Boomer culture:
Baby Boomer Culture is having your phone’s ringer at maximum volume in a dead silent room and spending 30 seconds looking at the screen before silencing it.
Millennial culture:
Millennial culture is not knowing what your own ringtone sounds like because your phone’s been on vibrate since 2009
Boomer culture:
Baby Boomer culture is posting a stock image of a tropical location with an accompanying caption of, "So beautiful," or, "This would be the life!"
Millennial culture:
millennial culture is forcing yourself to take a sick day only when it’s clear that your body cannot function and then feeling guilty when you’re not working
Boomer culture:
Baby boomer culture is having a 60 inch smart TV just to watch the same Everybody Loves Raymond reruns evernight for 20 years
Millennial culture:
millennial culture is feeling productive when you finally have the chance to watch a tv show
Boomer culture:
Baby Boomer culture is yelling at their kids for being on their phones too much while typing up some incoherent facebook rant just so they can fight with strangers
Millennial culture:
millennial culture is having facebook only to post “thanks for all the birthday messages!” once a year
Boomer culture:
boomer culture is sending just a giant thumbs up on Facebook Messenger and literally nothing else
Millennial culture:
Millennial culture is having 3 different conversations with the same person, across multiple platforms, simultaneously.
Boomer culture:
Boomer culture is making a big show about picking up the tab and tipping 15% or less
Millennial culture:
Millennial culture is sneakily leaving a $5 on the table at a restaurant because you know the bill payer didn’t tip enough and you feel a sense of solidarity with the waitress because you also work in customer service
Boomer culture:
my favorite part of boomer culture is when they complain to me about the Internet not working like I am the president of WiFi
Millennial culture:
millennial culture is pretending you know less about technology than your sibling so don’t have to “fix” them for your parents.
Boomer culture:
Boomer culture is owning 30+ kitchen knives and none of them are sharp
Millennial culture:
Millennial culture is trying to find recommendations for moving companies and realizing that none of your friends have ever owned furniture nice enough to move from one city to another.
Boomer culture:
boomer culture is having enough lawn chairs in ur trunk for the whole block
Millennial culture:
Millennial culture is daydreaming how much you'd help your friends if you were ever to get rich.
Boomer culture:
Boomer culture is sharing a lengthy post on Facebook about how socialism kills children’s pets with a picture of the Joker, adding the caption “This hits the nail, right on the head .”
Millennial culture:
Millennial culture is saying "Might treat myself" when thinking whether you should get the bus home instead of walking
Boomer culture:
Boomer culture is having 6 weeks of paid vacation per year and still never knowing how to navigate an airport
Millennial culture:
Millennial culture is literally feeling guilty any time you spend not working.
Boomer culture:
Boomer culture is owning a printer
Millennial culture:
Millennial culture is looking at listed houses on Zillow but knowing you'll never be able to be a home owner.
Boomer culture:
baby boomer culture is *walks into store and finds first employee* “where is (easily locatable item that i can easily find but will not for some reason)?”
Millennial culture:
Millennial culture is not asking for substitutions/special adjustments to your food at restaurants/fast food joints bc you don't wanna be an inconvenience to the people working there.
Boomer culture:
Boomer culture is saying "wow, how ever do you afford $11 for Hulu?" when they sit there watching $60 / month cable TV talking on a $40 / month landline phone.
Millennial culture:
Millennial culture is getting a Happy Birthday email from your student loan provider.
Boomer culture:
Boomer culture is having such storied, rock solid employment that you use your work email for all your personal matters.
Millennial culture:
Peak Millennial Culture is being scared of getting fired from a job you don't even want
Boomer culture:
Boomer culture is being retired at 55 and watching TV 12 hours a day and scoffing at the idea of doing anything else
Millennial culture:
millennial culture is job searching every day, several times each day and finding no jobs with a liveable wage and the ones that do supply that and you're skill qualified for require 5+ years of experience on top of it so you just