Many older people now aren't even be able to retire. Retirement is a pipe dream for this generation.
My great-great grandfather worked himself into his grave. He died in his boots in the hopes that a generation beyond his never would. My great-uncles and their sons died by the fistful in two World Wars to ensure that my mother's generation and my generation would not have to suffer. And it has come to this.
It's honestly amazing how terribly the baby boomers managed to fuck up America. We as a generation should make sure we record what an awful generation the baby boomers were once we're the ones writing the history books.
That's the best part. I'm not even American.
ARE MILLENNIALS KILLING THE WORKFORCE INDUSTRY??
I sometimes hear parent say how they could just walk into a place and ask, and get, a job, they're also a part of the generation that fucked the entire job market in the first place
sorry but reality doesn't work that way anymore. There are significantly more people and significantly less positions needed.
And a significantly more fucked up and expensive education system, and significantly more outrageous minimum qualifications for entry level jobs.
Hey, millenials have a massive college debt crisis, you know what we should do?
Slash the cost of education and deregulate colleges and banks. We're so great that we can't even get enough of how good we are at making america good again.
Oh and lets cut all education that will prevent babies but also totally and completely making them unable to afford or deal with them in the first place
thanks cunts
Awesome! Now we get to call the next generation lazy and irresponsible.
Glad I'm not the only one who's realized something is a bit off with our parent's generation.
In no world should this be considered "ideal". An ideal employee should be one thats well sustained, healthy, able to retire, and doesnt have to work two fucking jobs just to survive. Our society is so obsessed with productivity, competition, and success that we forget to treat our workforce like human beings.
what was even in this presentation
tbh i feel like you're massively overstating how bad the boomers are/were. yeah, times certainly aren't perfect, but there's just like this certain vilification in what you're saying that doesn't jive with me. like ig in a search for "the cause" of why the world is the way it is, you're using boomers as a one size fits all super-villain. the world isn't that simple.
My parents are both 60 and my mom works a full time job and my dad is currently looking for one after living through a deplorable minimum retail job, that he only had after the school system he was working for fucked him out of so much.
They're still holding onto the hope of moving to somewhere nicer.
I'm losing hope that that's ever going to happen.
Oh shit, we’re turning Japanese aren’t we.
Boomers could have prevented this atrocity from occurring by not having children.
They're not really arbitrary. Millennials are people born around developing technology and Generation Z are people born during the advent of the internet, having it readily available at a young age. Generations are basically just people born in timespans of historical singularities.
And watch as, while they complained before, now they'll just fuck over their fellow employees.
Because if one thing has taught me anything, whatever a generation of people complain about end up making it worse for the subsequent ones.
If you invest into a savings account and is in a position to Max out your monthly limits you should have enough for retirement.
"Tonight on Sean Hannity, Baby Boomers who are unable to retire are also unable to find any work, because these damn millenials are taking all the jobs. Find out how this is all Hillary Clinton's fault after a word from our sponsors."
Which sponsors are you specifically referring to? The My Pillow advertisements or the Life alert ones?
That's ok, we'll all suffocate on the air itself before we all get that old
The ones for shoving plastic tubes in your pee-pee place.
Suicide is for hipsters, death via inaccessible health care is the way to go
The starting year for gen z is starting to form out at '96, but might change in the future. I think it's pretty accurate. I would guess gen z is going to be people born between '96 and 2014-16.
This definitely isn't true in Australia. Getting into trades is even harder than college-educated jobs because there's more people wanting to take apprenticeships than employers willing to take them on. Tradesmen are still in the mindset of wanting a middle-aged tradie with over a decade of experience over preparing the next generation to take over when all those middle-aged people need to retire, no matter how many financial benefits the government throws at them to do so.
It already does effect me, I get shit on at work for only having one job / no kids. It's like people just expect you to be miserable.
Do you guys even bother to click on articles to read its content before just start replying blindly based on assumptions on what you think the article is about? This article is literally just reporting the statistics on the workforce figures. No one is badmouthing millennials.
Whats wrong with discussing the broader picture though? It doesn't have to do strictly with whats in the article you know. After all, a generation taking over the workforce is... how all of human existence works.
I feel like the people who are saying "no is badmouthing millennials" are either ignorant or are being facetious.
Sure, no one is badmouth millennials in this article, but boy howdy do the older generations love to badmouth millennials in general.
Honestly, I could fill this post to its breaking point of evidence for this, but I'll just stick to this Time magazine cover from 2013 as a representation of what I am talking about.
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/1101130520_600.jpg?quality=85
Admittedly, that article tries to save face with the backhanded compliment of "why they'll save us all" (it may not be backhanded, I won't lie when say I haven't read the thing).
The reason why this article in particular is garnering attention is because it flies in the face of the narrative we've had beaten into our heads at this point: that millennials are lazy, entitled, unmotivated, underperforming employees.
And the reason why people are jesting about how the older generations will bitch about millennials overtaking the work force (despite them being lazy), is because millennials have been blamed for "killing" pretty much everything. So it's a logical (and farcical) conclusion that the older generations will blame their jobs being taken over on millennials, too.
I won't lie I think that millenials are pretty decent, they rank above other generations in my experience. Alot of the older generation can barely string a sentence together properly on an email, what the hell is that about? No fucking wonder they're still working entry level jobs in their 50s.
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