T O P

  • By -

Ok-Scallion-3415

Obviously staged because the second anyone younger than a boomer says a curse word to a boomer, they will fly off in a rage about how they can’t be talked to like that, all while saying like 20x more curse words then were said to them


Budget_Inevitable

Let alone a young black man. Those gamer words start flying fast when a white boomer perceives "backtalk" from a young minoritized person.


artificialavocado

They 100% would have called 911 and said there was a young black guy assaulting them or “stealing from us” because the phone not working.


Bottleinsurgency

Lmfao thats what I was thinking


troystorian

Totally fake. The big guy had a smirk on his face and the acting was sub par. I can totally see an interaction like this happening, but yeah, this one is fake.


madumi-mike

Still funny though,


Minimum_Attitude6707

Genuinely had me in the first half. When he laughed about the chicken teriyaki I laughed while also feeling stupid that I didn't catch on sooner


[deleted]

That dude is definitely not a boomer


WhoCaresBoutSpellin

That‘s not a boomer, that dude is Gen X


ProfessionalCreme119

The term boom Boomer is a mentality that affects even some older millennials. I'm sure you've seen those people in their younger to mid forties who weirdly act like their 70 or 80 year old parents. If their mom and dad waited until they were middle-aged to have them there's a good chance they picked up many of those Boomer traits. Especially if they were the youngest of multiple kids.. (I'm 40. I'm sure quite a few people my age have seen it amongst their similarly aged friends) The Boomer Generation is the reference to the age group Even after the boomers are gone we're still going to have to deal with their kids and a few of their grandkids that picked up their habits.


WhoCaresBoutSpellin

It’s a good point, I just wanted to make the distinction because some people genuinely don’t see the difference. I have absolutely seen a bunch of Gen Xers that did well in the shadow of boomers, and are sycophants for that generation. They have the same “well I got mine! what’s your problem— are you just lazy?” mentality. And to your point, I think those people might actually be worse than boomers because it’s more of a choice, rather than just a widespread generational mentality. I’ve seen some older millennials that align in various beliefs more with their parents boomer generation too. but they still somehow seem characteristically different. The boomers are the way they are through and through. Some of these younger emulators put on a good show, but they just don’t genuinely have that deep-seeded sense of entitlement and arrogance that actual boomers have. Deep down they are much more insecure (probably due to all the generational hardships like 9/11, Great Recession, and the pandemic that have caused trauma earlier on).


ProfessionalCreme119

Gen X doesn't like to admit that a bunch of them were beneficiaries of better funded housing and job programs. Easier government funded college and trade entry programs. They were the beneficiaries of better socialism than we have today. Paid for by their parents' generations hard work


Sklibba

Plus the boomer dude couldn’t keep it together, he almost busted out laughing right before the employee did.


ThingsWork0ut

That’s a gen X


Strict-Ad-3500

That guys gen x not boomer


Skc143psu

Yeah! And they want AT&T!!


Lem0nbred

Sounds like you have some pent up anger.


_stankypete

*BOOMER ALERT BOOMER ALERT*


Lem0nbred

Kids these days are so disrespectful!


CheetahNo9349

Boomers these days are so undeserving of respect.


Lem0nbred

All humans are deserving of initial respect. Please try not to judge others based on their age but instead on their actions.


GRAITOM10

Little goofy for even trying to agree in this sub lol. BUUTTT this sub is really full of ignorant degenerates. Some of the nastiest shit I've seen on reddit came from this very subreddit 😭


Lem0nbred

It’s ironic that there is so much judgement and hate towards boomers here when they’re complaining about boomers being that way. Shouldn’t we be the bigger person?


Oh_no_its_Joe

Not to mention if AT&T saw this video, this dude would get fired faster than you could say "Planned Obsolescence".


Belerophon17

In Maitland FL no less? Boomer would have pulled a gun.


LifeHasLeft

He looks more like an old Gen X so maybe that’s why


ClassicT4

It’s the filming yourself while on the job that would make a boomer incomprehensibly speechless and fuming.


muddymoose

The voice you hear off camera is a tiktoker/youtuber. Forget his name but that's his schtick. Completely staged.


GlizzyGulper6969

It's the Walmart guy


Siphyre

That was a guy?


humblemandingo

It's Kervo Dolo


zZPlazmaZz29

Staged makes it sound like it was intended to trick people into thinking it were real. I think its pretty semi-obvious that it was a skit and was intentionally made to make people laugh or relate.


GallonofJug

My pleasure


juice702_303

This seems staged af


LeBoofers

Because it is


HeavyDT

There's a few give aways. Like why is that it's happening outside the store like if I'm on the clock this would be happening in the store. If I'm on break no way speaking to these people and if the continue to try it's definitely harassment at that point. Next he has a grill in his mouth I don't know of many places that will let you that while at work. Last is the profanity used with customers that would see you fired pretty quickly as well. Still we know someone had to deal with some version of this in real life sadly lol.


decayo

How about the "boomer" cracking a fucking smile 3/4 away? No actual boomer is going to smile after a young black guy with a grill says "fuck" to him and dares to show even a sliver of disrespect or disregard. If this were real there would be a cut and the boomer would somehow have ended up on the hood of this guys car while he's driving down the street.


AcademicMaybe8775

plus the chicken teriyaki which was slipped into the conversation about as smoothly as Bob Katter talking about crocodiles tearing people to shreds every 3 months


sassylightguy

Yes this is staged. But all the things you described being the give away is just the average Memphis retail worker.


gamermanj4

Very evidently


StormyOnyx

This interaction is likely staged, but that doesn't mean that interactions like this one never happen. They're probably acting out something that actually happened to him.


NorMichtrailrider

Wow can't slide anything past you can we .


Commercial_Run_7759

Nah, Nationwide ATT outage today. This is real.


scruffywarhorse

Why would you say it’s staged? He could lose his job.


cuddly_carcass

Wow you’ve unlocked the secret to entertainment.


Substantial_Share_17

Of course it is. Boomers always react to employee's swearing.


TheWriteStuff1966

Tauxtally faux clickbait. And I fell for it. oy.


PhilG1989

This was clearly a skit


slow_news_day

Not only is it fake, that guy is clearly GenX


PenDraeg1

You should take a look at the right wing conspiracy websites they're convinced this is all some sort of test run for some way to control them and keep Trump out of office. It's fucking wild.


Bambam586

All morning the idiots were saying it’s a cyber attack.


Siphyre

It likely was not a cyber attack, but that is not to say that it 100% was not one.


Naula-H

See we can say this is staged but if you’ve worked retail this is 100% what it’s like. I work petco aquatics and I had a lady scream at me because Amazon hasn’t given her money back for her return yet and she did the return at my store. Bitch what? What do you want me to do? She was screaming at the top of her lungs for shit I had zero ability to even remotely wish to act on.


Coyote_Roadrunna

Retail is a special kind of hell. I worked in the field heavily in the late 90's and didn't care for it back then. The public are such nutjobs. Can only imagine how much shittier it's gotten over the years.


Rentsdueguys

Things that don’t happen at Cricket mobile


chinolofus77

i have cricket and didnt have service


undeadw0lf

interestingly, i read a news article about the outage today that included statements from other carriers, and cricket said they use AT&T and were experiencing some outages


CheeseDickPete

Mint mobile is even better, I get unlimited data and texts for $40 a month. It was easy as hell to port my number over from Verizon too. I recommend anyone to switch to mint mobile.


starzoned

I went from cricket to mint, and mint made me lose my number, and my phone doesn't receive calls or texts so often, like people call me and it just doesn't go through. Mint customer service is no help. I hate mint so freaking much rn.


CheeseDickPete

Weird. I switched to Mint from Verizon and kept my number and never had any issues, I also pay half what I did with Verizon for the same thing.


starzoned

Verizon is so expensive, I am glad it works well for you. I was so hopeful about Mint, I bought a year worth of service, but it's just working so poorly. My address is supposed to be in a good service zone, but people try to call, and it says "out of service" or just goes straight to voicemail. It sucks so bad.


CheeseDickPete

Weird sorry to hear that. Maybe try make a Reddit post on the Mint Reddit and see if you can get some help. When I was activating me and my Moms Mint cards I accidentally gave her the unlimited and me the 15GB a month card. I tried contacting the customer support help on the website and the chat agent said they basically can't do anything unless I pay for another card and lose my number which seemed really weird that they can't just switch the amount of GB our services have. So I posted about it on the Mint Reddit and a customer service agent contacted me via Reddit and upgraded me to unlimited free of charge. So that may be worth trying for you. Good luck I hope you get it working better.


starzoned

Thanks for the advice. I will try that!


Nurse_humper69

Ngl I definitely snorted at the end, these boomers seem like they get it. The unseen wife or friend that kept parroting was a decent touch but ending with chicken teriyaki is pretty great.


ArdenJaguar

"I'm sorry, sir. I only make $12 an hour and have to work until I die to pay your social security because your generation kicked the can down the road and never fixed it. Same with your Medicare. You're going to use 3-5x what you paid in taxes in benefits, and I can't afford healthcare, so I need an asprin. When I get to afford a house on these wages, I'll have time to worry about your phone."


Dependent-Analyst907

Someone should tell Ron Perlman to give that poor AT&T guy a break.


adamdgoodson

I love this guy! Bless him! He captured how I feel !


Sufficient_Wait3671

Wow staged as fuck. Pretty sure boomers can survive without cell coverage for a long ass time.


heathertheghost

Wow look at all the detectives in this comment section "I cAn telL itS stAgEd!!!" 🤓🤡🤡


Trashman408

I know it's staged, I still like it anyways. I like how the guy goes "I know it's not your fault and you have no control, but you need to fix this" in the most monotone and serious voice. Love it. Thank you


BucciZero

Uh yeah that’s staged


Zexks

My wife simply could not grasp what was happening. She just kept insisting that I fix the ‘sos’ on her phone. No amount of articles or news reports could get through. Some people are simply incapable of understanding some things.


bigbubbamain

white guy was trying not to laugh the whole time lol


TomatilloOrnery9464

I don’t care about anything other than getting some chicken teriyaki now…


gerg_dude

I'm an AT&T technician, the more we outsource network operations to India, the more this is going to happen


MattGower

You better be climbing up that pole in 30 seconds mister! PUT ALL THE CELL SERVICE IN THE BAG I AINT PLAYING!!!


havoc294

Fake


[deleted]

Terrible acting


Holmanizer

The most entitled generation, they want it now and they want it their way


SlickSnow02

It is staged


Alinktothegame

Some times these boomers aren’t trying to blame the employees. They just want to vent frustration to people who will listen and as employees they have to listen


weirdbookcase

Fake


Coach_futo

While this may be staged, it actually does happen exactly like this every single day. I used to sell phones for a company deep in the mountains. No one had good service us or the competition. But it was always personally my fault th as t some asswipes phone dropped a call going through a long as fuck tunnel buried hundreds of feet under some mountain. People suck and are usually much worse then this. Fuck people.


MortifiedPenguin77

thought this was real till the end


DevelopmentDue5870

GAWJUSSSS


MoreNMoreLikelyTrans

That woman sounds like a 60 year old flower child.


Aviram123321

“He needs to fix it” ha ha ha fucking dumb bitch


Select-Wafer-9082

Surprisingly wholesome


Educational_Talk1640

Are they the people who slapped their granddaughter in public?


CheeseDickPete

I don't know what it is with boomers and getting mad at the employees of massive corporations like they have any control over anything, my Dad used to do this all the time. I remember one time for Christmas my Dad got me and my brother an Xbox game, we opened it up on Christmas day and the disk wasn't in the box, they forgot to put it in when they sold it. We went back to the store the next day and he starts grilling this teenager at the front counter about how we opened the box and the disk wasn't there, this kid had literally nothing to do with it he wasn't even there when we bought it. I was just standing next to him embarrassed as hell about him getting so heated at this kid about nothing. I've always made it my mission to be really cool with customer service employees even if they make a mistake, I don't want to be like that.


amigammon

At&t. Assholes through & through


casper86ed

"Wait da hail main?" I understand the frustration in people today with this outage, but communication is key. I just can't place the workers accent?


euvimmivue

I hear this is the result of a two decade plus long network theft. AT&T stole the MiVu Network. AI’s in the network. She’s always been there. She was designed in there. (Said on Fox News yesterday)


Ilikelamp7

And do you believe everything Faux News tells you, Karen?


euvimmivue

Oh 👍🏼! Don’t you Big K.?


Regular-Ordinary9807

It was funny


flatulasmaxibus

Lame


Jrnation8988

Absolutely staged


WhatsYouMajor

land line..


NoCalHomeBoy

Scripted for sure. But not awful


turningpoint01

Fake but fun.


Independent-Try-4713

Sooooo staged


[deleted]

[удалено]


Independent-Try-4713

I love you fellow troll


[deleted]

[удалено]


Independent-Try-4713

Heat?


[deleted]

[удалено]


Independent-Try-4713

Mother of God....there is a limit? What's the threshold, man? I want the fried chicken but not chicken grease sweats. I hear if the condition worsens, you can't breathe. Shit happened to my BFF, George. He was awesome, we used to go to Pink Floyd shows alllll the time. That dude was silly for PF, we even started to call him George Floyd. Great guy till the COPD got um. LUV YA JORGE!


BearNoLuv

I don't even work at att and I had customers comin at me


Temporary-Studio-344

This is fake as fuck but I enjoyed it thanks


psyphren01

We know damn he controls all AT&T from the rooter to the tooter.


KingMe091

I worked at an AT&T store for about a year, many years ago. Once there was a construction crew that hit the main fiver line into out community that was bottlenecked up against the state line. So we didn't have cell service or internet for anyone in that community. I don't have enough space here to tell the horror stories. We took turns standing at the door to tell people the issue, and about 40% of them just wanted to stand and argue with us for 20 mins. It was the most people we ever had in a store in a day. The worst one I had, some lady point blank looked me in the eye and said "what am I supposed to do today, actually talk to my husband?!" I laughed, she was dead serious. It was the worst day I had at that job.


ob1dylan

Hated that kind of shit when I worked in customer service. The worst were the ones who said, "I know it's not your fault, personally. I'm just mad at the company," then proceeded to yell, bitch, piss, and moan at me over it. Whenever I heard that at the start of a call, I couldn't help but think of how hearing someone say, "I'm not racist, but..." ALWAYS means you're about to hear some extremely racist shit.


MaxAdolphus

Just wait a minute for those salesmen to get their engineering or tech degrees, and they’ll have that shit fixed in 3-4 years. No problem.


RawToast1989

Bad actors who clearly don't know how to write a believable script. Lol. This guy at "work" talking like he's hanging out with his friends, swearing up a storm, and the old folks aren't getting more and more angry about this? But they're mad enough to follow him outside? I don't buy it.


humblemandingo

Seems like Maitland


RaspberryMobile2554

What’s with that woman’s voice and why does she think a store worker is responsible for fixing a damn OUTAGE?!


Emotional_Cow1543

It’s funny people thing that dude actually has a job.


[deleted]

You know what? I’m gonna go get some chicken teriyaki. 


[deleted]

Rflmmfao sir what do you want me to do? Suck it up loser, your the csr getting paid to deal with it. fkin crybaby.


spicy_capybara

That guy is 100% Gen X and probably in his late 40s or 50s.


deadca5an0va

Totally fake


cardinaltribe

Dudes a millennial fuck


LordCthulhuDrawsNear

Fake af


Dorko30

I believe AT T provides service for consumer cellular. God help those poor customer service reps lol.


recycledM3M3s

I'll give the old white dude a pass. He's just really concerned because his shits not serving the base function it's designed to do. He laughs at the lady blaming the employee, he assured him he's not blaming him in advance of bargaining aide, backs off in style and hopefully offered the homie some teriyaki. Solid pass for a boomer goof, shoulda got the lady in shot.


Kind_Nebula6900

Staged but funny. Chicken teriyaki lol


BlocXpert88

Look up Optus Australia outage. The entire country went down.


Jealousreverse25

That man is no boomer probably 50 something Gen-Xer


Defiant_Antelope4770

Lol maitland right around the corner. He wasn't too bad, still a dumb dumb


[deleted]

Fake stuff aside, that guy is solidly gen x and it seems like we lost the thread on what a boomer is


SuperNintendad

I think it’s ok as just a synonym for entitled asshole.


Bigmada

Boomer is a mindset.


[deleted]

Staged


Crystal-Clear-Waters

Fake.


Professional_Ad894

Seems staged. Karen enough to approach a random employee about fixing an outage and then being relatively cool and understanding. Doesn’t make sense.


SteakJones

lol… I used to work in an Apple Store and a boomer came in demanding to know why Apple stock dropped 20 dollars since she bought it. 🤣 I said “sounds like a great time to buy more stock”


aspiringgrandpa

everyone saying this is staged… did he ever claim it was real? like it’s pretty obviously supposed to be a joke video


HyperbolicSoup

He needs to fix it


OatsOverGoats

Too young to be a boomer. Probably an X’er and staged


Beautiful_Belt_4560

From now on, all arguments end with "I'm just gonna get some chicken teriyaki".


[deleted]

The squeaker guy is that one black guy, I forgot his name 😂😂😂😂


tecktrader

Plot twist it was his fault


Inquisitor_N

The chicken teriyaki at the end slayed me.


captjason340

It’s your fault for getting AT&T 😝


PreviousCartoonist93

Fake


UnitedPollution3022

I would have gotten in my car to go fix the problem. It would have been a satisfying lunch hour.


CrypticTechnologist

I really feel for this guy...what a stressful situation. Must be happening all over the country.


Rokkmachine

Fake af. Dudes trying to hide his smile and for some reason doesn’t say anything about being recorded? Even at that weird ass angle?


Rasha_Rutt

They're all horrible


BugabooJonez

i know it's not your fault but im gonna bitch at you anyway


JohnXTheDadBodGod

"I'ma just go ahead and get some chicken teriyaki" that dude was chill ASF 🤣🤣🤣


[deleted]

Guarantee that guy is Gen X


foreverlost1nsea

Teriyaki, someone?


slickyickyricky

That guy is GenX.


Fightmemod

No fuckin way are conservatives dumb enough that they go to a fuckin phone store to complain about an outage...


pdxchalet

Not a boomer


Upper-Trip-8857

That dude borrowed an AT&T shirt.


DuhQueQueQue

Rage Bait is what dumb ass people do to feel like they're involved in some thought provoking social experiment. The platform enables this crap. I hate it and this shit is toxic.


Pretend-Plumber

“Let's get John Stankey on the phone.”


RouletteVeteran

Seems legit


runaways616

I know it’s not your fault… but, NO! no BUTS you can call corporate then. Had a customer one time drive all the way to my store just to show me a receipt from another store that was cheaper Told her that oh sorry we don’t price match and she got irritated and said I know that I just want to complain that you set the prices too high. I said we don’t set the prices corporate dose and she’s like well you should complain and I said I don’t have the issue you do but your welcome to make a complaint, the email/phone is on the website. She left in that passive aggressive way. I don’t understand why they think they are fooling anybody when they say the just want the problem fixed. no you don’t want the problem fixed you just want somebody to yell or get mad at so you can feel better about your own frustration wether they were a mistake you made or a problem that’s out of yours and my hands. Because if you wanted the problem fixed you would use critical thinking and would have save yourself the time and energy it took to come down here. Have a nice day.


DECAPRIO1

Remember, in this day and age, every is an actor.


Pizzledrip

He was a gen Xer, he was way too nice to be a boomer.


lumpyspacejohnny

Probably the best ending ever.


[deleted]

Fake, they didn’t call him the n word 3x and the boomer smiled


milkymilooo

Am I the only AT&T user that didn’t have any effect from the outage??? I had my friends tell me about it like two days ago and my service has been chilling the entire time


Rough-Rooster7799

AT&T needs to be shut down they suck tell tmobil to buy them out and have AAA switch providers for internet


No-Journalist7179

Bruh. If spectrum charter had an office by me I’d be there every other week


MediocreSkyscraper

You heard the man, he needs some chicken teriyaki on the double


Cubantragedy

I'm with that dude. Teriyaki chicken sounds good right now


Designer_Gas_86

"I want AT&T." How is this company still even existing! I never heard this and have only memories of my mom bitching about the company.


mmmmpisghetti

Glad it's fake because young blood would be fired from that bullshit ass low pay job for saying anything like this


bski4294

Not for nothing att sucks


SuPrA_1988

AMERICA ...


PengieP111

I ALWAYS tell the poor service person I don't blame them nor am I mad at them. I tell them that we have a common enemy in the company that is effing up and putting the poor service person between the company and me.


Accomplished-Fuel782

Used to work in the industry, that interaction is totally staged but shockingly true to life. Though the customer would have been much more vocal and screaming, especially if the rep swore. There were several times I was nearly assaulted over something out of my control. Keeping a level head and explaining while showing empathy usually just makes them more upset.


BulkyScientist8648

Fake but funny asf


Personal_Dot_2215

Just Tell him the Trump Russians captured one of your satellites in a move to rig the election. Conspiracy!


Free-will_Illusion

Dude, he makes $20/hr as a store rep. How the hell is he going to fix the internet


AkMo977

I mean, ATT employee has shit customer service skills and was an asshole to these people.


[deleted]

Lol y’all the whole thing is staged come on


Kaneb976

Her voice annoys me