Why We Hate Millennials

z31maniac said:

I looked up another article and found this little gem (From March 2018)

"In establishing these guidelines, it also looks like the “Xennial” has been wiped from existence. This is a micro-generation that encompassed those born between 1977 and 1983—they identified themselves as people who grew up in a pre-digital world and later adapted to today’s technology. If this includes you, you’re now either a late-term Gen X’er or a grizzled veteran of the Millennial clan."

Being that I was born in 1982, I don't really think I can be lumped in with someone that was possibly 7 years old, when I was graduating college.

And by another standard in the article someone were calling Millenials 1982-2004.......so someone that was 1 year old when I graduated college has any similar life experience? That person would be 15 now as I approach 40.

 

https://mentalfloss.com/article/533632/new-guidelines-redefine-birth-years-millennials-gen-x-and-post-millennials

I always defined myself ('83) as a 'floppy disk millenial' as opposed to an iphone millenial.

Perhaps an 'internet' or 'america online' millenial would be a better description.  Internet access defined a lot of my childhood.  

For millenials born later, the smartphone defined theirs.

I think a lot of the generational hate is driven by people hoping to make money off of it.

I also think that any friction is more of a "different point of life" gap than an actual generational gap, which is why it pops up every generation. Living life when you're single, full of energy, child-free, in debt and just trying to still figure life out is a lot different than when you've hopefully got that sorted out.

ProDarwin said:

z31maniac said:

I looked up another article and found this little gem (From March 2018)

"In establishing these guidelines, it also looks like the “Xennial” has been wiped from existence. This is a micro-generation that encompassed those born between 1977 and 1983—they identified themselves as people who grew up in a pre-digital world and later adapted to today’s technology. If this includes you, you’re now either a late-term Gen X’er or a grizzled veteran of the Millennial clan."

Being that I was born in 1982, I don't really think I can be lumped in with someone that was possibly 7 years old, when I was graduating college.

And by another standard in the article someone were calling Millenials 1982-2004.......so someone that was 1 year old when I graduated college has any similar life experience? That person would be 15 now as I approach 40.

 

https://mentalfloss.com/article/533632/new-guidelines-redefine-birth-years-millennials-gen-x-and-post-millennials

I always defined myself ('83) as a 'floppy disk millenial' as opposed to an iphone millenial.

 

Perhaps an 'internet' or 'america online' millenial would be a better description.  Internet access defined a lot of my childhood.  

For millenials born later, the smartphone defined theirs.

Same here. I didn't have a cell phone until college. But I do remember playing Oregon Trail when I was in I guess most would call middle-school, 6th grade and the like. 

I do remember us getting our first home computer and using AOL. So slow and so little content. 

z31maniac said:

ProDarwin said:

z31maniac said:

I looked up another article and found this little gem (From March 2018)

"In establishing these guidelines, it also looks like the “Xennial” has been wiped from existence. This is a micro-generation that encompassed those born between 1977 and 1983—they identified themselves as people who grew up in a pre-digital world and later adapted to today’s technology. If this includes you, you’re now either a late-term Gen X’er or a grizzled veteran of the Millennial clan."

Being that I was born in 1982, I don't really think I can be lumped in with someone that was possibly 7 years old, when I was graduating college.

And by another standard in the article someone were calling Millenials 1982-2004.......so someone that was 1 year old when I graduated college has any similar life experience? That person would be 15 now as I approach 40.

 

https://mentalfloss.com/article/533632/new-guidelines-redefine-birth-years-millennials-gen-x-and-post-millennials

I always defined myself ('83) as a 'floppy disk millenial' as opposed to an iphone millenial.

 

Perhaps an 'internet' or 'america online' millenial would be a better description.  Internet access defined a lot of my childhood.  

For millenials born later, the smartphone defined theirs.

Same here. I didn't have a cell phone until college. But I do remember playing Oregon Trail when I was in I guess most would call middle-school, 6th grade and the like. 

I do remember us getting our first home computer and using AOL. So slow and so little content. 

And to muddy waters further, I'm only 29, but didn't have a cell phone until my Sr. year of high school with so little minutes/texts that it wasn't much different than the pay phone. Didn't have a smart phone until 2015. We did have DSL by 2004 though.

Damn you guys are amazing and you don't even know it. Sitting on a panel this evening as the token millennial representing young professionals and you guys have been giving me lots of good talking points.

It’s a non-issue. Every generation has E36 M3 on the generation that follows it, but somehow people think this is a new thing. 

Cause when they open their mouths, annoying noises come out. Same reason I hate every generation. 

There is also a trend for "the youngins'" blaming Baby Boomers for getting everything cheap and effectively raping the country and world while they are left with the spoils.

Of course, as with most of these wildly over generalized arguments (of which "generations" is one) they tend to focus only on information that supports their intended conclusion and ignore those that don't (bad science).  E.g. Some boomers ended up fighting in wars, the economy of the 80's was crap, cold war (end of the world) etc. etc.

Strangely enough, there also seems to be a trend to refer to people over 40 as "boomers", which of course is entirely incorrect.  The very end of the "boomers" are at least 55.

Meh.. Whatever...

(Last of Gen X here).

I am not a Millenial. I am Generation Y, as in Why am I here?

Being a boomer I was telling my teenager that we were raised by the WWII generation that majorly kicked our butts.  Some days I too believe the crap I spew.  

So what generations are from what years. Because I remember a Gen Y being in there that disappeared at some point. There was a Gen Z or something. Now all those are just Millenials.

Per the years discussed in the video I'm a tail end Millenial, which means I don't have long to wait until I get to blame all my problems on the generation behind me, and complain about them being lazy and directionless. Definitely looking forward to it.

Daylan C said:

So what generations are from what years. Because I remember a Gen Y being in there that disappeared at some point. There was a Gen Z or something. Now all those are just Millenials.

Per the years discussed in the video I'm a tail end Millenial, which means I don't have long to wait until I get to blame all my problems on the generation behind me, and complain about them being lazy and directionless. Definitely looking forward to it.

Check out the link I shared, it's been quoted in a few more posts. It has some breakdowns from different groups/people.

I'm starting a new generation, Generation FU. Who's coming with me? 

In reply to Appleseed :

berkeley yea, berkeley You!

In reply to Appleseed :

I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Appleseed said:

I'm starting a new generation, Generation FU. Who's coming with me? 

Am I permitted into this club or must I remain outside the boundaries of your lawn?

Being born in 1985, I feel too old to be a millennial but too young to be from Gen X. I was a kid when the X Games came along, is that how Gen X works? Regardless, I am angry that previous generations ruined everything for us and would like to try and reverse that trend for the next generation, but not at the expense of having fun. Meaning, I'm in favor of saving the planet and the environment, but I still wanna do sick burnouts and waste the tires on my dinosaur-powered car. I am disgusted by the child labor and pollution of developing countries that fuel the construction of the extremely high-tech tiny computers inside everything we own, but I'm not prepared to give up my smartphone.

Shucks. I'm just as bad as everyone else, I guess.

aircooled said:

 

The very end of the "boomers" are at least 55.

Well, almost.   

My 55th birthday is at the end of November, in case you'd like to get off my lawn as a present.

Datsun310Guy said:

Being a boomer I was telling my teenager that we were raised by the WWII generation that majorly kicked our butts.  Some days I too believe the crap I spew.  

My son is being raised by a millennial who has been to "war". The never ending war lol

Virtually every GI that served in Iraq and Afghanistan was a Gen Xer or millennial.

Don't think the slacker and snowflake labels are really fair or accurate.

In reply to Wil:

“Snowflake” is basically the N-word for boomers. 

Daylan C said:

Appleseed said:

I'm starting a new generation, Generation FU. Who's coming with me? 

Am I permitted into this club or must I remain outside the boundaries of your lawn?

No sweat. FU has no lawn.

"VP of Insights" sounds like the title of a guy who drops unrealistic projects off to engineering without adequate resources and when questioned gets on a soapbox about how negativity is bad and we are a company of "do-ers" 

Until recently I didn't even know I was a millennial, maybe it's just because I was raised by very old fashioned parents. I was born in 87 and didn't have my first computer until I was 19, first cell phone when I was 17. Turns out there's plenty of millennials like me, they just aren't the ones everyone likes too make fun of.