So…xillenials
Xennials definitely. Not biased or anything. ‘82 represent.
'78 here. Old enough to have seen ghostbusters at the cinema and used a rotary phone, young enough to have ridden the digital wave. I got powers they cannot even conceive
I can change the oil in a car and start a pull lawn mower!
Eh, we still have a two stroke, they’re still pretty ubiquitous.
I can drive shift
3 on the tree, baby!
we are the only generation in human history that knows how to program a vcr
I’m a millennial. I’m nearly 41. I’m the director of department.
I am also a fun little trash goblin on the weekends.
We can be competent at work and fun friendly people.
I find all this generational ontology very tiring nowadays
Always has been, stupid way to needlessly divide people
Thats exactly what a boomer would say
/s
What an Amos thing to say
deleted by creator
We already do now if they learn the dark art of not giving random people their entire lifesavings to a Nigerian prince via text…
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king
🎵 so take this ring
Well in the land of the skunk the man with half a nose is king
Sing the song!!!
Bow, and kneel before me!!!
deleted by creator
Is it awesome?
deleted by creator
Well, that’s really annoying when I want to call in a pick-up order. I guess I’m ordering from a different restaurant, since I don’t want to have to share my eating habits with whatever provider your restaurant went with to take online orders, and their 947 “partners”.
Good riddance, we don’t want to listen to you change your mind 14 times, ask what the ingredients are in every dish, and then wait for you to act incredulous that you do indeed actually have to pay for the order before it will be placed.
That sounds more like your mom
What’s it like having newly acquired back pain?
deleted by creator
Chiming to say I am also a millennial that doesn’t break down over phone calls, shaking hands, and talking to strangers, even when the socialization is important to my livelihood
My favorite part is when the person I talk to or meet in person pretends their more important and I match their bravado. Alot of employees settle the fuck down. And the C level employees seem to meet my maturity instead of placate.
If anyone reads this I suggest you try. Their just people. Sometimes they have a Senior position becauS their older…
I don’t break down while interacting, but I certainly break down when I get home. Yay masking.
That sucks. I pretty mush have the opposite issue. I don’t feel anxiety, don’t really understand it. Just know some of the people i know get anxiety attacks that are bad to the point they mimic heart attacks. Fucked up shit.
I’m pretty good at the whole interacting thing when it’s one on one, but put me in a room with more than one person and I freeze up, completely fall apart.
My coworker spent 30 minutes trying to find another way to contact a vendor after I told her the easiest way to order the thing she needed was just to call and it would take 2 minutes. I hate calling too, but that’s just dumb. Or maybe I just like efficiency more than I hate the phone.
Or maybe I just like efficiency more than I hate the phone.
This is me. Texting is great for simple questions but if any sort of extended back and forth is needed just calling tends to be faster.
At work at least I have a script I can follow. I am The Role.
But please don’t make me order a pizza after work hours
There is a script between you and the business. Learn it, master it
I mean, if there’s a fully functional way to order online, why would you call? I just prefer a phone call when something would take paragraphs to explain or if there really isn’t an easy way to do something via a website/email.
Tbh I call because
“Pick up or delivery?”
“Pick up.”
"Name?
“[Name Redacted]”
“Alright and what can I get ya?”
“16” pepperoni, jalapeno, pineapple, that’s it."
“Alright 20min”
Is like a 1min conversation, and I’d rather do that than get charged $5 more for using Slice or OrderUp.
Some of the online ordering services are sneaky and bake their fee into the prices of the items you order, so it’s not even clear that you pay extra. My despise of that practice motivates me to call in my orders.
It’s why there are a disproportionate number of Mormon CEOs and politicians. They train them from a young age to do missionary work.
You see it would be this mat with conclusions written on it… that you could jump to
Have you seen what they’re leaving us? No thanks.
When presented with a mad max waste land, would you prefer to be on a pole, or driving?
I’m a warboy at heart but I’m getting older and management in gas town is more stable and has better benefits.
Witness you, adulting so hard after the end of the world.
It’s not so much that I can’t make phone calls, as much as I don’t want to. 75% of the time you just end up playing phone tag, and I’d rather just email so they can reply at their convenience and there’s no question about who said what
You play phone tag because people REALLY hate being called
Along with the fact that any more when you HAVE to call, it’s going to be dealing with a bullshit auto answering system that leads you in circles and intentionally misunderstands you.
This is the problem.
I needed a car battery the other day and just wanted to know if it was in stock because it’s a little uncommon. I went online, it said they did, went to the store, they didn’t, told me to call and verify because online updates overnight.
I called 4 different stores, nobody answered the first 3, 4th one rang forever, then an auto answering thing kept me for 5 minutes and when no option helped me it said “try again later, goodbye.”
Usually with automated systems hitting whatever option gets you to a human no matter how wrong it is will get you to the right place eventually
Some do some don’t. I love to play the mash buttons and hope for a real person game but more often lately it just ignores you or says that isn’t an input and keeps you locked in the automated, cause their just isn’t a person on the other side being paid to actually pick up a phone.
You want something done? You march into someone’s office. And when I say march, I mean march.
It actually (eventually) did work for me when a dealer sold me a car with a blown engine. Had to threaten legal action, but it started with a phone call, then a march to the office.
“Based.” Did I say that right, or was it cringe?
It’s bussin
Silence
No, millennials with rich parents will inherit the Earth.
They’ll leave it all to their least empathetic, most entitled, most selfish brat of the litter.
The one’s they see themselves in.
I’m a millennial and I’m fine at work with eye contact and whatnot (it’s uncomfortable, but I’m a manager now and do it regularly), but I detest phone calls. I don’t understand why, I’m fine going in to an institution to get stuff done, but the thought of calling someone is super intimidating for some reason. And I grew up with a landline at home and didn’t get a cell phone (i.e. no SMS) until I went to college. So it’s not like I was conditioned to avoid calls, I just grew to hate them for some reason.
That said, when I do call, I generally get things done much more quickly, so it’s completely irrational. Yet here we are. I have to give myself a small pep talk before pressing the call button.
Do you feel like it’s hard to understand people who are talking clearly when you’re on the phone? I do.
Not usually, but I do find I have to pay closer attention for whatever reason.
I take 30-40 calls daily, before this job I would never call, now I feel very comfortable calling, but I will still never ever answer an unknown call outside of work.
