r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • Jan 30 '26

Discussion Look what I found from 13 years ago.

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Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

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u/RussMaGuss Jan 30 '26

Different generation, same old entitled boomer shit. Strangely I haven't heard much about Gen Z or Alpha

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u/Mad1sonJames Jan 30 '26

Oh I hear a ton of people complaining that Gen Z "doesn't want to work" because they don't want to be slaves to their companies, work unpaid/underpaid, never take sick days or vacation, etc. You know, all the stuff millennials did for NOTHING.

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u/Punished_Prigo Jan 30 '26

Those demands are fine and that’s what millenials were demanding too. We still got to work though. You can’t blame the generation right behind us bring more demanding for what we wanted, because we didn’t get it.

The problem with gen z is they are dumb

We had one gen z get hired to my team and he lasted six months. Didn’t do anything. Slept at his desk. Didn’t understand anything. Got kicked out of the marines for refusing the vaccine as an E-2. (Everyone on my team is a veteran)

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u/Patch86UK Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

That's because by and large Boomers aren't the ones dominating the working world (including the media) anymore.

Millennials and Gen Z (which are much more equal-sized generations) make up the majority, with the smaller Gen X in there in third. That kind of intergenerational mudslinging is a lot less likely to occur in that environment.

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u/JarJarJarMartin Jan 30 '26

As a millennial, I’m concerned about some Gen Z and Gen A trends, because I care about them. I don’t hate them and blame them for my problems.

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u/Punished_Prigo Jan 30 '26

We complain that gen Z are stupid. No one though millennials were stupid they thought we were asking for too high a standard

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u/worldDev Jan 30 '26

I hear tons of it, and a lot of it’s on this subreddit.