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OldHLSDude, were Gen X guys slackers in the 90s?
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Date: December 29th, 2023 6:05 PM Author: garnet house telephone Also was there an understanding back then that they were fucked and Doomed to poverty? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47228150) |
Date: December 30th, 2023 10:10 AM Author: Excitant mother 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: garnet house telephone 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. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47229945) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 11:42 AM Author: Excitant mother 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. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230200) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 10:27 AM Author: Confused sable roommate 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: Smoky french chef milk 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. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230189) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 11:52 AM Author: Excitant mother 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. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230238) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 11:59 AM Author: up-to-no-good heaven (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230253) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:00 PM Author: Peach domesticated tanning salon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230260) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:25 PM Author: Impertinent Pink Fortuitous Meteor Dilemma fuck my ass. we have to go back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230364) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:33 PM Author: garnet house telephone Did you stop these parties like the second Gen X got hired, in order to make their lives suck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230405) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 1:06 PM Author: Excitant mother 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. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230548) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 11:35 AM Author: Fighting electric lay "He even had to use her gun"
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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:25 PM Author: Impertinent Pink Fortuitous Meteor Dilemma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230368) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:30 PM Author: canary shrine quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230394) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:25 PM Author: Impertinent Pink Fortuitous Meteor Dilemma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230369) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:33 PM Author: Swashbuckling Swollen Property Let this thread be a reminder that OldHLSDude belongs in MPM 4. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230401) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 12:35 PM Author: Fighting electric lay CR. he brings a skill set no one else has. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230417) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 1:03 PM Author: appetizing vengeful keepsake machete many voters are saying this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230537) |
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Date: December 30th, 2023 1:23 PM Author: Offensive library jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47230608) |
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Date: May 4th, 2024 10:28 PM Author: garnet house telephone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5467636&forum_id=2...id.#47635957) |