" A 25 - year - old told me last week that he wanted to retire at 30 . I aver , ' Aww , that ’s cute . ' "
Recently, Redditoru/AgentJ691asked the older adults of the Reddit community to share the mostout-of-touch thingsyounger folks have said to them, and even hearing some of these as an older Gen Z’er, I’m flabbergasted. Here are some of the responses that might make you extremely irritated:
1.“This younger person said they felt sorry for us since we didn’t have AI to help with homework and reports. I responded with, ‘True, but we actually learned things.’ The kid replied, ‘Why does that matter?'”
2.“Almost anything to do with history. I once saw a teen tell someone that rice was ‘pretty new’ to the American diet and that 40 years ago (the 1970s), most Americans would have heard of rice, but ‘few would have had it in their pantries, and most had never tried it.’ Rice. The kid thought rice was a new food in the US…in the 1970s.”
— tunaman808
3.“That the early 2000s was an easy time. Yeah, the whole post-9/11 vibe was very chill for sure.”
— SignificanceFun265
4.“The 27-year-old parent of a 13-year-old student told me that she was the only one allowed to tell her child what to do, and if her daughter didn’t want to do her math homework, then I was not to ‘punish her with bad grades.'”
5.“I was told that having a condescending tone online is impossible because it’s text, not speech.”
— shackbleep
6."‘You wouldn’t have been laid off if you were good at your job. Layoffs don’t affect the ones who are good at their work.’ Pipe down, Ashleigh, and focus on showing up on time before throwing those stones."
— forever_29_ish
7.“That ending sentences with a period is ‘aggressive.'”
— Imightbeafanofthis
9.“A 25-year-old told me last week that he wanted to retire at 30. I said, ‘Aww, that’s cute.'”
— MissHell303
10."‘If we ruin this planet, we can just go live on Mars!'"
— SilverFoxAndHound
11.“My cousin’s 16-year-old son asked why parents can’t just tell toddlers going through potty training to use the toilet since they’re ‘really easy to use.'”
12.“A 20-something coworker asked me if our office had computers when I started. I started in 2016.”
— Gridsmack
13.“That old people don’t know tech. We invented this shit! It didn’t just magically appear one day!”
— Butter_mah_bisqits
14.“Close to 15 years ago, my young nephew told me that he hoped the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t over by the time he turned 18 so he could go fight. This was while he was visiting me at Walter Reed Hospital, recovering from gunshot wounds and third-degree burns. He did end up enlisting, and the wars weren’t over yet, but he got sent to Leavenworth as a Commanding Officer and never saw combat before getting a dishonorable discharge for bringing weed into a secure facility.”
— Bruce9058
15.“Young people today are constantly saying that life was so much easier back in the ‘old days,’ as though we didn’t live through the Vietnam War, the Cold War, race riots, recessions, assassinations, gas shortages, 20% student interest loans, and more.”
16.“When told that our work dress code would change to ‘no jeans when visiting a client,’ a guy on the team said he doesn’t own anything other than jeans. Dude, you make $100K a year — go buy a pair of pants.”
— 10S_NE1
17."‘I don’t care about politics because it doesn’t affect me.'"
— Siouan - me
18.Lastly: “I had a Gen Z’er tell me once that he liked the idea of having a job, but he hasn’t been able to find one that didn’t involve some kind of responsibility because he just ‘doesn’t like that stuff.’ I didn’t know how to break it to him that taking responsibility in exchange for money is the literal definition of a job.”
remark : Some submissions have been edit for distance and/or lucidity .
