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I’m a Gen Z who loves confusing colleagues with boomer-stumping slang

When Kiana Sinaki, 21, eager to share a juicy tidbit of workplace gossip, told her 26-year-old coworker at a fitness facility in Santa Barbara, Calif., “I have some tea for you,” the confused woman replied, “Oh, no thanks. I have enough tea bags of my own.”

This wasn’t the first time Sinaki said she’d been misunderstood by a millennial colleague, who in this case hadn’t caught Sinaki’s use of the Gen Z slang term for “gossip,” and instead thought her junior was offering her a hot beverage.

“I’ve said ‘No cap’ to some of my coworkers and they’ve had no clue what I’m talking about,” laughed Sinaki, an environmental engineering student at the University of California, Irvine, who regularly stumps her more mature colleagues with her trendy lexicon.

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