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Company loyalty died with my father's generation. My Dad was born in 1929. Late 70's he and others in the neighborhood were reaching 50 or just over. There was an onslaught of 'early retirements' with this very upper middle class group (we are taking executives over major corporations)....to bring on the new kids on the block.
I'm 60 -- my generation group up not expecting loyalty -- or giving it either.
I gave up waiting for an extremely wealthy married woman with one grown child out of the house to retire. I would NEVER say such a thing about a person in need of work. Not to mention this woman is the highest maintenance flowers that I have ever met in my professional career (18 years, ten working with academics!).
All of the Boomers in my workplace suffer from ENORMOUS blind spots. The difference between what they think of themselves and what they do is truly astounding
All of the Boomers in my workplace suffer from ENORMOUS blind spots. The difference between what they think of themselves and what they do is truly astounding
Some enlightening writings on the selfishness of Boomers. I only came to the anti-boomer sentiment after five years in a workplace where the median age is 55. The selfishness of the managers has astounded and disappointed me. I became an environmentalist in college twenty years ago after being greatly influenced by dedicated volunteers, mostly 65-80 years of age, aka, mostly not boomers.
All the bosses are boomers but I also work with boomer equals who are horribly disrespectful, overly sensitive, believe they are more important than they are, and are just sort of desperate for praise but yet need lots of handholding. Honestly, I don't get them at all and it is quite maddening. I enjoy mentoring Millenials who are open to new ideas and problem solving outside the box. The boomers see themselves as mentors but actually they are blocking younger people every step they can, even though it is impossible for anyone to take their jobs due to the fact that we are an agency with a union and seniority. They are just extremely selfish with projects, ideas, and only collaborate with themselves. My prior position was just me and my boomer boss, two peas in a pod, but in hindsight, I believe she had more traits of her parent's generation. She was always generous in a professional and personal sense. She was confident and competent. That used to be my view of boomers. Here, as I said, I am astounded how they act like entitled children, emboldened by their numbers. Needless to say, five years has been too long and I am actively looking elsewhere!
OK, I was reading through here and multiquoting, but I was hitting just about every post, so I gave up, especially as I'm on my phone tonight. I left one because it's so hilarious. But first, fot Seacove and some others, see this:. https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/OK...566613221.html
"OK Boomer' is politically incorrect.
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Originally Posted by Seacove
So conservatives are willing to give up Medicare Part D? Because it was a conservative that implemented it. Stop excusing the Boomers. They created the mess. The mess that is now being handed over the Millennials like a silver platter of poo. Paul Ryan wanted to voucherize Medicare - maybe we should do that as a gift back to Boomers. "You leave us will $20+ trillion in debt, here's your voucher and good luck!"
Too funny! Medicare D is PRIVATE insurance that one BUYS! It has rules to make it compatible with Medicare, but it's all paid by the consumer. Medicare D was created in 2003. At that time, the OLDEST Boomers were 57 years old and TOO YOUNG for Medicare. At that point there were many Silents and even some Greatests still in Congress.
I have raised 4 millennial. I like them. What I tried to teach them regarding work... no one controls how well you do things. Make that personal. I worked inside the nuclear environment, and I can say even with QC inspectors, NRC inspectors, Lab inspections.... that has nothing to do with a job done well.
My kids are top shelf people and are better than me, and better then their grandparents.
Too funny! Medicare D is PRIVATE insurance that one BUYS! It has rules to make it compatible with Medicare, but it's all paid by the consumer. Medicare D was created in 2003. At that time, the OLDEST Boomers were 57 years old and TOO YOUNG for Medicare. At that point there were many Silents and even some Greatests still in Congress.
Actually Medicare Part D has cost taxpayers over $500 BILLION in less than ten years. It was passed under Bush when the GOP was in control as a way to buy the senior aka Boomer vote. Want to know where the $20+ Trillion dollar debt comes from? Look at Boomers who never met a socialist program they didn't love if they are the ones benefitting.
"One month after passage, the administration estimated that the net cost of the program over the period between 2006 (the first year the program started paying benefits) and 2015 would be $534 billion.[18] As of February 2009, the projected net cost of the program over the 2006 to 2015 period was $549.2 billion."
I like this guy from what I've just heard. Finally a boomer that's not ****ting on younger generations.
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