meirl
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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I worked customer service at an electrical store. Customers do some stupid stuff and expect the store to just make it better. I was gutted when I missed the day that a guy threw a laptop at the managers head and smashed a big glass cabinet hahah.
I worked at the dollars store. Only boomers were screaming at me.
When I worked at a grocery store as a high schooler we used to get the “Sunday crowd” which was just a bunch of old people 70+ who would come straight from church (there was 2 on the same street as the store) cranky and entitled, and make our lives living hell for 4 hours. Never got treated anything close to that by younger people.
I had an old man get mad at the pool lockeroom because my feet were wet
I really hope that future generations, upon hitting cliche boomer age, really aren’t as bad as the boomers are.
Boomers in particular are so vile, so venomous, so fucking angry at literally anything they possibly can be that it has consumed their entire being. They seriously cannot be happy anymore and have long since decided, “well I’m gonna die soon so instead of being remembered as a decent cool person, I’m gonna be the biggest cunt ever.”
Almost can’t blame them. Raised when cigarettes were cool and lead in paint and gas. Surprised the have the capacity they do.
Work at a pharmacy. Young people (20-40) always say ‘have a nice day, bye’ on the phone before hanging up, even if there’s shitty news. But old people? You tell them you can get their meds ready in under 15 minutes right after the doctor sent them in, and that they have a $0 copay and theyll say k and hang up on you. Fuckin ingrates.
No one holds you verbally hostage like boomers.
We lack the proper reverence and deference for the generation that has gone so far out of their way to do so much ~~to~~ for us.
I am terrified of cognitive decline causing me to be an asshole someday. It CAN’T be on purpose. Right??
Older people will make it a point to comment and make their opinion known.
Younger people will smile and say, “No it’s fine, don’t worry.”
and then give you a scathing 1 star review in great detail of exactly what happened.
Cuz mf’s have social anxiety and are incapable of yelling they’re just rude in a different way. The aloof dismissive and condescending kind of way rather than the angry and dumb kind of way. Rude people exist across the generational divide it just presents differently
“the good ones die first”, so the old ones that are still alive must be pricks
True, and to add, never had someone my own age tell me to my face that I’m looking a little more pudgy this time like the older generation.
Boomers expect a level of customer service that doesn’t exist anymore. People are no longer paid enough to care. There is no chance for good job advancement, so pleasing the customer no longer matters. Doing just enough to not get fired is all that people can bring themselves to do. Also, companies have gotten so large that they no longer give a shit about the customer either. Boomers aren’t wrong in how they feel objectively. They dont like what the world has become. They dont realize any of this so they feel justified in how they behave.
Our rudest customers are either boomers or really young. No in between.
Somehow the older generation was always the rudest on Sunday
Well that’s because you have it easy and you don’t have any respect for your elders
Edit: /s
I had a client *yesterday* insinuate that we don’t care about her nor are interested in helping, then contradict what I said would help by saying “thats not how this works” 🙃
“OK I’m sorry I can’t help you but I have other clients, goodbye!” Thank fuck it was a phone call.
They’ll be gone soon
Can’t say I’ve ever seen a boomer throw a chair in a Waffle House though
I’m old enough to remember boomers when they were in their 20s and 30s. They were not always like this. In fact, they always tried to be super cool with service and retail workers. Something has snapped in their brains.
Old people talk so much about respect and manners but in the 2 years working in retail it’s almost always older people who don’t know the words “Hello” and “thanks”.
Worked at Kmart back in the day, definitely tracks.
We had a silver top Karen yell at the manager over 40 cents (that she was absolutely wrong about). First and only time I ever saw her kick customer out.
Older shoppers are far more rude and demanding than younger ones.
This also tracks with my coworkers over the years. The laziest, slowest, and rudest coworkers were always boomers or older.
“I AM OLDER THAN YOU, THEREFORE I HAVE MORE KNOWLEDGE” , I’ve heard a lot along those lines and I’m so tired of it…
Still perplexed an old lady yelled at me because I said “bless you” after she sneezed in the grocery store I was working at as a kid. Apparently I shouldn’t have assumed she was sick and should’ve minded my own god damn business.
I was shopping in Best Buy once and a very old man was berating a young worker there because they didn’t “service Logitech keyboards.” He straight up expected them to carry the exact keys for it, replace them and make it work right. I got a glimpse of it and it was an older beige one. This was maybe 2014 or 2015.
I have 🙋♂️
as a retail worker…. so true.
I worked in wireless you’d have the boomers and the conservatives that’d yell never had a Karen yell just get mad.
When I was a teenager in high school, dad cursed at me since I said his kid was too small to ride a water slide at a theme park I worked at as a lifeguard. He was definitely a boomer. This was in mid 00s
I had an old dude call me the R word after I asked if he wanted a bag for his groceries.