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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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This article was probably written by some Gen X or older millennial on their high horse who’s just trying to pot stir into making people think something is wrong with Gen Z.
Gen Z could definitely learn how to do small talk and hold a conversation that doesn’t go super deep and philosophical, but boomers are too obsessed with trying to instill their work culture into newer generations when they’re pretty much out the door.
I hate these types of articles, what the fuck is their problem with Gen Z. It’s got to be a boomer making this shit or propaganda from some other nation to decrease the workforce in the USA, and it’s working (didn’t know how to edit this into my post after posting it)
they are your coworkers, not your friends. there is no need to interact. Just make your paycheck and go home
I am gen Z in an office work setting. I definitely see this. Not cause I don’t wanna do small talk. Cause everyone believes I don’t know anything and not actually an adult. I’m 22…
The comments are full of people saying “ugh its so wrong fucking boomer writer” but no one is actually say why it’s wrong
So according to the boomers we don’t want to work, but we also don’t want to shoot the shit instead of working?
Can’t win with these goobers
What Gen-Z people are getting office jobs and how????? Every time I apply to those I get zero response.
I mean, hell, I’m gen Z and I don’t like office small talk that much. I don’t even wanna be at the damn office. I’m here because I have to work to pay bills and eat, not because I wanna talk to all these random people.
“I’m here for money. *money*!”
“I dont speak German either!”
Older millennial here. I always hated small talk back in the days when we had to go into the office, pre-pandemic. I just wanted to do my work, leave at 5, go to the gym, eat dinner, and then go clubbing
I mean I struggle to speak to my coworkers when their personality revolves around their kids.
Like great, sure, did you actually do anything intersting other than lose sleep?
The best office culture is no office culture
Millennials have passed the torch now. Gen Z will be blamed for everything now. It has been a long 20 years.
I talk to my coworkers and thankfully we all cool with each other. My problem are the managers. Micro managing tf outta things
NY Post is the same as Fake News.
Hey, fuck you too. With all joking aside yeah I hate those type of articles too!
It’s so stupid and draining and useless. Manufactured interaction. Tap dancing circus shit. I swear if I get told one more corny ass joke…
The reason for so much work drama and accidentally saying insensitive or inaccurate shit is because people talk too much. Less words = less chances to say something unintelligent.
Listen. As a millennial, I can’t tell you how many things we “killed” because some older person didn’t like how we went about things. I think the stupidest one was an article about how we were “killing” the diamond industry because we didn’t buy enough diamonds. Welcome to the club, friend.
Oh well, don’t expect everyone to be all chatty when u wanted them to come back into office instead of working remotely 🙄 I am convinced those who made people come back to the office are extremely lonely and looking for human connection they cannot get 🤦♀️ & they ruin it for those who are content with their home life
It’s New York Post. They are a right-leaning news company.
..y’all getting office jobs?
You know what’s killing small talk? The knowledge that almost half of the US voted for a fascist rapist to be President, and the other half of us want nothing to do with those stupid mother fuckers.
Or how about fuck small talk, we’re here to do a job.
I’ve never understood why people like commingling and socializing at work. Like fuck.. I wouldn’t spend time with these people outside of work, why the hell should I pretend to be anything more than coworkers with them here?
Also, I’m a Millennial lurker. So y’all aren’t alone. Boomers had to socialize at work because they built their lives around their jobs and it wasn’t healthy. That’s why they’re so fucked up.
It’s not a struggle. We’re not friends and we don’t need to make small talk.
Older coworkers loooove talking about politics 🤦
The end game work extrovert, the one that projects their anxiety for silence on the people not talking
I’m just trying to get my work done
So this why they are so afraid on hiring us like really?? Feels like a hit piece..
Stop talking about how much you love Trump in the office and I’ll stop starring at you like I’m planning where to hide the body, boss.
The president should be completely off limits to discuss in the workplace for the next four years, positively or negatively, he is unmentionable.
GenX here: the worst part of all of this is watching your own generation become assholes who write articles like this.
Irony: the boomer theme song is *My Generation*, a repudiation of all of this bullshit, back when the Silent and “Greatest” generations were shitting on them for the same issues.
More Irony: I remember reading [this article](https://www.newsweek.com/whiny-generation-194042) when I was 20, written by a boomer about GenX.
Tell me if this doesn’t sound familiar…
> That’s the essence of the Generation X problem. We have a generation (or at least part of a generation) whose every need has been catered to since birth. Now, when they finally face adulthood, they expect the gift-giving to continue. I’m 28 and I’ll never own a house, whines the Generation Xer. I’m 25 and I don’t have a high-paying job, says another.
> The Whiners’ most common complaint is that they’ve been relegated to what Mr. Coupland calls Mcjobs-low-paying, low-end positions in the service industry. I don’t doubt that many Whiners are stuck in such jobs. But whose fault is that? Here’s a generation that had enormous educational opportunities. But many Whiners squandered those chances figuring that a good job was a right not a privilege.
It was obnoxious that *ex-hippie boomers* were saying this shit in the 1990s, and it’s just as obnoxious for my fellow Xers and older millennials to say it now.
Keep on keepin’ on guys
You know, this behaviour is normalised in Northern Europe. It’s called, minding your own business. American old people should try that
This isn’t “The Office”. Your life is boring, Janice. No one wants to talk to you and have their day be worse.