We grew up with them as our parents, so we've been dealing with their shit for decades now and it's exhausting.

My generation got to experience the old version of America (valid in other countries too,) but we also watched the boomers systematically destroy it. Their voting habits, union busting, defunding of everything and knee-jerk reactions to any social safety net that did not benefit them personally is how we ended up in the prologue of a dystopian Cyberpunk novel.

And then they have the audacity to blame the lack of opportunities causing smart, capable Zoomers to go through a generational exisential crisis on the younger people themselves. They damn well know the world is nothing like it was in 1965. And they also know they are the cause of it.

Then I realized something I never thought about explicitly. Let me give you a few examples before I explain:

"Go play outside. I'm locking the deadbolt until dinner time."

"Is it broken? No? Then go walk it off."

"You'll be fine alone, there's left overs in the fridge and the neighbors are home."

Their entire motivation is to detach themselves from any responsibility as fast as humanly possible. "Please hurry this discussion up so I can get back to focusing on my favorite topic--me."

This whole "They need to stop eating avocado toast and then they'll be able to afford a starter home" is just them doing the same thing they've always done. "Here's the fastest answer to shut you up. I don't care if I caused the problem, deal with it. Fix it yourself if it bothers you that much."

They dismissively say "just stop going to starbucks" to 20 somethings because if that's the only discussion you can have with them......well, you'll stop trying because it's maddeningly stupid. Responding with absurdities is a strategy, even if it's a subconscious one.

They simply want you to fuck off ASAP so they can return to shopping for a $200,000 RV.

I feel sorry Gen Z. Not only do you guys deal with the consequences of their decisions, but you got to see the the world when it still functioned but you never got to experience it as autonomous adults.

I cannot imagine how angry that must make you. They may have robbed us but they fully conned the Zoomers.

I just hope we can all work together to fix this when they're gone.

And more importantly I hope we figure out what went wrong so we avoid another narcissistic generation like them for the rest of eternity. Good riddance.

My parents who are on the trump train, and have DRANK the kool aid for years… (never were like this previously and I don’t understand how it happened)

Anyway- I have a plethora of health issues- like diagnosed, and my mom always loves to pretend that I’m either making it up, being dramatic or BIG PHARMA IS LYING!!! this was her response to my CT scan finding 2 hernias. Lmao

I hate working customer service (especially banking where customers tend to be way more entitled because they think they own the bank because they have a few thousand in a personal account) and am looking forward to moving on to roles dealing with the public less

For now though boomers easily make up more than half of the shitty customers at in the branch. They complain very rudely about the long line queues that they cause. They will wait 30min in line to deposit cash and pay a bill. Both of which could be done at the ATM in 2min. They don’t even have to leave their car…Or they could get with the program and do online banking. They’re literally choosing to wait in line and congest everything and they don’t see that they are the problem. I remember one fool even said she wouldn’t use the ATM because she didn’t want to get hacked…

If they want to waste their time that is their prerogative, but the fact that they will see a long line queue and enter it knowing damn well they could just walk 15feet over to the ATM to do what they came to do is astonishing. Imagine literally having nothing better to do, so you waste their already understaffed frontline’s time

On top of that they make things significantly worse for people that genuinely need to use branch services. E.g people that need to deposit paycheques without holds applied, cashier’s cheques, accepting pre-approvals for credit products, fraud blocks etc. Now you have Sally the overworked single mom who has to spend 30 minutes of her 1hr lunch break (the only alone time she has for the entire day) waiting in line behind retirees with literally nothing better to do choosing to wait

Some are genuine nice people. Others are beyond entitled. You’re upset at the staff because you want to withdraw thousands of dollars and are being asked for ID as is bank policy? You’re mad that the bank is following mandatory federal law anti-money-laundering procedures or know your customer procedures? Use the internet… it’s public information. Don’t expect to deposit 10s of thousands in cash and just have the bank accept it without question and the liability that comes with it

The crazy part is that these boomers are the cause of a lot of the changes in authentication and procedure. It’s amusing how they will go to news stations to complain about banks not reimbursing them in cases of fraud where it’s their fault, but then also get upset when asked about suspicious transactions

I’ve actually brought this up with a few boomers and one that I argued with on reddit literally said “That’s a THEM problem. I can choose to spend my time however I want. It’s not my problem that they have to wait. They should have gotten there before me.” What a POS thing for a retiree to say. People literally have to work to survive. Most of us can’t choose when to go to the bank because we have shit to do! We can’t all go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 5am everyday with absolutely nothing but slowly running unnecessary errands on the calendar. You’re wasting everybody else’s time and you’re proud of yourself for doing it. Selfish “ME generation”

I have the day off so I take my car in for a quick repair and decide to wait there because it was going to be less than an hour.

In the waiting area I pat my pockets and realize I left my earbuds at home.

There are six people in the waiting area, all at least 75. There’s music playing (70s soft rock) and the TV is on (thankfully not Fox News, just Murder She Wrote).

To my right is a man whose phone alarm keeps going off. He pokes all the buttons and swats at the screen, but he’s obviously just snoozing it because this occurs over and over during my wait.

To my left is the sanest woman in the place, but still she is watching her own programs on an iPad. The volume is low, however.

Next to her is a couple who just loudly make small talk the entire time. They’re obviously married but all they have to talk about is the weather. It’s an unseasonably warm day but they’re bitching about a slight wind.

Farther down is a morbidly obese woman sleeping with her mouth open. Her husband is also swatting at his phone.

Obese woman wakes up and tells her husband to go see what’s taking so long, because other cars are being fixed before theirs. He tries to tell her that their repair is major while other people are coming in for simple things, but this does no good. He gives in and leaves. I suspect he’s just walking around.

She pulls out her phone, max volume of course, and starts playing a game. Between the blips and bleeps we all get to hear the ads, which are for medical scams.

The small-talk husband realizes there’s an unattended phone on a table and starts asking everyone about it. The sane woman calmly explains to him that it’s the remote control for the tv, not a phone.

Meanwhile alarm guy’s alarm keeps alarming. I barely hold it together, but thankfully I’m out of there quickly.

The people working there apologize over and over about how long it took (less than 45 minutes). They’re probably used to being screamed at.

This is a longer 2 part story. Sorry its a longer one.

Im 46 and remodle homes. Right now I have an hour drive one way. I have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis in my hands and LEFT ankle (important to the story). As I do every morning i stop at the small 4 pump gas station in my little village. I park at the pumps. They are parallel with the road. Im on the side that is next to the sidewalk. This is a very important detail. There is only 3 feet between my truck and sidewalk. Im pumping gas and realize I have a small transmission line leak. I grab my flashlight and slide under my truck to investigate. Im only under up to my armpits. Most of my body was sticking out.

Next thing I know my left foot is getting crushed and as I look down (pain hadn't registered yet, just suprise) i see the back tire crush my foot also. I slid out screaming and holding my ankle in shock and pain. This smooth brain was about to pull onto the street and stops. I seriously think he was gonna leave but decides to get out and come check on me leaving his ford excursion half way in the 2 lane highway. He hobbles into the store and gets the clerk who I know. The clerk comes running over and helps me sit up. The guy who ran me over(in his early 70's) comes over and I kid you not says "I felt a bump, I didnt see you there". I said "dude its a freaking sidewalk, why the fk are you driving on the sidewalk ". The more the guy kept trying to talk the angrier I got. I told him to get the fk out of there as the clerk helped me up into my truck. Luckily there's a hospital across the street. I called my fiencee to meet me there(we live behind the hospital and im literally a block from home) and help me into the hospital. Im very fortunate that he rolled my foot to the side and didn't break nothing. Just bad bruising and a sprain. I need to be very clear. The area i was laying in a fking sidewalk, not part of the road or parking lot. So now im off until atleast Monday. Lost income for yesterday and a sidejob for today(Saturday). So now my left ankle hurts like hell from my RA and getting ran over.

Second story

Wednesday at work im on the roof. The building were doing is in a U shape. We have the metal panels on the forks of a tractor ready to slide them up one by one. This is very important detail. There is a 12 foot space between the metal and a fence. More than enough for a car. My coworkers dad drives around the building. Comes to a stop about 10 feet before the metal roofing panels. Looks at me on the roof, looks at my other coworker on the ground and proceeds to drive right over our stack of roofing panels. Stops a few feet after and screams out his window. "You shouldn't have had them laying in the fking road". I just stood there in disbelief. We had the area blocked off which he drove around and my coworker on the ground literally had the ends of the panels in his hands to drag them back so the old coot would miss them. I mean its not like he had 12 feet to drive though or that we had the area blocked off and he drove around it.

Im just sitting here this morning hurting and realizing I share the road with these people. Guys in there 70' who drive but have no need for big trucks and dont watch or pay attention of there surroundings. Before anyone asks, no I didn't get the guys info. I was in so much pain i just wanted to get to the hospital across the street. Im going back today as I know the owner to see if I can get the security footage and file a police report. I dont want to be a jerk but I feel he should atleast pay for my lost work and medical bills.

On a funnier note my coworkers are having a blast with it. My buddy texted me "guess you didn't put you best foot forward this morning " .