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.

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

    I've had coworkers as young as 20 try to make fun of who they called Millennials, but they seemed to mean people even younger than them. At this point I think the term just means any young adult who exhibits qualities the user of the word finds annoying, like being non-binary or vegan or being disinterested in climbing a career ladder.

    I tried saying to one of them that I'm a millennial, and he didn't know what I meant by just my age alone, but he eventually agreed with me once I said I'm vegan. Like "Oh, yeah now I can see it"