Posted on 03/10/2010 12:47:05 PM PST by Niuhuru
Growing numbers of British school-leavers have 'attitude problems' and believe the world 'owes them a living', a Tesco boss warned today. Youngsters too often turn up late for work and interviews and fail to see the importance of dressing neatly and working with others, said Lucy Neville-Rolfe, director of corporate and legal affairs. Many also struggle with basic maths and English as exams become easier and schools fail to properly enforce discipline. In a hard-hitting speech, Mrs Neville-Rolfe, 56, one of the most powerful and well-paid women in British business, blamed failures in our education system. She said shortcomings among school-leavers were 'perhaps not a surprise' because of 'well-publicised problems in some schools' including 380,000 suspensions a year, and nearly a quarter of a million persistent truants.
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It’s a good thing we don’t have that problem here in this country. /sarc
Who needs a job? As long as you feel really really good about yourself...
It’s worldwide.
About this time last year, the company I work for hired someone like this (btw...I know you were being sarcastic). He would show up for work a half hour to an hour late a few days a week and would always ask to leave early. He would show up with his baggy pants around his thighs, shirt untucked, and shoe laces untied. It didn’t take long before he started asking if he could work exclusively from home. That didn’t go over so well and he subsequently quit. It was almost as if he had this notion that he could just collect a pay check without having to work.
They are raised believing that everything should just fall in there laps. That’s what happens when you have cradle to grave government.
good lthing we don’t have this problem.
**2,000 grades raised at Chicago Public Schools’ Hyde Park Academy **
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Growing numbers of British school-leavers have ‘attitude problems’...
China & Japan??
See it all the time, people who want a job but don’t want to work.
It’s not a school failure, but only a parenting failure.
My take is that:
1) TV doesn’t ever show anyone actually working.
2) School doesn’t punish those that don’t work.
3) Most children are now raised without a father and the
mother makes up for this by indulging the whims of the child.
So why would a person who grew up in this environment ever
thing that a strong work ethic was required for life?
Having been financially supported by a Nanny-State is anyone surprised that these unwashed masses behave like trust fund babies - without the affectation of aristocratic manners and the inherent oneupsmanship of a superior Eton or Cambridge education.
I miss the well bred. They had class.
This chap being interviewed is apparently a manager for Tesco, which is a British competitor to WalMart.
Apparently he has had one too many job interviews with green spiked-hair anarchists with multiple facial piercings and “F*ck Capitalism” tatooed across their necks, complaining how they are the victims of oppression because they don’t use fair-trade coffee in the employee lounge and they can’t buy a new Jaguar on the dole.
Of course they feel the world owes them a living. That’s what they are being told and that’s what they observe.
Today in the USA we hear that health insurance is a basic human right. INSURANCE!!! But if insurance is that basic, then so food, clothing, and shelter must be. So, in effect, everyone is owed a living.
And what do we observe? Unemployment benefits ending and you haven’t found a new job yet? Voila! Extension. Go ahead and collect for two years.
Contrast that to what I heard from my father. A man has to work. If you don’t work, you don’t eat.
They are also responsible for the creation of this country.
We have a friend who, as a manager, told his employees that personal phone calls and computer use were to be done only during breaks. The employees complained to the owner of the company and the manager was told to stop. Go figure.
***They are also responsible for the creation of this country***
Who - they???
The decent hardworking people who sacrificed so much. The well bred, the cultured, basically anyone who understood the concept of freedom and knew its value.
The title had me picturing a typical MSNBC viewer.
He moves slower than the 70 year old who works here, his handwriting is worse than a seven year old and his phone skills ? “ Um..like...we, um...like, ok “.
He is never without his phone in hand. Endlessly checking texts, sending texts, crank calling his friends, and 7 times out of 10 screws up the lunch order he is sent to order and pick up.
Or perhaps a union member.
I think they are.
They are so naive!
Gumming says it'll support them,
And they believe it!
I don’t want to work for a living either so I work for free. ;)
Metmom, would the ping list be interested in this?
Thanks - you have that right.
Our Founding Fathers were educated men of distinction. And our history also shows that working people struggled to maintain their dignity and showed respect for their fellow man. Our self-respect and courtesies to one another were based on Christian principles.
We have fallen so far from grace.
Poltically correct parenting and society reaps its rewards. Kids who have been handed everything therir entire lives will grow up thinking everything should be handed to them.
Pube-lick skools suk.
But, dey make gud progreasive voturs.
Good reason to keep the Glock at 0. Alex gets in a car wreck near my house I will shoot him.
Populated by a generation of illiterate louts (”yobs”,) factories moved off-shore to China and India, no agricultural base left, what are the Brits going to live on? What is the difference between Britain and Greece? One year, says an economist.
So, how about the good old US of A? We have a few more years. We still export soy beans, coal, and hip hop lyrics.
Since Alex lives in the UK, he doesn’t have to worry about armed homeowners. And no need to shoot the bloke if he is in and accident, let the National Health Service dispose of him.
Prolly quicker OK. Now, Dim gets it right between the eyes.
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