Posted on 02/06/2014 8:02:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Been there, done that! Show them a mop and they get pale and go weak in the knees. Even worse they will not take care of your customers, they can’t link happy customers with job security and good pay.
A real problem is how school is about ‘socialization’ (aka, survival)and not books and enjoying the experience of immersing yourself in a culture. It’s about forming social and business (what business contacts can be found in a high school) contacts and university is now just a secondary version of high school, not a place where people are learning to be resourceful about their learning.
we should quit blaming generations
This guy might have something to say
http://www.rleeermey.com/sounds.php
1. By 2018, Millennials will have the most spending power of any generation.
2. In the last 5 years: 87% of Millennial workers took on management roles, vs 38% of Gen X & just 19% of Boomers.
3. By 2025, 3 out of every 4 workers globally will be Millennials.
This “data” was posted on the website as a comment critical of the article. Does anyone actually believe this nonsense! Laughable.
parents feel so guilty about having to work that they don't dare ask little Billy or little Suzy to do anything at all...
I do not blame the young people for their attitude towards businessmen. Millennial attitude toward employers were created by corporate abuse of workers. When I was young, our parents worked for companies, and as long as the parent worked hard and the company made money, the employer and workers valued each other. By the 1990’s we globalized our economy. Corporations can make huge profits and still fire workers. Americans saw their jobs moved overseas so the CEO can get a bigger bonus and stock option windfalls. We are not talking about corporations losing money or market share, we are talking about record profits. Items made by these corporations are sold at the same price if they are made by US workers or Chinese workers. Corporations pocket the difference and dumped the unemployed workers on the US taxpayers. Now they want more illegal immigrants and H-1B workers, that is their solution to US unemployment. Millennial growing up seeing their fathers treated like used condoms by corporate America are going to have an attitude towards businessmen. They learn from their abused fathers that you give only 100 percent to employers and take 100 percent from employers. Employers give only what they are required and expect 200 percent from workers?!! Have employers been loyal to their workers? Two can play the same game. Remember, employers started this BS with globalization. After decades of abuse of workers, they expect their children to esteem and kowtow them when they walk in for a job? So this is what our founding fathers fought for? Establishment of a businessmen nobility where people must grovel to get a job and live?!! Businessmen are quick to pounce on worker attitudes, have they look in the mirror and reviewed their attitudes toward people that help make their company successful?!! Corporate America is a boat, and the workers are the sea. If the boat rocks the sea too hard, the sea will sink the boat.
There is no question that the situation with the educational system and the business climate can be partly attributed to the elites wanting to keep the non-elites from joining their country clubs or buying homes next them.
Unfortunately, in the end, the system they have set up to,keep people down will eventually consume them as well.
When my son went to Parris Island a little over a year ago, I was told to never ever ever ever ever call one of the DIs, because he would be certain to take it out of my son's hide. If someone in the family died, I was to call the Red Cross and let them get a message through. But if I wanted my son to survive PI, I was not to disturb the DIs.
Oddly enough, the SDI emailed me! He had a question about organizing my son's paperwork for graduation. We had a nice correspondence. A lovely young man, very kind. My son, who is twice his size, cannot believe that I think his Senior Drill Instructor is a sweet lad.
Entire industries have grown around what used to be recreational sports, necessitating attendance at special camps in support of sports activities. Many parents want their kids to "have fun" in middle/high school. They also feel guilty for never being home and indulge their teens. Trouble is, they keep wanting to be indulged long after high school.
maybe a Governmnet mandated higher min. wage will provide them with some motivation.
Heck, here in Alberta we have the lowest min. wage in Canada, lowest unemployment rate and the highest avg hourly wage.
Wait....what?
No, I watched immigration destroy all those entry jobs that teens and young men depended on.
well then maybe these “employers” will give the skilled and hardworking unemployed 50 somethings jobs. The work will then get done
F ‘em.
My sympathy level pegged Nov 2008.
Tagline...
Well, there's two prominent slides for your training presentations:
Clean Floors = Happier Customers
Happier Customers = More Business = More Job Security = Better Pay
Just two examples from your short statement, but the counter-procuctive, competitive, back-stabbing, retarded jock faggot mentality of many baby-boomers is one of the most destructive forces in our downward-spiraling economy.
Information sharing is critical to business processes.
Schools are horrible, more than ever, but schools never were a substitute for on-the-job training. People cannot intuit what their managers were taught, again and again, without that same training being taught forward, and with the appropriate repetitiveness.
bfl
Popular degrees:
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Career path after graduation:
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Not really. The nice thing about convenience stores is that, if you’re diligent, you often aren’t working about 4 hours of an 8 hour shift, leaving you upwards of 4 hours a shift to use as you wish. That’s useful for a student.
There aren’t many jobs where you can stand around for half a shift or do things you like to do that have nothing to do with your job obligations.
I will bet it was a millennial who posted it. As for the rest, authentic Internet gibberish.
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