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Boomers are insufferable when it comes to basically anything involving employment.

I'm gonna rant.

Their misplaced loyalty or what I would call "cuckholdery" to their employers is... pathetic. Every employee creates some amount of surplus value which their employer syphons off and calls profit. This is the fundamentals of everything. To he grateful or whatever to the person who steals from you day after day is... well, it's cuckholdery. No better word for it, imo.

During "their day," most of them are now retired or nearing retirement very soon, (I'm assuming we are discussing actual boomers ie people in that broad generation from like 1945-1965 or whatever) you could feasibly get a job in 1970, work for 30 or 40 years and retire in 2000 or 2010 with a decent pension. They see staying at a job for decades as normal because it was for them, and maybe it could be normal, but capitalists have made it not the case.

I also generally hate that people in their 60s+ have apparently no fucking concept of inflation and wages and the fact that they have not kept up at all. I've legit heard so many boomers and gen Xers whine, in earnest, about "kids demanding $15/hr!" and how ridiculous it is. It's like, bro. If you make $15/hr almost anywhere in the country, you have to work full time and split bills with someone else to kinda sorta make it and live anything close to a normal life. Like a life where you can afford a week or two off a year to travel somewhere or buy a new phone every couple years or eat out a few times a month. Not exactly luxuries, but boomers act like if you have a cell phone you should stfu and be grateful. As if mobile phones didn't become essentially mandatory in the last decade. At least the ability to receive calls and texts. You can go without, but again, achieving "normal" is the minimum, imo. And normal at this point means having a phone. Sorry, boomers!

And speaking of inflation, they have no idea how much housing costs relative to wages. Sorry, it Uncle Bob, it isn't 1967 anymore and houses aren't $20000 when you make $10000 a year. I'm exaggerating? Google it. MFers could fully pay off a HOUSE in maybe 10 years. That's crazy. That's insane. That's probably how "it should be" if a country insists on treating housing as a commodity. Instead they slowly stretched prices up to force 30 year mortgages and that's the norm for a few decades now.

Btw, job resumes are bullshit. People don't think about them much because it seems common sense. They kinda are, but the bullshit part isn't having your contact info and a few job titles you held in the past. That's basically fine. Even putting numbers for coworkers or ex-bosses is probably fine to verify people did something. The problem is... the whole "other shit" part of it. How it needs to be formatted in way to tingle the brain of a moron in HR (not sorry HR people- you know what you are. I rip my brother's HR ass all the time). How people "care" or it's considered "bad" to take a year off or even years off. Like how you have to explain that. W H Y? Why does any human get to ask and why does anyone have to feel compelled to answer that question? "Because this system sucks donkey cocks and I took a year to chill at my parents and paid them by cutting the grass and cleaning up dog shit. Why the fuck do you care, you're gonna make as much off me whether I slaved away for that year or not."

Resumes are absolutely the result of petty-tyrants in HR having far too much influence and I don't give a shit what anyone says.

Fuck this shit.