How Millennials Are Ruining the Workforce
10th July 2016
As a boomer, I have a special interest in millennials. It’s the same sort of interest I have in car wrecks: I don’t want to see what’s going on, but I can’t look away. Take, for instance, the cover story that Time magazine had a few months back about how millennials are raising their children. I didn’t read the article. I couldn’t, because the very first paragraph stopped me cold. Here it is, reproduced in full:
On a playground in San Francisco, 4-year-old Astral Defiance Hayes takes a stick and writes his name in the sand. His twin brother Defy Aster Hayes whizzes around their father.
The fact is, I don’t need to know anything more about how millennials are parenting than that two of them thought it was a great idea to name their twin boys Astral Defiance and Defy Aster.
I mean: Who does that?
‘Good morning. Name?’
‘Astral Defiance Hayes.’
(askance look) ‘Astral Defiance?’
‘Yeah.’
(snigger) ‘Parents did a lot of weed, did they?’
July 11th, 2016 at 08:37
I’ve begun to think that bullies are a necessary part of society, if for no other reason than they force parents to use realistic names for their children.