>Boomer coworker 1 retires.
>Comes back to work 3 months later because he was "bored".
>Boomer coworker 2 REFUSES to retire.
>Company forces him to retire.
Why are they like this?

It’s all they know and are good at

>>60670101 (OP)
Lack of money mostly. They say they were bored, but the reality is that the money didn't cover the rent.

>>60670101 (OP)
Work another 30 years and find out, anon.

>>60670101 (OP)
they are only rich compared to millennials and zoomers, vast number of boomers actually blew the huge opportunities they lived through. Most die owning zero stock, maybe one property
they are still balling compered to poorer gens but many of them realize they fucked up and don't have enough to retire in the style they grown accustomed to

>>60670101 (OP)
And sometimes the predicament of sentience and short lifespan gets to people when they get old, knowing that a terminal illness with crippling, pain, and nights of impending doom, and then the big nothing is really close. Work is a distraction from that, it feels a bit like things go on.

>>60670123
No one will be able to do this, unfortunately. The machines will pod us until we happily climb into the MAID box.

>>60670129
Don't forget being smothered by a haitian CNA after their kids rightfully shove them in a home the first time they forget where they put their car keys

>>60670101 (OP)
Because boomers count on the government and their job to decide everything for them, they literally can't comprehend thinking for themselves

many boomers (like my parents, 72 and 66) never invested their money

they still work and will likely keep working so long as they dont get dementia or something like that

they literally cannot afford to not work

u cant retire as a boomer unless u invested and have a big portfolio thats paying u a legit income

>>60670101 (OP)
Millennial here. This might be a scary story to you zoomers but about 5 years ago I got buck broken or something. To put it bluntly, work started to feel as necessary as breathing. Like it’s part of me. Now that I don’t need to work anymore, I can’t imagine life without work. I still go to the 9-5. I feel completely and utterly buck broken

>>60670134
The factories of the future will need a lot of men and dogs.

>>60670101 (OP)
because, unlike zoomers and millennials, boomers have functional levels of dopamine and actually find work and life in general stimulating, fulfilling, and satisfying. just talking to people gives boomers immense pleasure. they love phone calls and random chats on the street.

I like boomers. i feel like they are somehow the last link to a past, to a simpler time. I will be very sad when they are gone. I dread what society will look like when gen X takes the helm as the oldest gen, and even worse, millenials.

>>60670101 (OP)
A lot of boomers, particularly men are not very active online or on social media. Their only interaction with folks is through work. There's no gaming or movie backlog they have to work through. They're basically just sitting around at home all day doing nothing. Think about it. What would you do if you retired? I'm betting most of it is stuff someone 60-70 years old isn't into.

Also back in the day people actually did what they enjoyed for a living, so it's something they find fun anyways.

>>60670101 (OP)
> >Comes back to work 3 months later because he was "bored"
It means he was lonely and couldn't deal with it. Many grow to see work as a social event also, over the years. The only one they have.

>>60670174
For raw material, yes. Our replacement designer bio actuators need the carbon.

>>60670101 (OP)

Loneliness.

>>60670136
That's the good thing about being younger. I'll get the free acid chamber after AI has experimented enough on my cancer stricken body. I feel blessed knowing that elites care so much about us.

>>60670126
If you discount real-estate the average boomer has like 100k

The TV says that when you stop working, you will die soon after. There have been so many stories on The News about it.

>>60670101 (OP)
they cant stand being away from their jewish adult day-care, too indoctrinated.

>>60670101 (OP)
They were literally the Greatest Shabbos Goy Generation, of course they live to work.

>>60670101 (OP)
it's a little scary to think about what jobs will be like when the boomers really leave, maybe I'll actually enjoy my job instead of just using it to gamble on things like shido or the seasonal shitcoin

>>60670193
This.
The truth is boomers in many cases have social lives that younger generation can't even comprehend, they get real life human interaction and fulfillment.
For all their faults breaking the system like retarded faggots that only care about themselves they are socially functional in a way millennials and alphas literally are now incapable of

>>60670101 (OP)
NPCs

>>60670101 (OP)
their options are either
>nursing home (aka acknowledging they are a vegetable with no family to care for them)
>sitting at home(cheaper but more lonely and more boring option)
>staying at job (get paid and socialize)
not hard to imagine why they stay.

>>60672602
I have not really observed this. They seem like they can't get along with each other and will end lifelong friendships over political memes (like younger generations too). They also have really big egos and can't make friends with people they deem to be beneath them, combined with boomers dying out and the average boomer to me seems quite lonely these days.

>>60670101 (OP)
They have mandatory israel contributions that must exceed their 401k contributions

>>60670116
Idk you see them take jobs like Uber or greeting people at walmart

>>60670167
You should try testosterone
> t. Un-buckbroken

>>60670101 (OP)
Boomers and Gen x are NPCs like this. Millennials and gen Z were programmed to be Neet NPCs

>>60670101 (OP)
Boomers are so fucking stupid. My dad finally retired and he's doing okay but the amount of other boomers that are like ZOMG WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR FREE TIME is insane. They act like somebody died when they find out someone retired.

>>60670126
truth nuke

>>60670180
>ahem yes being a slave-brained retard is good

>>60670101 (OP)
Work is all they have

>>60674172
There are two reasons for that. The first is that their generation is a bunch of narcissists and they think that they're going to live forever, despite so many of them already dying way younger than their parents generation did. Notice how older generations were totally okay with just retiring and fucking off into retirement. Not the Boomers, oh no. God forbid they give the younger man a chance. This part wouldn't piss me off so much if they weren't so resistant to learning new technology. They want to stay working, but they get pissed off when you want them to actually learn new skills and at least pretend they work as hard as the younger employees that make only a fraction of what they make. I'm sorry, but it doesn't work that way asshole.

>>60676166
Exactly. I finally told my dad it isn't funny to disregard technology anymore, he thinks it's fucking hilarious.

>>60670438
Nice that the TV men care about us so much.

>>60670101 (OP)
Boomers are normgroids. Even the fucking radio stations still cater to them.

My dad retired at the end of last year, and got so bored after 6 months that he's back to work.

>>60670126

My parents have a total of $7k in cash savings between them and $3k in a 401k.
No health insurance.
No life insurance.
Still owe $75k on a mortgage from 20 years ago.
The house needs a $15k new roof, all new flooring, new paint, new siding, new water heater, new furnace, new appliances, new softener system, new doors, new windows and both bathrooms need a complete renovation. So, ot needs like $100k in repairs and updates.

>>60670101 (OP)
Millennial here. I actually don’t know how to use my vacation days and enjoy working regardless of salary.

>>60677285

Is there anywhere you'd want to travel?

>>60677341
I travel once a year, but sometimes planning, booking hotels, and preparing detailed itineraries feel like a burden. Perhaps it's laziness or I am still poor:)

>>60677369

I get it. Sometimes vacation just feels like a hassle.

I went to Vegas for 4 days last year, but actually getting there was terrible. Gotta show up 2 hours early to your flight, go through TSA, sit on a cramped plane for 4 hours, have to set-down in Chicago because of plane problems. Sit in Chicago for 2 hours. Finally get on the plane again and go to Vegas. Everything in Vegas was insanely overpriced, etc.

I just sell most of my vacation days now, or I use them for local events that are during the week.

>>60670101 (OP)
they don't have to retire but if they're in senior positions they should be moved down and the role opened to someone younger

>>60677369
it's because going anywhere in the west is basically the same garbage. That is the goal of globalism - to make everything terrible. The only places worth going are outside the US/EU sphere.

>>60670156
yeah you cant retire if youre working class + extra retarded
this goes without saying

>>60670126
A poor boomer has a home and is just getting by on their pension.

A poor zoomer or millennial is homeless or living in a home with multiple room mates

>>60670101 (OP)
because they are empty drones

>>60677418

This is for every generation though.

I make $60k/yr (including my overtime) in a factory. The difference is I live in the rural Midwest and my 2-bedroom apartment is $900/mo, but my mom moved in with me, so I cover most of the bills, but she buys groceries and does 100% of the chores, which is a major win for my time and energy. I also have really good health, dental and vision insurance through my company, an HSA, 401k, etc. I also do my own investing in other accounts. I'm also frugal and don't have any expensive hobbies. I just like fishing, hiking, the beach, free local events, shooting guns, photography and video editing. I'm currently in the top 5% of wealth for people my age.

Everyone I know my age that is broke is because they literally have $600/mo car and $800/mo truck payments, a $2k+ mortgage, eat out at restaurants multiple times a week, drink/smoke, have multiple credit cards, and/or go on multiple vacations a year. None of my friends went to college, but every woman I dated that did go to college still has like $50k - $100k in debt for a sociology degree.

Most people think I'm an asshole for saying it, but if you're broke, it's because you're shit with managing money, or have expensive tastes. It's not 'le evil Capitalist rich man at -insert any Fortune 500 company's- fault. I grew up in a doublewide trailer with two Boomer parents that still have nothing. Hearing a bunch of college educated, middle-class, suburbanites whining about how they can't make it and they're 1 paycheck away from living under a bridge is ridiculous.

Thanks for reading my rant.

>>60677600
>I make $60k/yr (including my overtime) in a factory
The rest of your slop is good advice for people who don't aspire for anything more in life than $60k/yr including overtime living in flyover hell

>>60677608

Okay, so don't complain about spending $50k on a Bachelors Degree, living in an apartment 15 minutes from downtown, driving a luxury car, then blaming the Walmart CEO for you living paycheck to paycheck.

>>60677600
>Hearing a bunch of college educated, middle-class, suburbanites whining about how they can't make it and they're 1 paycheck away from living under a bridge is ridiculous.
more true than your parents' complaints. if someone has any aspirations of class mobility, bearing heavy costs like living in a city and student debt is mandatory.
>Everyone I know my age that is broke is because they literally have $600/mo car and $800/mo truck payments, a $2k+ mortgage, eat out at restaurants multiple times a week, drink/smoke, have multiple credit cards, and/or go on multiple vacations a year. None of my friends went to college, but every woman I dated that did go to college still has like $50k - $100k in debt for a sociology degree.
this is all true
>yeah you cant retire if youre working class + extra retarded
hope you break the cycle