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OldHLSDude, were Gen X guys slackers in the 90s?

Also was there an understanding back then that they were fuc...
Outnumbered garnet hospital background story
  12/29/23
It's hard to generalize. There are always slackers and every...
racy sick corn cake
  12/30/23
When you started your company, certainly you made the Gen X ...
Outnumbered garnet hospital background story
  12/30/23
I wouldn't say they worked tirelessly, but I don't remember ...
racy sick corn cake
  12/30/23
Not flame, I would have loved to work for a company with a c...
Vengeful fear-inspiring school
  12/30/23
my father was on wall street in the 80s. I can remember him ...
Maniacal factory reset button
  12/30/23
When I was in BigCorp we had a traditional Christmas drunk f...
racy sick corn cake
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Stimulating Location
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Histrionic box office newt
  12/30/23
fuck my ass. we have to go back
Odious embarrassed to the bone church lettuce
  12/30/23
Did you stop these parties like the second Gen X got hired, ...
Outnumbered garnet hospital background story
  12/30/23
Parties got stopped in the mid 80s when HR started getting w...
racy sick corn cake
  12/30/23
"He even had to use her gun" I lol'd
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learning disabled abode yarmulke
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CR. he brings a skill set no one else has.
disgusting stage depressive
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many voters are saying this
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Date: December 29th, 2023 6:05 PM
Author: Outnumbered garnet hospital background story

Also was there an understanding back then that they were fucked and Doomed to poverty?

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Date: December 30th, 2023 10:10 AM
Author: racy sick corn cake

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.



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Date: December 30th, 2023 10:12 AM
Author: Outnumbered garnet hospital background story

When you started your company, certainly you made the Gen X guys work tirelessly for your benefit, yes? After all, there was a line of eager Gen X guys ready to replace them. And if they forget their place, just remind them that they're Slackers.

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Date: December 30th, 2023 11:42 AM
Author: racy sick corn cake

I wouldn't say they worked tirelessly, but I don't remember any slackers. Everybody in the company had options. That was something I fought pretty hard with ignorant vcs and i-bankers over. Everybody made some $ on the IPO and after. The option plan covered every employee, down to the receptionist. Tech eventually replaced the receptionist, but she did OK.

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Date: December 30th, 2023 10:27 AM
Author: Vengeful fear-inspiring school

Not flame, I would have loved to work for a company with a culture like that. 4pm beer parties sound 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47229977)



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Date: December 30th, 2023 11:38 AM
Author: Maniacal factory reset button

my father was on wall street in the 80s. I can remember him coming home drunk a few times from work. They had a Friday beer cart come by. this is before HR departments destroyed fun.

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Date: December 30th, 2023 11:52 AM
Author: racy sick corn cake

When I was in BigCorp we had a traditional Christmas drunk fest. The Big Boss and the HR people were lazy and always went home super early before the holidays, so the mice would play. One Chinese guy who looked like Hirohito (that was his nickname) was the ringleader. Some years it really got out of hand. Sexual harassment was pretty much standard, and the women were harassing the men too. Happy memories! I remember the female patent assistant sitting on my lap in the cafeteria making out with me while her husband egged her on from across the table. There was a very hot redhead who put on hot pants and roller bladed around the building. She stopped by my office to give me some tongue. One of the senior guys was shaking up champagne bottles and shooting the corks at the hall clocks. I think somebody eventually clamped down on the party after one of the guys left drunk on his motorcycle and hit a tree, rendering him a veg case. It's amazing we kept it up as long as we did. Work was more fun back then. No cell phones/email crap either. There was zero woke stuff and the women were 95% either playful or tolerant. Gone. Gone. Gone.

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Date: December 30th, 2023 11:59 AM
Author: Stimulating Location



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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:00 PM
Author: Histrionic box office newt



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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:25 PM
Author: Odious embarrassed to the bone church lettuce

fuck my ass. we have to go back

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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:33 PM
Author: Outnumbered garnet hospital background story

Did you stop these parties like the second Gen X got hired, in order to make their lives suck?

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Date: December 30th, 2023 1:06 PM
Author: racy sick corn cake

Parties got stopped in the mid 80s when HR started getting worried about lawsuits, harassment, etc. Proximate cause for out particular case was the guy on the motorcycle hitting the tree.

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Date: December 30th, 2023 11:35 AM
Author: disgusting stage depressive

"He even had to use her gun"

I lol'd

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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:25 PM
Author: Odious embarrassed to the bone church lettuce



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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:30 PM
Author: Charismatic shimmering theatre trust fund



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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:25 PM
Author: Odious embarrassed to the bone church lettuce



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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:33 PM
Author: learning disabled abode yarmulke



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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:35 PM
Author: disgusting stage depressive

CR. he brings a skill set no one else has.

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Date: December 30th, 2023 1:03 PM
Author: cracking striped hyena shrine

many voters are saying this

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Date: December 30th, 2023 1:23 PM
Author: Zippy fantasy-prone affirmative action



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Date: May 4th, 2024 10:28 PM
Author: Outnumbered garnet hospital background story



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