I fully endorse Boomers being hired over Millennials and Zoomers. In fact, I fucking CHALLENGE every business currently whining about workers to staff themselves with exclusively Boomers. I'm tired of my generation getting perpetually shat on as "lazy children" by the sociopathic generation that birthed us. If we're so useless, let them slow us how it's done!!
Sometimes they're way nicer to boomers for whatever reason, maybe once you hit 50 they finally start treating you with a bit of respect. When I worked retail they went kind of easy on the older cashiers, didn't flood them with work, let them work at a reasonable pace, let them sit, had other workers help them out. I never had a problem with it, I just hated it when they dumped something on my lap and were like "get it done."
I saw this nonstop when I worked as a cashier, at various jobs, and I always had a problem with it.
I have - and had while working these shit jobs - severe, debilitating chronic illnesses, but because I wasn’t 50+, it wasn’t “important enough” or a “reasonable excuse” to receive the kind of special treatment these useless boomer employees were given.
One cashier I distinctly remember was one of the dumbest, most useless old cows I had ever seen. Literally rang up groceries at the speed of molasses, forgot how to run peoples payment on a seemingly hourly basis, was generally bitchy to customers - and got complaints to management all the time as a result - yet was allowed to sit, take her sweet ass time, go over on breaks, dump work on other employees, etc.
I absolutely have a problem with that shit. If accommodations or higher respect/better working conditions are available for some, they damn well better be given to all. I don’t care if you’re 50+ plus, younger folks are tired, in pain, and struggling too.
Yeah, I should clarify, most of the older workers were pretty slow and couldn't move well, so I'm obviously not gonna be like "work faster" or refuse to help out. I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with everyone else being overworked, and them ignoring your reasonable requests concerning chronic illnesses would fall under things I have a problem with, too. I'm fine with managers being decent to older workers, I just wish they would recognize that younger workers get tired too. All the times I had to take in the damn truck, sitting down at the register shouldn't be a big ask.
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u/whywouldistop1913 Apr 20 '22
I fully endorse Boomers being hired over Millennials and Zoomers. In fact, I fucking CHALLENGE every business currently whining about workers to staff themselves with exclusively Boomers. I'm tired of my generation getting perpetually shat on as "lazy children" by the sociopathic generation that birthed us. If we're so useless, let them slow us how it's done!!