Definition:
Post Generation X Syndrome - The mass acknowledgement amongst young people of the late 90s and millennium that their youth was spent towing the line of being in charge of the future because everyone older than them who grew up during the time of Ronald Reagan and the cold war were just too stupid to manage the planet.
Generation X’ers and their self-important values pretty much had their egos crushed when it became obvious to them that all the time they wasted sitting in coffee bars writing poetry about the planet hadn’t a thing to do with the invention of Biodiesel Fuel and Hybrid/flex fuel vehicles.
That fact that government and environmental policies had forced the reduction of green house gasses by the generation that went to school during the Ronald Reagan administration surely does nothing to give comfort to the Gen-X kids.
The Gen-X children thus have to show their superiority by holding menial jobs, but act as if what they’re doing is a far more noble thing to do than do automotive repair, or computer IT support or even pick up the residential trash. At the beginning of their employment at Denny’s, it’s a great sacrifice on their part to be a host or hostess, waiter or waitress and their sacrifice is for the greater good that the old couple at table 5 should have their eggs and sausage after Church. After a month or two of fooling themselves with their defense mechanisms and the truth starts seeping into the folds of their mind that what they do isn’t going to clean the streams and save the environment, they begin to take it out on their customers and become disinterested and careless until the day they are fired for letting a customer wait 30 minutes to be seated, then ignore them another 30 minutes until the customer walks out in a huff.

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