What would you say to the X-generation, if they said you were no longer needed.?

Answer 1

Jay M, one day , you may become a grown-up. You may have the maturity to deal with people who ask you stupid and crass questions. In the meantime, good luck on your journey through life.

Answer 2

As a member of what some call the "Y-generation" (I was born in 1990.), I must protest. That's the most loaded question I ever heard. You really just assumed that I would ask that question, that I don't value the... ah... "old farts", if you will.

"You better hope the sun is always shining( for your calculators). Am I the only old fart who has noticed that many kids can't add or make change anymore?
If not, forgive me, I stand corrected. Hee hee."

Gee, you're cool. I liked where you took a cheap shot at those younger than you, with no supporting evidence, not even ANECDOTAL evidence. I'm 17, and I run a cash register, no problems. I don't see you doing that; you're too busy whining about how I should subsidize your retirement via Social Security (which I won't get). I'm also taking calculus, which, you might be interested to know, REQUIRES a programmable graphing calculator. The kind of problems I use my $100 math tool for today (It solves my inputs in about half a second for medium-complexity problems.) cost millions of dollars and days of run-time on the analog computers of yesterday. The only similarity is that neither runs/ran on solar power. Or were you too busy using your pocket calculator to notice? I am severely annoyed by that accusation, given that myself and all my friends know how to run cash registers, do advanced math, and, most importantly, ADD.

As stupid as this is, I hesitate to use the term "idiots", because that just gives you guys reason to tell me I'm a worthless little punk kid, just leeching off society (Oh, you're talking about me paying for my own car, right? When I paid off $3,000 in debt over 6 months while making $7.00/hour?), and waiting for you to live my life for me. Also, I happen to have great respect for most of my elders. I just wish most of my elders had respect for me.

~BlackOpSource

EDIT: Thank you to Feline for the quiet, patient response to the question. I respect that; it's a shame you don't see that more with ANY question. And I was emphasizing the verb meaning "to make use of addition". I do have moderate ADHD, but that's beside the point. Oh, and to anyone still reading this, I don't mean to be so aggressive, but I do as a response to what I see as a selfish "get what's mine" additude among people getting to be about forty years my senior. I'm generally a quieter person in the real world.

Answer 3

What's the X-generation? I'd most likely say the same thing that I'd say to anyone who told me that I was no longer needed...It's been real & I'll see ya when I see ya!

Answer 4

I'd probably tell them they're entitled to their opinion, but if they find that, after all, they really do need me, they know where to reach me, but I plan to go on with my life and might not be there to answer the phone.

They're probably right. They can do without me, and they can learn for themselves, same as the generations before them figured things out for themselves. Heaven help us all if we become indispensable.

Edit -- Did BlackOpSource say he/she has ADD?

Answer 5

I might ask if they were prepared to start up the gas chambers and ovens. Or I might say "go to hell." Then again I might remind them that it takes a variety of people to make up a town, young and middle aged to do the work, children to secure the future, and old people to babysit, give sage advice, and just be. It takes a lot of towns to make up a country.

Answer 6

I would probably throw their butts out of my house. I used to work with a bunch of GenXers, and frankly, I wasn't impressed. They seemed like a wimpy, needy bunch, very narcissistic.

I would not forget what they said. I would change my will and leave everything to the Humane Society.

Answer 7

Good bye. Adieu. Farewell. Syonara.

Answer 8

I wish that they were so wise and capable that that were so; but, since it is not so, I think I will hang around a bit longer.

Answer 9

You better hope the sun is always shining( for your calculators). Am I the only old fart who has noticed that many kids can't add or make change anymore?
If not, forgive me, I stand corrected. Hee hee.

Answer 10

I would lend them a copy of the movie "Logan's Run" and then ask them if that is the future they want.