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Topics: Food and Drink, Life, Money, Gen Z
Rhiannon Ingle
Topics: Food and Drink, Life, Money, Gen Z
Gen Z and Millennials seem to have a whole bunch of differences when it comes to how they choose to live their daily lives.
From outfit choices and bedroom trends all the way through to our attitudes to work - it seems the list of major cultural differences between the two generations is always growing.
And the latest addition to the generation gap sees Millennials making the tragic realisation that Gen Z 'don’t know what happy hour is'.
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According to an article from The New York Post, the concept of a happy hour - AKA getting a round of bevs much cheaper than the usual price - is a totally foreign concept to those born between 1995 and 2012.
Now, as a fellow member of Gen Z, I can confirm that happy hour (especially when cocktails are involved) is very much so a known thing between me and my mates.
However, the article suggests that the new work from home revolution has something to do with the demise of the beloved drink deal.
"People used to work from 9 to 5. And you were happy at 5:01 because your workday ended," Eugene Remm, co-founder of Catch Hospitality Group, told The Post. "But now there is no beginning of work and there is no end to work.
"So I think if you said 'happy hour' to 95% of [20 somethings] that used to do that on a regular basis, they would look at you and say, 'Hey, Boomer, I don’t know what happy hour is.'"
Needless to say, there were some pretty mixed responses to the news.
One Instagram user lamented: "Sad... Happy hour is a great thing you get out of work you can use a drink or two and you get to talk and know the people you work with a little bit better because you're outside of the working hours and it actually brings a lot of people together!"
A far less bunch of sympathetic jaded Boomers quipped: "That’s because they don’t socialise they sit home on their phone!"
"You can’t do happy hour while staring at your phone! So crazy," piped up a third.
Another chimed in: "Thank God, I don't want them in there hammered. They don't even talk, just make videos lol."
"It’s good. More drinks for the rest of us!" a fifth piped up.
Naturally, some Gen Z weighed in on the matter themselves - pointing to the extortionate pricing that some 'happy hours' try to get away with.
One asked: "Have you seen the cost for drinks and Uber?"
"12 dollar margaritas is NOT HAPPY HOUR!" declared a second.
A third echoed: "Maybe because the cost of a drink is the same price as an actual dinner."
And a final Instagram user confessed: "They are smart. Nobody wants to drinks with Bill from accounting. I never enjoyed it. I mainly would go to see what trouble they caused."
That's one way to look at it!