re: "Xennials" - the hybrid of Gen X and Millenials

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Apparently, I would fall in this category (having been born between 1977 and 1983 - yeah, I'm old, STFU).

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I get that - I've never trusted the post-bicentennial babies. I saw the Xennials coming a mile away. Largely set a bad example for the milleniels to follow, generally slackers and ne'er do wells in my experience.

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Do you play Street Fighter with a 4 year old, then when you win jump up and scream, "Ha loser! Suck my d***!"

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I don't use language quite that salty, but yeah.

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Tee ball is about teaching fundamentals

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So, scoring and winning/losing are secondary concerns to your fundamentals?


Americans used to win everything. Winning was the great goal. Winning made folks colorblind (Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, etc). Then - about 25 years ago, we suddenly became concerned with not hurting people's feelings (except White Christian males, of course) and stopped GAF about winning. It's almost like we won the Cold War and then quit caring.

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If you owned a Walkman at any point u shouldn't be considered a millennial imo

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Or I would add, "If you had a pager in high school. We had our own way of communicating through numbers. If you got a page with 911 at the end, than you knew shite just got real serious.

I'm a member of the gofrickyourself generation.

Everyone gets a trophy? Gouckyourself, winners get trophies.

You want to stay inside and watch TV all day? Gofrickyourself, and get outside.

Someone said something that hurt your feelings? Gofrickyourself, sticks and stones.

You feel sick and don't think you can make it to school today? Gofrickyourself, and get on the bus.

All of your friends' mommies pack them lunches? Gofrickyourself, and eat what they serve at the school.

Granted-most parents never really said "gofrickyourself," but as I've aged, I know they were thinking it.

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Lol your analogy assumes little kids are playing tee ball against adults

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Eh. It was more along the lines of focusing on the competition while still learning how to play the game.

Tee ball was never meant to be some "we need champions!" It was to teach kids the fundamentals of catching, throwing, and base running so that they could compete when it mattered.

I mean, are you going to tell a 4 year old he's a loser because his friend Jimmy didn't realize he was supposed to run to the right instead of the left after hitting the ball?

Now, if you were still playing tee ball past the age of, say, 7 or 8, then participation trophies were the least of your problems.

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I mean, are you going to tell a 4 year old he's a loser because his friend Jimmy didn't realize he was supposed to run to the right instead of the left after hitting the ball?

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Yes, because he will internalize failure as being the result of not understanding the rules of the game. The social shaming brought on by losing will likely force Jimmy and the rest of his teammates to learn from his mistake and not make it again.

Freeing individuals from feeling the negative consequences of their actions does nothing but rob them of an opportunity to learn how to make better choices. This can be applied to nearly every other arena in which our government has inserted itself where it didn't belong (see Great Society).

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Yeah, these are the people who are fully grasping the changes of social media. Old enough to have just exited youth without it, but still young enough to relate to what's going on.

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I agree. I was born in 1978.

I was born in 80.

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[quote]Where Millennials were born and raised with technology, Xennials grew up outdoors and later grew with technological developments

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I guess this is the telling line. You have to be a pessimistic X to fall in this category. I am a very optimistic X. Our generation is right all the time

The Oregon Trail Generation

There's some truth to this.

Scruffy made a comment about it being stupid that people have to find a group to identify with. It's more than this. I am a sales manager and worked at a company that hired mostly kids straight out of college. For the majority of my career, I'd worked with people my age or older. Born in '80, btw.

There are different characteristics in each of the different groups. We were forced to get training on what those characteristics were, why they were there, and how to manage to those traits. Since I was going to be managing 95% millennials, it was important for me to understand their trait and why they were there.

A few have asked why the dates are so specific. Technology and major events are key players in that. For most of the Gen X people, the first really bad even that took place in our childhood was Challenger. We didn't have cell phones, social media, internet, 24-7 news. We took all of that stuff in doses.

Millennials first dramatic event for the most part was 9/11. Cell phones, internet, all day media coverage from multiple sources, etc. They could have 24 hour access to their parents, and they used that blanket. Not judging, it's just true.

Because of these things, there's sensitivity to different types of behaviors. My friends and I are savage with each other. In my studies, it said that MOST millennials don't respond well to sarcasm. That may not be you, but that was my experience managing people born between 89-96.