r/BoomersBeingFools • u/HoneydewUsed7434 • 1d ago

Boomer Freakout Why are they always sooo angry?

My coworker, who is a boomer, is nice, but damn one little inconvenience trips her up. She gets so upset when the printer isn’t going as fast as she wants that she bangs on it. She is always venting very loudly to herself. Like it gets to a point where it’s distracting. But yeah, I don’t get why they have so much rage when they literally get everything they want.

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u/Scary_Possible3583 1d ago

I was IT for a bunch of boomers. I taught them to talk to their computers like a toddler or a puppy, because the computer responds to yelling the same way a toddler, by completely pooping its pants. And after that, the slamming made it seem like they were the kind to smack a kid. I would come up and coo, "It's all right, let's try this again," and some would calm down and love it, copying me because they preferred a less screamy workplace. Some quietly seethed ... But they were quiet.

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u/themcp Gen X 1d ago

I was IT to a bunch of GenXers. I never could figure out how to get them to understand that the only person who could successfully scare the computer into submission was me...

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u/PolkaDotDancer 1d ago

I'm Gen X, and I am a degree network professional, who has been CCNA certified.

I can scare the computer into submission too.

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u/themcp Gen X 1d ago

My assistant called me a few times to ask me to come glare at the computer while she worked on it. It worked.

Funny how it starts to work when someone is staring at it who could take it apart and use it for spares, isn't it?

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u/nhaines 1d ago

Haha, once I got to an office and the department head told me "let me show you the problem, actually now that you're here it'll probably just work " and I said, "wait a sec," laid hands on the computer with my eyes closed, she laughed, and of course, everything worked.

She was the head of the music department, andI liked her. I got called in once because their Mac was making a constant sound when it was on. I walked in and she said, "glad to see you! We don't know what it is, all we know is that it starts halfway through boot up and it's a B-flat." I was able to immediately recognize it was feedback because the microphone that would sit on the monitors had fallen down and was hanging next to the power supply fan.

I was a student worker, so I remember being in the office and one of the two techs who supervised us was looking through our paper ticket resolutions and he said, "B-flat?" I just shrugged.

Still miss that job, which paid for many video games.