Rich coming from a guy who owes his entire career to writers. I hate this smug piece of shit

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    That’s the core of boomer brainworms, they’re terminally stuck in the mentality that they’re never the “old people” and so they see anything that goes against their worldview is “the man keeping them down.” There’s zero self-awareness that they’re “The Man” now.

    • daisy
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      1 year ago

      I see this all the time in the business world when it comes to succession planning. One's refusal to face mortality becomes a refusal to train one's replacement, and more importantly, neglecting documenting how one does one's job. I just left a job after just a year where I was being trained to take over a retiring boomer's job, but she'd documented nothing at all for about 20 years, and yet expected me to do things exactly the way she had done them, no deviation, no questions answered. It was highly stressful. I was just burned out.

      I don't normally get involved in generational wars. Sorry, working class boomers reading this! No war but the class war! But those among your generational cohort who rose to management positions in the business world consistently display this pattern.

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        No war but class war. But as someone raised by shitty boomers, somethines you need to release a little generational anger, as a treat.