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Originally Posted by Razor
Early X-er here (1966)..Interesting to reflect back on all the tv shows. Anyways, all this generation talk made me think of a piece I read years ago I can't remember if I mentioned it before or not? ..Basically, it called Gen -X "Gen screwed"..There were a lot of boomers, so they sewn up all the well paying "job for life" positions...Now these positions are becoming vacant because of retiring boomers, and they are now being given to millenials because Gen xers are "too old" and don't fit into their youth movement recruiting process.
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Firstly, generation label tags like "gen x" and "millennial" are basically made for marketing and surveying purposes, and really are just used to sew divisions between groups rather than having us focus on the root cause of most of the issues we experience - corps, those with wealth, etc.
Secondly, i've heard this same thing that you're mentioning, only instead of the jobs skipping Gen Xers and going to Millennials they're either being phased out entirely or they're going to entry-level Zoomers. Millennials are too old to capitalize on entry-level positions, because we had to go to post-secondary for four+ years, and too young/inexperienced to work in the most senior of management, if these jobs still exist moving forward at all. Combine that with graduating into the recession and now trying to work a career through a global pandemic and i'd say that Millennials have had it worse than Xers, although at this point we'd be getting into a squabble over who has suffered more when it reality we all have...those of us who weren't fortunate to have been born early enough, anyway.