Millennials share the worst advice from baby boomers

If you doubt there’s a generational divide, consider an AskReddit thread that features millennials sharing the worst advice — and comments — they’ve ever fielded from baby boomers, namely their parents.

The heartfelt words of wisdom were likely met with a grimace, namely because they seemed so … well, so outdated. Advice, after all, doesn’t always translate well across the decades.

Certain subjec ts seemed to stand out in the missed-connection area simply because technology has changed the world so much.

Here are a few examples worth a laugh, with jobs being a favorite sore spot:

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When I was hunting for my first job my dad drove me around to every store and made me go in and ask the manager for a job. Every single one told me to go and get an application. That was miserable because then my dad made me get two each time, because one was for practice. My final application I had to do in pencil, then go back over it with ink after my dad approved it. I had to do this for every store. All the while my dad blamed me for not just automagically having a job at the end of that first day.

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