Reply to: Linkedin inbox of the week - Ok boomer

[JustKeepSwimming]

Maybe but an extra day doesn't look as beneficial as a load of blurb about charity. It's about motivation.

In that case they could be doing it for the wrong reasons and isn't aimed as a benefit. None of that at our place, people just book a day, go do it and come back. I will add as well, everyone that I spoke to about really enjoyed their day and came back refreshed so can't fault it as a benefit TBH.

TBF to them, this is predominately the big banks, they are very good with other volunteering. Things like Military reserve, magistrates, police/fire etc. Will more often than not give you additional leave to cover your commitments. Worked with a magistrate who got every other Wednesday off without effecting pay/holiday.

[northernladuk]

If they can afford to do it then they can afford to give additional annual leave...

Maybe but an extra day doesn't look as beneficial as a load of blurb about charity. It's about motivation.

Places i've worked that do it make a big song and dance out of it. Company branded t-shirts, lots of photos and local press.

In that case they could be doing it for the wrong reasons and isn't aimed as a benefit. None of that at our place, people just book a day, go do it and come back. I will add as well, everyone that I spoke to about really enjoyed their day and came back refreshed so can't fault it as a benefit TBH.

[JustKeepSwimming]

there be your answer. Its good for ratings.

Becomes like the 'We pay for dinner if you're still in the office after 7pm' benefit that I've seen.

[vetran]

If they can afford to do it then they can afford to give additional annual leave...

Places i've worked that do it make a big song and dance out of it. Company branded t-shirts, lots of photos and local press.

there be your answer. Its good for ratings.

[JustKeepSwimming]

They do this at my client and it's taken seriously. Some people disappearing for a day or two at key times (granted not critical) so they do honour it.

I'd love to do it to be fair. Bit of a team day out, break from the norm and do something worthwhile. I must admit I wouldn't lose sleep if the client didn't offer this so hardly a deal breaker but I must admit I do like that my client does it.

In a world of disappearing benefits I can respect a client that still pushes these types of values.

If they can afford to do it then they can afford to give additional annual leave...

Places i've worked that do it make a big song and dance out of it. Company branded t-shirts, lots of photos and local press.

[northernladuk]

How is a volunteer day a benefit?

They do this at my client and it's taken seriously. Some people disappearing for a day or two at key times (granted not critical) so they do honour it.

I'd love to do it to be fair. Bit of a team day out, break from the norm and do something worthwhile. I must admit I wouldn't lose sleep if the client didn't offer this so hardly a deal breaker but I must admit I do like that my client does it.

In a world of disappearing benefits I can respect a client that still pushes these types of values.

[JustKeepSwimming]

You get paid for taking a day off to volunteer for something useful.

Work in a foodbank to learn your place about what happens if you try and rock the boat with all this 'inflation pay rise' tulip, you plebs.

[malvolio]

How is a volunteer day a benefit?

You get paid for taking a day off to volunteer for something useful.

[Eirikur]

How is a volunteer day a benefit?

[Uncle Albert]

No it means, or rather meant the baby boomer generation, those now between 55 and 75. It since mutated to mean "older than us" for the current teens and 20s. It doesn't now extend to its original set who are simply the decrepit wrinklies (like me) quietly drooling in our care home.

Of course the teens of today are so poorly educated and insular their opinion can safely be ignored.

They're a bit older:

Gen Z	1997 – 2012	11 – 26
Millennials	1981 – 1996	27 – 42
Gen X	1965 – 1980	43 – 58
Boomers II (a/k/a Generation Jones)*	1955 – 1964	59 – 68
Boomers I*	1946 – 1954	69 – 77
Post War	1928 – 1945	78 – 95
WWII	1922 – 1927	96 – 101

[vetran]

It's quite clever what the boomers have done - made themselves the bogey man to a group so that that group spend so much time and energy being the victim, they don't have the inclination to realise that they could actually change things if they were so minded. Moaning on tik-tok about house prices is much easier.

It's all a bit lazy and cliched for a generation (or two) that consider themselves the most progressive ever.

If you want to moan about house prices then make it clear to the political parties that unless they either reduce the number of people wanting homes or they start building enough homes to accommodate demand that they won't get your vote. There were enough houses about when I bought my first one! Arguing against mass population growth meant I was accused of racism by the idealistic youngsters so stuff you, I'm alright Jack!

[Paralytic]

And DrewG and others with chips on their shoulders.

It's quite clever what the boomers have done - made themselves the bogey man to a group so that that group spend so much time and energy being the victim, they don't have the inclination to realise that they could actually change things if they were so minded. Moaning on tik-tok about house prices is much easier.

It's all a bit lazy and cliched for a generation (or two) that consider themselves the most progressive ever.

[DrewG]

And DrewG and others with chips on their shoulders.

I don't believe that I have been treated unfairly in the past.

[NotAllThere]

No it means, or rather meant the baby boomer generation, those now between 55 and 75. It since mutated to mean "older than us" for the current teens and 20s.

And DrewG and others with chips on their shoulders.

[NotAllThere]

For what? Allowing them on social media?

For teaching them that this kind of comment

Chill out boomer, it was a joke.

is in anyway acceptable.

Mind you, my kids have never used such expressions. I'm the generation after boomers and my parents the one before.

A friend of mine was very upset when she found antisemitic graffiti in her home town. It made here feel that the whole rich complexity of her identity had been reduced to just one single facet - she's Jewish. Dismissive epithets like "okay boomer" or "snowflake millenial" are not anywhere nearly as bad, but reducing anyone to a single aspect of their being is really quite a nasty thing to do.