Letters to the Editor
Portlander
Published Letters: 309 Editor's Choice: 13
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M Mondarian
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can't say for sure about X-potfarmer, but I'm still pretty much unreconstructed. I'm participating in a medical study on the long term effects of marijuana, and they asked me how many times I had smoked pot. Now, that was cruel. It was a little scary to think about that way. My answer was 10,000+. Sad, I guess, but true.
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Birdy
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm on vacation.
If someone rises up and takes it, more power to them.
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Birdy
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, you're right about that. I work 80 hours a week and mainly do what I'm told to achieve even though I have very broad authority to achieve it how I wish. If I weren't willing to do that, I would be gone, and they would hire someone who would.
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Patrick
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for your response.
1- Not just semantics - two completely different ways of looking at the world.
2- I work for a Fortune 50 financial institution. We have laid off, outsourced and offshored more than 100,000 employees in the last 8 years. Boomers with outdated skill sets are no longer here. I never said that I am a world class manager - I said I was paid to be that. I bust my butt to be precisely that. You are absolutely wrong about management. It is far more difficult than being an individual contributor.
3- I understand what you're saying, but a 1471 sq ft bungalow is not a McMansion. I can afford a nice 10,000 sq ft house on 10 acres, but I like my 100 year old neighborhood with a wide variety of races, ethnicities, ages and incomes.
4- I treat my employees with respect and dignity, and I do my best to help them all succeed. This is the challenge of management not just sort of running the shop. I hate laying people off so I try to help each one of them find a way to create value for the bank so they don't get laid off. Since most other managers don't care about the sucess of their employees, I try to be something quite different. In our recent employee satisfaction survey, 34 of my 38 employees said I was the best manager they ever had. To me, that's something.
5- My job is very difficult, Patrick. It is fascinating and challenging, and I enjoy doing it. I like to work. If I weren't doing this, I would be doing something else still trying to be the very best that I can. It has nothing to do with ego - I'm simply unwilling to give up my job and career because you want me out of the way.
Yes, you are being way too utilitarian. We will not get out of the way. We will do what we wish just like you do.
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Patrick
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the end, I don't really give a damn. You asked reasonable questions, and I tried to respond without being a complete jerk. I didn't and don't expect you to agree with me - I was seeking cross generational understanding, I guess. From your last response, I was totally unsuccessful. So be it as Harry would say.
In any case, I enjoyed the interaction - I will acknowledge in advance that you probably didn't. Sorry that I don't conform to what you think boomers should be like, but my wife and my dogs still love me - I guess that's enough.
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9 mm
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nice moniker. Looks like a threat to me. Curious that the editors didn't pull that little neo-Nazi piece of filth. Problem is that some of us old lefties can read - you know, the Second Amendment. You come to my house with that attitutde and you may be surpised at what you get as a response.
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9 mm
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You might be surprised.
In any case, thanks for calling me an old man. I'm on the verge of 60 and didn't think I would get here. At this point in my life, old is good. Older could be even better except that I am likely to lose my wife in the next couple of years. When you face that kind of reality, you won't be so facile.
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Egli
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yup, the Beats were very into jazz. But that didn't speak to us boomers. No different than people preferring the Clash to the Doors. Different era, different music.
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Xer
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, you're probably right. That 9 mm thing really pissed me off, but I should have let it go. For a variety of reasons, I've had my share of death threats over the years, and I view that moniker as a threat, BUT I still should have let it go.
Thanks for the comment regarding my wife. She's been my partner for 35 years now, and I'm just not sure what life will be like without her. For now, I cherish every moment I have with her. Chemo is working, but ...
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9 mm
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]NP. It was my fault for taking the bait as Xer said. No harm, and I apologize for taking things a step too far.
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Jeff and Patrick
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In 1980, 46% of boomers voted for Reagan, 51% for Carter and 3% for John Anderson.
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What are you talking about?
[Read the article: Obama's magic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is an anti-homosexual bigot. He's certainly less vicious about it than , say, Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, but, in the end, it amounts to the same thing. One either believes in equal rights or one doesn't. Obama doesn't, and he does cater to the most vicious anti-homosexual bigots in the Black community.
Obama believes that some imposed religion - prayer in schools - is OK. That alone disqualifies him completely from holding any public office.
Obama does not oppose the war in Iraq.
These three things, plus quite a number of others, make Obama totally unsuitable as a candidate. Find someone with American values.