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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Embarrassed-Swan7269 on 2025-09-03 20:06:41+00:00.
My parents and grandparents may be a generation apart, but they still share the boomer mindset. My older sister, my brother, and I now finance their lives. My grandparents are retired. Dad is also retired because he seriously injured his leg while doing physical work and now has permanent damage that makes it very difficult for him to walk. And my mother was a housewife, even though she passed the housework on to us when we reached a certain age because we were “young and healthy” and should “lend a hand.” We got caught up in a strange family dynamic where we didn't move out, but still did pretty much all the work. We were told that family takes care of each other, but the three of us knew that it couldn't stay that way.
Two months ago, they started badmouthing our generation. They said we were lazy, useless, didn't work, and were the worst generation ever. Their words, not mine. We're all Gen Z, by the way. We were all there when they said it, and my sister was particularly pissed off. Afterwards, she suggested that if they thought so little of us after everything we do for them, we might as well go on strike and leave them to deal with all the crap. So one morning we started. We stopped paying the bills, found our own apartments, and only did housework for ourselves before we moved out. My parents protested, and my grandparents called, outraged because the monthly money we transferred to them for the bills didn't come. We told them that if our generation is so useless, they certainly don't need our money. Maybe that was a little petty, but we don't put up with that kind of thing.
In the end, they called us in a panic because their social security payments were barely enough to pay the bills, my mother was overwhelmed with the sudden housework she didn't have to do for years now, my father had high blood pressure due to the sudden stress, and they have since apologized. All of them except dad who was too proud to apologize I guess. Of course, we didn't hate them and now help them out from time to time. But I hope they've learned their lesson.