Help 30yo “boomer” fit into hipster working culture

My question is, “Why do you care what other people spend money on?”

Don't drink them.

> excessive friendliness that seems almost fake.

Don't look for meaningful connections at work if they aren't there.

> MacBook obsession aka "I think we should all use MacBooks, they are best and it creates nice unified vibe..."

Use a MacBook if you have to. Don't use one if you don't have to and don't want to.

> They want to change the world, engage in activism but are less willing to change their own toxic behavior and/or character.

Sounds like hobbies mixing with work. Try to stay out of it. If your current environment is indeed toxic, look for another one.

> Seemingly random working time, daily alcohol or drug consumption that affects work performance => mood swings

Up to them. Leave it to management to determine if that's a problem and then take action.

> Unable to use email, if someone (client ,colleague) refuses to use Slack it's insurmountable problem.

Again, up to management to sort out.

> Spending lot of money at Barber's and for avocado toasts, complaining about no money for rent

If they want to spend dollar on fresh cuts and avocado toast that's up to them. Not your problem, or your business!

Facts aside, I understand where you're coming from. It sounds like you feel out of place, and that's a bit rubbish. Not much you can do aside from:

- Join them! Get a fresh cut, eat avocado toast, and embrace the MacBook.

- or, find a different environment where you are a better fit.

- or, continue feeling like an outsider at work.

Remember - work doesn't have to be a second home. A job's a job's a job's a job.

Or are you just bored by them? If so, I can see how it can be annoying to take part in their boring culture. Younger people are always going to be in that pretentious/vain phase of their life, so what. It’s boring to deal with if you’ve already dealt with it. They have every right to go through that phase like everyone else.

But hey, that’s life, especially at work. A never-ending mixing of people you have nothing in common with other than work. That’s why it’s called a job, you get paid to deal with it.

Also, 30 is not a boomer. It’s somewhat the tail-end of being a millennial (the original pretentious douche bags). You have also self-labeled yourself into a group you don’t belong in, I don’t know, I guess that makes you cool or something.

Just get some avocado toast and chill out.

FWIW, I see nothing particularly "boomer" in your description of yourself.

> daily alcohol or drug consumption

I don't think you know what some Boomers were like when they were young?

A young Boomer would have been used to a heavy drinking and smoking culture. Eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-martini_lunch . Watch the old TV shows and see how much office drinking there was.

Other popular drugs for young Boomers included methaqualone (Quaalude), methamphetamine, and of course LSD and marijuana.

Steve Jobs, for example, used both LSD and marijuana. ("Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.")

Apple was full of young Boomers. And many drug users. Bill Atkinson in https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... writes: "Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985, I designed the HyperCard authoring system that enabled non-programmers to make their own interactive media."

At the same time, there were people who didn't fit into that Boomer culture, like the story at https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... . (Though the interviewee may have been 'Greatest Generation.)

(Of course, Jack Kerouac was also a 'Greatest Generation' member, and just take a look at "On the Road" to get a sense that broad generational characterizations like I just made are too simplistic.)