Totally, yet somehow I'm still 30 in my head. And anyone else horrified daily by how the bullshit reality we saw through has just gotten worse? And nobody but us seems to get it? Oh well, still singin "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" and waiting to die.
yeah, neil is right, we have a major advantage because we know both! You have the baby boomers who are really good with analog but never got used to computers, and then you have millennial and later who knows computers but they break down when the computers do. Whereas Generation X can do both. I admit that a millennial who served in the military will lessen this advantage a bit, but ultimately generation X has the edge here 🙂
Totally agree with you. We’ve been squeezed btwn our Narky parents that forced us to do everything for them and these wipe my tush entitled children. Give it 3 days without Internet in this country. They’ll mow each other down
I was an early millennial, yeah, it was toxic as shit, wherever society goes in the future we're not going back to the 90s, gen-x'ers were mentally diseased and intoxicated off the remnant excess of boomers. We're not going back to that, we're not justifying pointless decadence and mental illness for the sake of gen-x'ers. I should have been born a zoomer tbh, worst times of my life. There's nothing virtuous or necessary about how fucked up gen-x'ers are in the future, their literal claim to virtue is literal abusive alcoholic father vibes that they think somehow make the world a better place when it didn't at all. You can sum up gen-x with two words "woodstock '99".
I feel the same dividing people by generations or in any other way only helps our governments and elite to divide us. No generation was perfect we have had good and bad people in all generations.
If I could add to it without technology Gen X can write secret messages in cursive to pass on information and the younger generations won't be able to read it lol
If the younger generations don’t know cursive then that’s a knock on the older generations. Not the younger one. They dropped the ball by not teaching them.
Yeah that's why this is always such a stupid thing to fight over, each new generation is the product of the previous generation, if the final result is disappointing the sculptor is to blame, not the clay.
@stewpidasso3910 I started teaching my now 24-yr-old how to write in cursive in pre-school. His school stopped teaching it beyond 3rd grade. He stopped writing in cursive because of computers and tablets, and the handwriting of some of these kids make doctors' chicken scratch look legible! He had spelling up until sixth grade, and my youngest didn't have it beyond third. One of my sisters is not a star speller, but her issue is a phonetic one. Kids today just abbreviate everything!
@@Dirpitzlmao keep thinking that's the case. You will find differently. Gen Xers don't need safe spaces, government and corporate protection. We know how to survive.
@@Dirpitz I know that this is getting to be a cliche at this point, but I have to say that most of your generation has not been punched in the f****** face and it shows. The main difference between Gen X and Gen Y is that we were abandoned and neglected by our parents and society, while you guys were sheltered and overprotected. Neither was good for us, but they definitely produce some different traits.
On behalf of Gen X, I'd like to thank our Betamax, VCRs, and VHS, for teaching us how to troubleshoot and program before those were a thing. To Mr. Rogers, who taught us how to be good people. To our Uncle Mac; the great Richard Dean Anderson, for teaching us how to MacGyver things we needed and need until they're invented, every Monday night. To the Beastie Boys for teaching us to fight for our right. To our bikes, what ever model they maybe, that took us everywhere. From the malls to the playgrounds. And so that we may keep our agreed upon time to meet the kids from the neighborhood a street over, just so we can reenact scenes from the Warriors. Then sticking around learning to do first aid to the kid you just beat down. or beat you down. And to the garden hose that quenched our thirst after a long day of just being a kid. Special shout out to the street lamp that came on 5 minutes before sunset, reminding us to get home before the rents start looking for us.
For Sesame Street for teaching us our numbers, letters, and how to cross the street while our parents worked, and again to the Beastie Boys for telling us all IT'S SABOTAGE!!!
Mr Rogers? Who he? Didn't have him in my day. We had a crusty old retired Marine who addressed us with the word "men!" and meant it. If we didn't pull in our chins and our shoulders back we were demoted to "duck butt!" No looking at the ground with him. He woulda torn the hoodie of your thin necked head
I can almost tolerate Gen Z because I feel empathy for them....its the millennials that are a pain..the 34 year olds....the ones who think they invented the wheel, but have created nothing but mayhem and copied everything gen X has already done...
@@know973 this is a weird thing to say to me...... I am 34 I create art all the time and dig in the dirt fly kites and do not care about your wheel. I do not start mayhem I am pretty chill. Maybe you should stop generalizing every 34 year old like you know all of us.
They are the kids who skinned their knees in the front yard and ran to Mommy to get it properly treated and a lollipop. We were the kids that skinned our knee 17 miles from home, where we shouldn’t have been. Then we hid it when we got home so we wouldn’t get an ass whooping for getting hurt.
I really felt that when you said getting whooped for hurting ourselves. I still remember my mom beating me with a belt because my little sister fell down 4 steps. I was 6 and I didn't even know what she was up to but apparently I was supposed to watch her.
That sure is the truth! At nine, I had to swear my little brothers and the neighborhood kids to secrecy, because I had impaled my thumb with an ice pick while trying to poke holes in a jar lid, for tadpoles... You know, so they'd have air...! All because I didn't want to go to the doctor with a stressed mother. The threats must've worked, decades later, even with my brother's confirmation, and being shown the scar, my mom refused to believe it.
@@jeffbroders9781my parents are young boomers who raised old millennials 😂 We were homeschooled + poor so it felt like the 80s all the way up until 1994 😂
As Gen X, I recognize that Millennials split into two groups around age 30. They either became responsible, down-to-earth adult with common sense...or they remained children. You appear to be the former. You're good. 🙂 However, much of the issues we've been seeing are coming from younger Millennials and Gen Z. Gen Z has their mature group vs. children group too.
Oh, we were stupid, but we had fun while we were at it! Our stupid usually resulted in "You could've been killed ramping the 4-wheeler...no more Dukes of Hazzard reruns for you for a month!" or "You got drunk on grandpa's Old Milwaukee? Well, too bad! Get your butt up and get to school!" What we did was FUN! The stupid shit kids do today (starting riots, protesting farms when we have grocery stores, believing that if you feel like a man, then you're a man....) is just stupid beyond belief.
I think this confuses gen z with the millenials, especially with some of the slang. There's a huge difference between those two generations. Gen z is the one that fits the description in this video
@@alphanerd7221 so basically my kids born in 2008 and 2021 are both millennials? And since I was born in 88 I’m a millennial? I’m just trying to understand here.
@@TheMrDarius Generations aren't assigned until adolescence. This Idea that everyone is in a named generation is nonsense. A generation needs some kind of unifying characteristic to be a generation. The Baby Boomers were a huge generation. Gen X is advertising resistant. Millennials grew up raised by computers.
Especially in high school! Parents could give their kids alcohol as long as there was adult supervision (which a lot of people didn't do), drinking age was 18, seatbelts weren't required, and you could carry guns in the rear window of your truck at any age!
I'm an old Gen X. Born in 65. Being on the cusp, I have some Boomer traits and values as I think we all do to an extent being raised by that generation but I absolutely love the attitude our generation has and am proud to call myself one. Most of us raised ourselves, both parents worked, we are self sufficient, polite, thick skinned but we don't take any shit. It was a great time to grow up in.
The 1960s and 1970s has to be the worst times to be brought up. 'Most of us raised ourselves ' really? The truth is these generations listened to the wrong people and disgarded the tried and tested and squandered all that previous generations that fought and some died for to give them.
what of crashing economies and destroying housing markets for personal gain while voting for policies that takes rights from workers and citizens? Those traits and values? Or the values of having medical professionals rather than do their jobs tell people to just suck it up leading to the highest rates of suicide ever seen and a mental health crisis?
He definitely is. When he mentioned youth and being born with a computer in their hand I laughed. Everything in that video is Gen Z. Also, a Millennial would never say “no cap” and we’d get our asses beat if we acted like he described in the store.
@@Silentscreamer37 I thought so because I don’t remember having a handheld computer back in 88. I was lucky to have a Super Nintendo in the 90’s and even then I was limited on playing it because of it “rotting our brains” like gen x and the boomers said it would back then lol. So I was sent outside and given the gen x treatment and told not to come home until the street lamps came on.
Gen Xer here. As my mother recently said to my youngest millennial brother "Your sister can shut someone down and make them feel insignificant within a one sentence zinger". Yup, definitely a product of our gen.
I remember a couple of years ago, my coworker buddy of mine, both of us backend Gen Xers born in the mid 70s (I'm 1975, he's 1976) had a little battle with our two middle of the pack Millennial bosses (both born in 1989 and 1991) that was brand new at being supervisors and managers. They said "no cell phones in the workplace!" They said they would impose the rule on themselves. We were like, OK, you want to play that game. We put our phones up. We both grew up without digital technology and mobile phones, we remember the 80s and 90s. We can go back to that life and live without it. But these guys in their late 20s/early 30s didn't know that life, they kinda knew the 90s, but by the early 2000s they were still kids and online and hooked up with cell phones,.....so it wasn't long before they had their mobile phone/digital technology withdrawal and we caught them going back to their phones. Their MBA's didn't help them with their digital technology withdrawal.
I love it!!! If I ever heard such a "rule" I'd welcome it with pleasure. People still get on my case for putting my devices on airplane mode at night or ignoring everyone on weekends. 😂
Gen X here. I've fired 6 millennial and gen Z employees for being on their phones almost as much doing the job they were hired for. It was a pleasure giving them their last check and walking them off the property. I don't carry my phone around all the time, I got schitt to do.
@@Blacktsalagi73 I miss the days before answering machines in the house. If you didnt answer the phone it meant "Unavailable " Try calling another time and the best part was, no OBLIGATION to return the call. !!!!!!
Millennial here. I can do without my phone, especially on the job. Grew up without one until 2009. Mainly used it to keep in contact with family. One stopped working properly back in 2014, and fully by 2015. I was ok with that. Told people where I was going before I left. Checked the time by the day light, clocks on the wall, or my watch at the time. When I am waiting on something or a passenger in a car, I look at the scenery 90% of the time.
@@KardboardKenny Like it or not, that's the general consensus for the timeframe. It varies per system, but those are the general years. No need to get bent out of shape and attack someone else's math skills. 🙄
I saw somethin recently that said it goes to 1985 😢 im 1983 and am completely incompetent . Boomers can adult but didnt tell us how to bcuz we are adults now so they're not responsible for us? 😢 we look 2 Genx PlS HELP us!! 🤯😱😢 lol 😅 our parents like to make it worse on purpose and laugh at us and celebrate how we cant do anything its seriosuly fucked up. GenX were the babysitters that noticed all the basic shit we can't do and don't know and actually helped.
Meanwhile, while they are having the 19th planning session, we will have already done it, left the parking lot, shut down the power to the building, and cut off the valve stems of any vehicles left in the parking lot. The remaining charge on their cell phones might as well be an O2 meter.
No. You got it wrong. Gen X gave birth, (literally) to millennials, after millennials then it is Gen Z. Gen. Z are the younger siblings to millennials. I know this!! I am a Gen. X and I have a millennial child and also a Gen. Z child. My millennial child is a whole generation _older_ than the6 Gen. Z child, meaning my Gen Z child is the younger of the two.
@ilovenoodles7483 I'm GenX (76) my brother is Millenial (85). My uncle is oldest GenX (65) would've been only 20 when my brother was born. Millenials are in their 30s now with kids. GenZ in their 20s and teens are the kids of GenX. Also Millenials don't say "cap". Definitely GenZ in this video
@@ilovenoodles7483What?? I’m on the older half of Gen z, baby boomers and Gen X is mainly our parents(Millennials, Gen z and Gen x lmao. Millennials are mainly the ones raising Gen Alpha.
@@ilovenoodles7483 millennials were early 80s to 1996. Gen-x was around 1965 to 1982. So no "gen-x" did not "give birth" to millennials lmao. Some of you gen-x'ers are as clueless as baby boomers about what year it is - stuck in 2003 or something. Millennials are peaking past 40 and definitely well into their 30's now. Only the oldest 5 years of gen-x would have maybe had millennial baby's but you would have been young parents.
@@ilovenoodles7483 you are so close, but you are SO wrong my friend. but no shame to you, this isn't discussed enough! GenX begot genZ. the Boomer2 group begot the Millennials. Boomer 1 (1945-1955) were the parents of Gen X, that's why we genX don't hate the Boomers. the Alphas are the kids of the Millenials. to sum up: boomer 1 ~~ Gen X ~~ Gen Z boomer 2 ~~ millennials (genY) ~~ Alpha
I gotta tell you man, Millennials are 26-42 right now. Gen X are 42-58. People still think Millennials are children, but I promise you we grew up when the world was less soft. Gen Z are the ones that can't remember a world before 2010.
My oldest was born in late 99. All my other kids were born in 2005-2011. I've got both, but I'll be damned if I let any of them act like these little snowflakes today.
@seancoyote actually, it varies depending on who's study you prefer. In 2023, a study by the Population Reference Bureau places births between 1981-99 as millennials, while other studies go one year higher to 2000. Calling someone born in the 80s a "millennial" doesn't make much sense because they were born so far away from the upcoming millennium. Now, 1995-2005 makes more sense. So no, not all of my kids are Gen Z. Either way, they don't act like entitled brats.
I taught my genZ kids how to drive "stick" (or manual as we say here), it was a point of pride. even though they seem hopeless, many of genZ have had some solid genX parenting.
They can be I've used coercion or verbal threats many times in my life to persuade people, it would of came down to actual violence if they didn't recant but the threat was very much real I was just decent enough to give them warning upfront. But what these soft people claim is violence is nonsense just disagreeing with them or not giving into their demands is considered violence in their mind.
I feel extremely fortunate and extremely grateful to be born in '74. Im sure I speak for countless GenX here, we dont take any sh*t, we know what we're doing in life and we were forced to learn it early and quickly by way of our own hand. Stress and necessity made and drove us, it was sink or swim, we swam alone as kids and carry this through as adults. We are overlooked in the best way, we dont need or want support and we like it that way. We really looked up to our amazing grandparents who instilled classic old world values and a great sense of calm we may not have gotten from our parents. We readily disappeared to do our own thing at all ages and made it back for dinner and then headed out again until dark without our parents (or any other adult) fretting and calling the cops. I was a latchkey kid, I often skipped taking the bus after school preferring instead to walk home alone through fields and forests picking berries and climbing wild apple trees. I learned to cook very early, I grew up adventuring in the deep woods and wandering coastlines. I relentlessly mangled myself on asphalt without a helmet, ate dirt, climbed massive trees, bled a lot...a lot and further toughened up through years of contact sports like lacrosse and rugby. Ive had a job since 14 and tackled everything from heavy labour to high tech to fine wood-working to complex art pieces etc. I was eager to move out into the world immediately after high-school to further develop myself. I know which end of a screwdriver to use, Im confident, artistic, resilient, analytical, resourceful, independent, inventive, polite, reserved and fully self aware. I can interact with anyone with utmost confidence and composure and with utmost respect and empathy (for those who deserve it). Basically we developed the required life skills by our teens and well before the internet which has damn near ruined future Gens in so many ways that I honestly fear for our future. My wife is a Millennial, shes beyond amazing in every conceivable way, an honourary Gen X if there ever was one, IMO she's a far better version of myself. 😅 I'm of the opinion Millennials are the last capable Gen. Maybe we're not the best but we know who we are and exactly what we need to do and how to do it. Proud to be a Gen X.
Millennials includes people in their 40's now, who are so detached from the standard, stereotypes of millennials that they make up their own micro-generation, Xennials, which also includes young Gen x. For some reason, it seems millennials is just the goto term for "anyone in their 30s or younger." This Gen x vs millennial rant seems to be comparing older Gen x to younger millennials, because older millennials are practically gen x.
Thus proving the sheer folly of trying to even attempt to categorize people by arbitrary labels! People are individuals and while you can certainly "grossly" characterize them in crude blocks by generation, you wind up with a neverending set of sub-categories. Like endless Russian nested dolls!
why are Gen X still arguing with Millennials when at this point we are ALL GROWN and need BOTH generations to help GENZ, the Kids of Gen X, to stop being depressed and entitled and become better humans for our society which they will be leading in the not so far future!
@@BradleyUK58 exactly these idiots out here calling taking care of mental health 'pussy' like when these idiots all have neurological diseases like alzeimers caused by decades of abusing their mental health cos some old person told them they're a chicken if it bothered them. Literally most important human organ and an entire gen were brainwashed into thinking abusing yourself was a good personality trait. It's fucking sad we are gonna watch a wave of this shit hit
I was born millenial but raised similar to gen. X. I grew up with "sticks and stones", I was taught and grew to value HONEST truth, I was alone alot, I've an leave me alone attitude (of which, as I have grown older, has developed into an I don't give a fu k attitude), I didn't wear a helmet nor pads when riding my bike, when I scraped my knees I rinsed them off with the hose (of which I drank from many times as well), I was locked out of the house both by me and my mother several times, I had video games but wasn't allowed to play them all the time and not everyday, I wasn't allowed to watch t.v. all the time nor everyday either, I didn't have a cellphone until I was around 17 or 18 years old, didn't have full internet access until I was in, atleast, my early 20's, and the list goes on. The only time I really remember hanging around my generation was when I was in high school... and could relate very little with them then. Now... I look at my generation and all I see are a bunch of bored, keyboard sissies who need a good beating. P.s. I long for the days when people didn't meet/interact through a screen! I was born about 30 - 40 years too late. P.p.s. I know I'm a hypocrite for adding this whole comment.
What a time to be a kid, one foot in both generation's worlds... Happy living as a X'er, but yet to be just growing up as things like computers in house with out windows for a few years but getting windows 95 and knowing the value of it and not needing to use dos...I lean far more over into gen x side... Joys of being born in 84...
Born with a computer in our hands?! Ummm..good sir, I don't think you're talking about the right generation. Millennials' years are from 1981-1996. Google wasn't around until 1998, and even then it took a while before almost everyone had a cell phone. And as a Millennial born at the start of 1990, I too experienced a childhood of going out til dark, playing with sticks & mud, drinking from the hose, & climbing on anything. Even fought back at a bully to the point where I had him running like a pansy. So these ideas that Millennials are somehow so helpless that it'll take a few things to have us just crumble is getting, how should I put this, Really Fricken Old!! For crying out loud the youngest Millennials are 27 now. Generational Wars about whose was better or the best, has gotten us nowhere.
I’m a millennial going in 40. My grandparents raised me. Grandpa being a WW2 vet he taught me a few things and i know I don’t really belong to anyone. But I see your viewpoints, they are hilarious!😂
Their causes would have been righteous if they were actually problems, but they weren't actual problems, we had solved them and were on a great flight path to bring those solutions home, and the millennial effed it up! Thanks Barry Soteorro!
Dude.... Gotta love how this isn't a pro and con conversation about the two generations.... But more of a battle plan... This is how us Gen Xers view the world.... 😆😆😆
Im almost 50 , was in the army at 18 , been working in a shop for more than 25 and still very much capable of opening a can of woop a$$ 😆 they got nothing on me
Yep. We all had to fight. I was so not afraid because I got beat up by my older siblings so a fight was never intimidating. I knew how to lose so there was nothing to lose and in so I'd win or they'd back down when they realized I meant business.
Being Boomer X (born in 64) I remember all the crazy things we did as kids that would get parents locked up today. Creating bike jump ramps out of scrap? Check Using said ramp to jump over 10 kids lying on the street? Check Using the same scrap to make a fort. Check Experimenting with various "substances" in said fort as we got older. Check Experimenting with sex in the same fort. Check Honestly I feel sorry for most of the kids today. They can't even begin to know the joy we had living in the wilds.
YOU are not a Boomer! 😝 Unless, you identify and raised as one. I was also, born in January of 1964 and I’m straight up Gen X, the scale differs depending on the source but National Geographic defines GEN X as 1960 - 1980. I stand by that. Your comments, are totally Gen X. My little brother was born in 1972 and he played Evil Knievel jumping over kids and off ramps too! Lol 😂 he fell and knocked his teeth out! Lol 🙊🙈 😉
Born in 85 so technically a millennial but spent most of my time with Gen X siblings and our grandmother who was from the silent generation in my childhood. Not sure where i lie in this spectrum...
As someone born in 1975, I never considered people born in 1963 or 1964 as "Baby Boomers". My parents are classic Baby Boomers born in 1946, you guys were not Boomers. Even the people born in 1960-1962 were like in their own generation. I know the kids today will call you guys Boomers, hell they call all of us born in the 70s and even people born in the 80s Boomers just to annoy us, but it's unfair lump someone born in 1964 that graduated high school in 1982 or 1983 as the same generation out protesting the Vietnam War in 1968.
Ahhh… this reminds me of my dad (RIP), of the WW2 generation, who proudly had on his office shelve, the “old lady Hallmark” mug that someone gagged-gifted him, that had the adage “ Old age and treachery will always prevail over youth and enthusiasm”… wisdom/treachery are well-earned traits
I was born in 83, was raised like a gen x. Had bb gun wars, drank from hose, friends parents could whip our ass, dont get offended by words, if i got hurt parents said quit whining and rub dirt on it, stayed out in the streets at all hours of the night, can actually problem solve without Google
I am a boomer and we had to learnt to count in our heads no calculators allowed in class no computers we learnt to write and write well research was done by visiting our local library or talking to adults who went through and lived the subjects we where researching.
Well 1977 Gen X here, so a late one.. I got my first computer as a kid, the c64. So when i was not outside playing until the lights came on, i was inside having fun learning basic. I am IT support today...
Boomer here. My first computer was the Atari ST still have it still have my c64 and all my old computers and one or two of my old IBM. Computers all are still in working order.
Dude, Millennial here. You're 100% describing Gen z. For those who don't know the Millennial generation (approximately 1980 - 1999) is the generation that comes immediately after Gen X. Now you know. You're welcome. 👍
I've already seen them turn on each other, there's a hilarious vid on YT of a conference they had. Wish I could remember the name but you've got to see it. 😆🤣😂😁
Hells yeah! Not giving a fuck wins Everyday! (I'm still cackling) I was getting worried but i think its gonna be like the Hippies in the mid1970s. "All children but one, must grow up...." opening line to Peter Pan.
Once as a kid (in the 80s) I ran through the supermarket that my dad worked in, and was stopped in my tracks by a smack on the behind from the store manager. Needless to say which aggrieved party my parents sided with. Not me. I'm unsure if that experience seeded any kind of psychological trauma, but I do know that, as an adult, I like having a laugh, am not easily offended, go above and beyond in my job, treat others with respect, don't require perpetual validation, and generally enjoy life. So if there *is* any trauma, I guess it's working.
When I was young, I lived on an island. It was the 1970s. On the beaches, you would find many small boats and a lot of them would have a note saying, you can use it just put it back. We would take those boats and go out as far as we could, until the island was a small speck in the ocean. Then we would go back as quickly as we could. I am amazed that we never got washed out to sea. What a dumb thing we used to do!
That's because you're technically a Xennial, a cross-over microgeneration born between Gen X and Millennials, from the late 70s to mid 80s, (1977 to 1985).
@@user-wh5ir4fo4r Well, thanks! :) It's true that Xennials could be considered a subcategory of Gen X, but it's also its own thing, which stands to reason considering the huge differences technologically and economically between before and after the Reagan/Bush era (1981-1992). Those born in the 80s came into a very different world than the one that existed during the height of the worldwide hippie countercultural movement, and are very different people as a result.
Smartness isn't the ability to push a button and let your computer give you answers. Smartness is the ability to utilize knowledge and wisdom to better yourself and others. The amount of misinformation on the internet contradicts millennial's ability to "fact check" people. Are they facts? Do millenials know how to do true research with multiple proven sources? I doubt it.
Bro Im Xennials and between GenX and Gen Y ,I know on Digital and Analog 😂😂 My Aunt/Mother Which was Late Baby Boomer taught me how to us typewriter at 9 yrs old 😂😂 Damn I feel Older Now
Nah! That's not an exceptional IQ. Rather, it's having Google at their fingertips. Using technology required the non-tech ages to learn to adapt quickly. These millennial types never had to adapt. They were born within the tech age and lived in it since day one. For example, people born in metro areas grew up in that concrete jungle and know how to wrangle such busyness. It's natural to them. Country bumpkins, on the other hand, grew up in the woods or farmland areas with a traffic jam consisting of cows in the road and two oncoming tractors with wide farm equipment being trailered. Now, switch those people around in an instant. What do you have? 🤔 People going, "Um... people actually live this way?" 😮 Both types can learn the other ways of living eventually. Millenials fall under the group of seeing these two different worlds on their devices, imagining they could easily swap between either existences without issue. They live in a space consisting of imagined capabilities without truly having any. They haven't needed to adapt to anything of substance. So... giving them credit where none exists is unfair and only adds to their entitlement shenanigans. After all, test scores in academics have proven kids nowadays are worse off intellectually than kids of previous generations. They are behind in mathematics and writing. Have you noticed the blatant disregard of their public displays of utilizing the English language so piss poorly? Yep! So... there's that.
We don't get enough credit for our prognostication skills either, especially when it comes to tech. I'm remembering the days when not all of us had cell phones. Then work required us to have them. I said at the time, "You know this is going to turn from being able to get a hold of us at any time, to us being required to pick up every time they call, right?" and I was apparently the a-hole for thinking so. I remember the next year, telling the people in the meeting that giving our product away for free online in hopes of driving advertising wasn't a sound business plan. Again, I was the a-hole who didn't know anything. Finally, I remember when we first started allowing people to work remotely, saying that we weren't going to be able to limit it to a few exceptions. We're going to have to let everyone do this now. That was actually greeted more angrily than the previous two times. I have learned that there is a difference between using simple common sense and simply going with the zeitgeist. The former makes you right almost all of the time and results in few rewards, while the failures of the latter earn you a golden parachute and an office at corporate. Ain't that a b!tch.
We are the bridge between the analog and digital gen. We are the forgotten latch key kids. The last feral Gen. We MAYBE getting older but we will STILL knock your teeth down your throat if you run your mouth to us. We were the "either you are in or you are outside" Gen. The last Gen to drink from the hose and be home when the streetlights come on. The millennials may have the internet but we can read and write cursive, read an actual map and tell time by an analog clock. We are the quite Gen that ACTUALLY changed the world unlike boomers who could careless or the mills. Who just whine and cry till they get any kind of concessions to make them go away.
