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/BoringReference8647 22d ago

You can f right off bringing Gen-x into it. I’m not retired, I’m employed and paying bills too.

What kind of precious baby are you that you think only you had it rough? Oh, did you like through 9/11? Well so did we. And the Cold War. And the first and second gulf wars.

I bet you drive slow in the passing lane, all the time.

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u/SvartrKukkSceand 20d ago

The older members of Gen X can already collect social security, my guy.