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re: Do millennials hold businesses to a higher standard?
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:07 pm to slackster
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:07 pm to slackster
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Roger, this is not a generational issue, and it never has been. Old people think people in their teens and twenties are entitled know it alls. That statement has been true for 100 years. Hopefully one day a generation will grow up and break the chain.
You know, if you folks had read my original post here instead of making blind assumptions and getting feelings bothered, this wouldn't be an issue.
There was nothing, and is nothing that has been said on my behalf toward millennials. As I clearly stated previously, this is something that has repeated over the generations.
It appears the great millennial shortcoming is getting offended too easily.
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Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:09 pm to lsupride87
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I'm really not too worried about some butt hurt teen on a message board.
Im 28 and extremely happy.
Oh well, excuse me for assuming your indignation was youthful.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:09 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:It seems you have been just as offended as me and slack. Why are me and slack "offended," and you are not. It seems to me when a gen x states an opinion or rebuttal, it is just that. But when a millennial does it, it is butthurt whining. That has been my point.
It appears the great millennial shortcoming is getting offended too easily.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:10 pm to RogerTheShrubber
It is very pompous of you to think everyone else is "offended," while you yourself are simply giving enlightening opinions
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:10 pm to lsupride87
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It seems you have been just as offended as me and slack.
The old "you are more than me." Hell, I thought that died on the playgrounds in the 70's. Good to see it's still around.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:12 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I think you read about 1/4th of my post.
And I think you've been reading entirely too much facebook. Just because dumb people now have a platform to declare that their hangnail ranks up there with Hiroshima doesn't mean an entire generation defines crisis differently. It could easily be argued our society hasn't faced a true third world problem since the draft ended. That is unless you have a more liberal definition of crisis, which would prettymuch prove my point.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:13 pm to lsupride87
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everyone else is "offended," while you yourself are simply giving enlightening opinions
Well, it took you long enough, but welcome.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:16 pm to LSUsuperfresh
I think it is more about technology changing than customers. As soon as there was an alternative to Blockbuster people took the option.
Cable companies will probably come to a similar marginalization over the next decade.
Cable companies will probably come to a similar marginalization over the next decade.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:17 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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And I think you've been reading entirely too much facebook. Just because dumb people now have a platform to declare that their hangnail ranks up there with Hiroshima doesn't mean an entire generation defines crisis differently. It could easily be argued our society hasn't faced a true third world problem since the draft ended. That is unless you have a more liberal definition of crisis, which would prettymuch prove my point.
I think I clearly stated that this is a repeating pattern. I apologize if you think I'm picking on your generation, because this happens ever generation and has.
The Boomers told us we played music too loud, didn't care about the future (cold war) and partied too much. We just said frick you, and partying some more.
This post was edited on 5/31/16 at 5:18 pm
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:18 pm to LSUsuperfresh
Millenials need to hold themselves to a higher standard.
Get off your phone and your social media and do the job you are paid to do you useless, self-centered, entitled pricks.
Believe it or not, the world does NOT revolve around you.
Get off your phone and your social media and do the job you are paid to do you useless, self-centered, entitled pricks.
Believe it or not, the world does NOT revolve around you.
This post was edited on 5/31/16 at 5:20 pm
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:20 pm to molsusports
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I think it is more about technology changing than customers. As soon as there was an alternative to Blockbuster people took the option.
Probably. I remember dial up 15k modems, now when I push a button I expect something to happen.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:21 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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You know, if you folks had read my original post here instead of making blind assumptions and getting feelings bothered, this wouldn't be an issue.
We don't have time for that shite, Rog. Now go eat a bag of dicks, grandpa.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:29 pm to slackster
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just enjoy the fact that people think millennials bitch anymore or less than any other generation. At worst millennials are more educated as a group than any generation before them, so we've got that going for us.
I disagree. The longer time goes on the more you have to learn. Kids are just memorizing and regurgitating. They aren't learning shite. You don't have to learn anything when the answers are rt there on your phone.
Ad the fact that there are so many diff ways to cheat now with technology. And kids are hopped up on legal meth.
Social media also pretty much has eliminated human contact. These young kids don't know how to interact with people any more.
No it's way fricking diff. You aren't smarter. The more and more things are done for people, the less they learn and we are creeping to idiocracy.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 5:45 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I think I clearly stated that this is a repeating pattern. I apologize if you think I'm picking on your generation, because this happens ever generation and has.
The Boomers told us we played music too loud, didn't care about the future (cold war) and partied too much. We just said frick you, and partying some more.
Of course it's a repeating pattern, and I couldn't care less if you pick on my generation or don't. I feel no loyalty to anyone else because they were born in the same decade as me. Still, you made the assertion that this particular generation faces more first world problems, and defines crisis differently, yet are seemly willing to admit there hasn't been a true crisis in half a century. I think that's an absurd, and to borrow one of your words, entitled statement.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 6:00 pm to RogerTheShrubber
My apologies for not going back to the beginning of the thread to read your original premise. I just reply to the posts as I see them.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 6:01 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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Still, you made the assertion that this particular generation faces more first world problems, and defines crisis differently
Yep. And the next one, and the next...
Posted on 5/31/16 at 6:11 pm to LSUsuperfresh
internet brah. holds everyone outside its walls to a higher standard whie inside its walls destroys humankind.
neat huh?
neat huh?
Posted on 5/31/16 at 6:58 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Yep. And the next one, and the next...
I just can't get on board with that. Sure, technology has changed the flavor a bit but the same basic challenges Americans have dealt with since the fall of the farmer are still there. My dad and I have talked a lot about this, and the names and faces change but the story stays the same. Doesn't matter if my boss sends an email to my smartphone or dials me up on a landline, I still have to do what he tells me or I get fired. If he fires me, I won't be able to pay my mortgage, whether I applied for it online or walked into a bank like my dad did. Eventually I have to decide if I want to start a family even though Jimmy Carter or Obama is tanking the economy. I gotta also do it without getting addicted to anything. I have to watch friends fail at that last part, and let it scare me so bad that I won't even let my kids do the same things I did when I was their age. I'll pretty much do all that in the hope it adds up to them having a better life than I had without spoiling them too much. I'll probably never really know if I accomplished that or not, but the one certainty is at some point I'll think their generation just doesn't get it.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 7:00 pm to LSUsuperfresh
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Did the lack of options originate with a lack of searching or unwillingness to try something different though?
No.
Take Uber as an example. That technology wasn't available to the masses a few years ago. Or Hulu and Netflix. Can you imagine using a 33.6 dialup modem and an 800 x 600 screen? It just wasn't a viable alternative. (You could cut the cord by using rabbit ears for TV, going to a bar for sports, and renting from Blockbuster.)
Posted on 5/31/16 at 7:04 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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I just can't get on board with that. Sure, technology has changed the flavor a bit but the same basic challenges Americans have dealt with since the fall of the farmer are still there. My dad and I have talked a lot about this, and the names and faces change but the story stays the same. Doesn't matter if my boss sends an email to my smartphone or dials me up on a landline, I still have to do what he tells me or I get fired. If he fires me, I won't be able to pay my mortgage, whether I applied for it online or walked into a bank like my dad did. Eventually I have to decide if I want to start a family even though Jimmy Carter or Obama is tanking the economy. I gotta also do it without getting addicted to anything. I have to watch friends fail at that last part, and let it scare me so bad that I won't even let my kids do the same things I did when I was their age. I'll pretty much do all that in the hope it adds up to them having a better life than I had without spoiling them too much. I'll probably never really know if I accomplished that or not, but the one certainty is at some point I'll think their generation just doesn't get it.
the context of my original statement is that life has become sequentially less full of hardship (though relative) since the founding of our nation, with very few exceptions. Diseases are constantly being cured or cures are less painful, new technology makes life easier, and physical work has become something fewer people do than in the past generation. Just the technology shift over the past three generations has been staggering.
I don't see a way anyone looking at the last 4 generations of adults, including millennials, could really argue this. Before millennials retire, it's likely you'll have new transportation technology, work fewer hours and enjoy more leisure time and live longer healthier lives.
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