The Office's Ryan - A Millennial Tragedy

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"I'm such a perfectionist that I'd kinda rather not do it at all, than do a crappy version"

“I like when people say ‘like crack’ who’ve obviously never done crack” Creed nods in agreement

As an older gen Z kid I can't wait to have my generation being mocked by sitcoms tropes honestly

Ryan’s character is so insane and ridiculous that when I watched the beginning again, I did a double take because I literally forgot he used to be normal. His character is so drastically different at the beginning and end it’s insane to go back and forth. It’s weird to think that Ryan started out as an actually normal person.

My all-time favorite quote from The Office is Dwight's "Not everything is a lesson, Ryan. Sometimes you just fail". This is both a jab at movie and tv cliches and an actual good motto for going through life.

This vid is funny when you consider BJ novak, the actor who plays ryan, is like the head writer of the show

Ryan: "I don't need a judge to tell me to keep my community clean." Jim: "But he did right?" Ryan: 😐✍📖

From the beginning of time, the older generation has used the younger generation as a scapegoat for societies problems. The irony is it's the folks who gave out the free trophies who the blame the kids for getting free trophies.

Ryan's arc really bummed me out at the end. Not because I particularly liked his character. But because it hit uncomfortably close to home. Failure to launch is every millennial guys nightmare

never making a sale? that's fine. understandable, even. but starting a fire trying to make a cheesy pizza? unforgivable. death would be less humiliating.

James Bond said it best: “Youth is no guarantee of innovation. Age is no guarantee of efficiency.”

Ryan’s timeline sums up Paulo Freire’s “When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor"

Perks of being between two generations (millennial and gen Z): I can classify myself as whichever is being blamed for less shit at a given time.

Never trust someone who uses generation terms to describe people in actual everyday life

For Michael Scott: the Office is a Comedy For Pam and Jim: a romantic comedy For Ryan: a tragic dark comedy

Every workplace I've ever had there's never been any mentors, everyone is out for themselves and if you need to learn you're ridiculed.

Isn’t it strange how boomers absolve themselves of all responsibility when it comes to millennials? Y’all raised us. We’re the fruits of your labor. We didn’t invent participation trophies, smartphones or social media. That was y’all. We were just kicking back watching cartoons while y’all made these decisions.

Um.. millennials weren't raised on social media. Social media came about when the majority of millennials were teens at least.

This kind of "Millennials are lazy and egocentric" mentality really screwed me over when I first started my job. I work with people 50+ and everything I did, most people assumed had some sort of agenda. I'm just a hard worker. I like helping people out. I like asking questions/learning new skills. But boy oh boy did that piss some people off. I was accused of "trying to making people look bad" and "trying to take over [their] job". One coworker even flat out LIED to get me in trouble. My first review was absolutely horrible. But after a while, people learned that's just how I work and eventually, everyone got used to me and now my coworkers are super awesome. Although, I tend to take the newbies under my wing for the first four months to make sure the same doesn't happen to them. I can't be the only one who got screwed over by that mentality, though. It's horrible going into a workplace and they decide you're the villain.