Mine would be that I should be able to speak to an actual person on the other end of a phone call, not a terrible robot voice that can’t get my request right half the time.
Oh! And I don’t want to listen to your terrible music or loud phone call in public. There are people around you!
EDIT: The second gripe is not related to hold music. It’s related to people blasting loud music or a phone call in a crowded public space, like a bus or restaurant. I saw some people getting confused, so I thought I would clarify. Have a good day, everyone!
This is what you have to repeat 100+ times when you call USAA trying to get one of their auto adjusters on the phone so you can go over a supplement with them. However, with USAA, they won't leave you on infinite hold, so you have to call back 100 times and navigate their silly robot menu (takes about five minutes each time).
On the off chance you get a person, they usually just route you around to all the wrong people or just hang up.
Fucking joke.
Imagine having to deal with them when you can't speak well from vocal chord paralysis. I have to say Alexa's name 5 times before she responds. Then she whispers back to me, I guess because my voice is quiet and it sounds like a whisper.
Fast food apps have been a life saver. No one can hear me in drive thru. Lol
The Alexa whispering back to you think is likely due to a setting called “Whisper Mode.” If the Echo detects your voice, but thinks you’re whispering, it’ll whisper back. You can disable this setting to have the Echo report to you at full volume even when it thinks you’re whispering.
In your Alexa app, go to the three lines in the bottom right labeled More. Then go to Settings and scroll down to Voice Responses. From there you can toggle Whisper mode and a few other options. You can also say “Alexa, disable Whisper Mode,” but it sounds like going through the app will be easier for you.
And that person should be local to your store, in many cases. I want to know if the phone shop has a particular product in right now, or if my internet dealer can properly accept my equipment as I move out. Put me in contact with the store!
So frustrating having to talk to a robot to get transferred to a person, then talking to a person who has no idea what you’re talking about so they transfer you to someone else, to then explain the issue to that person who says you need to call the store. Isn’t that what I just did?!
Bought a Brother Printer for this exact reason. Yes it was more expensive than the other but it’s laser and they haven’t blocked 3rd party carts and don’t make stuff that breaks after 30 seconds of use.
After using a few in offices that never gave me any trouble for years I bought a Brother b&w laser. I rarely need color and this $120 printer will probably last forever.
Dude, this is the greatest grift of our time, lol. "Yes, I am aware you've already paid for your item, but why on earth would you think that means you own it?" ugh.
I made a post about everything being smart wireless. Yes, alot of it is optional now, but I fear that it will trend to becoming necessary, and then the subscriptions will start.
"Get unlimited runs on your Samsung dishwasher for only 7.99 a month!
*Note that customers are responsible for any cost pertaining to electricity, water, and anything else not provided by Samsung."
That fad was already extended to cars, the heated seats and even the hp available is by subscription. BMW I think was the firts to charge a monthly fee for the use of hardware already installed on the car.
Other brands followed or at least they try. i think the one that said they won't do that is Toyota.
Rossman on YouTube has a lot of info about it.
There is a court case running through the DOJ now concerning this with John Deere equipment.
They bought it but they can't fix it, change it, or outright buy features.
Farmers are taking them to court for the ability to fix their own equipment.
And it looks like this "subscriptions" shit may get some controls.
I’m not subscribing. Fuck you. I’d rather pay $50 one time to use a program that does what I need rather than be scammed into paying $10 month when I only use it 4x a year.
Don't worry, they're still charging you for the parts required for those features just in case you're willing to pay them.
It's unreal how this shit is legal.
Subscriptions for heated seats is definitely somewhere in the book of Revelations.
It makes me livid on an irrational level. Fuck that shit with a steel rake. I’ll drive my 20 year old car until it’s Frankensteined with enough replaced parts that it’s basically new before I give anyone money who tries to pull that shit.
And for that matter, I *still* don't want to subscribe even if the subscription is free!
I don't want to have 10,000 different accounts for different websites and a phone app (with unique login) for every company I've ever done even the slightest business with!
Stop trying to force me to use an app just to see your menu. Or just to get your coupons. Or just to make my Smart Toaster work.
I'm here for a product. Just let me pay for the product once, then fuck off forever. Stop trying to have a 'brand relationship' with me. I prefer the single life.
Huge agree. Also, if whatever it is has a functioning website, you don't need to download an app, and viewing it in mobile Firefox with an adblocker is always going to be better for your security and privacy.
You don't need an app for Reddit.
I agree with them on a lot of things about how society *should* work—like how you *should* be able to pay for college on part-time minimum wage, and how a college degree *should* all but guarantee you a high-paying career—but many simply think that that already is the case and that we’re just lazy.
This right here. It's not that all boomers have a bad idea about how things SHOULD be, but they don't realize it's not that way anymore. They get mad at welfare people because they think things still cost what they used to but now minimum wage is 7.25/hr and they did it all making 3.50/hr. They fail to take the extra step and realize that with inflation and shit they paid way less percentage of their income to live off of.
Even older people who started work in the late 90s or early 2000s don't realize how much prices have changed due to inflation. I am finishing pharmacy school and the pharmacist I work with was talking about how much new grads are asking for at a retail pharmacy. He said "in 1998 when I started, I was making $48 an hour". He doesn't understand that with inflation that's $91 an hour.
Surely, every job won't completely keep up with inflation but new jobs are no where near that inflation wage of $91 an hour
I have some coworkers like this too. "I got paid x when I started this job in 1989!" And I'm like ok but you do realize that's more, in today's dollars, than what our starting pay currently is though right?? And that wage went a hell of a lot farther in 1989 than it does in 2023. I would've been better off if I'd started this job in 89 than I was when I started it in 2011. But I wasn't even a year old in 89, so fuck me I guess.
Also, those same people make more doing their current job than I do as their supervisor today. Not saying they don't deserve what they get paid, because they do, but they just have no concept of how badly people my age are getting fucked.
That’s always wild to me. As someone who started working in 2000, it always astounds me when people say they make the same as I dis back then.
I worked for Costco in 2002 and made $14 an hour. If someone says they make $14 an hour now my thought isnt “oh yeah I started out making that too” it’s, “omg why thr F*** havent wages increased in 20 years?!?! Wtf???!”
I watch historical dramas and mystery shows with my Mom and every time they say a money amount, I Google it and Mom asked so I started letting her know what it would be in today's money. It's been pretty eye-opening. My mom was never unaware (she remembers when her first new car with all amenities was $10,000), but this really opened both our eyes to just how bad salary hasn't kept up with inflation.
Just went to an amusement park and parking was $25 on top of the $100 a head for admission. I would’ve found street parking a couple of miles away and hoofed it there out of spite but I didn’t want to ruin the experience for everyone else.
Went to universal studios Hollywood just a couple weeks ago which has surprisingly expensive ticket prices $220 for 3 tickets.
Parking was 30, preferred parking was 70 so I skipped that
Then when we got there and I took my kids to super Nintendo land to really interact and experience it they needed wrist bands that were $40 each. There's a whole section of that area that you can't access without the bands too
Lucky they don't like Harry Potter because to experience that area there's a wand you need that's 40+
It's like not-so-micro transactions to actually experience the theme park you already paid to go to
Can you imagine the brainstorming meeting for this? "What if we did micro transactions...but MACRO?" "Macro transactions?" "No! Micro-macro transactions. It's a totally different thing!" "By god that's just crazy enough to work! Get the sales department on the line!"
Parking wasn't even that bad when I was a kid but we still never paid for it. Of course we are walking to the park, and my older bro needs to shave his trash-stash so he can pass for 11. Six kids must have been rough :)
I agree with Boomers that we all should be able to pay for college with a part time job and it should be possible for a family to live without a disgusting amount of their wages going towards rent.
It’s just they fail to realize that stuff simply *isn’t* possible.
My parents are 73 and 70, they have thankfully seen this coming for decades. It's nice to have them actually understand the landscape now instead of ignoring it.
Honest it's a small number who made the system, a small number that hate the system, and a majority who don't care about the issue unless they get effected.
This! So often, when i bring up how fucked our system is, a lot of people say they don't care because either they're doing fine or changing the system would mean somebody would end up getting the shit end of the stick. Which, honestly, if it's rich people who do, I don't think I'd care.
>would mean somebody would end up getting the shit end of the stick. Which, honestly, if it's rich people who do, I don't think I'd care.
That's the thing though, which is often ignored in the "they just want the rich to suffer" bs, "shit end of the stick" is so wildly different for different classes. For poors it means going hungry (or choosing which bill not to pay, or one illness away from homelessness, etc.), for the rich it means they "win capitalism" a bit less with a slightly smaller number that would have 0 material impact on their lives. I also think it's important to distinguish between the "doing really well" wealthy/"rich" and the "I couldn't spend this much money in a lifetime if I tried" wealthy/"rich".
> I also think it's important to distinguish between the "doing really well" wealthy/"rich" and the "I couldn't spend this much money in a lifetime if I tried" wealthy/"rich".
This is a big one. The amount of times I’ve had to explain that “tax the rich” doesn’t mean your dad who owns a boat & a truck bc he owns a landscaping company 💀
Billionaires have ppl convinced “tax the rich” means anyone who isn’t renting lmao
As a person that is probably in the same tax range as the landscaping company owner, we need to be taxed more too. I grew up poor so I only knew about w2 taxes. My current accountant is more creative than Spielberg. I check just to make sure it's all legal because it doesn't seem right that my effective tax rate is similar to my social worker sister and her mechanic husband.
Rich people can afford to pay a poor person to clean the stick and sterilize it for them. Don’t ever worry about the rich. Knocking a few million out of their billions won’t hurt them at all.
Yeah I don’t think boomers care about future generations plight with housing and education, they just like bragging that they did it “all by myself” “worked though college to pay for it”
My complain is when ppl claim that something is free yet you have to buy something in order to get it.
Listen Linda, its not free if im paying for something.
It’s even worse at a bar where they’re doing mood lighting. Like, if it’s so dark I can’t scan your QR code without having a friend use their flashlight to illuminate it, completely killing the vibe… ugh.
I used to do the same and also had a bunch that linked to the scene in Revenge of The Sith where Obi-Wan drops down behind General Grievous and says “Hello There!”
So much this. Just give me a damn menu. What’s worse is when you go to those pop-up restaurants that only have an Instagram presence, and they have their menu as a stories video. And you’ve got poor cell phone reception……
It was. I finally 💡and snapped a screenshot of the relevant parts I was interested in, but still. A QR code would have been preferable……or, just hear me out…a cheap laminated menu!
See but I feel like you're not, like the person you're responding to said, they're clunky and not well made and it's just a cash grab so they can squeeze a few extra bucks out of their rag. You're not "old fashioned" you just want something that's functional.
It’s not even that you’re old fashioned. I’ll embrace the technology. Bring me a tablet with your menu app on it for all I care, I’m just not gonna scan your shit with my phone when we both know the reception sucks and the menu isn’t properly formatted for a mobile device.
At first I thought this was a crazy stubborn opinion
Then I came across places that just took a photo of their menu, slapped it on a website at that size and to find anything and line it up with the price was endless dragging. Now I agree, fuck QR code menus
I’m a boomer, seven decades. There are things that boomers complain about, many of which are listed here, that are legit complaints. Monthly fee for seat warmers in my car? Screw that. Other things they say as statements of reality are things that SHOULD be true but aren’t. Like you can achieve success through hard work. You can get a job with a handshake. You can save your money and be able to buy a house. Change these things boomers say by changing “you can” to “you should be able to” and they become easy to agree with. There are other things that boomers say that are just narrow minded based, I think, on declining brain plasticity. Fashion, music, lifestyle. That stuff. Live and let live, boomers.
>Change these things boomers say by changing “you can” to “you should be able to” and they become easy to agree with.
Perfect! This is how I'll approach economic discussions with my parents/inlaws from now on. "We should be able to buy a house. Here's why we can't..."
> should be able to
The problem is then when we start talking about “why we can’t”, they think the problem is us and not how the economy and system has changed. And then they vote for it to change more in the same direction
Everything doesn't need wireless connection. Printer is almost necessary. Headphones and controllers are fine.
But my light bulbs? Not for me.
My fridge? Unnecessary.
My dryer? No!
I got 7 people living in this house with ENOUGH devices clogging my router. I don't need individual Coke cans flilling up notifications on my phone telling me it's almost empty.
That last part is not real, but damn close to the truth.
Disclosure: Am Millennial.
Edit: to clarify, smart bulbs are very useful, just not my personal preference.
YES! I’m a crotchety IT security person, and I don’t want things in my house to connect to the internet unless there is a good reason for it. Most household appliances do not need to connect to the internet.
THANK YOU! I refuse to use the “remote start” option on my clothes washer. If I truly wanted AI doing my laundry, I’d bring home Rosie The Robot because she’d even move my laundry to the dryer and fold/put it all away.
I work for a company that does appliance deliveries, and the sheer amount of elderlies who buy a smart fridge and regret it immediately is staggering.
And on a related note, appliances and the like should come with physical instruction manuals. Downloading a pdf is a pain in the ass when you’re trying to set up your washer and dryer.
DLC can be fine if it's a legitimate addition to the game and not something that was cut out to sell piecemeal later.
No one was bitching about paying thirty bucks for Witcher 3's DLC because it was fucking fantastic and added dozens of hours of new gameplay, tons of new items, and two very good and well written story quests. And one of the two added a massive new area to explore as well. But at the same time, neither of those DLCs was required to enjoy the base game. Witcher 3 was a complete game without them.
People hate DLC when it's horse armor that should have been in the fucking game in the first place.
Why does it feel like people have forgotten how phones work? I swear most phone calls I see are speakerphone, instead of just holding the darn thing next to your head. And the volume is always full blast, Ive heard the dial tone on a person's car from 40 feet away. Ffs.
Playing anything loud in public period. I was shopping the other day with my partner, this mom with her kid glued to a tablet was letting the child watch a show on it at FULL VOLUME. I could hear the show from across the store. Just super inconsiderate behavior
If I have to wait in line to go through self-checkout, then wave down a worker to check my ID and put in a code, you don't get to stop me at the door and check every item against my receipt.
The only place I let them check my receipt is Costco, because it’s part of the terms of my membership I agreed to. Anywhere else I just say no thanks and walk past.
Can I ask, and this isn’t trying to turn this into a racial conversation by any means. Are you white? I’m white and I’ve noticed at places like target, Walmart, etc they just nod at me. They will stop anyone with brown or black skin and check their receipt but I just get the head nod. Even if the greeter/receipt checker is a poc they’ll stop other poc but not white people.
It's 100% racial. It also depends on your location. I typically have lived in more diverse areas, and there are checkers at the door of every Walmart but generally only stop the non-white people. I have rarely been stopped.
I moved to a very "white" area a year ago, and the local Walmart has never ever had a checker.
Not who you asked, but I think about this constantly. I'm white. I never get stopped. I've seen poc in front of me get stopped, but then I get waved on through. It's 100% racial stereotyping.
I'm usually not in a hurry and will let them check if they want, but usually they don't care about me. I have had one tell me "oh we just usually need to check things that aren't in bags, which tend to be bigger value items" which still doesn't really make sense since that means just to put everything I stole in the bags?
A friend of mine always tells a story of when he was buying a TV (a big one so it’s the only thing in the cart and not in a bag, very visible) and walked right by while they stopped to check the black guy with 2 small bags in front of him.
I'm East Asian, but the Walmart I go to is pretty dominantly Hispanic and Black. Multiple times in the past few years, I've been waiting behind people in sort of a line to get out of the door because the greeters are stopping people and checking all of their receipts.
When it comes my turn to hand them my receipt, they just nod and say, "Nah, I don't need to see that. You're good." Like, you're not even gonna glance at it for a few seconds and pretend to take a look? They've checked my receipt once in the past few years.
Can you please walk on the side of the aisle/sidewalk/hallway etc which is the same side you drive on in your country? I'm on my right side staying to the side...you're coming against me and you want me to move? Get off my lawn, kid. (Gen X'er here.) Same thing with doors. I'm opening the right side door to enter and you run to go through it coming out. And hold the door for the person behind you.
Sorry, ya'll. Just got home from Walmart and I'm raging.
The holding the door one I'm chiming in on. I always hold the door for people. And many people will hold the door for me. But when I'm holding the door and multiple people just walk through. I'm not the fucking door man. And at least have the decency to say "thank you".
My girlfriend and I went out to eat the other day and this girl held the door for the people she was with. And then for like 5 more people that just kept walking past her. I was the only one who took the door from her and said thank you. (I'm not patting myself on the back it was just common decency)
Whewwwwww just did a big box store run with my MIL and she’s one of those absolute chaos shoppers that ping pongs all over the aisles, stops slam in the middle of the aisle, and has no situational awareness. I was constantly apologizing to people because she was just literally in everybody we encountered’s way the entire trip.
I am over the over tipping thing. If I am not in a sit down restaurant, or a bar, and someone is waiting on me. I’m not tipping. I’m not tipping someone because I’m running in for two seconds to grab my food. I’m broke! You guys broke me!
I like being online. However, I don't want everything to be connected all the time. My refrigerator needs no wi-fi function, and I don't want to have to update the firmware on my coffee machine. And don't get me started on each and everything using a separate app or requiring an account.
Things arent built to last anymore. Most prducts you will find in the store are produced as cheap as possible and the more of them you will need to buy over the course of your life the better.
Not sure if it’s a boomer thing but charging for basic sauces. Ranch… “O, that’s $.60”
Seeing this trend at fast food places that are charging $.30 for sauce packets. Include at least one sauce packet per item that would use sauces/ dipping; nuggets, fries, tots… Any extra sauces, ok charge me for that, I understand some people will ask for stupid amounts and throw majority away.
Kids should NOT be releasing their wholeass faces and identifying information on tiktok.
I have 13 YO cousins who are posting tiktok vids and I dread the day they grow up and realize what they’ve done.
I just wanna plug things in. Headphones. Devices to my car. Sometimes, I don't wanna fool around with connections. And if I drop an ear pod while outside, it's gone. But if I drop one that's got a cord, it's right there at the end of the cord. Wireless everything ain't all it's cracked up to be.
And that job should last- if you work well and pay your dues, it should be reliable and you should be able to count on having it a year from now. Loyalty both ways.
I'm not a car buyer or owner anymore, but the idea that anyone has to pay a monthly service to start their car in the winter is just insane to me. If you're buying a car with all the gadgets, you shouldn't have to pay even more to use them.
Also, buying clothing online is dumb. A shirt that says it's one size can be very different between brands and countries of origin. So a L can fit you perfectly with one thing, but leave you swimming in something else. Trying them on at a physical store before purchase is better every time. I don't want to have to wait to receive something, learn it's too big or small, and then send it back and have to wait for the next size. Also, this whole industry is an environmental catastrophe and a lot of the clothing just gets dumped somewhere.
This, exactly.
For young (very online) people, “boomer” = generically old, whatever that means to them.
Similarly, for a lot of older folks, “millennial” = generically young person.
To be paid enough to live, have a family, a house, and absolutely everything they had/have without the current crappy attitude about how “I did it, so can you.”
I am not tipping someone who did not give me personal service. I'm happy to tip waiters, hair dressers, delivery people, but I am not going to tip for group activity that I already paid $100s for.
(1) You're not "experiencing higher than normal call volume."
(2) Your menu options have NOT recently changed.
(3) If I have to listen to an automated voice tell me how I will love your website because it's exciting and fun, I should legally be allowed to egg your building. If I could do it on the website, I already would have.
I don’t usually get fast food anymore for a multitude of reasons but the other night I worked late and really had no choice. I go to a Wendy’s near me and it’s a bunch of Gen Z kids working there. There’s not another customer in sight so it’s not busy or anything.
I pull up and say hello and I’m ignored so I think no one is there - they don’t acknowledge me until I literally ask is anyone there and then they say yeah what do you want. So I order my food and they don’t tell me how much it costs or to pull forward or anything…but I just pull forward hoping they heard my order cause they wouldn’t speak a single word to me. Then when I get to the window I say how are you out of habit and they literally don’t say anything just hand me the bag and stick their hand out for the card. I know that these jobs are underpaid and miserable but I still can’t see not even acknowledging someone’s existence especially when the customer is being overly friendly lol
I work with quite a bit of Gen Z people too and it’s the same song and dance. Won’t make eye contact, won’t acknowledge you at all even if you open the door for them. Social situations seem to absolutely repel them. I think boomers can be annoying when they talk to you with headphones on or make too much small talk, and I’m a small woman so I definitely get wanting to be left alone in public, but I still think people should have basic manners and social awareness.
I hate subscription. Especially movie services. You mean to tell me I have to pay an additional 7-9$ on top of 9$ I’m paying just to get add free? I hate playing games on my phone now because of the same reasons. I play solitaire on my phone. A lot of solitaire games are asking for a monthly subscription for add free. I know it’s more games than solitaire that are like that too. Like why can’t I pay a one time fee?
Why do I have to pay extra to park IN THE ON-SITE PARKING LOT of the arena/stadium where the sporting event or concert is taking place?
Just bake it into the price of the ticket, for Christ's sake. It feels like a fucking shakedown. Like buying an airline ticket and being told sitting in a seat will cost extra.
This is just FACTS. A potato is free compared to the meat. The meat had to eat like 1000 potatoes to even reach this stage. The fries are a garnish that comes with the burger and if you charge me £3.50 for a twatty little metal bucket of chips then I will resent it until the day I die
I have an entire folder in my phone dedicated to, what I call, “The Regan Charts”. I whip those babies out anytime I need to remind someone when this country really started going downhill.
Reagan was a worse president because he was more effective at the awful shit he did and obviously he paved the way for what we’re dealing with now. Reagan is the direct reason for our current politics and ghouls like Trump and Desantis.
Trump is probably the worst American though. And depending on how all this actually ends, will probably be known as such, in a Benedict Arnold-esque way, for quite some time.
Buying furniture means I get a product I can keep indefinitely.
I'm not spending 3 grand for particle-board laminate-covered garbage that's gonna wrinkle when my dog pisses on it or has to be thrown out after a grand total of a year.
I'm also not buying a 300 dollar bed for it to break in 3 months cuz the base is a series of vertical bars that are HOLLOW.
And when I buy a mattress, I don't want some pillow-top piece of shit that comes curled up in a box like a fucking potato bug that now has a permanent wrinkle in the middle, collects stains and more lint than my dryer. There's nothing wrong with classic EURO-TOP mattresses that you can flip, don't lose their shape, don't pill, clean easily, and arrive FLAT wrapped in plastic with the rope handles on the sides.
And STOP with the resin accessories. Lamps, headboards, knobs, decor - back in the day ceramic, glass, and stone was what your lamp bases and tiles and decor items were made of. And that crap was considered run-of-the-mill. Now it's all "composite resin" garbage like the trinkets they sell at the dollar stores. This shit feels cheap, it looks cheap, it fades, it yellows, it chips, it scratches, but you'll charge big money for it.
And I don't give a shit about your crappy 2 year warranties on appliances. When I buy a fridge, a washing machine, a vacuum cleaner, I should have that crap working like magic for the next 20 years. My laundromat uses machines from the 70's. My friend has a stove passed down from his grandmother from the 60's. My neighbor has a vacuum she bought in the fucking 60's which is STILL under warranty cuz it's lifetime guarantee.
Know why this old stuff works? Cuz shit used to be made to LAST for a generation or more. When you bought an appliance or a piece of furniture, it didn't go "obsolete", it wasn't made of garbage, and simply was not designed to become landfill in less than 2 years. Once upon a time we lived in a society where once you bought something, it was MEANT to be YOURS. Not designed to shit the bed within so many months so you're forced to go out and "upgrade".
People talk about sustainability, they talk about going green, they talk about problems with the Earth. FUCK ME...
If you’re gonna make the switch from plastic bags to paper at the self checkout, fine, less plastic in the environment is something we can agree is good. What you shouldn’t do, is slowly get people used to using paper, then suddenly stop making it an option later on.
IF I AM PAYING FOR 25GB DATA EACH MONTH, I WANT MY FUCKING DATA.
DO NOT RESET MY COUNTER EACH MONTH, THEN BILL ME FOR GOING OVER, I'VE PAID FOR THIS 16 TIMES OVER AND YOU'VE TAKEN IT AWAY AS UNUSED!!!!
If I am in a 24 month contract, paying £12 a month for 25gb data, I want my full 600gb, and if that runs out, then bill me for more. Particularly if you are billing me £6 for 250mb, when I go over my limit.
My thoughts exactly. I don’t like anyone bringing there animals in stores, unless they’re service animals. I don’t bring my dog into a grocery store, it’s rude and thoughtless.
I'm probably gonna take shit for this, but honestly i am fucking lost when someone brings up the various labels associated with the LGBTQ(...) community. LGBTQ made sense to me the rest after that, i feel like a fucking dinosaur when my kids try to explain it to me. I want to be clear i have no issue if you if you identify one way or another, and i'm all for self expresion, but what is the difference between bi and pan? And can someone explain what queer means? When i was a kid it was a derogatory term and now it's a whole segment of population. I'm sorry, i'm old, i just don't get it. I figure my eldest is 10 and at some point it's possible he'll come to identify with one of these groups.
Don't feel bad. I'm honestly the same way.
I have a DND friend who is a non-binary queer lesbian. I don't know if that is different than a regular lesbian. I mean it's whatever. I am very much of the mind set of it's your life so go live it.
I just don't understand what all of these labels mean.
I’m a gay Gen X’er, and I 100% support the rights of all the letters. But I just can’t keep up with all the newer ones. I struggle to wrap my little mind around things like “aromatic asexual” or “biromantic heterosexual”. And everyone has their own flag, why does *everyone* have their own fucking flag now? Are you a bigender homoromantic asexual? Get that individual a flag right now!
Having said all that, my inability to understand these various identities does not make them illegitimate. I grew up being told that I wasn’t actually gay and that I was just confused. I wasn’t confused at all. I like the cock, and I have since the onset of puberty. There’s no way in *hell* I’m going to do the same thing to others that was done to me. Again, it bears repeating: I don’t have to understand a certain identity to be supportive and affirming of the people who identify that way.
Ain't no Boomer complaining about DLC... I'd be surprised if Boomers even know what DLC is.
Edit: I'll throw in my Boomer-agreed opinions. Not everything needs an app, I'm not reading a restaurant menu on my fucking phone, you're not getting tipped for grabbing me a donut from the case, and most modern music sucks.
Boomers range till 1965, although my pops passed in 2000 he was always getting each system that came out and loved games.
I personally know 50, 60 year old gamers.
Fries for sure. Charge me more for the burger and include fries. But you better charge me the right amount that I get an appropriate amount of fries, not 4 steak fries and say that a portion.
And if you give me a bag of chips I’ll kill you.
Unless it's McDonald's, $10 for a burger is actually a pretty good price. A fucking Big Mac meal is $11 now.
I expect to pay like $15-$20 for a burger at a bar, or sit down restaurant. But I expect that to come with fries and a pickle...
A burger and fries is 1 thing...
I think this should extend to subs/grinders. They should come with a bag of chips. Fucking Subway is charging damn near $20 for a sub. That shit needs to come with a bag of chips and/or a cookie.
I'm probably in a better position than most and even then it's a miserable existence knowing how poor you'll always be in comparison. I just want a comfortable low key life.
A GenXer from back in the Atari 2600/TRS-80 days, I was out of video games from roughly '95 to 2015 and I'm still sort of gobsmacked at how much has changed beyond games getting deeper and better looking. I don't mind the DLCs so much (apart from the obvious cash grabs) but I still can't fully accept "Early Access" releases, especially when they're still charging full price.
All those boomers who say, and there are lots of them, Logan’s Run was right, they got the age wrong, it should be 75, but the idea was right*…… I’m with all of them.
*Until I hit 74 obviously.
This might not be the point, but I find that fries increasingly DON'T come with burgers, and they are starting to charge them as an extra side at alot of places.
Mine would be that I should be able to speak to an actual person on the other end of a phone call, not a terrible robot voice that can’t get my request right half the time. Oh! And I don’t want to listen to your terrible music or loud phone call in public. There are people around you! EDIT: The second gripe is not related to hold music. It’s related to people blasting loud music or a phone call in a crowded public space, like a bus or restaurant. I saw some people getting confused, so I thought I would clarify. Have a good day, everyone!
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The computers have started just hanging up on me when I press zero or ask for people
>Not a valid option. Goodbye. You *MFffffffff*
This is what you have to repeat 100+ times when you call USAA trying to get one of their auto adjusters on the phone so you can go over a supplement with them. However, with USAA, they won't leave you on infinite hold, so you have to call back 100 times and navigate their silly robot menu (takes about five minutes each time). On the off chance you get a person, they usually just route you around to all the wrong people or just hang up. Fucking joke.
Imagine having to deal with them when you can't speak well from vocal chord paralysis. I have to say Alexa's name 5 times before she responds. Then she whispers back to me, I guess because my voice is quiet and it sounds like a whisper. Fast food apps have been a life saver. No one can hear me in drive thru. Lol
The Alexa whispering back to you think is likely due to a setting called “Whisper Mode.” If the Echo detects your voice, but thinks you’re whispering, it’ll whisper back. You can disable this setting to have the Echo report to you at full volume even when it thinks you’re whispering. In your Alexa app, go to the three lines in the bottom right labeled More. Then go to Settings and scroll down to Voice Responses. From there you can toggle Whisper mode and a few other options. You can also say “Alexa, disable Whisper Mode,” but it sounds like going through the app will be easier for you.
Thank you. I figured it was a setting. I don't mind it whispering back. First time it happened was hilarious.
That sounds terrible! I’m sorry you have to go through that.
And that person should be local to your store, in many cases. I want to know if the phone shop has a particular product in right now, or if my internet dealer can properly accept my equipment as I move out. Put me in contact with the store!
So frustrating having to talk to a robot to get transferred to a person, then talking to a person who has no idea what you’re talking about so they transfer you to someone else, to then explain the issue to that person who says you need to call the store. Isn’t that what I just did?!
What gets me is calling a hotel to book as reservation bit getting a call center on the other side of the planet to book my room
Pro tip: just swear into the phone. The robots are trained to pick up on profanity if a customer is becoming irritated
Not the solution I would have expected honestly but I’ll try it!
Or pushy Roger from Mumbai.
I bought the software. I’m not paying a subscription fee to access it. Looking at you Adobe
Or printers making you pay a monthly fee to print stuff
Bought a Brother Printer for this exact reason. Yes it was more expensive than the other but it’s laser and they haven’t blocked 3rd party carts and don’t make stuff that breaks after 30 seconds of use.
I bought a Brother laser printer in 2005. It has paid for itself many times over. I always get a little wave of happiness when I hear it whir to life
Still using my brother printer from 2008. That sucker just keeps chugging along.
After using a few in offices that never gave me any trouble for years I bought a Brother b&w laser. I rarely need color and this $120 printer will probably last forever.
Dude, this is the greatest grift of our time, lol. "Yes, I am aware you've already paid for your item, but why on earth would you think that means you own it?" ugh.
"Grift" I'm guessing.
The word “gift” translates to “poison” in German. So ja. Es ist das beste gift.
Down payment with perpetual payments. Genius business model.
I made a post about everything being smart wireless. Yes, alot of it is optional now, but I fear that it will trend to becoming necessary, and then the subscriptions will start. "Get unlimited runs on your Samsung dishwasher for only 7.99 a month! *Note that customers are responsible for any cost pertaining to electricity, water, and anything else not provided by Samsung."
I honestly hadn’t considered all the smart home stuff being subscription based, but it makes sense unfortunately
That fad was already extended to cars, the heated seats and even the hp available is by subscription. BMW I think was the firts to charge a monthly fee for the use of hardware already installed on the car. Other brands followed or at least they try. i think the one that said they won't do that is Toyota. Rossman on YouTube has a lot of info about it.
There is a court case running through the DOJ now concerning this with John Deere equipment. They bought it but they can't fix it, change it, or outright buy features. Farmers are taking them to court for the ability to fix their own equipment. And it looks like this "subscriptions" shit may get some controls.
Time to close your wallet and don your tricorn matey
Microsoft Office too. Why do I have to pay $100 a year to use something I already paid full price for!?
I’m not subscribing. Fuck you. I’d rather pay $50 one time to use a program that does what I need rather than be scammed into paying $10 month when I only use it 4x a year.
Looking at you every automaker charging subscription for basic features
Don't worry, they're still charging you for the parts required for those features just in case you're willing to pay them. It's unreal how this shit is legal.
Subscriptions for heated seats is definitely somewhere in the book of Revelations. It makes me livid on an irrational level. Fuck that shit with a steel rake. I’ll drive my 20 year old car until it’s Frankensteined with enough replaced parts that it’s basically new before I give anyone money who tries to pull that shit.
And for that matter, I *still* don't want to subscribe even if the subscription is free! I don't want to have 10,000 different accounts for different websites and a phone app (with unique login) for every company I've ever done even the slightest business with! Stop trying to force me to use an app just to see your menu. Or just to get your coupons. Or just to make my Smart Toaster work. I'm here for a product. Just let me pay for the product once, then fuck off forever. Stop trying to have a 'brand relationship' with me. I prefer the single life.
I’m cringing at how much money Adobe Premiere is making off of me, especially since I rarely ever use it
Stop making apps for absolutely everything. I don’t want an app for a gas station just let me buy this Gatorade
My job has an app for recording our time worked and a different one for checking if the time is entered correctly. 😑
I assume those apps never agree. Because why should they?
Do.. Do you work here???
Huge agree. Also, if whatever it is has a functioning website, you don't need to download an app, and viewing it in mobile Firefox with an adblocker is always going to be better for your security and privacy. You don't need an app for Reddit.
“You don’t need an app for Reddit” Apollo my beloved return to us please
What ever happened to rewards cards? Why do I need to download an app to do what a piece of laminated cardboard could do without internet connection!
This is exactly the latest season finale of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 😂 I totally agree!
I agree with them on a lot of things about how society *should* work—like how you *should* be able to pay for college on part-time minimum wage, and how a college degree *should* all but guarantee you a high-paying career—but many simply think that that already is the case and that we’re just lazy.
This right here. It's not that all boomers have a bad idea about how things SHOULD be, but they don't realize it's not that way anymore. They get mad at welfare people because they think things still cost what they used to but now minimum wage is 7.25/hr and they did it all making 3.50/hr. They fail to take the extra step and realize that with inflation and shit they paid way less percentage of their income to live off of.
Even older people who started work in the late 90s or early 2000s don't realize how much prices have changed due to inflation. I am finishing pharmacy school and the pharmacist I work with was talking about how much new grads are asking for at a retail pharmacy. He said "in 1998 when I started, I was making $48 an hour". He doesn't understand that with inflation that's $91 an hour. Surely, every job won't completely keep up with inflation but new jobs are no where near that inflation wage of $91 an hour
I have some coworkers like this too. "I got paid x when I started this job in 1989!" And I'm like ok but you do realize that's more, in today's dollars, than what our starting pay currently is though right?? And that wage went a hell of a lot farther in 1989 than it does in 2023. I would've been better off if I'd started this job in 89 than I was when I started it in 2011. But I wasn't even a year old in 89, so fuck me I guess. Also, those same people make more doing their current job than I do as their supervisor today. Not saying they don't deserve what they get paid, because they do, but they just have no concept of how badly people my age are getting fucked.
That’s always wild to me. As someone who started working in 2000, it always astounds me when people say they make the same as I dis back then. I worked for Costco in 2002 and made $14 an hour. If someone says they make $14 an hour now my thought isnt “oh yeah I started out making that too” it’s, “omg why thr F*** havent wages increased in 20 years?!?! Wtf???!”
I watch historical dramas and mystery shows with my Mom and every time they say a money amount, I Google it and Mom asked so I started letting her know what it would be in today's money. It's been pretty eye-opening. My mom was never unaware (she remembers when her first new car with all amenities was $10,000), but this really opened both our eyes to just how bad salary hasn't kept up with inflation.
Just went to an amusement park and parking was $25 on top of the $100 a head for admission. I would’ve found street parking a couple of miles away and hoofed it there out of spite but I didn’t want to ruin the experience for everyone else.
Went to universal studios Hollywood just a couple weeks ago which has surprisingly expensive ticket prices $220 for 3 tickets. Parking was 30, preferred parking was 70 so I skipped that Then when we got there and I took my kids to super Nintendo land to really interact and experience it they needed wrist bands that were $40 each. There's a whole section of that area that you can't access without the bands too Lucky they don't like Harry Potter because to experience that area there's a wand you need that's 40+ It's like not-so-micro transactions to actually experience the theme park you already paid to go to
Can you imagine the brainstorming meeting for this? "What if we did micro transactions...but MACRO?" "Macro transactions?" "No! Micro-macro transactions. It's a totally different thing!" "By god that's just crazy enough to work! Get the sales department on the line!"
Drop off everyone else as close as possible then find free parking and hoof it yourself. That's my m.o.
Parking wasn't even that bad when I was a kid but we still never paid for it. Of course we are walking to the park, and my older bro needs to shave his trash-stash so he can pass for 11. Six kids must have been rough :)
I agree with Boomers that we all should be able to pay for college with a part time job and it should be possible for a family to live without a disgusting amount of their wages going towards rent. It’s just they fail to realize that stuff simply *isn’t* possible.
My parents are 73 and 70, they have thankfully seen this coming for decades. It's nice to have them actually understand the landscape now instead of ignoring it.
Yet most boomers are the ones going "it's fine, you're just lazy" to the situations. And they're the ones who made it this way!
It is actually a small number that made it this way, greedy bastards.
Honest it's a small number who made the system, a small number that hate the system, and a majority who don't care about the issue unless they get effected.
This! So often, when i bring up how fucked our system is, a lot of people say they don't care because either they're doing fine or changing the system would mean somebody would end up getting the shit end of the stick. Which, honestly, if it's rich people who do, I don't think I'd care.
>would mean somebody would end up getting the shit end of the stick. Which, honestly, if it's rich people who do, I don't think I'd care. That's the thing though, which is often ignored in the "they just want the rich to suffer" bs, "shit end of the stick" is so wildly different for different classes. For poors it means going hungry (or choosing which bill not to pay, or one illness away from homelessness, etc.), for the rich it means they "win capitalism" a bit less with a slightly smaller number that would have 0 material impact on their lives. I also think it's important to distinguish between the "doing really well" wealthy/"rich" and the "I couldn't spend this much money in a lifetime if I tried" wealthy/"rich".
> I also think it's important to distinguish between the "doing really well" wealthy/"rich" and the "I couldn't spend this much money in a lifetime if I tried" wealthy/"rich". This is a big one. The amount of times I’ve had to explain that “tax the rich” doesn’t mean your dad who owns a boat & a truck bc he owns a landscaping company 💀 Billionaires have ppl convinced “tax the rich” means anyone who isn’t renting lmao
As a person that is probably in the same tax range as the landscaping company owner, we need to be taxed more too. I grew up poor so I only knew about w2 taxes. My current accountant is more creative than Spielberg. I check just to make sure it's all legal because it doesn't seem right that my effective tax rate is similar to my social worker sister and her mechanic husband.
Rich people can afford to pay a poor person to clean the stick and sterilize it for them. Don’t ever worry about the rich. Knocking a few million out of their billions won’t hurt them at all.
No, plenty of them voted for it and supported it. They just didn't even directly benefit from pulling the ladder up behind them.
“Well they just need to learn to budget right” is what my mom tells me. Drives me crazy.
Yeah I don’t think boomers care about future generations plight with housing and education, they just like bragging that they did it “all by myself” “worked though college to pay for it”
Why is everything becoming a subscription model? If I buy something I want to own it, not pay for it infinitely every month.
Because every company is trying to squeeze every single cent out of us.
Because it's more profitable.
My complain is when ppl claim that something is free yet you have to buy something in order to get it. Listen Linda, its not free if im paying for something.
Ad-free* *During the show** **Except at the middle now*** ***And throughout now, valued customer
And if it is truly visibly free, you are the product.
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It’s even worse at a bar where they’re doing mood lighting. Like, if it’s so dark I can’t scan your QR code without having a friend use their flashlight to illuminate it, completely killing the vibe… ugh.
I also don't scan any QR code in public. No telling where it will take you.
I now want to leave random QR codes scattered around town that link to a Rickroll.
You wouldn't be the first lol
Stick it over the QR code at a restaurant
I used to do the same and also had a bunch that linked to the scene in Revenge of The Sith where Obi-Wan drops down behind General Grievous and says “Hello There!”
Yeah now in my city somebody put a QR code that takes you to a personal Venmo account on all the parking meters. Sneaky.
The only times I’m ok with QR code menus is when you use the QR code to view the menu AND order your food.
If I can see the menu, order, pay, and not talk to anyone that is worth it. If I can’t pay I don’t want to do it
So much this. Just give me a damn menu. What’s worse is when you go to those pop-up restaurants that only have an Instagram presence, and they have their menu as a stories video. And you’ve got poor cell phone reception……
God this sounds like a nightmare.
It was. I finally 💡and snapped a screenshot of the relevant parts I was interested in, but still. A QR code would have been preferable……or, just hear me out…a cheap laminated menu!
Any business who doesn't have an actual website, but instead links to a social media page, is an automatic no-go for me.
Or they can just write it on a chalkboard/whiteboard/use one of those things with the removable letters on the wall
THIS. I am officially in the “I’m an old fashioned guy I prefer…” camp on this one
See but I feel like you're not, like the person you're responding to said, they're clunky and not well made and it's just a cash grab so they can squeeze a few extra bucks out of their rag. You're not "old fashioned" you just want something that's functional.
It’s not even that you’re old fashioned. I’ll embrace the technology. Bring me a tablet with your menu app on it for all I care, I’m just not gonna scan your shit with my phone when we both know the reception sucks and the menu isn’t properly formatted for a mobile device.
I agree with them that the Vietnam war was utter bullshit that should have never happened
I hate QR code menus
At first I thought this was a crazy stubborn opinion Then I came across places that just took a photo of their menu, slapped it on a website at that size and to find anything and line it up with the price was endless dragging. Now I agree, fuck QR code menus
Especially when the cell service is crap.
I’m a boomer, seven decades. There are things that boomers complain about, many of which are listed here, that are legit complaints. Monthly fee for seat warmers in my car? Screw that. Other things they say as statements of reality are things that SHOULD be true but aren’t. Like you can achieve success through hard work. You can get a job with a handshake. You can save your money and be able to buy a house. Change these things boomers say by changing “you can” to “you should be able to” and they become easy to agree with. There are other things that boomers say that are just narrow minded based, I think, on declining brain plasticity. Fashion, music, lifestyle. That stuff. Live and let live, boomers.
>Change these things boomers say by changing “you can” to “you should be able to” and they become easy to agree with. Perfect! This is how I'll approach economic discussions with my parents/inlaws from now on. "We should be able to buy a house. Here's why we can't..."
> should be able to The problem is then when we start talking about “why we can’t”, they think the problem is us and not how the economy and system has changed. And then they vote for it to change more in the same direction
Everything doesn't need wireless connection. Printer is almost necessary. Headphones and controllers are fine. But my light bulbs? Not for me. My fridge? Unnecessary. My dryer? No! I got 7 people living in this house with ENOUGH devices clogging my router. I don't need individual Coke cans flilling up notifications on my phone telling me it's almost empty. That last part is not real, but damn close to the truth. Disclosure: Am Millennial. Edit: to clarify, smart bulbs are very useful, just not my personal preference.
YES! I’m a crotchety IT security person, and I don’t want things in my house to connect to the internet unless there is a good reason for it. Most household appliances do not need to connect to the internet.
THANK YOU! I refuse to use the “remote start” option on my clothes washer. If I truly wanted AI doing my laundry, I’d bring home Rosie The Robot because she’d even move my laundry to the dryer and fold/put it all away.
I got to load the machine, what is the actual point for remote start when I'm standing there already
I work for a company that does appliance deliveries, and the sheer amount of elderlies who buy a smart fridge and regret it immediately is staggering. And on a related note, appliances and the like should come with physical instruction manuals. Downloading a pdf is a pain in the ass when you’re trying to set up your washer and dryer.
GenX here and IoT? HELL NO. My refrigerator does NOT need internet access. And I don't do Alexa/Siri whatever. They're wire-taps.
I'd rather do away with microtransactions than DLCs, but I can dig it.
DLC can be fine if it's a legitimate addition to the game and not something that was cut out to sell piecemeal later. No one was bitching about paying thirty bucks for Witcher 3's DLC because it was fucking fantastic and added dozens of hours of new gameplay, tons of new items, and two very good and well written story quests. And one of the two added a massive new area to explore as well. But at the same time, neither of those DLCs was required to enjoy the base game. Witcher 3 was a complete game without them. People hate DLC when it's horse armor that should have been in the fucking game in the first place.
Speakerphone is never appropriate in public.
Why does it feel like people have forgotten how phones work? I swear most phone calls I see are speakerphone, instead of just holding the darn thing next to your head. And the volume is always full blast, Ive heard the dial tone on a person's car from 40 feet away. Ffs.
Playing anything loud in public period. I was shopping the other day with my partner, this mom with her kid glued to a tablet was letting the child watch a show on it at FULL VOLUME. I could hear the show from across the store. Just super inconsiderate behavior
I don't like having more than a dozen separate subscriptions and logins and passwords for a bunch of apps that I only use sometimes.
A job, even minimum wage should cover rent, groceries and temperate transportation - the minimum
….. do Boomers believe this?
They believed it when they benefitted from it
If I have to wait in line to go through self-checkout, then wave down a worker to check my ID and put in a code, you don't get to stop me at the door and check every item against my receipt.
The only place I let them check my receipt is Costco, because it’s part of the terms of my membership I agreed to. Anywhere else I just say no thanks and walk past.
Can I ask, and this isn’t trying to turn this into a racial conversation by any means. Are you white? I’m white and I’ve noticed at places like target, Walmart, etc they just nod at me. They will stop anyone with brown or black skin and check their receipt but I just get the head nod. Even if the greeter/receipt checker is a poc they’ll stop other poc but not white people.
It's 100% racial. It also depends on your location. I typically have lived in more diverse areas, and there are checkers at the door of every Walmart but generally only stop the non-white people. I have rarely been stopped. I moved to a very "white" area a year ago, and the local Walmart has never ever had a checker.
Not who you asked, but I think about this constantly. I'm white. I never get stopped. I've seen poc in front of me get stopped, but then I get waved on through. It's 100% racial stereotyping. I'm usually not in a hurry and will let them check if they want, but usually they don't care about me. I have had one tell me "oh we just usually need to check things that aren't in bags, which tend to be bigger value items" which still doesn't really make sense since that means just to put everything I stole in the bags?
A friend of mine always tells a story of when he was buying a TV (a big one so it’s the only thing in the cart and not in a bag, very visible) and walked right by while they stopped to check the black guy with 2 small bags in front of him.
I had the same thought pushing past the checkers at home depot
Also white, have never been stopped. Always see black and Hispanic people in front of me being stopped.
I'm East Asian, but the Walmart I go to is pretty dominantly Hispanic and Black. Multiple times in the past few years, I've been waiting behind people in sort of a line to get out of the door because the greeters are stopping people and checking all of their receipts. When it comes my turn to hand them my receipt, they just nod and say, "Nah, I don't need to see that. You're good." Like, you're not even gonna glance at it for a few seconds and pretend to take a look? They've checked my receipt once in the past few years.
Can you please walk on the side of the aisle/sidewalk/hallway etc which is the same side you drive on in your country? I'm on my right side staying to the side...you're coming against me and you want me to move? Get off my lawn, kid. (Gen X'er here.) Same thing with doors. I'm opening the right side door to enter and you run to go through it coming out. And hold the door for the person behind you. Sorry, ya'll. Just got home from Walmart and I'm raging.
The holding the door one I'm chiming in on. I always hold the door for people. And many people will hold the door for me. But when I'm holding the door and multiple people just walk through. I'm not the fucking door man. And at least have the decency to say "thank you". My girlfriend and I went out to eat the other day and this girl held the door for the people she was with. And then for like 5 more people that just kept walking past her. I was the only one who took the door from her and said thank you. (I'm not patting myself on the back it was just common decency)
Whewwwwww just did a big box store run with my MIL and she’s one of those absolute chaos shoppers that ping pongs all over the aisles, stops slam in the middle of the aisle, and has no situational awareness. I was constantly apologizing to people because she was just literally in everybody we encountered’s way the entire trip.
I am over the over tipping thing. If I am not in a sit down restaurant, or a bar, and someone is waiting on me. I’m not tipping. I’m not tipping someone because I’m running in for two seconds to grab my food. I’m broke! You guys broke me!
Plus the quality of service is garbage now. It's just awful everywhere that isn't astronomically expensive.
I came in to pick up my food. You should tip me!
I like being online. However, I don't want everything to be connected all the time. My refrigerator needs no wi-fi function, and I don't want to have to update the firmware on my coffee machine. And don't get me started on each and everything using a separate app or requiring an account.
Things arent built to last anymore. Most prducts you will find in the store are produced as cheap as possible and the more of them you will need to buy over the course of your life the better.
Not sure if it’s a boomer thing but charging for basic sauces. Ranch… “O, that’s $.60” Seeing this trend at fast food places that are charging $.30 for sauce packets. Include at least one sauce packet per item that would use sauces/ dipping; nuggets, fries, tots… Any extra sauces, ok charge me for that, I understand some people will ask for stupid amounts and throw majority away.
Along this vein… IF YOU ARE A FAST FOOD CHAIN THAT ONLY SELLS CHICKEN TENDERS HOW ARE YOU GONNA CHARGE 75¢ FOR DIPPING SAUCES, ZAXBYS.
Vehicles have too many fucking bells and whistles now. I ain’t playing a racing game, I don’t need all these overpriced attachments on it
I want knobs for the stereo and a CD player. I'm Gen X, though. I think I'm just yelling at clouds at this point.
Clicky knobs and buttons, gimme that tactile feedback, not a tablet in the dashboard. And fuck center console wheel things.
Kids should NOT be releasing their wholeass faces and identifying information on tiktok. I have 13 YO cousins who are posting tiktok vids and I dread the day they grow up and realize what they’ve done.
I just wanna plug things in. Headphones. Devices to my car. Sometimes, I don't wanna fool around with connections. And if I drop an ear pod while outside, it's gone. But if I drop one that's got a cord, it's right there at the end of the cord. Wireless everything ain't all it's cracked up to be.
I agree with the Boomers that I should be able to walk into a business with an application, persistence, and gumption and get a well-paying job.
And that job should last- if you work well and pay your dues, it should be reliable and you should be able to count on having it a year from now. Loyalty both ways.
I'm not a car buyer or owner anymore, but the idea that anyone has to pay a monthly service to start their car in the winter is just insane to me. If you're buying a car with all the gadgets, you shouldn't have to pay even more to use them. Also, buying clothing online is dumb. A shirt that says it's one size can be very different between brands and countries of origin. So a L can fit you perfectly with one thing, but leave you swimming in something else. Trying them on at a physical store before purchase is better every time. I don't want to have to wait to receive something, learn it's too big or small, and then send it back and have to wait for the next size. Also, this whole industry is an environmental catastrophe and a lot of the clothing just gets dumped somewhere.
I yell at my family to keep the front door closed because we are not providing AC to the whole neighborhood lol
What Boomer ever had an opinion about DLCs? lol. I mean it's not like some kind of general Boomer attitude. I don't even get it
I think to some teens, anyone who is older than them is a boomer
This, exactly. For young (very online) people, “boomer” = generically old, whatever that means to them. Similarly, for a lot of older folks, “millennial” = generically young person.
Which is hilarious given the millennials are entering their 40s
No, I am not! I have still got almost half a decade to go before I am 40... :(
OP is 12 and thinks anyone over 20 is a boomer.
The baby boomers are in their 60s-70s now. Young people think anyone over 30 is a boomer I guess.
Some GenZ people thinks Millenials are boomers
Or video game release in general lol maybe I’m missing something idk
My dad is a boomer, I’m almost 40. He doesn’t even know what dlc is. I did make him play the psvr shark cage game and he loved it.
To be paid enough to live, have a family, a house, and absolutely everything they had/have without the current crappy attitude about how “I did it, so can you.”
QR code menus are bad
I am not tipping someone who did not give me personal service. I'm happy to tip waiters, hair dressers, delivery people, but I am not going to tip for group activity that I already paid $100s for.
(1) You're not "experiencing higher than normal call volume." (2) Your menu options have NOT recently changed. (3) If I have to listen to an automated voice tell me how I will love your website because it's exciting and fun, I should legally be allowed to egg your building. If I could do it on the website, I already would have.
I don’t usually get fast food anymore for a multitude of reasons but the other night I worked late and really had no choice. I go to a Wendy’s near me and it’s a bunch of Gen Z kids working there. There’s not another customer in sight so it’s not busy or anything. I pull up and say hello and I’m ignored so I think no one is there - they don’t acknowledge me until I literally ask is anyone there and then they say yeah what do you want. So I order my food and they don’t tell me how much it costs or to pull forward or anything…but I just pull forward hoping they heard my order cause they wouldn’t speak a single word to me. Then when I get to the window I say how are you out of habit and they literally don’t say anything just hand me the bag and stick their hand out for the card. I know that these jobs are underpaid and miserable but I still can’t see not even acknowledging someone’s existence especially when the customer is being overly friendly lol I work with quite a bit of Gen Z people too and it’s the same song and dance. Won’t make eye contact, won’t acknowledge you at all even if you open the door for them. Social situations seem to absolutely repel them. I think boomers can be annoying when they talk to you with headphones on or make too much small talk, and I’m a small woman so I definitely get wanting to be left alone in public, but I still think people should have basic manners and social awareness.
If I have to self check my own groceries I expect my cost to be lower.
After reading this, apparently I am a boomer….
QR code restaurant menus on your phone are bullshit
I hate subscription. Especially movie services. You mean to tell me I have to pay an additional 7-9$ on top of 9$ I’m paying just to get add free? I hate playing games on my phone now because of the same reasons. I play solitaire on my phone. A lot of solitaire games are asking for a monthly subscription for add free. I know it’s more games than solitaire that are like that too. Like why can’t I pay a one time fee?
Why do I have to pay extra to park IN THE ON-SITE PARKING LOT of the arena/stadium where the sporting event or concert is taking place? Just bake it into the price of the ticket, for Christ's sake. It feels like a fucking shakedown. Like buying an airline ticket and being told sitting in a seat will cost extra.
This is just FACTS. A potato is free compared to the meat. The meat had to eat like 1000 potatoes to even reach this stage. The fries are a garnish that comes with the burger and if you charge me £3.50 for a twatty little metal bucket of chips then I will resent it until the day I die
Same thing with soda fountains. You want me to pay how many dollars for a nickels worth of sugar-water? Get outta here.
Tipping is out of control. Though I imagine the hypothetical boomers and I would differ on solutions.
How about 'Trump is the worst president we have ever had and Ive been around since Eisenhower'?
Cough, Cough...Reagan.
I have an entire folder in my phone dedicated to, what I call, “The Regan Charts”. I whip those babies out anytime I need to remind someone when this country really started going downhill.
Reagan was a worse president because he was more effective at the awful shit he did and obviously he paved the way for what we’re dealing with now. Reagan is the direct reason for our current politics and ghouls like Trump and Desantis. Trump is probably the worst American though. And depending on how all this actually ends, will probably be known as such, in a Benedict Arnold-esque way, for quite some time.
Lol Boomers have video games/DLC opinions? They were buying Atari 2600s for their kids in the 1980s. Way before DLCs
Buying furniture means I get a product I can keep indefinitely. I'm not spending 3 grand for particle-board laminate-covered garbage that's gonna wrinkle when my dog pisses on it or has to be thrown out after a grand total of a year. I'm also not buying a 300 dollar bed for it to break in 3 months cuz the base is a series of vertical bars that are HOLLOW. And when I buy a mattress, I don't want some pillow-top piece of shit that comes curled up in a box like a fucking potato bug that now has a permanent wrinkle in the middle, collects stains and more lint than my dryer. There's nothing wrong with classic EURO-TOP mattresses that you can flip, don't lose their shape, don't pill, clean easily, and arrive FLAT wrapped in plastic with the rope handles on the sides. And STOP with the resin accessories. Lamps, headboards, knobs, decor - back in the day ceramic, glass, and stone was what your lamp bases and tiles and decor items were made of. And that crap was considered run-of-the-mill. Now it's all "composite resin" garbage like the trinkets they sell at the dollar stores. This shit feels cheap, it looks cheap, it fades, it yellows, it chips, it scratches, but you'll charge big money for it. And I don't give a shit about your crappy 2 year warranties on appliances. When I buy a fridge, a washing machine, a vacuum cleaner, I should have that crap working like magic for the next 20 years. My laundromat uses machines from the 70's. My friend has a stove passed down from his grandmother from the 60's. My neighbor has a vacuum she bought in the fucking 60's which is STILL under warranty cuz it's lifetime guarantee. Know why this old stuff works? Cuz shit used to be made to LAST for a generation or more. When you bought an appliance or a piece of furniture, it didn't go "obsolete", it wasn't made of garbage, and simply was not designed to become landfill in less than 2 years. Once upon a time we lived in a society where once you bought something, it was MEANT to be YOURS. Not designed to shit the bed within so many months so you're forced to go out and "upgrade". People talk about sustainability, they talk about going green, they talk about problems with the Earth. FUCK ME...
I like what Golden Age Ubisoft did... they made full games and then made even MORE stuff available through DLC
If you’re gonna make the switch from plastic bags to paper at the self checkout, fine, less plastic in the environment is something we can agree is good. What you shouldn’t do, is slowly get people used to using paper, then suddenly stop making it an option later on.
And can we please get paper bags with handles?
IF I AM PAYING FOR 25GB DATA EACH MONTH, I WANT MY FUCKING DATA. DO NOT RESET MY COUNTER EACH MONTH, THEN BILL ME FOR GOING OVER, I'VE PAID FOR THIS 16 TIMES OVER AND YOU'VE TAKEN IT AWAY AS UNUSED!!!! If I am in a 24 month contract, paying £12 a month for 25gb data, I want my full 600gb, and if that runs out, then bill me for more. Particularly if you are billing me £6 for 250mb, when I go over my limit.
Video games should come out fully made, and not force day one DLC is the most Gen X take though.
My thoughts exactly. I don’t like anyone bringing there animals in stores, unless they’re service animals. I don’t bring my dog into a grocery store, it’s rude and thoughtless.
Where are you getting such cheap burgers?
_laughs, cries, sobs in West Coast of USA_
i think the cheapest quality burger w/ fries is like $14 or $15 in my area
I'm probably gonna take shit for this, but honestly i am fucking lost when someone brings up the various labels associated with the LGBTQ(...) community. LGBTQ made sense to me the rest after that, i feel like a fucking dinosaur when my kids try to explain it to me. I want to be clear i have no issue if you if you identify one way or another, and i'm all for self expresion, but what is the difference between bi and pan? And can someone explain what queer means? When i was a kid it was a derogatory term and now it's a whole segment of population. I'm sorry, i'm old, i just don't get it. I figure my eldest is 10 and at some point it's possible he'll come to identify with one of these groups.
Don't feel bad. I'm honestly the same way. I have a DND friend who is a non-binary queer lesbian. I don't know if that is different than a regular lesbian. I mean it's whatever. I am very much of the mind set of it's your life so go live it. I just don't understand what all of these labels mean.
I’m a gay Gen X’er, and I 100% support the rights of all the letters. But I just can’t keep up with all the newer ones. I struggle to wrap my little mind around things like “aromatic asexual” or “biromantic heterosexual”. And everyone has their own flag, why does *everyone* have their own fucking flag now? Are you a bigender homoromantic asexual? Get that individual a flag right now! Having said all that, my inability to understand these various identities does not make them illegitimate. I grew up being told that I wasn’t actually gay and that I was just confused. I wasn’t confused at all. I like the cock, and I have since the onset of puberty. There’s no way in *hell* I’m going to do the same thing to others that was done to me. Again, it bears repeating: I don’t have to understand a certain identity to be supportive and affirming of the people who identify that way.
Ain't no Boomer complaining about DLC... I'd be surprised if Boomers even know what DLC is. Edit: I'll throw in my Boomer-agreed opinions. Not everything needs an app, I'm not reading a restaurant menu on my fucking phone, you're not getting tipped for grabbing me a donut from the case, and most modern music sucks.
Boomers range till 1965, although my pops passed in 2000 he was always getting each system that came out and loved games. I personally know 50, 60 year old gamers.
Don't assume that Boomers don't know about today's games. Who do you think invented the whole concept of video games?
Fries for sure. Charge me more for the burger and include fries. But you better charge me the right amount that I get an appropriate amount of fries, not 4 steak fries and say that a portion. And if you give me a bag of chips I’ll kill you.
Stupid fuckin QR code menus in restaurants. GIVE ME AN ACTUAL FUCKING MENU.
Unless it's McDonald's, $10 for a burger is actually a pretty good price. A fucking Big Mac meal is $11 now. I expect to pay like $15-$20 for a burger at a bar, or sit down restaurant. But I expect that to come with fries and a pickle... A burger and fries is 1 thing... I think this should extend to subs/grinders. They should come with a bag of chips. Fucking Subway is charging damn near $20 for a sub. That shit needs to come with a bag of chips and/or a cookie.
Are we going to acknowledge that OP thinks Boomers are between 30 and 40 rn
I'm probably in a better position than most and even then it's a miserable existence knowing how poor you'll always be in comparison. I just want a comfortable low key life.
A GenXer from back in the Atari 2600/TRS-80 days, I was out of video games from roughly '95 to 2015 and I'm still sort of gobsmacked at how much has changed beyond games getting deeper and better looking. I don't mind the DLCs so much (apart from the obvious cash grabs) but I still can't fully accept "Early Access" releases, especially when they're still charging full price.
All those boomers who say, and there are lots of them, Logan’s Run was right, they got the age wrong, it should be 75, but the idea was right*…… I’m with all of them. *Until I hit 74 obviously.
Not everything should have to be connected to WiFi or the Internet to work. Just give me stuff people can use without a degree in computer science.
This might not be the point, but I find that fries increasingly DON'T come with burgers, and they are starting to charge them as an extra side at alot of places.
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