You are a generation of rats. You all look like snitches and all of you smell terrible. Everything that you believe to be a virtue in yourselves is actually a fault and you cannot seem to see it. You talk loudly in public and believe your every vapid thought has value. You have never done anything to merit respect from anyone and you are incapable of the smallest act of courtesy. You are impossibly rude. You are ignorant. You are an entitled shit. -Yes, I Mean You. Especially You.
This article appears in Apr 17-23, 2014.
Easy on the projection, OP.
lol bastard fish
This has to be about hipsters, it never stops.
Odds are very good that OP spends a lot of time on the 52.
Same was probably said about your generation when you were young too OP, just take off those rose coloured glasses. Give them time to grow and mature into responsible adults, even I was able to!
3 or 4 new bitches all involving smell or stench, I detect a trend.
wait for the really warm weather, oy vey
Baby boomers love to label the younger generations “entitled”. They like to think that they were not entitled. And I agree.
But they didn’t need to be entitled – everything was handed to them on a very precious silver platter, paid for by their parents sacrifices, and mortgaged by their offspring.
It must be easy not to want anything when you had it all;
– Cheap (almost free) education, check.
– Jobs after graduation, check.
– jobs without graduation, check.
– affordable housing, check.
– relatively high purchasing power, check.
– pensions, check.
– health care, check.
Gee, I wonder why they didn’t complain. Oh wait…they’re complaining now.
Jhey, I placed a tick by all 7 of your points, I’m a boomer, please be a good little skiv and run me a bath, turn down my sheets, peel me a grape and try not to make too much noise touching your forelock, assuming you’re not a fucking hipster, cos they don’t have forelocks.
Basil,
I have a much longer list, but it would require 8 issues of the coast to publish.
I’m not a hipster, but I’m sporting some stubble and I have Blundstones, so I might be on the verge of being a hipster. Proceed with caution.
My parents are boomers, and they’re the first to admit they were the luckiest generation, while simultaneously complaining about our entitlement. It’s fascinating really.
That’s why, Ivanski, when presented with options you DON’T TAKE THE FUCKING 52.
I wait 30 extra minutes coming home just so I don’t have to take that little slice of hell on wheels.
“My parents are boomers, and they’re the first to admit they were the luckiest generation, while simultaneously complaining about our entitlement. It’s fascinating really.”
Yup. Mine, too.
But really, what did boomers expect out of their kids? Boomers grew up with everything handed to them, took all the jobs, didn’t save enough money to retire so they’re going to work until they fucking drop dead and OH HAY are shocked as shit when their kids are ‘entitled’ and can’t get a fucking permanent job. Of course we’re going to be pissed the fuck off that we’re in our 30s and the only work we can get is lousy contract work with no benefits and low pay.
FUCKING RETIRE, ALREADY.
History will be harsh on the boomers…
In the grand scheme of things, every generation has one goal; improve the quality of life for your offspring. It’s essentially the campground rule. At the very least, don’t make it worst.
Funny, they were always preaching the campground rule, but they don’t seem to follow their own advice.
IMHO, all this “entitlement” posturing is merely to alleviate their guilt. Their big pensions paid for by me and mine – they have to be aware of the damage they’ve inflicted (at some level?)
But their time isn’t over – they can still make changes, fix some of their mistakes.
That being said, I’m not sure our generation will end up doing any better…
every generation that precedes is the worst and every generation that follows hates them. so what.
here’s a phrase from my generation that you can have for free. ‘don’t trust anyone over 30’
its starts at age 2 when you howl ME DO!! when your mom tries to put on your shoes, carries on at 5 when you want to walk to school by yourself ME DO! and at 12 when you want to smoke or put on makeup ME DO! and at 16 to drive the car ME DO! and 18 when you want to hitch hike across the middle east with a friend ME DO! and at 23 when you want to shoulder a 50K debt for a big truck ME DO! and at 35 when you want to srat up your own internet business ME DO! and at 45 when you want to chuck everything and paint in tahiti before you get old, and at 55 when you are caring for your senile parents and you have to wrestle them to the bed so you can change their diapers ME DO! and at 85 when you want to go for a walk and some snitty little thing is pushing you back in your wheelchair and strapping you down. ME DO!
someone here said ‘its natural for the old to retire gracefully’. what a stupid thing to say. that is not how nature works. it’s natural for the young to push and howl and scream and thrash around against anything or anyone above them, and its natural for the older ones to restrain, confine the younger ones until they are capable of ME DO. after that, its who wins the battle to survive. the young lions can challenge the old ones, but will probably get their asses nipped the first 20 times. eventually, the old lion loses the fight and then buggers off to die. you do NOT see an old lion packing up his suitcase and making tracks for jamaica.
go watch a nature program. you are not going to get anything by sitting there and whining. fight (work) for it.
Good dog Molly,
“fight (work) for it.” – you mean like the boomers didn’t have to do? That’s rich.
We’ve been fighting since day one – or at least I have. Fighting against increasing cost of university, decreasing salaries, no pension plan, higher cost of living, zero job security, etc. And I don’t have anything to show for it!
If you don’t think it’s a fight for us, then you’re just too old : )
That’s the thing, Jhey — unless they worked in the public sector, chances ARE they have very little pension earnings and are relying on CPP and OAP, which doesn’t pay enough to allow them to keep up with the lifestyle they’ve become accustomed to. And they’re likely still carrying a buttload of consumer debt from all that shit they OMG HAD TO BUY instead of putting that money away for retirement.
So, as you point out, they rag on the younger generation who grew up in a whirlwind of boomer entitlement, hypocritically, in order to alleviate their own guilt.
And gen y gets to suffer.
No wonder we’re pissed off and ‘entitled.’
Also: I love it when boomers try to defend themselves when they get called out on how easy they’ve had it.
When a boomer graduated high school, yes HIGH SCHOOL, they were handed a good paying job. When a boomer turned 30, most likely, they had a stable career and a house and were building equity. They could also, most likely, afford to have 2+ children.
When a gen y-er graduated UNIVERSITY (and even with graduate degrees), they had to scrape and scrounge for temporary contract work just so they can rent a shitty apartment from a slum landlord and feed themselves kraft dinner and pay the minimum payment on their student loans. And that’s only IF they can afford to move out of their parents’ place. And don’t even THINK about getting sick, because when you work contracts, you don’t get sick time. And you’ll probably get fired, too, because OH HAY contract work provides ZERO job stability. Plus, kids? Forget about it — unless you want them to starve.
So please save the “oh we worked hard and deserve all the shit we have” crap. Y’all got everything handed to you like greedy little rodents and instead of passing along the things you were handed, you hold onto them like greedy little rodents and blame the next generation in order to justify being greedy little rodents.
Fucking. Spare. Me.
what kind of fantasy world are you thinking about kitty? where you there?
when i finished high school was there someone waiting at the door with a job? if so they were invisible. you burned shoe leather getting a job then because you had to apply in PERSON, dressed up and chipper. there was no internet so you couldn’t lounge about in pyjamas with a latte while clicking. and because it was the age of boomers, there were millions of us applying for jobs in industries that were not yet big enough to absorb us. literally we were the pig in the python. so guess what millions of us did?
we opted out. lived on communes, 10 to an apartment. lived on rice and beans and home grown dope. there were TOO MANY of us for the available jobs. do the friggin math. it’s LOGIC. when you have a huge glut of people all moving into the job market at the same time there will NOT be enough jobs. it was exactly the OPPOSITE of what you believe.
so many of my generation spent years not working they had to come up with government work projects to get them off the friggin streets. eventually the pig in the python generated enough ‘demand’ to expand the industries but it took decades.
the ‘supply’ half of the equation always lagged behind. there weren’t enough elementary schools when ‘we’ started school, cities set up classes in legions and halls and those horrible atco trailers.
this is not ‘defence’ for my current position in life. that i cover by simply being capable at what i do. when i can no longer do it better than anyone else i will lose it. thats survival of the fittest, and it makes sense whether one is a lion or a manager.
but i take issue with people making cloth out of thin air. it wasn’t all rosy and easy and a life of riley ‘back then’. it just wasn’t. and life isn’t all rosy and easy if you are natually blonde, or white, or 6 feet tall, or live in california, or have a hyphenated last name, or make 99 out of a 100 baskets, or whatever one thinks is better or more wonderful about SOMEONE ELSE”s life.
life YOUR OWN life people. don’t get so fixated on what you think other people have or get or got or do. like jhey with the hipsters and waitresses. christ man. live your own life.
Well at least my boomer parents are aware of their destruction. Their excuse is that they didn’t know any better and thought the gravy train would continue forever.
GDM,
I’m sorry, but your experience does not match the typical baby boomer experience. I’m not doubting yours, just stating that most boomers had good jobs out of high school, and even better ones out of university – and university was cheap, and homes were cheap, etc. Even most boomers can agree to this. It’s not their fault, their parents worked hard to set this up. They were fortunate, and that’s a good thing. It’s what they did once they started working that messed up everything.
Take all your struggles and multiply by ten, and you have what we’re dealing with. Not to mention that we’ll be paying your debts for another 50 years.
Thanks!
Snitches?
http://www.businessinsider.com/younger-gen…
I beg to differ, GDM. There is anicdotal evidence and then there is numerical proof. I like numbers.
HAHAHA. Ok. ALL my friends had boomer parents and guess what? ALL of them had decent paying jobs out of high school. In fact, they managed to get these jobs before the age of 20. If you tried finding a job out of university these days, or even WITH experience, it’s hard as hell. Yes, you had to show up with a resume, but at least your chances of finding something was possible. A good chunk of my friends who are highly educated and graduated 5+ years ago are STILL looking for permanent work.
I loves ya, Molly, but you’re very disconnected with the reality those in their 20s and early-mid 30s are facing these days.
Jhey – my parents are pretty hip to the realities of the situation, too. My now retired father regularly talks about how easy it was for him to fall into a high paying (unionized) job simply by dropping off a resume. He was making more than today’s average family salary over 15 years ago AND he only had a GED. He dropped out in grade 10 to travel the world as a musician and although given the chance to go to university (as well as Westpoint), decided it wasn’t for him and came back to Canada.
My mom also ended up with a steady, almost 40-year career simply because she took a typing class in high school and moved up. She applied for one job when she was 19, got it and has been working her way up ever since.
Meanwhile, I don’t know HOW many applications I’ve submitted (online and in person) that I didn’t so much as get an interview because there are just too many people applying. I’m lucky I have a job right now, but with no upward mobility because no one is retiring, all there is out there for those in their 20s and 30s, primarily is temp and contract work. Or slinging coffee at starbucks. And I’m really sure boomers would’ve been hip to slinging coffee back in their day.
*wouldn’t’ve been hip to slinging coffee back in their day
Oh and not to mention you could get by with one salary. Unless your spouse is making mucho bucks and/or you live in the country, it’s pretty much impossible to live in a one-income household these days.
I think a lot of boomers have constructed an alternate reality to alleviate their guilt. I don’t blame them either. It’s heavy stuff.
And to be clear, we should not blame the boomers for having everything handed to them. Their parents – a generation I greatly admire – made a lot of sacrifices to provide their children with a better life. It’s just unfortunate that their children didn’t feel the same about us. Granted, circumstances were different.
I work 45-50 hours a week, no overtime pay, barely get buy, have staggering debts (8 years of university) rent a shitty apartment and work in an industry filled with old boomers approaching their 70s pulling big salaries to support their lifestyle (multiple homes, world travels, expensive restaurants, etc.)
I once did the math, and an entry level job in my field in 1970 started at almost 2.5 times my salary (corrected for inflation) – and of course the purchasing power was much greater. Not to mention they didn’t have the overbearing education debt.
How am I spoiled again? Is it because I have a laptop or smart device?
“get buy” = get by.
Yeah pretty much everything you said, Jhey is spot on ^^
The thing is many boomers CAN’T retire because they used all their disposable income to buy crap and didn’t pay much attention to saving for retirement. Did our grandparents go hog wild with multiple credit cards? When did these ‘don’t pay a cent’ events come into play? Our grandparents saved and bought things they could afford then and there! But to boomers: why wait when you can HAVE IT NOW?
We may have smart phones and laptops, but boomers had VCRs and colour tv and cable in their bedrooms. a VCR and colour TV in the 80s, with inflation, is more expensive than smart phones and laptops are today.
They also put our country into so much debt that our children and grandchildren will be paying it off.
For us, it’s a matter of survival and most of us have a hard time doing so with the cost of living, student debt (because now post secondary is required for a job that doesn’t involve the words ‘minimum’ and ‘wage’) and shitty shitty job prospects. If I look at where MY parents and my friends’ parents and family members who are boomers were when they were my age, versus where my peers and I are, it’s depressing. DEPRESSING. Especially since we did everything we were told to do: stay in school, study hard, work hard, and for what? A big fat nothing, that’s what.
It’s just a very short sighted generation I suppose. Everything was RIGHT NOW. Great. You got it. Got it all.
Add to the fact that they believed in the mythical “unlimited resource” theory.
Yeah, well how many of them are overweight and look at the state of the environment. ^^
The accountant at one of my previous place of employment kept asking me why I didn’t have a house yet. I was 28 at the time, accountant was 60. She wrote my pay cheques, and still couldn’t put 2 and 2 together.
Unreal
Ohhh don’t even get me started on baby boomers not retiring!
A few years ago, I originally had an opportunity to take over a super sweet paying permanent position (I was making $2/hour over min wage at a temp position at the time) once the boomer who was in that position retired. Retirement time came around and the old bat decided to stay for another 5 fucking years! No, not because she couldn’t afford to retire, she just loooooved her job so much and thought she’d be bored not working! Grrrr!!
….so I moved out west instead.
I would’ve told her to mind her own fucking business, Jhey.
Maybe when she bought her house back in the olden days she could get a three bedroom two level house for $5k and a tit flash, but these days, average house price is $400k. Now how’s someone supposed to afford THAT on $14 an hour?
FFS.
She was a nice lady, just showed how disconnected some boomers can be. They seem to think that our money has the same purchasing power as theirs had. I’m always getting lectured by boomers about “saving” – I would love to save if I had anything to save after I pay my student loans (there are many).
Again, facing their actions would cause a lot of guilt. It’s easier to live in denial than make a small effort to fix their mess.
Speaking as a very contented, early retired boomer, I’d like to offer this suggestion:
If life is so tough and unfulfilling, take out a loan or ask your parents for the money, buy a single ticket to Switzerland and check in and permanently out at the Dignitas snuff spa.
Basil,
Typical boomer.
lol
Here’s some light reading material on topic;
http://www.quickmeme.com/Old-Economy-Steve…
Always a favorite of mine.
So, Baz, because your generational cohort had it easy and essentially destroyed the economy and environment, us gen y-ers should go kill ourselves?
Sounds like a solid plan.
Though, who’s going to wipe your wrinkly old ass when the time comes if all us youngins off ourselves?
Breakfast,
Basil’s attitude makes perfect sense, being a boomer and all. I wouldn’t expect otherwise.
why the fuck would I fly half the way around the world when I can get helium balloons filled at the dollar store?
Hell, let’s make it practically free and just keep drinking water until you pass out and croak.
Way less messy that most methods the inconsiderate suiciders use these days.
It’s always a treat waking up to the day knowing you’re worth way more dead than alive.
PK and Jhey, there are always lackeys who need money to wipe my arse, a goodly portion are the ones who graduated with an arts degree, or a NSCAD graduate.
If they want to off themselves make sure their organs are harvested before the big sleep.
^^^ dibs on their livers – i had too much fun with mine and broke it
Ahh typical boomers.
Entitled when they were younger, entitled throughout their working lives, and even more entitled when they retire. Their only recourse is to accuse the younger generations of the same without any substantial arguments.
“Look at them kids with their smart phones! If they didn’t buy that, surely they could afford a mortgage and have some savings”
Lets face it, You climbed the ladder and kicked it down once you got to the top. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, made your kids pay for the damage done when the ladder fell down and crashed onto everything you held dear.
As people, you might be great. I love lots of boomers. But as a generation…you failed according to most sensible metrics (campground rule anyone?)
J, hey.
Entitled? Fuck you.
My dad was a tradesman, my mother a ‘housewife’ – they had fuck all money with four kids to raise in a two bedroom prefab. I went to work at 18 years old, left home at 19 and paid my way through uni by enduring 14 hour days between studies and working in an office. If the jobs were there, you still had to work your arse off, bosses weren’t sent to sensitivity courses back them as they are today. Everything I have I earned with my own brow sweat so you can stick your finger up your arse and slowly rotate on your elbow.
No matter what your fucked up head believes, jobs were not handed out like candy. How do I know? I was fucking there.
It seems that you’re simply jealous of the time the boomers grew up in, like we had a choice in the matter. Not all of us bow to the god of crass commercialism and symbols of wealth.
Yet another anecdote. I don’t doubt your story.
But the numbers don’t lie about the general trends. Even my boomer parents can see that. What gives YOU the right to project your situation on a larger trend that’s supported by hard facts, such as cost of living, purchasing power, cost of school, etc?
More denial won’t fix the mess, T.T. I know it’s hard to believe, but everything is not about you as an individual.
Clearly, we’re talking about generational trends when we use the term boomers. Not you personally.
it’s ME ME ME with you old farts. lol
Since my entire generation has been smeared by dumb fuckers like you, good luck with the world. It isn’t all about me, it’s about the thousands of people my age I interacted with over 40 years who didn’t have the smell or entitlement of privilege. Your broad brush strokes are rather sad. Quote all the stats you want, they are meaningless in the face of real life.
I think for me, it’s the issue that jobs were much more plentiful than they are now and we have a generation that were able to find jobs bitching that all us gen y-ers are entitled little shits.
We’re not entitled, we just worked hard getting an education and would like the same opportunities our parents had — often with less education and experience.
And I think we have every right to be pissed off at the financial mess you’ve left us with — debt OUR children and grandchildren, let alone ourselves, will be paying down, and a crappy ass environment.
Like I said: yes, we have smart phones and mobile internet (and INTERNET for that matter), but boomers are welcome to take advantage of that technology, and many boomers had the technology of their day (vcrs, for example, which, with inflation were more expensive back then than buying a smart phone is today).
I’m just tired of getting dumped on as a generation when things are certainly pretty bleak in comparison to back in the 70s and 80s. Ever wonder why we’re all staying in school until we’re 30 and why we’re all moving back home? We can’t find jobs — not because we’re inept or lazy or stupid: because THERE ARE NONE. The job market is saturated because boomers aren’t retiring like we were told a decade ago they would start to do by now. So there’s no upward mobility, meaning those of us who are entering the workforce have a snowball’s chance in hell at getting a job out of the gate.
Yes, boomers worked hard at their jobs, I’m not denying that, but at least you guys were ABLE to find something when you went looking.
I read a study once that says gen y-ers actually work very hard, but aren’t given any credit because everyone sees us as out of work moochers who suck off their parents’ tit until they’re 40. Ever wonder WHY? Because we can’t get a damn job that pays enough to live.
THAT’s my problem with boomers.
T.T.
I’m sorry, but you did nothing as a generation to try to stop the bleeding; environment, economy, job market. You name it. I’m not really sure if you had many options, because I wasn’t there.
I’m sure you and your friends all worked hard. My parents worked hard. That’s not the point.
But to call the gen-x and gen-y entitled is hypocrisy at its best. I have to work 50 hours a week – with no overtime pay – just to rent an apartment and pay loans that I took for university – and no it wasn’t a useless arts degree.
And for the record, I’m not sure we’ll do any better.
J, hey.
The boomers kind of remind me of the wallstreet bankers after the 08 crash.
In the face of mountains of evidence, they still maintain it’s not their fault.
Ummm…stats ARE a reflection of real life. The verdict is in, gen Y is the first generation to be worse off than their parents in many generations. 1 persons story combined with 10,000 of their friends stories is only a drop in the bucket for an entire generation. This is a world wide thing and all of Nova Scotia, let alone Halifax a surrounding area, cannot be considered even a full percentage point of “boomers”, making your anecdotal evidence/experience moot.
I’m not even gen Y and I can see shit is pretty bleak. I’m not a boomer either. My sister has 2 degrees and a Phd and works in a microbrewery, FFS!!! 12 years of school and a 125, 000 dollar scholarship later, and her dumbass brother, the redneck truck driver, makes double what she does. Booourns to that shit!!!!!!
SH,
Agreed. It’s not really about blaming either, but rather, coming to terms with the general trends and trying fix the problem moving forward. I want to leave my (potential) children with a better world. That’s the end goal isn’t it?
But when I hear them calling us entitled – the same people that were handed everything – it irks me to no end.
We have to work twice as much for half as much. How the hell did that happen? And how does that equal entitlement?
Oh right, our smart phones.
We can thank your generation for trivializing everything in less than 140 characters.
And fucking ‘selfies’ – you could have spared the world that.
Right.
We’ll take the blame for selfies.
You take ruining the world.
Lol.
Ok.
We’ll take credit for selfies.
You take ruining the world.
lol.
This is me and three of my friends reminiscing about the good old days.
http://youtu.be/Xe1a1wHxTyo
Huh, I was so expecting that video to be of Basil and his buddies, hanging out in front of the Legion waiting for it to open, so they can claim their seats at the liars table and swap stories about bad neighbors, taxes, the NDP and Muslims.
^^^Legions are on the endangered species list.
Who needs a Legion to do that?
Wouldn’t it suck ass if you lived next door to a Dipshit M.L.A. named Iqbal?
“Gotdangit, I pay enough taxes. Why the frig should I have to listen to all that Gotdang ululating!”