April 17, 2025 • 43 mins
Navigating the complex landscape of generational differences reveals fascinating insights about how we learn, work, and relate to each other. From Baby Boomers and Gen X to Millennials and Gen Z, each generation brings unique perspectives shaped by the world they grew up in.
Remember learning how to code in high school without really understanding why? That's the Gen X experience of technology—figuring it out as it evolved, using computers as glorified typewriters in college, and witnessing the birth of the digital world. Meanwhile, younger generations grew up immersed in technology, with Gen Z never knowing a world without smartphones and instant information access.
What really stands out is how these technological differences have shaped our approaches to work and life. While Gen X valued job stability and "paying dues," younger generations prioritize learning opportunities and fair compensation—they'll readily move on if a position isn't serving their growth or financial goals. Their fearlessness and self-advocacy challenge traditional workplace cultures in ways that benefit everyone.
Perhaps most remarkable is Gen Z's social consciousness and brand loyalty. They're incredibly thoughtful about where they spend their money, supporting companies that align with their values on social justice, climate change, and other pressing issues. This approach would have been nearly impossible for previous generations who lacked immediate access to information about corporate practices.
The beauty of our multi-generational world is that we can learn from each other. Gen X's adaptability, Millennials' bridge-building between analog and digital worlds, and Gen Z's bold innovation all contribute to collective progress. Rather than focusing on stereotypical differences, we're discovering how these distinct perspectives enrich our workplaces, families, and communities.
Ready to understand the generation gaps in your life? Listen now and gain insights that might just transform how you communicate across age divides. Share your own generational observations with us—we'd love to hear what you've learned!
Amy, Kitty & Stacey
P.S. Isn't our intro music great?! Yah, we think so too. Thank you, Ivy States for "I Got That Wow".
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
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I know you're wondering how.
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I'm a tour de force running.
Get me to the top.
I don't need a Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hello, Get me to the top.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I don't need a Hello Hello ladies, how is everyone?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Good, and how about you?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I'm good, except I'm dealing with some technical
glitches on my end.
Do I look okay?
Yeah, you look good.
We do do, um, you do, we cansee you.
Oh, that's good, because Ican't see me.
I'm looking at a green box.
That's what my screen lookslike.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
So always seems like we always have something,
something weird yeah I don'tknow why something weird.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Yeah, I don't know why, oh well, well, this is
three cocktails in a podcastwhere we always have technical
difficulty.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That is our tagline.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Maybe it should be yeah, technically challenged,
but here for the ride right, Iknow we usually get it figured
out, we honestly do.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And that kind of segues into into our topic this
evening which we are going totalk about the different
generations.
You know, describe them, definethem.
And you one thing about us.
You know Gen Xers, you know we,you know, morphed along with
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technology.
You know we learned it alongthe way.
You know didn't always havecell phones and gosh, we didn't
always have a microwave, forinstance.
You know silly things like that.
So you know a lot ofdifferences between how we learn
technology.
(02:13):
And you know Gen Z and younger,yeah, does so well with
technology.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I remember my first computer class in high school
and it was coding Same, oh myGod.
It was during basketball season.
I was a junior, there was areally brilliant girl on the
basketball team and, of courseyou know, the high school didn't
have enough computers foreverybody to have their own, so
you had groups of three huddlingaround one massive computer and
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two of us teamed up with Eileen, and that's the only way I got
through that class Just taggedmy name right on the back of
everything else, because I hadno clue what was going on.
None.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, and it just seemed.
So, what is this?
What are we doing?
Yeah, where is this going to?
Where are we going to use thisRight?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You know, a lot of the programs that we did make or
code.
You know, we we had a real hardtime, as I remember, just like
you're saying, deciding how isthis?
You know, how are we going touse this?
Like, I think some of thethings I made were, you know,
banners, you know long bannersof some.
(03:35):
You know, welcome to something.
You know was one thing.
I tried to make a you knowgraphic of a kangaroo hop across
the screen and it was all.
You know what I mean and thatwas the thing.
I agree, it was hard to decide.
You know, what are we supposedto use this for?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, and I think in college I used it basically as a
glorified typewriter.
Yes, right, because we didn'treally do any research on it.
You still went to the library,yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah, I think that was the only thing that we did
with it in college is that wecould go to the computer lab to
type up our paper, type it, saveit and print it.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I know very interesting.
So, jen, you know, we all knowbaby boomers, you know, up to
the mid 1960s, gen X, 1960s tovery early 1980s, um, and right
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after that we have the ummillennials and you know, I
swear they used to be called thegen y.
I know they were, you know,because they asked why?
They asked why, and so theywere gen y and then we had gen z
.
Anymore they get called themillennials, that time from you
(05:06):
know um okay Time out.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You associated them being Gen Y because they asked
why I thought it was Y2K.
I thought it was turning andbecame millennials, probably why
it got to the millennials.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
No's how it became millennials, probably why it got
to be millennials, but no, itreally was.
I'd heard that before.
Then why?
Because that's why?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's why Interesting.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Did not know that.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Y2K didn't come until a few years into Gen Z, correct
, um correct, because I Ibelieve jen.
Now I have to look at my notesI think.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I think ava at 1999 is considered the very last of
the millennials millennials endsby two at 2000.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, yeah, so she is very end Yep, and I've noticed
with the years they kind ofoverlap a little too because
technically you know, you know Ithink she is very different
than my older two, who aredefinitely millennials.
Millennials, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And there's only three and a half years
difference between them.
But Right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yep, I don three and a half years difference between
them, but right, yeah, yep, Iknow.
So let's see here, you know,like, the difference.
If you looked at the differencebetween gen z and millennials,
um, you know, definitely bothtech savvy, but millennials,
almost like us too, you knowtechnology.
They were still growing withnew technology all the time,
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whereas they started with cellphones, right it was just for
calling, just for calling andthen texting, right, yeah, yeah.
Whereas gen z that's all theyhave known is a smartphone and
all of the same technology wehave today.
So that's one difference,another difference between
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Millennials and Gen Z.
Facebook, instagram, where GenZ likes the visual, tiktok,
snapchat, those kind ofplatforms which I thought was
probably true.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You know also when you talk about that Facebook
Instagram requires typingsharing thoughts Snapchat,
tiktok, not so much typingsharing thoughts Snapchat.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, tiktok, not so much.
No, it's picture or videorecording.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, yeah, not a lot of Kind of feeding into that
idea that the Gen Z not bigtalkers on the phone, don't want
to call anybody.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yeah yeah, social issues are a little different.
The Gen Z is often seen as morevocal and active in advocacy
and activism, particularly onissues like climate change and
social justice, and I would haveto say that's probably true, I
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think, even for you know, we'vetalked some about this even the
brands they use, they willnavigate towards social issues
that they like and away fromthings and companies that they
don't like.
Their, you know, theirpolitical stance political,
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social, environmental, all thatkind of things, yep yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yeah, it's a focus.
They have a heightened focus onwhat brands am I going to
attach my brand to?
Their personal brand is veryimportant, not not I mean not to
say that I don't know.
I mean many people would saythat not just that generation,
but that is something that umhas certainly risen to the top
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and it's so much easier to seewith all of the social media
that we have and the visibilitythat we have with companies and
corporations.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I think that there's a that the millennials and Gen Z
economically feel like they'renot making as much money as
their parents, that they aredisadvantaged at a number of
different categories forwhatever reason.
So they have figured out earlyon money talks and so they're
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very particular about wherethey're going to spend their
dollars and what companies alignwith them, and I think that's
fantastic.
I just commend them for that.
Do you know how much work thatwould have been?
Am I back.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You're back.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You're unfrozen.
Try your thought again.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, yeah, I was just saying that it's so much
easier for them to see andchoose to use their money with
companies that align with theirvision, their money with
companies that align with theirvision and how much harder it
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would have been for us to figurethat out, because we we aren't
instantly.
We would have had to research,you know, and that meant going
to the library, digging inarchives, looking, you know, up
a whole lot of stuff.
So I I think that that's reallyawesome, that, yes, they're
global, they have so muchtechnology at their fingertips,
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they're well aware and they,they make decisions.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yeah, we could take a note from them.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, yep, for sure.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Yep for sure.
They just, they, just they haveso much what you said.
They have so much more at theirfingertips.
I mean, if it would be nice,wouldn't it be great, to be able
to go back with, to go back andlive those years that we lived
with the modern technologiesthat we have today?
I mean there's some exception ofthe video camera documenting
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everything we did right we aregrateful that we did not have,
uh, the cameras, the cell phone,everything uh, when we were,
you know, living our best livesin those early days, but but
yeah.
I don't know, I don't know.
Sometimes I look.
So here's an example.
(12:03):
Sometimes I look at the youngergenerations and again, I'm
always going to cite theseinfluencers that I follow, these
women who live in Nashville andthey are in their 30s, I'm
going to say mid-30s, and thesewomen are printing money, as
influencers they are, and sothis life that they're living,
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they're having babies andthey've got everything you need
and everything you don't need,but they think that they need
right, right, and that's notbitter that I just said that,
but um, but I think this youknow, and they're out, they're
out, they're doing thesepregnancy shoots and they've all
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got the fabulous fashions and Iwill open our album and I will
look at pictures of me pregnantand wearing the tent dress you
know, or whatever.
We didn't look like that, no, no, and we would have been so
fabulous.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Would we have?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yes, well, I think we're going to say those
fashions didn't exist.
Then, right, yeah, you knowjust all of the.
You know they're puttingtogether their baskets to take
to the nurses that, you know, tothe nurses station.
And I'm not saying that I woulddo all of those things, but it
is just.
It is a completely differentworld and I'm sure a lot of it
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is driven because we've gotsocial media.
So people put these things outthere and then everybody's like,
well, I want to do that.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well, I want to do, even though I can't afford that.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I want to do that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, I'm really glad in those instances that we
didn't.
Yeah, I'm really glad in thoseinstances that we didn't.
I mean you wearing the tentdress.
I remember the first photosthat were taken of me with the
baby.
There was no makeup bag thatcame with me.
There was hair, you know, offto the.
It was just looking like thebig glasses, the big glasses.
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Oh, I didn't even have myglasses on, you know, it just
was pretty motley and you knowthat's just fine.
Um, but yes, because they havethe ability to see what other
people are doing.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Yeah, yeah, and then they do the same thing.
Yeah, I would not have beenable to afford the big.
You know.
You see some of the maternitypictures.
They have these big, longflowing.
You know, dresses that have tocost some money.
I mean, yeah, yeah, I got.
(15:04):
I think I bought two dress, twomaternity dresses, at Walmart.
That couldn't have been very.
You know, again, tent dressesand yeah, it's interesting that
they're very beautiful they are.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You know some of the photo shoots they do I just
always, you know yeah, it kindof brings me to one of the
things that I really like aboutthe younger generations.
In contrast, if we want to goall the way back to when we were
having our babies, I would nothave wanted a pregnancy photo
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shoot.
I felt like a round oompaloompa through the whole thing.
I don't think I was very awareand necessarily really super
concerned about the gaining ofthe weight and how I looked.
I did much better with Ava.
(15:54):
By then I think I had startedto go to the gym and didn't gain
as much weight.
But I think younger generationswomen in their 30s and even
younger they do a far, farbetter job of maintaining a good
, healthy lifestyle.
(16:14):
Healthier, they know how towork out, they're doing it.
I mean, I saw something theother day and it was a whole
spoof on the billy blanks.
You know tybo, yeah, dvds, thatthat we used to do and some of
the stupid that you know.
But that was that was what wedid.
(16:35):
Now there's so much more outthere and there's so much better
about.
What can I do at home?
I can use resistance bands, Ican go to yoga, I can do Pilates
.
I can do it online.
I can ride a bike in my livingroom, all these different things
.
I think that they do a farbetter job of taking care of
themselves for the long run careof themselves for the long run.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
It seems to be more of a priority, and I think
that's one of the one of thepriorities that you hear a lot
of people talking about youngergenerations and and ours too, is
that work isn't everything, andwhen people are, you know,
chasing this elusive work-lifebalance, which I think we all
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will just say it really doesn'texist.
It's going to always be likethis there will be times where
you have to focus more at workand there will be times where
you have to focus more family,and as long as you've got a
structure where it can flex,that's, that's balance, probably
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but there's big picture balance, short term balance.
Yeah, right, yeah, but therethere's just more focus on,
focus on.
You know, my work is not mylife, and we learned a lot from
that.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Late, late right late very late yeah, I saw a great
video.
I thought it was great.
I'm I think I've said a numberof times that, as I've started
this whole new career as50-something person, I'm taking
pages from the youngergeneration on whatever and a
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woman was saying that and Ithink it does hold true that the
younger people job hop, as wewould call it, for two reasons.
If they're not learning andthey're not earning, you know,
at their position they're goingto go somewhere else.
You know the learning part.
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Am I learning skills that I cansee where I'm going to be able
to progress in this position, toget me to my goal, or am I
earning more money where I'm at?
And if those two things aren'thappening, they're out of there.
And I we did not do that.
I remember well and I evenremember freaking out when my
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kids wanted to leave a positionbefore they'd been there a
couple of years.
And they're like, they're likeno, why, why do I have to stay?
This is I don't want to say.
It means to an end, but the jobis not their life.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yeah, yeah, we thought we needed to stay, get
some good training and be ableto move to a higher position
based on what we.
What it took, you know,possibly years to learn and then
job, hop to something higherand better, you know, or try to
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get a better position within thesame company Never occurred, I
think, to most of us that wecould.
Just we learned enough here.
Let's move on to you know,something else.
Maybe laterally, some gobackwards, you know, honestly,
sometimes, just because thisisn't what they want, they're
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going to go find something else.
And we would, I would have beenscared to death, you know what
I mean.
To do that, yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Well, and I also think who did the hiring when we
were, who were we applying to?
They were the silent generation, the baby boomers that were
ahead of us.
Loyalty mattered, yeah, Payingyour dues mattered, Right, and I
think that you know, as wephase out and and we've I think
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we adapt.
I'm going to say it, I think weadapt far better than baby
boomers.
We're like, yeah, okay, why not?
Sort of thing.
So I think that it has becomemuch more the norm.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yeah, I do too.
It kind of irritates mesometimes when you know my kids
all say things like oh, you know, you don't know technology, or
you, you don't, you know youcan't do do technology.
I think that's boomers.
They really were scared of it,won't try anything new.
(21:22):
Obviously, that's ageneralization.
Some will.
I think we were very easily.
You know, we know how to Google, you know we aren't afraid of
it and can figure it out,whereas I think it's you know
boomers that you know have moreof that issue than I think we do
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.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I think we figured out we were going to have to
figure out how to do it, wefigured out.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Yeah, and it was all being developed while we were
early in our careers, so we wereusing it as it was evolving.
These younger generations theywere born into it already
existed.
It was just put into theirhands and you know, and so it
was just like learning alanguage when you're yeah in
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sixth grade.
Yeah, so yeah, I am, and I'vesaid this to Bo, I've said this
to Bill I am not going to bethat person ever who will say,
oh yeah, I don't, I don't knowhow to do that, I don't want to,
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I don't want to learn that wewill age more gracefully and we
will get more out of our livesthe more in tune and educated um
with all, educated with all ofthe technology that's going to
continue to evolve.
So, whatever is new that'scoming.
It's like, yeah, tell me aboutit, show it to me, let me use it
, because I am not going to bethat person.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah, yep, yes, very much.
I might not do it very well,that could be true.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
But, and if my kids are around, I'm still gonna play
the old oh help your mothercard, but for myself I will do
what I can you know, to figureit out.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, I had a thought when you were talking
about that that you know, gen Z,you know, is more conscious of,
you know, making healthychoices and healthy lifestyles.
I would have to agree thedifference between you know what
?
I see my kids now, as they havebabies and small children,
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they're doing all the research.
I sometimes even think it'soverkill, you know.
But we, I mean, did we ever payattention to what we were
feeding them?
Heck, no, you know what I mean.
That it was just you know um wedidn't I remember getting a?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
little worked up with my go ahead.
I remember getting a littleworked up with my dad giving my
kids drinks of pop at two and abanana split, you know, and and
oh they're, oh, they're fine, oh, amy, you're fine.
And so I can see I don't haveany grandkids, but I maybe
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that's just our cross to bear,as, as young parents, we have to
listen to what our I mean, Imean we listen, we don't have to
do Right.
So when I say we have to listento our parents, yeah, I meant
like you're just going to hearit.
You're under no obligation todo any of it but yeah, it goes
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back to that.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
We didn't really have the resources, you know, I mean
sure Everybody knew you werefeeding your kids, you know,
meat, vegetables, fruits, not alot of junk.
But I know Madison does so muchresearch on possible allergen
(25:09):
foods you know what I mean andintroducing them very slowly and
paying attention.
It's like, oh my gosh, no, whowould have just been try this.
Yeah, so it's like, oh my gosh,no, who would have just been
try this?
Yeah.
So it's just interesting, theyjust have some so many more.
You know so many resources tolook.
You know things they followthat you know.
(25:32):
Yeah, so it's just interesting,very different.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Yeah, it's good that the information at our
fingertips is being used, and Ithink they're also risk takers,
so much more than and part of itis that willingness or that
ability to just say this isn'tserving me, I'm going to move on
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from it, going, going back tothe job situation.
Right, that to us, would havebeen very risky behavior, yeah,
yeah.
So, um there, oh there, there'sa fearlessness with them.
That is a good quality.
Them, that is a good quality.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It can be a good stand up for themselves yeah
yeah, whereas you know we'vetalked before, we wouldn't say
half the stuff that we've heardin, you know, in a work setting
or somebody being so bold.
Yeah, we think it's bold there,I said it.
I, I think it's bold.
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They're not wrong, so they'rereally good self-advocates.
Yeah, just don't make it.
Call you on the phone to tellyou?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
yeah, we would have just sucked it up and taken it
and just moved on where theyvery easily to call out you know
, things are going on, yeah,yeah I remember so I don't
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remember which recession it wasI think it might have been 2008,
2009, somewhere and people werelosing their jobs and you know
every companies were tighteningtheir belt and letting people go
.
And I worked for a smallcompany at the time and I want
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to say we went I mean very, verysmall company, like 15 people,
maybe 18 people people, and wewent from 18 to 13,.
Um, in in a in a layoff, andthe people who were being let go
they were the, the, the,probably the youngest in the
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group, and, um, I remember oneof the oh and so.
Then, for a while, salarieswere frozen for a while and
actually I think salaries werereduced for a little while.
I mean, 2008 was a tough.
That was a tough year.
So I think we all took a paycut and I remember a few of them
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talking and I was just kind ofon the fringe of the
conversation and they were justtalking about how ridiculous it
was and how awful it was and how, how much they were being taken
advantage, and I said you guys,we're lucky to have this job.
Remember all those people thatgot let go.
So I know our, our salarieswere reduced, but we're lucky to
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have this job and they lookedat me like I had just said the
most offensive thing ever.
And then I was shocked becauseI'm like what?
What are you shocked at what is?
And I really.
I mean, I felt that that wasreally true.
We were lucky to have the job.
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You can sit and grouse aboutthe fact that we had to take a
pay cut.
It'll come back.
If you don't like it, then gosomewhere else.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It is interesting.
That still is a sticking point,for people Know somebody that
they're kind of in a.
The company would like toconsider themselves a startup,
but they're in a really bigindustry and they're kind of
have a niche.
You know a hold on this ontheir product and they had
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mandatory overtime and they didnot pay people for it.
So, in essence, employees tooka 20% pay cut because they had
to work 50-hour weeks.
That did not go over very well,but they stuck through it
because they thought it was.
You know, this is what we haveto do to get us from A to B.
(30:05):
Okay, so now they're at B.
They've been working at B for awhile and there's rumors that
the company is going to do itagain.
And now the people like nope,you are not doing that to us
again.
You said that that's what weneeded to do to get to hear from
there.
But I'm out.
(30:25):
You know I this.
You are not giving me in returnmore days off.
You're not giving meflexibility for this.
You're just telling us we haveto work an extra 10 hours a week
and and we're getting nothingfor it, and the fact that you
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didn't figure out how to betteruse the dollars that we have and
hire somebody to.
You know no, there's no, and Ithink I'm, I think I agree with
them.
You know that's an error onmanagement's part, that they
can't figure out how to makethings work.
(31:05):
You can't hold people, you know, or?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
you would think you come out the other side and then
they get a raise, betterbenefits, something after
weathering through the bad timeand it just went back to the
same old thing.
Yeah, that would bedisappointing the second time
around.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, that's interesting yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I wonder if people do feel lucky to have the job.
I don't know, yeah, I don't.
I don't think so anymore.
I think, you know, I don't know, I don't really pay much
attention to unemployment, butit would seem like it's fairly
easy to get a job.
I think that's the thing Ithink people think.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Well, I think unemployment's up and we're
going to watch, we're going tosee what happens.
What happens, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Well, again, entrepreneurship is core to the
millennial generation.
Entrepreneurship is core to themillennial generation so much
so that there's now a degree.
You can go to college and get adegree in entrepreneurship.
And, yeah, they're just moreapt to well, I'll just start my
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own company or I'll justfreelance or work for myself.
So that's where that creativitycomes into play as well.
And again, that's somethingthat we all have looked at and
said, yeah, I like it.
Yep.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
It was interesting I think I don't know if it was in
the pre-meeting or if we.
Stacy, you started talkingabout it right at the beginning
that the younger generations areknown to be more creative and I
was like, hmm, you know, isthat really true?
Because I think we have somewonderfully creative people that
have thought up all thesetechnological advances right,
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but I I do think that thoseyounger generations are more
personally creative.
How can I make, how can I thinkout of the box?
I think?
I don't.
Think they have boxes.
I don't even think that thephrase thinking out of the box
applies to them.
There is no box, and they arelooking at.
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You know what's the next move?
How do I get from here to there, what do I feel that I'm really
good at, and how can I makethat into something?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, you see all the youngerpeople on TikTok, you know
monetizing their brand.
That is obviously not somethingwe would have ever considered.
Even if we had the opportunity,I don't think that we would
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have done that as easily as theyseem to do.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
That's what models and celebrities did.
Yes, right, not as normalpeople.
Yeah, finger bunnies yeah, youknow, I agree.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I don't know.
I think there's a lot to belearned, and the millennials
millennials not so much.
I don't think they're takingtoo much of a bad hit right now.
They've you know.
But Gen Z does take a lot ofcrap, yeah, Blanket statements
and stereotypes.
But I think that there's a lotthat we can be learning from
them.
That would make our livesbetter, Certainly.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
I agree?
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Yep, yeah, I don't think all of the you know focus
on social media has been bad.
Obviously I'm you know, I thinkthere is some you know the fact
that they've had, you know,been in, had social media for
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most of their lives and, and youknow, been on their phone,
addicted to their phone a lot,but there's still positives to
it.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I also you know as well.
Well, I'm really intrigued tosee how the millennials and the
gen z raise their kids withsocial media, having been
through it themselves, becausewe, we didn't go through it now,
so they yeah will they do itdifferently?
Yeah, how will they do itdifferently?
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What is, what is their answer?
Speaker 4 (36:09):
yeah, yep, okay.
Well, very interestingconversation about all of the
yes groups.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
So do we have any shots of things that we've
learned from younger generationsgenerations?
I'll go ahead.
It's a stupid one, but you knowI've gotten to this place in my
life where I'm making somebetter money and I have always
(36:40):
loved skincare products and youknow lotions and makeups and
whatever.
But I've watched enough nowthat there are some people that
are like, yeah, this little NYX,this NYX brand that's at Target
and CVS and Walgreens, that isjust so inexpensive,
comparatively speaking.
(37:01):
I've come full circle.
I'm going back to some of thesethings Lip liners, eyebrow
fillers.
I have decided that I havewasted $11 on things before.
I'm going to give $11 eyebrowpencil a shot instead of going
out and buying the $32 one.
(37:22):
So thank you to the influencersthat I have been watching and
seeing on the different socialmedia sites and and just normal
people that are saying I'vetried this, this worked.
I've tried this.
This is crap, don't buy it.
I'll report back and see howthe new eyebrows work in the
(37:43):
next couple of weeks, see if Ican handle it and see if I don't
look like I drew them on, youknow, with a big old sharpie.
So try the inexpensive stuff onoccasion yeah, that's a good
idea yeah, you feel like you'renot wasting as much money.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
If you don't like it, yes, how about you guys?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
what do you got?
You're not wasting as muchmoney if you don't like it.
Yes, how about you guys?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
What do you got?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Well, I wasn't prepared for that tonight, for
that Risk on it, that narrow,narrow.
Yeah, I actually didn't have ashot tonight, that's hey, you
know what?
We can even use that assomething we've learned from the
younger generations.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
I'm not sure they do a lot of shots like we did, like
we did Sorry.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Oh, I think when they turn 21 or before they turn 21,
.
I think they're doing theirfair share.
Yes, I do think they partydifferent than we did, you know,
admittedly.
So they at that age did a lotbetter job of having the
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designated driver and beingresponsible and you know, having
a party at a, you know, at aresidence and staying there and
not driving and that kind ofthing than we ever did.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Well, I mean I and I'm not talking about when
people turn 21,.
Well, I mean I and I'm nottalking about when people turn
21,.
You know, I'm talking aboutgoing out with my daughters and
they're ordering a glass of wine.
Yeah, I don't think I got intowine until I was in my thirties.
That wasn't something we did,but there was many a night that
we started our pre-party at homeand went to the bar and the
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first thing we did was order around of shots.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's our shot.
Avoid the shots, avoid theshots, avoid the shots.
At the bar, nothing good evercomes from them just not worth
it.
No.
What was the last time somebodyoffered you a shot?
(40:10):
Were you on vacation?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
Kitty, no, I think we were up at Willie McCoy's one
night and Bo and his buddieswere up there and Bo doesn't
drink, but the other guys theylike to have a few and they like
to do shots and so, like mamakitty, um, homie Bill, that's
(40:39):
what they call.
Bill, um, let's do a shot andwe're like dude, I am not gonna
do a shot.
And they're they're alwaystrying to get us to do shots.
We're like no, I'm not gonna,not gonna do a shot.
And they're they're alwaystrying to get us to do shots.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I'm like no, not good , Not going to do a shot.
Yeah, cause they wouldn't wantto see you sip it no it's too
painful for me trying to do ashot.
How about you Stacy?
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Crash of your kids that you would have done one
right crash of your kids thatyou would have done one right.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
Oh, it's been sooner than that.
It's certainly been sooner thanthat.
I one football game this fall.
We did a shot board so, and itwas even coincidentally so like
yeah, the the shot ski, exactly.
And there was this group ofpeople near us tailgating and
and they were doing the shot skiand so four of us went over and
we did the shot ski with them.
So that wasn't that long ago.
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What was it?
What was the alcohol?
Oh, I have no idea, I don'tknow.
Fireball, it wasn't fireball, Idon't know, it was something
gross, I don't, I don't yeah.
Yeah, I'm not a big fan offireball or any kind of shot.
No, yeah, because you remember,I'm the weak drink drinker.
(41:55):
You know, like everybody.
You know we talk aboutcocktails and wine and whatever,
but my cocktails are very weak.
I like to taste more pop than Ido, yeah, than I do alcohol.
So, yeah, shots, I don alcohol.
Shots, I don't like it, but Idon't turn them down very often.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
You never know we are gamers, yeah For sure.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Well cheers to the millennials Right and Gen Z.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
Yep, they do.
And those who came before us asmuch as we give them all heck,
they're actually pretty good,they're doing some good things.
Alright, cheers, ladies.
You guys have a good week.
Yes, you too.
All right, all right, cheers,ladies.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
Well cheers, you guys have a good week.
Yes, you too.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
You too.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Can we see this?
Hopefully next week I'll beable to see me instead of a
green screen.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
Right, I hope you figure out your technology
problem.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Yeah, if a Gen Z person would like to help me out
with this, I'd be more thanappreciative.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
Just unplug it and plug it back in.
There you go, reboot, reboot it.
There we go, all right, allright, peace out, bye, bye, bye,
bye, bye, bye, bye.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
I got that wild who wants someheads up right now.
We got that turn it up loud.
I know you're wondering how.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
I got that wild.
Here I go.
Here I go, coming.
I can't ever stop.
I'ma tour the forest running,get me to the top.
I don't need an invitation.
I'm about to start acelebration.
Let me in Brought a good timefor some friends.
Turn it up loud past ten.
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I got that.
Wow, who wants some heads upright now?
We got that turn it up loud.
I know you're wondering how.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I got that.
Wow, here I go, here I go,coming.
I can't ever stop.
I'm a tour de force running.
Get me to the top.
I don't need a Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hello, Get me to the top.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I don't need a Hello Hello ladies, how is everyone?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Good, and how about you?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I'm good, except I'm dealing with some technical
glitches on my end.
Do I look okay?
Yeah, you look good.
We do do, um, you do, we cansee you.
Oh, that's good, because Ican't see me.
I'm looking at a green box.
That's what my screen lookslike.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
So always seems like we always have something,
something weird yeah I don'tknow why something weird.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Yeah, I don't know why, oh well, well, this is
three cocktails in a podcastwhere we always have technical
difficulty.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That is our tagline.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Maybe it should be yeah, technically challenged,
but here for the ride right, Iknow we usually get it figured
out, we honestly do.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And that kind of segues into into our topic this
evening which we are going totalk about the different
generations.
You know, describe them, definethem.
And you one thing about us.
You know Gen Xers, you know we,you know, morphed along with
(01:53):
technology.
You know we learned it alongthe way.
You know didn't always havecell phones and gosh, we didn't
always have a microwave, forinstance.
You know silly things like that.
So you know a lot ofdifferences between how we learn
technology.
(02:13):
And you know Gen Z and younger,yeah, does so well with
technology.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I remember my first computer class in high school
and it was coding Same, oh myGod.
It was during basketball season.
I was a junior, there was areally brilliant girl on the
basketball team and, of courseyou know, the high school didn't
have enough computers foreverybody to have their own, so
you had groups of three huddlingaround one massive computer and
(02:49):
two of us teamed up with Eileen, and that's the only way I got
through that class Just taggedmy name right on the back of
everything else, because I hadno clue what was going on.
None.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, and it just seemed.
So, what is this?
What are we doing?
Yeah, where is this going to?
Where are we going to use thisRight?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You know, a lot of the programs that we did make or
code.
You know, we we had a real hardtime, as I remember, just like
you're saying, deciding how isthis?
You know, how are we going touse this?
Like, I think some of thethings I made were, you know,
banners, you know long bannersof some.
(03:35):
You know, welcome to something.
You know was one thing.
I tried to make a you knowgraphic of a kangaroo hop across
the screen and it was all.
You know what I mean and thatwas the thing.
I agree, it was hard to decide.
You know, what are we supposedto use this for?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, and I think in college I used it basically as a
glorified typewriter.
Yes, right, because we didn'treally do any research on it.
You still went to the library,yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah, I think that was the only thing that we did
with it in college is that wecould go to the computer lab to
type up our paper, type it, saveit and print it.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I know very interesting.
So, jen, you know, we all knowbaby boomers, you know, up to
the mid 1960s, gen X, 1960s tovery early 1980s, um, and right
(04:44):
after that we have the ummillennials and you know, I
swear they used to be called thegen y.
I know they were, you know,because they asked why?
They asked why, and so theywere gen y and then we had gen z
.
Anymore they get called themillennials, that time from you
(05:06):
know um okay Time out.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You associated them being Gen Y because they asked
why I thought it was Y2K.
I thought it was turning andbecame millennials, probably why
it got to the millennials.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
No's how it became millennials, probably why it got
to be millennials, but no, itreally was.
I'd heard that before.
Then why?
Because that's why?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's why Interesting.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Did not know that.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Y2K didn't come until a few years into Gen Z, correct
, um correct, because I Ibelieve jen.
Now I have to look at my notesI think.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I think ava at 1999 is considered the very last of
the millennials millennials endsby two at 2000.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, yeah, so she is very end Yep, and I've noticed
with the years they kind ofoverlap a little too because
technically you know, you know Ithink she is very different
than my older two, who aredefinitely millennials.
Millennials, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And there's only three and a half years
difference between them.
But Right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yep, I don three and a half years difference between
them, but right, yeah, yep, Iknow.
So let's see here, you know,like, the difference.
If you looked at the differencebetween gen z and millennials,
um, you know, definitely bothtech savvy, but millennials,
almost like us too, you knowtechnology.
They were still growing withnew technology all the time,
(06:51):
whereas they started with cellphones, right it was just for
calling, just for calling andthen texting, right, yeah, yeah.
Whereas gen z that's all theyhave known is a smartphone and
all of the same technology wehave today.
So that's one difference,another difference between
(07:15):
Millennials and Gen Z.
Facebook, instagram, where GenZ likes the visual, tiktok,
snapchat, those kind ofplatforms which I thought was
probably true.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You know also when you talk about that Facebook
Instagram requires typingsharing thoughts Snapchat,
tiktok, not so much typingsharing thoughts Snapchat.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, tiktok, not so much.
No, it's picture or videorecording.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, yeah, not a lot of Kind of feeding into that
idea that the Gen Z not bigtalkers on the phone, don't want
to call anybody.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yeah yeah, social issues are a little different.
The Gen Z is often seen as morevocal and active in advocacy
and activism, particularly onissues like climate change and
social justice, and I would haveto say that's probably true, I
(08:27):
think, even for you know, we'vetalked some about this even the
brands they use, they willnavigate towards social issues
that they like and away fromthings and companies that they
don't like.
Their, you know, theirpolitical stance political,
(08:52):
social, environmental, all thatkind of things, yep yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yeah, it's a focus.
They have a heightened focus onwhat brands am I going to
attach my brand to?
Their personal brand is veryimportant, not not I mean not to
say that I don't know.
I mean many people would saythat not just that generation,
but that is something that umhas certainly risen to the top
(09:21):
and it's so much easier to seewith all of the social media
that we have and the visibilitythat we have with companies and
corporations.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I think that there's a that the millennials and Gen Z
economically feel like they'renot making as much money as
their parents, that they aredisadvantaged at a number of
different categories forwhatever reason.
So they have figured out earlyon money talks and so they're
(09:54):
very particular about wherethey're going to spend their
dollars and what companies alignwith them, and I think that's
fantastic.
I just commend them for that.
Do you know how much work thatwould have been?
Am I back.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You're back.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You're unfrozen.
Try your thought again.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, yeah, I was just saying that it's so much
easier for them to see andchoose to use their money with
companies that align with theirvision, their money with
companies that align with theirvision and how much harder it
(10:42):
would have been for us to figurethat out, because we we aren't
instantly.
We would have had to research,you know, and that meant going
to the library, digging inarchives, looking, you know, up
a whole lot of stuff.
So I I think that that's reallyawesome, that, yes, they're
global, they have so muchtechnology at their fingertips,
(11:04):
they're well aware and they,they make decisions.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yeah, we could take a note from them.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, yep, for sure.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Yep for sure.
They just, they, just they haveso much what you said.
They have so much more at theirfingertips.
I mean, if it would be nice,wouldn't it be great, to be able
to go back with, to go back andlive those years that we lived
with the modern technologiesthat we have today?
I mean there's some exception ofthe video camera documenting
(11:43):
everything we did right we aregrateful that we did not have,
uh, the cameras, the cell phone,everything uh, when we were,
you know, living our best livesin those early days, but but
yeah.
I don't know, I don't know.
Sometimes I look.
So here's an example.
(12:03):
Sometimes I look at the youngergenerations and again, I'm
always going to cite theseinfluencers that I follow, these
women who live in Nashville andthey are in their 30s, I'm
going to say mid-30s, and thesewomen are printing money, as
influencers they are, and sothis life that they're living,
(12:31):
they're having babies andthey've got everything you need
and everything you don't need,but they think that they need
right, right, and that's notbitter that I just said that,
but um, but I think this youknow, and they're out, they're
out, they're doing thesepregnancy shoots and they've all
(12:54):
got the fabulous fashions and Iwill open our album and I will
look at pictures of me pregnantand wearing the tent dress you
know, or whatever.
We didn't look like that, no, no, and we would have been so
fabulous.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Would we have?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yes, well, I think we're going to say those
fashions didn't exist.
Then, right, yeah, you knowjust all of the.
You know they're puttingtogether their baskets to take
to the nurses that, you know, tothe nurses station.
And I'm not saying that I woulddo all of those things, but it
is just.
It is a completely differentworld and I'm sure a lot of it
(13:41):
is driven because we've gotsocial media.
So people put these things outthere and then everybody's like,
well, I want to do that.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well, I want to do, even though I can't afford that.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I want to do that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, I'm really glad in those instances that we
didn't.
Yeah, I'm really glad in thoseinstances that we didn't.
I mean you wearing the tentdress.
I remember the first photosthat were taken of me with the
baby.
There was no makeup bag thatcame with me.
There was hair, you know, offto the.
It was just looking like thebig glasses, the big glasses.
(14:21):
Oh, I didn't even have myglasses on, you know, it just
was pretty motley and you knowthat's just fine.
Um, but yes, because they havethe ability to see what other
people are doing.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Yeah, yeah, and then they do the same thing.
Yeah, I would not have beenable to afford the big.
You know.
You see some of the maternitypictures.
They have these big, longflowing.
You know, dresses that have tocost some money.
I mean, yeah, yeah, I got.
(15:04):
I think I bought two dress, twomaternity dresses, at Walmart.
That couldn't have been very.
You know, again, tent dressesand yeah, it's interesting that
they're very beautiful they are.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You know some of the photo shoots they do I just
always, you know yeah, it kindof brings me to one of the
things that I really like aboutthe younger generations.
In contrast, if we want to goall the way back to when we were
having our babies, I would nothave wanted a pregnancy photo
(15:31):
shoot.
I felt like a round oompaloompa through the whole thing.
I don't think I was very awareand necessarily really super
concerned about the gaining ofthe weight and how I looked.
I did much better with Ava.
(15:54):
By then I think I had startedto go to the gym and didn't gain
as much weight.
But I think younger generationswomen in their 30s and even
younger they do a far, farbetter job of maintaining a good
, healthy lifestyle.
(16:14):
Healthier, they know how towork out, they're doing it.
I mean, I saw something theother day and it was a whole
spoof on the billy blanks.
You know tybo, yeah, dvds, thatthat we used to do and some of
the stupid that you know.
But that was that was what wedid.
(16:35):
Now there's so much more outthere and there's so much better
about.
What can I do at home?
I can use resistance bands, Ican go to yoga, I can do Pilates
.
I can do it online.
I can ride a bike in my livingroom, all these different things
.
I think that they do a farbetter job of taking care of
themselves for the long run careof themselves for the long run.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
It seems to be more of a priority, and I think
that's one of the one of thepriorities that you hear a lot
of people talking about youngergenerations and and ours too, is
that work isn't everything, andwhen people are, you know,
chasing this elusive work-lifebalance, which I think we all
(17:27):
will just say it really doesn'texist.
It's going to always be likethis there will be times where
you have to focus more at workand there will be times where
you have to focus more family,and as long as you've got a
structure where it can flex,that's, that's balance, probably
(17:49):
but there's big picture balance, short term balance.
Yeah, right, yeah, but therethere's just more focus on,
focus on.
You know, my work is not mylife, and we learned a lot from
that.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Late, late right late very late yeah, I saw a great
video.
I thought it was great.
I'm I think I've said a numberof times that, as I've started
this whole new career as50-something person, I'm taking
pages from the youngergeneration on whatever and a
(18:28):
woman was saying that and Ithink it does hold true that the
younger people job hop, as wewould call it, for two reasons.
If they're not learning andthey're not earning, you know,
at their position they're goingto go somewhere else.
You know the learning part.
(18:49):
Am I learning skills that I cansee where I'm going to be able
to progress in this position, toget me to my goal, or am I
earning more money where I'm at?
And if those two things aren'thappening, they're out of there.
And I we did not do that.
I remember well and I evenremember freaking out when my
(19:11):
kids wanted to leave a positionbefore they'd been there a
couple of years.
And they're like, they're likeno, why, why do I have to stay?
This is I don't want to say.
It means to an end, but the jobis not their life.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yeah, yeah, we thought we needed to stay, get
some good training and be ableto move to a higher position
based on what we.
What it took, you know,possibly years to learn and then
job, hop to something higherand better, you know, or try to
(19:50):
get a better position within thesame company Never occurred, I
think, to most of us that wecould.
Just we learned enough here.
Let's move on to you know,something else.
Maybe laterally, some gobackwards, you know, honestly,
sometimes, just because thisisn't what they want, they're
(20:11):
going to go find something else.
And we would, I would have beenscared to death, you know what
I mean.
To do that, yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Well, and I also think who did the hiring when we
were, who were we applying to?
They were the silent generation, the baby boomers that were
ahead of us.
Loyalty mattered, yeah, Payingyour dues mattered, Right, and I
think that you know, as wephase out and and we've I think
(20:44):
we adapt.
I'm going to say it, I think weadapt far better than baby
boomers.
We're like, yeah, okay, why not?
Sort of thing.
So I think that it has becomemuch more the norm.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yeah, I do too.
It kind of irritates mesometimes when you know my kids
all say things like oh, you know, you don't know technology, or
you, you don't, you know youcan't do do technology.
I think that's boomers.
They really were scared of it,won't try anything new.
(21:22):
Obviously, that's ageneralization.
Some will.
I think we were very easily.
You know, we know how to Google, you know we aren't afraid of
it and can figure it out,whereas I think it's you know
boomers that you know have moreof that issue than I think we do
(21:45):
.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I think we figured out we were going to have to
figure out how to do it, wefigured out.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Yeah, and it was all being developed while we were
early in our careers, so we wereusing it as it was evolving.
These younger generations theywere born into it already
existed.
It was just put into theirhands and you know, and so it
was just like learning alanguage when you're yeah in
(22:13):
sixth grade.
Yeah, so yeah, I am, and I'vesaid this to Bo, I've said this
to Bill I am not going to bethat person ever who will say,
oh yeah, I don't, I don't knowhow to do that, I don't want to,
(22:33):
I don't want to learn that wewill age more gracefully and we
will get more out of our livesthe more in tune and educated um
with all, educated with all ofthe technology that's going to
continue to evolve.
So, whatever is new that'scoming.
It's like, yeah, tell me aboutit, show it to me, let me use it
, because I am not going to bethat person.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah, yep, yes, very much.
I might not do it very well,that could be true.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
But, and if my kids are around, I'm still gonna play
the old oh help your mothercard, but for myself I will do
what I can you know, to figureit out.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, I had a thought when you were talking
about that that you know, gen Z,you know, is more conscious of,
you know, making healthychoices and healthy lifestyles.
I would have to agree thedifference between you know what
?
I see my kids now, as they havebabies and small children,
(23:40):
they're doing all the research.
I sometimes even think it'soverkill, you know.
But we, I mean, did we ever payattention to what we were
feeding them?
Heck, no, you know what I mean.
That it was just you know um wedidn't I remember getting a?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
little worked up with my go ahead.
I remember getting a littleworked up with my dad giving my
kids drinks of pop at two and abanana split, you know, and and
oh they're, oh, they're fine, oh, amy, you're fine.
And so I can see I don't haveany grandkids, but I maybe
(24:22):
that's just our cross to bear,as, as young parents, we have to
listen to what our I mean, Imean we listen, we don't have to
do Right.
So when I say we have to listento our parents, yeah, I meant
like you're just going to hearit.
You're under no obligation todo any of it but yeah, it goes
(24:44):
back to that.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
We didn't really have the resources, you know, I mean
sure Everybody knew you werefeeding your kids, you know,
meat, vegetables, fruits, not alot of junk.
But I know Madison does so muchresearch on possible allergen
(25:09):
foods you know what I mean andintroducing them very slowly and
paying attention.
It's like, oh my gosh, no, whowould have just been try this.
Yeah, so it's like, oh my gosh,no, who would have just been
try this?
Yeah.
So it's just interesting, theyjust have some so many more.
You know so many resources tolook.
You know things they followthat you know.
(25:32):
Yeah, so it's just interesting,very different.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Yeah, it's good that the information at our
fingertips is being used, and Ithink they're also risk takers,
so much more than and part of itis that willingness or that
ability to just say this isn'tserving me, I'm going to move on
(26:01):
from it, going, going back tothe job situation.
Right, that to us, would havebeen very risky behavior, yeah,
yeah.
So, um there, oh there, there'sa fearlessness with them.
That is a good quality.
Them, that is a good quality.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It can be a good stand up for themselves yeah
yeah, whereas you know we'vetalked before, we wouldn't say
half the stuff that we've heardin, you know, in a work setting
or somebody being so bold.
Yeah, we think it's bold there,I said it.
I, I think it's bold.
(26:42):
They're not wrong, so they'rereally good self-advocates.
Yeah, just don't make it.
Call you on the phone to tellyou?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
yeah, we would have just sucked it up and taken it
and just moved on where theyvery easily to call out you know
, things are going on, yeah,yeah I remember so I don't
(27:17):
remember which recession it wasI think it might have been 2008,
2009, somewhere and people werelosing their jobs and you know
every companies were tighteningtheir belt and letting people go
.
And I worked for a smallcompany at the time and I want
(27:39):
to say we went I mean very, verysmall company, like 15 people,
maybe 18 people people, and wewent from 18 to 13,.
Um, in in a in a layoff, andthe people who were being let go
they were the, the, the,probably the youngest in the
(28:01):
group, and, um, I remember oneof the oh and so.
Then, for a while, salarieswere frozen for a while and
actually I think salaries werereduced for a little while.
I mean, 2008 was a tough.
That was a tough year.
So I think we all took a paycut and I remember a few of them
(28:22):
talking and I was just kind ofon the fringe of the
conversation and they were justtalking about how ridiculous it
was and how awful it was and how, how much they were being taken
advantage, and I said you guys,we're lucky to have this job.
Remember all those people thatgot let go.
So I know our, our salarieswere reduced, but we're lucky to
(28:44):
have this job and they lookedat me like I had just said the
most offensive thing ever.
And then I was shocked becauseI'm like what?
What are you shocked at what is?
And I really.
I mean, I felt that that wasreally true.
We were lucky to have the job.
(29:05):
You can sit and grouse aboutthe fact that we had to take a
pay cut.
It'll come back.
If you don't like it, then gosomewhere else.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It is interesting.
That still is a sticking point,for people Know somebody that
they're kind of in a.
The company would like toconsider themselves a startup,
but they're in a really bigindustry and they're kind of
have a niche.
You know a hold on this ontheir product and they had
(29:44):
mandatory overtime and they didnot pay people for it.
So, in essence, employees tooka 20% pay cut because they had
to work 50-hour weeks.
That did not go over very well,but they stuck through it
because they thought it was.
You know, this is what we haveto do to get us from A to B.
(30:05):
Okay, so now they're at B.
They've been working at B for awhile and there's rumors that
the company is going to do itagain.
And now the people like nope,you are not doing that to us
again.
You said that that's what weneeded to do to get to hear from
there.
But I'm out.
(30:25):
You know I this.
You are not giving me in returnmore days off.
You're not giving meflexibility for this.
You're just telling us we haveto work an extra 10 hours a week
and and we're getting nothingfor it, and the fact that you
(30:45):
didn't figure out how to betteruse the dollars that we have and
hire somebody to.
You know no, there's no, and Ithink I'm, I think I agree with
them.
You know that's an error onmanagement's part, that they
can't figure out how to makethings work.
(31:05):
You can't hold people, you know, or?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
you would think you come out the other side and then
they get a raise, betterbenefits, something after
weathering through the bad timeand it just went back to the
same old thing.
Yeah, that would bedisappointing the second time
around.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, that's interesting yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I wonder if people do feel lucky to have the job.
I don't know, yeah, I don't.
I don't think so anymore.
I think, you know, I don't know, I don't really pay much
attention to unemployment, butit would seem like it's fairly
easy to get a job.
I think that's the thing Ithink people think.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Well, I think unemployment's up and we're
going to watch, we're going tosee what happens.
What happens, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Well, again, entrepreneurship is core to the
millennial generation.
Entrepreneurship is core to themillennial generation so much
so that there's now a degree.
You can go to college and get adegree in entrepreneurship.
And, yeah, they're just moreapt to well, I'll just start my
(32:49):
own company or I'll justfreelance or work for myself.
So that's where that creativitycomes into play as well.
And again, that's somethingthat we all have looked at and
said, yeah, I like it.
Yep.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
It was interesting I think I don't know if it was in
the pre-meeting or if we.
Stacy, you started talkingabout it right at the beginning
that the younger generations areknown to be more creative and I
was like, hmm, you know, isthat really true?
Because I think we have somewonderfully creative people that
have thought up all thesetechnological advances right,
(33:25):
but I I do think that thoseyounger generations are more
personally creative.
How can I make, how can I thinkout of the box?
I think?
I don't.
Think they have boxes.
I don't even think that thephrase thinking out of the box
applies to them.
There is no box, and they arelooking at.
(33:47):
You know what's the next move?
How do I get from here to there, what do I feel that I'm really
good at, and how can I makethat into something?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, you see all the youngerpeople on TikTok, you know
monetizing their brand.
That is obviously not somethingwe would have ever considered.
Even if we had the opportunity,I don't think that we would
(34:24):
have done that as easily as theyseem to do.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
That's what models and celebrities did.
Yes, right, not as normalpeople.
Yeah, finger bunnies yeah, youknow, I agree.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I don't know.
I think there's a lot to belearned, and the millennials
millennials not so much.
I don't think they're takingtoo much of a bad hit right now.
They've you know.
But Gen Z does take a lot ofcrap, yeah, Blanket statements
and stereotypes.
But I think that there's a lotthat we can be learning from
them.
That would make our livesbetter, Certainly.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
I agree?
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Yep, yeah, I don't think all of the you know focus
on social media has been bad.
Obviously I'm you know, I thinkthere is some you know the fact
that they've had, you know,been in, had social media for
(35:32):
most of their lives and, and youknow, been on their phone,
addicted to their phone a lot,but there's still positives to
it.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I also you know as well.
Well, I'm really intrigued tosee how the millennials and the
gen z raise their kids withsocial media, having been
through it themselves, becausewe, we didn't go through it now,
so they yeah will they do itdifferently?
Yeah, how will they do itdifferently?
(36:03):
What is, what is their answer?
Speaker 4 (36:09):
yeah, yep, okay.
Well, very interestingconversation about all of the
yes groups.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
So do we have any shots of things that we've
learned from younger generationsgenerations?
I'll go ahead.
It's a stupid one, but you knowI've gotten to this place in my
life where I'm making somebetter money and I have always
(36:40):
loved skincare products and youknow lotions and makeups and
whatever.
But I've watched enough nowthat there are some people that
are like, yeah, this little NYX,this NYX brand that's at Target
and CVS and Walgreens, that isjust so inexpensive,
comparatively speaking.
(37:01):
I've come full circle.
I'm going back to some of thesethings Lip liners, eyebrow
fillers.
I have decided that I havewasted $11 on things before.
I'm going to give $11 eyebrowpencil a shot instead of going
out and buying the $32 one.
(37:22):
So thank you to the influencersthat I have been watching and
seeing on the different socialmedia sites and and just normal
people that are saying I'vetried this, this worked.
I've tried this.
This is crap, don't buy it.
I'll report back and see howthe new eyebrows work in the
(37:43):
next couple of weeks, see if Ican handle it and see if I don't
look like I drew them on, youknow, with a big old sharpie.
So try the inexpensive stuff onoccasion yeah, that's a good
idea yeah, you feel like you'renot wasting as much money.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
If you don't like it, yes, how about you guys?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
what do you got?
You're not wasting as muchmoney if you don't like it.
Yes, how about you guys?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
What do you got?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Well, I wasn't prepared for that tonight, for
that Risk on it, that narrow,narrow.
Yeah, I actually didn't have ashot tonight, that's hey, you
know what?
We can even use that assomething we've learned from the
younger generations.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
I'm not sure they do a lot of shots like we did, like
we did Sorry.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Oh, I think when they turn 21 or before they turn 21,
.
I think they're doing theirfair share.
Yes, I do think they partydifferent than we did, you know,
admittedly.
So they at that age did a lotbetter job of having the
(39:07):
designated driver and beingresponsible and you know, having
a party at a, you know, at aresidence and staying there and
not driving and that kind ofthing than we ever did.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Well, I mean I and I'm not talking about when
people turn 21,.
Well, I mean I and I'm nottalking about when people turn
21,.
You know, I'm talking aboutgoing out with my daughters and
they're ordering a glass of wine.
Yeah, I don't think I got intowine until I was in my thirties.
That wasn't something we did,but there was many a night that
we started our pre-party at homeand went to the bar and the
(39:48):
first thing we did was order around of shots.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's our shot.
Avoid the shots, avoid theshots, avoid the shots.
At the bar, nothing good evercomes from them just not worth
it.
No.
What was the last time somebodyoffered you a shot?
(40:10):
Were you on vacation?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
Kitty, no, I think we were up at Willie McCoy's one
night and Bo and his buddieswere up there and Bo doesn't
drink, but the other guys theylike to have a few and they like
to do shots and so, like mamakitty, um, homie Bill, that's
(40:39):
what they call.
Bill, um, let's do a shot andwe're like dude, I am not gonna
do a shot.
And they're they're alwaystrying to get us to do shots.
We're like no, I'm not gonna,not gonna do a shot.
And they're they're alwaystrying to get us to do shots.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I'm like no, not good , Not going to do a shot.
Yeah, cause they wouldn't wantto see you sip it no it's too
painful for me trying to do ashot.
How about you Stacy?
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Crash of your kids that you would have done one
right crash of your kids thatyou would have done one right.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
Oh, it's been sooner than that.
It's certainly been sooner thanthat.
I one football game this fall.
We did a shot board so, and itwas even coincidentally so like
yeah, the the shot ski, exactly.
And there was this group ofpeople near us tailgating and
and they were doing the shot skiand so four of us went over and
we did the shot ski with them.
So that wasn't that long ago.
(41:33):
What was it?
What was the alcohol?
Oh, I have no idea, I don'tknow.
Fireball, it wasn't fireball, Idon't know, it was something
gross, I don't, I don't yeah.
Yeah, I'm not a big fan offireball or any kind of shot.
No, yeah, because you remember,I'm the weak drink drinker.
(41:55):
You know, like everybody.
You know we talk aboutcocktails and wine and whatever,
but my cocktails are very weak.
I like to taste more pop than Ido, yeah, than I do alcohol.
So, yeah, shots, I don alcohol.
Shots, I don't like it, but Idon't turn them down very often.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
You never know we are gamers, yeah For sure.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Well cheers to the millennials Right and Gen Z.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
Yep, they do.
And those who came before us asmuch as we give them all heck,
they're actually pretty good,they're doing some good things.
Alright, cheers, ladies.
You guys have a good week.
Yes, you too.
All right, all right, cheers,ladies.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
Well cheers, you guys have a good week.
Yes, you too.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
You too.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Can we see this?
Hopefully next week I'll beable to see me instead of a
green screen.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
Right, I hope you figure out your technology
problem.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Yeah, if a Gen Z person would like to help me out
with this, I'd be more thanappreciative.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
Just unplug it and plug it back in.
There you go, reboot, reboot it.
There we go, all right, allright, peace out, bye, bye, bye,
bye, bye, bye, bye.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
I got that wild who wants someheads up right now.
We got that turn it up loud.
I know you're wondering how.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
I got that wild.
Here I go.
Here I go, coming.
I can't ever stop.
I'ma tour the forest running,get me to the top.
I don't need an invitation.
I'm about to start acelebration.
Let me in Brought a good timefor some friends.
Turn it up loud past ten.
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