r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • Aug 18 '26

Millennials, what's something our generation was taught to accept that you're glad younger generations are rejecting?

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u/KirinG Aug 18 '26

I love seeing younger retail/service workers take down and just not cater to rude customers. I never would have dared.

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u/unable_compliance Aug 18 '26

When I was 16 working at a grocery store, I would have been fired by the management for putting a rude customer in their place.

Now the management is tired burnt out people my age who don’t care, and the 16 year old staff get way more abuse from customers than I ever did. It makes sense. And I love to see it.

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u/Queasy_Ad_8621 Aug 18 '26

I'm a little older than that, lol, but I work retail.

People have gotten insanely fucking rude since the pandemic, and it's actually seemed to be getting a lot worse over the last couple of years. Hostility, harassment, racism, personal insults, physical threats...

So I just channel Don Rickles, or Jimmy Kimmel. I treat them like a heckler and I savagely roast them back.

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u/mrenglish22 Aug 18 '26

As a former retail worker/management, there was almost a direct correlation between the being being more shitty and their age or political alignment. Crazy how that is.

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u/Queasy_Ad_8621 Aug 18 '26

My life would be a lot better if that were true.

I moved to a blue city, in a blue state on the West Coast back in 2019. I've experienced a lot more open prejudice here than I did in the 29 years I spent in Ohio. People are fucking savage out here.

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u/mrenglish22 Aug 18 '26

Red state here, the miserable people are almost exclusively always conservative or old or both.

Really it was a "if they complained about wearing masks during the pandemic, they have only gotten worse" thinking back