The rest are iffy but I'm sorry, #3 is SUPER true and it truly baffles me. I would fully expect their explanation to be correct but I swear to God, I'm continually stunned at how folks raised on tech seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that their online shite is public. It's like they are so comfortable with modern tech that they think that being on FB, Twitter or any of a myriad other social media is like playing in their backyard.

I mean frick. I don't know a soul my age who bought the bull shite about Snapchat being a safe way to send shite.

As for the rest, meh. #2 is sort of true from what I've seen and it even shows in their "fact" portion. The millennial concept of "fair" bears no resemblance whatsoever to my definition of fair. In millennial land, two people in the same week are late to work by an hour twice. Person A has literally NEVER had an issue prior and is a great producer. Person B is an average producer who has had many minor issues before.

In millennial land, both deserve the SAME punishment or negative consequences for the offense this week.

Now, just so you know I'm not playing Mr. Old man here, I could write a pretty compelling list of what the frick is wrong with my generation at work too. Too much of what I call "old man" thinking and attachment to "when I did X,Y or Z" shite.

I think BOTH groups have issues. I think young folks tend to think any old guy giving them advice is just being "typical old man" and fail to consider that, ya know, occasionally 20 years of experience is useful.

On the other hand, old guys typically confuse a lack of experience for stupidity.

Fact is, 25 year olds and 45 year olds possess the same intellects. Today's 25 year olds, I would hope, believe that over the next 20 years, they'll get wiser(note, I said wiser, not smarter). Meanwhile, 45 year olds need to remember that they had some good ideas when they were 25 and so do today's 25 year olds.

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Posted on 3/6/15 at 6:09 pm to ShortyRob

The funny part of this list is it is totally missing the most glaring difference between generations.

Namely, The sheer percentage of young people who grew up so wedded to their technology that their bodies are pathetic at age 22.

I don't necessarily mean fat either, I mean, f'n weak. Young folks, please take a look at your average 45-50 year old. YOU think he's broke as frick and, you're generally right. NOW, realize that as a rule, everyone falls off and you aren't going to believe me, but it's just absolute fact that my generation did A LOT more with their bodies on a routine basis when they were young than you did.

So, if you think the average 45-50 year looks broke as frick, that shite should petrify you cause your average 45-50 year old was in FAR better shape at 20 than the average 20 year old today. I mean, it's just not even fricking close. Medical science may go a better job of keeping your arse alive as you age but here's another piece of bad news, being "alive" doesn't mean that your muscles don't atrophy. They will. And, they do so at a relatively predictable rate. The trick to being mobile when you're 50 is having your peak before the fall off be pretty high. This IS going to be a problem in 25 years.

I went to watch a local HS football game last year and I was like, "um, what in the frick happened to HS where half of them are built like they're middle aged"?

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Posted by ShortyRob

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Posted on 3/6/15 at 6:12 pm to ShortyRob

But, my last post notwithstanding, there really is too much "your generation sucks, no YOUR'S does" in the world. My first post in this thread bears repeating because it addresses BOTH halves of that problem.

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The rest are iffy but I'm sorry, #3 is SUPER true and it truly baffles me. I would fully expect their explanation to be correct but I swear to God, I'm continually stunned at how folks raised on tech seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that their online shite is public. It's like they are so comfortable with modern tech that they think that being on FB, Twitter or any of a myriad other social media is like playing in their backyard.

I mean frick. I don't know a soul my age who bought the bull shite about Snapchat being a safe way to send shite.

As for the rest, meh. #2 is sort of true from what I've seen and it even shows in their "fact" portion. The millennial concept of "fair" bears no resemblance whatsoever to my definition of fair. In millennial land, two people in the same week are late to work by an hour twice. Person A has literally NEVER had an issue prior and is a great producer. Person B is an average producer who has had many minor issues before.

In millennial land, both deserve the SAME punishment or negative consequences for the offense this week.

Now, just so you know I'm not playing Mr. Old man here, I could write a pretty compelling list of what the frick is wrong with my generation at work too. Too much of what I call "old man" thinking and attachment to "when I did X,Y or Z" shite.

I think BOTH groups have issues. I think young folks tend to think any old guy giving them advice is just being "typical old man" and fail to consider that, ya know, occasionally 20 years of experience is useful.

On the other hand, old guys typically confuse a lack of experience for stupidity.

Fact is, 25 year olds and 45 year olds possess the same intellects. Today's 25 year olds, I would hope, believe that over the next 20 years, they'll get wiser(note, I said wiser, not smarter). Meanwhile, 45 year olds need to remember that they had some good ideas when they were 25 and so do today's 25 year olds.