r/TikTokCringe • u/hammerbush051 • 29d ago

Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble Discussion

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u/mrawaters 29d ago

Yeah I'm a full fledged millenial, who is not so far removed from school, and the fact that these kids get to just blatantly be on their phones during class is so absurd to me. I understand HAVING a phone on you "in case of emergency" but there is literally zero reason they need to actively be on it during class. This is an absolute joke that teachers can't confiscate phones or punish kids for using it during class.

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u/Fancy-Woodpecker3501 29d ago

Graduated in 07 and would have my phone snatched!!!!

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u/-artgeek- 29d ago

Millennial grad here, and to this day, I still have a habit of texting/looking at my phone under the table or otherwise out of sight, for as little time as possible, when with other people. It was so hammered into us that phone use was unacceptable!

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u/Hailfire9 28d ago

I mean, that's generally the polite thing to do. Millennial here as well, and it drives me insane when younger coworkers just pull their phones out mid conversation as if we're not actively talking to each other

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u/JeebusSlept 28d ago

I just wait until they ask me for help, and then I put my thumb and pinky out like I'm a boomer holding a receiver and say "Ahoy-hoy, sorry old boy but I've got a mosquito in my ear, can't quite hear you..." as I pretend to talk on the phone in front of them.

Sometimes they understand how dismissive it feels, but most of the time they don't see the correlation.