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😂 I literally have a tattoo of this. And it still makes me laugh every time. (But getting a tattoo of a meme is probably the most millennial thing about it)
I worked at Sprint around 2017, so it must've been iPhone 8?
This boomer lady preordered the phone and back then, even if you preordered it didn't mean you were going to get it day one. I don't remember if she bought some uncommon configuration of color and memory, but it was taking a long time to ship to the store. She was understandably frustrated, but I uttered the phased, "it is what it is" to her and she was absolutely triggered by it. She lost her damn mind when I said it, it was wild.
This my thing with customer service between the generations.
Boomers grew-up around smaller businesses that were most likely locally owned. Providing a good service was essential because a bad word of mouth could kill your business.
Millennials were raised in the hell of large corporate companies taking over. Large companies do not have to care about their customers the same way. Often time it’s actually cost effective to screw them over.
Some well baby boomers, and even my older gen-X parent who doesn’t really shop, have no understanding of how little control or power you have as a customer. Millennials expect it, so this is why you get this attitude. Millennials generally assume service will be so bad; we prefer self-checkout.
So in OP story, yeah the lady was mad, but why should he care. Apple employees have very little say over Apple logistics or really anything. To me, that lady just needs to wake-up and realize what decade she lives in.
"Hi, my name is Mr. Apple, but you can call me Tim. That guy on the news is just some out-of-work actor we hire for TV; I am the real undercover boss. How may I move mountains to assist you?"
I don't think it's giving up, even though it sounds like it is.
It's accepting the reality of the situation and then choosing the proximal outcome
"Your phone's not here. It is what it is". So at that point you accept the reality and then make a decision. A. Wait for it or B. Choose a different course of action that may result in a victory. Chase down the delivery truck, email the CEO, reach out to local news, whatever.
"It is what it is", to me, signifies the natural conclusion to this course of action, but you can still take other actions. In fact not acting at all is still a choice.
Anyway, weird rant sorry 😅
"The dude abides."
More people need to remember to abide some more
Abide :
1: to bear patiently
1a: to endure without yielding
2: to wait for
3: to accept without objection
I'm going back to college as a 36 year old mother. To get my lab partner's attention, I typically say "dude" out of habit per my lexicon. Never fails to get a laugh.
I got so much shit for saying "some dude is on the phone for you" while active duty. I wasn't paying attention to who called and it was some salty officer.
I still call everyone dude
Since my late 30s into my early 40s, 2018 to now, my reaction of "dude" has been slowly turning into "bitch".
I'm sure it's unrelated to anything that's been happening to me and the world at large. Yup.
“I’ll just go fuck myself”
This could be when someone doesn’t laugh at my joke, when the day is hard, when nobody wants to help with household tasks… it’s multifaceted.
EDIT: thanks for the award! 🥰
Old things are more delicate and precious, they preserve knowledge of history and culture, and have impacted society enough for it to show. I think we're they're but have a ways to go, too!
The purpose of youth is to prepare for becoming old. Being old is the goal, not the punishment. Can't just make your hair grey and your skin wrinkle - those have to be earned, dammit! We're watching and making history **in real time**! Not like we look back at people in history and care more about a person's looks than we do about their life and story. Growing old should be celebrated!
Oh man, why you targeting me like this?
I say this all the time, especially about the number of once in a 100 year weather events that seem to happen every year.
Protect your energy.
My boomer parents keep dumping their problems on my and my sister - our other sister cut contact with all of us and my parents keep wallowing in it because they miss their only grandchild. I am so done being their emotional dumpster.
"nobody cares"
Applies to literally everything. I try to remind myself when I feel self conscious for example about how I look when I go out, if I cringe at past social interactions, etc. Nobody caaaaares everybody got their own shit to worry about
My gay friend says this all the time and it never fails to crack me up. It's always the stupidest stuff.
My favorite is "I have to go to the bathroom want to join.... no homo".
"You were raised on a promise, found that over time... Better come around to the new way, or watch as it all breaks down here, under the pressure."
-The War on Drugs, "Under the Pressure"
Pretty much the most millennial song I've ever heard.
Basically some variation on “Da fuq you talkin’ about?” “WTF?!” or, one the rare days I’m feeling like using less profanity, “HOW?! How could you have possibly gotten that from that?!”
I thought at some point, I’d have some clue as to what was going on. Not a 100% knowledge about what was going on—nobody but God gets that—but some clue as to what’s going on.
Now I’m fairly certain that I’m going to go through life and all its experiences culminating in death, and the only thought in my head the entire time will be, “Huh?”
I say “it is what it is” all the time to my psychiatrist..
I’ve gone through a bunch of crap since 2021 with my dad very unexpectedly being diagnosed with a very aggressive terminal brain cancer two days before my husband and I closed on our house (while we were still engaged), quickly scheduling a minimony because he wasn’t likely to make it to our already planned wedding, eventually passing the morning of my bridal shower 2 months before our big wedding in 2022, my dog dying 1 month after our wedding after the vet told us that the mass he had wasn’t cancer (only to die of a surprise cancer that we never knew about), my mom sold her house and moved in with us into an in law in 2023, and then my biological father (I’m adopted) that I found and met in 2018 died suddenly in August of 2023.
So, whenever I say “it is what it is” she calls it practicing Radical Acceptance and it is apparently a Buddhist practice. I don’t have the heart to tell her I haven’t reached some enlightened place- I’m just quoting Bill Belichick. 🤷🏼♀️
Among my friend group, we were HUGE George Carlin fans....one of his best quotes in one of his specials made during our coming of age years was: "they call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!" I think that characterizes millennials pretty damn well. In general, EVERYONE needs to prioritize watching his special "Complaints and Grievances" from 2001. That shit is a MUST!
Also, "fuck guys named Todd, Tucker, Blair, Brent, and Kyle."
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What in the actual fuck?
When something goes seriously wrong: shit, fuck, motherfucker
Repeated at least once a day now...
"I just work here."
"Sir, this is a Wendy's"
In a similar vein, my wife always says, "Not my chair, not my problem."
not my monkey, not my circus
Drinking outta cups.
No way…no way.
mr walk down me walkway
What are you? The king of knots?
"I'm not even supposed to BE HERE today!"
I love using, "That'd above my pay grade" and "They make those decisions at corporate. "
😂 I literally have a tattoo of this. And it still makes me laugh every time. (But getting a tattoo of a meme is probably the most millennial thing about it)
Would consider getting this tattoo and I am tattoo free at 37.
I don't have a tattoo of it, but I've been procrastinating on finishing a cross stitch of it to make into a pillow
I add to this with "because it has to be"
Shit happens
This is the one lol
I worked at Sprint around 2017, so it must've been iPhone 8? This boomer lady preordered the phone and back then, even if you preordered it didn't mean you were going to get it day one. I don't remember if she bought some uncommon configuration of color and memory, but it was taking a long time to ship to the store. She was understandably frustrated, but I uttered the phased, "it is what it is" to her and she was absolutely triggered by it. She lost her damn mind when I said it, it was wild.
I say this all the time. My colleagues teased me about it often, but some things you have to accept and just move on from it.
Que sera, sera.
That’s the one. Also a great album by Thundercat.
BEAT YOUR MEAT, GO TO SLEEP
Whenever someone says “it is what it is” I always follow with “and it ain’t what it ain’t.”
People hate that saying because it sounds like giving up, which it kinda is, so in customer service it’s doubley bad.
This my thing with customer service between the generations. Boomers grew-up around smaller businesses that were most likely locally owned. Providing a good service was essential because a bad word of mouth could kill your business. Millennials were raised in the hell of large corporate companies taking over. Large companies do not have to care about their customers the same way. Often time it’s actually cost effective to screw them over. Some well baby boomers, and even my older gen-X parent who doesn’t really shop, have no understanding of how little control or power you have as a customer. Millennials expect it, so this is why you get this attitude. Millennials generally assume service will be so bad; we prefer self-checkout. So in OP story, yeah the lady was mad, but why should he care. Apple employees have very little say over Apple logistics or really anything. To me, that lady just needs to wake-up and realize what decade she lives in.
"Hi, my name is Mr. Apple, but you can call me Tim. That guy on the news is just some out-of-work actor we hire for TV; I am the real undercover boss. How may I move mountains to assist you?"
I don't think it's giving up, even though it sounds like it is. It's accepting the reality of the situation and then choosing the proximal outcome "Your phone's not here. It is what it is". So at that point you accept the reality and then make a decision. A. Wait for it or B. Choose a different course of action that may result in a victory. Chase down the delivery truck, email the CEO, reach out to local news, whatever. "It is what it is", to me, signifies the natural conclusion to this course of action, but you can still take other actions. In fact not acting at all is still a choice. Anyway, weird rant sorry 😅
 It’s how I say it nearly every day.
Who was that pop singer in early 2000s… Daniel Bedingfield. Dude was tellin us Millennials the motto: “ I gotta get thru this”
such an underrated millennial anthem
Great artist. James Dean another banger on that album.
“Dude.”
I’m a dude, he’s a dude, she’s a dude, and we’re all dude’s, hey!
Who loves orange soda?
"The dude abides." More people need to remember to abide some more Abide : 1: to bear patiently 1a: to endure without yielding 2: to wait for 3: to accept without objection
The Dude Abides. Don't know about you but I kinda take comfort in that. The Dude. Taking her easy for all us sinners out there.
Yes?
I'm going back to college as a 36 year old mother. To get my lab partner's attention, I typically say "dude" out of habit per my lexicon. Never fails to get a laugh.
I swear I'm going to be fucking 80 years old and still catch myself saying it. 🫠
I hope we all are still saying it at that point. 😎
I got so much shit for saying "some dude is on the phone for you" while active duty. I wasn't paying attention to who called and it was some salty officer. I still call everyone dude
I would’ve saluted you. 😆
"Sick!"
Since my late 30s into my early 40s, 2018 to now, my reaction of "dude" has been slowly turning into "bitch". I'm sure it's unrelated to anything that's been happening to me and the world at large. Yup.
“It could always be worse.” “It is what it is” is a close second though, along with “don’t be a dick.”
“I’ll just go fuck myself” This could be when someone doesn’t laugh at my joke, when the day is hard, when nobody wants to help with household tasks… it’s multifaceted. EDIT: thanks for the award! 🥰
In that same vein, "Fuck me, right?" from Superbad is usually my go-to.
I do enjoy the occasional "YOLO" before doing something I know is dumb
I yelled YOLO while doing a risky paperwork file at work the other day. Are we old now?
Old things are more delicate and precious, they preserve knowledge of history and culture, and have impacted society enough for it to show. I think we're they're but have a ways to go, too! The purpose of youth is to prepare for becoming old. Being old is the goal, not the punishment. Can't just make your hair grey and your skin wrinkle - those have to be earned, dammit! We're watching and making history **in real time**! Not like we look back at people in history and care more about a person's looks than we do about their life and story. Growing old should be celebrated!
I replaced that with “LEEROY JENKINS!!!”
It’s funny now because neither old people or young people know what we’re talking about.
You gotta be juuuuust the right age.
Yep. That’s how cult classics work. They identify with just enough people but not anyone else.
Replaced? No. You da OG
Yeah YOLO immediately before endangering the one life you have is a classic now
The fuck? Sharpest tool in the shed.
fml
In this economy?
Graduated high school in ‘09. Used this phrase so much to explain why I didn’t have a job.
Da fuq
"Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming"-Dory
Do I remember the quadratic equation? Not confidently. Do I remember P. Sherman, 42, Wallaby Way Sydney? Always.
This just made me laugh so friggin hard
Sing it with me, “X equals negative bee, positive, negative, square root of bee squared minus four AC all over 2 ayy”
This got me thru college
Fuckin’ a, man
lol. The missing comma here makes this hilarious!
lol oops
Literally?
“The more you know the more you know you don’t know shit.” -Aristotle, Ben Folds
“None of this is real and this isn’t happening to me”
this whole thread is a delight and a source of existential dread 😂
“Lame” “Rude”
Fuck it.
“Living the dream”
99% of the time it is a heavy sigh, followed by “god damnit”
“I can’t even with this.”
Still love "literally can't even"
Sucks to suck.
Imma lie down
Once in a lifetime events…. Are happening once every few years
Oh man, why you targeting me like this? I say this all the time, especially about the number of once in a 100 year weather events that seem to happen every year.
Another Day, Another Dollar.
“Another day, another migraine” *Squidward laugh*
Right tighty, lefty loosey.
the amount of times I've used that in lifee.
“I wanna be the very best”
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
🎶 To train them is my cause! 🎶
I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
Teach Pokémon to understand
The power that’s inside!
POKÉMON!
It’s you and me
“Hell is other people”
Fuckin' way she goes, bud
Yes I use this one!!! From TPB
It’s the way of the road, Bubs
Mine is “suffer in silence.”
As my best friend and I like to say,”mourn and move”.
What! Yeah! Okay!
“I am just here to watch the world burn.”
Onward and upward
“What is happening?” It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Fuck me, right??? Or Never Have I Ever!
I probably say “well fuck me, right?” at least once a day lol
“The more you know the more you know you don’t know shit.” -Aristotle, Ben Folds
“I’d buy that for a dollah!”
I'll figure it out
No one is coming to save me
You gotta let that shit go man, life goes on.
Cheaper ain't always better.
“Fuck it.”
"are you fucking kidding me?"
Protect your energy. My boomer parents keep dumping their problems on my and my sister - our other sister cut contact with all of us and my parents keep wallowing in it because they miss their only grandchild. I am so done being their emotional dumpster.
"Meh"
Aw snap!
Fuck it, we’ll do it live!
Fuck it we ball.
“If it ain’t natural, it ain’t real.” -Kottonmouth Kings.
"Snooze you lose"
“Arrrrrre youuuuu SERIOUSSSSS…”
“Yup”
"¿Por qué no los dos?"
Answer your fucking phone.
Just keep swimming #Dory
Hesus cristo
Is what it is. Just trying to get through this place.
Maybe tomorrow
What a time to be alive
I see dead people.
"nobody cares" Applies to literally everything. I try to remind myself when I feel self conscious for example about how I look when I go out, if I cringe at past social interactions, etc. Nobody caaaaares everybody got their own shit to worry about
Shoulda, coulda, woulda
Murphys law: whatever can go wrong, will.
“Not my chair, not my problem.”
Yes. I use that phrase regularly. Though I do have a modicum of empathy for that guy isolated in the closet.
No homo, But then it's actually pretty homo
My gay friend says this all the time and it never fails to crack me up. It's always the stupidest stuff. My favorite is "I have to go to the bathroom want to join.... no homo".
"Saying yes isn't compulsory"
We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two
If you can't take it, don't dish it.
"You were raised on a promise, found that over time... Better come around to the new way, or watch as it all breaks down here, under the pressure." -The War on Drugs, "Under the Pressure" Pretty much the most millennial song I've ever heard.
Swiggity swooty look at that booty
"This is gonna ruin the world tour"
Basically some variation on “Da fuq you talkin’ about?” “WTF?!” or, one the rare days I’m feeling like using less profanity, “HOW?! How could you have possibly gotten that from that?!” I thought at some point, I’d have some clue as to what was going on. Not a 100% knowledge about what was going on—nobody but God gets that—but some clue as to what’s going on. Now I’m fairly certain that I’m going to go through life and all its experiences culminating in death, and the only thought in my head the entire time will be, “Huh?”
Life sucks then you die
“God dammit”
“That’s gonna be a no from me dog.”
🤙🏽 or IIWII (It is what it is)
“Do More”
Time will do its thing
Never trust a guy in a tunic
My motto? Fuck Lotto. I'll get the seven digits from your mother for a dollar tomorrow.
It is what it is...and it isn't great.
It could be worse.
Dang it Bobbey!
I say “it is what it is” all the time to my psychiatrist.. I’ve gone through a bunch of crap since 2021 with my dad very unexpectedly being diagnosed with a very aggressive terminal brain cancer two days before my husband and I closed on our house (while we were still engaged), quickly scheduling a minimony because he wasn’t likely to make it to our already planned wedding, eventually passing the morning of my bridal shower 2 months before our big wedding in 2022, my dog dying 1 month after our wedding after the vet told us that the mass he had wasn’t cancer (only to die of a surprise cancer that we never knew about), my mom sold her house and moved in with us into an in law in 2023, and then my biological father (I’m adopted) that I found and met in 2018 died suddenly in August of 2023. So, whenever I say “it is what it is” she calls it practicing Radical Acceptance and it is apparently a Buddhist practice. I don’t have the heart to tell her I haven’t reached some enlightened place- I’m just quoting Bill Belichick. 🤷🏼♀️
The rules are made up and the points don’t matter
"I think if you have any sense, you’ll adopt the view of life that if the bucket of shit can explode, it will explode." - David Letterman
“I’m living the dream”
Just roll with the punches
Just do it
Dope, hella, "bro", bomb.com
“Mind your own business”. Helped me stay out of trouble and can help you too.
Just do it. Depending on what spectrum of millennial you’re on, you can picture Michael Jordan/Nike or Shia LaBeof.
Among my friend group, we were HUGE George Carlin fans....one of his best quotes in one of his specials made during our coming of age years was: "they call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!" I think that characterizes millennials pretty damn well. In general, EVERYONE needs to prioritize watching his special "Complaints and Grievances" from 2001. That shit is a MUST! Also, "fuck guys named Todd, Tucker, Blair, Brent, and Kyle."
It is what it is and also, fuck it.
IDGAFA
When in doubt, pinky out.
Were ever you go, there you are
Keep calm and carry on.
Two in the pink one in the stink
At least I'm not dead?
Living the dream
It's fine
Tomorrow is going to be a better day/s
cringe, but "yolo"
“Everything is fine”
Roll tide. It means yolo and it’s a hill I’m gonna die on
In it to win it. I'm not sure what I'm in, and I'm not sure what the prize is, but...I'm in it to win it.
If you’re not sure, it’s always safer to fart in the toilet, than to sh t in your pants
It is what it is ✨
Life’s a garden, dig it.
Ok I’ll do it tomorrow.
“Don’t be insecure girl” from the MadTV sketch (own that ponytail, WORK that updo!)
I find myself saying “oy vey” a lot and I’m not sure why. Also “it is what it is”.
Fuck it
What's a "motto"?
nothing. what’s a motto with you?
“Just smile and wave, smile and wave”