Millennials: Natural born killers

I work at a college folks, I've seen how they glom onto that song.

Meanwhile they know nothing about "All These Things I Have Done"

 

Going to a Killers concert is millennial.

Using Mr. Brightside in your TikTok video is Gen Z.

 

Mr bright side has been popular since it released this is a wild take

 

This is like saying mgmt is for gen z because of how popular a few of their songs became on tik tok.

 

Their generation is socially broken due to technology, helicopter parents, and the pandemic. They are scared to call a restaurant to ask about a reservation. We’ve got em cooked.

 

When You Were Young was all over the scrolls during the Renaissance so it’s a Gen whatever those people were song

 

Say what now?

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/gen-z-developing-fear-of-phone-calls-or-phone-phobia/

https://fortune.com/2025/02/19/gen-...e-college-launched-class-overcome-telephobia/

 

Thanks to Nathan Fielder i expect Evanescence's Bring me to Life to take over tik tok and become a new Gen Z song.

 

This was a thing with millennials too but maybe it is worse with genz.

 

maybe for you, I am a maestro on the phone.

 

I mean not me obviously but other people

 

I do not enjoy talking on the phone but the idea of it creating anxiety to the point of making yourself nauseous is pretty funny.

 

For business I really can't stand people that call and try to conduct business. anything that requires either person in the conversation to write down important details should just be an email or followed up with an email from the person who initiated the phone call. Phone calls are used to discuss problems or to talk through something that requires multiple questions and answers. So many boomers don't get that and will call to ask a very simple, non time sensitive questions. drives me nuts.

having said all that the phone call is somewhat of a lost art and I like to randomly talk on the phone to my friends and sometimes people get thrown off by it.

 

Noted Gen Z song Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

 

The ultimate power move is sending an email, and then immediately calling the person you're emailing to see if they've read it before it's even left the outbox.

I have a 63 year old coworker that does this constantly and it cracks me up

 

Heard the same from many of our esteemed posters. Thank you for confirming

 

gen z is envious of how we had it

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/lifestyle/gen-z-nostalgia-millennial-cringe-charm-rcna196957

 

What pissed me off, not that there's anything wrong with the Kate Bush version, was that a couple of months before there was a decent cover released by Meg Meyers that I would hear but was swallowed up. Now I hear the Kate Bush version still as if it were actually released only a couple of years ago.

 

I hate to say I had bad anxiety about this until I was out of high school, partly because my dad imparted all his untreated anxiety on to me.

 

Fuck phone calls

 

dump, you didn't have to make a post to inform us you have social anxiety. we have a decade+ amount of evidence

 

I used to talk on the phone all the time and it's just one of those things that I'd rather not do anymore if I don't have to. The only time I absolutely want a phone call is a work scenario where we're otherwise sending a bunch of emails back and forth to cover a 5 minute conversation. I'm also a major extrovert but still fuck a phone call.

The most psychotic people are ones that facetime you out of nowhere. That's like an adult just knocking at your door within prior warning.

 

Says the guy who commonly screens my calls

 

Last job I would occasionally have a couple of people that would start a video call with me on Teams without warning. One was a boss that struggled to communicate with everyone and shockingly got let go after only six months.

 

There's such a strange duality in this sentiment because I think our childhoods were probably considerably better at preparing kids to be adults. Now, hitting kids was probably a lot more common but being able to leave the house for hours without being tracked or your parents having any clue where you were was amazing. It was great going through formative years without social media and hell, even being in high school where peak cell phone use was snake on your phone. You could do dumb shit and make mistakes and it didn't get recorded to a picture taken. Living in the moment was a lot more common. Politics wasn't good but it wasn't nearly as bad as it's been since ~2015.

On the flip side, it feels like it was a considerably meaner time because kids were a lot less empathetic. That's especially true if you weren't a typical kid. Homophobia was fuckin everywhere. All the worst sort of high school movie bullying wasn't all that uncommon in my experience. Graduating into the financial crisis and echoes of it was incredibly hard and fucked up lifetime earnings totals for a large group of people.

idk it had its ups and downs I suppose

 

In my last job one of the members of the executive team would video call out of nowhere at like 6 or 6:30 in the morning. Even if I was up early, no, fuck you. I'm not answering and encouraging that behavior.

 

gen z so scared of being on the phone they don't even know the joy of an immature crank call

 

Phone call. Voice mail. Text message saying they left a voicemail and what the topic was.

Fucking boomer

 

the world was a better place when it wasn't taboo to pop in on your friends.

 

Gen Z discovers an old TV horror show

Spoiler

 

It’s WAY worse

Source: Everyone that works for me is Gen Z/Alpha

 

You employ children?

 

The Republicans said that it's ok now.

 

Yes they yearn for the mines.

 

To be fair Gen z males deserve to be treated like shit

evil little nazi fucks

 

“To be cringe is to be free”

Amazing quote

 

I got talked into going to see Fun in concert and the behavior by younger millennials in the crowd during “we are young” still haunts me to this day.