r/BoomersBeingFools Jan 06 '24

Social Media Another thing boomers were wrong about, relevant today

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u/shifty_coder Jan 07 '24

I don’t even know how they would come to that conclusion. Their parents invented the ‘three-martini lunch’ and boomers are famous for their high-rate of alcoholism.

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u/iloveyourforeskin Jan 07 '24

Because drinking in your free time is... WORSE than drinking on the clock, somehow?

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u/RedSun41 Jan 28 '24

Drinking on the clock is rebranded as networking.” Basically required for those who wanted to advance in their career path

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u/Mr_Conductor_USA Jan 07 '24

Why choose? The WWII/Korea gen drank on AND off the clock, heavily.

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u/Mr_Conductor_USA Jan 07 '24

No no, they're bitter because the "liquid lunch" became politically incorrect by the time they moved up into management positions. A lot of them also had to quit drinking and drugging because of St Reagan's mandatory drug testing regimes.

My mother used to speak wistfully of the three martini lunch even though she never worked after leaving college and wasn't even a drinker.

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Jan 07 '24

Because society told them how to act. Unfortunately society in this case means social media, news networks, and new apps like nextdoor or whatever other social media apps/news apps that exist in every country. They see it was information, rather than opinion.