Boomer Boss Reprimands Worker For Using Celebratory Emojis In Chats
The generation gap has always been a thing in the workplace, but nowadays, it often feels more pronounced than ever. We constantly hear about older generations judging younger workers as entitled and incompetent, but stories like the one a young professional recently told on X pull things into much sharper focus — and turn the tables on all those cranky office boomers in the process. A worker’s boomer boss claimed that certain emojis ‘cost the company extra’ to use. At this point, we’re in what feels like year 497 of the situation that has been the subject of myriad jokes about working with Boomers and older people in the office — that they’re so out of touch with modernity they need a young person’s help any time they want to, say, open a PDF. fizkes | Shutterstock That was the plight of basically the entire millennial generation throughout the 2000s, after all — basically getting paid to save their bosses from learning how to use the printer or figure out how to make a pivot …
