Everyone calls me boomer.....

[arg]

turns out I'm a Joneser

 

[bfargin]

He wasn’t wrong

[FourFans]

Still a boomer.

[Springer]

Cry me a river.  If you are working for an airline you have been making good coin in your last 17-22 years.

[HeloDude]

Ummm, he sounds like Gen X

[FourFans]

3 hours ago, HeloDude said:

Ummm, he sounds like Gen X

Not the stereotypical gen x, because they don't whine like that.  Hell, he sounds more like an you-don't-understand-me millennial.  

I grow increasingly tired of having to listen to boomer airline captains complain about how bad the world is and how their kids are turning out liberal when it's the world that their generation created.

Edited September 14 by FourFans

[Lord Ratner]

10 hours ago, FourFans said:

Not the stereotypical gen x, because they don't whine like that.  Hell, he sounds more like an you-don't-understand-me millennial.  

I grow increasingly tired of having to listen to boomer airline captains complain about how bad the world is and how their kids are turning out liberal when it's the world that their generation created.

My favorite thing to say in the cockpit when one of the boomers goes on an anti-millennial rant...

 

"Uh, and who exactly bought the participation trophies?"

Silence 

[HuggyU2]

On 9/14/2025 at 10:35 AM, Lord Ratner said:

"Uh, and who exactly bought the participation trophies?"

It wasn't Coach Huggy. 

And many of the soccer parents were truly not happy I wouldn't. 

[brabus]

Many years ago, when one of my kids was young, he did not display the attitude/effort we expected of him during T-ball. End of season participation trophy’s get handed out, my wife makes him give it to her and she throws it into the nearest trash can, telling him he didn’t earn it (and why). All the other pussy parents looked on in disbelief. My kid basically never again had a bad attitude or lack of effort, and this incident was 9 years ago. The little things matter - coddling your kids produces shit adults. 

[Smokin]

More parents than you would think will take your side.  I sat kids on multiple occasions across multiple sports because of an attitude and only one time did I have a parent say anything about it (and the coward didn't come to me, they went to the club admin who backed me).  I set clear expectations at the start and 95% of kids met them.  The few that didn't found little support from their parents.  I benched one kid and he walked away crying over towards his dad.  His dad took one look at him and said something like "what'd you expect?" and the kid stopped crying because he realized he wasn't going to get anywhere.  He didn't have an attitude with me the rest of the time I coached him.  Also gave out exactly zero participation trophies or medals.

[brabus]

@Smokin As it should be. We were living in a super blue state at the time, so lots of coddling, zero accountability, “everyone’s a winner,” etc. going around. 

Edited 4 hours ago by brabus