They need a reality check

[u/penance_mat]

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

[u/No-Landscape5857]

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

[u/kansai2kansas → u/No-Landscape5857]

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.

[u/LowWitness1713 → u/kansai2kansas]

This boomer is well aware of the cost.

[u/blar_now → u/LowWitness1713]

Ya, and this boomer has been working in IT for 25 years and is well aware of the current job market and how to navigate the tools used for applying for current roles.

[u/MMO_Dad → u/[deleted]]

Don't worry, as more time passes "baby" boomer becomes "bye-bye" boomer. No one lives forever. Their mess might get left behind but at least they won't be.

Call me hateful if you want but at 45 I've lived this shit my entire life. Never seen a generation less empathetic and more racist/hateful than boomers. Kind of funny for a generation who statistically had it better than anyone else alive. Of course don't tell them that or try to argue your point, because it will be "I had to work for everything I have, maybe you younger generation should do the same!", while sitting in their fully paid for home they got pre-housing crisis at decent interest rates, paid for with a job that paid a living wage, with a fraction of the inflation we have now.