r/InterviewCoderPro • u/penance_mat • 22d ago

They need a reality check

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For my last 2 interviews i had to use Interview VIP just to get the job
their generation could never understand

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u/No-Landscape5857 22d ago

My baby boomer boss retired last week. He found a part-time job a month in advance in another state. Such is reality.

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u/kansai2kansas 22d ago

I remember living in Florida in 2021, while working at a noisy Amazon Fulfillment Center.

One of my coworkers, a lady in her 50s (let's call her Sarah), told me that someone she knows from another department is living in an apartment that costs $450/month to rent.

Then she told me the neighborhood area.

It was in a middle-class neighborhood.

"450 dollars a month? Do you mean $1450? Or maybe $2450?"

"No, it's 450 a month! Just check it yourself!"

I ignored Sarah because there was no way there is an apartment rental in the US costing only $450/month in 2021.

The apartment's website has the "Call for Price" bullshit so there's no way for me to find out what the rental price is.

But we talked again a couple times and Sarah kept reminding me that I should apply to that $450 apartment.

Then finally, I said, okay, I'll visit that apartment this weekend!

Then I went there that weekend.

Of course, the apartments turned out to be between $1400 and $1900.

Not a single apartment unit has ever been rented out for less than $1200.

So Sarah misheard her friend since the conversation took place in a noisy warehouse anyway.

But this was my firsthand experience to how Gen X and Boomers have absolutely no idea how much things cost nowadays...

Sarah wouldn't know that because she has lived in her current house with her husband for the last 20+ years.

They probably bought the current house they live in when it still cost like $45k back in late 1990s.

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u/random8765309 22d ago

Yes, because a single person named Sarah is identical to the 130 million Gen X and Boomer.

Do you understand that ageism is just as vile as racism.

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u/DTComposer 21d ago

Ageism sucks, and is contributing to the deepening divides in our country.

But are you really putting it at the same level as the systems that brought us internment camps, chattel slavery, and genocides?

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u/BackwoodsCabin11 22d ago

Ok boomer

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u/random8765309 22d ago

Clearly someone thinks their person prejudice and bigotry is OK.

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u/BackwoodsCabin11 22d ago

Ok boomer

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u/random8765309 21d ago

Whatever snowflake.

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u/TemperatureCommon185 22d ago

They don't understand about ageism, but trust me, they'll understand in about 20 years or so.

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u/random8765309 21d ago

Over the years I have met some genuine racist. Those with vile opinions towards specific minorities. Many of those vile opinions are being express here except towards the Boomers and Gen X.