It’s interesting to see the generational differences

My parents are boomers

I left work early once because of a terrible headache and when I told my dad he said I should “tough it out for the sake of my job”

Why should I? The conditions I work in are a joke most days and I’m horribly underpaid, I can barely survive off my wages

I don’t owe them crap

They should feel lucky if I get a splinter and still decide to go in

They call us entitled and lazy all the time, but if they would suffer through even a mild inconvenience for the joke of a paycheck I get maybe it wasn’t due to their “work ethic”, maybe they were just suckers

But it’s more likely that a full time job with the state government used to actually be worth a damn back in their day, until they screwed all that up for us

Either way I wish they would shut up and listen to us for a change

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Roundandroundwego · 61-69

When I was six I watched a movie in the classroom about government jobs for good people who want to serve the community, but not as soldiers. We were told that we'd get to take tests as adults that placed us in civil service jobs if we studied in school. By 1978 we were told that we might not get a civil service job without a Bachelor's degree. Then they just stopped the testing in bit. No fair deals.
The real experience I have as a boomer is so hated that it might as well never be heard about. Today's adults have no clarity and no grip on reality and absolutely hate us for knowing what we know as boomers. No anti war hippies coming to save you this time! Gahead. Pocalypse yerselves real good.