Boomer Hate Thread

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this guy actually pulls up an IMO salient point on why boomers are the way they are that made me rethink my stance on them a bit
yeah, yeah, I know, >tiktok, but it's still thunk-provoking
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TL;DW: Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
That makes a lot of sense. I can't say if it's true or not, but it does explain a lot of why boomers act the way they do: in some sense they are victims of their parents' trauma from WW1, the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression AND WW2 and their success in creating a world where such things aren't common occurrences. It doesn't nullify and make their ignorance, mediocrity, arrogance and just general lack of humility on the whole, but it does make me understand how they came to be and how to prevent another generation like that from existing. Literally every generation since the boomers has either been a reaction to the baby boomers or just a more deformed version of them.
 
I've had family members imply that I'm a fucking bum because I asked them for help selling my stuff after I moved out of state. Asking them for any real favors is like pulling teeth and they always try to make me feel like a bum. They're totally clueless on how the world works now and I can only tolerate them in small doses. And then the "when marriage, when kids, when retirement?" talks that came after I moved out...

Needless to say they wonder why I hardly ever visit or text them.
 
FFFFFFFFF, I hate boomers so bad. I just ripped the ugly carpet and crowbarred all of the nail-laden wooden strips from a beautiful set of wooden stairs in my 124-year-old home. There're staples and nails leftover, and a disintegrating yellow foam caked with decades-old dust on every step. Why did they all do this shit?
The things boomers do to houses are the absolute worst. They have all the aesthetic taste of a fucking toddler. A friend of mine refinishes old furniture for a side gig and he will get honest to god rare shit or obscenely beautiful art deco stuff and boomers will ask if he can paint it off white so it doesn't stand out in their bland hellscape homes. One of them wanted a fucking authentic Zanzibar chest painted green and only offered 400 for it when they sell for thousands often. They didn't even know anything about them, they just "liked the pretty nubs on it".

Edit: in case someone doesn't know what a Zanzibar chest is. Imagine looking at this and thinking, "paint it beige".
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The things boomers do to houses are the absolute worst. They have all the aesthetic taste of a fucking toddler. A friend of mine refinishes old furniture for a side gig and he will get honest to god rare shit or obscenely beautiful art deco stuff and boomers will ask if he can paint it off white so it doesn't stand out in their bland hellscape homes. One of them wanted a fucking authentic Zanzibar chest painted green and only offered 400 for it when they sell for thousands often. They didn't even know anything about them, they just "liked the pretty nubs on it".

Edit: in case someone doesn't know what a Zanzibar chest is. Imagine looking at this and thinking, "paint it beige".
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I remember my Dad had a tiny desk version of one of these, like a little trinket box and I was really enamored with it as a kid. It wasn't an authentic one of course but it was still very pretty...boomers are monsters.
 
I won't repeat all the instances in this thread as it's already been said, but it is actually uncanny how many boomers all wound up exhibiting the same self-centered traits. I wonder if, as a collective, there is enough material for a community lolcow thread?

I will say the only exception I've observed anecdotally are the minority of boomers that grew up poor and/or were poor for extended periods of time. They actually tend to behave like human beings and have (some) sympathy for struggling younger people.
 
I won't repeat all the instances in this thread as it's already been said, but it is actually uncanny how many boomers all wound up exhibiting the same self-centered traits. I wonder if, as a collective, there is enough material for a community lolcow thread?

I will say the only exception I've observed anecdotally are the minority of boomers that grew up poor and/or were poor for extended periods of time. They actually tend to behave like human beings and have (some) sympathy for struggling younger people.
I'd say that your average boomer is just a product of the propaganda they lived with. They're more media product than man now. Every pop culture trend trend, every main stream news broadcast, every instruction they received from self-help books has coalesced into a vague and indistinct blob of awful.
 
I remember i was working at a flea market phone case store back in high school, it was a fine weekend job for the pay, and the customers were generally fairly chill, most we would do is sell shitty chinese knock offs of otterboxes, shitty bluetooths, and actually decent screen protectors, hence we had a lot of boomer customers needing help putting them on.

Most of my boomer interactions were fairly bengin, guy came in not knowing how to turn his flashlight off, a old lady in a loose dress had a boob that kept slipping out, etc. This one guy though was completely unstable.

I was putting on a screen protector, and the guy comes into the doorway and holds up a shitty prepaid phone and asks, wide eyed "D'Y'All have a case fer thisn?" All prepaid phones look the same from a distance so i ask him to wait just a second so i can put the screen on and go help him, he says "No I need help RIGHT NOW", i tell him that itll take literally 20 seconds and ill be there to help him, his wide-eyed stare gets even wider as he grits his teeth and rages out back through the door, telling everyone who passes near him shit like "dont go to that shop they don help nothin" "man fuck these people im going somewhere else" as he waddles his way down the hall.

Me and my coworkers face when:
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The things boomers do to houses are the absolute worst. They have all the aesthetic taste of a fucking toddler. A friend of mine refinishes old furniture for a side gig and he will get honest to god rare shit or obscenely beautiful art deco stuff and boomers will ask if he can paint it off white so it doesn't stand out in their bland hellscape homes. One of them wanted a fucking authentic Zanzibar chest painted green and only offered 400 for it when they sell for thousands often. They didn't even know anything about them, they just "liked the pretty nubs on it".

Edit: in case someone doesn't know what a Zanzibar chest is. Imagine looking at this and thinking, "paint it beige".
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look what they did to 1930s v8 fords. good luck finding one that hasnt been chopped and screwed. Zero appreciation for the gorgeous 1920s/30s art deco aesthetic they rejected along with everything else their parents and grandparents built.
 
Boomers fucking suck at driving. You get a few kinds of people on the road, Boomers driving either on the line or half in oncoming traffic, the boomer who drives 10 under at all times to ensure only they are safe, the boomer that drives like a fucking madman in his lifted ford fuck you and everything truck,

All while driving through the cataracts and dementia. Usually high on some good meds. I have had so many near misses with these crusty fucks, and not through my action, I have great eyesight I can see the lines and lights just fine.
They swerve into lanes without looking, or they turtle over as traffic bears down behind them; they could give a fuck. Ever seen a boomer park? Its painful, not only can they never pull into a spot like someone who's not a sociopath, (Maybe some hyperbole there :P ) but when they back in, they need 16 sensors around the car and a solid 60 seconds of readjusting the wheel and pulling in and out to back in, just to be 3 feet over the line anyway or in the middle of one of the blocked off spaces in-between handicapped spots.

Yn the ones that make it possible to unload vans and whatnot so other people can live their lives.
No no mr boomer needs to be closer to the liquor park entrance.

Fuck me these entitled cunts are ruining our society. They've had everything handed to them and their lack of respect and appreciation for the existence of anything around them human or otherwise is entirely self induced and beyond aggravating.
Every single one (Almost) has a super computer in their pocket and all they chose to use it for is fucking candy crush and only fans.
Yeah mhm its my generation that's the problem.

Because we use the internet to LEARN and since you only recognize experience above all else, simply having knowledge of the way the world functions and its mechanics is somehow not of value and couldn't possibly imply usefulness or the fruit of learning. Its the same fallacy that their generation was taught that a tradesman is a bad job, yet the entire fucking economy exists as a result of them, they are beyond vital like many other jobs.
Anyhow I'm getting off topic. Boomers suck.

They're greedy I've got mine attitude has been a fucking cancer on our social egress and generational relations. I used to respect a lot of boomers in my early years because like most I thought their experience outweighed their character flaws. I was wrong once I realized the true impact of those not mutually exclusive parts of their identity.
They've done, and do more harm then good.
That's not all of them, but sadly as they are all product of their times and events they've lived through,
Its a vast majority.


TLDR: Fuck Boomers they are lazy in so many way's.
Rant over lol.
 
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The Boomer work ethic is really overrated. Average Boomer take a 10 minute smoke break every 45 minutes.
Pay peanuts, get monkeys.

If your competition is willing to offer .75 cents more,

has the boomer had the brilliant thought that maybe, just maybe, youre underpaying your employees and they deserve more?

Honestly, even if its a thing like 'we give you training'- do the basic thing of giving someone a training wage, 'internship' wage, or whatever you want to call it, make sure theyre a good fit, and then three months later when their training ends give them a full competitive pay. Or give that to them at the start.

Don't even get me started on the 'generational' problem shit.

When youre barely making ends meet, when youre just scraping by and your net income is pretty much parity with your rent, food, cost of living, etc- that extra .25 - .75 can make all the difference. Its TMI, but paying for my own expenses and my family's, I'm barely scraping by, and half the time have to take extra shifts just to make ends meet for everyone. An extra .25 - .75 isn't a lot, but when added up, yeah it might give some more relief overall to your working situation, and life's not about being stretched ultra thin for bosses completely alienated from the current economic reality for most young people. Maybe thats just a nice dinner for your wife and you at the end of the week. Maybe its one less hour of overtime you have to do.

But either way, boomers are so stupid.
 
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