And boomers wonder why millennials are bitter towards them..

[dowie]

Except I don't have a car or a phone contract. Try again.

Spent excess cash renting in an expensive area over several years when you could have rented in a cheaper area and bought in a cheaper area instead...

Post your monthly rent in this thread again... now... how many years have you lived there?

You've had these threads before and posted about it IIRC. If you'd bought somewhere more affordable you'd perhaps have 200-300k in equity by now and could be looking at using that as a deposit for a house outside London post covid... well assuming houses don't completely crash in value.

 

[FoxEye]

I don't know what your definition of a rollocking is but for some employers / managers that comes down to verbal abuse / harassment.

Employment is merely a trade where the employee gives their labour / time in return for payment. It doesn't give the employer any right to bully, shout, threaten or harass an employee or any of that other "old school" nonsense. If they get something wrong, correct them. If they continue to get it wrong then give them a warning or hire someone else.

I'm not some some butthurt wet blanket either, I just can't stand bullying in any form and have had a few discussions with managers who abuse their power.

Either it's power-tripping, or some people genuinely do not know how to correct (or train) someone without shouting, screaming and being abusive.

I wouldn't work for such a person, for any amount of money. Screw that. That attitude to your workforce belies the fact that they see their workers as their "property", and thus can treat them like dirt, showing no respect.

Best way to deal with such clowns is to just leave. Plenty of people will have had managers like that. They are universally hated.

 

[FoxEye]

Must do, maybe i should bring flowers and cake and tell them its ok you have cost us a million quid in man hours to fix it and the customer is cool with the month delay they can move the big reveal for their EV car that has been in the wings for the past 10 years.....don't worry about it all is good. Please do not do it again but its ok really if you do.......otherwise its a written warning for you, you little rascal now have a virtual hug as we cant do it normally due to COVID...

/face palm indeed.

You wouldn't put your trainees in such a situation where they could make such a costly mistake, unless you were a complete plonker.

(or your attitude to your staff meant you had such a high rate of churn that you had no choice )

 

[SPG]

Yeah must be be something terribly wrong.. We have a very low staff turnover in truth, the positions filled are mainly due to growth, the last youngster left stayed just over 4 years and he only quit as he wanted to try his hand outside of the UK but due the pandemic he cancelled all his plans.... He asked to come back and he starts again on the 1st of October and moving back 120 miles after going back to his parents.

But everyone is different and everyone buttons are pushed differently, but one thing is common making mistakes happen and taking ownership your mistake and the consequences from that is severely lacking in the youth of today... But fine have a written warning that sits as a black mark in your personnel record that puts a red target on your back when circumstances change or take some fantastic profanity/sarcasm/possible shouty shouty for 5-15mins and carry on as normal with your head down for the rest of the day while you do your upmost to fix the mess the made. Its called being an Adult.... but that doesn't happen until you have a 500k house and a BMW on your drive apparently.

 

[Nitefly]

Just been told that some first time buyers have offers on my house for asking price with their £100k deposit. Jeeesuus.

Takes just a couple of years of saving chaps, save away!! Easy peasy.

The point I’m making here is that to buy in, you need serious dosh if not on a baller salary, possibly even both.

Admittedly house is in a desirable location and, again, I had help buying it. I’m making the point on behalf of those that don’t have help from the bank of M&D.

 

[Kenai]

Just been told that some first time buyers have offers on my house for asking price with their £100k deposit. Jeeesuus.

Takes just a couple of years of saving chaps, save away!! Easy peasy.

There are vastly different groups of first time buyers in market.

I bought on my own, saved for years etc. and was looking at a budget of £250-275k.

Was at a new build sales office and overheard a young couple telling the salesperson they were first time buyers so could only stretch to £450k.

A young 'professional' couple each earning 35 to 40k with 5 years of saving and maybe a bit of help from parents can clearly sink big sums into their first place.

On your own and earning 25k? Your market is going to look wildly different.

 

[Nitefly]

There are vastly different groups of first time buyers in market.

I bought on my own, saved for years etc. and was looking at a budget of £250-275k.

Was at a new build sales office and overheard a young couple telling the salesperson they were first time buyers so could only stretch to £450k.

A young 'professional' couple each earning 35 to 40k with 5 years of saving and maybe a bit of help from parents can clearly sink big sums into their first place.

On your own and earning 25k? Your market is going to look wildly different.

Yes, I completely agree. I’m just very sympathetic to people on respectable yet average salaries. As in.... most young people. They don’t really have a chance in that sense.

 

[CREATIVE!11]

I'm not bitter towards boomers when they just accept the housing market is total ******** and don't feed me retarded nonsense about bootstraps.

Then I don't care, it is what it is. They had cheaper houses in 70's good for them. We won't and i'm not even expecting a pension at this point either lol.

 

[SPG]

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-89613944.html

https://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?l=Barrow-In-Furness&vjk=a5d87004f1c11ca7

Cheap homes and jobs are tough to find...Granted its not the most glamourous of areas to live but a life can be had, who knows after 6 years you could move to the states and become a police officer and educate them on decency.

(Things must be bad to move to barrow, but if like the outside active lifestyle its not a bad place, just be wary of the locals for a few years)

 

[MichaelAwkward]

try being less jealous of others and concentrate on improving your own situation.

This is the kind of privileged nonsense that people say to others in less fortunate positions due to systemic inequality - which perpetuates it for even longer.

 

[CREATIVE!11]

This is the kind of privileged nonsense that people say to others in less fortunate positions due to systemic inequality - which perpetuates it for even longer.

Yep.

 

[AiiR]

This is the kind of privileged nonsense that people say to others in less fortunate positions due to systemic inequality - which perpetuates it for even longer.

Yep it's the same out of touch people that still tell you to hand out your CVs to shops or go find the CEO and tell him to give you a job.

If you hand a CV in somewhere today they wouldn't know what to do with it other than chuck it in the bin.

 

[Derek W]

This is the kind of privileged nonsense that people say to others in less fortunate positions due to systemic inequality - which perpetuates it for even longer.

Yep.

No privilege here. Stuck in at school, went through uni, sacrificed a few things and I've got a roof over my head which I paid for myself and should be clear of in approx 5 yrs. Then I'll have disposable cash to have nice stuff......

 

[Dirk Diggler]

This is the kind of privileged nonsense that people say to others in less fortunate positions due to systemic inequality - which perpetuates it for even longer.

Nonsense.

Houses were cheaper in the 80s, but then jobs were scarce. Very scarce. We didn't have central heating never mind broadband internet.

Did I buy my first house for 25k at a massive discount? Yes.

Did I have a privileged lifestyle? Absolutely not.

Roll your sleeves up and work with what you have, and stop blaming others for your disappointment; that's probably the root cause.

 

[Usher]

You don't have to own a house, the op is jealous of people who had no choice when it comes to inflation, millenials may hate boomers but it seems for no other reason than jealousy, try 40 years of hard work(not media studies or journalism) & you might be able to own your own home if that's what you want.

Exactly this, why do they seem to think we all had it handed to us on a plate? I bought my first house in 1980 aged 34 and struggled hard to save a deposit, guess what the interest rate was on our mortgage? 17.5% yes you read it correctly. Everything's gone to **** thanks to the current greed infested generation who want everything handed out without having to work hard to achieve it. A totally useless media studies degree is guaranteed to keep you on the dole

 

[DXP55]

Turning up to a viewing to find that there is an existing offer for more than you can afford isn't gazumping.

Gazumping is when you've already had an offer accepted and the vendor later renegs and goes with a new (higher) offer - it's something that happens in England and Wales, but typically not in Scotland where accepted offers tend to involve written agreements.

Quite right - it was a long time ago but I still remember the figures - a offer of near 50% on top - Imagine the OP's figure of £1.7m and you offer another £800k --It would knock most potential buyers off the list.

 

[MichaelAwkward]

No privilege here. Stuck in at school, went through uni, sacrificed a few things and I've got a roof over my head which I paid for myself and should be clear of in approx 5 yrs. Then I'll have disposable cash to have nice stuff......

No privilege? You went to uni - that's a massive privilege in itself? I'm guessing before 9k fees too? If you're soon able to clear the mortgage, that means you must have gotten a decent paying job - privilege again. Are you a white male also? So getting into uni and getting a decent paying job was probably easier for you - again privilege. Did you also come from a decent supportive household that enabled you to do better at school than others? Also privilege.

See how it works? The point of society should be to level the playing field for everyone regardless of those things. We do not have that and with people like you telling others to just pull their socks up and try hard, we never will.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Are you a white male also? So getting into uni and getting a decent paying job was probably easier for you

Jesus wept.

 

[MichaelAwkward]

Exactly this, why do they seem to think we all had it handed to us on a plate? I bought my first house in 1980 aged 34 and struggled hard to save a deposit, guess what the interest rate was on our mortgage? 17.5% yes you read it correctly. Everything's gone to **** thanks to the current greed infested generation who want everything handed out without having to work hard to achieve it. A totally useless media studies degree is guaranteed to keep you on the dole

Why would any generation want things to be as difficult for future generations as it was for them? Isn't that the point of progress? That things become easier to achieve? Unless they're actually just a bunch of selfish cretins afterall...

 

[GIBURROWS]

It just screams of entitlement to me, youngsters want everything right now but they don't want to work for it or pay for it themselves, being able to blame someone else for your jealousy now that's privilege!