• cheesepotatoes@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    He once shouted at me at 8am because he didn’t like my handshake and I didn’t smile, I didn’t look motivated and grateful enough to his liking.

    Eastern Europe? I only ask because my parents (and myself by heritage) are eastern European and their *boomer friends have also screamed at me over a handshake, and various other minutia. I wasn’t 20 though, I was 8 but verbal and emotional abuse is pretty par for the course for those people.

    *I say boomer because the age range is right, but eastern Europe didn’t have an economic boom after WW2 so, not really the same thing as an American boomer.

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      4 months ago

      Boomer generation, maybe ? Eastern European, I don’t thinks so. I am pretty sure he was just a standard asshole.