Boomer here, 64 years old. A radio personality was questioning his son making money on TH-cam because "who would pay to listen to him talk?" A man paid to talk on radio asked that!
I think that's because the Old Media is scared of YT and Social Media in general. It's like this here in Germany at least, all the TV Stations making fun of TH-camrs for years and now most younger ppl I know don't even have TV registered anymore(Still gotta pay for the Publicly Funded stuff even when you don't have TV or Radio lol). I haven't watched regular TV in about 6 years now and I feel like I lost absolutely nothing XD
my dads 70.... his dad used to preach the evils of marijuana. whilst drinking a martini and smoking tobacco. people do silly similar things and often don't realize how hypocritical they might be.
My momma made $20 an hour back in the 70s. She was also involved in some very shady stuff. Bought her first home in cash. She still doesn't get why I didn't just buy my first house with cash. 🤣
@@hmnhntrWith my wife, I think she objects to crime incompetence more than the crime itself. The criminals I knew in my youth were utter screw ups. She knew successful criminals and thinks that’s the standard. It’s not. Most criminals ARE incompetent.
there are 2 kinds of old people. super nice grandma and grandpa who basically adopt any child (anyone younger than them) and give them candies and sweets. and boomers who feed off the misery of others. these are the two kinds with little in between and what's worse is that I feel like the nice ones are disappearing faster than the mean ones.
Yeah, my great grandmother on my dad's mom's side, sweetest old lady. Never got into politics, never said anything mean about anyone about race or anything like that. I mean, with alzheimer's she was generally more confused and cranky, given, you know, Alzheimer's. If you did get into politics, she's more of a "this is how I feel, but I see where yore coming from" and trying to shut it down and keep it civil. And then you have my grandmother on my dad's side. And it's a COMPLETE 180. Always into politics, treating Trump like he's god, raising a child who is now so much of a brat, she makes Caillou look like a saint, takes everything, and I mean EVERYTHING to the extreme. Oh, you want ice cream cake for one birthday when you were 7? How about ice cream cake for now FORTY THREE YEARS STRAIGHT. And not more because that's in the future. Oh, you dislike a single black guy, not because he's black, but because he's an asshole? Well that's great, she at least agrees that all black people suck. I have yet to see anyone over the age of like, 60, who isn't one of these two.
if you want to meet the hippy peace boomers- volunteer at a local state park. They are some of the coolest people I have ever met, taking their retirement to do something good and still hold their ideals. So theyre a little too busy to flip out on facebook.
Usually when people have hobbies and take time to do something good in the world it eats away that anger and spite. The boomers flipping out on facebook are too into themselves and have nothing fun to do.
My mom and dad volunteer for a local educational forest service (not sure what it would be called, it's a walkable forest with some deer/goats/boars etc in pens, educational posters, wild insect habitats and such) and they are responsible for emptying the donation bins. It's usually full of various types of national and international coins, dirt and random crap like buttons etc. My dad's always joking that he is in the business of money laundering because the money has to be washed before it can be brought to the bank. Gets them some regular exercise and they are doing a community service! Plus my dad loves to sort through the foreign currencies.
This. The cool boomers are the ones that are still out and engaging in hobbies, not sitting in the same laz-e-boy chair week after week waiting to die. Those are the ones you'll find consistently online too, cause all they want to do is spread a little misery before sweet death takes them.
13:20 My dad, who's about this guys age, once took me to a casino because he has a bit of a gambling problem. Not obscenely bad, but he goes more than we'd like. Anyway, he takes me and says I should experience it once, and I agree, I set a budget I'll be willing to spend and then go in. I try the slot machines because he said I should try them first instead of going straight to blackjack or something, I say sure fine. Pick a slot machine, and put in a dollar, and then win 60$. My dad was surprised and real happy for me, I was a bit proud too, and I take it and he goes "wanna go again? Just put in one more dollar?" And I go "Are you kidding me? I'm one of the few people in the world now that has a 100% win rate on a slot machine, I'm never touching one of those things again" Not entirely related, but it's a fun story I don't get to share often and figured someone might find it funny.
I went a casino on my 21st birthday, as a celebration to do things I previously couldn't legally do. Had good food, tried my first legally acquired bottle of ale, and made like $245 from blackjack, it was gas. But this makes me regret that day
I was visiting the USA many years ago, and last night in the country was in Las Vegas. I had a spare 5 cent coin and chucked it in a slot machine to get rid of it. Damn machine gave me 10 cents back...
I have an opposite story than you. Went for the first time, my grandma gave me $20 to gamble. I sat at my first machine, put in my chip and the machine started making a loud noise and shaking... It broke. I decided, that was my luck so never went back.
From my experience working with UPS, the old people who hold up trucks like that are doing it trying to demand their package get delivered immediately. Because you know, every single package is on that one truck.
From my experience as a millennial, UPS and FedEx drivers either refuse to do their job and mark it address not found or no one was home while I’ve been sitting there waiting and obsessively checking the tracker to know exactly when they’ll zoom by and pretend they actually tried or they just steal your packages and you have to spend days more of your time, time wasted, to fight them for a package that is RIGHTFULLY fucking yours. ETA: we have to sit outside and wait for them and watch them still drive by so save your bs replies. I’m not sitting in FedEx truck hoods or kicking anyone but I do throw a fit bc I’ll be goddamned if y’all keep pulling this shit. We shouldn’t have to babysit y’all and get loud just to get you to do the job you’re paid to do. Literally your one job. 👏 Do better and people wouldn’t be pissed.
@@sagalofheim446 Seriously! Like just _attempt_ to do your job at least! Though, I have noticed it does depend on area as well as their management. Where I live now, UPS is usually pretty great, mostly are on time and actually bringing my parcels up to the 11th floor to leave them in front of my door. The UPS drivers were typically friendly, and I actually got my packages from them without much fuss. FedEx though...oh boy, FedEx. There are two FedEx offices that deliver to my area, dependent on where the package is coming from. If it's from somewhere north of me, it's fine. Not as good as UPS but you'll _usually_ get your stuff. But if it comes from south and/or west of me (which it usually does, as that's the majority of the country for me), or if it comes from a local area...pity the poor soul that has to deal with their bullshit. One time, during the height of the pandemic, I was getting my medications delivered to me, both because I don't drive but I am also high-risk. Walgreens shipped it out via FedEx. After taking a trip to the aforementioned terrible FedEx office, FedEx proceeds to not deliver my meds the entire week, all the while the tracking is telling me they're attempting delivery when they're not. Like you, I waited. Mind you, I lived in a 14-story high-rise at the time, so I was waiting outside. I never even saw their truck, and oh what's this? Another attempted delivery? Yeah, okay. Then, the next day after this supposed delivery attempt, I get a call. It's the manager from the FedEx office. She proceeds to tell me they attempted delivery three separate times. I firmly tell her that no, they did not, and that I had waited outside yesterday and no FedEx truck came. She argues, and when I call out all her falsehoods, she goes into "Well, what we can do...we can send it to a pickup location. So you can just go and pick it up. How about this Walgreens near you?" Now, I've never yelled at anyone working customer service, including this woman. But the amount of anger and derision in my tone was pretty clear, I think, when I snapped back: "Those are my _meds!_ They _came_ from fucking Walgreens! If I wanted to go to Walgreens, _I would've just gone to fucking Walgreens in the first place!"_ She sputtered after that, obviously not knowing how to reply. When she finally regained her composure, she simply asked "So what location works for you?" It wasn't Walgreens.
@sinkingpotatosalad My mom is like that. She gets upset whenever I disagree with her on something and keeps expecting me to like the same foods and places as her when my taste in these things is completely different from hers.
My parents are like that. My mom gets all pissy when I pass on their plans because I've booked myself to DJ. It's in VR, and it's unpaid, so to them it is unimportant and a waste of time. I've explained to them that it's pretty much the only thing keeping me going and providing me any sort of social life. But spending 3 hours a month prepping and performing is just too much time wasted. However, if I decide not to work on job apps to watch a 3 hour football game with my Dad, it's perfectly fine.
My Swedish boomer parents (adoptive parents, but still *my* parents) are exactly the same fluffy, humorous and loving hippies that they were back in the day - the only difference is that they have a helluvalot of money now, when back then they lived frugally (to be honest, they still live frugally, only spending money on vacations, charity work and my daughter). I love them and their beautiful, humanitarian hearts so much. Both of them have dedicated their entire careers and lives to helping others - my father with finding homes for kids and teens who don't have a great homelife (that's how they "found" me), and my mother as a psychologist who has a doctorate in addiction, trauma and eating disorders, and still works to this day (at 73 years young) because she just feels like she has more people to help. Most boomers are great people, like you said several times. It's the loud-ass outliers that are destroying everything for us all.
Your parents are living the ACTUAL “American dream”, right there 💕 They sound wonderful and please thank them for being a great example of a life well-lived for me! It heals my tired heart 🙂
@@nicres Well, they are Swedish and live in Sweden, so I don't know how "American" their dream is. To be completely honest, their dream has never, ever involved anything American at all. But I get your point :) They are beautiful people and everything they have earned, they are trying to pay it forward :)
14:12 The saddest part about this is that all she had to do was walk into her local library, show them her license and a bill and her online access would be restored immediately. Most American public libraries require patrons to do this once a year. Sis just needed to show proof of residency. She either didn't know this somehow (ignorance) , forgot (early dementia) or knows she's moved and doesn't want the library to know for some reason. I regularly volunteer at my local library and they get at least 3 people like this a week. They get super combative over it. One time this lady blamed us because her Facebook got "hacked" She forgot to log out of the public PCs and someone trolled her page and tried to change her password. For the record every single PC has AT LEAST 3 reminders in, on and around them to log out when you're done.
I am sorry to hear that your customers are such idiots. Luckily, mine are mostly nice. The older just dont get all the technik-stuff with internet and so. We have to explain a lot. But year, if you have a problem, just tell us and we try to help as best as we can.
Really? I've had the same library card for almost 20 years at this point, don't use it every year, and have never had to prove residency except when I lost my card and got it replaced.
Older people assuming Millennials are early to late teenagers will never cease to amaze me. I am Gen z and I am a Adult for reference, been one for a few years now
I'm an " early batch" millennial... I'm 42! And if there has ever been a defining element for millennials it's " we had great dreams but failed and now have depression" I hope gen z does better
@@lannik_0 we didn't fail. We never had a chance. They sold us a lie that makes us feel like we failed. Gen Z wasn't lied to so they never tried. They knew it would be fruitless.
Just coming over to share my own recent "boomers being fools" story. My friend is disabled, and is currently going through the ADA accommodation process to still be able to do their blue collar job. Their parents keep _insisting_ that they ask for a job in HR instead of going for accommodations, and when it's pointed out that HR is _not_ a no-experience-required position, the only thing the parents say is "show them how good you type, they'll have to hire you if you type that well." This is, needless to say, _not_ how that works...
Hell, data entry isn't a no experience no degree required job anymore. There are jobs I did RIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, that now want 2-5 years experience and a bachelor's degree. I type 130 wpm with few mistakes! That's how I got hired back then, but that's not how it works now. Boomers walked in and changed shit up and made it harder for us. Yes, boomers. They're the ones running the corporate show these days.
I would prefer no experience people worked HR, then it'd be a crapshoot as to whether you got a good one or not as opposed to the consistently incompetent amoral narcissists who fill those departments now.
right! I’m disabled too and trying my hardest to get a job I can do, but apparently I’m not really trying and just want to laze around at home because I don’t have one yet because “who wouldn’t hire you, you’re beautiful and smart”… and that means even less than you think as it’s coming from a psychopathic bigoted narcissistic abuser… and won’t understand even a degree most likely doesn’t help nowadays so it’s not worth getting super indebted over it even if I can manage to get the meds I need to do it…
6:40 Boomer family member passed away this year and we were clearing out the house. They still had the house plan and mortgage stuff from when the house was built in 1970. It was about 1700 sq ft with 3 bed 1.5 bath built on 1 acre. The grand total for the land, the house, and the labor to build the house was about $15,000 (about 122K today).
@@TassisMe "actually".... what are you talking about? It seems like you just wanted to post some google searched data. Either a bot or... a real "fine" person.
The average tract home of about 1300 square feet was $27,000.00. Anyone that has a working brain would know a custom built home on acreage would cost even more than that BS amount of $15,000.00. .. It's called basic economics, but that might be hard for some people to figure out.
My boomer dad has no idea how he ended up with the job he had. He was literally just handed the job cause he knew a guy. Made 200k a year doing yard work for a rich guys property. Boomers just had to exist and were handed opportunities. And they dont understand that oportunities dont happen like that anymore.
Bs that sh** is rare. You honestly think everyone had opportunities like that? Come on now, only a moron would think that. That kind of thing absolutely does still happen today but it is still very rare. They had some advantages we don’t have but making blanket statements just proves them right when they make the claim that you’re all whiny man-children that refuse to work and blame everything on that generation. Stop buying into this generation vs generation nonsense. It’s all a class thing and the so called upper class are using you as a puppet.
@@thedemolitionmuniciple yeah, if I want to drive stick i'm gonna have to learn it myself. My favorite car only came in stick too at least as far as I know :(
I feel for the old woman having a tantrum at the pharmacy. They can be absolutely awful there. Especially if you have a lot of medications you require each month. Ive been pushed to tears by the pharmacy trying to get insulin syringes for my son in law the day he got out of the hospital for ketoacidosis. I hadn't slept much and I'm sure I looked like hell, but the tech refused to sell my syringes and said I "looked like a junkie" I was so angry and so embarrassed, there was a huge line. I was most angry at the fact that they felt that a "junkie" didn't deserve access to clean needles. (In my state a Rx is not required for syringes and people often purchase them for themselves or for giving their pets medications) The same pharmacy would deny me my monthly medications telling me I couldn't have them because I was pregnant which was news to me as I hadn't had sex in literal years at that point. And they were meds your couldn't just stop taking as it would cause major issues. They really really enjoyed playing "god" with people's meds there. I finally was able to get my insurance to agree to let me switch and haven't had any issues since. But I used to get so anxious and upset every month when it was med full day because I knew I was going to have to be on the phone for hours and basically cry and beg them to give me my meds that I have taken since 2012 and have only one Dr prescribing. It was wild. Had I had the energy I couldve definitely been pushed to a tantrum at that pharmacy 😅
Yeap, I have had several breakdowns either right outside of the pharmacy or when I've just come home from the pharmacy because they wouldn't FRIGGIN listen to me. You wrote that they mistook you for an addict, and that must have sucked, like really sucked. It sucks a little extra since they didn't seem to think an addict deserves to be treated like a *person* with the same rights as everybody else. And what was that bullshit about them not giving you your medications because you "were pregnant"?! Uhm, excuse me, but what the heeeell...?! The audacity! I have a story from "the other side", since I was addicted to heroin, amphetamine and Xanax for 17 years - got addicted to Xanax at 13, heroin and amphetamine closely after that - and got clean in 2020 when I was 30. I took just about every drug that exists, but I've also been clean now for over 4 years. I am not, and have never been, abusing medications that I get from my doctors, ever. But since it says in my old files and notes from my physician, psychiatrist, psychologist and social worker that I've been an addict, it has lead to me being refused the medications that help me survive each day with CPTSD _(complex PTSD),_ ADHD, Borderline personality disorder, psychotic episodes, and depression. And it's happened more times than should be possible in only 4 years. And this is on top of them refusing to let me pick up my Methadone - which is what is helping me to stay clean - just because some asshole pharmacytech thought that it *looked* like I was abusing other drugs. I'm like "Excuse me, ma'am, but HOW THE FUCK do you think that you can 'tell' by just looking at me that I've been using something, when I haven't touched anything in years and are leaving drug tests, that have all been clean, 1-2 times a month? And how can you, who's never met me before, 'know' that I'm using drugs when my doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist and social worker all have written notes of me BEING FRIGGIN SOBER that you can read in my file!?" That has happened more than once, but only 3 or maybe 4 times. Not as many times as the other medications at least. It's a mindfuck and I completely understand why someone would lose it inside of a pharmacy after having to deal with that shit one too many times. I mean, it's not only that they have been refusing to give me my prescription meds, it's that the medications that I'm on are medications that are dangerous as hell to just stop with. I could become psychotic. I could become suicidal. I could lose conciousness. I could even die. I thank the universe that I have an amazing team of doctors and psychiatrists that will always back me up and call up any pharmacy and chew them out completely when I call them about stuff like this. Otherwise I think I would have snapped a long time ago, just like the lady in the video. I've moved to a new apartment recently and changed my pharmacy at the same time. I haven't had any issues whatsoever with them. It's the complete opposite actually, they have been fantastic! They are so sweet. Everyone who works there recognize me already and always smile and say "Hi Tessie!" when I come in and then they talk for a while with me. Amazing people! So I am quite positive for the future right now. Hoping to not having to freak out over medications again! Have a sweet weekend! :) Sending you peace and positivity from me, a Swedish woman living in Norway! ;D
What the hell is that pharmacy, these people are awful?!?! 😵😵😵 I'm glad you were able to switch, it must have been a nightmare to deal with such anxiety every time you had to go there...
9:47 For reference, going with Robin's assumption that this person was working in the 70s, $20/hr would be the equivalent of anywhere from $86.65-$161.98/hr when you factor in inflation. That's 4-5 times as much as I make with a job that required a college degree. And I guarantee this woman did not need one to make that. Were boomers literally just not taught what inflation is? How can they not comprehend the simple concept THAT THINGS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE NOW AND WAGES ARE LOWER?
I'm pretty sure there are many boomers that worked in the financial industry or maybe they still do. Also everyone with some kind of education at least knows what inflation is. Many may not understand the current economic situation, because they are either retired or have a high paying job. It's also millenials that are well off that say "You just have to work more!"
I am 74-year-old white woman. I made $3.75 an hour working as a R.N. Nobody was making $20 an hour!! I strive to be a good Boomer and citizen. There are Boomers I can't stand.
Many of them have HAD to and they are a fucking nightmare to work with. Several of my coworkers are 65+ and are still so vain that they won't wear glasses, hearing aids, or learn how to use completely necessary computer equipment.
My grandmother is a boomer and actually, she hasn't been able to retire. Which is awful, but it does help her understand the state of things more, thankfully.
@@cassandralyris4918yeah, the constant squinting and the cupped hands over the ear, and asking to “say that again” definitely doesn’t make them look old at all
I work at a hotel and one of my coworkers is 60. He spends his entire shift on Breitbart and neglects to do half of the job duties, so everyone hates him. He also regularly screws up on the computer (our system is pretty complex) and blames it on a "glitch." My GM is a woman and he told her that she only criticizes him because he's the only straight white man on staff (he isn't). He once said, and I quote, "I don't usually make mistakes, so it's hard for me to fix them" when approached about his inability to take criticism. I work in hell 😊
11:50 I can just picture it.. Karen incredulously cuts a hydraulic hose under pressure, gets a hydraulic oil Injection Injury, walks it off, ends up in the hospital that night with a burning sensation in her arm. Ends up losing 2 fingers and half the arm to debridement GG.
I just hope that whatever damage she caused either didn't matter, or caused the machine to simply not work. I fear it might have failed catastrophically or in a way that caused someone to get hurt
Was gonna say she's so lucky that she didnt cut a wire or smthn that was under pressure, cause she absolutely could have killed herself or someone else right here.
@@hmnhntr From my (limited) experience with such lifts, they are designed so that in case ofa major failure, they would just safely lower the nacelle to the ground. Might not be a pleasant ride down, but it'd be a survivable one.
@@hmnhntr Such lifts have a mechanical bottleneck for safety reasons in the main hydraulic that keeps the boom up, so that even if the whole hose of the hydraulics burst, it would go down at a reduced rate, enough so that it shouldn't be all that dangerous to the operators. Of course if there were someone under the boom that weighs a ton or so, they wouldn't be happy about it.
I did some quick math. If the mom was paid $20 an hour back then for 50 hour workweeks she was paid $3,750 a week. To be earning that much money today in a 40 hour workweek (if we compare new working standard compared to the old one) op would have to be paid $93.75 an hour. What's even worse is that $20 an hour today in the US (as it seems, I'm not american rather italian so I might be off here) seems to be considered a high salary of sorts and is not minimum wage.
I feel like with baby boomers, they either are the nicest person you’ve ever met with incredible stories to tell or someone so entitled that you’d think they’re an old cartoon villain.
1:55 - I sure hope that idiot that climbed on the hood had charges laid. Not only can he be done for the assault of kicking the phone from the driver's hand, he can also be done for impeding a mail delivery service, that law doesnt just apply to USPS folks, it applies to ALL mail carriage services, which include FedEx and UPS.
Also high risk because if the driver started driving he could easily claim he thought the guy was going to rob him in this era of rampant package theft.
Mean boomers = ❌ Cool boomers = ✅ My grandpa was a total badass, he built himself a fully functioning tractor out of scrap from the junkyard, he made moonshine, he owned a crane which he operated as a fairground ride for the local kids, he was a master woodworker who made toys for me (still have them on my shelf to this day) and was even commissioned by the local pub to make tables and benches for them.
What frustrates me the most is how boomers will sometimes say/act like people can’t write or read in cursive as if they weren’t the ones to stop teaching it. Back in first grade they stopped teaching my class cursive for some reason,
Thank you for saying it, i must’ve been just on the ass end of when they stopped bothering to teach it. And I’ve also noticed I’ve gone 2-3 years at a time without seeing it used what does that say?
It's actually funny when you realize cursive was invented because of fountain pens and quill pens being messy to work with, and would leave ink splatters on the page if you stopped to lift the pen off the page. We no longer have to worry about that with modern pens not having that issue so cursive was (and to some extent still is) being kept around solely out of stubbornness.
The reason being that it was seen to be more important to acquire 'typing skills' on a computer. Makes sense since we're shifting towards electronic documents
9:55 anytime I hear a mean old boomer telling to "work more, it's not that hard" my go to response is "oh well, if it's so fecking easy, THEN WHY DON'T YOU DO IT?! HUH?! NOW HECK OFF!"
Manuals were still pretty common when I learned to drive one in the early 90s, but I think the last manual I had was around 2010, and haven't really seen any for sale since then. Anyway, my left foot and right hand sometimes still "shift" when I'm driving 😄
@@skyblazeeterno oh I get it, but the facts and stats say our depression now is WAY worse then they ever dealt with, its not even comparable, we have it 200x worse.
I deal with a lot of boomers at my job (telecoms) and they often complain that things are getting more and more expensive. I should just tell them to work harder.
You can have your parents retested my dad had his retested and they said "if they were taking the test to get their licence they would've failed but because its us were gonna pass them" and we're like wth these people are a danger to themselves, and everyone around them. they drove for HOURS going NOWHERE because my grandpa couldn't tell where he was, and either FORGOT HE HAD HIS PHONE, or was TOO STUBBORN TO USE IT! And then he called my dad to COME GET THEM FROM THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE! And several times my dad has witnessed my grandpa nearly run into people, or cars, or curbs, because he just, DIDN'T LOOK.
I was taught in elementary school that not only could you become jobless from having a beer in a college photo on social media, but that even drinking juice out of a Solo cup was suspicious enough to make you unemployable.
I remember learning something about a teacher that was fired for a photo taken of her and her coworkers at a teacher end of school type of party. It was a normal group photo in front of a banner or something, but she was holding her drink (non alcoholic) in a red solo cup... It was enough to get her fired apparently. But I don't really remember the story too well I just remember my teacher lecturing us on it in school lmao
Really? I've never heard that. No one has said it to me or around me... no one I know has heard this outside of maybe casual, passing advice.... I think the kids are making this one up and the bots have just run with it now.
It feels like 70s poor and 21st century poor are two different things. My parents described being poor as a child but they lived in beautiful houses and owned their own veggie patches and owned horses and stuff, while when i was a kid our family was living off of as little as half a sausage or a cup of rice a day for a while because of a messy divorce. Im currently living on an income well below the poverty line while someone who made the kinda money i have could've owned an entire home within weeks back then.
6:29 Emkay: "if I were looking for a house of the same size and stature I would probably need to spend $700,000" Me:" Don't forget to bring the bazooka for the payment as well"
20:14 Long term restaurant worker here. Two things: 1: "The customer is always right." warped TF out of boomers brains and gave them the most insane entitlement that they lord over servers....then end up tipping like its 1985 The original saying is "The customer is always right as pertaining to their preferences" 2: If you have a table sitting there after close you just start cleaning their table and like rewiping it getting in their way. Maybe sweeping around them....basically you do your job and show them that they don't own the restaurant. I qualify this by saying if they are your biggest table that night then don't do it and salvage what measly tip they will give you.
My favorite is when old people are racist and homophobic but then they have black and gay friends so it’s okay. Like wdym it’s not normal cause u didn’t see it? When you were a child people thought women would die if they went on a train.
@Canleaf08 it does happen! What they do is they find POC who are also racists (like black people who are racist against asians or indigenous people) and gay exclusionaries (usually people who think gay, straight, and lesbian are the only 3 options & everything else is "degeneracy") and use these people to validate their opinions. Like the type of queer & black men who are invited onto Fox News to validate their lunacy. Right wingers who get scared when people call them out for their bigotry cling to dudes like that.
@@Canleaf08 sure he’ll call them friends if it benefits him but he’s probably just using the one black or gay coworker who has to tolerate his bigotry as a token “friend” to give him cover till he can slink away. Bad boomers smh
The black/gay “friends” in question: some random people who might or might not even fit whatever demographic hes trying to claim they are who took his McDonalds order one time and he was such a big boy he didnt go on a slur-filled rant calling for their immediate lynchings
The manual thing isn't a millenial thing, it's an American thing. For some reason this particular person and quite some Americans with him are proud of the fact that they can drive a manual, meanwhile in Europe every 17 year old girl can do that. But it seems to be something special for Americans.
It’s nearly impossible to buy a manual car in the US. And I used to always have 4-wheel-drive cars so I could drive mountain roads in winter, but they don’t really exist anymore. All wheel drive just doesn’t compare. And car dealerships only want to carry sports cars and giant gas guzzlers so they make more money. It’s hard to even afford a decent used car. I had a couple 4wd compacts and they were badass, but that was in the 90s.
@@user-iw6bu4iq4r depends on how many times he spun that machine at $5. I mean, he could have spent $10.000 before he won that price, who knows? And how many days of the week is he sitting at that machine? but I get what you're saying, just wanted to put it in perspective.
My grandpa had a brand new two story house with garage built in a new high end neighborhood with two brand new cars and put three kids through college. Worked as a Part Time Manager of a Gas Station. If you had the same job today, you'd be lucky to afford the gas to get there each week lol
Oh Whoopi know the world isn't the same as when she was a little girl. One of her famous quotes is when she first saw Michelle Nicolas as Uhura on Star trek was "Momma there's a black woman on TV and she ain't a maid!"
Now I’m wondering: what are the best places to have a heart attack that you wouldn’t expect to be well equipped/prepared for such? What about vice versa, what places would you think you’re surrounded by people who can help/easily get help but in reality you’re gonna be dead if you have a heart attack? I think for the latter it would be mattress stores, because how is a mattress store staying in business if it’s not a mafia front and they were planning on stealing your organs anyways
Unless the people have been trained in first aid most people will stand around expecting someone else to be calling 911/emergency services. If you've been trained then before you do any resuscitate you have to point at a person and command them to call for emergency services. It snaps them out of the shock of what they're seeing and gets them moving. So there's a lot of places where you could potentially just die with a bunch of people watching and not doing anything.
@@elaexplorer But like surely not everyone…well, I can imagine a restaurant full of people who just pretend to not have noticed someone on the floor. Gosh dang it why does conformity have to be so inconvenient?
If you had a heart attack in an undergrad cell biology lecture, the nearest person that actually can actually help is teaching in the nursing department or med department half way across campus. The phd microbiologist teaching cell biology hasn’t looked at a heart diagram since 2003
I swear the sheer amount of disrespect I've seen with boomers and the occasional Gen X customer where I work is just absurd. I work back in a kitchen where there are TONS of machinery: ovens, vent hoods, etc running. It gets so damn LOUD back in that kitchen that I can't hardly hear people over half the time which doesn't help when people mumble. I am just the prep shift person where I make salads, wraps, junk like that; my job has such a tiny margin of error in that if I get even a SINGLE thing wrong it fucks my whole shift up. In comes a much older lady wearing a mask and very dark sunglasses. I cannot hear her speak, nor did I see her mouth move because she had a mask on. Next thing I do hear her say is 'Are you deaf??'. I looked up, scowled, and walked away. I'm only sad that I didn't do what a coworker suggested and faked sign language at the woman to watch her go from disgruntled to utterly embarrassed, and I damn well should have. I hate how boomers and Gen X think that being a dick to workers when they are just trying to get their shit done and verbally abuse them will get them better service. Fuck sakes man...
When I was growing up I lived in a house with my mom and 2 of my grandparents. They were abysmally stupid and belligerent. I learned pretty early on that just because someone is old doesn't mean you have to respect them, and it also doesn't mean they have some sort of hidden wisdom. It just means they're old.
The idea of “old people have wisdom” may have been somewhat true a century or two ago when living until you were old was harder and rarer. But nowadays with modern medical care, population booms, and easier access to healthy nutrition living until your old is not at all difficult anymore and means nothing.
@@thewastelandworrier You just said something that gave me a bit of a realization. Boomers might be my grandparents generation, but it must be so much worse having to have that as your parents just due to how much more often you have to be around them.
17:03 I wish we are forced to retake a drivers test in all states, especially Texas (1 a year), because no one knows how to drive. This is not a joke, i’ve seen people drive like they’re trying to kill everyone, including themselves on the roads. And no it’s not like one or two people, It’s basically everyone, including the cops. It’s sad.
This only works if they're willing to fail people. Having worked in the industry and with the state of Texas...if they think you could almost pass or you threaten to sue, they'll just pass you. Obviously CDL's are a bit different, but in general southern states will give you a license regardless of your ability. I saw a girl hit the dmv building and get her license.
😂 I remember a dash cam clip of a Texas cop pulling over someone for driving the speed limit dude was confused. Cop said that's suspicious here and threatened to ticket him with impeding the flow of traffic.
14:37 omg I remember seeing this video. She'd gone on a whole thing about her divorce... the city council meeting was about a rezoning issue for a business in Davenport, Iowa
At 62, I'm a little old to be gen x and I'm a little too young to be full boomer. Technically, I guess I'm closer to boomer age. I'm proud to say that I'm more like the dancing grandpa than the idiot who jumped on the school bus. I understand technology and have never fallen victim to any conspiracy theory fever. I embrace the LGBTQ+ community. Live and let live. If you're happy, i'm happy for you. I'm not scared of new music. Some of it may not be to my taste but nobody is forcing me to listen to it. I even wrote a rap song that embarrasses my kids but my grandkids love it. (Start with a beatbox rhythm) Yeah I really love that hip hop beat Watch everybody as I move my feet (here is where I moonwalk lol) I wanna dance, ain't never gonna stop You wanna get a laugh, just watch yo Pop Pop Feel that bass beat workin' But the last thing you wanna see is your Pop Pop twerkin' People think I'm crazy. I think they may be right. Because I'm up here rappin', kinda old and really white. When I say that I can rap, they say he's got a lot of nerve Well, grab yourself a napkin cause you just got served. Word to your Mamaw Shout out to all the awesome boomers out there!
13:00 as someone who works at a casino (janitor) please do not go spend all your hard earned cash there. Always remember that the house always win and i routinely see people losing whole grands there.
17:23 But they also weren't. Like sure they were hippies but they were also the ones slamming the doors in hippie's faces and telling them to get a haircut. They did drugs and rock & roll but they also were corporate stooges who did drugs. 😂😂😂
4:21 He probably could've been worried about the Crowdstrike outage that happened in July if that's where the post is dated to. Very reasonable concern as well; A LOT of stuff went offline from that, including a sizable portion of banks.
I used to prefer manual because it gave me something to fidget with. As I've aged I think it's pretty dumb to opt for anything but automatic because driving already has many things to pay attention to and the acceleration is pretty darn good now. Surprisingly to me, off-roading is MUCH more enjoyable with automatic too. Same with driving on ice and snow.
I prefer the manual for ice and snow for a couple reasons, getting unstuck is easier, put it in a low gear and work the clutch to rock out, instead of reverse and drive. Also when going downhill in bad conditions I can rely on engine braking rather than braking which imo is safer
Then you never fully was ofroading. As you would still get in some situation drive only in first gear. And maybe it's dumb to have but not dumb to learn. Also the amount you need to pay attention to it. Does not take away from driving. Most cases it could even force you to pay more attention as otherwise you could go faster in full auto pilot
I've got a manual because I insisted I NEED to engine brake because my old car had drum brakes and no ABS so it was pretty crappy at stopping. The new one has all discs with big pads so I actually don't need to engine brake anymore. I really wish I had opted for an automatic.
Actually, I had a "boomer" do the same thing to me while I was working at a Walmart. Say what you will, not all Walmarts are the same, I actually shopped at my Walmart before I worked there and found it a kind experience. This elderly man was asking for an electric cart, alright cool, I asked him if there was any in the bay just behind him. He told me "I wouldn't come to you if I saw some". So I said since I am currently with a coworker that was a minor, I told him let me see who I can grab to help you. And before I knew it, I saw one parked near the handicapped spots near the store so I asked him kindly to see if that one out there is possible for him. He agreed and went to check on it, and came back angrily moments later. When I asked him what's wrong, he said "You want to know what's wrong, kiddo? Are they suppose to be charged?" I answered the best way I can, that yes they should of been. And he told me I was lying and that cart out there was at 20%. I told him I'm sorry that one didn't get charged since last night and I told him let me see if where the others are. He threw his bags up near self checkout register 13 near the door and demanded to know why I was lying. Which I told him I wasn't, and that I am not the night crew, and he legit told me that I lied because the cart wasn't charged and wanted me to tell the truth. So I asked him "What do you want me to say, sir? That 20% isn't charged? Because yes, that isn't." he then cut me off by saying "Then why did you LIE to me?" picking up his voice, so I asked if he wanted someone like a manager to help him. He sat almost throwing a bit on the bench and said yes, and to tell them that I was lying to him about the electric carts. So I swapped places with another cashier from the normal assisted registers and they were able to calm him down, but he ultimately said he won't shop here again if we only had 4 electric carts and 3 were being used currently and another wasn't currently plugged on. They did convinced them that it was out of my power for that event.
11:00 telling her that she should branch out to TH-cam and social media is like if you told someone in the 70s to branch out to TV or Radio. Just because there are people who make lots of money entertaining people doesnt mean that everyone will be able to. 😓
Thank you Robin! We should test EVERYONE periodically, not just the elderly. Because honestly everyone collectively has forgotten how to drive since 2020...Granted there were drivers like this I just think we are seeing more of these, and yes I'm aware TH-cam videos are partly the reason.
20:26 my current boss is the same way. I work at an amusement park running the Dippin dots stand. Which is ‘conveniently located right next to the exit. Every night that I work I have to wait until the whole park clears out before I can close. 😭
@@elaexplorer I mean to be fair I would to. I’m mainly complaining because people take forever to leave 😂 it’s usually an hour to an hour and a half after closing that I get to close down
It's a motion sensor... when the truck slammed onto the ground, it activated the "oh crap, you're in a collision"... the person probably just went a little too fast and climbed the pole. Not fast enough to activate the airbags... but fast enough to seriously mess up the pole... then combine that with very poor driving skills as the person tries to unstuck the truck....
That's a boom lift, not a crane. That specific model is ~$40k, but the damage she caused along with the intent to do harm to others is going to cost her WAAAAY more than $40k.
Just a quick point, Motley Crüe was GenX music not Boomers. They had Elvis, The Beatles, and David Bowie, and The Rolling Stones. Boomers wanted to put labels on music by bands like Motley Crüe judging them to be a bad influence just based on their looks... although Bowie did do a lot of similar looks.
Somebody won $570 on the slot, probably not him. The nuggets on the screen are part of the demo screen saver thing it does when no one is playing. If he actually did that spin he would have won close to $8000
Waiting for the Huggbees X Emkay collab, Robin and Andrew going off about mildy infuriating things would be like two birds attacking your local Chipotle employee.
when my dad was 20 he made like 1.75$ before tips but his rent was 300$ a month for a duplex. i’m 20 and i made 22$ an hour and a comparable place would be 1500$. my BEDROOM i rent is 800$ a month.
@@visceratrocar Out of every grammatical mistake, you went for that one? Why? Did the lowercase not tip you off enough that this was a casual setting? They're clearly just trying to write a casual comment on the internet, not an essay. As long as it's understandable. I don't see what's wrong with it. It's definitely not enough to warrant that passive aggressiveness.
@@flowerism9898 Defensive much. You do know youtube comments are not fact, right? No, O guess you'd rather take everything internet random so personally. Grow the hell up. Nobody cares how you feel.
I'm poor. Under the poverty line. The Boomers (TM) are trying to convince me to "make money" with my art. I was trying to explain to them that yes, I'm trying, but the market is pretty much dead anyway thanks to AI "art" and that I'm not good enough (above average but not exactly a SamdoesArts) and they said "well maybe you should use AI then"... ma'am...
11:50 Yeah, they grew up during a time when cameras were rare and really, really crappy for the most part. My grandmother didn't understand how she got so many pictures of and from the grandkids, we tried explaining everyone has a phone camera these days(She didn't have a mobile because she insisted the landline was all she needed, but she did have an older tablet without a camera) but it never really clicked for her that everyone having a camera meant there would be more pictures and videos. This lady probably is in the same mindset, understanding that there are more cameras but not understanding what it means.
14:28 FOR CONTEXT: this woman is Lisa. Lisa has come to a zoning meeting for street 62. Her talking point: all the stuff she dislikes in life. Lisa lives on street 52.
That FedEx driver that got kicked. Dam that brings me back to when I worked for FedEx and had boomers get mad at me for stupid stuff that was out of my control. I also remember not being allowed into buildings sometimes because my truck wasn't in view so clearly that means I'm up to no good. 🤷
I used to do FedEx too. Truly an awful experience. I had a boomer that ordered wine boxes monthly and each time she tried to refuse signing the scanner.
@@varus6969 tbh, I don't know what her specific objection was. She just liked to be a pain in the ass. As if the signature was a burden or an inconvenience for her.
17:00 I've been asking that vary question myself. We see so many vehicular accidents every single day, that I feel their should be a law that requires you to retake the practical test, before you can renew
I had an 89 year old cut me off in a Ford f 150 causing me to rear end him. Who the hell lets an 89 year old buy a 2023 Ford f 150? There needs to be hard limits on driving and what vehicles the elderly are allowed to buy.
I was looking up cashier jobs while talking to my boomer relative the other day and I said like, 20 USD is relatively good considering the minimum wage. And she was shocked, like wow that is so low, what is the minimum wage like 15 USD? I had to break the news to her that the minimum wage was 7.25 USD an hour and she didn't believe me until I asked her to look it up herself .
I am one of the youngest of the boomer generation, and I can't understand why people are so invested in what everybody else is doing. Just let people live, is it that hard?
5:50 You know how the teens acted in movies like Grease, Back to the Future, etc? That's how it actually was. Kids acted that way. Nobody really stopped them. Greasers vs Beatniks. (and later hippies) This is what those bullies ended growing up into. And they probably beat their wife, just like daddy beat mom.
1980 I was making $5.35 an hour. Again three at the table after closing look like boomers, others look like Gen x I worked two or three jobs most of my life. I did that because poverty exists. Anyone who says there is no reason to live in poverty is stupid. Most people work to get by, not for luxuries. A place to live, food to eat, clothes to wear, utilities, medical issues. Minimum wage was raised to $7.35 an hour the year before I became disabled and could no longer work. That was many years ago and inflation just gets higher and higher. Time for a major increase in wages.
Raising wages wont help, they will still print more money than necessary. The way how interest based dept monetary system works is a bubble that can not withstand its own self.
Most people still think manual gets better fuel economy. That used to be true, but automatics surpassed manual in fuel economy more than a decade ago. Since 2007 most automatics offer manual modes for steep or rugged terrain, further moving manual towards becoming antiquated technology. These days, manual daily drives are purely for showing off, for having fun, or collecting dust.
Boomer here, 64 years old. A radio personality was questioning his son making money on TH-cam because "who would pay to listen to him talk?" A man paid to talk on radio asked that!
Lol
Wow that's crazy
I think he was more shit talking his son then questioning the concept of people paying for entertainment. Which is still pretty dumb
I think that's because the Old Media is scared of YT and Social Media in general. It's like this here in Germany at least, all the TV Stations making fun of TH-camrs for years and now most younger ppl I know don't even have TV registered anymore(Still gotta pay for the Publicly Funded stuff even when you don't have TV or Radio lol). I haven't watched regular TV in about 6 years now and I feel like I lost absolutely nothing XD
my dads 70.... his dad used to preach the evils of marijuana.
whilst drinking a martini and smoking tobacco.
people do silly similar things and often don't realize how hypocritical they might be.
Thanks for the shout out, Robin (I'm 68).
wait fr?
I bet you’re one of the cool boomers, bro
@@celly-vq8dc Yep. I hate Karen boomers too.
@@Jeff121456 HELL YEAH!
@@Jeff121456Jeff is a legend
My momma made $20 an hour back in the 70s. She was also involved in some very shady stuff. Bought her first home in cash.
She still doesn't get why I didn't just buy my first house with cash. 🤣
I mean, even if you did have the money, who the hell would be stupid enough to carry that much around for any amount of time?
It's crazy to me how many boomers talk about being hard on crime and yet will gladly talk about their own criminal activities in the past
@@hmnhntrWith my wife, I think she objects to crime incompetence more than the crime itself. The criminals I knew in my youth were utter screw ups. She knew successful criminals and thinks that’s the standard.
It’s not. Most criminals ARE incompetent.
BRO THATS FUCKIN 164 AN HOUR NOW WHAT
That's like $200,000 a year in today's money
Because the dollar is worth about eight times what it was in the sl70
Your mom was clearing
there are 2 kinds of old people. super nice grandma and grandpa who basically adopt any child (anyone younger than them) and give them candies and sweets. and boomers who feed off the misery of others. these are the two kinds with little in between and what's worse is that I feel like the nice ones are disappearing faster than the mean ones.
Bro made bad boomers look like demons man
My grandma used to say the ones with the most spite live the longest. Their hatred of everyone keeps them going.
@@butteredtoastthingthey aren’t?
@@SaneAcorn2389 "feed off the misery of others"
Yeah, my great grandmother on my dad's mom's side, sweetest old lady. Never got into politics, never said anything mean about anyone about race or anything like that. I mean, with alzheimer's she was generally more confused and cranky, given, you know, Alzheimer's. If you did get into politics, she's more of a "this is how I feel, but I see where yore coming from" and trying to shut it down and keep it civil.
And then you have my grandmother on my dad's side. And it's a COMPLETE 180. Always into politics, treating Trump like he's god, raising a child who is now so much of a brat, she makes Caillou look like a saint, takes everything, and I mean EVERYTHING to the extreme. Oh, you want ice cream cake for one birthday when you were 7? How about ice cream cake for now FORTY THREE YEARS STRAIGHT. And not more because that's in the future. Oh, you dislike a single black guy, not because he's black, but because he's an asshole? Well that's great, she at least agrees that all black people suck.
I have yet to see anyone over the age of like, 60, who isn't one of these two.
if you want to meet the hippy peace boomers- volunteer at a local state park. They are some of the coolest people I have ever met, taking their retirement to do something good and still hold their ideals. So theyre a little too busy to flip out on facebook.
Good to know
Usually when people have hobbies and take time to do something good in the world it eats away that anger and spite. The boomers flipping out on facebook are too into themselves and have nothing fun to do.
My mom and dad volunteer for a local educational forest service (not sure what it would be called, it's a walkable forest with some deer/goats/boars etc in pens, educational posters, wild insect habitats and such) and they are responsible for emptying the donation bins. It's usually full of various types of national and international coins, dirt and random crap like buttons etc. My dad's always joking that he is in the business of money laundering because the money has to be washed before it can be brought to the bank. Gets them some regular exercise and they are doing a community service! Plus my dad loves to sort through the foreign currencies.
This. The cool boomers are the ones that are still out and engaging in hobbies, not sitting in the same laz-e-boy chair week after week waiting to die. Those are the ones you'll find consistently online too, cause all they want to do is spread a little misery before sweet death takes them.
@@matt3606-o3l indeed.
13:20
My dad, who's about this guys age, once took me to a casino because he has a bit of a gambling problem. Not obscenely bad, but he goes more than we'd like. Anyway, he takes me and says I should experience it once, and I agree, I set a budget I'll be willing to spend and then go in. I try the slot machines because he said I should try them first instead of going straight to blackjack or something, I say sure fine. Pick a slot machine, and put in a dollar, and then win 60$. My dad was surprised and real happy for me, I was a bit proud too, and I take it and he goes "wanna go again? Just put in one more dollar?" And I go "Are you kidding me? I'm one of the few people in the world now that has a 100% win rate on a slot machine, I'm never touching one of those things again"
Not entirely related, but it's a fun story I don't get to share often and figured someone might find it funny.
That’s a great story, it sounds like something I would do too (the never touching it again bc I got a 100% win rate)
Also you won 6000% of what you put in, definitely a win
I went a casino on my 21st birthday, as a celebration to do things I previously couldn't legally do. Had good food, tried my first legally acquired bottle of ale, and made like $245 from blackjack, it was gas. But this makes me regret that day
I was visiting the USA many years ago, and last night in the country was in Las Vegas. I had a spare 5 cent coin and chucked it in a slot machine to get rid of it. Damn machine gave me 10 cents back...
I have an opposite story than you. Went for the first time, my grandma gave me $20 to gamble. I sat at my first machine, put in my chip and the machine started making a loud noise and shaking... It broke. I decided, that was my luck so never went back.
16:55 THE AIR BAGS KNOCKED HIS HAT OFF IM CRYING
FELLOW RTC FAN IN THE WILD
did the video cut off at the time the air bags got deployed?
It was pure art!
@@Gayferret420 HEYOOOO
Ride the cyclone fan and Emkay fan spotted !! 🗣🗣🗣🗣
From my experience working with UPS, the old people who hold up trucks like that are doing it trying to demand their package get delivered immediately. Because you know, every single package is on that one truck.
That's even more unhinged than what I thought! (That they just dislike the truck being outside of their house).
If you are talking about the one at 1:55, no, think its more a case of not liking them parked where they are, likely in front of their house lol
From my experience as a millennial, UPS and FedEx drivers either refuse to do their job and mark it address not found or no one was home while I’ve been sitting there waiting and obsessively checking the tracker to know exactly when they’ll zoom by and pretend they actually tried or they just steal your packages and you have to spend days more of your time, time wasted, to fight them for a package that is RIGHTFULLY fucking yours. ETA: we have to sit outside and wait for them and watch them still drive by so save your bs replies.
I’m not sitting in FedEx truck hoods or kicking anyone but I do throw a fit bc I’ll be goddamned if y’all keep pulling this shit. We shouldn’t have to babysit y’all and get loud just to get you to do the job you’re paid to do. Literally your one job. 👏 Do better and people wouldn’t be pissed.
@@sagalofheim446 Seriously! Like just _attempt_ to do your job at least! Though, I have noticed it does depend on area as well as their management. Where I live now, UPS is usually pretty great, mostly are on time and actually bringing my parcels up to the 11th floor to leave them in front of my door. The UPS drivers were typically friendly, and I actually got my packages from them without much fuss.
FedEx though...oh boy, FedEx. There are two FedEx offices that deliver to my area, dependent on where the package is coming from. If it's from somewhere north of me, it's fine. Not as good as UPS but you'll _usually_ get your stuff. But if it comes from south and/or west of me (which it usually does, as that's the majority of the country for me), or if it comes from a local area...pity the poor soul that has to deal with their bullshit.
One time, during the height of the pandemic, I was getting my medications delivered to me, both because I don't drive but I am also high-risk. Walgreens shipped it out via FedEx. After taking a trip to the aforementioned terrible FedEx office, FedEx proceeds to not deliver my meds the entire week, all the while the tracking is telling me they're attempting delivery when they're not. Like you, I waited. Mind you, I lived in a 14-story high-rise at the time, so I was waiting outside. I never even saw their truck, and oh what's this? Another attempted delivery? Yeah, okay. Then, the next day after this supposed delivery attempt, I get a call. It's the manager from the FedEx office. She proceeds to tell me they attempted delivery three separate times. I firmly tell her that no, they did not, and that I had waited outside yesterday and no FedEx truck came. She argues, and when I call out all her falsehoods, she goes into "Well, what we can do...we can send it to a pickup location. So you can just go and pick it up. How about this Walgreens near you?" Now, I've never yelled at anyone working customer service, including this woman. But the amount of anger and derision in my tone was pretty clear, I think, when I snapped back: "Those are my _meds!_ They _came_ from fucking Walgreens! If I wanted to go to Walgreens, _I would've just gone to fucking Walgreens in the first place!"_
She sputtered after that, obviously not knowing how to reply. When she finally regained her composure, she simply asked "So what location works for you?"
It wasn't Walgreens.
They should work for stop oil 😂
i swear parents want you to be just like them and they don't realize that YOU'RE NOT them.
Some parents don’t be like that
Never actually heard of parents like this but they do exist
@sinkingpotatosalad My mom is like that. She gets upset whenever I disagree with her on something and keeps expecting me to like the same foods and places as her when my taste in these things is completely different from hers.
My parents are like that. My mom gets all pissy when I pass on their plans because I've booked myself to DJ. It's in VR, and it's unpaid, so to them it is unimportant and a waste of time. I've explained to them that it's pretty much the only thing keeping me going and providing me any sort of social life. But spending 3 hours a month prepping and performing is just too much time wasted.
However, if I decide not to work on job apps to watch a 3 hour football game with my Dad, it's perfectly fine.
I'm a parent but want my daughter to be independent to follow her heart when it comes to jobs because I never did
I’m on the other end of that particular spectrum. I don’t want my kid to be like me.
My Swedish boomer parents (adoptive parents, but still *my* parents) are exactly the same fluffy, humorous and loving hippies that they were back in the day - the only difference is that they have a helluvalot of money now, when back then they lived frugally (to be honest, they still live frugally, only spending money on vacations, charity work and my daughter). I love them and their beautiful, humanitarian hearts so much. Both of them have dedicated their entire careers and lives to helping others - my father with finding homes for kids and teens who don't have a great homelife (that's how they "found" me), and my mother as a psychologist who has a doctorate in addiction, trauma and eating disorders, and still works to this day (at 73 years young) because she just feels like she has more people to help. Most boomers are great people, like you said several times. It's the loud-ass outliers that are destroying everything for us all.
Your parents are living the ACTUAL “American dream”, right there 💕 They sound wonderful and please thank them for being a great example of a life well-lived for me! It heals my tired heart 🙂
My wife is Swedish so my father in law is a 70 year old Swedish man. From my experience many if not most Swedish boomers are cool.
That is absolutely wonderful ❤ Bless their hearts! I wish I could be like them when i start going into the workforce
may your grandparents have many more happy years ahead of them
@@nicres Well, they are Swedish and live in Sweden, so I don't know how "American" their dream is. To be completely honest, their dream has never, ever involved anything American at all. But I get your point :) They are beautiful people and everything they have earned, they are trying to pay it forward :)
14:12 The saddest part about this is that all she had to do was walk into her local library, show them her license and a bill and her online access would be restored immediately. Most American public libraries require patrons to do this once a year. Sis just needed to show proof of residency. She either didn't know this somehow (ignorance) , forgot (early dementia) or knows she's moved and doesn't want the library to know for some reason. I regularly volunteer at my local library and they get at least 3 people like this a week. They get super combative over it.
One time this lady blamed us because her Facebook got "hacked" She forgot to log out of the public PCs and someone trolled her page and tried to change her password. For the record every single PC has AT LEAST 3 reminders in, on and around them to log out when you're done.
I am sorry to hear that your customers are such idiots. Luckily, mine are mostly nice. The older just dont get all the technik-stuff with internet and so. We have to explain a lot.
But year, if you have a problem, just tell us and we try to help as best as we can.
Really? I've had the same library card for almost 20 years at this point, don't use it every year, and have never had to prove residency except when I lost my card and got it replaced.
she got what was coming to her lol
Older people assuming Millennials are early to late teenagers will never cease to amaze me. I am Gen z and I am a Adult for reference, been one for a few years now
I'm an " early batch" millennial... I'm 42!
And if there has ever been a defining element for millennials it's " we had great dreams but failed and now have depression"
I hope gen z does better
Funfact the brain actually still grows until 25 so it could be technically be considered the age you are fully developed/adult
Exactly, I'm a Millenial and I turned 40 this year!
@@lannik_0 we didn't fail. We never had a chance. They sold us a lie that makes us feel like we failed. Gen Z wasn't lied to so they never tried. They knew it would be fruitless.
I'm an older Gen X-er, and I had a boomer boss pat me on the head like a little kid.
Just coming over to share my own recent "boomers being fools" story.
My friend is disabled, and is currently going through the ADA accommodation process to still be able to do their blue collar job. Their parents keep _insisting_ that they ask for a job in HR instead of going for accommodations, and when it's pointed out that HR is _not_ a no-experience-required position, the only thing the parents say is "show them how good you type, they'll have to hire you if you type that well."
This is, needless to say, _not_ how that works...
Hell, data entry isn't a no experience no degree required job anymore. There are jobs I did RIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, that now want 2-5 years experience and a bachelor's degree.
I type 130 wpm with few mistakes! That's how I got hired back then, but that's not how it works now. Boomers walked in and changed shit up and made it harder for us.
Yes, boomers. They're the ones running the corporate show these days.
I would prefer no experience people worked HR, then it'd be a crapshoot as to whether you got a good one or not as opposed to the consistently incompetent amoral narcissists who fill those departments now.
right! I’m disabled too and trying my hardest to get a job I can do, but apparently I’m not really trying and just want to laze around at home because I don’t have one yet because “who wouldn’t hire you, you’re beautiful and smart”… and that means even less than you think as it’s coming from a psychopathic bigoted narcissistic abuser… and won’t understand even a degree most likely doesn’t help nowadays so it’s not worth getting super indebted over it even if I can manage to get the meds I need to do it…
I bet that lady who told OP keyboard shortcuts are against policy thought OP was 'hacking' 😅😂
I've met people like that. They hate when people know things they don't.
Witchcraft!😮
That one sounded made up. Don't forget, lying on social media is the norm not the exception.
@@jennyanydots2389 I know. Still funny though
@@jennyanydots2389who even cares lol
6:40 Boomer family member passed away this year and we were clearing out the house. They still had the house plan and mortgage stuff from when the house was built in 1970. It was about 1700 sq ft with 3 bed 1.5 bath built on 1 acre. The grand total for the land, the house, and the labor to build the house was about $15,000 (about 122K today).
Actually the average cost of a home in 1970 was $27,000.00. The minimum wage was $1.60 per hour.
@@TassisMe *average* cost. the original comment talked about the actual price of *that* house
@@TassisMe "actually".... what are you talking about? It seems like you just wanted to post some google searched data. Either a bot or... a real "fine" person.
@@TassisMeblud is correcting him on the price of his own house
The average tract home of about 1300 square feet was $27,000.00. Anyone that has a working brain would know a custom built home on acreage would cost even more than that BS amount of $15,000.00. .. It's called basic economics, but that might be hard for some people to figure out.
My boomer dad has no idea how he ended up with the job he had. He was literally just handed the job cause he knew a guy. Made 200k a year doing yard work for a rich guys property. Boomers just had to exist and were handed opportunities. And they dont understand that oportunities dont happen like that anymore.
Correct.
On fucking god
Bs that sh** is rare. You honestly think everyone had opportunities like that? Come on now, only a moron would think that. That kind of thing absolutely does still happen today but it is still very rare. They had some advantages we don’t have but making blanket statements just proves them right when they make the claim that you’re all whiny man-children that refuse to work and blame everything on that generation. Stop buying into this generation vs generation nonsense. It’s all a class thing and the so called upper class are using you as a puppet.
THIS.
Of cause there is opportunity, you are just bot evil enough to look for it.
0:04 he means American anti theft device, most people outside of the us drive manual
I daily drive a manual transmission.
Actually.... Theres alot of people in the US that love standards its mostly a anti gen Z thing
@@youdontneedtoknow106 "Umm, ackshually 🤓☝"
It is still the older generations that are not teaching the new generations how to drive stick.
@@thedemolitionmuniciple And the car manufacturers here state side refuse to sell them as well.
@@thedemolitionmuniciple yeah, if I want to drive stick i'm gonna have to learn it myself. My favorite car only came in stick too at least as far as I know :(
I feel for the old woman having a tantrum at the pharmacy. They can be absolutely awful there. Especially if you have a lot of medications you require each month. Ive been pushed to tears by the pharmacy trying to get insulin syringes for my son in law the day he got out of the hospital for ketoacidosis. I hadn't slept much and I'm sure I looked like hell, but the tech refused to sell my syringes and said I "looked like a junkie" I was so angry and so embarrassed, there was a huge line. I was most angry at the fact that they felt that a "junkie" didn't deserve access to clean needles. (In my state a Rx is not required for syringes and people often purchase them for themselves or for giving their pets medications)
The same pharmacy would deny me my monthly medications telling me I couldn't have them because I was pregnant which was news to me as I hadn't had sex in literal years at that point. And they were meds your couldn't just stop taking as it would cause major issues. They really really enjoyed playing "god" with people's meds there.
I finally was able to get my insurance to agree to let me switch and haven't had any issues since. But I used to get so anxious and upset every month when it was med full day because I knew I was going to have to be on the phone for hours and basically cry and beg them to give me my meds that I have taken since 2012 and have only one Dr prescribing. It was wild. Had I had the energy I couldve definitely been pushed to a tantrum at that pharmacy 😅
Yeap, I have had several breakdowns either right outside of the pharmacy or when I've just come home from the pharmacy because they wouldn't FRIGGIN listen to me. You wrote that they mistook you for an addict, and that must have sucked, like really sucked. It sucks a little extra since they didn't seem to think an addict deserves to be treated like a *person* with the same rights as everybody else. And what was that bullshit about them not giving you your medications because you "were pregnant"?! Uhm, excuse me, but what the heeeell...?! The audacity!
I have a story from "the other side", since I was addicted to heroin, amphetamine and Xanax for 17 years - got addicted to Xanax at 13, heroin and amphetamine closely after that - and got clean in 2020 when I was 30. I took just about every drug that exists, but I've also been clean now for over 4 years. I am not, and have never been, abusing medications that I get from my doctors, ever. But since it says in my old files and notes from my physician, psychiatrist, psychologist and social worker that I've been an addict, it has lead to me being refused the medications that help me survive each day with CPTSD _(complex PTSD),_ ADHD, Borderline personality disorder, psychotic episodes, and depression. And it's happened more times than should be possible in only 4 years. And this is on top of them refusing to let me pick up my Methadone - which is what is helping me to stay clean - just because some asshole pharmacytech thought that it *looked* like I was abusing other drugs. I'm like "Excuse me, ma'am, but HOW THE FUCK do you think that you can 'tell' by just looking at me that I've been using something, when I haven't touched anything in years and are leaving drug tests, that have all been clean, 1-2 times a month? And how can you, who's never met me before, 'know' that I'm using drugs when my doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist and social worker all have written notes of me BEING FRIGGIN SOBER that you can read in my file!?" That has happened more than once, but only 3 or maybe 4 times. Not as many times as the other medications at least.
It's a mindfuck and I completely understand why someone would lose it inside of a pharmacy after having to deal with that shit one too many times. I mean, it's not only that they have been refusing to give me my prescription meds, it's that the medications that I'm on are medications that are dangerous as hell to just stop with. I could become psychotic. I could become suicidal. I could lose conciousness. I could even die. I thank the universe that I have an amazing team of doctors and psychiatrists that will always back me up and call up any pharmacy and chew them out completely when I call them about stuff like this. Otherwise I think I would have snapped a long time ago, just like the lady in the video.
I've moved to a new apartment recently and changed my pharmacy at the same time. I haven't had any issues whatsoever with them. It's the complete opposite actually, they have been fantastic! They are so sweet. Everyone who works there recognize me already and always smile and say "Hi Tessie!" when I come in and then they talk for a while with me. Amazing people! So I am quite positive for the future right now. Hoping to not having to freak out over medications again!
Have a sweet weekend! :) Sending you peace and positivity from me, a Swedish woman living in Norway! ;D
Do you life in America?
What the hell is that pharmacy, these people are awful?!?! 😵😵😵
I'm glad you were able to switch, it must have been a nightmare to deal with such anxiety every time you had to go there...
You should have reported them to the state medical board or at least corporate. Sometimes nothing gets done until someone above them hears about it.
@@lulu111_the_cool sadly yes 😭
2:34 gramps got the moves, amazing, I hope he got the applause he deserves
I think the dropped jaws are better than clapping.
9:47
For reference, going with Robin's assumption that this person was working in the 70s, $20/hr would be the equivalent of anywhere from $86.65-$161.98/hr when you factor in inflation. That's 4-5 times as much as I make with a job that required a college degree. And I guarantee this woman did not need one to make that.
Were boomers literally just not taught what inflation is? How can they not comprehend the simple concept THAT THINGS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE NOW AND WAGES ARE LOWER?
To be fair I don't think anyone is really taught about inflation
I'm pretty sure there are many boomers that worked in the financial industry or maybe they still do. Also everyone with some kind of education at least knows what inflation is. Many may not understand the current economic situation, because they are either retired or have a high paying job.
It's also millenials that are well off that say "You just have to work more!"
@@skyblazeeternothe kids show Arthur touched on inflation!!!
@@fractalgem my comment was a generalisation
I am 74-year-old white woman. I made $3.75 an hour working as a R.N. Nobody was making $20 an hour!! I strive to be a good Boomer and citizen. There are Boomers I can't stand.
12:16 That is actually the perfect reply to someone who is clearly looking for a fight
It doesn't put the fear of God onto others, if anything it motivates others to send you to God
Some of these people need to reenter the workforce today as a teachable moment.
Many of them have HAD to and they are a fucking nightmare to work with. Several of my coworkers are 65+ and are still so vain that they won't wear glasses, hearing aids, or learn how to use completely necessary computer equipment.
My grandmother is a boomer and actually, she hasn't been able to retire. Which is awful, but it does help her understand the state of things more, thankfully.
@@cassandralyris4918yeah, the constant squinting and the cupped hands over the ear, and asking to “say that again” definitely doesn’t make them look old at all
I work at a hotel and one of my coworkers is 60. He spends his entire shift on Breitbart and neglects to do half of the job duties, so everyone hates him. He also regularly screws up on the computer (our system is pretty complex) and blames it on a "glitch." My GM is a woman and he told her that she only criticizes him because he's the only straight white man on staff (he isn't). He once said, and I quote, "I don't usually make mistakes, so it's hard for me to fix them" when approached about his inability to take criticism. I work in hell 😊
@@cassandralyris4918who cares what they wear? ITS THEIR BODY THEIR CHOICE 🏳️🌈🤡🤡🏳️🌈 YOU 👩🦼
11:50 I can just picture it.. Karen incredulously cuts a hydraulic hose under pressure, gets a hydraulic oil Injection Injury, walks it off, ends up in the hospital that night with a burning sensation in her arm. Ends up losing 2 fingers and half the arm to debridement GG.
And then tries to sue the people who own the equipment.
I just hope that whatever damage she caused either didn't matter, or caused the machine to simply not work. I fear it might have failed catastrophically or in a way that caused someone to get hurt
Was gonna say she's so lucky that she didnt cut a wire or smthn that was under pressure, cause she absolutely could have killed herself or someone else right here.
@@hmnhntr From my (limited) experience with such lifts, they are designed so that in case ofa major failure, they would just safely lower the nacelle to the ground. Might not be a pleasant ride down, but it'd be a survivable one.
@@hmnhntr Such lifts have a mechanical bottleneck for safety reasons in the main hydraulic that keeps the boom up, so that even if the whole hose of the hydraulics burst, it would go down at a reduced rate, enough so that it shouldn't be all that dangerous to the operators. Of course if there were someone under the boom that weighs a ton or so, they wouldn't be happy about it.
I did some quick math. If the mom was paid $20 an hour back then for 50 hour workweeks she was paid $3,750 a week. To be earning that much money today in a 40 hour workweek (if we compare new working standard compared to the old one) op would have to be paid $93.75 an hour. What's even worse is that $20 an hour today in the US (as it seems, I'm not american rather italian so I might be off here) seems to be considered a high salary of sorts and is not minimum wage.
I feel like with baby boomers, they either are the nicest person you’ve ever met with incredible stories to tell or someone so entitled that you’d think they’re an old cartoon villain.
That was my experience in retail.
1:55 - I sure hope that idiot that climbed on the hood had charges laid. Not only can he be done for the assault of kicking the phone from the driver's hand, he can also be done for impeding a mail delivery service, that law doesnt just apply to USPS folks, it applies to ALL mail carriage services, which include FedEx and UPS.
Yeah, seriously.
Also high risk because if the driver started driving he could easily claim he thought the guy was going to rob him in this era of rampant package theft.
Mean boomers = ❌
Cool boomers = ✅
My grandpa was a total badass, he built himself a fully functioning tractor out of scrap from the junkyard, he made moonshine, he owned a crane which he operated as a fairground ride for the local kids, he was a master woodworker who made toys for me (still have them on my shelf to this day) and was even commissioned by the local pub to make tables and benches for them.
What frustrates me the most is how boomers will sometimes say/act like people can’t write or read in cursive as if they weren’t the ones to stop teaching it.
Back in first grade they stopped teaching my class cursive for some reason,
Thank you for saying it, i must’ve been just on the ass end of when they stopped bothering to teach it. And I’ve also noticed I’ve gone 2-3 years at a time without seeing it used what does that say?
It's actually funny when you realize cursive was invented because of fountain pens and quill pens being messy to work with, and would leave ink splatters on the page if you stopped to lift the pen off the page.
We no longer have to worry about that with modern pens not having that issue so cursive was (and to some extent still is) being kept around solely out of stubbornness.
The reason being that it was seen to be more important to acquire 'typing skills' on a computer. Makes sense since we're shifting towards electronic documents
Looks at you with a Texas education: yall got taught cursive?
I'm 38..I know cursive.
9:55 anytime I hear a mean old boomer telling to "work more, it's not that hard" my go to response is "oh well, if it's so fecking easy, THEN WHY DON'T YOU DO IT?! HUH?! NOW HECK OFF!"
Just to spite the first guy, imma learn manual
Honestly good luck lol, most cars are automatic now because manual was by its very nature worse and less efficient
I already learned it to start with, better for motorsports
Give us updates please, wish you luck
I'm British so had to learn manual by default. It's surprisingly easy
Manuals were still pretty common when I learned to drive one in the early 90s, but I think the last manual I had was around 2010, and haven't really seen any for sale since then. Anyway, my left foot and right hand sometimes still "shift" when I'm driving 😄
Boomers need to realize this isn't 1950 anymore
Even the 1950s were not as we thought. There were 2 recessions during that decade
@@skyblazeeterno and when you legit just look up basic facts and stats, the rescission we are IN NOW is worse then THOSE combined.
@@xletzyy not my point. I'm just stating we look at the past with rose tinted glasses
@@skyblazeeterno oh I get it, but the facts and stats say our depression now is WAY worse then they ever dealt with, its not even comparable, we have it 200x worse.
“there’s no excuse to be poor in this country.”
broski you need money to gamble .
I deal with a lot of boomers at my job (telecoms) and they often complain that things are getting more and more expensive. I should just tell them to work harder.
You can have your parents retested my dad had his retested and they said
"if they were taking the test to get their licence they would've failed but because its us were gonna pass them"
and we're like wth these people are a danger to themselves, and everyone around them.
they drove for HOURS going NOWHERE because my grandpa couldn't tell where he was, and either FORGOT HE HAD HIS PHONE, or was TOO STUBBORN TO USE IT! And then he called my dad to COME GET THEM FROM THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!
And several times my dad has witnessed my grandpa nearly run into people, or cars, or curbs, because he just, DIDN'T LOOK.
I was taught in elementary school that not only could you become jobless from having a beer in a college photo on social media, but that even drinking juice out of a Solo cup was suspicious enough to make you unemployable.
Tbh having your personal info which is completely unrelated to the job should be illegal
@@ZackShark1with the exception if the person is a creep
I remember learning something about a teacher that was fired for a photo taken of her and her coworkers at a teacher end of school type of party. It was a normal group photo in front of a banner or something, but she was holding her drink (non alcoholic) in a red solo cup... It was enough to get her fired apparently. But I don't really remember the story too well I just remember my teacher lecturing us on it in school lmao
Really? I've never heard that. No one has said it to me or around me... no one I know has heard this outside of maybe casual, passing advice.... I think the kids are making this one up and the bots have just run with it now.
Some people have never had a beer with their boss and it shows
It feels like 70s poor and 21st century poor are two different things.
My parents described being poor as a child but they lived in beautiful houses and owned their own veggie patches and owned horses and stuff, while when i was a kid our family was living off of as little as half a sausage or a cup of rice a day for a while because of a messy divorce.
Im currently living on an income well below the poverty line while someone who made the kinda money i have could've owned an entire home within weeks back then.
6:29
Emkay: "if I were looking for a house of the same size and stature I would probably need to spend $700,000"
Me:" Don't forget to bring the bazooka for the payment as well"
20:14
Long term restaurant worker here.
Two things:
1: "The customer is always right." warped TF out of boomers brains and gave them the most insane entitlement that they lord over servers....then end up tipping like its 1985
The original saying is "The customer is always right as pertaining to their preferences"
2: If you have a table sitting there after close you just start cleaning their table and like rewiping it getting in their way. Maybe sweeping around them....basically you do your job and show them that they don't own the restaurant. I qualify this by saying if they are your biggest table that night then don't do it and salvage what measly tip they will give you.
My favorite is when old people are racist and homophobic but then they have black and gay friends so it’s okay. Like wdym it’s not normal cause u didn’t see it? When you were a child people thought women would die if they went on a train.
I doubt they have black and gay friends…
@Canleaf08 it does happen!
What they do is they find POC who are also racists (like black people who are racist against asians or indigenous people) and gay exclusionaries (usually people who think gay, straight, and lesbian are the only 3 options & everything else is "degeneracy") and use these people to validate their opinions.
Like the type of queer & black men who are invited onto Fox News to validate their lunacy. Right wingers who get scared when people call them out for their bigotry cling to dudes like that.
@@Canleaf08 sure he’ll call them friends if it benefits him but he’s probably just using the one black or gay coworker who has to tolerate his bigotry as a token “friend” to give him cover till he can slink away. Bad boomers smh
The black/gay “friends” in question: some random people who might or might not even fit whatever demographic hes trying to claim they are who took his McDonalds order one time and he was such a big boy he didnt go on a slur-filled rant calling for their immediate lynchings
@@Canleaf08 It's possible. Some people are more forgiving than they need to be.
The manual thing isn't a millenial thing, it's an American thing. For some reason this particular person and quite some Americans with him are proud of the fact that they can drive a manual, meanwhile in Europe every 17 year old girl can do that. But it seems to be something special for Americans.
True. It drives me nuts that I can’t get a new car in a manual unless it’s an overseas car.
It’s nearly impossible to buy a manual car in the US. And I used to always have 4-wheel-drive cars so I could drive mountain roads in winter, but they don’t really exist anymore. All wheel drive just doesn’t compare. And car dealerships only want to carry sports cars and giant gas guzzlers so they make more money. It’s hard to even afford a decent used car. I had a couple 4wd compacts and they were badass, but that was in the 90s.
@@ShadoeLandman I miss the AMC Eagle. 😁
@@MsAubrey Yes! Though I didn’t have anything that big, I remember my parents having one.
The casino guy won a whopping $570 bucks and is betting $500 per spin.
That won't even pay one month rent on a 1 bedroom lmao
It's a penny machine, so he's betting 500 pennies - or 5 bucks - per pull. Still very sad and counterintuitive.
@@nataliegray8019 Ah right sorry he's betting $5 bucks a spin.. That makes the win a little better I guess.
Rare footage of a TH-cam comment maker admitting mistake (decolourized)
@@user-iw6bu4iq4r depends on how many times he spun that machine at $5. I mean, he could have spent $10.000 before he won that price, who knows? And how many days of the week is he sitting at that machine? but I get what you're saying, just wanted to put it in perspective.
My grandpa had a brand new two story house with garage built in a new high end neighborhood with two brand new cars and put three kids through college. Worked as a Part Time Manager of a Gas Station. If you had the same job today, you'd be lucky to afford the gas to get there each week lol
Oh Whoopi know the world isn't the same as when she was a little girl. One of her famous quotes is when she first saw Michelle Nicolas as Uhura on Star trek was "Momma there's a black woman on TV and she ain't a maid!"
Now I’m wondering: what are the best places to have a heart attack that you wouldn’t expect to be well equipped/prepared for such? What about vice versa, what places would you think you’re surrounded by people who can help/easily get help but in reality you’re gonna be dead if you have a heart attack?
I think for the latter it would be mattress stores, because how is a mattress store staying in business if it’s not a mafia front and they were planning on stealing your organs anyways
Unless the people have been trained in first aid most people will stand around expecting someone else to be calling 911/emergency services. If you've been trained then before you do any resuscitate you have to point at a person and command them to call for emergency services. It snaps them out of the shock of what they're seeing and gets them moving. So there's a lot of places where you could potentially just die with a bunch of people watching and not doing anything.
@@elaexplorer But like surely not everyone…well, I can imagine a restaurant full of people who just pretend to not have noticed someone on the floor. Gosh dang it why does conformity have to be so inconvenient?
If you had a heart attack in an undergrad cell biology lecture, the nearest person that actually can actually help is teaching in the nursing department or med department half way across campus. The phd microbiologist teaching cell biology hasn’t looked at a heart diagram since 2003
Banks! At least here all banks are required to have defibrillators with automatic 911 calling system
I swear the sheer amount of disrespect I've seen with boomers and the occasional Gen X customer where I work is just absurd. I work back in a kitchen where there are TONS of machinery: ovens, vent hoods, etc running. It gets so damn LOUD back in that kitchen that I can't hardly hear people over half the time which doesn't help when people mumble.
I am just the prep shift person where I make salads, wraps, junk like that; my job has such a tiny margin of error in that if I get even a SINGLE thing wrong it fucks my whole shift up. In comes a much older lady wearing a mask and very dark sunglasses. I cannot hear her speak, nor did I see her mouth move because she had a mask on. Next thing I do hear her say is 'Are you deaf??'. I looked up, scowled, and walked away.
I'm only sad that I didn't do what a coworker suggested and faked sign language at the woman to watch her go from disgruntled to utterly embarrassed, and I damn well should have. I hate how boomers and Gen X think that being a dick to workers when they are just trying to get their shit done and verbally abuse them will get them better service. Fuck sakes man...
I think the Boomers confuse Zoomers with Millenials because they never bothered to learn the Definition of Millenial....
Nah, it's simpler than that. They just mean young people, because they hate all young people
I'm a late gen z but do boomers really think that nobody knows how a stick shift works?
@@bigmike1432 yes
I'm a millenial,my dads a boomer,there's no misunderstanding with us,never has been.
@@bloodlove93 well duh, you're his kid... and I was talking about Zoomers being confused with Millenials, not Millenials being confused with Zoomers
My father, 74, introduced me to Emkay (Robin is his favorite). Thanks for not being like these people, dad!
When I was growing up I lived in a house with my mom and 2 of my grandparents. They were abysmally stupid and belligerent. I learned pretty early on that just because someone is old doesn't mean you have to respect them, and it also doesn't mean they have some sort of hidden wisdom. It just means they're old.
The idea of “old people have wisdom” may have been somewhat true a century or two ago when living until you were old was harder and rarer. But nowadays with modern medical care, population booms, and easier access to healthy nutrition living until your old is not at all difficult anymore and means nothing.
Gen Y and Z seriously have to pick up the slack. X doesn't care. Boomers clearly ate too much lead paint.
Gen X do care; we're just busy taking care of our boomer parents and Z & Alpha kids after working all day.
Us Gen X are too busy trying to explain to our Boomer parents that the neighbours can't steal the WiFi if you open your windows... 😢
@@thewastelandworrier 😂😂😂
@@thewastelandworrier
You just said something that gave me a bit of a realization.
Boomers might be my grandparents generation, but it must be so much worse having to have that as your parents just due to how much more often you have to be around them.
The paint was much fresher, the chips didn't start showing up until twenty years later.
17:03 I wish we are forced to retake a drivers test in all states, especially Texas (1 a year), because no one knows how to drive. This is not a joke, i’ve seen people drive like they’re trying to kill everyone, including themselves on the roads. And no it’s not like one or two people, It’s basically everyone, including the cops. It’s sad.
I live in a college town. It gets bad.
This only works if they're willing to fail people. Having worked in the industry and with the state of Texas...if they think you could almost pass or you threaten to sue, they'll just pass you. Obviously CDL's are a bit different, but in general southern states will give you a license regardless of your ability. I saw a girl hit the dmv building and get her license.
😂 I remember a dash cam clip of a Texas cop pulling over someone for driving the speed limit dude was confused. Cop said that's suspicious here and threatened to ticket him with impeding the flow of traffic.
14:37 omg I remember seeing this video. She'd gone on a whole thing about her divorce... the city council meeting was about a rezoning issue for a business in Davenport, Iowa
At 62, I'm a little old to be gen x and I'm a little too young to be full boomer. Technically, I guess I'm closer to boomer age. I'm proud to say that I'm more like the dancing grandpa than the idiot who jumped on the school bus. I understand technology and have never fallen victim to any conspiracy theory fever. I embrace the LGBTQ+ community. Live and let live. If you're happy, i'm happy for you. I'm not scared of new music. Some of it may not be to my taste but nobody is forcing me to listen to it. I even wrote a rap song that embarrasses my kids but my grandkids love it.
(Start with a beatbox rhythm)
Yeah I really love that hip hop beat
Watch everybody as I move my feet (here is where I moonwalk lol)
I wanna dance, ain't never gonna stop
You wanna get a laugh, just watch yo Pop Pop
Feel that bass beat workin'
But the last thing you wanna see is your Pop Pop twerkin'
People think I'm crazy. I think they may be right.
Because I'm up here rappin', kinda old and really white.
When I say that I can rap, they say he's got a lot of nerve
Well, grab yourself a napkin cause you just got served.
Word to your Mamaw
Shout out to all the awesome boomers out there!
🤣
Hi, gen z here.
That rap got a little chuckle out of me, keep cooking up stuff like this
21:47 Bet you anything he'll blow a lid when he sees a gay couple holding hands
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13:00 as someone who works at a casino (janitor) please do not go spend all your hard earned cash there.
Always remember that the house always win and i routinely see people losing whole grands there.
17:23 But they also weren't. Like sure they were hippies but they were also the ones slamming the doors in hippie's faces and telling them to get a haircut. They did drugs and rock & roll but they also were corporate stooges who did drugs. 😂😂😂
Companies will literally fire you for working over 40 hours or basically cut your hours in future schedules.
4:21 He probably could've been worried about the Crowdstrike outage that happened in July if that's where the post is dated to.
Very reasonable concern as well; A LOT of stuff went offline from that, including a sizable portion of banks.
I used to prefer manual because it gave me something to fidget with. As I've aged I think it's pretty dumb to opt for anything but automatic because driving already has many things to pay attention to and the acceleration is pretty darn good now. Surprisingly to me, off-roading is MUCH more enjoyable with automatic too. Same with driving on ice and snow.
I prefer the manual for ice and snow for a couple reasons, getting unstuck is easier, put it in a low gear and work the clutch to rock out, instead of reverse and drive. Also when going downhill in bad conditions I can rely on engine braking rather than braking which imo is safer
Then you never fully was ofroading. As you would still get in some situation drive only in first gear.
And maybe it's dumb to have but not dumb to learn.
Also the amount you need to pay attention to it. Does not take away from driving. Most cases it could even force you to pay more attention as otherwise you could go faster in full auto pilot
@chrism8180 you can put an automatic in a lower gear. I engine break pretty often in mine
@@nickberry5520 I guess you can, I never used those when I had and automatic
I've got a manual because I insisted I NEED to engine brake because my old car had drum brakes and no ABS so it was pretty crappy at stopping. The new one has all discs with big pads so I actually don't need to engine brake anymore. I really wish I had opted for an automatic.
Actually, I had a "boomer" do the same thing to me while I was working at a Walmart. Say what you will, not all Walmarts are the same, I actually shopped at my Walmart before I worked there and found it a kind experience. This elderly man was asking for an electric cart, alright cool, I asked him if there was any in the bay just behind him. He told me "I wouldn't come to you if I saw some". So I said since I am currently with a coworker that was a minor, I told him let me see who I can grab to help you. And before I knew it, I saw one parked near the handicapped spots near the store so I asked him kindly to see if that one out there is possible for him. He agreed and went to check on it, and came back angrily moments later. When I asked him what's wrong, he said "You want to know what's wrong, kiddo? Are they suppose to be charged?" I answered the best way I can, that yes they should of been. And he told me I was lying and that cart out there was at 20%. I told him I'm sorry that one didn't get charged since last night and I told him let me see if where the others are. He threw his bags up near self checkout register 13 near the door and demanded to know why I was lying. Which I told him I wasn't, and that I am not the night crew, and he legit told me that I lied because the cart wasn't charged and wanted me to tell the truth. So I asked him "What do you want me to say, sir? That 20% isn't charged? Because yes, that isn't." he then cut me off by saying "Then why did you LIE to me?" picking up his voice, so I asked if he wanted someone like a manager to help him. He sat almost throwing a bit on the bench and said yes, and to tell them that I was lying to him about the electric carts. So I swapped places with another cashier from the normal assisted registers and they were able to calm him down, but he ultimately said he won't shop here again if we only had 4 electric carts and 3 were being used currently and another wasn't currently plugged on. They did convinced them that it was out of my power for that event.
"oh no you be here bothering us again?!?!!! For shame. Well anyways"
11:00 telling her that she should branch out to TH-cam and social media is like if you told someone in the 70s to branch out to TV or Radio. Just because there are people who make lots of money entertaining people doesnt mean that everyone will be able to. 😓
8:00 The woman's face 🤣
"Ah crap, here we go again"
Thank you Robin! We should test EVERYONE periodically, not just the elderly. Because honestly everyone collectively has forgotten how to drive since 2020...Granted there were drivers like this I just think we are seeing more of these, and yes I'm aware TH-cam videos are partly the reason.
20:26 my current boss is the same way. I work at an amusement park running the Dippin dots stand. Which is ‘conveniently located right next to the exit. Every night that I work I have to wait until the whole park clears out before I can close. 😭
Ok but dippin dots on the way out does sound like it would hit the spot after a long day at the amusement park.
@@elaexplorer I mean to be fair I would to. I’m mainly complaining because people take forever to leave 😂 it’s usually an hour to an hour and a half after closing that I get to close down
2:37, are you sure that's not you, Robin, out there cutting a rug😂
17:07 so the airbag didn't go off when he rammed into the pole (when it would have been useful), only after he slowly backed off it.
It's a motion sensor... when the truck slammed onto the ground, it activated the "oh crap, you're in a collision"... the person probably just went a little too fast and climbed the pole. Not fast enough to activate the airbags... but fast enough to seriously mess up the pole... then combine that with very poor driving skills as the person tries to unstuck the truck....
That's a boom lift, not a crane. That specific model is ~$40k, but the damage she caused along with the intent to do harm to others is going to cost her WAAAAY more than $40k.
16:57 the airbag popping out is priceless.
63yo late stage boomer here. Thanks fer that, Robin. They've been drivin me nuts fer years! :D
Just a quick point, Motley Crüe was GenX music not Boomers. They had Elvis, The Beatles, and David Bowie, and The Rolling Stones. Boomers wanted to put labels on music by bands like Motley Crüe judging them to be a bad influence just based on their looks... although Bowie did do a lot of similar looks.
On the topic of license retesting, some states do actually retest more past a certain age
Somebody won $570 on the slot, probably not him. The nuggets on the screen are part of the demo screen saver thing it does when no one is playing.
If he actually did that spin he would have won close to $8000
7:58
Love how is wife is just done with him
Waiting for the Huggbees X Emkay collab, Robin and Andrew going off about mildy infuriating things would be like two birds attacking your local Chipotle employee.
when my dad was 20 he made like 1.75$ before tips but his rent was 300$ a month for a duplex. i’m 20 and i made 22$ an hour and a comparable place would be 1500$. my BEDROOM i rent is 800$ a month.
Dollar signs go before numbers. $100. I'm not a Boomer and even I know that.
@@visceratrocar wow that is an incredibly unnecessary comment! thanks!
@@visceratrocar Out of every grammatical mistake, you went for that one? Why? Did the lowercase not tip you off enough that this was a casual setting? They're clearly just trying to write a casual comment on the internet, not an essay. As long as it's understandable. I don't see what's wrong with it. It's definitely not enough to warrant that passive aggressiveness.
@@flowerism9898 Defensive much. You do know youtube comments are not fact, right? No, O guess you'd rather take everything internet random so personally. Grow the hell up. Nobody cares how you feel.
"You went from 'Make love, not war' to 'we better go and blow that Country up'" actor Jon Voight (Father of Angelina Jolie) is an example of this.
I'm poor. Under the poverty line. The Boomers (TM) are trying to convince me to "make money" with my art. I was trying to explain to them that yes, I'm trying, but the market is pretty much dead anyway thanks to AI "art" and that I'm not good enough (above average but not exactly a SamdoesArts) and they said "well maybe you should use AI then"... ma'am...
I’m in the same boat.
I would get a second job, but due to health issues, that’s not exactly an option
Ai doesn't magically make you money. It nearly magically makes the people who stole your art to build the program money.
@@highjumpstudios2384 Exactly.
@@labaccident2010 I lost my job due to health issues. Wish you all the best on your way. ❤
This is the first time I was recommended an EmKay video with no views.😅
This is the least amount of views I’ve seen on one
What's the times? Maybe he fell off.
@@DoesEvilAWSHUKThingsGuyCIR-m8d Man I haven't see there actually be variations of it yet, that set my breathing to manual for a second
most cars are still manual.
I live in Europe.
11:50 Yeah, they grew up during a time when cameras were rare and really, really crappy for the most part.
My grandmother didn't understand how she got so many pictures of and from the grandkids, we tried explaining everyone has a phone camera these days(She didn't have a mobile because she insisted the landline was all she needed, but she did have an older tablet without a camera) but it never really clicked for her that everyone having a camera meant there would be more pictures and videos.
This lady probably is in the same mindset, understanding that there are more cameras but not understanding what it means.
my grandma is one of the nicest people I've ever met, she has helped an impaired person from a car crash for over 10 years.
14:28 FOR CONTEXT: this woman is Lisa. Lisa has come to a zoning meeting for street 62. Her talking point: all the stuff she dislikes in life. Lisa lives on street 52.
That FedEx driver that got kicked. Dam that brings me back to when I worked for FedEx and had boomers get mad at me for stupid stuff that was out of my control. I also remember not being allowed into buildings sometimes because my truck wasn't in view so clearly that means I'm up to no good. 🤷
I used to do FedEx too. Truly an awful experience. I had a boomer that ordered wine boxes monthly and each time she tried to refuse signing the scanner.
@@cephalophore2631 let me guess. She didn't want to give her personal information away like her signature?
@@varus6969 tbh, I don't know what her specific objection was. She just liked to be a pain in the ass. As if the signature was a burden or an inconvenience for her.
@@cephalophore2631 when I used to work there I used to say all the time that misery enjoys company when dealing with customers like her.
17:00 I've been asking that vary question myself. We see so many vehicular accidents every single day, that I feel their should be a law that requires you to retake the practical test, before you can renew
I had an 89 year old cut me off in a Ford f 150 causing me to rear end him. Who the hell lets an 89 year old buy a 2023 Ford f 150? There needs to be hard limits on driving and what vehicles the elderly are allowed to buy.
22:15 it's nice to know he's listed his triggers. If you take the opposites of the stuff listed on his shirt you could troll the shit out of him..
Getting jumpscared by the Call Of The Witch sound effect every time a word is censored sure is an experience of all time.
22:06 And he's not unvaxxed. He got all his shots when he was still crapping himself as a baby.
Come to Europe. Everyone can drive manuals regardless of age.
"Let's go gambling!" the boomer said.
I was looking up cashier jobs while talking to my boomer relative the other day and I said like, 20 USD is relatively good considering the minimum wage. And she was shocked, like wow that is so low, what is the minimum wage like 15 USD? I had to break the news to her that the minimum wage was 7.25 USD an hour and she didn't believe me until I asked her to look it up herself .
I am one of the youngest of the boomer generation, and I can't understand why people are so invested in what everybody else is doing. Just let people live, is it that hard?
5:50
You know how the teens acted in movies like Grease, Back to the Future, etc?
That's how it actually was. Kids acted that way. Nobody really stopped them. Greasers vs Beatniks. (and later hippies)
This is what those bullies ended growing up into. And they probably beat their wife, just like daddy beat mom.
1980 I was making $5.35 an hour.
Again three at the table after closing look like boomers, others look like Gen x
I worked two or three jobs most of my life. I did that because poverty exists. Anyone who says there is no reason to live in poverty is stupid. Most people work to get by, not for luxuries. A place to live, food to eat, clothes to wear, utilities, medical issues. Minimum wage was raised to $7.35 an hour the year before I became disabled and could no longer work. That was many years ago and inflation just gets higher and higher. Time for a major increase in wages.
Raising wages wont help, they will still print more money than necessary. The way how interest based dept monetary system works is a bubble that can not withstand its own self.
I love uncensored Robin swears
Every european with a license can drive manual
Most people still think manual gets better fuel economy. That used to be true, but automatics surpassed manual in fuel economy more than a decade ago. Since 2007 most automatics offer manual modes for steep or rugged terrain, further moving manual towards becoming antiquated technology. These days, manual daily drives are purely for showing off, for having fun, or collecting dust.
I keep hearing 'meme boomer' as opposed to 'mean boomer'
I guess they're not far off.
I'm so jealous about the old man dancing. He has much more skill than me.
The ctrl+c ctrl+v thing is so true though. My(millennial) gen x manager was and still is baffled by my use of keyboard shortcuts.
Those shortcuts were a thing in Windows 2.0, mid-to-late 80s. They had decades to learn… smh
There was actually an 80's version of TH-cam. It was a TV show called America's Funniest Home Videos.