Generation diZappointing

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

4 hours ago, Vegas_Millennial said:

Last night I was at Silverado in Portland, and exactly ONE Gen Z boy looked at me and said hi and asked me how I was doing after I tipped him for his public dance, out of more than a dozen dancers that were working that night.

My faith in the younger generation is somewhat restored.   I went back to Silverado tonight, and several boys were engaging with me.  One even walked up to me and thanked me for visiting last night.  Miss Manners would be proud 🥲 

[Archangel]

@Vegas_Millennial, it’s almost as if we shouldn’t make generalizations…

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

On 1/29/2025 at 7:27 AM, sync said:

Children know what they are taught/see/hear.  If/when we have more positive adult role models, we will have a more stable, productive population of young people.

This is so true!  My father is a member of the Silent Generation (before the Boomers) and as a rule the Silent Generation are so respectful and polite and productive because they live in the shadows of the Greatest Generation who fought in World War II.

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

At my work, the Z'ers have a bad habit of not researching existing policies and articles, but instead asking the same questions over and over in different places.  I can't believe not looking something up is still a thing when looking up the answer is so easy nowadays with a Search function or Control+F.  They don't even have to know the alphabet anymore to look things up in alphabetical order!  When we made it so simple that you don't even need to know your ABC's anymore to go to work or fiction in society, God help us all when the Z's can't even use Search 🔎