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Maybe there is something to it. All of the great civilizations eventually collapsed.
I agree -- the logic is inescapable: Complaining about kids brings about the collapse of civilization. :)
Get off my lawn!
Gen Yers lack confidence, behave like idiots
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#22This sort of thing is an old, old sport. http://thinkexist.com/quotes/hesiod/ I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. ~700 BC
Whatever. Living with your parents in your 20s is disgusting, sir.
Living with your parents if you're lazy or a freeloader is lame. There are countless good reasons beyond those to live with your parents if they're cool with it. What's disgusting about that? I lived with my parents until I was finished my degree when I was 24. I've had friends who hit tough times move back home to get back on their feet (who were accepted with open arms). I've had other friends stay home longer than I did because their goals did not bring them the financial benefits of others and it took longer to become self-sufficient. Their parents were more than happy to support them when they did not have the means to achieve their goals on their own. I don't personally find any of this disgusting.
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#23Another "everyone in the same age group is the same" post. All boomers are... All Gen Xers are... All Gen Yers are... Yeah, right. This is just an excuse for lazy journalism (is there any other kind any more?) Would have been nice if the author dug a little deeper to try to understand why none of the 7 people answered the phone. To his credit, he brought up several good points: "They’re trained to work in teams — in…
I don't see "All Gen Yers" in the article.
"Gen Yers lack confidence" without further qualification means "All Gen Yers lack confidence".
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#24He got it right - they're idiots. A roomful of people sitting around a ringing phone - sheesh!
What surprises me is the lengths that people will go to in attempting to justify the groups' actions, especially on the blog.
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Whatever. Living with your parents in your 20s is disgusting, sir.
Living with your parents if you're lazy or a freeloader is lame. There are countless good reasons beyond those to live with your parents if they're cool with it. What's disgusting about that? I lived with my parents until I was finished my degree when I was 24. I've had friends who hit tough times move back home to get back on their feet (who were accepted with open arms). I've had other friends stay home longer than…
Listen to yourself. You could be speaking Chinese right now with a similar effect. If my dog could understand (and speak) your language, he could have explained why licking his own balls isn't disgusting. He's cool with it.
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#26The professor might also be an overbearing tool bag or the class might not be particularly worth the effort (I've had a few of these). Anecdotal evidence like this is junk. My dad showed me his report card from Kindergarten once. He barely passed because "Eddie has trouble whistling and skipping in a straight line." When he got in to Dylan, it was all over for his potential as a productive and intelligent human. Of c…
"And he's my hero."
Count your blessings.
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Living with your parents if you're lazy or a freeloader is lame. There are countless good reasons beyond those to live with your parents if they're cool with it. What's disgusting about that? I lived with my parents until I was finished my degree when I was 24. I've had friends who hit tough times move back home to get back on their feet (who were accepted with open arms). I've had other friends stay home longer than…
Listen to yourself. You could be speaking Chinese right now with a similar effect. If my dog could understand (and speak) your language, he could have explained why licking his own balls isn't disgusting. He's cool with it.
It is a rare day when a HN comment makes me laugh out loud. Here is your plus one karma. Don't spend it all in one place.
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I don't see "All Gen Yers" in the article.
"Gen Yers lack confidence" without further qualification means "All Gen Yers lack confidence".
Gramatically perhaps, but in context these sorts of statements about the personal characteristics of groups of people are generally understood to be generalizations.
"Ravens are black" ==> "All ravens are black"
"Germans like beer" ==> "Germans have a significantly greater tendency to like beer than people in general, though of course there are some non-beer-liking Germans"
It could be an interesting question in linguistics to figure out the difference between the two types of "Xes are Y" sentence.
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#29Answering others' phones, with unknown callers, is one of those responsibilities that low-ranking workers always prefer to pass on to someone else. Answering phones sucks. The downside is that one might inadvertently offend an important person. ("[Y] speaking." "Hi, this is [X]." "Who are you?" "Your new boss, as of Monday, actually." "Oh.") There's no upside to answering, since responsibility for non-answering is diffused. So the phone is not answered.
There's also conditioning at play. Remember the Grey Phone of Death, in high school? The one that usually carried calls to and from the principal's office, which you could get an in-school suspension for using without permission? Yeah, that phone.
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#30This sort of thing is an old, old sport. http://thinkexist.com/quotes/hesiod/ I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. ~700 BC
Whatever. Living with your parents in your 20s is disgusting, sir.
Hah, at least 10 HN'yers are sucking on mama's milk in their twenties while dreaming of becoming .com-millionaires. Hey, how about starting to pay your own rent as a first step towards world domination? :)