We often turn to the older generations for guidance—after all, with old age comes wisdom. However, sometimes we might receive some unsolicited advice from them that isn’t helpful at all. In fact, it’s just a whiny complaint about young people and their new-fangled ways.
Maybe it’s due to feeling out of touch with the here-and-now, and desperately trying to cling onto old ways as they slowly slip into the past. Whatever it is, the older generations love to berate the younger ones, so an Ask Reddit thread got people to share the stupidest complaints and “problems” that they’ve heard about millennials.
Bored Panda has collected the most head-scratching and outright idiotic ones that made people say, “you can’t be serious”. Is buying avocado toast really the reason that we’re unable to afford a house in the worst economy since the Great Depression...? I don’t think so.
#21
I am a student dentist. Had a baby boomer patient say that my generation of doctors relied to heavily on technology. This was in response to me looking up their medication on my iPad.
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66points
#22
I am personally a fan of the complaints about Millennials being too incompetent to get a job, especially when it's coming from a person who has stubbornly held onto a position well past retirement age with an irrelevant, outdated skill set that would not get them hired if they were searching now. How long am I going to have to contend with superiors who can't figure out Microsoft Office?
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64points
#23
Anything that assumes millennials are still children/young teenagers.
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52points
#24
They can talk about their struggles, but we're not allowed to talk about ours
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48points
#25
The problem with your generation is... "You kids don't know how to get in trouble anymore. When I was your age we'd have someone buy us beer and we'd sneak off to the woods or the lake and have a good time. Someone always got caught of course. Then you'd get grounded and have no tv for a week. Kids just don't do that anymore."
Umm okay but I'm 30.
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46points
#26
One I heard from a Vietnam Vet was that we 'never had a mandatory military draft to weed out the weak ones and the whiners' and that 'a war would do us millennials all a little good
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42points
#27
I was walking down the hallway at work and overheard "The thing with Millenials is they come and go whenever they want. How are we supposed to schedule a meeting when they refuse to have set hours?" As a Millenial, I still work 8-5 like everyone else in the office. It was oddly specific, but generally incorrect. Maybe he was talking about an intern that's still in school?
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40points
#28
Millennial are somehow both too sensitive and over-exposed to lewd and/or violent movies, shows, video games.
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39points
#29
A coworker from a different department resigned, and a group of managers was trashing the decision, "that generation has no loyalty, just a bunch of lazy millennials." I spoke up and said I was part of that generation, I was in fact a bit younger, and that it was kind of dumb to make generalizations based on age alone. One said something about how the former employee had seniority over me, so it was probably a matter of time for me. I pointed out that I had more seniority than the employee AND that manager combined. She didn't believe me but asked the director later to confirm.
She hopped jobs every three years (and actually was working there when I first started and left for eight years), yet blamed age and perceived laziness, and didn't want to be challenged on her mindset.
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30points
#30
That if we don't like the price of college, shut up and go to trade school. Okay, now that everyone's flooding these jobs, now you're gonna whine that these people are terking yer jerbs.
Not to mention that a lot (not all) of trade work environments have a much higher likelihood of sexual harassment.
21points
