Please Tell Me This Isn't True

[The Valkyrie]

Yes, at least we try.

I even wrote a novel!

[Catholic_Lady]

Yeah, stupid millennials feeling entitled to their share of Social Security, gay marriage and paternity leave. Fucking entitled wastrels.

CL, I don't mean to be offensive, but how do you know how millennials behave in the work place? Haven't you decided that work isn't right for you? That would render your point moot because, A. you don't work with millennials and B. you don't have a work ethic. To be clear, I am 100% okay with people deciding to stay at home. I don't care what people do or don't do for a living in general. I just find, if I have your situation correct, which I may not, that your position could be a little hypocritical or even uninformed. Feel free to correct me.

I think you're taking my comments here a bit too seriously. It's just a funny video and I see some truth to it. Doesn't mean every one of us millennials are like that. I never said anything about social security, gay marriage, and paternity leave. And while it's true I quit my job when I was pregnant (aka sick) last year and haven't gone back to work since, I did work mainly restaurants and retail since I was 16 and up until that point.

[Shell B]

Yeah, stupid millennials feeling entitled to their share of Social Security, gay marriage and paternity leave. Fucking entitled wastrels.

CL, I don't mean to be offensive, but how do you know how millennials behave in the work place? Haven't you decided that work isn't right for you? That would render your point moot because, A. you don't work with millennials and B. you don't have a work ethic. To be clear, I am 100% okay with people deciding to stay at home. I don't care what people do or don't do for a living in general. I just find, if I have your situation correct, which I may not, that your position could be a little hypocritical or even uninformed. Feel free to correct me.

I think you're taking my comments here a bit too seriously. It's just a funny video and I see some truth to it. Doesn't mean every one of us millennials are like that. I never said anything about social security, gay marriage, and paternity leave. And while it's true I quit my job when I was pregnant (aka sick) last year and haven't gone back to work since, I did work mainly restaurants and retail since I was 16 and up until that point.

My comment wasn't a response to you until the part where I addressed you. The "stupid millennials" line was a sarcastic comment in general.

I obviously did misunderstand your position on work, though. I thought I had seen you comment that you decided not to work after you got married because the workforce wasn't for you. I must be misremembering. I wasn't under the impression that you've only been out of work for a year, so my comment to you clearly doesn't apply. So, you get your impression that some of this is true from your experience in retail/restaurants?

[Fireball]

"Siri, how to fix a bike?"

Yeah, I know plenty of people in this age group, and most of them work pretty hard. Of course, they had degrees, at least the ones I worked with. You couldn't get an engineer job there without one. My generation (boomer) got a little burned in the video, but what was said was true, so, OK.

[Catholic_Lady]

(I found out in college that career wasn't for me and my real calling was to be a wife/mom, but I still worked entry level stuff after marriage, mainly waitressing, with some periods of unemployment due to moves in military life)

Theres always some lazy/whiny people at every job, but I'm not sure that's so much a generational thing as it is just a personality thing, and isn't what I'm referring to. I'm referring to the obsession with social media... and it is true that the younger mellenials see Facebook as being for old people which i had heard before. And the whole culture of safe spaces, triggers, political correctness, etc, is what I meant about entitled and easily offended.

[Edwardo Piet]

I'm a millennial but I'm not offended by this. I think it's funny, and unfortunately, there is truth to it.

Huh? I always thought a millennial was someone born after the year 2000, lol. I mean, you're good looking but I honestly never knew you were 17!
I thought it was someone born after the millennium.

I guess I have no idea what a millennial is lol.

[Whateverist]

I stand officially corrected on this.

Apparently I didn't have the correct definition of "millennial", and I AM a millennial!

Dunn, dunn, dunn!!

I have to correct my stupid ass friends on this all the time. They're always retweeting stupid memes.

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Apology accepted!  In fact, I think you deserve an award for your participation in this thread.  You may be the worst generation but, dammit, at least you try your little hearts out.

As a reward, I would like my money back from Social Security or the ability to use it in my retirement years.

Good luck with that.  I'm also hoping I'll get to use what I put in eventually.  But I won't start drawing until I'm 66.  Lets hope that by the time you're ready for yours the age requirement isn't up to 85.

[Shell B]

(I found out in college that career wasn't for me and my real calling was to be a wife/mom, but I still worked entry level stuff after marriage, mainly waitressing, with some periods of unemployment due to moves in military life)

Theres always some lazy/whiny people at every job, but I'm not sure that's so much a generational thing as it is just a personality thing, and isn't what I'm referring to. I'm referring to the obsession with social media... and it is true that the younger mellenials see Facebook as being for old people which i had heard before. And the whole culture of safe spaces, triggers, political correctness, etc, is what I meant about entitled and easily offended.

I think this is more generation Z. Most millennials are out of college and use Facebook.

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I'm a millennial but I'm not offended by this. I think it's funny, and unfortunately, there is truth to it.

Huh? I always thought a millennial was someone born after the year 2000, lol. I mean, you're good looking but I honestly never knew you were 17!
I thought it was someone born after the millennium.

I guess I have no idea what a millennial is lol.

Generation Z.

[Minimalist]

Here you go, Shel.

Keep this as a handy reference guide!

http://www.marketingteacher.com/the-six-...n-america/

I'm a boomer and my sons are Gen-X'ers.

[Shell B]

Unfortunately, there are bunch of different year ranges, depending on where you look. It's usually only by a few years, though. This one puts the end of Gen Y at 1995. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/six-livin...k-fischer/ The one I usually see sets it at 1996. The whole "Facebook is for old people" thing is definitely a Z thing. My nieces and nephews barely use it, so I've had to try to navigate SnapChat. Blech.