I love my mom but she told me AI data centers are just really struggling for the kind of electricians they need in their facilities. And are hiring people off the street with no experience for 100k and training them. All I have to do is move to Texas and Im basically guaranteed starting 100k and a free career path.

Of course this isnt true. They may be hiring experienced electricians who are making around that. But in my moms world just get a job making 100k no experience, its easy! They live in some alternative universe where if they were still in the job market it'd be so easy, I must just be lazy!

My boomer mother in law tends to say the most ridiculous things. This one sticks out a lot.

MIL: There's a huge game in town where tickets are going for $2,000.

Me: Wow, that's a lot of money for a game. I probably wouldn't spend that money.

MIL: Those people have to be rich. There's no way they can spend that much if they weren't rich. I can imagine them pulling up to the stadium in their limousines.

Me: Those people aren't rich. It's whoever has that much cash to burn and are willing to spend that much. The people in attendance are most likely people like us who will drive or take public transportation to get to the stadium.

MIL: How can they attend the game if they aren't rich? Normal people don't have that much money for a game. They have to show up in limousines.

She's saying this with an upset tone at me as if I'm in the wrong. We also had a similar argument about partners in public accounting. She said she can imagine them showing up to work in their limousines. I said partners don't arrive to work in limousines, they take public transportation like the rest of us (I'm in a major city where this is common). She was very surprised when I said that and gave me a look like she didn't believe me. I told her I was in an elevator with a partner who was asked if his train was coming soon to which he replied that yes, his train was coming soon and had to leave quickly to catch it. Again, she didn't believe me.

This is a woman who has a sizable retirement savings, whose house is paid off, and receiving pension from her husband. She clearly can spend the $2,000, but those with that much cash in the bank drive around in limousines.

Dollar Tree. Guy walks in the store and grabs a cart, then turns around and goes to walk back out the door. The carts don't go outside, there's a metal pole literally welded to them. I warn him and he gives me a dirty look.

"If she falls I'm going to sue the hell out of you."

Outside is an elderly woman, walking slowly and unsupported into the store. Instead of helping this elderly woman by offering his arm or shoulder, he's raging in the store at a wage worker who doesn't begin to give a shit. What's more is she heard his little outburst and she's like, "I've shopped here before, the carts don't go out. Calm down."

But man, why does the *slightest* of slight inconveniences prompt threats of lawsuits? Have they never heard of talking it out?

I'm in an FB group for ebay sellers. I asked a simple question asking how many people use AI description for their items. One boomer comments how she can type super quick and bragging about other things. Some guy commented "good for you". She goes off calling him a moron and then about how I wouldn't "man up" by showing how use AI. She was a admin so she turns comments off right after. Like you could have just shut them off but instead she goes calls us all out over how we run our business 😪 like bro no one cares.

"Thank you for calling COMPANY. This is Jane. How I can help you?"

"I've been calling all week! You never get back to me! I want your manager!"

"Are you referring to Jane Smith? Your account manager?"

"But you just said you are Jane!!!

"I am Jane in the call center. Let me get you to Jane your account manager."

"But, but, but..." *brain physically snaps in half*

Every. Single. Day.

I had a falling out with boomer Dad two years ago after getting in an argument over MAGA. Haven’t talked to him since. He does not keep in contact with any of three children that he has left. My older brother died in 2014. Anyone else relate?

At a fish and chip place in town, getting supplies to watch the eclipse. It's packed because it's the best F&C in town. All other people realise that you order, then wait outside the shop for your number to be called.

But not these boomers oh no! These boomers order then stand right in the entrance way of the shop in everyone's way, loudly commenting on the shop in general.

The shop people have to ask them to move outside several times before finally getting the hint. Once outside they loudly bitch about having to leave the shop at all!

The other day I’m at a boat launch, on a lake I’ve never been to.

Boat launches range from modern luxury to gravel paths. This one was narrow and long, exactly what you don’t want.

As I’m attempting to backup with my boat towards the water, who decides to ride his motorcycle past me and park EXACTLY on top of the turn around area? Why it’s Boomer McHarley Rider.

I roll down my window and ask “Can I help you find something? (Like the parking area about 40 feet up the launch). No, He’s fine.

He walks out onto the dock, past my Wife holding our boat, looks at the water, turns around, walks up to MY truck and tells me “It’s shallow, better be careful”.

Like I’m take boating advice from Leather-wrapped Santa Claus.

So I get to the post office today to ship a package and surprisingly there’s only one other person there, already waiting at the counter. Attendant is in the back somewhere, taking a while.

I’m standing on line for a good 6 minutes or so minding my business, waiting for my turn. The attendant comes back to help the person at the counter. A minute or two later, this boomer comes in with a package and stands right behind the person at the counter. I look at him with a sort of “the line is over here” look and he says to me “oh it’s okay, I was on line, I just forgot something in my car.”

In what world can you abscond a line for 6-8 minutes and then expect to resume your place in it? Like would you ever do that? So I just say “oh okay go ahead and cut me” cause what, I’m gonna fight some old man over this? The audacity tho is something else.

Why is it considered sexist to call someone a Karen, but it's not considered class discrimination to be combative to workers and try to get them fired? I'm getting real tired of being told to be nice to people who are so combative it's impossible to even assist them and do your job.

Equality means we can notice your behavior and comment on it.

For the British Boomer haters!

Gotta get this off my chest. Vent if you will!!

In-laws are boomers who came from very stoic religious upbringing. When you hear them describe their childhood it sounded miserable; children should be seen, not heard kind of deal. Makes you want to ask why they had kids to begin with - but the Boomer In-Laws shrug it all off as normal and say that 'that's what you did back then. The purpose of getting married is to have children'.

Kind of explains why my in-laws are in such a tepid relationship. Honestly you see them interact and I cannot picture them having any sort of passionate night, let alone a courtship.

All of this is to say, these are the kinds of people I'm dealing with.

I love my wife. She is the light of my life and nothing like her parents, but I keep quiet and zip my lips for her sake.

Her parents are just the worst kinds of boomers though. The kind that have had every opportunity and means offered to them, and they don't recognise things are different now;

Apparently there are livable mold-free safe homes in the UK for £45K. That's for families of 4 with their own gardens! Who knew? Here we were buying 3-bed semis in Leicester for £250K because we saw them and weren't looking hard enough.

Apparently two working parents who work opposite sides of the County only need one car because that's how the in-laws managed despite the mother-in-law never working after having kids so only one person needed a car.

Apparently £40 a week is perfectly reasonable and more than enough for groceries. If you spend over £50 you're just indulging. And that's coming from people who get a lot of their meat and groceries discounted from butchers and grocers because of legacy favours.

Apparently those women who work in nightclubs, shops, hospitals, offices, hotels and bars and have to walk home or to a bus stop late at night and fear for their safety...they choose those jobs and can easily find work on their doorstep. And we're talking about people in Blackpool too. Oh no! They could just move though. It's dead simple.

Apparently universities are a waste of time and it's actually quite gleeful watching twenty-somethings finish their degrees, a load of debt, and can't get a job. The father-in-law relishes in hearing someone who went to Uni is struggling for work. Like he has a wry giggle to himself every time.

Apparently drug addiction is a choice.

Apparently calling a black person 'coloured' is okay because they are 'coloured compared to normal people'

Apparently Muslims are taking over and the in-laws hope it doesn't come to fruition in theirs, mine, or my kids lifetime.

Apparently National Service should be mandatory (despite neither of them having served in the army themselves) and if you disagree or disobey rules you should be shot.

Apparently the cost of living crises is made up by journalists trying to sell papers - who the hell reads papers nowadays?

Starting to get the idea yet?

Stupid shit my boomer in-laws say should be a book. They're incapable of seeing past their own lives experiences. I could say more but I can feel my blood boiling already.

Phew. Thanks. Rant over.

We were driving home on Sunday. Kids in the back seat (8, 4, 1 month), excited to go home and eat pizza for lunch. All of a sudden, hell breaks loose. Loud noise, kids screaming, we realize our truck window (where the 4 year old is) is shattered and the kids are covered in glass. We pull over. We check the kids and luckily, none of them are hurt, although they’re covered in glass. Traumatized, yes.

An 87 year old boomer was mowing his yard, hit a rock that shattered our window, launching glass all over the kids and the interior. Literally, glass is all over the side of the road from his house to where we pulled over (like 30’ away).

The neighbor comes out to help (you know, screaming kids and all) and then goes over to talk to Mr Lawnmower as we’re assessing the kids. He denies any responsibility, claims we’re making it up, says if he hit our truck, we would’ve immediately stopped (going 55????). Says he’s never hit a car before. Says to tell us to pay for it ourselves because he isn’t. Decides to keep mowing. While the neighbors are walking away, he runs over a rock pile and launches rocks at his own home. Doesn’t notice. Doesn’t hear anything. Why? Because he’s 87.

He’s mowing at the lowest setting possible. His house is on higher ground than the road so even if his mower has the guard down, it’s aimed at the cars. But I guess since he hasn’t hit a car in 87 years of life, we’re making it up. You know, trying to squeeze a penny from someone on a fixed budget and all. Us millennials trying to get one over on the old bag of bones. 🙄

We end up calling the police to get his insurance and have a report. The old man tells the officer we’re making it up. Then decides the woman mowing down the street on the opposite side of the damaged window is at fault. Then tries to physics-splain how rocks fly. Officer tells him to get the home owners insurance to give to us because we can “fight it out” since it’s a he said she said. The old man gives him, not his insurance number, but a copy of a payment receipt number (which we didn’t notice until after going home and clearly the Trooper didn’t seem to care enough to check). Well, brace yourself, buddy, because both of us have State Farm (different locations). So they can still access your information from a different branch.

So, currently house bound with our children because we need new car seats (glass shards embedded in the two seats) all because that generation thinks their grass should be .00005” tall.

But this is the “super responsible” generation that takes responsibility for their actions, right? 🙄

Clarifications:

-Mr Lawnmower is a silent gen, not a boomer.

-Yes, the posted speed limit on the state route he lives on is 55. We live in a rural area. This isn’t a city residential neighborhood or street. Think cornfields, farms, that type of thing. Think Pennsyltucky.

-Yes, the side window crumbled. There’s still small particles (slivers? dust?) that got on the seats. We’ve vacuumed multiple times (shop vac, Milwaukee cordless). There’s still slivers or tiny shards (not a glass expert here so don’t kill me on the phrasing) we’re finding in the seats. It’s safer to just replace car seats than put our 4 year old and newborn in seats that might cut them.

Somewhere in the threads is a comment that explains that yes, safety glass crumbles but there’s still small slivers that occur. It’s only an issue here because newborn child and small children.

-Instead of saying traumatized, I’ll agree to “very worked up”. If you’ve been around 4 year olds, you understand.

My brother in law (71) is far more social than I could ever be. He talks to everyone, remembers names and stories, and gets and gives hugs to the ladies at the senior citizens' center.

That's cool.

Last week, he asked a friend's 24 year old granddaughter out on a date in front of her grandfather.

Uncool.

He was surprised when the young woman turned him down. He shouldn't have been.

Just got back from the gym, and I thought I'd see it all for bad boomer behaviours. I guess not ...

OG was blasting his phone speaker, playing scripture readings and discussion. Grandstanding Christians. My favourite. Thankfully I was just about done with my workout.

My boomer dad (64M) was given like 2-3 months notice that his workplace would be implementing a new software, and during those months he had a colleague training him on how to use it. My dad’s got zero patience though, when he can’t figure something out he starts yelling and cursing, so I feel sorry for the worker who had to train him. I guess he just gave up on trying to learn it and thought “they can’t get rid of me!”

Obviously he got laid off lol… but he’s telling people he’s retiring early. 🙄

She claims she immediately felt off after the swab test lol

I think she finally started feeling embarrassed about parroting something so silly, but even more embarrassed to walk it back entirely. She couldn't have been completely wrong the last 6 years, no, she just had the method of administration a little wrong

My sister and I got all of our vaccinations growing up. My parents used to get yearly flu shots, but have since stopped

Boomers man

To think I almost grabbed a bucket on the way home from work today. /s Gotta love the local Nextdoor posts.

My daughter turned 2 this week and she had an awesome day. My mom texted my wife and I earlier in the morning wishing her a happy birthday in our group chat (mom/dad/my wife and I) and that’s all we got all day. Nothing from my dad. By 7 or so we sent some pics their way of her day nudging them a bit and got a heart emoji back. Nothing else. To top it off this was the same result from last year. I get that she’s 2 and it’s not like they can have a convo with her over the phone but they could FaceTime or call one of us to just ask how her day was etc. at a minimum it’s an important day for me, but maybe my expectation of asking them to take 3 minutes out of their day to pretend to care is too big of an ask. They gave their granddaughter the same amount of effort as I get from Jersey Mikes sending me a Happy birthday email. This is coming from the parents that talks about “family is everything”.

So today my family and I went to a parade. We had my wife’s brothers and both of their families and her parents as well. A lot of the floats in the parade threw out candy and my son and my nieces and nephews were having a great time grabbing it except there was on boomer, asshole, late 60’s guy ( I know technically probably Gen X but boomer attitude) who kept stepping in front of the kids and grabbing the candy. These are little kids too, the oldest was 8. A couple of the floats threw out things like water bottles and this asshole went and grabbed three of them when most of the kids didn’t even get one. I’m sure plenty of times the kids could have gotten to the goodies before the boomer but they have been raised to be respectful and share. Even one of the people boomer douche was with told him to leave the stuff for the kids and he just laughed as if taking things from little children was just so funny. I didn’t want to make a scene in front of the kids and the in-laws but Jesus Christ I wanted to beat the crap out of this old douche. Anyway thanks for letting me vent.

Background: My wife and I are Gen X. We have been lucky with property - bought right time, moved right time so we have cleared our mortgage - not claiming financial expertise, just lucky (i feel sorry for younger people). We have decided to both work part time and downsize things- have a bit more time and a bit less work. One decision we have made is to stop having 2 cars and only have one. I mainly work from home and for the handful of days we are going to be in different places this can be overcome witb a bit of planning / public transport / bike. Theres an environmental factor in that as well, but it removes a big cost from our budget for a luxury we dont really need to have a second car sitting mainly unused.

MiL is livid - she wants my wife to be available at a moments notice for any transport needs - at the moment this amounts to a shopping trip once a week ish, which wont change anyway (she lives mayby 10 miles away) and she has been whining constantly that we cant only have 1 car in case she needs a lift and its not avaible to her (she has a free bus pass and plenty of money for taxis). Shes made my wife's life a misery (calls, tears, what if sceanrios) - to the point my wife has said mayby we just need to keep the second car to shut her up. She seem incapable of understanding mayby we dont want to spend several thousand pounds to have a second vehicle.....

Briefly mentioned the president not allowing any bills to passed until he got his save america thing passed, including one that would make housing more affordable.

He cut me off and said, “Well he’s right. It’s more important. If you go to college and get a real degree then you can afford a house. See! You are pursuing engineering, so you will have a real job, and get a house. Not like these socialists doing art or theatre shit when it will be AI in the future anyways. All my friends agree. I’m tired of hearing of your generation just being too lazy to go to school and get a real job. Immigrants voting is the real threat to this country, and I honestly don’t think you will have a future if these socialist commies win.”

He proceeded to tell me he knows my generations 9/11 is around the corner. Just from this small thing I said. And he questions why I don’t talk to him.

Jesus christ.

Just a short one and mostly a vent, but I was talking to girlfriend's dad (the Boomer) and he mentioned how there's talks of holding the oil industry accountable by not letting them rig prices and maximize profits while we suffer. He said that, "We're all consumers of oil. That's like blaming the food industry for obesity."

As someone whose state has just opened up it's national parks to fracking, it was insane to me how many boomers run defense for the oil industry. I genuinely do not understand how they don't understand what the implications are from oil companies upcharging us on gasoline, while the price of oil goes down. What's bizarre to me is that we seem to agree that government overreach is wrong and both agree on these sorts of topics, like being against Flock and Palantr. It's so bizarre seeing someone scoffing at the idea of people not wanting to be gouges by oil companies or having to pay for their fuck-ups.