Why Johnny Can’t/Doesn’t Work

Townhall.com ^ | May 21, 2014 | Charlie Kirk

[SkyDancer]

[lurk]

Getting a CNA certification takes less than 3 weeks. The retirement homes are always hiring. They pay $10 an hour and the shifts are 12 hours long.

Get to work, kid.

[from occupied ga]

Isn’t it obvious that the reason employers aren’t hiring more young people is that it just doesn’t cost them enough? If a liberal were a 12-step sponsor their first recommended step on the road to their sponsee’s sobriety would be a good stiff drink.

I like this line. It sumarizes the Democrat philosophy quite well.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Young people should be occupied doing something productive.

I like the idea of the CNA jobs. It’s productive work, and those jobs are always available.

I also like the idea of students doing volunteer work. Retirement homes and hospitals are always looking for volunteers. If they aren’t working for pay, they can at least be doing something productive with their time, rather than overdosing on video games.

[staytrue]

The last thing a kid wants to do is to attend to the various bodily fluids of a really old person who has on average less than 3 years to live.

[staytrue]

“I like the idea of the CNA jobs. It’s productive work, and those jobs are always available.”

See post 6 for why these jobs are “ALWAYS AVAILABLE”

[SMARTY]

Just give it time.

I am constantly shocked by what employers find acceptable.

People with dirty clothes, dirty hair, tattoos, hard ware on their faces... they all wait on you wherever you go.

How is it that is OK?

I went to a favorite restaurant the other day and the kid who brought my dish had dirt under his fingernails.

OK, maybe he didn't cook the food but there he was with his hands on my dish!

I won't go back there!

[Dallas59]

Working 6 days a week is completely horrible to most of these people. Lack of social skills, actually being able to speak proper English is another set back.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Young people should be occupied doing something productive.

Middle aged IRS employees, and tax attorneys should be, too.

[Jeff Chandler]

Get off of my lawn.

[Carry_Okie]

In the City of Santa Cruz, California, there is an ordinance banning hiring discrimination upon the basis of appearance.

[Dallas59]

[M Kehoe]

If I knew who and where those two "gentlemen" are, I'd buy them a belt. Genuine Italian leather too.

5.56mm

[lurk]

Agreed. But then lets not say that there are no jobs to be had. Just jobs that American young people will not do.

BTW, my daughters are CNA’s working their way through college.

[hinckley buzzard]

I know "kids" who do that work, and with a smile. They are worth their weight in gold. They just aren't as arrogant and shallow as those who think providing such service is beneath them.

[defconw]

I live in the Black Hills. Seems like there are a lot of foreign students working at the bars and restaurants here during the summer.

I know foreign kids come over here and work in summer camps. So that means there are jobs available.

[Nifster]

The youth I know (and it certainly is not every one) work hard and make plans for the future. They don’t want to be living at home when they are 21 or 22.

I remember the ‘older generation’ condemning my generation for being lazy and no good (they may have been right). What I know for a fact is that the majority of the youngsters out there are decent typical teens. The extremes always get the news

[SkyDancer]

At that point I would have got up and walked out. I’ve sent back wine when the waitperson brought it to me with their hand at or near the top of the glass. You always carry it from the stem.

[Farmer Dean]

I hired a kid to do some work on the farm,as a favor to his parents.Typical city kid,didn't know anything about tools or how to work efficiently.So I've been teaching him as we go,he's learning and does work hard.