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I've just got out of work, where a 50-year old was shouting, literally shouting, at me about spaces in the office parking lot, for twenty minutes, because I had

I've just got out of work, where a 50-year old was shouting, literally shouting, at me about spaces in the office parking lot, for twenty minutes, because I had the tenacity to suggest he parked two minutes walk away like me. (The landlord changed the rules over parking last week, and people now have to park a bit further away or pay a few pence.) "I don't know how they can take spaces away from us, I need to park near the office, people like me fought for things like car parking spaces, I bet you've never seen a strike, you're so spoiled and privileged and you've got no life experience, but damn it, I won't let this rest, it's our right to park where we want..." And people think we have entitlement issues? I have to say, though, I'm twenty-six next month, and I never thought I'd ever have anyone rant about "young people like you" at me again. Flattering, huh?

hvs 15y ago
26 only feels old until you get into your 30's. I'm 35 and feel old when talking to people in their 20's, but otherwise I still feel like I'm a kid (with a little more common sense). I'm assuming that it will be similar when I'm in my 40's as well, thinking those 30-year-olds don't know nothin'.
- andyking 15y ago
  Maybe I'm not representative of my generation, but I feel privileged to have a job at all in this climate, to have a car, to be given the opportunity to represent my organisation, and so on. It's a far cry from the attitude of a lot of people in the older generations, that the workplace and the economy somehow owes them something, like a job, like a car, like a big house, like a space in the parking lot with their name on it. There are people of all ages and generations with a chip on their shoulder and false sense of entitlement, and then there are the people who recognise that no one owes them anything, unless they earn it. (I guess I feel old because I'm twenty-six and about to emigrate to the U.S. and get married. That makes me feel like a big boy!)

hvs 15y ago

26 only feels old until you get into your 30's. I'm 35 and feel old when talking to people in their 20's, but otherwise I still feel like I'm a kid (with a little more common sense). I'm assuming that it will be similar when I'm in my 40's as well, thinking those 30-year-olds don't know nothin'.

andyking 15y ago
Maybe I'm not representative of my generation, but I feel privileged to have a job at all in this climate, to have a car, to be given the opportunity to represent my organisation, and so on. It's a far cry from the attitude of a lot of people in the older generations, that the workplace and the economy somehow owes them something, like a job, like a car, like a big house, like a space in the parking lot with their name on it. There are people of all ages and generations with a chip on their shoulder and false sense of entitlement, and then there are the people who recognise that no one owes them anything, unless they earn it. (I guess I feel old because I'm twenty-six and about to emigrate to the U.S. and get married. That makes me feel like a big boy!)