Baby boomers will quit from natural causes though
This comment is gold
Aw, my folks are boomers and I hate thinking about this :'(
It is a shame that there are no generations between Boomers and Z…
No no, don’t bring millennials into this! We’re just trying to mind our own business…
Gen X is forgotten again…
That’s because nobody knows generation X’s real identity… Some speculate they’re millennial’s older sibling, but nobody can really tell behind the mask.
Bit of a mystery, that gen x. Has anyone even seen an actual x’r irl? Kinda sure it just went silent > boomer > millennial, but I’m certain I’m wrong.
E: by my estimation, that would make the transitional cohort either boomials or milloomers.
Gen X is not solved yet
x = mellinial -1
Ah, you finally learned from Gen X?
Let’s see how long that lasts.
Complete disappointment tbh
Don’t hire baby boomers, they’ll expect to be able to buy a house and a car and raise a family on a part-time salary.
Then they’ll invite you out to go… bowling!
Boomers are 64 years or older. Most boomers are retired. This is just trolling
I’ve seen plenty of old folks working at places like this unfortunately. Social programs are really failing us
Walmart has sought out retirees, particularly for greeter positions, for a long time.
It’s also dated 4/20. I’m amazed they didn’t manage to sneak a 69 in there somewhere to get the full meme potential out of it.
It would have been so easy too! “Must be born before '69 to apply”
60 years or older*. Plenty are still working, and not everyone retires exactly at 65. Especially these days…
I never implied 65, the retirement age in Norway is 67. But I thought Boomers were those born before 1960, so I guess I remembered that part wrong. 7 (or 5 in your country) years is a bit more than those 2 years, fair enough.
In the US, it’s 65 for the Boomers, but it’s been raised to 67 for the rest of us.
I see. In Norway it has been 67, since 1973 (it got lowered from 70). There has been talks about raising it to 70 again for the rest of us. I hope it won’t happen.
I think generally boomers generation ends in 1964/1965 20 years after the end of the war
The boyfriends standing there for the whole shift does sound bizarre. Maybe they were chatting with the cashiers the whole time and of course that wouldn’t be okay
Why?
They are human beings, and I want to buy stuff, not get undivided attention.
Well you’re supposed to be at work. To your employer or to customers it might look like you’re distracted and unprofessional, which would reflect badly on the store.
it’s such a weird american thing that work only counts as real work if you’re miserable during it
Did you assume I’m American for some reason? I’m just talking about being professional at the work place and focusing on the work during it, a store wouldn’t like people chitchatting with their boyfriend the whole day where I live (Finland) either.
not you, specifically. but there’s many other examples, like how cashiers are expected to be standing during their work in the US
First of all, it’s an entire different things. There were people standing in areas they weren’t supposed to be standing in, possibly distracting the employee. Second of all, two things can be shitty - the cashiers having their boyfriends there all the time, and the bosses wanting a cashier to stand all the time. One doesn’t make the other worse or better, it’s just whataboutism.
Nah, more generational thing.
In the small grocery store around the corner where I live the cashier’s are listening to music, having phone calls with their earplugs in or watching videos with their phones lying near the register. The work is boring and repetitive, customer interaction is quite minimal there anyway because they are really fast in ringing you up anyway. And that’s everything I care about anyway. They can enjoy their day a bit more and I can get to doing what I enjoy fast, too.
If it’s fine for the employer then that’s obviously fine. They’re the one making the call on what’s allowed on their workplace after all.
Do you also argue in favour of forcing cashiers to stand with the same argument?
I don’t. I think chitchatting with your boyfriend the whole day and being forced to stand (not a thing where I live) seem fairly separate.
I (a customer) was in a deep chitchat with a bike mechanic about some other outdoor hobby in a big US outdoor gear chain. For like 30min :-) Then I chatted about learning foreign languages (!) with the casheer.
I definitely found the experience memorable and have great association with the store’s brand!!!
I used to hang out and chat with my friends at their jobs for extended periods of time all the time when I was young. I just made sure not to interrupt or get in their way when they needed to deal with a customer. And their bosses were always cool with it.
This was probably more the cashiers got shouted at for talking to their boyfriends for a couple minutes when they came in.
…And the store was permanently closed a month later.
I would love to see any boomer take this job.
Boomers are incredibly fragile. Any time they don’t understand something their go-to move is to get angry.
I was thinking more about the massive cognitive dissonance they’ll suffer between their wages (with this job) and the CoL.
picture of handwritten note taped to a window that criticizes Gen Z and praises Baby Boomers.
I’m not the brightest cookie in the toolshed but I know bait when I see it.
Edit: The top left hand corner of this is also dated 4/20. As the Brits would say “Someone’s taking the piss.”
Thank you for saying this. Whether this is a real sign or a fake sign, it should be treated as a fake sign.
Just hire the boyfriends?
And tell them how much their girlfriends suck? (no pun intended)
If this is real and in the US, I would love to see a Gen Xer or elder Millennial apply, make sure to mention their generation, and then get this dumbass owner to say in writing that they aren’t hiring them because they aren’t a Boomer.
IANAL, but that seems like a slam dunk age discrimination case as long as the applicant is at least 40.
Maybe pay one dollar above minimum wage and see if you get people to apply
That is a hilarious reason to have someone quit.
Hire the boyfriend to work the register next to your employee, so they CAN stand there for the entire shift, and even get PAID for it!
Yeah, but have you seen Aiden? Aiden sucks.
That’s a real good point!
Yeah Aiden sucks, but without Aiden, Lexi quits.
skipped a few years there but ok. not like he’s worth working for in the first place.
Because he doesn’t want people who aren’t hired standing there during work hours? Possibly being a nuissance?
because he wants 60 year olds since the 20 year olds weren’t working out. because he isn’t considering 21-59 year olds. because selection bias.
Hey I’d rather be forgotten that be the root of all the worlds ills. 👍
