and gestures on to the generations that follow them.
We are loosing possibly one of the last generations that still have a work ethic and actually knows how to do things that cannot be learned from a textbook. It is called experience. We as a society cannot afford to have all this knowledge sitting on the sidelines.
Well, if you listen to the crackheads in here that continuously bash the boomers you will realize the world is already full of people full of themselves who have no respect for their own parents let alone for strangers. Why would I teach a moron who thinks like that anything useful? I'll enjoy the camp trip im on and my retirement. After all the few who do want to work needs us boomers.to spend our money.
There are plenty of younger folk who would appreciate good teaching, whether it's catechism at church or almost anything at a co-op of homeschoolers. If you don't have young people in your own family who would sit and listen to you.
Looks like the alarm bells for the normies are going off realizing that selling out our domestic talent pipelines to third world countries and importing cheap foreign labor (H1-B visa), pushing college degrees with no marketable skills while increasing the cost of a college education while keeping wages at 1970 levels, and automating people out of a job isn't in our best interest.
Haven't we had enough of "experts" and "degreed professionals"?
If we want to make america great again, why would we take info from those that destroyed it?
They were taught by schools that lied about everything and they watched msm their whole lives until they were brainwashed by lies. Msm only tells lies. The vaccinated generation is what the kids are calling the oldsters now.
Boy are you wrong. The 'Boomers' had a total of 3 vaccines as children. Many, like myself have NOT HAD ANOTHER since the school nurse gave us one in the 3rd grade.
In late 2020, it was me (a Boomer) who told everyone: DO NOT GET THE COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE! I did the research. I knew. I emailed all my relatives. Told strangers at the store and businesses. Told people I met. DON'T DO IT.
We oldsters are used to doing the hard work with no help from anyone. We learned that we were on our own and had to figure it out, or do without.
The TRUE 'vaccinated generation' is those born after 1986 when Big Pharma got Congress to agree to release them from liability and government oversight, and because they no longer had to pay for vaccine injuries and deaths, and no longer had government (or anyone) looking over their shoulders.
That was the green light to create a bunch of new, untested vaccines to force into the children which has created the Autism spectrum epidemic.
Now, they've ramped up the total number of 'mandatory' vaccines for children to 72. These over-vaccinated children have the highest gender dysmorphia, suicide and liberal idealogy than ever before.
RE THE VIDEO:
The 'oldsters' the man is talking about in his business are physical laborers, ditch diggers, well builders, mechanics, machinists, plumbers, construction workers, electricians, etc., The kinds of occupations that came from hands-on learning. You know, when you had to figure things out by reading a book, going to the library, taking something apart and experimenting with various attempts. All without computers or internet, and simply by THINKING and TRYING. No COLLEGE DEGREES needed.
These workers know how to work with tools and machinery, how to fix things, how to solve issues and don't give up without numerous attempts.
Big Pharma, the Media and our political leaders did this to all of us. Government mandated it. Your Big Pharma friends paid $$$ to Congress and HHS to create this monster and they happily took the 'campaign donations' and other 'special favors' to look the other way.
Congress, our Doctors, the Media, the Newspapers, the Magazines, the Schools ... They all went along with Big Pharma's lies.
As our Politicians, Media, News anchors and School Board Admin were handsomely rewarded with hefty $$$, they were happy to continue to mandate all these vaccines for enrolled students.
Who were they to judge?
So, no one knew what the vaccines were doing to our kids. How could they? Any information on this was censored. No one could find any data on this until recently. Even when proof was being compiled, they denied it and sued, fired, ostracized and ruined anyone who said otherwise.
If you are not a parent, you have no idea.
You couldn't enroll your child in school, sports, clubs or daycare without showing proof of vaccination. Most Pediatricians would not take your child as a patient if you didn't agree to let them give all the 'mandated' vaccines.
There was no high-speed internet of any use until the mid-2000s, and none of this information was even known or searchable until RFK Jr. brought it to the public purview in the last decade or so.
Guess you Boomers should have done a better job raising us. 🤷♀️
But you decided it was best if we raised ourselves while you all went and did whatever you wanted. Instead of parenting.
How is it that you get to brag that you learned how to plumb a house, wire a house, hunt, kill, and skin your own game, and do all the wonderful things that you can do...AND criticize younger generations for not knowing how to do all that?
Did you spring from your mother's loins with your skill set intact? Or were you taught how to do that from the generations before you?
But apparently Gen X and millennials are to blame because Boomers couldn't carve out any time to teach us anything.
Boomers are awesome because they were taught to respect their elders, while Gen X and millennials are entitled little shits for not having respect for their elders.
Do you really not see this?
Boomers take credit for being great as if they were just BORN PERFECT, ignoring that they were raised well. And then they turn around and criticize entire younger generations for not ever having been taught how to do things, or for having no respect for their elders, as if Boomers weren't responsible for teaching them those things in the first place.
THAT is why younger generations despise Boomers. You act as if you had zero influence or responsibility to younger generations.
Sure, as individual parents, you will take complete credit if your children turned out well, but then absolutely deny any sort of responsibility as a generation to the younger generations.
There’s a lot of truth in this, even if it’s presented in a tone of resentment. We’ve all sinned and broken things.
Truth is, a lot has been done wrong by a lot of people, there are costs and benefits to it all, and we all have a lot of work to do to get out of this mess and help ensure the next generations, and before all the foreigners take over.
I hope all these doctors, nurses, administrators and others who mandated us to get the jabbs are going to be tried in courts for human rights violations. Yea, they are old now and probably one foot in the grave, but they deserve to have justice bestowed upon their heads for as much misery as they've dolled out through the years.
Just a reminder that it was the Boomer generation that started off getting their kids vaccinated against everything and are the ones that invented the participation trophies.
Odd that you guys (Boomers) seem to take credit for the lack of vaccinations you received. Were you calling the shots in your family and in the government in 3rd grade?
I'm 48, had Boomer parents and I can assure you that as elementary school students, Gen X did not invent nor hand out participation trophies to ourselves. Nope. That was done by our Boomer parents who were emotionally fragile and couldn't cope if their kid wasn't a "winner" at something.
Nor are we the ones that invented most of the routine childhood vaccines, and then get the public school systems to enforce "routine childhood vaccinations" in order to attend school. All of that was done by.....::checks notes::....Boomers.
Yet Boomers are constantly mocking younger generations for getting participation trophies and vaccinations. 🙄
They also constantly criticize the fact that a person needs a college diploma to do anything now, and yet are the ones that pushed their children to all get college degrees, and are the ones that were in managerial positions that demanded college degrees in order to do even the most basic tasks such as answering phones and filing papers.
I 100% guarantee you that it wasn't Gen-X that made Gen-X the first generation that needed a college degree to answer the phone. And yeah, I was turned away from plenty of part time jobs in college because I didn't have a college degree.
It was Boomers who made a college degree virtually worthless when they demanded all employees have them because they thought it would weed out the lazy people from the hard workers. That, by the way, was my Boomer father's reasoning on why he would never hire anyone without a college degree, even though most of the work in his store could have been done by a reasonably competent 13 year old. Which was an idea shared by virtually all of his Boomer cronies.
I am not impressed by the Boomer generation. At all. I know that's going to hurt the feelings of quite a few of them, but quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
But here's the difference. Boomers actually care that others revere their greatness. They WANT to be respected. They WANT to be looked up to by younger generations.
I, however, don't care what Boomers think of me.
See the difference?
I'm not a member of the generation that sits around complaining about all the shit that is the direct result of that generation's actions, and then having the gall to blame it on the generations that came after them.
Seriously, you have to be a special kind of asshole to invent the participation trophy, and then mock the generations of kids you gave the participation trophy to, for getting participation trophies.
That right there sums up the entire Boomer generation.
Does it really hurt your feeling that much that I don't respect your generation as you think I should that you feel like you have to go to all this effort to defend yourself to this degree?
Why? What does it really matter to you if I don't respect Boomers? Seriously.
I think you are confused. I don't GAF whether you 'respect' me or others of my gen, that is your fantasy. You are not hurting my feelings, you are irritating me.
I see you as one of those soy boy types who post selfies on social media and cry because the wrong pronoun was used when addressing you.
Your angry ranting has become a nuisance here on this board. You are nearly 50 years old. Grow a spine and be a man, or transman, whichever.
BOOMERS ARE THE BAD GUYS: I see you hold a very deep wound against your Boomer parents. You keep blaming 'them' and 'their generation' for everything.
You're missing the point son. The Boomers, just like you - were going about their lives as best they could, with what they had to work with. Your parents made their own choices. What they did was not what everyone did.
COLLEGE: Very few Boomers had any college at all. They were busy working from about age 16 and had no money nor time to go. 'They' were not the ones who demanded college degrees for everyone. They saw that if they had earned an Engineering degree or a MD or such, that they could have made more money, but otherwise being a hard-working blue collar worker put food on the table for most of them.
HOWEVER... establishing the mantra of 'EVERYONE MUST GET a University degree' -that was the federally-run corrupt Dept. of Education that figured out how to create an unending source of income and job security for themselves. (My Opinion).
ONLY YOU ARE A VICTIM: You cannot claim innocent 'victimhood' here while asserting 'The Boomers' were the full-on oppressors/perpetrators/assholes. You see, lots of bad things are happening RIGHT NOW, ON YOUR WATCH and you've not done a damn thing to stop it. Most of it is going on behind the scenes and you won't know about it for a decade or more. MARK MY WORDS.
WHO IS TO BLAME THEN? Don't you get it? The Cabal/WEF/C-I-A/MOSSAD/I-s-ra-el-Controlled Congress/ is THE BAD GUY. The Federal Agencies, run by unseen and unelected people (Example: Biden's Autopen signing 1,000,000 documents in 4 years) are the Wizards behind the curtain. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain pulling all those levers! I am the GREAT WIZARD OF OZ!"
BOOMERS WERE VICTIMS TOO: Most 'Boomers' DID NOT fall under the spell of corruption, and you cannot blame them as a generation. They just happened to be there when it was happening, JUST LIKE NOW.
Blame the dirty politicians, foreign operatives and committee heads who were willing to look the other way in lieu of bribery $$$ or under fear of threat to themselves or their loved ones.
Lots of people have tried to whistleblow, and come forward to stop the corruption IN EACH GENERATION, only to be found 'suicided.' 'missing,' or 'dead' under suspicious circumstances (Ex: Seth Rich, Virginia Giuffre, 4 of Kevin Spacey's sexual assault accusers, the Haitian man who came to testify against the Clinton Foundation, etc.)
Nothing is easy. Now, GET TO WORK FIXING THINGS while you can!
Dude, which generation do you think were the ones in power in the business world when they decided that college degrees were needed for basic jobs like answering phones? Just because Boomers themselves didn't have to have a college degree to get their job doesn't mean that they sure as shit didn't insist on their employees having to have a college degree to do virtually anything.
It's well documented that Gen X was the first generation where college degrees were required far more than needed for the jobs involved. It wasn't Gen-X in positions of authority at the time making those decisions. You realize how that works, right?
You want to blame the Department of Education for making a college degree mandatory? Sure, I'll support that. Hey, by the way, which generation was it that brought us the Department of Education in the first place? Well fuck me sideways if it wasn't the Boomers!
Blame the dirty politicians, foreign operatives and committee heads who were willing to look the other way in lieu of bribery $$$ or under fear of threat to themselves or their loved ones.
And it's weird that you keep blaming shit on evildoers and the cabal, like they're ageless or some shit. Like it doesn't count if the people that fucked up the country as much as it is were Boomers if the Boomers that did it were in the cabal or were just evil greedy fucks. Even though Boomers are pretty well known for being greedy fucks. They are the Yuppie generation, after all. Really, what sense does any of this make, that it doesn't count what generation the evil people are...because they're evil? Conveniently ignoring the fact that just due to numbers alone, the Boomers corner the market on percentage of evil bastards.
Go ahead, start naming the Big Bads, and tell me which ones aren't BOOMERS. I dare you.
Bill Gates
Barrack Obama
Michelle Obama
Kamala Harris
George W Bush
Jeffrey Epstein
Ghislane Maxwell
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Chuck Schumer
Elizabeth Warren
Oprah Winfrey
Tom Hanks
John Podesta
Tony Podesta
Prince Andrew
George Nadar
Robert Mueller
William Barr
Jeff Sessions
James Comey
John Bolton
Mark Esper
Rex Tillerson
HR MCMaster
I can keep going...
Yeah, figures you'll sit there and criticize Gen-X and Millineals and the younger generations for not fixing the country fast enough for you. 🙄
We'll get right on that for you. Sweeping up after the Boomer locusts come in and fuck things up as much as possible, leaving the mess for those that come after them to fix it. And criticizing us all the while for not doing it fast enough .
So tell me why Boomers, being the paragons of virtue and hard work, and common sense, and ethics and morals, and bootstrapping, and all the other badges of honor you've bestowed upon yourselves couldn't fix this shit yourselves? Why couldn't you beat the Cabal?
It's also amusing that these are in the same big paragraph block:
ONLY YOU ARE A VICTIM:
BOOMERS WERE VICTIMS TOO
Typical hypocritical Boomer bullshit. Both ridiculing and criticizing me for playing the victim when I do nothing more than point out uncomfortable truths and then absolving yourself and other Boomers of any responsibility for standing around with your thumbs up your assess while the world went to hell around you, because hey, you were victims too! Fuck me, the irony and hypocrisy just rolls off you doesn't it?
You said:"It's well documented that Gen X was the first generation where college degrees were required far more than needed. It wasn't Gen-X in positions of authority at the time. You realize how that works, right?
Hey, I guess you didn't know that many of us very smart, hard-working Boomers couldn't get certain jobs without degrees either! I was the top producer in my department of 80 and was made 'temporary' supervisor/troubleshooter etc., whenever the bosses wanted to go home early or if they called in sick. I was certainly competent enough for them to leave me in charge as needed. They also sent me out to other locations on behalf of the company to observe and bring back data. They also flew me to another state to represent my department and help integrate the two intra-office computer systems when we merged with another company. I was self-taught in all of thes areas and good at it. But, I was only paid the same as all the other timeclock-punching workers, no matter how skilled I became, or how many hats I wore.
Due to boredom, I signed up to work different positions in my large department to learn things and gain competency, because why not? Soon I was asked to train other employees and troubleshoot when they got stuck. I did so, but was still paid the same.
When, after 8 years of exemplary performance, I applied for a management position (higher pay, prestige), I was told they loved me and that I had more working experience in the job than anyone else that applied, and that I WAS THEIR TOP CANDIDATE, but because 'I hadn't finished my degree' Corporate bosses said they couldn't consider me.
I WAS A BOOMER AND THIS HAPPENED TO ME.
Did I cry about it? I got angry. I ended up working on my off-hours buying and fixing up run-down properties and learned all kind of skills doing the grunt work myself. I cleaned, scraped, caulked, painted, laid tile, put in landscaping, mowed lawns, hung wallpaper, sewed window coverings, fixed stuck windows, and made ugly things pretty. I then sold them for a profit and rolled it over and did it again. After just about 4 years, I made myself far more money than I would have in that Management position. Make lemonade, as they say...
MEANWHILE, POLITICS WERE HAPPENING.
Before the internet existed, I had the daily newspaper delivered and tried to read it everyday. The nightly news was watched when possible, and I voted if I felt the urge. Otherwise I had nothing to do with anything other than working and paying my own bills and trying to get ahead.
Once HIGH SPEED INTERNET and SMART PHONES became a thing, EVERYTHING CHANGED. You were here when that happened. YOU WERE 20 AND HAVE WATCHED EVERYTHING FOR 25+ YEARS.
Now all of us know things we didn't before. You can't blame us for things we knew nothing about.
AND YES, THE CABAL IS AGELESS. The Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Bilderbergs, BlackRock group, State Street Groups, VanGuard group, the Hathaway group, the Gates Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, Soros Open Society Foundations, Fauci, Pelosi, Biden family, and other families have been around for 50+ years (and more) involving multiple generations. Some of the originals are still going strong and their offspring have joined them.
CONCLUSION: Quit yer bitchin'. Just do your best every day. That's all we can do.
Dude, there's a difference between not getting "certain jobs" because you didn't have a degree, and needing a degree to answer phones and make coffee. I'm not interested in your life story. I really could not care less. It doesn't change the facts that the shit you mock and criticize younger generations about were brought about by your generation.
You want to pretend like the world either just suddenly went to hell, or that the world has always been shit, because the Cabal is ageless.
Yet Boomers constantly wax poetic about how wonderful the world was when they were growing up. How there wasn't as much crime or abortions and mom stayed home and raised proper little God fearing, respectful, industrious America loving patriots. Right? Because that's pretty much the standard story from Boomers about their childhood.
And then somehow along the way, all this shit happened that destroyed America. Things like civil rights protests and legalizing abortion and womens' lib and having the government creating the Department of Education and school bussing and making kids get vaccinated to go to school.
And then all of a sudden kids were being given participation trophies for doing nothing, and smarting off at their elders, and not going to church, and getting abortions every other month and blah blah blah.
And yet, none of you have noticed the root cause of all that. Boomers came into power. They started fucking up the country. All of the shit you constantly complain about is largely the result of your own actions. But let's not look at that! Let's all look over there, where people aren't pointing out uncomfortable facts about your generation!
You said,"needing a degree to answer phones and make coffee.
Maybe you were applying at places like Hollywood Talent agencies who make everyone start at the bottom in the mailroom and they all have to have a degree no matter what because they will be working with high-end clients. Then, if the new hire can put up with mailroom work, do a good job and show proper motivation, they will move you up quickly. There's a hundred people for every job opening. They can choose to be picky.
But, you know there's plenty of work for non-degreed persons. You just didn't want those jobs! Consider, no degree is needed for:
Carpenter, plumber, brick layer, framer, electrician, drywaller, AC repair, house painter, handyman, landscaping work, pool maintenance, etc. Those you can come in and train under someone, get paid minimum wage (sometimes a lot more) and learn on the job.
But most jobs requires that you have obtained some skill level before you get there. For example:
Fluency in a 2nd language (you should have studied one in school).
Basic computer skills and excellent grammar, spelling and fast typing skills,
Paying for, studying and passing a test and getting a license for the following:
Cosmetology, hair stylist, aesthetician, manicurist, CNA, LPN, RN, X-ray tech, Office management
Attending specialty school and passing state exams - RE Agent, Tax planner, Insurance Salesman, Estate planner, Funeral services, etc.
Attending a school and learning how to be a travel agent, personal trainer, etc.
CONCLUSION: You have a bitter pill in your mouth about your own parents. You were not as successful as they were. You are jealous of others. You like to blame. I think we are at an impasse. I wish you luck.
What pisses me off the most is locking people out by requiring college degrees for almost everything. Not much work requires a degree. You just need to be physically in shape, a hard worker and competent in Word and Excel. Everything else can be taught.
Many people are self taught or have learned the necessary skills for a position from work experience. Using the college degree requirement as a way of eliminating applicants is stupid. You aren’t seeing candidates who have the initiative and motivation to learn new skills on their own. Let’s be real, not everyone with a degree is competent in their field. Searching for a job in the AI era is brutal. Chances are your resume doesn’t even get seen by a human.
In my view, the peak generation were those who went through World War II and the 40s. Peak effort all the time, whether on the battlefield or in factories producing bombers 24 hours around the clock, and no luxuries.
I wasn't alive during that time, but from what I glimpse of the attitudes in the films from those times or other accounts, I feel more akin to that generation than to my own times (50s). It was the "second wind" of that generation that fueled the ICBM race, nuclear energy, and the Apollo program. And maybe the cars of the 60s.
Considering that the plan for the time near the new Kingdom in Isaiah 65:20
"Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed."
It is about time ageism is a thing of the past. People are aging more gracefully than ever and we are very near the time people will not age at all.
These investors are thinking with the future in mind.
I totally agree with this, and I put it into practice at the small business I own, we have 18 employees at the store. My last three hires have been 55+ white males.
But, I have to say, maybe it was just the three guys I hired, but they are on their phones the same way kids are these days.
I don't think it has to do with age, it has to do with income level and intelligence. My asst. manager at the store is a 22 year old latino girl who is the hardest working person I've ever met. She'll be running the whole store in a year. She has wealthy parents and works because she likes it, not because she's desparate for work.
The guys who are desperate for a job are the ones always on their phones, calling in because they or their kids or sick, stuff like that.
IDK, not the be a Debbie Downer, but have you taken a hard look at our youths of today? They are dumber than the rocks they toss into the bushes. There is no logic rummaging through their infertile minds. All they want to do is score the most points on their Play Stations or other similar gadgets. It would take too much of their brain power to figure out how to nail two pieces of wood together or how to push a lawn mower across a yard. It's almost as if an entire population of high school students could only function in special education classes. Maybe I'm old and cranky, yet I don't see too many redeeming qualities within this current crop of high schoolers. Please prove me wrong.
I have 2 children in their early 30s. I worked daily on them from birth, teaching them everything I could about everything. They are both super sharp, aware, conservative, industrious, hard-working, gainfully employed and good, decent citizens. It takes years of dedicated parenting and involvement to turn out a good kid anymore, because society is doing its absolute darndest to suck the life and brains out of the youth with mindless distractions, addictions and contaminations of food, water and air.
We may need to do a kind of interventional RESET to get these dull, ignorant youth back into becoming productive citizens.
They are probably both; I see nothing wrong u/tynyyn’s use of “infertile”.
Try to understand the difference between grammar and word usage before insulting others’ intelligence.
Ask a boomer how to convert a .doc to a .PDF and watch their heads explode. Have you ever had to explain how to troubleshoot network connectivity problems to them? It's a living nightmare.
I just had an older end-user contact me because she said her name didn't pop up in the search function for the "name" field of this form. I remoted in, saw she was searching for her name when it was already auto-populated in the field. "But I normally do it this way!" Okay, but it's already populated. "But I normally have to search for it first!" Okay, but you don't have to this time. "Well I think something is wrong..." 😑
The ones who call you are the ones that need to. There are always a group who is less 'tech savvy' that the norm. The rest of us don't need to call you for assistance because we've been working on computers since before you were born.
These are the only people with a work ethic these days.
Where I work we have a 74 year old man doing "utility" work, helping out in whatever department needs extra hands. He is always cheerful, always busy and arrives before his shift starts. When he doesn't have anything to do he asks for work.
Shames the young workers we have hired.
medical expenses are rough. gotta work for the man until you die if you arent rich. Who's rich? Billionaires.
Slave out older people to work? This was an Obama stance? Don't you think he'd rather relax on a beach?
Someone once told me retirement isn't Biblical
Its not. But being prepared for a reduced ability to produce is. I can still work my ass off, even go until younger men im working with quit before me. Bit dont ask me to do that 2 days in a row. Takes me 3 to recover. But at my age im happy to recover.
Kek. I hear ya. We don’t travel or live in a fancy house. But we have a cabin we love where we haul food, water, fuel, firewood, etc. We have a routine, but when we arrive I cannot put everything away in one afternoon like I used to do. We need more recovery time.
I believe we were meant to remain together across generations; I'm not sure why protestants tend to break up as soon as 18 is reached, but I have a suspicion it was purposeful. Cities are poison, colleges were a scam for over a century. We all need to get extended families back together, start the seeds today- retirement should mean grandparents spending more time with the youngest, teaching and sharing, having a mission that keeps their energy, activity and interest up. Retiring earlier would be great, but we need a much better economy for that, it's happening, but we need to be the bridge generation.
Also a lot of people believe that (if) when they retire they quickly die. Seems to happen a fair amount so there may be something to that.
Too many were working so hard they developed no identity outside their main work, few hobbies or groups beyond the msm-steered sportsball fanning.
He makes $62,000 a year. Hardly slave wages in our state.
As to relaxing on a beach, I'll have to ask.
Boomers call me every day asking me how to perform basic tasks on a computer because they refuse to learn. My job would be much easier if they would learn to use the damn tools needed for their job. Imagine a carpenter having to call for help on using a hammer or a level. Hell, one lady uses her mouse upside-down because she's so damn stupid.
Can you change out a car engine? I can. Can you plumb a house? I can. Can you wire a house or repair a piece of electronics? I can. How about survive with a back pack for a week in the wilderness? Kill game and clean and prepare it? I can. So awesome you can type commands i haven't learned yet into a box and make it work for you. Once you tell me tje command ill be able to do thst too for myself. Get over yourself sonny, your skills are way behind most boomers.
Just curious, is it your actual job to help people when they call in? Yes! Then stop whining that you have to do your job even when it interferes with your game of Leisure Suit Larry.
Yes I can do all those things. I grew up fishing and can hunt. I work on my own car. Can you survive without your arthritis and diabetes medication for a week? Lmao just admit that you make excuses for members of your own generation being narcissistic imbeciles and then strawman my generation simply because you're ignorant of what it's like to be 35 and under in 2025.
Btw my job is handling data center infrastructure and managing security updates for critical systems that keep people from dying. If boomers didn't call in asking basic questions I could actually get my job done quicker.
Wait, were you raised by boomers?
My dad's on the edge of being a boomer, mom is gen x. Spent a lot of time with my boomer grandparents as well.
Sounds like BS to me.
Considering how many people HERE can't figure out how to use a search engine, I 100% believe it.
Very similar situation at my job. Great guy and a friend, would do about anything for him.
I’m not too much older than the newer generation of workers, but I do have a couple of them that give me hope. Very hard working.
I also have the other end of the spectrum, some young ones that are amongst the laziest people I have ever met.
Are the young workers able to live off the wages they are being paid? It's easy to enjoy work when one is retired and can leave whenever they want.
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2022/08/17/money-and-millennials-the-cost-of-living-in-2022-vs-1972
https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
Back in my day there use to be a thing called 'on the job training'
And don’t forget the much more important other side of that coin
Your senior techs need to train the apprentices, they need to be given 10-15 or more hours per week to allow the apprentice to fail and then to fix it and explain what went wrong so those lessons can be passed down safely
unfortunately, noone is allowed to correct employees from being insubordinate anymore. Its derrogatory and demeaning, causing emotional stress on them.
The person training them will be written up and eventually fired or laid off. The system is broken to the core.
Now, you just apparently haven't worked anywhere decent.
Truth! Smart guy - that is true wisdom. I have always encouraged retired people not to abandon the youth and/or the workforce. Instead of taking cruises or chasing little white balls around a green, volunteer time teaching children, especially home schoolers, or keep hands on working even if just part time. Any place is good where a lifetime of knowledge can be imparted to the next generations.
I spent over 8 years teaching children and young adults the Bible. It was probably the most rewarding 8 years of my life. Many of my students, who are now young adults, still come to me and remember the lessons they learned. It has always amazed me how the smallest word or gesture can leave such a huge impression on a young mind that they will carry throughout their lives. Hopefully, they in turn will pass those words and gestures on to the generations that follow them.
We are loosing possibly one of the last generations that still have a work ethic and actually knows how to do things that cannot be learned from a textbook. It is called experience. We as a society cannot afford to have all this knowledge sitting on the sidelines.
don't loose it! Hang on losely, but don't let go.
If you cling too tightly, you’re gonna lose control.
Or "loose" control, according to the functionally illiterate...
Well, if you listen to the crackheads in here that continuously bash the boomers you will realize the world is already full of people full of themselves who have no respect for their own parents let alone for strangers. Why would I teach a moron who thinks like that anything useful? I'll enjoy the camp trip im on and my retirement. After all the few who do want to work needs us boomers.to spend our money.
There are plenty of younger folk who would appreciate good teaching, whether it's catechism at church or almost anything at a co-op of homeschoolers. If you don't have young people in your own family who would sit and listen to you.
I work in IT.
Looks like the alarm bells for the normies are going off realizing that selling out our domestic talent pipelines to third world countries and importing cheap foreign labor (H1-B visa), pushing college degrees with no marketable skills while increasing the cost of a college education while keeping wages at 1970 levels, and automating people out of a job isn't in our best interest.
I have no sympathy for normie consequences.
Direct Links:
https://gab.com/Not_U/posts/114853373074968798
https://m3.gab.com/media_attachments/99/f1/d8/99f1d8a535567ccc1528ab4bb2a388f9.mp4
Thanks for adding the links. I used to be very active on Gab until they banished non-paying people who use VPNs.
I'm not a paying person, but I also don't use a VPN. I think it's the VPN that's the issue, not the non-payment aspect.
Me too, but with Truth Social. Just let me sign in without something tracing my phone number
Spot on, sound advice there. Thanks for the direct linkies.👊 Gab doesn't like VPNs.
Haven't we had enough of "experts" and "degreed professionals"?
If we want to make america great again, why would we take info from those that destroyed it? They were taught by schools that lied about everything and they watched msm their whole lives until they were brainwashed by lies. Msm only tells lies. The vaccinated generation is what the kids are calling the oldsters now.
Boy are you wrong. The 'Boomers' had a total of 3 vaccines as children. Many, like myself have NOT HAD ANOTHER since the school nurse gave us one in the 3rd grade.
In late 2020, it was me (a Boomer) who told everyone: DO NOT GET THE COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE! I did the research. I knew. I emailed all my relatives. Told strangers at the store and businesses. Told people I met. DON'T DO IT.
We oldsters are used to doing the hard work with no help from anyone. We learned that we were on our own and had to figure it out, or do without.
The TRUE 'vaccinated generation' is those born after 1986 when Big Pharma got Congress to agree to release them from liability and government oversight, and because they no longer had to pay for vaccine injuries and deaths, and no longer had government (or anyone) looking over their shoulders.
That was the green light to create a bunch of new, untested vaccines to force into the children which has created the Autism spectrum epidemic.
Now, they've ramped up the total number of 'mandatory' vaccines for children to 72. These over-vaccinated children have the highest gender dysmorphia, suicide and liberal idealogy than ever before.
RE THE VIDEO:
The 'oldsters' the man is talking about in his business are physical laborers, ditch diggers, well builders, mechanics, machinists, plumbers, construction workers, electricians, etc., The kinds of occupations that came from hands-on learning. You know, when you had to figure things out by reading a book, going to the library, taking something apart and experimenting with various attempts. All without computers or internet, and simply by THINKING and TRYING. No COLLEGE DEGREES needed.
These workers know how to work with tools and machinery, how to fix things, how to solve issues and don't give up without numerous attempts.
I hope that clarifies things for you.
Kids didn't vaccinate themselves. A generation of people did it to them.
Big Pharma, the Media and our political leaders did this to all of us. Government mandated it. Your Big Pharma friends paid $$$ to Congress and HHS to create this monster and they happily took the 'campaign donations' and other 'special favors' to look the other way.
Congress, our Doctors, the Media, the Newspapers, the Magazines, the Schools ... They all went along with Big Pharma's lies.
As our Politicians, Media, News anchors and School Board Admin were handsomely rewarded with hefty $$$, they were happy to continue to mandate all these vaccines for enrolled students.
Who were they to judge?
So, no one knew what the vaccines were doing to our kids. How could they? Any information on this was censored. No one could find any data on this until recently. Even when proof was being compiled, they denied it and sued, fired, ostracized and ruined anyone who said otherwise.
If you are not a parent, you have no idea.
You couldn't enroll your child in school, sports, clubs or daycare without showing proof of vaccination. Most Pediatricians would not take your child as a patient if you didn't agree to let them give all the 'mandated' vaccines.
There was no high-speed internet of any use until the mid-2000s, and none of this information was even known or searchable until RFK Jr. brought it to the public purview in the last decade or so.
You mean like the gen x adults?
Guess you Boomers should have done a better job raising us. 🤷♀️
But you decided it was best if we raised ourselves while you all went and did whatever you wanted. Instead of parenting.
How is it that you get to brag that you learned how to plumb a house, wire a house, hunt, kill, and skin your own game, and do all the wonderful things that you can do...AND criticize younger generations for not knowing how to do all that?
Did you spring from your mother's loins with your skill set intact? Or were you taught how to do that from the generations before you?
But apparently Gen X and millennials are to blame because Boomers couldn't carve out any time to teach us anything.
Boomers are awesome because they were taught to respect their elders, while Gen X and millennials are entitled little shits for not having respect for their elders.
Do you really not see this?
Boomers take credit for being great as if they were just BORN PERFECT, ignoring that they were raised well. And then they turn around and criticize entire younger generations for not ever having been taught how to do things, or for having no respect for their elders, as if Boomers weren't responsible for teaching them those things in the first place.
THAT is why younger generations despise Boomers. You act as if you had zero influence or responsibility to younger generations.
Sure, as individual parents, you will take complete credit if your children turned out well, but then absolutely deny any sort of responsibility as a generation to the younger generations.
There’s a lot of truth in this, even if it’s presented in a tone of resentment. We’ve all sinned and broken things.
Truth is, a lot has been done wrong by a lot of people, there are costs and benefits to it all, and we all have a lot of work to do to get out of this mess and help ensure the next generations, and before all the foreigners take over.
It’s not about us.
I hope all these doctors, nurses, administrators and others who mandated us to get the jabbs are going to be tried in courts for human rights violations. Yea, they are old now and probably one foot in the grave, but they deserve to have justice bestowed upon their heads for as much misery as they've dolled out through the years.
Yes, if there is just punishment for the crimes they did...!
Great response.
I apologize for the source however, it appears there might be hope in the younger generations just yet:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/24/gen-z-workers-opt-out-of-college-and-go-into-trades.html
This is an inspiring article. Thanks for posting it!
Just a reminder that it was the Boomer generation that started off getting their kids vaccinated against everything and are the ones that invented the participation trophies.
Odd that you guys (Boomers) seem to take credit for the lack of vaccinations you received. Were you calling the shots in your family and in the government in 3rd grade?
I'm 48, had Boomer parents and I can assure you that as elementary school students, Gen X did not invent nor hand out participation trophies to ourselves. Nope. That was done by our Boomer parents who were emotionally fragile and couldn't cope if their kid wasn't a "winner" at something.
Nor are we the ones that invented most of the routine childhood vaccines, and then get the public school systems to enforce "routine childhood vaccinations" in order to attend school. All of that was done by.....::checks notes::....Boomers.
Yet Boomers are constantly mocking younger generations for getting participation trophies and vaccinations. 🙄
They also constantly criticize the fact that a person needs a college diploma to do anything now, and yet are the ones that pushed their children to all get college degrees, and are the ones that were in managerial positions that demanded college degrees in order to do even the most basic tasks such as answering phones and filing papers.
I 100% guarantee you that it wasn't Gen-X that made Gen-X the first generation that needed a college degree to answer the phone. And yeah, I was turned away from plenty of part time jobs in college because I didn't have a college degree.
It was Boomers who made a college degree virtually worthless when they demanded all employees have them because they thought it would weed out the lazy people from the hard workers. That, by the way, was my Boomer father's reasoning on why he would never hire anyone without a college degree, even though most of the work in his store could have been done by a reasonably competent 13 year old. Which was an idea shared by virtually all of his Boomer cronies.
I am not impressed by the Boomer generation. At all. I know that's going to hurt the feelings of quite a few of them, but quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Boomers aren't impressed with you either. 48 year old that whine like a kitten never have impressed anyone.
But here's the difference. Boomers actually care that others revere their greatness. They WANT to be respected. They WANT to be looked up to by younger generations.
I, however, don't care what Boomers think of me.
See the difference?
I'm not a member of the generation that sits around complaining about all the shit that is the direct result of that generation's actions, and then having the gall to blame it on the generations that came after them.
Seriously, you have to be a special kind of asshole to invent the participation trophy, and then mock the generations of kids you gave the participation trophy to, for getting participation trophies.
That right there sums up the entire Boomer generation.
Give it a rest, Bakas.
Even your name. 'Fools everywhere' kinda sums up your attitude, which is this:
Everybody else is stupid. I'm the only smart one here. Why doesn't everyone see it? Or as Hillary once said:
"Now having said all this, why aren't I fifty points ahead... ?"
Does it really hurt your feeling that much that I don't respect your generation as you think I should that you feel like you have to go to all this effort to defend yourself to this degree?
Why? What does it really matter to you if I don't respect Boomers? Seriously.
I think you are confused. I don't GAF whether you 'respect' me or others of my gen, that is your fantasy. You are not hurting my feelings, you are irritating me.
I see you as one of those soy boy types who post selfies on social media and cry because the wrong pronoun was used when addressing you.
Your angry ranting has become a nuisance here on this board. You are nearly 50 years old. Grow a spine and be a man, or transman, whichever.
LET ME SEE IF I CAN ADDRESS YOUR ALLEGATIONS:
You're missing the point son. The Boomers, just like you - were going about their lives as best they could, with what they had to work with. Your parents made their own choices. What they did was not what everyone did.
HOWEVER... establishing the mantra of 'EVERYONE MUST GET a University degree' -that was the federally-run corrupt Dept. of Education that figured out how to create an unending source of income and job security for themselves. (My Opinion).
ONLY YOU ARE A VICTIM: You cannot claim innocent 'victimhood' here while asserting 'The Boomers' were the full-on oppressors/perpetrators/assholes. You see, lots of bad things are happening RIGHT NOW, ON YOUR WATCH and you've not done a damn thing to stop it. Most of it is going on behind the scenes and you won't know about it for a decade or more. MARK MY WORDS.
WHO IS TO BLAME THEN? Don't you get it? The Cabal/WEF/C-I-A/MOSSAD/I-s-ra-el-Controlled Congress/ is THE BAD GUY. The Federal Agencies, run by unseen and unelected people (Example: Biden's Autopen signing 1,000,000 documents in 4 years) are the Wizards behind the curtain. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain pulling all those levers! I am the GREAT WIZARD OF OZ!"
BOOMERS WERE VICTIMS TOO: Most 'Boomers' DID NOT fall under the spell of corruption, and you cannot blame them as a generation. They just happened to be there when it was happening, JUST LIKE NOW.
Blame the dirty politicians, foreign operatives and committee heads who were willing to look the other way in lieu of bribery $$$ or under fear of threat to themselves or their loved ones.
Lots of people have tried to whistleblow, and come forward to stop the corruption IN EACH GENERATION, only to be found 'suicided.' 'missing,' or 'dead' under suspicious circumstances (Ex: Seth Rich, Virginia Giuffre, 4 of Kevin Spacey's sexual assault accusers, the Haitian man who came to testify against the Clinton Foundation, etc.)
Nothing is easy. Now, GET TO WORK FIXING THINGS while you can!
Dude, which generation do you think were the ones in power in the business world when they decided that college degrees were needed for basic jobs like answering phones? Just because Boomers themselves didn't have to have a college degree to get their job doesn't mean that they sure as shit didn't insist on their employees having to have a college degree to do virtually anything.
It's well documented that Gen X was the first generation where college degrees were required far more than needed for the jobs involved. It wasn't Gen-X in positions of authority at the time making those decisions. You realize how that works, right?
You want to blame the Department of Education for making a college degree mandatory? Sure, I'll support that. Hey, by the way, which generation was it that brought us the Department of Education in the first place? Well fuck me sideways if it wasn't the Boomers!
And it's weird that you keep blaming shit on evildoers and the cabal, like they're ageless or some shit. Like it doesn't count if the people that fucked up the country as much as it is were Boomers if the Boomers that did it were in the cabal or were just evil greedy fucks. Even though Boomers are pretty well known for being greedy fucks. They are the Yuppie generation, after all. Really, what sense does any of this make, that it doesn't count what generation the evil people are...because they're evil? Conveniently ignoring the fact that just due to numbers alone, the Boomers corner the market on percentage of evil bastards.
Go ahead, start naming the Big Bads, and tell me which ones aren't BOOMERS. I dare you.
Bill Gates Barrack Obama Michelle Obama Kamala Harris George W Bush Jeffrey Epstein Ghislane Maxwell Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton Chuck Schumer Elizabeth Warren Oprah Winfrey Tom Hanks John Podesta Tony Podesta Prince Andrew George Nadar Robert Mueller William Barr Jeff Sessions James Comey John Bolton Mark Esper Rex Tillerson HR MCMaster
I can keep going...
Yeah, figures you'll sit there and criticize Gen-X and Millineals and the younger generations for not fixing the country fast enough for you. 🙄
We'll get right on that for you. Sweeping up after the Boomer locusts come in and fuck things up as much as possible, leaving the mess for those that come after them to fix it. And criticizing us all the while for not doing it fast enough .
So tell me why Boomers, being the paragons of virtue and hard work, and common sense, and ethics and morals, and bootstrapping, and all the other badges of honor you've bestowed upon yourselves couldn't fix this shit yourselves? Why couldn't you beat the Cabal?
It's also amusing that these are in the same big paragraph block:
Typical hypocritical Boomer bullshit. Both ridiculing and criticizing me for playing the victim when I do nothing more than point out uncomfortable truths and then absolving yourself and other Boomers of any responsibility for standing around with your thumbs up your assess while the world went to hell around you, because hey, you were victims too! Fuck me, the irony and hypocrisy just rolls off you doesn't it?
You said: "It's well documented that Gen X was the first generation where college degrees were required far more than needed. It wasn't Gen-X in positions of authority at the time. You realize how that works, right?
Hey, I guess you didn't know that many of us very smart, hard-working Boomers couldn't get certain jobs without degrees either! I was the top producer in my department of 80 and was made 'temporary' supervisor/troubleshooter etc., whenever the bosses wanted to go home early or if they called in sick. I was certainly competent enough for them to leave me in charge as needed. They also sent me out to other locations on behalf of the company to observe and bring back data. They also flew me to another state to represent my department and help integrate the two intra-office computer systems when we merged with another company. I was self-taught in all of thes areas and good at it. But, I was only paid the same as all the other timeclock-punching workers, no matter how skilled I became, or how many hats I wore.
Due to boredom, I signed up to work different positions in my large department to learn things and gain competency, because why not? Soon I was asked to train other employees and troubleshoot when they got stuck. I did so, but was still paid the same.
When, after 8 years of exemplary performance, I applied for a management position (higher pay, prestige), I was told they loved me and that I had more working experience in the job than anyone else that applied, and that I WAS THEIR TOP CANDIDATE, but because 'I hadn't finished my degree' Corporate bosses said they couldn't consider me.
I WAS A BOOMER AND THIS HAPPENED TO ME.
Did I cry about it? I got angry. I ended up working on my off-hours buying and fixing up run-down properties and learned all kind of skills doing the grunt work myself. I cleaned, scraped, caulked, painted, laid tile, put in landscaping, mowed lawns, hung wallpaper, sewed window coverings, fixed stuck windows, and made ugly things pretty. I then sold them for a profit and rolled it over and did it again. After just about 4 years, I made myself far more money than I would have in that Management position. Make lemonade, as they say...
MEANWHILE, POLITICS WERE HAPPENING.
Before the internet existed, I had the daily newspaper delivered and tried to read it everyday. The nightly news was watched when possible, and I voted if I felt the urge. Otherwise I had nothing to do with anything other than working and paying my own bills and trying to get ahead.
Once HIGH SPEED INTERNET and SMART PHONES became a thing, EVERYTHING CHANGED. You were here when that happened. YOU WERE 20 AND HAVE WATCHED EVERYTHING FOR 25+ YEARS.
Now all of us know things we didn't before. You can't blame us for things we knew nothing about.
AND YES, THE CABAL IS AGELESS. The Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Bilderbergs, BlackRock group, State Street Groups, VanGuard group, the Hathaway group, the Gates Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, Soros Open Society Foundations, Fauci, Pelosi, Biden family, and other families have been around for 50+ years (and more) involving multiple generations. Some of the originals are still going strong and their offspring have joined them.
CONCLUSION: Quit yer bitchin'. Just do your best every day. That's all we can do.
Dude, there's a difference between not getting "certain jobs" because you didn't have a degree, and needing a degree to answer phones and make coffee. I'm not interested in your life story. I really could not care less. It doesn't change the facts that the shit you mock and criticize younger generations about were brought about by your generation.
You want to pretend like the world either just suddenly went to hell, or that the world has always been shit, because the Cabal is ageless.
Yet Boomers constantly wax poetic about how wonderful the world was when they were growing up. How there wasn't as much crime or abortions and mom stayed home and raised proper little God fearing, respectful, industrious America loving patriots. Right? Because that's pretty much the standard story from Boomers about their childhood.
And then somehow along the way, all this shit happened that destroyed America. Things like civil rights protests and legalizing abortion and womens' lib and having the government creating the Department of Education and school bussing and making kids get vaccinated to go to school.
And then all of a sudden kids were being given participation trophies for doing nothing, and smarting off at their elders, and not going to church, and getting abortions every other month and blah blah blah.
And yet, none of you have noticed the root cause of all that. Boomers came into power. They started fucking up the country. All of the shit you constantly complain about is largely the result of your own actions. But let's not look at that! Let's all look over there, where people aren't pointing out uncomfortable facts about your generation!
You said, "needing a degree to answer phones and make coffee.
Maybe you were applying at places like Hollywood Talent agencies who make everyone start at the bottom in the mailroom and they all have to have a degree no matter what because they will be working with high-end clients. Then, if the new hire can put up with mailroom work, do a good job and show proper motivation, they will move you up quickly. There's a hundred people for every job opening. They can choose to be picky.
But, you know there's plenty of work for non-degreed persons. You just didn't want those jobs! Consider, no degree is needed for:
Carpenter, plumber, brick layer, framer, electrician, drywaller, AC repair, house painter, handyman, landscaping work, pool maintenance, etc. Those you can come in and train under someone, get paid minimum wage (sometimes a lot more) and learn on the job.
But most jobs requires that you have obtained some skill level before you get there. For example:
CONCLUSION: You have a bitter pill in your mouth about your own parents. You were not as successful as they were. You are jealous of others. You like to blame. I think we are at an impasse. I wish you luck.
What pisses me off the most is locking people out by requiring college degrees for almost everything. Not much work requires a degree. You just need to be physically in shape, a hard worker and competent in Word and Excel. Everything else can be taught.
Very true!
I agree. But I also know they want a hoop jumping mother fucker.
Many people are self taught or have learned the necessary skills for a position from work experience. Using the college degree requirement as a way of eliminating applicants is stupid. You aren’t seeing candidates who have the initiative and motivation to learn new skills on their own. Let’s be real, not everyone with a degree is competent in their field. Searching for a job in the AI era is brutal. Chances are your resume doesn’t even get seen by a human.
In my view, the peak generation were those who went through World War II and the 40s. Peak effort all the time, whether on the battlefield or in factories producing bombers 24 hours around the clock, and no luxuries.
I wasn't alive during that time, but from what I glimpse of the attitudes in the films from those times or other accounts, I feel more akin to that generation than to my own times (50s). It was the "second wind" of that generation that fueled the ICBM race, nuclear energy, and the Apollo program. And maybe the cars of the 60s.
Every generation since the greatest has been somewhat diminished. Hard times make strong men and all...
Considering that the plan for the time near the new Kingdom in Isaiah 65:20
"Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed."
It is about time ageism is a thing of the past. People are aging more gracefully than ever and we are very near the time people will not age at all.
These investors are thinking with the future in mind.
I agree 100 %
Especially true of farming,
I said this. Most importantly in the classrooms!!
He should get those in their 90s
I totally agree with this, and I put it into practice at the small business I own, we have 18 employees at the store. My last three hires have been 55+ white males.
But, I have to say, maybe it was just the three guys I hired, but they are on their phones the same way kids are these days.
I don't think it has to do with age, it has to do with income level and intelligence. My asst. manager at the store is a 22 year old latino girl who is the hardest working person I've ever met. She'll be running the whole store in a year. She has wealthy parents and works because she likes it, not because she's desparate for work.
The guys who are desperate for a job are the ones always on their phones, calling in because they or their kids or sick, stuff like that.
IDK, not the be a Debbie Downer, but have you taken a hard look at our youths of today? They are dumber than the rocks they toss into the bushes. There is no logic rummaging through their infertile minds. All they want to do is score the most points on their Play Stations or other similar gadgets. It would take too much of their brain power to figure out how to nail two pieces of wood together or how to push a lawn mower across a yard. It's almost as if an entire population of high school students could only function in special education classes. Maybe I'm old and cranky, yet I don't see too many redeeming qualities within this current crop of high schoolers. Please prove me wrong.
I have 2 children in their early 30s. I worked daily on them from birth, teaching them everything I could about everything. They are both super sharp, aware, conservative, industrious, hard-working, gainfully employed and good, decent citizens. It takes years of dedicated parenting and involvement to turn out a good kid anymore, because society is doing its absolute darndest to suck the life and brains out of the youth with mindless distractions, addictions and contaminations of food, water and air.
We may need to do a kind of interventional RESET to get these dull, ignorant youth back into becoming productive citizens.
Infantile. Try to get your grammar right before insulting others' intelligence.
They are probably both; I see nothing wrong u/tynyyn’s use of “infertile”.
Try to understand the difference between grammar and word usage before insulting others’ intelligence.
Infertile as an adjective can mean unproductive.
Ask a boomer how to convert a .doc to a .PDF and watch their heads explode. Have you ever had to explain how to troubleshoot network connectivity problems to them? It's a living nightmare.
I just had an older end-user contact me because she said her name didn't pop up in the search function for the "name" field of this form. I remoted in, saw she was searching for her name when it was already auto-populated in the field. "But I normally do it this way!" Okay, but it's already populated. "But I normally have to search for it first!" Okay, but you don't have to this time. "Well I think something is wrong..." 😑
You have no idea.
Time for Tough Love. "Yes, something IS wrong---your understanding of the situation."
Yeah, try that and see how management likes the idea of "being mean" to the end-user. They're emotionally fragile when they're told they're wrong.
I agree that putting the bad news tactfully is the right thing to do, and I practice that. But there is no solution unless and until they understand.
I presume you are saying the end-user is emotionally fragile. Or would it be management? Indeed, a problem...
The ones who call you are the ones that need to. There are always a group who is less 'tech savvy' that the norm. The rest of us don't need to call you for assistance because we've been working on computers since before you were born.
Sounds pretty patriarchal to me..../s