Opinion | A Rude Awakening Is Ahead for Young Employees
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A recession will hand the bargaining power to their bosses.

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.

  • booty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's definitely a phenomenon unique to millennials (at least of the generations alive right now). No idea what caused it though.

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Refusal to admit that they are now grandparent aged and aren't doing so great themselves.

        • Spike [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          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

          • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            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.

        • Deadend [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Millennials are 40s. The people who complain about them are 64 and about to retire with nothing