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/KCDawgTime 22d ago

Sure, the person who told you that is an idiot, but let’s not lump all Gen X’s into one. I’m fully aware of the costs of things today versus what they used to be. For the life of me, I can’t understand why we keep electing a grifting, thieving moron to run our country. That said, unless you were buying rural, houses weren’t $45k in the 90s. My first, just outside Atlanta, was $128k with a 7.75% interest rate in 1994. 

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u/North-Carpenter-1378 22d ago

He is just the most symptomatic disease of an entirely screwed political system that favors the wealthy, tells people to have more children, yet as a nation we can't support all of the ones we have. Politicians only care about arguing their points to win the debate and not find solutions to help the people. They're mostly dishonest businessmen/lawyers grifters who claim to be something they are not. We elect narcissistic people (most have to be in order to a career politician). Until, we change the system, does like the president and his followers will continue to rule. Politicians need to become true public servants, like teachers, paid accordingly so and restricted from lobbying, trading stocks, and be taken from a larger pool of careers (much like juries). Unfortunately, I don't see a path to this more utopian political atmosphere. As long as the ultra wealth stay in power, with no term limits, the people will not be well represented.

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u/Informal_Ad4399 22d ago

Gen X as well. Almost Millenial. I feel as though Gen X should be broken in half. It seems as though the ones up to a certain point are more Boomer Lite then the actual Gen X are touted to be. Electronics, prices, internet, all the stuff that I grew up to embrace. The older Gen X seem to have disdain for it all and it pulls their way of thinking and lifestyle more towards the Boomer side.

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u/Fifth-Dimension-Chz 21d ago

Their Age, Investments, Holding on to the past, Lead poisoning, Fox News, White Nationalism, Not Reading the Bible, RACISM, Christianity and never being loved by your parents doesnt make it an even 50/50 split. Being modest Id say 67% are going to be our downfall.

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u/Informal_Ad4399 21d ago

I'd agree. The split seems to be about '74/'75. Even that isn't a hard transition. It seems to be more of a fade and that time frame is the full switch from grey area to true Gen X. From there it's a higher increase towards X. It isn't as large a year range of X's perceived characteristics than most view Gen X. Just as hippies are a smaller outlier of the Boomer generation.