Looks like Neil's gonna take the boomers $ one more time. Suckers. Neil Diamond, one of the most successful singer-songwriters of the past four decades, will release his new album on Nov. 2.
The album, titled “Dreams” will be a collection of covers of his favorite songs from the past rock era, such as “Ain't No Sunshine,” a song by Bill Withers’s album "Just As I Am" and “A Song for You,” written and performed by rock singer Leon Russell in the 1970s
The boomers are like a generation of MC Hammers. They had money, notoriety, life by the balls and then they just fucked it all up. So I'm finding comedy that The Atlantic thinks the biggest fuckups have a clue as how to clean up their mess.Self-absorbed, self-indulged, and self-loathing, the Baby Boom generation at last has the chance to step out of the so-called Greatest Generation’s historical shadow. Boomers may not have the opportunity to save the world, as their predecessors did, but they can still redeem themselves by saving the American economy from the fiscal mess that they, and their fathers and mothers, are leaving behind.
An interview with, Tamara Erickson, the person I did a book review for a few months back.Ms. Erickson: It will be harder to get the jobs because more [boomers] will be fearful of moving on or cutting back, which I always thought was the more practical solution for boomers. I never really thought that they should in fact leave totally. But I do think they should cut back and move into part-time positions and turn over the leadership reins to the Xers. I think you're going to see less willingness to do that than even before. I also think to the extent that they get the jobs, the challenge is just a lot tougher. So there's almost an element "Do you want that top job or not," because it's going to be really tough if you get it.
The one silver lining is that I don't think Xers were surprised by the recession in the same way that boomers and Generation Ys were. I think those are both very rose-colored-glasses generations. I think boomers were absolutely stunned that something bad had happened to them. Most Xers I know have always thought about the great what-if and have worked hard throughout their careers to think about back-up plans and alternatives.
I've watched very motivated, intelligent, college educated Gen Y'ers come into my company over the last 3 years and get stuck with some really entry level jobs. Basically we have the most overqualified customer service dept I've ever known about. And they're the lucky ones in their early 20's. When I first read this article in the NY Times Magazine about how 20-somethings are delaying the supposed markers of adulthood---marriage, kids, financial independence---longer than they had in the past, I thought that the main flaw of it was that it didn’t address why financial independence was so hard to achieve. By casting the entire situation as a matter of desire and choice, the author missed the big picture, which is that people delay adulthood because the ability to be an adult requires a certain amount of privilege increasingly unavailable to young people. I tweeted about it at the time, noting the answer to the question, “Why don’t people grow up faster?” is incredibly, stupidly simple---because they are no longer any jobs for people in their early 20s that provide the means to be a full adult. Full stop. I don’t mean that entry level jobs only pay enough for a small apartment or a simple lifestyle. Often, they don’t pay enough to cover the rent on that small apartment---if they can find those jobs in the first place---and that’s why people move back in with their parents.
Which is why I saw red when I read this smarmy, self-righteous screed from some Baby Boomer. It’s a classic example of being born on third and thinking you hit a triple. She assumes that her ability to pay rent with her first job out of college is strictly because she’s so much more fucking awesome than you spoiled kids these days, and her parents were so much more responsible than the softies of today. For a millisecond, she ponders the possibility that things have changed because of financial constraints, but then dismisses that possibility with a handwave. It’s so much more fun to be self-righteous! It’s way more fun to wag your finger at young people and tell them how you lived on Ramen and beans to afford your apartment, never pausing for a moment to wonder if those kids might not be able to afford that apartment even if they lived on dog food.
Then it'll hit the NYT best seller list in a week.
What is the premise of the book? One aspect of the book is about the baby boomer generation. As they move toward retirement, there are methods an organization can use to capture and transfer their knowledge to the next generation of workers.
I'm actually gaining much sympathy for boomers that have been laid off. The prospects of them getting re-hired in a position equivalent to what they once held is near impossible. Gonna be some bumpy retirements for them if they're able to retire at all.
A little late to the game wondering why Gen X isn’t in many leadership positions. So what anyway? I'm always skeptical of people that look to 'lead' or even say the word "career" with a straight face.Nearly 90 percent of the world's top 200 firms are currently led by boomers (born from 1946–1964) or an older generation. The few others are led by a Gen Xer (born from 1965–1979). As a Gen Xer, this makes me wonder why.
Fortunately, a boomer recently completed research to provide the answer. Gen Xers believe boomers will never retire — and if they do, they seek a Generation Y replacement (born from 1980–1995) at lower compensation to "mold" them into a similar way of thinking as the boomer (their words, not mine).
No, the baby boomers ain't ever going to retire. Adjust your career goals to nothing further than middle management. As the economy collapsed last year, federal retirements dropped to their lowest level in seven years, according to statistics released Monday by the Office of Personnel Management.
OPM said 43,649 full-time permanent employees retired in fiscal 2009 — 27 percent fewer than OPM had projected would retire. Federal retirements haven't been that low since fiscal 2002, when 41,699 employees retired.
The 40th anniversary of the National Guard shooting up stoned co-eds passed on 4 May but it seems like, in typical baby boomer fashion, they're going to drag it out at least until September.In their minds nothing happened before 1946 and little happened after 1990.
Tonight in regards to him getting tossed out of his job because a baby boomer wanted it.(CBS) Conan O'Brien refutes NBC's contention that "The Tonight Show" he briefly hosted was losing money and also says the six months he had the show were not long enough to declare it a failure with viewers.
O'Brien appears in his first interview since being forced from his Tonight Show role in a "60 Minutes" segment to be broadcast this Sunday, May 2, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Way too optimistic for me to take seriously. Bring on the labour shortage, some younger members of the workforce might be thinking.
For years, we've heard about a pending shortage as the demographic powerhouse known as the baby-boomer generation retires. Experts lament the lost economic potential due as jobs go unfilled.
But for members of generation X -- 30-to-45-year-olds, who will essentially be running the show when boomers bow out -- there's a lot of upside to this.
Shhhhh no one tell them they're easily replaceable, too.By 2018, the U.S. is expected to face a dramatic shortage of workers as baby boomers retire, the survey said.
“A labor shortage of this magnitude could have a significant impact on our economy and on the quality of life in our communities,” said co-author Barry Bluestone, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.
Poor little baby boomer. He doesn't like to be exposed for the parasite he became.Oh the shame of being a baby boomer. What a bunch of shysters we seem to be.
We are the most selfish, greedy, job-hogging, pension-grabbing bunch of egomaniacs history has ever seen. Here we are, cackling to ourselves in our overpriced homes and exploiting our political power to shaft the younger generation. We use our demographic throw-weight to skew the welfare system in our favour and above all we are squandering the natural resources of the planet. You know that Goya picture of the giant eating a naked human being?
More fallout from Brokaw's 2 hour examination of the worst generation ever.And all Brokaw could call us was "unrealized?" Tom is being too polite. He's only 6 years older than the oldest of the boomers, but come on Tom, come at us, will you? I guess you have to go easy on us if you want us to buy the product.
We deserve to be slapped around way harder than that for the way in which we have pissed away the legacy.
Brokaw let us off easy. Way too easy.
They must be pissed about him calling someone else "The Greatest Generation".I wasted two good hours watching CNBC's "Boomers" last night. Maybe I've seen too many episodes of "Lie to Me" but I just couldn't ignore the scowl on Tom Brokaw's face when both Bill Clinton and Tom Hanks were speaking. Clinton I kind of understand, but to scowl at our beloved Tom Hanks? Forrest Gump Tom Hanks? Saving Private Ryan Tom Hanks? Brokaw grimaces and treats both men as lightweights with too much freedom and too many toys. In fact he treats most of my generation that way.
Now with more venom.I’m not sure how often they realized that the feeling was acutely mutual. Ask most Gen Xers at that time what they thought about the Boomers and you’d likely get a two-word answer: sell outs. To us, the generation that supposedly changed the world seemed mighty content occupying high-salaried positions in corporations they once criticized as flaccid and corrupt. We wanted to remind them that they’d benefited from an enormous post-war boost, and that their success wasn’t achieved in a vacuum. Their short memories made critiquing the upstart underlings convenient, but the truth of the matter wasn’t lost on us.
...here's NBC. The only network that rivals MTV for suckiness. Although it seems like they went the opposite route of MTV by marketing to baby boomers.It really boils down to this: Can Leno, 59, and Seinfeld, 55, both one-time NBC staples, save the network?
Leno returns Monday to late-night TV after a much-publicized misadventure, while Seinfeld's highly plugged panel show, "The Marriage Ref," makes its debut on Thursday at 10:00 p.m., Eastern Time.
Someone wrote a book about why the baby boomers should pay up before they croak. Yeah, right. As if they ever worried about anyone other than fellow Woodstockers.Over the same time-span, another group no different from the first by all the standard indicators of ethnicity, race, religion, culture, gender and so on, underwent an actual reduction in their wealth.
While all the facts cited are entirely correct, I've cheated a bit in those two paragraphs. They apply not to Canadians but to two groups of Britons alike in every respect but for their age: the winners were those aged 55 to 64 and the losers were aged 25 to 34.
That statistic and a lot of others no less thought-provoking come from a just-published book that's stirring a storm in Britain. Its title is The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took their Children's Future – and Why They Should Give It Back.
Because they're baby boomers they will not stop performing until they make a complete mockery of their one-time-greatness.Tyler temporarily quit the group last year (09) after announcing he wanted a hiatus; he has since checked into rehab in an effort to kick a painkiller addiction.
Following the shock news he'd be leaving the band, guitarist Joe Perry revealed he'd be looking to replace the frontman with a new singer, so the group could honour 2010 studio and concert commitments.
But now it seems Tyler is heading back to the band - for a date at Download.
After they move in we'll have to figure out how to quarantine them.America's Top Places for Boomers to Retire
Looks like Neil's gonna take the boomers $ one more time. Suckers. 
The boomers are like a generation of MC Hammers. They had money, notoriety, life by the balls and then they just fucked it all up. So I'm finding comedy that The Atlantic thinks the biggest fuckups have a clue as how to clean up their mess.
Then it'll hit the NYT best seller list in a week.
Tonight in regards to him getting tossed out of his job because a baby boomer wanted it.
...here's NBC. The only network that rivals MTV for suckiness. Although it seems like they went the opposite route of MTV by marketing to baby boomers.
After they move in we'll have to figure out how to quarantine them.
