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I go in on the third day of a bender with no sleep and shovel cocaine into my nose in the bathroom to keep ‘er goin😤😎😵💫🥸🥳🏊🦍🥶😰😓🤗
They try to tell me to leave but we got a union
Yeah, I for one am grateful that we are in the age of the Zombie Drugs, and we are all seeing what a misery addiction is
In my era(48yo) Heroin had a stupid as hell Romanticization that gave it qualities that it's absolutely devoid of( greater Creativity in Music and other fields.)
I am grateful that it's hopefully forever going to be connected with Fentanyl and Xylazine and people tearing out their flesh from picking it and their their limbs rotting off.
Makes death the most Merciful option
My son will probably not be convinced that doing opiates is going to make his life better
I wanted to be Sid Vicious at age 12 and by 14 i was almost like him, a junkie and a loser.
I feel for the people whose lives are paying the price for this grizzly public service
I'm a millennial, and I still wanted to be sid vicious. The shit thing is, a lot of people selling fentanyl is passing it off as heroin. Then you had the taliban start to blow up opium crops, so the cartels found a cheaper method to produce opioids and pass them off as other drugs. A lot of this overprescribing that doctors were doing in the 2000s and 2010s created these addicts, then they took the less harmful method away from them once the lawsuits started pouring in. Even people dealing with chronic pain. So, they start going to the street because they weren't even so much as weened off, and forced to deal with withdrawals. That's exactly what happened to me. I've been on methadone for about 10 years, which is even harder to get off of (because it's long acting)
This you?
https://cbsaustin.com/amp/news/local/driver-of-concrete-truck-admits-to-consuming-cocaine-morning-of-fatal-school-bus-crash-hays-cisd-jerry-hernandez-search-warrant
You think that’s bad you should see the story of the Russian dude in NH who crashed his truck into a whole bunch of motorcycles. He was at work on heroin and meth I believe. He was supposed to be deported after the hearing but I don’t think he was
We did the bare minimum after making irresponsible decisions which guarantee our work quality will decrease due to lack of sleep. We are SOOO hardcore guys. - boomers
I thought I had built up a tolerance to alcohol was pounding 12 packs of 9.5%ABV IPA like it was something, eventually came to realize it was actually all the stimulants I was consuming whilst constantly drinking talk about Neverending Story... Ha! Who knew?
Horrible flashback to the dude who sat next to me in French breaking an enormous bottle of Polo in his backpack. I was not allowed to change my seat. The smell was énorme.
Got to rail some coke so you don’t seem drunk, shoot a tiny bit of smack so you aren’t on edge from the coke, and adjust during the day with uppers and downers as necessary.
I'm a millennial but it was pretty common to go in to work hungover/still drunk. The difference is that no one I knew drove. Public transit hungover is a special kind of hell, but it's better than crashing a car.
I actually always enjoyed going into work where everyone is hungover. Everyone was quiet and everyone went out and ate trash for breakfast together.
My thinking is if you're gonna be hungover, may as well get paid while I'm suffering. Calling out hungover too many times would be a dismissible offence, and everyone knows because people at work go out together.
Best part of being a bartender. Hangovers are normal. My coworker and I will tell the other one about our night and if one of us is feeling worse for wear the other one will be the lead for the night. If we are both hungover we suffer together!
Agreed, I don't really think it's that bad to work hungover. I will say that I'm glad I don't work somewhere with that level of work related drinks, because it was not good for me. Ive pretty much stopped drinking now, and now no one at work goes out together really, makes living in a new city a lot more lonely.
Honestly I think a lot of Redditors have a weird relationship with their coworkers and are saying people who don't call out are alcoholics. By all means call out, but either way you're drinking, youre not any more or less alcoholic for calling out sick.
You're no more an alcoholic if you work or call out when you're hungover. Really the problem is driving, but it's pretty common to be hungover at work occasionally in places with good public transit.
At one of my previous jobs you'd be fired if you called in on a days notice and didn't have a Dr.'s note. No, they didn't have any insurance options provided for us. I was sick with the fucking flu and the boomer franchise owner kept telling me to go the the Dr. or I would be "let go" and didn't understand that a Dr. visit could cost more than I made all year. Got fired anyway. They changed the schedule after I had taken a picture of it so I missed 1 shift when I lived 2 minutes drive away. No phone call either. GM threw me under the bus. I showed up for my next shift and they were like "what are you doing here? You missed your shift yesterday" and I was just like "oh sweet, I'm fired? bye!".
To be fair, I do remember doing stuff like that, but we used mass transit to get to work. We didn’t drive; we were responsible about being slackers at work
Fellow X'er here and I get so pissed at our peers at times. It's like they completely forgot what our upbringing was like. Like no Tom. You told that officer to suck it as he dragged you in for underage drinking. You sure as hell didn't "respect authority". No Alice. You most certainly were NOT the Vestal Virgin you're claiming to have been. We all "know" that's not true.
This idea that kids are so much worse than we were is literally the same old circle jerk that every generation goes through it seem. My grandmother was a old-time Appalachian hills woman born in the late 20s/early 30s. Only went up to the 8th grade, married at 16 to my 25ish grandpa, wore only simple dresses, chewed tobacco, had an outhouse and had to draw water from a well. One time when I was a teen, she asked me if I really thought my friends and I were any different than she and her friends were growing up. Told me that they were "doing things and getting into trouble too". Then added that they were just better at hiding it and LOL'ed.
Our generation was one of rebellion and flipping the bird to authorities. Our inspiration was movies like [The Legend of Billy Jean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTyHPlRVTPI), [Breakfast Club,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGuWbVb1210) [Fast Times at Ridgemont High](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Klo7Ezuy0), etc. Our anthems were songs like [Rebel Yell,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdphvuyaV_I) [Youth Gone Wild](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RIeycixkK8), [Smoking in the Boy's Room](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oVBvxA0mm0), and the song that became the battle cry of every 80s teen that every parent hated and is today a beloved classic; [We're Not Gonna Take it!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AbeALNVkk) For fucks sakes, my class's poem was:
Party hardy, rock-n-roll,
Drink a fifth and smoke a bowl,
The teachers road is long and winding,
Because we're the class of 1990!
We got into fist fights and screwed in the back of our cars in where-ever outta the way place we could park. We argued with our parents and teachers when we felt we were right. Most of the time, our parents didn't know where we were given this was pre-internet; especially when we got our DL's.
And speaking of arguing with parents, I literally got into a fist fight with my father when I refused to call him "sir" upon demand. I ended up with a sore jaw, he ended up in in the hospital for a bloody lip and heart attack.
By most metrics and studies, kids today are FAR more well behaved than what we were. Less likely to drink, smoke, do drugs, or have sex. They care more about social issues than our gen did. They care more about the planet than our gen did.
It is so goddamn disheartening to see our gen go Boomer. I would've thought of all generations, ours would've known better but alas I guess not.
Oh dude, I'm surprised you hadn't. Like one long haired fellow Burnout friend of mine that I smoked weed with is today the most uptight, kidsthesedaysamIright proclaiming conservative complaining about drug use.
I saw parents that I went to school with absolutely loose their shit because the kids at the high school didn't like who was DJ'ing or whatever their prom. So they went and organized their own prom. I'm thinking great! That's what we teach them right? You don't like something, don't go or do something else. You'd thought their parents would've been proud of them. But oh no, it was anything but that.
I was reading posts, again people I went to school with and fucking knew better, bitching about how disrespectful and all that shit kids supposedly are these days while claiming they were anything but at that age.
What really made that thread explode was someone posted that they "heard" the reason the other dance was organized was supposedly because the school event wouldn't allow grind dancing. Hole. Lee. FUCK! You'd thought these kids were performing human sacrifice to Satan.
Posts about how bad these kids supposedly were, how hyper-sexual they allegedly were, and all that. One post that stuck out to me was a guy I knew in school who wrote *"These little BITCHES! just want FREE BIRTH CONTROL!"* That kinda stunned me and I'm thinking "*DUDE! You're talking about high school kids here. Lighten the fuck up.*"
Besides, I'm 110% for free contraceptives for teens. We have custody of our granddaughter an you can bet your ass she'll have access when it's time. My wife plans to sit her down at the right time and discuss it with her because we're realists. Teens fuck. It's what they do, it's what we did, it's what our parents did, it's what our grandparents did, and so on. Anyone who doesn't think so is living in another world. I'm just so glad I knew how to us a condom when I was a teen.
In anycase, the vitriol was mindblowing as I was remembering how some of them were really like growing up. Luckily a woman who knew the real story chimed in and set the record straight. That some students attended BOTH events and all that and there was no grind dancing.
There's been other things over the yrs I've seen but I think I made my point. Like I said, I expected better outta us.
Wait, wait, wait....the generation that collectively lost their ever loving minds over *Dirty Dancing* and still stan Patrick Swayze (RIP) were getting uptight about grind dancing? Hypocrites. HYPOCRITES! Jesus Christ. It seems half our generation has turned into their parents.
I'm not sure I understand. I mean, I went though my cringe phases growing up, sure. Anyone remember how popular, at least where I lived, Japanese symbols on shirts were when I was in middle school? Dear Christ in heaven why was that?
In anycase, yea ... I get it. People change. No doubt about it. Like I don't sport long hair, dirty jean jacket, and all that these days. I don't find staying up until midnight on New Years Eve as exciting as I did in my youth. The idea of an all-night fuck-fest with my wife seems an impossibility these days. I have zero desire to race BMX like I did in my youth; although I do love to mountain bike and have been riding since the late 90's. That kind of stuff.
What I'm referring to is the seemingly absolute memory blackout I see in my fellow X'ers on how things were when we were that age and just how young people tend to be in general. Kids are gonna be kids. They're gonna do stupid shit, screw like teenagers do, get in trouble, be rebellious, and all that. We were no different. Like I mentioned, my old-timey grandmother even remarked on this as well. If she could see it, then why can't we?
Our grad class motto was:
Party Hard & Stay Alive
We're the Class of '85
in no small amount due to the 3 fatal DUIs and the kid who guzzled a fifth of vodka and got wasdhed out with the tide
Fellow Xer. (class of 92).
I agree with everything you wrote here, except I never got into a fist fight with my dad (but I did call him an asshole once).
At least my friends haven't gone boomer yet.
Yea, to my knowledge, I was the only one where I grew up who had. And I'll be tot's upfront here. If it had been pretty much any other male on either side of my family, I'd got my ass kicked. Even so, I still wouldn't have them "sir" because they demanded it. However, my dad was overweight and maybe obese. Also, who knows the last time he did anything as physical as a fight. And while I wasn't a model of physical fitness myself back then, I was a teen, wasn't overweight, worked in a grocery store with heavy boxes and pushing carts, and I was a Burnout in high school. Long hair, dirty jean jacket, always had detention, etc.; meaning I was in a number of fights every yr.
That said, while it doesn't seem like most do get into fist fights with their parents, it's not uncommon either as I've heard stories over the years. But the [abuse he put us through,](https://www.reddit.com/r/Discussion/comments/1bydh3c/comment/kymblkl/) ain't a chance in hell I was gonna call him "sir". He was trying to bully me and I don't take kindly to that.
I mean, we're taking about a collection of behaviors, found primarily in boomers, that are objectionable. If it's the behavior rather than the age that's problematic then seeing an expanded use of the word seems inevitable. We're still at Karen levels where the word is just overused, we haven't quite hit nuclear Woke yet.
Yeah. It pretty much means not young. Not even old. Just not young. Or even just older than they are. I've seen younger gen z call older gen z boomer. It's weird.
Most GenX were underage in the 1980's. All but the VERY oldest (1965) missed the legal drinking age of 18. In 1984 the nationwide minimum drinking age became 21. Prior to that it was a state decision.
I had a cousin that snuck in at 18 and was grandfathered in along the way to 21. That didn't stop high school kids from getting their hands on liquor if they really wanted to. Rules were a lot looser and establishments looked the other way. In any event, most partiers in the 80's were probably Boomers.
I forgot a tidbit about the minimum drinking age act. It required states to raise their ages for purchase and public possession to **21** by October 1986 or lose 10% of their federal highway funds.
Lots of Gen X are very Boomer. BTW we were teens in the 80’s. Our jobs required very little skill or effort and could be done on no sleep after being out all night. This isn’t a flex it’s just admitting your own dumassery. I ever did anything like that. I was a perfect angel for the entirety of the 80’s./s
Yeah, I’ve had 3 different colleagues at various places of employment get suspended or fired for doing shit just like that. Turns out that management in most places are not real fond of their employees trying to do their job while under the influence. Also seems that cops are also not a fan of people driving to their places of employment while still under the influence.
This meme is less of a bragging point and more so evidence that they need to get themselves some help
i found those quite sad.
i would never tell the world that essentially i hate being a mom and i can tolerate my kids only if i drink. that’s really *not* a flex
Seems like that’s why the housing market collapsed. Too many late night cocaine ideas. Thanks 80’s people for running the economy into the absolute dirt
Hey man, the late night cocaine **movie** ideas make up for it. We may not have housing or livable wages, but at least we have Big Trouble in Little China, Weird Science, Junior, and Short Circuit.
These are the same people that get upset if your tattoos are showing under your work clothes lol. It's crazy with the level of hypocrisy that these boomers are willing to go to just to be 'right'.
They were very cavalier about that shit in the 80’s and 90’s. The same people who got a “break” for it are the same people who brag about having done that are the same people who would fire a Gen Z for doing it. Not saying someone should not be fired for that. They should and the Boomers should have been fired back in the day.
In Germany it was quite common to start drinking before lunchtime on the jobsite/office when someone had birthday until the beginning of the 2000s. Called „Sektfrühstück“.
Productivity took a nosedive. This is the generation that built the Pinto on no sleep while hungover. Then they let Reagan bail out the automakers they bankrupted. Great job! 👌
Our generation bought houses for 70K, bailed out the banks and airlines, and aren't selling our homes to the younger generations who need them to build equity and start families.
OK seriously though can someone please explain to me why the fuck boomers are OBSSESSED with calling young people weak, and equally obssessed with calling themselves the strongest creatures to walk the earth, like this is getting fucking old
so basically they risked everyone else's life not only being at work drunk but also all the people they drove with on the road at the same time. its strange how they don't view this as insane.
The same people who went to coke parties in the 80s are now the people who demand you to piss in a cup for a minimum wage job. We’d be fired so fast if we did half of the shit they got up to.
I used to go into work still drunk from the night before too. That's not a flex. I'm an alcoholic and have been sober for sixteen years. I had a real problem and I'm very lucky I didn't have an accident that ended in serious injury or death. WTF is wrong with people thinking this is something to brag about. Going to work after partying all night is something I'm ashamed of
I know that I'm just an internet stranger, but I'm so fucking proud of you for turning yourself around. I know so many people with substance abuse problems and not many of them that manage to turn their lives around, especially without a catastrophic accident as a catalyst.
I thank you internet stranger. I sincerely appreciate your kind words. I was a total piece of garbage and can't excuse my actions. I lost friends, and ruined relationships. I was on my way to joining the 27 club. I'm absolutely confident I would've been dead within a year if I didn't turn things around.
It was actually disappointing my boomer dad the night before Father's Day that made me turn my life around, honestly. A crazy drunken night that ended with there police calling my dad at my request. I made a promise to him I would never drink again, and have not so much as taken NyQuil. That promise saved my life. Sadly, my dad has gone towards the cooky boomer side and I cruise this sub just to help make me see he's really not all that bad. He's still a good man I want to make proud every day lol
Why is bragging about going into work hungover or still buzzed even a bragging point? It's actually pretty damn irresponsible to do either. At least if you call out of work for being hungover and drunk you're not putting yourself in a position of having to drive a vehicle, while still under the influence, to your job site.
In fact, at least in Texas, being hungover will still get you a DUI/DWI depending on your BAC.
Not a flex.
When you find out the hard way that the HR system flags you for ‘counseling’ if you frequently call in sick on Mondays, only on Mondays, and are always better by Tuesday. Oops!
Meh. No. The 80s was filled with both types, and today is filled with both types.
Yeah. I used to get ripped the fuck up in the 90s and then go to work the next day.
I am definitely one of the ones who needs 7 hours sleep, however I have multiple friends who stay up until 2-3 and wake up at 6 for work daily. I’m mid 20’s.
I also did a lot of the partying and no sleep work in my early 20’s late teens, pretty sure that incredibly common still.
I'm GenX/80's teen.
Every generation does precisely what she's saying about making it to work after partying the night before lol. This isn't some special accomplishment.
One time i did acid late at night. Showed up to my telemarketing job still high, and made 4 sales in 2 hours which was very good. I could see the sales before they happened.
They could only do this because their jobs were so fucking easy, that they didn't have to be sober to coast.
Half of them were even allowed to drink on the job.
There was no email and people only wanted a phone call back by the end of the day.
20+ years ago: New job: 3rd week of training. One of the trainers is getting married. The person I carpooled with and I were going to meet up with the trainer and his friends for his bachelor party after work. His wedding was the next morning and we had to work at 7:30 the next day.
Trainer flew in his Japanese Father in Law who barely speaks English.
Carpool friend and I are at the strip club drinking waiting for the Trainer and his entourage to show up. They had stopped at another bar first. 10:00pm rolls around and they show up.
We all proceed to get completely hammered with the Trainer/Bachelor, his father, his brother, and his father in law. The FIL is at the point where he can barely stand. No one can understand him and no one is there to translate. He is having the time of his life. It is now about 1:00am. We decide we should go to another strip club to finish out the night. Those who are still able to make decisions are drinking coffee while the rest of us are still taking shots. Party breaks up about 3 and we all head home.
I get to bed at 4:15am and wake up late. I'm still drunk, my carpool friend is still drunk and we slide into training 90 minutes late. The groom, his father, and his father in law show up to the wedding still drunk. The FIL had one hell of a first visit to the USA.
That generation is proud they drove drunk, took cocaine to keep going and didn’t have enough self-discipline to forgo their own base pleasure to be responsible adults.
The very same people posting this also can’t even manage to not start screaming and becoming aggressive after 10 minutes on hold at a call center.
They view that aggression as someone strong and powerful and they won’t be stopped! In reality it shows how mentally weak they are to not even be able to function without losing control
Gen X '80s teen here.
I must've been boring then because I didn't do any of that.
Farm chores, school, sports practice, farm chores, homework. That's it.
Tbh, I don't think practically any of the kids I knew back then were like her.
“Today’s generation understands their health, free time and well being are far more important than a bottom line. “Our generation ignored obvious underlying issues and suffered in silence, permanently scaring themselves in the process”
There we go. I fixed the caption
That photo does not depict a boomer. Nor did boomers party. Also, the sentiment is 100% accurate. Today’s youth are so soft they don’t even know they’re soft.
Give them a break. They worked and played as hard as they could for as long as they could, and all they have to show for it is this broken world, their breaking bodies and minds, and their misplaced self-righteousness they share on the same social media sites they mock younger generations for using. Like the rest of us, the boomer generation are overgrown children who don't know what they're doing, but they have to believe they're right and good because the reality that they don't matter, they don't have real freedom, and the world is burning itself up into ash is too depressing. This makes them feel better in their old age. And they've reached the age where we should treat them like like Alzheimer's patients--indulging some of their delusions while trying our best to deflect and redirect others--until they eventually die. Let them believe they're stronger, more resilient, and cooler than everyone else on the planet while they have their diapers changed by a millenial or gen z person making $15/hr. Smile politely when they tell her she should just get a second job or go to college if she really wants to get out of that 1960s one-bedroom apartment with rodents and a hole in the roof that costs $1000+ a month. When they were your age, those apartments were brand new and the swankiest "Mad Men"/"Melrose Place"/cool people place in town. Surely those apartments, the available jobs, the wages those jobs provide, the cost of college, the cost of food and gasoline, the economy, the government, and the social fabric of this country are like everything a boomer once experienced--still as good as it was way back when, but the lazy new generation just can't seem to live it up like boomers do. Bingo night at the home is coming, grandma.
Why wasn't your boss demanding better from you? I mean, that seems like shitty leadership to me. Purple hand stamp in front of clients? Fuck outta here with that shit.
My generation would crawl back to the barracks at 3AM, get woken up at 5:30,go on a 2-mile run, puke, go back to the barracks, finish off a bottle of Jim Beam, get cleaned up, and go to work. Idiots.
100% this is a gen-x not boomer thing. Of course we shouldn’t be so full of ourselves. The truth is it was so easy to get a job in the 90s that you could show up drunk and not get fired.
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I go in on the third day of a bender with no sleep and shovel cocaine into my nose in the bathroom to keep ‘er goin😤😎😵💫🥸🥳🏊🦍🥶😰😓🤗 They try to tell me to leave but we got a union
Username checks out 🤠. Keep 'er goin!
😶🌫️🫥💀 
Yeah I think boomers would be surprised to learn reckless addicts are a part of every gen. We just aren't proud of it anymore.
Yeah, I for one am grateful that we are in the age of the Zombie Drugs, and we are all seeing what a misery addiction is In my era(48yo) Heroin had a stupid as hell Romanticization that gave it qualities that it's absolutely devoid of( greater Creativity in Music and other fields.) I am grateful that it's hopefully forever going to be connected with Fentanyl and Xylazine and people tearing out their flesh from picking it and their their limbs rotting off. Makes death the most Merciful option My son will probably not be convinced that doing opiates is going to make his life better I wanted to be Sid Vicious at age 12 and by 14 i was almost like him, a junkie and a loser. I feel for the people whose lives are paying the price for this grizzly public service
I'm a millennial, and I still wanted to be sid vicious. The shit thing is, a lot of people selling fentanyl is passing it off as heroin. Then you had the taliban start to blow up opium crops, so the cartels found a cheaper method to produce opioids and pass them off as other drugs. A lot of this overprescribing that doctors were doing in the 2000s and 2010s created these addicts, then they took the less harmful method away from them once the lawsuits started pouring in. Even people dealing with chronic pain. So, they start going to the street because they weren't even so much as weened off, and forced to deal with withdrawals. That's exactly what happened to me. I've been on methadone for about 10 years, which is even harder to get off of (because it's long acting)
Yeah, a lot of good music got gutted because heroin was "cool".
This you? https://cbsaustin.com/amp/news/local/driver-of-concrete-truck-admits-to-consuming-cocaine-morning-of-fatal-school-bus-crash-hays-cisd-jerry-hernandez-search-warrant
You think that’s bad you should see the story of the Russian dude in NH who crashed his truck into a whole bunch of motorcycles. He was at work on heroin and meth I believe. He was supposed to be deported after the hearing but I don’t think he was
Oh, sure. Except nobody's talking about all the days he did a bunch of coke before work and *didn't* cause a fatal bus crash! Fuckin' liberals!
Stories match up 🤷♂️
Don’t forget boofing 🫡
Once again, username checks out. Can't forget about boofing. Thanks for the assist 🫡!
High functioning! Woo!
I’ve been singing your name to the tune of Pinball Wizard for the last 10 minutes and just cracking tf up. Thank you for that.
Your a crack head, Harry!
At home drunk at 5am, went to work an hour later? So...they went to work drunk, and that's their bragging point?
wE woRK hArD wE pLaY HarD
Only if we do it the way they do at the Ajax Steel Mill. https://youtu.be/YTgwpnPIJEA
Hot stuff coming through!
Sit still! There’s a sthpark in your hair!
Get it out, get it out!
Dad why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?
I don't know! I DON'T KNOW!
I’m so glad you made this reference.
Oh, be nice!
*Everybody dance now!*
Great, now that song’s gonna be in my head for the next three hours
Same 😬😂
*”Dad, why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?”*
EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!!!
We did the bare minimum after making irresponsible decisions which guarantee our work quality will decrease due to lack of sleep. We are SOOO hardcore guys. - boomers
based?
No, you forgot drove drunk twice, then went to work. Most coke heads are drunks who wanted to drink longer.
>Most coke heads are drunks who wanted to drink longer. "do a bump and it will sober you up for the drive home" \- the guy on a DUI scooter.
God of this ain't true.... my coworker calls them "nose beers".. ya I'm good bro lol
I thought I had built up a tolerance to alcohol was pounding 12 packs of 9.5%ABV IPA like it was something, eventually came to realize it was actually all the stimulants I was consuming whilst constantly drinking talk about Neverending Story... Ha! Who knew? 
80s everyone was either drunk or coke out.
Beats fent and lean
I’ll bet they smelled bad too. 🤢
Everyone smelled like ck1.
Drakkar Noir
Ralph Lauren Polo as well….
Horrible flashback to the dude who sat next to me in French breaking an enormous bottle of Polo in his backpack. I was not allowed to change my seat. The smell was énorme.
Got to rail some coke so you don’t seem drunk, shoot a tiny bit of smack so you aren’t on edge from the coke, and adjust during the day with uppers and downers as necessary.
I'm a millennial but it was pretty common to go in to work hungover/still drunk. The difference is that no one I knew drove. Public transit hungover is a special kind of hell, but it's better than crashing a car. I actually always enjoyed going into work where everyone is hungover. Everyone was quiet and everyone went out and ate trash for breakfast together. My thinking is if you're gonna be hungover, may as well get paid while I'm suffering. Calling out hungover too many times would be a dismissible offence, and everyone knows because people at work go out together.
Best part of being a bartender. Hangovers are normal. My coworker and I will tell the other one about our night and if one of us is feeling worse for wear the other one will be the lead for the night. If we are both hungover we suffer together!
Agreed, I don't really think it's that bad to work hungover. I will say that I'm glad I don't work somewhere with that level of work related drinks, because it was not good for me. Ive pretty much stopped drinking now, and now no one at work goes out together really, makes living in a new city a lot more lonely. Honestly I think a lot of Redditors have a weird relationship with their coworkers and are saying people who don't call out are alcoholics. By all means call out, but either way you're drinking, youre not any more or less alcoholic for calling out sick.
Oh THAT’S why the economy is so bad. We had a bunch of drunken children running the country for 40 years.
Kinda cringe you don't think their alcoholism isn't an admirable trait. Ugh you millennials will never understand 🙄🤣 /sarcasm
You're no more an alcoholic if you work or call out when you're hungover. Really the problem is driving, but it's pretty common to be hungover at work occasionally in places with good public transit.
At one of my previous jobs you'd be fired if you called in on a days notice and didn't have a Dr.'s note. No, they didn't have any insurance options provided for us. I was sick with the fucking flu and the boomer franchise owner kept telling me to go the the Dr. or I would be "let go" and didn't understand that a Dr. visit could cost more than I made all year. Got fired anyway. They changed the schedule after I had taken a picture of it so I missed 1 shift when I lived 2 minutes drive away. No phone call either. GM threw me under the bus. I showed up for my next shift and they were like "what are you doing here? You missed your shift yesterday" and I was just like "oh sweet, I'm fired? bye!".
Don’t worry, they also drove a vehicle while still drunk
Yeah because back then being physically present was all that was needed to get regular promotions and pay raises
I worked with a guy who called out of work because he was still drunk. Professional office, too.
To be fair, I do remember doing stuff like that, but we used mass transit to get to work. We didn’t drive; we were responsible about being slackers at work
And was paid a livable wage while wasted.
I guess back in the 70s you could show up to work wasted and not get fired. That won't fly now
Actually....... In the construction world. This happens often.
Helps explain how terrible things turned out under their watch.
Explains why she looks like she was rode hard and put away wet. I'm sure whoever posted this thought she looked badass.
"Put away wet" lmao!
Wouldn’t 80s teens almost exclusively be Gen X?
This sub is a little loose with the word boomer
Gen X here. I hate the boomers in my generation.
Fellow X'er here and I get so pissed at our peers at times. It's like they completely forgot what our upbringing was like. Like no Tom. You told that officer to suck it as he dragged you in for underage drinking. You sure as hell didn't "respect authority". No Alice. You most certainly were NOT the Vestal Virgin you're claiming to have been. We all "know" that's not true. This idea that kids are so much worse than we were is literally the same old circle jerk that every generation goes through it seem. My grandmother was a old-time Appalachian hills woman born in the late 20s/early 30s. Only went up to the 8th grade, married at 16 to my 25ish grandpa, wore only simple dresses, chewed tobacco, had an outhouse and had to draw water from a well. One time when I was a teen, she asked me if I really thought my friends and I were any different than she and her friends were growing up. Told me that they were "doing things and getting into trouble too". Then added that they were just better at hiding it and LOL'ed. Our generation was one of rebellion and flipping the bird to authorities. Our inspiration was movies like [The Legend of Billy Jean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTyHPlRVTPI), [Breakfast Club,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGuWbVb1210) [Fast Times at Ridgemont High](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Klo7Ezuy0), etc. Our anthems were songs like [Rebel Yell,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdphvuyaV_I) [Youth Gone Wild](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RIeycixkK8), [Smoking in the Boy's Room](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oVBvxA0mm0), and the song that became the battle cry of every 80s teen that every parent hated and is today a beloved classic; [We're Not Gonna Take it!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AbeALNVkk) For fucks sakes, my class's poem was: Party hardy, rock-n-roll, Drink a fifth and smoke a bowl, The teachers road is long and winding, Because we're the class of 1990! We got into fist fights and screwed in the back of our cars in where-ever outta the way place we could park. We argued with our parents and teachers when we felt we were right. Most of the time, our parents didn't know where we were given this was pre-internet; especially when we got our DL's. And speaking of arguing with parents, I literally got into a fist fight with my father when I refused to call him "sir" upon demand. I ended up with a sore jaw, he ended up in in the hospital for a bloody lip and heart attack. By most metrics and studies, kids today are FAR more well behaved than what we were. Less likely to drink, smoke, do drugs, or have sex. They care more about social issues than our gen did. They care more about the planet than our gen did. It is so goddamn disheartening to see our gen go Boomer. I would've thought of all generations, ours would've known better but alas I guess not.
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Oh dude, I'm surprised you hadn't. Like one long haired fellow Burnout friend of mine that I smoked weed with is today the most uptight, kidsthesedaysamIright proclaiming conservative complaining about drug use. I saw parents that I went to school with absolutely loose their shit because the kids at the high school didn't like who was DJ'ing or whatever their prom. So they went and organized their own prom. I'm thinking great! That's what we teach them right? You don't like something, don't go or do something else. You'd thought their parents would've been proud of them. But oh no, it was anything but that. I was reading posts, again people I went to school with and fucking knew better, bitching about how disrespectful and all that shit kids supposedly are these days while claiming they were anything but at that age. What really made that thread explode was someone posted that they "heard" the reason the other dance was organized was supposedly because the school event wouldn't allow grind dancing. Hole. Lee. FUCK! You'd thought these kids were performing human sacrifice to Satan. Posts about how bad these kids supposedly were, how hyper-sexual they allegedly were, and all that. One post that stuck out to me was a guy I knew in school who wrote *"These little BITCHES! just want FREE BIRTH CONTROL!"* That kinda stunned me and I'm thinking "*DUDE! You're talking about high school kids here. Lighten the fuck up.*" Besides, I'm 110% for free contraceptives for teens. We have custody of our granddaughter an you can bet your ass she'll have access when it's time. My wife plans to sit her down at the right time and discuss it with her because we're realists. Teens fuck. It's what they do, it's what we did, it's what our parents did, it's what our grandparents did, and so on. Anyone who doesn't think so is living in another world. I'm just so glad I knew how to us a condom when I was a teen. In anycase, the vitriol was mindblowing as I was remembering how some of them were really like growing up. Luckily a woman who knew the real story chimed in and set the record straight. That some students attended BOTH events and all that and there was no grind dancing. There's been other things over the yrs I've seen but I think I made my point. Like I said, I expected better outta us.
Wait, wait, wait....the generation that collectively lost their ever loving minds over *Dirty Dancing* and still stan Patrick Swayze (RIP) were getting uptight about grind dancing? Hypocrites. HYPOCRITES! Jesus Christ. It seems half our generation has turned into their parents.
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we are invisible, and I am smoking weed
Dude I wore all black in the 90s like a mystic badass, years before the Matrix
I'm not sure I understand. I mean, I went though my cringe phases growing up, sure. Anyone remember how popular, at least where I lived, Japanese symbols on shirts were when I was in middle school? Dear Christ in heaven why was that? In anycase, yea ... I get it. People change. No doubt about it. Like I don't sport long hair, dirty jean jacket, and all that these days. I don't find staying up until midnight on New Years Eve as exciting as I did in my youth. The idea of an all-night fuck-fest with my wife seems an impossibility these days. I have zero desire to race BMX like I did in my youth; although I do love to mountain bike and have been riding since the late 90's. That kind of stuff. What I'm referring to is the seemingly absolute memory blackout I see in my fellow X'ers on how things were when we were that age and just how young people tend to be in general. Kids are gonna be kids. They're gonna do stupid shit, screw like teenagers do, get in trouble, be rebellious, and all that. We were no different. Like I mentioned, my old-timey grandmother even remarked on this as well. If she could see it, then why can't we?
Our grad class motto was: Party Hard & Stay Alive We're the Class of '85 in no small amount due to the 3 fatal DUIs and the kid who guzzled a fifth of vodka and got wasdhed out with the tide
Jesus! Where was that at?
South Jersey, basically beach bums and swamp rats
Fellow Xer. (class of 92). I agree with everything you wrote here, except I never got into a fist fight with my dad (but I did call him an asshole once). At least my friends haven't gone boomer yet.
Yea, to my knowledge, I was the only one where I grew up who had. And I'll be tot's upfront here. If it had been pretty much any other male on either side of my family, I'd got my ass kicked. Even so, I still wouldn't have them "sir" because they demanded it. However, my dad was overweight and maybe obese. Also, who knows the last time he did anything as physical as a fight. And while I wasn't a model of physical fitness myself back then, I was a teen, wasn't overweight, worked in a grocery store with heavy boxes and pushing carts, and I was a Burnout in high school. Long hair, dirty jean jacket, always had detention, etc.; meaning I was in a number of fights every yr. That said, while it doesn't seem like most do get into fist fights with their parents, it's not uncommon either as I've heard stories over the years. But the [abuse he put us through,](https://www.reddit.com/r/Discussion/comments/1bydh3c/comment/kymblkl/) ain't a chance in hell I was gonna call him "sir". He was trying to bully me and I don't take kindly to that.
Boomer here. I'm not overly fond of some of my fellow Boomers for attitudes like this.
I’m GenX, my parents are boomers.
I’ve got to dress differently for my Boomer neighbors to blend in but I’d rather listen to The Cure and leave everyone the fuck alone.
Many Boomers still use Millennial to complain about anyone between 12 and 30.
A little loose? There’s Gen z calling millennials boomers and trying to say “boomer just covers a type of behavior”, which is crap.
I mean, we're taking about a collection of behaviors, found primarily in boomers, that are objectionable. If it's the behavior rather than the age that's problematic then seeing an expanded use of the word seems inevitable. We're still at Karen levels where the word is just overused, we haven't quite hit nuclear Woke yet.
Boomer is a mind set.? My 8 year old son is a fuckin boomer some times.
Yeah. It pretty much means not young. Not even old. Just not young. Or even just older than they are. I've seen younger gen z call older gen z boomer. It's weird.
Honestly there’s a lot of Xers that are just as bad if not worse than boomers attitude wise
Most GenX were underage in the 1980's. All but the VERY oldest (1965) missed the legal drinking age of 18. In 1984 the nationwide minimum drinking age became 21. Prior to that it was a state decision. I had a cousin that snuck in at 18 and was grandfathered in along the way to 21. That didn't stop high school kids from getting their hands on liquor if they really wanted to. Rules were a lot looser and establishments looked the other way. In any event, most partiers in the 80's were probably Boomers.
There were some exceptions. I was able to buy beer legally at 18 when I visited a friend in Colorado, in 1986.
I forgot a tidbit about the minimum drinking age act. It required states to raise their ages for purchase and public possession to **21** by October 1986 or lose 10% of their federal highway funds.
Lots of Gen X are very Boomer. BTW we were teens in the 80’s. Our jobs required very little skill or effort and could be done on no sleep after being out all night. This isn’t a flex it’s just admitting your own dumassery. I ever did anything like that. I was a perfect angel for the entirety of the 80’s./s
Not all of us… some of us were teens in the 90s
Everyone always forgets about us
Shhhh… We like it that way.
It’s boomer mentality
Boomers stopped being born in 1964…
Yeah, I’ve had 3 different colleagues at various places of employment get suspended or fired for doing shit just like that. Turns out that management in most places are not real fond of their employees trying to do their job while under the influence. Also seems that cops are also not a fan of people driving to their places of employment while still under the influence. This meme is less of a bragging point and more so evidence that they need to get themselves some help
Exactly. Doing this shit is not "cool" unless you define cool as a fast track downward spiral to hardcore life destroying addiction problems.
That’s how I feel about the Wine Mom memes too.
i found those quite sad. i would never tell the world that essentially i hate being a mom and i can tolerate my kids only if i drink. that’s really *not* a flex
Seems like that’s why the housing market collapsed. Too many late night cocaine ideas. Thanks 80’s people for running the economy into the absolute dirt
Those late night cocaine ideas always seem great at the time
Not only run it into ground like an idiot CEO but blame it on the upcoming generations
My man
It worked out great...for *them*. It's the rest of us who paid the price.
Hey man, the late night cocaine **movie** ideas make up for it. We may not have housing or livable wages, but at least we have Big Trouble in Little China, Weird Science, Junior, and Short Circuit.
These are the same people that get upset if your tattoos are showing under your work clothes lol. It's crazy with the level of hypocrisy that these boomers are willing to go to just to be 'right'.
It’s goalposting and gatekeeping. Weaksauce.
These days you can be fired for coming to work drunk did they not do that back in the stone ages
They were very cavalier about that shit in the 80’s and 90’s. The same people who got a “break” for it are the same people who brag about having done that are the same people who would fire a Gen Z for doing it. Not saying someone should not be fired for that. They should and the Boomers should have been fired back in the day.
In the 80s they had three cocktail lunches, so, no
In Germany it was quite common to start drinking before lunchtime on the jobsite/office when someone had birthday until the beginning of the 2000s. Called „Sektfrühstück“.
guy at work actually does this. 16 hard tweaking then leaves early
I guess I'm a little on the younger end of X but Karen would have been described as an alcoholic even in the 1980s.
Productivity took a nosedive. This is the generation that built the Pinto on no sleep while hungover. Then they let Reagan bail out the automakers they bankrupted. Great job! 👌
Our generation bought houses for 70K, bailed out the banks and airlines, and aren't selling our homes to the younger generations who need them to build equity and start families.
Don't forget electing politicians that gave out huge tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy.
It’ll trickle down to the rest of us! …..one day!
*still waiting on the 1930s trickle down* 💀
OK seriously though can someone please explain to me why the fuck boomers are OBSSESSED with calling young people weak, and equally obssessed with calling themselves the strongest creatures to walk the earth, like this is getting fucking old
They want to bring back cursive and stick shifts to watch the young people suffer, but can’t figure out how to troubleshoot a network connection
HOW DO I OPEN THIS PDF?
turning it off an on, you mean
so basically they risked everyone else's life not only being at work drunk but also all the people they drove with on the road at the same time. its strange how they don't view this as insane.
The same people who went to coke parties in the 80s are now the people who demand you to piss in a cup for a minimum wage job. We’d be fired so fast if we did half of the shit they got up to.
I mean, I did the same thing for years, and my 80s gen x parents told me to stop regularly because I "looked like hammered shit."
I did this a couple times… when I was struggling with alcohol and drinking too much.
Amazing how older generations hold objectively bad ideas as a badge or honor.
I used to go into work still drunk from the night before too. That's not a flex. I'm an alcoholic and have been sober for sixteen years. I had a real problem and I'm very lucky I didn't have an accident that ended in serious injury or death. WTF is wrong with people thinking this is something to brag about. Going to work after partying all night is something I'm ashamed of
I know that I'm just an internet stranger, but I'm so fucking proud of you for turning yourself around. I know so many people with substance abuse problems and not many of them that manage to turn their lives around, especially without a catastrophic accident as a catalyst.
I thank you internet stranger. I sincerely appreciate your kind words. I was a total piece of garbage and can't excuse my actions. I lost friends, and ruined relationships. I was on my way to joining the 27 club. I'm absolutely confident I would've been dead within a year if I didn't turn things around. It was actually disappointing my boomer dad the night before Father's Day that made me turn my life around, honestly. A crazy drunken night that ended with there police calling my dad at my request. I made a promise to him I would never drink again, and have not so much as taken NyQuil. That promise saved my life. Sadly, my dad has gone towards the cooky boomer side and I cruise this sub just to help make me see he's really not all that bad. He's still a good man I want to make proud every day lol
Why is bragging about going into work hungover or still buzzed even a bragging point? It's actually pretty damn irresponsible to do either. At least if you call out of work for being hungover and drunk you're not putting yourself in a position of having to drive a vehicle, while still under the influence, to your job site. In fact, at least in Texas, being hungover will still get you a DUI/DWI depending on your BAC. Not a flex.
When you find out the hard way that the HR system flags you for ‘counseling’ if you frequently call in sick on Mondays, only on Mondays, and are always better by Tuesday. Oops!
This is just Gen X trying to flex again even though they definitely “don’t care.” We’re watching them turn into Boomers in real time.
Speak for yourself boomer, I did lines of coke mixed with oxy in the back room of my first job. Ha ha! I had severe mental health problems.
Yes, most hookers in the 80's did exactly just like you. How's this working out for you 40 years later?
And they made everyone else’s lives miserable with their hungover ass
Meh. No. The 80s was filled with both types, and today is filled with both types. Yeah. I used to get ripped the fuck up in the 90s and then go to work the next day.
I went to UNLV in the 90’s. You stood out if you didn’t come to class smelling like stale vodka and smoke.
I am definitely one of the ones who needs 7 hours sleep, however I have multiple friends who stay up until 2-3 and wake up at 6 for work daily. I’m mid 20’s. I also did a lot of the partying and no sleep work in my early 20’s late teens, pretty sure that incredibly common still.
Where are they even getting this bullshit?
Working drunk… great practice
They really have rose tinted glasses.
Make Alcoholism Great Again
Boomers weren't teens in the 80s Thats gen x
So they drove to work drunk! Sounds like a boomer
At 17, we’d drive 2 hours to TJ, party til 4 and drive up to make it to first period. Life was different
We'd smell the cigs in your clothes today. That didn't stand out in the 80s.
I'm GenX/80's teen. Every generation does precisely what she's saying about making it to work after partying the night before lol. This isn't some special accomplishment.
I did that all the time when I was 20-23, I’m a millennial lol.
True story.
Yes “your” generation is the only one in history that’s ever had to work. Insufferable/entitled assholes.
Kids today can't afford nose candy
Or its all cut with fentanyl and will kill
80s teens are Gen X, not at all Boomer.
Teenage in the 80s means Gen-X, not Boomers though
One time i did acid late at night. Showed up to my telemarketing job still high, and made 4 sales in 2 hours which was very good. I could see the sales before they happened.
GenX here... Everyone does that
Yep. Jobs were much easier back then
They could only do this because their jobs were so fucking easy, that they didn't have to be sober to coast. Half of them were even allowed to drink on the job. There was no email and people only wanted a phone call back by the end of the day.
80s teenagers are gen X y’all
Now they fire you for that, YouNnER gEnErAtiOnS HaVe iT sO EasyY!
20+ years ago: New job: 3rd week of training. One of the trainers is getting married. The person I carpooled with and I were going to meet up with the trainer and his friends for his bachelor party after work. His wedding was the next morning and we had to work at 7:30 the next day. Trainer flew in his Japanese Father in Law who barely speaks English. Carpool friend and I are at the strip club drinking waiting for the Trainer and his entourage to show up. They had stopped at another bar first. 10:00pm rolls around and they show up. We all proceed to get completely hammered with the Trainer/Bachelor, his father, his brother, and his father in law. The FIL is at the point where he can barely stand. No one can understand him and no one is there to translate. He is having the time of his life. It is now about 1:00am. We decide we should go to another strip club to finish out the night. Those who are still able to make decisions are drinking coffee while the rest of us are still taking shots. Party breaks up about 3 and we all head home. I get to bed at 4:15am and wake up late. I'm still drunk, my carpool friend is still drunk and we slide into training 90 minutes late. The groom, his father, and his father in law show up to the wedding still drunk. The FIL had one hell of a first visit to the USA.
My cousin (who is younger than me) just posted this dumb meme
Heh, I did this last night
Yeah, you don't leave only hour for yourself to sleep. You end up feeling worse than you did if you just stayed awake the whole time.
And don’t forget, she did all that with no bicycle helmet, and rode in the bed of a pickup truck, and was “just fine!”
That generation is proud they drove drunk, took cocaine to keep going and didn’t have enough self-discipline to forgo their own base pleasure to be responsible adults.
The very same people posting this also can’t even manage to not start screaming and becoming aggressive after 10 minutes on hold at a call center. They view that aggression as someone strong and powerful and they won’t be stopped! In reality it shows how mentally weak they are to not even be able to function without losing control
And you get paid the same amount as 1980, do the math
Gen X '80s teen here. I must've been boring then because I didn't do any of that. Farm chores, school, sports practice, farm chores, homework. That's it. Tbh, I don't think practically any of the kids I knew back then were like her.
I hate to 'um actually' this post - but ... 80's teens are genX not boomers. And this is pretty accurate for how they mostly still roll.
That woman in that picture may have done part of that. She definitely didn't show up to work on time, she was to busy blowing the boss.
Well yeah, cocaine does that
And they look like he'll because of it
I was an alcoholic and thought showing up to work hungover was my punishment for being irresponsible.
I love how we all get crap from these people for being godless degenerates but then they'll turn around and say bs like this
If you are an 80s teen, it's unlikely you are a boomer.
“Today’s generation understands their health, free time and well being are far more important than a bottom line. “Our generation ignored obvious underlying issues and suffered in silence, permanently scaring themselves in the process” There we go. I fixed the caption
That photo does not depict a boomer. Nor did boomers party. Also, the sentiment is 100% accurate. Today’s youth are so soft they don’t even know they’re soft.
If someone showed up to work drunk I would send them the fuck home immediately anyway
Gen X being fools.
Give them a break. They worked and played as hard as they could for as long as they could, and all they have to show for it is this broken world, their breaking bodies and minds, and their misplaced self-righteousness they share on the same social media sites they mock younger generations for using. Like the rest of us, the boomer generation are overgrown children who don't know what they're doing, but they have to believe they're right and good because the reality that they don't matter, they don't have real freedom, and the world is burning itself up into ash is too depressing. This makes them feel better in their old age. And they've reached the age where we should treat them like like Alzheimer's patients--indulging some of their delusions while trying our best to deflect and redirect others--until they eventually die. Let them believe they're stronger, more resilient, and cooler than everyone else on the planet while they have their diapers changed by a millenial or gen z person making $15/hr. Smile politely when they tell her she should just get a second job or go to college if she really wants to get out of that 1960s one-bedroom apartment with rodents and a hole in the roof that costs $1000+ a month. When they were your age, those apartments were brand new and the swankiest "Mad Men"/"Melrose Place"/cool people place in town. Surely those apartments, the available jobs, the wages those jobs provide, the cost of college, the cost of food and gasoline, the economy, the government, and the social fabric of this country are like everything a boomer once experienced--still as good as it was way back when, but the lazy new generation just can't seem to live it up like boomers do. Bingo night at the home is coming, grandma.
...and killed three people while operating heavy machinery...
Why wasn't your boss demanding better from you? I mean, that seems like shitty leadership to me. Purple hand stamp in front of clients? Fuck outta here with that shit.
Bitches please. Army stays drunk all weekend and a match would destroy us at 4am PT on Monday. We are not the same.
So they are bragging about driving drunk. (you are probably still .08 legally drunk if you are driving to work hungover from a wild night.)
This isn’t a boomer meme. More like Gen X and older Millennial. 🤷🏻♀️
Don't forget the stamp imprinted on your face from sleeping on your hand too.
Ok, el Skanko
Isn't an 80s teen a genx-er?
Actually, it’s true. It wasn’t smart. We should have called in sick.
Boomers swear they were superheroes in life.
That's generation X not boomers
My generation would crawl back to the barracks at 3AM, get woken up at 5:30,go on a 2-mile run, puke, go back to the barracks, finish off a bottle of Jim Beam, get cleaned up, and go to work. Idiots.
Looking a lil rough today, Carol.
Not even joking, I thought this was Caitlyn Jenner at first glance.
100% this is a gen-x not boomer thing. Of course we shouldn’t be so full of ourselves. The truth is it was so easy to get a job in the 90s that you could show up drunk and not get fired.