Opinion | A Rude Awakening Is Ahead for Young Employees
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A recession will hand the bargaining power to their bosses.

Breaking news, there's this hot new trend in financial journalism called "zombie writing."

When it's a slow news day, the author writes about something that's literally always been the case and then adds "Millennials are doing X and that's new and scary".

Symptoms of "zombie writing" can include drooling, extreme fatigue, and a lack of financial income.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I don't think most people know how old Millennials are. I've seen people born in 1991 and 1986 calling people under 20 Millennials.

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It's strange. I don't remember people holding on to the idea that "Gen X = young" the way they're holding on to "Millennial = young." Maybe it just didn't stick in my craw the same way since I'm not Gen X.

      • booty [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It's definitely a phenomenon unique to millennials (at least of the generations alive right now). No idea what caused it though.

        • Deadend [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Refusal to admit that they are now grandparent aged and aren't doing so great themselves.

            • Deadend [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Millennials are 40s. The people who complain about them are 64 and about to retire with nothing

            • Spike [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              45 isn't actually that unreasonable to be a grandparent. You have kid when you're 21, your kid has a kid when they're 24 and you're a grandparent at 45

              • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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                2 years ago

                I mean I'm not saying that it doesn't happen; but also I suppose I would say that before 25 is probably not the wisest time to have kids.

                At least both my parents & my grandparents were older than that when they started their families.

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Probably because these generational terms have become heavily marketed. It's why Zoomer is also becoming more of a thing than it would have if this were forty years ago.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Even when gen x was a term I feel like it meant a specific type of aesthetic rather than an age group. It meant someone who wore doc martens and a flannel shirt around their waist and they're always smoking a cigarette in front of the 711.