Random Worst Advice Millennials Have Heard From Baby Boomers (21 items)

• (#6) Just Put Your Rent On A Payment Plan

  From sonofaresiii:

  "'You're having trouble making your rent? Just call up the owner and ask if they can reduce it for a little while or put you on a payment plan.'

  "Mom, no. Maybe that works for some people somewhere, but my owner is a huge company out of state. They don't cut me a break out of the kindness of their heart. If I'm late they charge a fee, and if I'm still late a month later they sue me."
• (#17) Don't Have Compassion For Others

  From [deleted]:

  "I've been told countless times by my grandparents to only worry about myself. Whenever I bring up a social issue or subject I'm passionate about I'm immediatley told that I only need to be looking out for me. That I care too much about other people.

  "Umm isn't the lack of compassion for other people and animals how we f*cked the world?"
• (#10) Become A Stripper Because Grandma Said So

  From AlwaysDisposable:

  "I think my grandmother just barely falls into the baby boomer category. She has told me all kinds of god awful advice, such as...

  "'You should become a stripper. Those women are so empowered.'

  "'If you don't lose weight nobody will ever love you.'

  "'Just get married. You can always get divorced later and it's cheap.'

  "'You should have kids because I like babies.'"
• (#11) Just Go Get A Job With A Good Pension Somehow

  From paleo2002:

  "The lab tech at one of the schools I teach at is a retired old fella. Comes in maybe two hours a day, real early in the morning to set up labs for the day. Basically has the 'job' for his own entertainment.

  "One morning he caught me in the hall and somehow got into telling me how I really ought to find a job with a good pension. Apparently he worked for some commercial chemistry research lab and retired early once he qualified for their pension program. Then, he and some buddies took some of their early retirement money and bought a big parcel of land. They arranged to have it incorporated into a town that they ran, then sold off pieces of it for housing developments.

  "So, he's going through this little history lesson in how the economy used to work and I just stand there and nod. In the back of my head, it dawns on me: he thinks I'm an adjunct by choice. He thinks I teach part-time at three different schools with no advancement potential and minimal benefits because I like it.

  "Hey Boomers, the reason why us god d*mmed Millenials aren't doing things the way you used to is that those things don't exist anymore. There's no career track jobs in science with just a MS. There's no more salary for life company pensions. I can't just go 'buy me some land' and flip it for a profit."
• (#20) Bad Customers Build Character

  From shikitohno:

  "At my first retail job, any time I complained about customers or coworkers to my father I would get, 'You just have to suck it up. It builds character, and you'll always have something you don't like about your job or coworkers.' A few years ago, he lost his help desk job, and nobody wanted to hire him on for an IT position when he's just a couple years shy of retirement age and doesn't have a degree. After a couple years of being unemployed, he realized the gig was up, and took a part time job working in a grocery store across the street from the one I had in high school.

  "Now, whenever I go to visit him, I always hear something like, 'Can you believe this b*tch? I just finished building a godd*mn corn pyramid, has to be seven feet tall, and she wants one from the center on the bottom, because she says she can tell those are the freshest. Can you believe it?' No, dad, not a clue at all what you're talking about, but you're character sure seems to be growing."
• (#8) Avocados Are Holding You Back From Home Ownership

  From ReginaRainbowTits:

  "Housing prices wouldn't be such an issue if I'd just stop eating smashed avocado."

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