OldHLSDude, were Gen X guys slackers in the 90s?
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Date: December 30th, 2023 10:10 AM Author: Pearly pit
It's hard to generalize. There are always slackers and every generation thinks it's doomed to poverty. My nephew was a "classic" gen x slacker. Born in 1963 he worked in warehouses, used coke and weed heavily, became an unemployed divorced alcoholic and ended up moving in with his mother when he was 48 and she was 82. He mooched off her while she worked full time as a security guard. She eventually went into a nursing home and he killed himself with a shot to the head while sitting in her bathtub. He even had to use her gun. He used to rant interminably about how he had been screwed over by everybody else.
OTOH, I've had lots of gen x employees who were hardworking. They were mostly engineers, so maybe that's a special case. Brings to mind one guy who objected in writing to the practice I had implemented of having beer parties at 4 p.m on Friday. He wanted everybody to keep working.
But I also know plenty of boomer slackers, and even my parents' generation had plenty of slackers. According to my mother, all my dad's relatives were worthless pieces of shit. She may have been right; I can't remember any of them ever holding a job.
I remember a lot of conversations when I was in law school about how fucked we were (it was the 70s and the economy was not so hot). To quote one now wealthy HLS alum (not me), "We're the first generation to be worse off than their parents." Same thing happened in 1970 when there was a crash that hit the tech sector (different then than how) very hard.
Whatever the various characterizations of a generation, it's statistical and there is always some kind of distribution, but I have no idea how to compare the distributions. There may be some validity in certain generational stereotypes, but damned if I know exactly what they are.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2#47229941)
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