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Breaking news, there's this hot new trend in financial journalism called "zombie writing."
When it's a slow news day, the author writes about something that's literally always been the case and then adds "Millennials are doing X and that's new and scary".
Symptoms of "zombie writing" can include drooling, extreme fatigue, and a lack of financial income.
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I don't think most people know how old Millennials are. I've seen people born in 1991 and 1986 calling people under 20 Millennials.
It's strange. I don't remember people holding on to the idea that "Gen X = young" the way they're holding on to "Millennial = young." Maybe it just didn't stick in my craw the same way since I'm not Gen X.
It's definitely a phenomenon unique to millennials (at least of the generations alive right now). No idea what caused it though.
Refusal to admit that they are now grandparent aged and aren't doing so great themselves.
I don't know that 45 is "grandparent aged", and I'm also not yet that old.
Millennials are 40s. The people who complain about them are 64 and about to retire with nothing
45 isn't actually that unreasonable to be a grandparent. You have kid when you're 21, your kid has a kid when they're 24 and you're a grandparent at 45
I mean I'm not saying that it doesn't happen; but also I suppose I would say that before 25 is probably not the wisest time to have kids.
At least both my parents & my grandparents were older than that when they started their families.
Probably because these generational terms have become heavily marketed. It's why Zoomer is also becoming more of a thing than it would have if this were forty years ago.
Even when gen x was a term I feel like it meant a specific type of aesthetic rather than an age group. It meant someone who wore doc martens and a flannel shirt around their waist and they're always smoking a cigarette in front of the 711.
I've had coworkers as young as 20 try to make fun of who they called Millennials, but they seemed to mean people even younger than them. At this point I think the term just means any young adult who exhibits qualities the user of the word finds annoying, like being non-binary or vegan or being disinterested in climbing a career ladder.
I tried saying to one of them that I'm a millennial, and he didn't know what I meant by just my age alone, but he eventually agreed with me once I said I'm vegan. Like "Oh, yeah now I can see it"
I was applying for jobs at that time, too, and remember reading that there were 40 applicants for every 7-11 opening.
Every open position at a 7-11, yeah. I can't find the numbers now - this was from a really depressing news article that I read right after submitting an application to a job like that and it's stuck in my head ever since.
It's on the suffering poor to make more realistic demands, not the slavering hogs who demand more and more profit every quarter forever at the expense of the entire planet and everything living on it. They will never stop escalating their ceaseless demands for blood. It doesnt matter that they just sacrificed over a million human beings to make the line go up, nothing will never be enough to fill the void inside of them, or to slake the thirst of the mad god Capital.
These people and the eldritch horror they worship must be destroyed.
I'm gonna make realistic demands for the value of my surplus labour. Something on the order of...oh...100 percent.
Honestly, that piece was infuriating. I'm an elder Millennial. I remember my dad getting laid off in the 80s. My family struggled for years after that. Just as things were starting to get better, he got laid off again. I searched for a long time for a decent job and settled for a shitty one. I've held several jobs since then, all of which I've been overqualified and undercompensated for. I have a shit job now and I'd been thinking about maybe diving into the soul-crushing task of looking for better, but now the talk of a coming recession has me more inclined to hunker down and hang on to the little I've got, because I'm afraid of being the latest hired, soonest fired. I'm terrified of being suddenly unemployed because I've been there and it sucks. In other words, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, MOTHERFUCKER???? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
Yeah, it came up in my Android "recommended" feed and I don't know why I clicked on it, lol. Instant blood pressure raising.
It's ridiculous to get this angry at some random suit with an opinion piece, but I'm thoroughly pissed off right now.
it's entirely reasonable to get this angry at this guy for writing this article. the trouble is he is legion and one person can't maintain the emotional energy required to be angry with all of them individually
I browse the headlines of my recommended feed explicitly as a "What does :porky-happy: want me to be thinking about today?"
you may find this hard to believe, but it was written by a CEO of a non-emergency medical transportation blood factory whose top result on google is a transcript of a podcast interview hosted on the MCKINSEY website :soypoint-2:
Imagine getting $300,000 per year to be Will Menaker I MEAN to make a podcast for McKinsey
The collapse of capitalism will be a rude awakening for the vampire class and their sniveling mouthpieces.
Can't wait to line em up against the wall :meow-bounce: or if they're really good they can get on the philosopher ships~
I say as a joke we get Elon Musk to design a rocket on his own that will send them to Mars
When he's done we laugh and throw it in the trash and put him against a wall.
We're civilized people, after all.
yeah it'll be really great when capitalism collapses in the year 2150
WTF I graduated in mid-2009 and couldn’t find a job for 6 months so I decided to go to grad school and took on more student loan debt to get a masters yay
We couldn’t find the committed workers we needed here, so we looked offshore. Today, 70 people work for us in Bangalore, India, and there will be more than 120 by the end of the year. We’ve found the same level of talent as in the U.S., but with turnover this year of less than 5%. And by reducing labor cost, the shift allowed us to reward motivated U.S. employees with more money.
A motivated employee is willing to come into the office.
Here are some reviews of the company from Indeed :
Stressful job with low pay
By far the worst corporate environment I've ever worked in.
Management will hire for one position and then increase responsibilities without increasing compensation.
They’ll think more about what they can do to improve the customer experience and less about what they don’t feel like doing.
No I won't :shrug-outta-hecks:
Yeah at this point if I'm stuck dragging along in dead end jobs I'm gonna be agitating like crazy, not working my ass off to make my boss extra dosh. Done enough of that in my younger years to know better.
Think about what you can do to improve the customer experience, then deliberately let the moment pass, watch it and chuckle as it drifts by.
CW:Generational politics - The generation that lived their lives on relative easy mode and had everything handed to them is deliberately crashing the economy for the sole purpose of sneering down at us that we're finally going to toughen up. Bill Maher must die.
Sounds like a lot of hopium from a shitty boss. No dude Labour consciousness isn't going back in the box.
The author writes as though this is our first recession. When I finished my education the economy exploded and it’s been stagnating ever since.
these dumbasses should really stop to consider that it's only an awakening the first time and for most millenials that was 14 years ago
