Just had a boomer with 40 years of experience throw me, a 1 year vet in the industry, under the bus to our boss because I ‘took too long’ to do something so he couldn’t finish his work, even though I tried coordinating the handoff to him 2 hours before the end of the day.
Same guy who loudly listens to right wing talk radio (Glenn beck and Megyn Kelly of all people) from across my desk. The day after the kidnapping of Maduro I made some comment about being woken up to news of an invasion and the guy somehow got super defensive about it not being an invasion and US just taking a bad guy out.
Like, I’m always polite and personable but I just want to go mask off. I’m not going to throw people under the bus, and hell, if I did, I’d still get fucked. In a reasonable world my boss would be like, ‘dude you are a grown man complaining about the most junior person on the team’
But this will likely result in me getting fired for undermining the performance of the company. Fucking ridiculous man.
This has happened in every job I had, including small business.
Are all the boomers this narcissistic? Genuinely think this is the trait that best describes that generation. They are on weapons grade distillations of their own farts, each and every single one of them talks about things/themselves as if they just railed 3 caterpillar lines of coke.
they used to be called the “Me generation”, and that probably lines up
Everything with those lot is all about “keeping up with the Joneses”.
They live vicariously through billionaires, and somehow see their own kids and struggling poor people as assholes they need to show who’s boss.
Bro, I just want my first adult job. You already proved to be more awesome than me. Can I please have a job and move out now?
They all desperately do not want the rest of us t have jobs because they’re such bootlicking cretin.
Unironically, generationism is the one opportunism that stands out as very tempting.
But it’s arguably not just boomers, I am sick of the idea that being an egomaniacal douchebag is somehow an endearing trait.
It’s one that has the most convincing arguments in its favor.