9 ways Gen X handles bad news that make both Boomers, Millennials and Gen Z look dramatic

9 ways Gen X handles bad news that make both Boomers, Millennials and Gen Z look dramatic

The call comes at 4:15 on a Wednesday. The scan wasn’t clean, or the role was eliminated, or the offer fell through after six weeks of assuming it wouldn’t. A fifty-four-year-old takes the news, says okay, asks two questions about timing, and hangs up. Then she finishes the email she was in the middle of writing. Nobody in her house learns about it until Saturday. When it finally comes out, it arrives as one flat sentence in the middle of a conv…