Don't worry. The administration is working on fixing that. The changes within the insurance industry are pretty much finished. Copy stores will also have their turn.
These were all pretty smart and technology savvy people. But I found none of them that had the ability to conjure a way to make a buck outside of working for some big company. The place I ran in to these youngsters was on the water. I had one of my boats out and took several of them for a ride. Another thing I noticed was that the females seemed more mannish than the males. In fact, the males were kind of girlish. I later found out that most of them were "gay". Maybe that is why none of them asked me about the size of the engines, etc. A couple of the females loved going 60+ MPH on the water in the dark (not that dark) at midnight. The males seemed afraid.One of them kind of had a chip on his shoulder and was a smartass with me. That did not do him much good and he was apalled that the watch I had on cost more than what he makes for a year.
I went away from all of this being sad. What happened to some of the young people? As I explained to one of them all they have to do is find something people want, provide it to them and charge them money. That all you need to know is buy low, sell high, collect early and pay on time. And know what is in your pockets, coming in to them and what is going out. They looked at me like I was crazy, or a bug.
As exampled by illegals and people from places like Korea, Vietnam or whatnot America is the land of opportunity. Anyone can get rich in America. All it takes is work. Not the government.
I don't know why but we have failed at schooling our kids that they have the world laying at their feet. For some reason we have not taught them that they have the freedom to be great and how to become great.
Management was NEVER questioned. It was remote and indifferent to everything on the 'ground'. The organization instituted more and more counterproductive regulations and self defeating rules that finally paralyzed sales. They have had a sharp and almost immediate decline in traffic, a drastically diminished profit across the board, and had to lay off most of the sales people. My friend stayed.... He was handed more crippling 'rules' and guidelines, he covered ALL the shifts, made less money and handled way less traffic. Still there were more rules and stupid regulations which cost him commission and drove customers away.
He finally left and began working with a local mom and pop organization. He is doing fine and has almost more work than he can handle.
I’ve written this before but it bears repeating.
Just before Christmas I went into the local PO, in a quite blue area. (Jewish)
The line, as usual, was out the door, and they had only two clerks on, as it was lunch. People were standing in the cramped space holding their boxes etc.
A manager came out saw the problem and started to help, briskly, efficiently. One of the clerks, an old man, raised his voice and began to crabbily complain. “You are not allowed to be here! I’m going to make a complaint! This is our job!”
In any normal business he would have been told to mind his business and keep working. But this was the government, run by union regulation, and she blushed. She kept working, but she was ashamed. She had done wrong.
It was not the customer who was king, but the worker. Just like in schools it is not the child whom decisions are made for, but the teacher. It is so, so, sad. And the cultural change it is producing is destroying the engine of America.
I kept looking around. No one said anything. I kept wondering, do people here realize, this is what voting liberal leads to?
I told her I now understood that their nickname of the "box Nazis" had nothing to do with their brown shirts.
I have not done business with them since and even cancelled an Amazon order when informed that that company would be the shipper.