Generation Y

[BIG_DADDY]

SO I am having a conversation in a bar the night before a career fair with a person I took to the college to help me recruit. The guy I brought is Generation Y. After a few beers the conversation turned to the strange things some people have said in the interview process. The person with me said something that really hit home, he said "you have to understand my generation, it is very important that people look at us as being intelligent and right whether we are or not and are doing anything with our lives has nothing to do with it." The guy at the next table says "that's true" People at his table say what? HE repeats what was said and they readily agree laughing about it. I found it refreshing for a group to acknowledge something about their own generation like that. With that in mind I am at the very end of the baby boomer generation and can relate much more easily to Gen x and the one thing I would say in that same vein is it is really important that you know it really is all about us because it is.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

You want to know why gas is near $4.00 a gallon? I work in oil&gas, I know, it's not due to lack of resources, with fracking we have basically solved the oil situation for at least a 100 years. It's due to the lack of refineries. We haven't built a ****ing refinery in the US for like 30 years. Another reason why my generation is taking it in the ass.

2 SIRIUS. 2 SIRIUS 2 QUIT

[RealSNR]

GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE

[KC native]

Originally Posted by SNR

GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE

KANYE WEST DOESN'T EITHER

[Garcia Bronco]

I think the Boomer have royally ****ed up this country...they used to be the hero's...now...they're the villians.

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

I think the Boomer have royally ****ed up this country...they used to be the hero's...now...they're like, old.

FYP

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

I think the Boomer have royally ****ed up this country...they used to be the hero's...now...they're the villians.

From my estimation it's actually alot of the GenXers that caused the mortgage crisis bubble/meltdown.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

From my estimation it's actually alot of the GenXers that caused the mortgage crisis bubble/meltdown.

Boomers were very much a part of it with the home equity loans/withdrawals.

[RealSNR]

Would you rather have a snarky college hipster kid with a smartphone or a self-righteous douchebag college kid who camps out on your lawn to protest shit, does LSD, and doesn't wear any clothes?

I'll take the smartphone kid, thank you very much.

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by KC native

Boomers were very much a part of it with the home equity loans/withdrawals.

Boomers were the reason housing prices were overpriced as shit to begin with, GenXers caused the collapse (with some Boomer help).

[Mr. Kotter]

Originally Posted by Jimmya

If all the generations are the same then why are there the highest numbers in history of 20 somethings living with their parents? Just a thought.

It has nothing to do with the economic stranglehold the 1%-ers (cheered by too many boomers) have put on the middle class during the last 10-15 years....right?

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

I think the Boomer have royally ****ed up this country...they used to be the hero's...now...they're the villians.

Yup. Self-absorbed navel gazing entitled brats...far to many of them anyway. Yeah, it's become a cultural epidemic of sorts, but they invented it and do it far better than most ever have...

The Generation Jones thing really rings very true too, from my observations.

[Easy 6]

I used to believe in the phrase "never trust anyone over 30", these days I believe quite the opposite.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

Interesting generalizations by some....funny creations by others.

I know just as many Baby Boomers that utilize technology as much as the Millenials or Gen Y/X. And I also know some Gen Y/X'ers that works from 8 AM to 8 PM from the office.

Each generation blames the next for society's ills....been that way for way too many years. And it will continue that way when, as Milkman referred to in his post, we have run out of alphabet labels.

It is not a generalization. Study after study shows that young professionals have a much better adoption of new technology and have a preference for remote work environments. Of course there are exceptions to the rule. But this is backed by data.

And by the way, these aren't always great things. Yps are less sociable because they are used to online and mobile interaction and are easily distracted and have short attention spans because they multi-task. Working remote has many disadvantages to it including failure to often build good office team relationships. It's a matter of preferences bit as of right now, the world isn't geared for this generation yet. That's starting to change.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Ebolapox

wait... I thought we were the G-Funk era, turned down with a gangsta twist?

if you smoke like I smoke, then you're high like every day.

Regulate modder fuccas

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

IT's perception, not reality.

People haven't changed. The world has changed around them.

I think it's ****ed that generation Y has been fighting and dying in foreign wars for the past 12 years and then listen to morons tell them how they're ruining it.

The whole generational breakdown is ****ing stupid anyway. A person born in 1978 has a helluva lot more in common with someone born in 1982 than they do someone born in 1965.

This whole conversation is based on a false premise and is simpy a means to yell 'get those kids offa my lawn!"

Your defense is that Y has been fighting in a foreign wars? That encompasses less than what? a tenth of one percent? Not lumping in all of them. But your generation has the welfare/dependent on government/vote strictly democrat class. That shit is going to be tough to break. I mean when you can get the equivalent of 40k a year?

The serving is exception not the norm, thankyou if you did.


I want a generation to take back America, cut down on greed a little bit. Reign in corporations and politicians while voting. Hell, create a new voting party. The older generations will not take part unless there is some major like a civil war.

[Rain Man]

It's all about attitude. Some people call it Generation Y. I call it Generation Y Not?