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What a weird title. Why call out that he's a "Millenial"?
by pdog 13y ago
What a weird title. Why call out that he's a "Millenial"?
- Falling3 13y agoAgreed. I thought it was some sort of moniker at first. Maybe they thought his age was relevant to the action - that it's more likely people of a specific generation would get themselves into this sort of situation.
- YokoZar 13y agoThe story is supposed to be a bit symbolic of the changing times and new generation. And it sort of is.
- ddq 13y agoMy thoughts exactly. My best guess is that it's the trendy new buzzword of the week and was included to increase pageviews. Possibly also to highlight the disparity between the young, social-media-savvy working class kid and the stuffy, old, upper-middle class businessmen in suits.
- jlgreco 13y agoWhat is a "millenial" anyway, someone who is currently 13 years old or younger? I can't help but feel that he should have just taken this as a learning experience and shut up. At least he shares his name with a comedian so potential employers may not discover that he likes to publicly shame customers...
- bradleyjg 13y agoIt took a while to settle down, but I think the general consensus on generations is now: Greatest Generation -> Baby Boomers -> Gen X -> millennial (f.k.a. Gen Y) If you set generation length at 20 years, and the anchor point of 1946 as the beginning of the baby boomers, you get a definition of millennial of 1986-2006. That is about right IMO for people who grew up with pervasive internet. No one knows what the 2006-2026 generation will be called, the oldest of them are barely out of elementary school.
- aspensmonster 13y agoBecause this generation is the most something something entitled something something ever. They are so something lazy and something unmotivated. Let's all laugh at those something something something something Millennials with their Twitters and their Youtubes and their Facebooks. Something something get off my lawn something something damn whippersnappers.