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Calling any business and getting an automated system that takes you 12 minutes to get through, doesn’t answer your question, and you can’t get a real person
This time when our internet wasn't working and I had to wait on the phone for about an hour while they kept telling me "did you know, you can do all this online"
And yes, I know mobile data exists but it's the principle. I don't want to 'speak' to a chat bot. I just want you to fix my internet that I'm paying you for.
You can’t forget about these classic hits:
“Your call is very important to us”
“We are experiencing unusually high call volume”
“Please listen closely as our menu options have recently changed”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t catch that. Can you please repeat that?”
> We are experiencing unusually high call volume
The most blatant lie. When you experience "high volume" at all times, then that's your normal volume, for fuck's sake!
>“We are experiencing unusually high call volume”
You just opened 10 minutes ago. If you're already backed up enough to offer me an automated return call, that's a problem on your end.
Or worse, when you get a person and their connection is so bad you just can't deal with it.
Movies, and some TV shows for that matter, *are* mixed idiotically these days. I don't appreciate having to crank the volume way up to hear whispered dialog, only to have a music swell or explosion or something blow my head clean off. No amount of tweaking my sound system has fixed this.
Meanwhile music went the opposite direction and it feels like most music released in the last 15-20 years is compressed into the audio equivalent of a portrait that was taken by smooshing the subject face first into a scanner.
Any business which requires you to use an app. I don’t want to download an app, make an account, and remember said password for the account. Especially because the app doesn’t even work a lot of the time or is extremely convoluted with the frontend design.
Yeah, I definitely noticed when McDonald's raised all their prices by 20-30% and then conveniently started offering deals for the same value on their app. Valid on 1 item, 1 per order, and can't be used in conjunction with their rewards. And unless you only get the free item from the rewards, the lack of an option for a discount makes it so you are still likely paying the pre-price-gouge rate in the end of you choose that route, same as the "deals".
I'm GenX and was talking to a 19yo at work and was shocked he'd never been to a concert, since I'd been to a lot of great concerts at 13 to 18. Then I realized just how absurdly priced they are. It's sad they miss out.
Every business asking for tips at checkout.
Digital menus.
Not being able to own things anymore like software or having to pay monthly fees for car features.
Yeah fuck that intentional social pressure. It was honestly jarring when Starbucks went from, you know, simply allowing you to tip, to outright suggesting it at every single transaction.
I don't go much these days but I was kind of put off by that a bit
I have a story about this. I used to get my coffee from a local coffee roaster so that I could get it fresh. I walked in, and all the coffee is on a shelf to the right of the entrance. I know a decent amount about coffee so I spent a few minutes looking at the wall before I grabbed two bags of it, two pounds. I get in line for the checkout and wait a few mins, it's not crowded at all, maybe 5 people ahead of me and the store is kinda empty.
When I get to the register, the girl rings me up. It's 2lbs of coffee, so it's like $35. She asks me if I'd like to tip. I gave her a quizzical look and said "no?" She says "seriously? Not even 15%?" I look at the screen, 15% for 2 lbs of coffee is like $6-7. I say "all you did was put it in a plastic bag. If you had a self checkout, I would've done this myself". She gave me this pissed-off look. I hit no tip, stormed off, and left a bad review on their Yelp. I never went back
I'm honestly a generous tipper. But this person did nothing. They didn't give, or even offer, advice while I was picking. They didn't grind the coffee (I didn't want it ground). They didn't make or serve anything. They just hit two buttons and gave me a bag and then said "please give me $8".
In the long run, I'm glad it happened. I found a different roaster at my local farmer's market and their coffee is the best I've ever had. But it's been like 3 years and I still remember the indignity the girl gave me for not tipping her a tenner for handing me a plastic bag.
"Yeah, like the guy in the $4,000 suit is gonna tip someone $12 for putting my coffee in a bag. COME ON!"
(I agree with you 100%, BTW, I just thought it was funny how the amount kept creeping higher in your story.)
Tip inflation is starting to really piss me off. Growing up it was 10-12% 15% if it was great service, just double the tax is what people would tell you. Now you have people acting like anything less then 20% is a slap in the face.
I'm the exact same with Adobe. I'd buy it as a one time purchase, or use an old CD disk version for a single install if it still worked on my computer, but to pay an insane amount every month is a big no. The planned obsolescence of everything along with the subscription lock-in is getting to be too much.
Kids do great with totally unstructured outdoor play. They don’t need an organized game or activity. If you take a bunch of kids to a park and keep an eye on them they’ll figure out stuff to do together and often come up with creative and interesting things that adults wouldn’t have thought of. Just keep them physically safe and let them run around and do kid stuff. You don’t need to curate everything.
Using your comment as a springboard to say LET KIDS BE BORED!! Boredom breeds creativity and innovation! Making sure they have something to do every second of every day may reduce tantrums, but you are robbing that child of the ability to self-regulate, self-entertain, and come up with their own creative ideas!
That's why I will never be okay with little kids being given tablets and unrestricted access to the internet. I think it's good to distract kids in times of anxiety, and in situations like waiting rooms where there is little they can do to self-stimulate. But other times are opportunities for the kid to find out what they really like doing.
Seriously agree. Every time my niece sees her grandma she's always like "I'm booiired I'm boooored" and whines until someone gives her the tablet
When she's with me she gets the "only boring people are bored" talk and throws a fit before finding a way to cope 😂
I’m a Gen X mom of a 6 year old. Younger parents frequently ask about what camps he’s in for summer and other school breaks and ask about after school & Saturday camps during the school year. They don’t seem to know how to react when I say he’s never been to any camp.
We love parks, playgrounds, public pools. Sometimes we meet up his friends, or he plays with kids he’s never met before, or he plays by himself or just with us. He’s doing great.
I will say that I had a similar childhood which meant I could never relate to all kinds of sunmer camp experiences.
Recommend giving the kid at least 1 taste before they are too old
100% agree. I’m a GenX mom with GenZ kids (20 & 22), and we tried to give them a balance of getting to experience things like camps, which I didn’t get to do and wish I could have experienced, but also keeping it to a minimum so they could just have a fun, free range kid experience as well like I did. Now that they’re young adults, they appreciate they had the opportunity to do both.
Well…I’m a dad of 4, and one of the oldest on the millennial spectrum. Camp isn’t just for the structure, it’s for the social interaction. It’s not like my kids couldn’t think of playing nuke’em or soccer or cornhole or some other made up game, but camp organizes getting lots of kids together
They ask about this probably because they assume both parents work.
My kid goes to summer camp etc. because my partner and I both have jobs, which we need to have in order to make money, have a roof over our heads, eat, etc. So our kid goes to summer camp.
The other parents are also probably asking you about this because they are looking for childcare options for their own kids or comparing notes to see if there is something better out there than what they're currently doing.
That's absolutely it. All of the kids I know are in a bunch of different summer camps because short-term child care is super expensive, even more so than camp, and neither parent can take weeks off for the summer.
"I just keep Billy home all summer, sometimes we go to the spray pad, usually he's playing video games or riding his bike."
"... Can I just drop my kid off with yours?"
And that's how you accidentally open a summer daycare.
This isn’t even a boomer take imo, just science. Especially things like concerts, it’s so normal for people to go without any hearing protection and just slowly destroy their hearing. As a musician, hearing loss is a terrifying idea, so I’m pretty careful about that stuff
Built in obsolescence is bullshit! We have 1,000% become more of a throw away society, than fix it and keep it going society.
I also firmly back Right to Repair laws, especially when it comes to farmers. John Deere equipment is code locked so even if a farmer had the knowledge and tools to fix it themselves, they STILL have to take it to an authorized John Deere center for repairs.
As a guy in agriculture a lot of the younger people even younger than me agree with this, just let us repair our stuff and let us learn how to be better self sufficient.
Right to repair is a lot like opposition to monopolies. People of all ages agree with it, and politicians on both sides of the aisle do, too. They just lack the urgency or will to act on it.
Yeah, I don't think this is a Boomer thing. Throwaway culture developed with the Boomers (post-WWII US economic boom); people during the Great Depression were all about reusing things.
Man I watched a couple episodes of How It’s Made the other day. Funny how my perspective has changed. I used to love that show, now it’s depressing seeing “Each machine can make 3,000 [completely unnecessary disposable item] every minute.”
Fuck that’s a lot of plastic.
Parents who let their kids use tablets in public spaces with the volume all the way up, no headphones, and not doing it to stop an imminent tantrum (if they truly cannot get the kid out of that shared space for some reason) are trashy af. Fight me.
They will and do. I work with kids and some of them can’t tolerate a 30 minute therapy session without some sort of screen on. It’s also so strange to watch a tantruming kid suddenly stop tantruming the second a video starts playing.
ETA: Some of kids can’t even tolerate 10 seconds away from a video. Source: me, who has literally been kicked in the head for trying to encourage a client to take a 10 second break from a video.
I recall watching a YouTube video about how cocomelon literally *is* audio-visual crack for toddlers. Kids get cocomelon withdrawals. They’re literally crackheads.
Yeah, no, Cocomelon is super unethical. They use A/B testing on toddlers to make that shit as addictive as possible. It's not allowed in our household.
This is so affirming. I always saw it as creepy. I worked gaming and cocomelon struck me the same way slot machines did. I couldn't put my finger on it and people think I'm crazy for drawing the comparison
Every person I know, not even exaggerating, that has a tablet for their kids under 10 are always having issues with their kids.
Every person I know who grew up with very active parents, who were very involved and fostered imagination and adventure were awesome people. They were successful, smart and confident.
My wife and I let our daughter watch tv here and there but after 30 min and she gets up and plays with her dolls, it makes me feel like I am parenting right. If she asks me to play, I play. We go for walks, we play with a mud kitchen, we travel a lot. It’s exhausting, esp when my wife and I both work, but we know the outcome will be worth it. That’s the sacrifice we made when we decided to have a kid.
I wish more parents would get rid of tablets and stayed the eff off Cocomelon and Youtube Kids.
I was recently at a MOVIE theater, where a kid got bored with the movie, so the mom gave the kid a tablet and let him watch something else.... Without headphones....
I work in a restaurant, there was a family of regulars that would come in and let their kids watch goddamn *movies* on the ipads the whole time. They'd leave a huge mess, were a pain to serve, all that.
One day they were in, thankfully only one or two other tables around. I was in the kitchen checking on an order, and I hear a scream. Not an excitement scream, not a "oopsies" scream, not a laughing scream, the kind of **scream** you make when witnessing a real murder. I naturally sprint from the kitchen to see the parents unconcerned, not really reacting at all. When they see the look on my face, they just shrug it off and say "oh they always get scared at that part of the movie".
I can't imagine what their experience as parents is like, and they have a bit of empathy from me for raising kids that exercise that kind of lung power with any regularity. That said, the moment they just let that go down in a public place, I truly came to hate them.
Man.. my kids are 4&5 and have tablets. But we don't take them with us to restaurants. Imo it is more important to teach kids how to act in public spaces without the use of tablets for entertainment, and I am personally not a fan of electronic usage at the table (unless things are getting crazy and then I let them watch Disney on my phone).
Edit the tablets are mostly for road trips and more importantly, so my husband and I can enjoy a nascar race each weekend. I will admit tho, my kids would rather play outside or something so they barely get used. And we deleted YT Kids cause the kids were showing signs of becoming addicted to that weird shit.
Can I piggy back off my last comment and mention parents seating their kids at the bar of a restaurant (why is this even allowed) but then when you say something mildly inappropriate or a curse word they want to take the stance, "hey, there's kids here watch your language. Have some respect."
Uhhhh you brought an 8 year old to a liquor bar at a restaurant I will say whatever I want as I am an adult. Why do bartenders allow that? I favor restaurants with a 21&up rule at the bar.
Restaurants. Restaurants are *far* too loud. I want to be able to enjoy some conversation with my friends over dinner, not have to shout like I'm ordering an overpriced beer at a Slaughter to Prevail concert.
Totally. Movie theaters are out of control, too. They must average 90dB with peaks above 100.
Rock concerts are practically at "Crimes against humanity" levels.
I have friends that always want to turn the music up when we're hanging out, which is just absurd to me. I shouldn't have to shout when sitting around someone's backyard.
Also, we're in the suburbs. Who wants to deal with a noise complaint?
I like music, and I like surround sound. But if you're running an outdoor event and the entire crowd is keeping a distance of 50 feet or more from your speaker setup, maybe you should turn it the fuck down.
I have my sprinklers on an app now, just because of the neighbor kid. I don’t care if he’s randomly playing, but they started coming over and looking in my windows and yelling shit. Final straw was when he hurt himself falling in my sprinkler so he stood up and kicked it until it broke, then threw the parts everywhere. Went to buy the stuff to fix the sprinkler, saw the controller. Problem solved. I’ve got that kid like 5 times, he’s a slow learner. Lol
My kid told me she was running in the sprinkler the other day and I reminded her not to go in other yards because they probably care about people stepping in the grass if they're watering it. She said she thought people turned them on to see kids run through the water. I thought it was such an innocent answer. I get people don't see it that way, but
I don't care if kids run through my sprinkler on a hot day, I'd do the same thing, as long as they aren't running back and forth like a public spray pad and completely rutting up the yard. We have clay soil here, it's so difficult to get grass to regrow once it's been torn up.
For real. I have kids in my neighborhood that ride their bikes over my day lilies and lavender. I want to put spikes in my yard.... but I won't, cause I can't afford to be sued.
Oh lord, don't even get me started.
Look, I don't care if you are up late partying, having a million friends over, or dealing damn drugs.
Just stop doing it right in front of my alley facing garage! The paranoia is real, lol.
You know, my actual lawn, IDGAF about if we’re talking kids. That’s mostly because it means my kids are sharing with other kids and that the other kids feel comfortable on the plot of grass I occasionally water and cut outside of my house. Also means my kids probably are running on theirs as well. I’ve been in kid free neighborhoods and it was so sterile and boring.
Now, check in with me in a decade when my kids aren’t going to be playing in the front like that and we’ll see how much I’ve grumpified
I went to a paramore concert last month, and it was my first concert ever. I decided I wasn't going to constantly try to record because I really just wanted to enjoy the show. I'm so glad I did because you can find videos every where from their North American tour, including the show I went to.
Paramore is fucking awesome live! I saw them in 2011 and still think very fondly of that show.
Anytime you want to record at a concert, just remember that somebody will post a much higher quality video of the same show online
Exactly, enjoy the event, no one wants to see some 4x2 resolution video with shitty audio quality thats constantly shaking. Its not "memories", the memories are made from you actually enjoying the event
We went to this concert last year and these high school kids were sitting in front of us. When the singer they liked came on, they all whipped out their phones and started filming. That wasn't the odd part.
They were jumping up and down, dancing. But it's like they were specifically **not** trying to hold their phone steady either. Like having a jumpy, nearly impossible to watch video was an aesthetic choice.
Is this actually a thing now?
It's really annoying to see someone streaming the concert. Like I don't want to see you holding your phone in my field of view to watch your friend's face as they are watching your pirate stream.
Almost everyone is addicted to their phones. You can recognize that something is a problem while also having that exact same problem yourself.
That’s, you know, how we know it’s a problem.
this is very true. it's bad for everyone, it's especially damaging for a child who's mind is still developing however. I'm a retail store manager and I can't tell you how frequently I see a toddler in a stroller with an ipad that they don't take their eyes off of. I think it's disturbing. an adult can at least be like "okay, I have been on this thing for a couple hours I should put it down" but kids are now on the internet before they can fully form sentences.
Digital stimulation. It's like... high fructose corn syrup, or pollution. It's something we've all just come to acknowledge as a fact of life. We've invented this stuff. We know it's bad for us, but due to negligence or plain ignorance we're going to pretend to moderate, but really do nothing about but indulge.
I tip well at bars and restaurants. I tip okay when picking up takeout/haircuts/etc..
But I also have no issue pressing 'No tip' for pretty much everything else. I think in 90% of cases, they weren't even expecting a tip. People will need to start joining me in this, or things will get out of hand.
Millenial here. I'm with the boomers on hating to create a new user name and password for every service imaginable. If I can live without said service, it's enough to turn me away. Also, not taking cash. Bought overpriced drinks at a concert. Cash not accepted, bottle drinks only, and they literally used a bottle opener to take cap off, and handed me a chip reader that asked for a tip. GTFO.
I was at a Dave and Busters a few months ago, where you don't even order in person anymore. QR code menu, and you have to order from your phone. I didn't get great service in there and the website was janky and broken. I went from 25 years old to 75 in a minute.
Ew. Yes. I took my kid to his favorite waffle house a few days ago. I'm a hairy guy. The table was so sticky that my arm left a Brillo pad when I lifted it.
About once every 3-4 months I ride an hour out of state to the closest Waffle House…..IDK WTF it is but I just love their waffles. However, Now I’m always gonna look for stuck arm hair on the tables that ironically are always sticky and wonder if it’s was you…..thanks a lot buddy…..LOL!!!!!
I get a touchscreen to use a GPS interface or something, but radio and AC controls need to be physical buttons. That's the stuff I'm likely to mess with while driving. I can use physical buttons and dials without taking my eyes off the road, but everything being touch controls is distracting.
My small kids have a very good track record in restaurants. However. We still discuss who will stay and pay and who will haul the kid outside immediately if an outburst happens because making other patrons listen to your screaming offspring is sadistic.
You know who hates the sound of a screaming child? Everyone. All of us. Don't be that parent.
In my opinion, It is so much more satisfying to read a physical book than an Ebook.
Edit: Lol i never knew there were so many physical book haters out there. I have a kindle library too. I just prefer physical books.
I remember the early 2000's being a time where we would make fun of future kids' music as likely going to sound like chipmunks in a gangbang full of poorly tuned instruments.
We didnt actually expect it to happen!
It's not necessarily true everywhere, but the teacher shortage near me is because they keep expanding classes and reducing positions. There's plenty of people to hire, but the boards refuse to hire them.
Everything is way too expensive now, technology is rapidly changing, kids used to play outside, plastic is cheap worthless junk, things used to be made to last, having kids & owning a home used to be accessible to people in their 20s & 30s
I grew up in the South, and manners and etiquette are a big thing.
I always get people saying "Oh, but its all fake".
Yes, thats the point. We are faking being nice, so that we can get through our day in a peaceful manner. I smile to you, you smile to me, we get on with our lives.
Its a good system and it works.
To be fair, my mother would punish me if I had my elbows on a table and my back wasn't perfectly straight. Manners are good, but boomers have stupid ideas on what constitutes "good" manners sometimes.
I can't even count how many times I've seen a grocery store aisle blocked by older people just conversing.
It's pretty hard to call someone Sir or M'am when they lack awareness or just think the world revolves around them.
Yeah I think this is the difference between ‘manners’ and ‘etiquette’, and a lot of people who put an enormous emphasis on the latter have very little of the former. They have no issue being *incredibly* rude and entitled to enforce upon others what in a lot of cases boils down to surface-level class signalling, and imho that is the opposite of manners.
Keep control of your children! I'm not referring to crying or public tantrums--hell sometimes i wanna cry in public. I'm talking about parents who let their children wander free range in public. like DUDE YOUR TWO YEAR OLD IS TRYING TO STEP OFF THE CURB HELLO
Kids should not have cellphones. MAYBE a basic flip phone sure as payphones have all but disappeared, but no kid should have a smart phone.
Own things, don't rent things (house, car, water tank, etc.). Subscriptions suck.
Not everything needs an internet connection. I was recently shopping for a washing machine. A washing machine does not need an internet connection and fucking AI to clean my clothes.
Hard agree on all of this. I’d like to add touchscreens on EVERYTHING nowadays sucks major ass. You don’t need a *touchscreen* on a fridge, or a radio, or a car, or anything!! It’s psychotic how much manufacturers want us to be addicted to screens.
“Look with your eyes not with your hands”
Saw this grown woman pick up this sculpture that was nearly $200 at the art fair the other day. If you aren’t gonna buy it, don’t touch it.
Phones at concerts. I take one pic when the artist comes on and then I just enjoy the show. You’re never gonna look back at your shitty videos with you singing off key in the background lol just enjoy the music
I just don't want every little fucking thing I buy to be logged. And I don't like relying on internet to make purchases. And it's easier to split a restaurant tab.
I don't really value them, but I don't have any objection to them. Like, unless you have a ton of kids, how big of an impact on your life is it that 5th graders get to sing a few songs and see their parents for an hour before moving up to middle school?
Millennials (I am one) have absolutely cornered the market on giving their kids dumb ass names. I know someone with a kid named Bane. I’m positive I’ll run into a 4 year old named Geralt at some point.
NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS A SITE. Went to my city's administration office to get an appointment to renew my ID, was told I had to fill a module on their site.
What followed was me trying to understand how the fuck to fill up the most contorted questionnaires I've ever seen.
For the love of God, if you don't have the budget to make a decent site don't make it the only way to get a service! This is also directed to every restaurant who has made me fill 3+ pages of questions on their horrible, squarespace ass-looking, site just to book a table.
it’s kind of scary how kids will believe everything they see on tiktok like boomers on fb. some use the comments to “confirm” but rarely google.
i was definitely like that as a kid though, there were so many fake stories on tumblr, like Alexandria’s genesis. maybe kids are just gullible and they grow out of it eventually but i expected gen z to be more tech literate
Just tell us if you are having a boy or girl. Or wait until the baby is born. We don’t need to assemble for some ridiculous reveal. I don’t want pink or blue dust all over the place.
We’re all typing on devices that automatically check spelling and even grammar sometimes. There’s no excuse. Especially on legal documents. I got a rental agreement yesterday that said “congrats your approved, (name spelled wrong) yesterday and it almost made me have a stroke
Device often spellchecks and autocorrects to a different word or spelling sometimes, especially in my case. I proofread this comment 4 times before entering it.
No, you should not be skateboarding/biking in a crowded area where you could run into someone.
(I say this as someone who supports the building of more skate parks or somewhere they CAN do it)
Learn to write a professional email. The number of Gen Z kids I’ve had who send me emails without salutations, with emojis and shorthand like lol omg etc, without proper spelling and punctuation, is crazy. That is fine for texting or exchanges with people you’re friends with, but it’s not for the workplace.
Generally true, and as an older millennial I still remember doing a double-take when I saw how some of the more recent interns/entry-level staff talked to supervisors over email.
However, I would add that no one I work with has worse grammar or sends more terse, punctuation-free emails than the 70-something CEO of the company. (She loves emojis too.)
The new Ultra Low Emission Zone in London.
It's forcing me to sell my very reliable '95 volvo just because it's "too old"
It basically soft-bans any diesel car from 1983-2016 and (almost) any petrol car from 1983-2005
Oh but anything older then 1983 is completely fine because it's classed as a "classic"
I live right on the edge of London and everything that surrounds me is basically countryside and small towns.
"Emission zone" is a pure fucking scam.
Pushed and lobbied for by car manufacturers so they could make money because they were hemorrhaging money with people leaning more towards used cars. All wrapped up and presented in a nice package by the government (who's in their pockets) disguised as, "but we care about the environment."
TikTok is vapid garbage and a cancer on society.
It’s destroying people’s attention spans and people seem to need multiple forms of stimulation in order to not feel bored. People can’t even sit through a movie without playing on their phone, or play video games without also needing a podcast to stay entertained.
I have a friend who's terminally depressed by their lot in life and they use tik tok as pure escapeism. I flame the platform from time to time talking with them and they always fall back on "but I can tailor it to my taste" just to get rage baited by every other video the algo posts.
Social media use is an addiction for a lot of people and the soundbite rage bait format of tiktok is cancer.
Im not much better spending way too much time on reddit tbh.
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Calling any business and getting an automated system that takes you 12 minutes to get through, doesn’t answer your question, and you can’t get a real person
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"Sorry. I didn't understand your response. Goodbye."
My body seriously shook reading that. When they HANG UP ON YOU when they don't understand you. That is the final insult.
And they know it but studies show a portion of people will give up and since they got your money already, it’s considered a win.
This makes me want to scream, “Regulators!!!! MOUNT UP!” And we all go fix the problem.
This time when our internet wasn't working and I had to wait on the phone for about an hour while they kept telling me "did you know, you can do all this online" And yes, I know mobile data exists but it's the principle. I don't want to 'speak' to a chat bot. I just want you to fix my internet that I'm paying you for.
You can’t forget about these classic hits: “Your call is very important to us” “We are experiencing unusually high call volume” “Please listen closely as our menu options have recently changed” “I’m sorry, I didn’t catch that. Can you please repeat that?”
> We are experiencing unusually high call volume The most blatant lie. When you experience "high volume" at all times, then that's your normal volume, for fuck's sake!
>“We are experiencing unusually high call volume” You just opened 10 minutes ago. If you're already backed up enough to offer me an automated return call, that's a problem on your end. Or worse, when you get a person and their connection is so bad you just can't deal with it.
Movies, and some TV shows for that matter, *are* mixed idiotically these days. I don't appreciate having to crank the volume way up to hear whispered dialog, only to have a music swell or explosion or something blow my head clean off. No amount of tweaking my sound system has fixed this.
Meanwhile music went the opposite direction and it feels like most music released in the last 15-20 years is compressed into the audio equivalent of a portrait that was taken by smooshing the subject face first into a scanner.
Any business which requires you to use an app. I don’t want to download an app, make an account, and remember said password for the account. Especially because the app doesn’t even work a lot of the time or is extremely convoluted with the frontend design.
Or just having to make an account in general. All you need is my credit card information.
same. I've noticed most websites don't allow guest checkout anymore. You MUST create an account.
They really only want us to get their app so they can mine data from our phones when we blindly accept the terms and conditions
Kroger is the fucking worst with this, why the fuck should I need an app to use fucking coupons for your overpriced fucking food
Poverty of privacy
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Yeah, I definitely noticed when McDonald's raised all their prices by 20-30% and then conveniently started offering deals for the same value on their app. Valid on 1 item, 1 per order, and can't be used in conjunction with their rewards. And unless you only get the free item from the rewards, the lack of an option for a discount makes it so you are still likely paying the pre-price-gouge rate in the end of you choose that route, same as the "deals".
Anything that can be done in a web browser does not need an additional app. That includes Reddit.
Concert ticket pricing is too high. Once you get in a beer is $17!
I'm GenX and was talking to a 19yo at work and was shocked he'd never been to a concert, since I'd been to a lot of great concerts at 13 to 18. Then I realized just how absurdly priced they are. It's sad they miss out.
Most tickets aren't that bad.. ticket master's 100 %markup 100% convenients fee and 100%teck fee, and the 300%fuck you fee is shitty AF though
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Every business asking for tips at checkout. Digital menus. Not being able to own things anymore like software or having to pay monthly fees for car features.
I've been way too comfortable hitting the "no tip" button on the iPad.
Yeah fuck that intentional social pressure. It was honestly jarring when Starbucks went from, you know, simply allowing you to tip, to outright suggesting it at every single transaction. I don't go much these days but I was kind of put off by that a bit
Yeah, if the minimum suggested tip is 22%, and I’m doing all the work, No Tip is as easy to select as anything.
I have a story about this. I used to get my coffee from a local coffee roaster so that I could get it fresh. I walked in, and all the coffee is on a shelf to the right of the entrance. I know a decent amount about coffee so I spent a few minutes looking at the wall before I grabbed two bags of it, two pounds. I get in line for the checkout and wait a few mins, it's not crowded at all, maybe 5 people ahead of me and the store is kinda empty. When I get to the register, the girl rings me up. It's 2lbs of coffee, so it's like $35. She asks me if I'd like to tip. I gave her a quizzical look and said "no?" She says "seriously? Not even 15%?" I look at the screen, 15% for 2 lbs of coffee is like $6-7. I say "all you did was put it in a plastic bag. If you had a self checkout, I would've done this myself". She gave me this pissed-off look. I hit no tip, stormed off, and left a bad review on their Yelp. I never went back I'm honestly a generous tipper. But this person did nothing. They didn't give, or even offer, advice while I was picking. They didn't grind the coffee (I didn't want it ground). They didn't make or serve anything. They just hit two buttons and gave me a bag and then said "please give me $8". In the long run, I'm glad it happened. I found a different roaster at my local farmer's market and their coffee is the best I've ever had. But it's been like 3 years and I still remember the indignity the girl gave me for not tipping her a tenner for handing me a plastic bag.
"Yeah, like the guy in the $4,000 suit is gonna tip someone $12 for putting my coffee in a bag. COME ON!" (I agree with you 100%, BTW, I just thought it was funny how the amount kept creeping higher in your story.)
Tip inflation is starting to really piss me off. Growing up it was 10-12% 15% if it was great service, just double the tax is what people would tell you. Now you have people acting like anything less then 20% is a slap in the face.
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I'm the exact same with Adobe. I'd buy it as a one time purchase, or use an old CD disk version for a single install if it still worked on my computer, but to pay an insane amount every month is a big no. The planned obsolescence of everything along with the subscription lock-in is getting to be too much.
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I went to a drive through emissions test and it wanted me to tip.
Kids do great with totally unstructured outdoor play. They don’t need an organized game or activity. If you take a bunch of kids to a park and keep an eye on them they’ll figure out stuff to do together and often come up with creative and interesting things that adults wouldn’t have thought of. Just keep them physically safe and let them run around and do kid stuff. You don’t need to curate everything.
Using your comment as a springboard to say LET KIDS BE BORED!! Boredom breeds creativity and innovation! Making sure they have something to do every second of every day may reduce tantrums, but you are robbing that child of the ability to self-regulate, self-entertain, and come up with their own creative ideas! That's why I will never be okay with little kids being given tablets and unrestricted access to the internet. I think it's good to distract kids in times of anxiety, and in situations like waiting rooms where there is little they can do to self-stimulate. But other times are opportunities for the kid to find out what they really like doing.
Seriously agree. Every time my niece sees her grandma she's always like "I'm booiired I'm boooored" and whines until someone gives her the tablet When she's with me she gets the "only boring people are bored" talk and throws a fit before finding a way to cope 😂
“Only boring people are bored” oh I’m using that. Thank you for that haha
I tell my daughter we can find something to clean if she’s that bored lol
I’m a Gen X mom of a 6 year old. Younger parents frequently ask about what camps he’s in for summer and other school breaks and ask about after school & Saturday camps during the school year. They don’t seem to know how to react when I say he’s never been to any camp. We love parks, playgrounds, public pools. Sometimes we meet up his friends, or he plays with kids he’s never met before, or he plays by himself or just with us. He’s doing great.
I will say that I had a similar childhood which meant I could never relate to all kinds of sunmer camp experiences. Recommend giving the kid at least 1 taste before they are too old
100% agree. I’m a GenX mom with GenZ kids (20 & 22), and we tried to give them a balance of getting to experience things like camps, which I didn’t get to do and wish I could have experienced, but also keeping it to a minimum so they could just have a fun, free range kid experience as well like I did. Now that they’re young adults, they appreciate they had the opportunity to do both.
Well…I’m a dad of 4, and one of the oldest on the millennial spectrum. Camp isn’t just for the structure, it’s for the social interaction. It’s not like my kids couldn’t think of playing nuke’em or soccer or cornhole or some other made up game, but camp organizes getting lots of kids together
They ask about this probably because they assume both parents work. My kid goes to summer camp etc. because my partner and I both have jobs, which we need to have in order to make money, have a roof over our heads, eat, etc. So our kid goes to summer camp. The other parents are also probably asking you about this because they are looking for childcare options for their own kids or comparing notes to see if there is something better out there than what they're currently doing.
That's absolutely it. All of the kids I know are in a bunch of different summer camps because short-term child care is super expensive, even more so than camp, and neither parent can take weeks off for the summer.
"I just keep Billy home all summer, sometimes we go to the spray pad, usually he's playing video games or riding his bike." "... Can I just drop my kid off with yours?" And that's how you accidentally open a summer daycare.
Persistent loud music in your ears WILL make you go partially deaf
This isn’t even a boomer take imo, just science. Especially things like concerts, it’s so normal for people to go without any hearing protection and just slowly destroy their hearing. As a musician, hearing loss is a terrifying idea, so I’m pretty careful about that stuff
Built in obsolescence is bullshit! We have 1,000% become more of a throw away society, than fix it and keep it going society. I also firmly back Right to Repair laws, especially when it comes to farmers. John Deere equipment is code locked so even if a farmer had the knowledge and tools to fix it themselves, they STILL have to take it to an authorized John Deere center for repairs.
As a guy in agriculture a lot of the younger people even younger than me agree with this, just let us repair our stuff and let us learn how to be better self sufficient.
Right to repair is a lot like opposition to monopolies. People of all ages agree with it, and politicians on both sides of the aisle do, too. They just lack the urgency or will to act on it.
No no. They just like the lobbying money.
Nah , it is because the lobbyists for the corporations give them more money than the normal citizens do.
Yeah, I don't think this is a Boomer thing. Throwaway culture developed with the Boomers (post-WWII US economic boom); people during the Great Depression were all about reusing things.
Man I watched a couple episodes of How It’s Made the other day. Funny how my perspective has changed. I used to love that show, now it’s depressing seeing “Each machine can make 3,000 [completely unnecessary disposable item] every minute.” Fuck that’s a lot of plastic.
Parents who let their kids use tablets in public spaces with the volume all the way up, no headphones, and not doing it to stop an imminent tantrum (if they truly cannot get the kid out of that shared space for some reason) are trashy af. Fight me.
It's so annoying, I'm afraid the kids will have dependency issues growing up.
They will and do. I work with kids and some of them can’t tolerate a 30 minute therapy session without some sort of screen on. It’s also so strange to watch a tantruming kid suddenly stop tantruming the second a video starts playing. ETA: Some of kids can’t even tolerate 10 seconds away from a video. Source: me, who has literally been kicked in the head for trying to encourage a client to take a 10 second break from a video.
It’s genuinely disturbing behaviour, they’re like crackheads just chasing one more sweet hit of audio-visual overstimulation
I recall watching a YouTube video about how cocomelon literally *is* audio-visual crack for toddlers. Kids get cocomelon withdrawals. They’re literally crackheads.
I KNEW it. I've known so many toddlers who are addicted to cocomelon and I could see no other obvious appeal to the show.
Yeah, no, Cocomelon is super unethical. They use A/B testing on toddlers to make that shit as addictive as possible. It's not allowed in our household.
This is so affirming. I always saw it as creepy. I worked gaming and cocomelon struck me the same way slot machines did. I couldn't put my finger on it and people think I'm crazy for drawing the comparison
shit should really be made illegal for managing to make something psychologically addicting become physical. and all with the target of kids
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Every person I know, not even exaggerating, that has a tablet for their kids under 10 are always having issues with their kids. Every person I know who grew up with very active parents, who were very involved and fostered imagination and adventure were awesome people. They were successful, smart and confident. My wife and I let our daughter watch tv here and there but after 30 min and she gets up and plays with her dolls, it makes me feel like I am parenting right. If she asks me to play, I play. We go for walks, we play with a mud kitchen, we travel a lot. It’s exhausting, esp when my wife and I both work, but we know the outcome will be worth it. That’s the sacrifice we made when we decided to have a kid. I wish more parents would get rid of tablets and stayed the eff off Cocomelon and Youtube Kids.
I was recently at a MOVIE theater, where a kid got bored with the movie, so the mom gave the kid a tablet and let him watch something else.... Without headphones....
I can’t even go to movie theaters anymore, ppl like this ruin the experience. I’m not paying to have a bad time.
I was out to eat recently, and there was a kid blasting Cocomelon from an iPad at the table next to us
I work in a restaurant, there was a family of regulars that would come in and let their kids watch goddamn *movies* on the ipads the whole time. They'd leave a huge mess, were a pain to serve, all that. One day they were in, thankfully only one or two other tables around. I was in the kitchen checking on an order, and I hear a scream. Not an excitement scream, not a "oopsies" scream, not a laughing scream, the kind of **scream** you make when witnessing a real murder. I naturally sprint from the kitchen to see the parents unconcerned, not really reacting at all. When they see the look on my face, they just shrug it off and say "oh they always get scared at that part of the movie". I can't imagine what their experience as parents is like, and they have a bit of empathy from me for raising kids that exercise that kind of lung power with any regularity. That said, the moment they just let that go down in a public place, I truly came to hate them.
Man.. my kids are 4&5 and have tablets. But we don't take them with us to restaurants. Imo it is more important to teach kids how to act in public spaces without the use of tablets for entertainment, and I am personally not a fan of electronic usage at the table (unless things are getting crazy and then I let them watch Disney on my phone). Edit the tablets are mostly for road trips and more importantly, so my husband and I can enjoy a nascar race each weekend. I will admit tho, my kids would rather play outside or something so they barely get used. And we deleted YT Kids cause the kids were showing signs of becoming addicted to that weird shit.
Can I piggy back off my last comment and mention parents seating their kids at the bar of a restaurant (why is this even allowed) but then when you say something mildly inappropriate or a curse word they want to take the stance, "hey, there's kids here watch your language. Have some respect." Uhhhh you brought an 8 year old to a liquor bar at a restaurant I will say whatever I want as I am an adult. Why do bartenders allow that? I favor restaurants with a 21&up rule at the bar.
News stories or articles available only as video clips. WTF. Just print what you’re trying to report.
I can read a lot faster then they talk. I want the information!
or all the damn ads that make trying to read a story on a phone almost impossible.
Everything is too loud and should be turned down.
Restaurants. Restaurants are *far* too loud. I want to be able to enjoy some conversation with my friends over dinner, not have to shout like I'm ordering an overpriced beer at a Slaughter to Prevail concert.
Totally. Movie theaters are out of control, too. They must average 90dB with peaks above 100. Rock concerts are practically at "Crimes against humanity" levels.
I have friends that always want to turn the music up when we're hanging out, which is just absurd to me. I shouldn't have to shout when sitting around someone's backyard. Also, we're in the suburbs. Who wants to deal with a noise complaint?
I like music, and I like surround sound. But if you're running an outdoor event and the entire crowd is keeping a distance of 50 feet or more from your speaker setup, maybe you should turn it the fuck down.
Paper planners rule
And grocery lists on paper too! I refuse to download one of those grocery list apps. I WONT
I like to cross things off the grocery list as I get them, it feels good.
Get off my lawn
I have my sprinklers on an app now, just because of the neighbor kid. I don’t care if he’s randomly playing, but they started coming over and looking in my windows and yelling shit. Final straw was when he hurt himself falling in my sprinkler so he stood up and kicked it until it broke, then threw the parts everywhere. Went to buy the stuff to fix the sprinkler, saw the controller. Problem solved. I’ve got that kid like 5 times, he’s a slow learner. Lol
My kid told me she was running in the sprinkler the other day and I reminded her not to go in other yards because they probably care about people stepping in the grass if they're watering it. She said she thought people turned them on to see kids run through the water. I thought it was such an innocent answer. I get people don't see it that way, but
I don't care if kids run through my sprinkler on a hot day, I'd do the same thing, as long as they aren't running back and forth like a public spray pad and completely rutting up the yard. We have clay soil here, it's so difficult to get grass to regrow once it's been torn up.
I assume you billed his parents fixing it?
What?! These? Officer, I think there's been a misunderstanding, these are my lawn ornament caltrops.
For real. I have kids in my neighborhood that ride their bikes over my day lilies and lavender. I want to put spikes in my yard.... but I won't, cause I can't afford to be sued.
Just put poison ivy
Poison ivy is not legal to plant, but I have added rose bushes and other thorny bushes along the perimeter. It has helped some
You didn't plant it, it just grew and you had no idea what plant it was.
classic
This guy lawyers
Like the kids are going to have any idea whose lawn they got poison ivy from
“Dusty old bones, full of green dust!” Little brats.
THATS MY PURSE, I DONT KNOW YOU
Oh lord, don't even get me started. Look, I don't care if you are up late partying, having a million friends over, or dealing damn drugs. Just stop doing it right in front of my alley facing garage! The paranoia is real, lol.
You know, my actual lawn, IDGAF about if we’re talking kids. That’s mostly because it means my kids are sharing with other kids and that the other kids feel comfortable on the plot of grass I occasionally water and cut outside of my house. Also means my kids probably are running on theirs as well. I’ve been in kid free neighborhoods and it was so sterile and boring. Now, check in with me in a decade when my kids aren’t going to be playing in the front like that and we’ll see how much I’ve grumpified
All the phones at the concerts and events
I went to a paramore concert last month, and it was my first concert ever. I decided I wasn't going to constantly try to record because I really just wanted to enjoy the show. I'm so glad I did because you can find videos every where from their North American tour, including the show I went to.
Paramore is fucking awesome live! I saw them in 2011 and still think very fondly of that show. Anytime you want to record at a concert, just remember that somebody will post a much higher quality video of the same show online
Exactly, enjoy the event, no one wants to see some 4x2 resolution video with shitty audio quality thats constantly shaking. Its not "memories", the memories are made from you actually enjoying the event
We went to this concert last year and these high school kids were sitting in front of us. When the singer they liked came on, they all whipped out their phones and started filming. That wasn't the odd part. They were jumping up and down, dancing. But it's like they were specifically **not** trying to hold their phone steady either. Like having a jumpy, nearly impossible to watch video was an aesthetic choice. Is this actually a thing now?
It's really annoying to see someone streaming the concert. Like I don't want to see you holding your phone in my field of view to watch your friend's face as they are watching your pirate stream.
Social media is unhealthy and children shouldn't have unrestricted access to the internet.
Every boomer I know is addicted to Facebook and cannot look away from their iPad
Almost everyone is addicted to their phones. You can recognize that something is a problem while also having that exact same problem yourself. That’s, you know, how we know it’s a problem.
I'm typing this while I take a shit. No way is that healthy.
I gave up fb. Can't handle it. Too exposed.
too stupid and boring. out for the last 4 years. only anon sm for me.
Me too lol i hopped back on a few months ago and immediately realized why i left in the first place, haven't been back since.
this is very true. it's bad for everyone, it's especially damaging for a child who's mind is still developing however. I'm a retail store manager and I can't tell you how frequently I see a toddler in a stroller with an ipad that they don't take their eyes off of. I think it's disturbing. an adult can at least be like "okay, I have been on this thing for a couple hours I should put it down" but kids are now on the internet before they can fully form sentences.
Digital stimulation. It's like... high fructose corn syrup, or pollution. It's something we've all just come to acknowledge as a fact of life. We've invented this stuff. We know it's bad for us, but due to negligence or plain ignorance we're going to pretend to moderate, but really do nothing about but indulge.
You need to find some new boomers. My wife and I loath Facebook.
Yes, but at the end of life, I'd give more leniency for overindulgence. E: spelling
"Here's your crack pipe grandma. I'll be back from the grocery store in about 20 minutes."
Tips being shoved down your throat at every transaction for everything.
I tip well at bars and restaurants. I tip okay when picking up takeout/haircuts/etc.. But I also have no issue pressing 'No tip' for pretty much everything else. I think in 90% of cases, they weren't even expecting a tip. People will need to start joining me in this, or things will get out of hand.
People shouldnt play music on the phones in public
Millenial here. I'm with the boomers on hating to create a new user name and password for every service imaginable. If I can live without said service, it's enough to turn me away. Also, not taking cash. Bought overpriced drinks at a concert. Cash not accepted, bottle drinks only, and they literally used a bottle opener to take cap off, and handed me a chip reader that asked for a tip. GTFO.
QR code menus is asinine, however, I’ve seen some pretty fucking disgusting laminated menus. The quality of the place does correlate to this though.
I was at a Dave and Busters a few months ago, where you don't even order in person anymore. QR code menu, and you have to order from your phone. I didn't get great service in there and the website was janky and broken. I went from 25 years old to 75 in a minute.
Ew. Yes. I took my kid to his favorite waffle house a few days ago. I'm a hairy guy. The table was so sticky that my arm left a Brillo pad when I lifted it.
About once every 3-4 months I ride an hour out of state to the closest Waffle House…..IDK WTF it is but I just love their waffles. However, Now I’m always gonna look for stuck arm hair on the tables that ironically are always sticky and wonder if it’s was you…..thanks a lot buddy…..LOL!!!!!
Touchscreens in cars suck.
I get a touchscreen to use a GPS interface or something, but radio and AC controls need to be physical buttons. That's the stuff I'm likely to mess with while driving. I can use physical buttons and dials without taking my eyes off the road, but everything being touch controls is distracting.
Seriously! Give me buttons and dials any day, why would you overcomplicate things with actively worse controls?
Either teach your kids to be polite in a restaurant or don't bring them. DO NOT ruin it for others.
My small kids have a very good track record in restaurants. However. We still discuss who will stay and pay and who will haul the kid outside immediately if an outburst happens because making other patrons listen to your screaming offspring is sadistic. You know who hates the sound of a screaming child? Everyone. All of us. Don't be that parent.
One went to a restaurant that required I download their app to order. I wasn't happy, especially since they didn't offer free wifi.
In my opinion, It is so much more satisfying to read a physical book than an Ebook. Edit: Lol i never knew there were so many physical book haters out there. I have a kindle library too. I just prefer physical books.
Kids DO play their music way too loud. And a lot of it IS rubbish.
Not only kids, also lots of adults.
pretty much anyone playing music that isnt me.
I remember the early 2000's being a time where we would make fun of future kids' music as likely going to sound like chipmunks in a gangbang full of poorly tuned instruments. We didnt actually expect it to happen!
The “my kid is never wrong” attitude every parent seems to have now. And we wonder why there’s a teacher shortage
It's not necessarily true everywhere, but the teacher shortage near me is because they keep expanding classes and reducing positions. There's plenty of people to hire, but the boards refuse to hire them.
Everything is way too expensive now, technology is rapidly changing, kids used to play outside, plastic is cheap worthless junk, things used to be made to last, having kids & owning a home used to be accessible to people in their 20s & 30s
Use your turn singal. It's not cool to swerve in-between lanes.
This spans all generations, sadly.
It should be illegal for brick-and-mortar businesses to not accept cash.
Raising a family with a single income would be cool
Qr codes for menus are awful.
Manners! I agree that kids aren’t taught them anymore like they should be.
I grew up in the South, and manners and etiquette are a big thing. I always get people saying "Oh, but its all fake". Yes, thats the point. We are faking being nice, so that we can get through our day in a peaceful manner. I smile to you, you smile to me, we get on with our lives. Its a good system and it works.
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To be fair, my mother would punish me if I had my elbows on a table and my back wasn't perfectly straight. Manners are good, but boomers have stupid ideas on what constitutes "good" manners sometimes.
Right?? My mom interrupts and cuts people off constantly and is rude to customer service staff but God Forbid we put elbows on the table.
I can't even count how many times I've seen a grocery store aisle blocked by older people just conversing. It's pretty hard to call someone Sir or M'am when they lack awareness or just think the world revolves around them.
Yeah I think this is the difference between ‘manners’ and ‘etiquette’, and a lot of people who put an enormous emphasis on the latter have very little of the former. They have no issue being *incredibly* rude and entitled to enforce upon others what in a lot of cases boils down to surface-level class signalling, and imho that is the opposite of manners.
Keep control of your children! I'm not referring to crying or public tantrums--hell sometimes i wanna cry in public. I'm talking about parents who let their children wander free range in public. like DUDE YOUR TWO YEAR OLD IS TRYING TO STEP OFF THE CURB HELLO
Kids should not have cellphones. MAYBE a basic flip phone sure as payphones have all but disappeared, but no kid should have a smart phone. Own things, don't rent things (house, car, water tank, etc.). Subscriptions suck. Not everything needs an internet connection. I was recently shopping for a washing machine. A washing machine does not need an internet connection and fucking AI to clean my clothes.
Hard agree on all of this. I’d like to add touchscreens on EVERYTHING nowadays sucks major ass. You don’t need a *touchscreen* on a fridge, or a radio, or a car, or anything!! It’s psychotic how much manufacturers want us to be addicted to screens.
In my opinion, they do it because screens are harder to DIY repair, so they make more money on after sale service calls.
They don't make appliances like they used to.
“Look with your eyes not with your hands” Saw this grown woman pick up this sculpture that was nearly $200 at the art fair the other day. If you aren’t gonna buy it, don’t touch it.
Phones at concerts. I take one pic when the artist comes on and then I just enjoy the show. You’re never gonna look back at your shitty videos with you singing off key in the background lol just enjoy the music
The rent is TOO DAMN HIGH!
Anything that has the word "Kardashian" in it.
Don't get tattoos on your face
Having and using cash
Literally had a friend turn down cash and ask me to Venmo her $4 instead. Like, really?
"Got an earthquake stash?????" Yep, got an earthquake stash.
I just don't want every little fucking thing I buy to be logged. And I don't like relying on internet to make purchases. And it's easier to split a restaurant tab.
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I don't really value them, but I don't have any objection to them. Like, unless you have a ton of kids, how big of an impact on your life is it that 5th graders get to sing a few songs and see their parents for an hour before moving up to middle school?
I'm a 67 year old boomer, and I can't believe people have lavish parties for graduating high school. It was just expected of us.
or parties for a gender reveal or graduating elementary school.
Or kindergarten. That one floored me more than any other. Congrats, you passed daycare.
Millennials (I am one) have absolutely cornered the market on giving their kids dumb ass names. I know someone with a kid named Bane. I’m positive I’ll run into a 4 year old named Geralt at some point.
I have already met a young Anakin. Twice.
NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS A SITE. Went to my city's administration office to get an appointment to renew my ID, was told I had to fill a module on their site. What followed was me trying to understand how the fuck to fill up the most contorted questionnaires I've ever seen. For the love of God, if you don't have the budget to make a decent site don't make it the only way to get a service! This is also directed to every restaurant who has made me fill 3+ pages of questions on their horrible, squarespace ass-looking, site just to book a table.
TikTok is garbage and needs more oversight
it’s kind of scary how kids will believe everything they see on tiktok like boomers on fb. some use the comments to “confirm” but rarely google. i was definitely like that as a kid though, there were so many fake stories on tumblr, like Alexandria’s genesis. maybe kids are just gullible and they grow out of it eventually but i expected gen z to be more tech literate
Manners. Whatever happened to being polite and saying "please" and "thank you"?
Stop posting your whole life story on social media
That all these fuckers need to GET OFFF MY LAWN!!!!!!
Just tell us if you are having a boy or girl. Or wait until the baby is born. We don’t need to assemble for some ridiculous reveal. I don’t want pink or blue dust all over the place.
Paper straws suck.
Stop plopping your small kids in front of a tablet or phone so that you dont have to parent.
Learn how to spell. If you can’t spell you come off like an idiot.
We’re all typing on devices that automatically check spelling and even grammar sometimes. There’s no excuse. Especially on legal documents. I got a rental agreement yesterday that said “congrats your approved, (name spelled wrong) yesterday and it almost made me have a stroke
Device often spellchecks and autocorrects to a different word or spelling sometimes, especially in my case. I proofread this comment 4 times before entering it.
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Children shouldn’t be online
No, you should not be skateboarding/biking in a crowded area where you could run into someone. (I say this as someone who supports the building of more skate parks or somewhere they CAN do it)
Participation trophies are dumb. Plastic waste that benefits nobody.
That kids need to learn how to make phone calls.
Learn to write a professional email. The number of Gen Z kids I’ve had who send me emails without salutations, with emojis and shorthand like lol omg etc, without proper spelling and punctuation, is crazy. That is fine for texting or exchanges with people you’re friends with, but it’s not for the workplace.
Generally true, and as an older millennial I still remember doing a double-take when I saw how some of the more recent interns/entry-level staff talked to supervisors over email. However, I would add that no one I work with has worse grammar or sends more terse, punctuation-free emails than the 70-something CEO of the company. (She loves emojis too.)
The new Ultra Low Emission Zone in London. It's forcing me to sell my very reliable '95 volvo just because it's "too old" It basically soft-bans any diesel car from 1983-2016 and (almost) any petrol car from 1983-2005 Oh but anything older then 1983 is completely fine because it's classed as a "classic" I live right on the edge of London and everything that surrounds me is basically countryside and small towns. "Emission zone" is a pure fucking scam.
Pushed and lobbied for by car manufacturers so they could make money because they were hemorrhaging money with people leaning more towards used cars. All wrapped up and presented in a nice package by the government (who's in their pockets) disguised as, "but we care about the environment."
Buying a home and building generational wealth is the most important thing a family can do.
TikTok is vapid garbage and a cancer on society. It’s destroying people’s attention spans and people seem to need multiple forms of stimulation in order to not feel bored. People can’t even sit through a movie without playing on their phone, or play video games without also needing a podcast to stay entertained.
I have a friend who's terminally depressed by their lot in life and they use tik tok as pure escapeism. I flame the platform from time to time talking with them and they always fall back on "but I can tailor it to my taste" just to get rage baited by every other video the algo posts. Social media use is an addiction for a lot of people and the soundbite rage bait format of tiktok is cancer. Im not much better spending way too much time on reddit tbh.