My mother thinks US workers still get pensions if they stay at a company long enough. She also thinks that staying at one employer for decades is the key to higher pay, better benefits, and promotions. This is a constant, exhaustingly repetitive conversation with her every time I get recruited and poached by a company.
She also thinks that staying at one employer for decades is the key to higher pay, better benefits, and promotions.
I have read terrifyingly depressing stories of people being underpaid - even for highly challenging work like civil engineering - when they do this. I mean it’s more of an employer issue, but part of the benefit of ‘job hopping’ is that anp non-asshole boss will try and match your new offer in order to keep you.
My boss thinks that the specific job title we hold is the reason we are “at will” employees and makes a big deal of telling new hires that they can be let go for any reason with no notice because if this. This is the case for every job in every US state except Montana, unless a contract says otherwise and I tell her every time.
Trying to explain to my boomer relatives that no matter how hard we work, we can’t buy a house like they could.
Yep this is the big one. Fortunately my own parents aren’t like this, but they’re technically (only just) gen x - it’s genuinely like there’s a magical barrier where the arbitrary generational lines are drawn
That Retirement, as a concept, is going the same way as the single income family. That minimum retirement age will likely exceed the average lifespan of my family by the time i am anywhere near 65 years old.
I’m not sure. They’ll find out soon enough people in their seventies make dangerous mistakes.
It wasn’t necessarily a struggle but my younger interlocutor was shocked by the fact that back in the late 90s/early 00s when I was a kid/young teen, not everyone had a cellphone and that, if you wanted to talk to that cutie who wasn’t online on MSN Messenger, sometimes you had to call her landline and her dad or mom or sibling would answer and you’d have to talk to them for a bit before they passed her the phone. If men feel socially awkward nowadays flirting with girls in private, imagine having to charm her parents before being able to do the same with her! 😅
Honestly in my experience charming parents is easy lol, but i guess that means people had to strike more of a balance between being a “respectable young man” (to charm the parents) and “not a total dork” (to charm the lady in question) - The lack of this social balance is why society is collapsing !
Haha if you were not a complete menace (or at least didn’t sound like one), I guess to a certain extent they found it cute? Good times! 🥲
I think this comes down to a quirk of personality.
I have always charmed parents even though I’m somewhat rough around the edges (probably partially because my mom died when I was young and older women still see me as a little lost lamb who needs mothering in my thirties), but my best friend near universally turns parents off, even though we’re pretty similar.
When we were younger, everyone thought she was a bad influence on me, though it was probably the other way around.
What’s MSN messenger, precious? Love, eighties teenager.
The OG way to chat with qts online!
The OG way is IRC, though.
The shortcut on the desktop isn’t the same thing as the program (but it can be if someone did something inadvisable). Gah.
Telling people what it was like to write with mechanical (non electric) typewriters. Nobody under 45 ever used them. They cannot imagine the difference of pressing down on a keyboard with some force.
The first time I tried out an electronic typewriter it was strange and changed how I wrote.
Only older people will understand, I think
I’m 37 and have used one as a kid.
My mom kept hers for sentimental reasons and I played with it as a kid. I cannot imagine the RSIs people would get from those bad boys.
Here’s the thing: I used a manual typewriter for years and never got RSI. I didn’t know anyone who had an RSI from typing. Then in the 1980s I started working with computers and bingo, we all had RSI. At one point I had my wrists in splints.
Eventually the experts figured out the ergonomics and it wasn’t such an issue, but it was hellish in the early days. It turns out that the movements used for a manual typewriter - smacking the keys right down, carriage return, rolling in a new sheet of paper - weren’t as repetitive as just tick-tacking away on a computer keyboard for hours.
I’ve never used one but they look and SOUND so fascinating
I also appreciate how people use them as musical instruments sometimes.
Had to explain that ladybugs were supposed to live outside or they’d miss their ladybug families. My niece caught one in a jar and wanted to keep it inside as a new pet. She’s a sweet kid.
That fog lights on cars used to be able to be turned on with headlights off, so you could actually see better in fog. Nowadays the foglights won’t turn on on most vehicles if headlights aren’t on, which really doesn’t help driving, since you still get headlight glare back.
I’ve noticed everyone has their fog lights on all the time except when it’s actually foggy.
How Subway used to cut their subs.
Woah… i just googled it and I feel furious about having something I’ve never experienced stolen from me. I mean i don’t even eat at subway.
Yesterday. My mother in law is refusing to learn how to use Internet banking. She’s told me to do it.
My mom made me file her taxes for the past decade, I started doing that ever since I was a teen 🤦♂️
I mean I did it so often I can remember all the social security numbers of everyone in my household
My grandmother doesn’t grasp the concept that streaming shows don’t come on at a certain time; they come on when I press play. She’s very forgetful and I’ve tried to explain this to her several times.
Seeing a jar of Grey Poupon and saying “Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?” and I had to ask if anyone had seen the film when no reaction and they said, no.
Unless they’re thinking “Film?”
