^ you guys laugh but a few years ago we had a 26 year old engineer who didn’t show up til 8:45-9 everyday for about 6 months. I asked him about it a couple months in if anybody had yelled at him yet and he told me no and it was just habit from his last job that he hated. He would not go in there until 9-10 am and left at 4 everyday, he wanted to be fired so he could get unemployment but no one every said anything to him so he quit and of course we hired him.
@Shaner9er said:
man I've already dealt with someone like this. pretty sure at my age i'm considered a millennial but i don't think i'm this bad.
Yep. You’re one. According to Pewresearch.org, anyone born between 1981 and 1996 is a millennial. 1997 starts a whole new generation.
I once watched a news video of a couple young millennial guys who were extremely pissed off at older generations because we supposedly had fvcked up the world so badly and would be leaving it to them as their legacy.
When you consider that, ever since I was a kid, each generation of parents has said the same thing - “We’re not going to be as hard on our kids as our parents were on us” - and you see where that policy has gotten us, it makes me wonder how many ‘millennials’ are among all the rioters and antifa members who are currently causing so much havoc.... 🙄🙄
Please don’t misunderstand - I’m not including you in that category of people. Your statement alone is evidence that you’re not one of those I mentioned... 👴🏻
@Shaner9er said:
man I've already dealt with someone like this. pretty sure at my age i'm considered a millennial but i don't think i'm this bad.
Yep. You’re one. According to Pewresearch.org, anyone born between 1981 and 1996 is a millennial. 1997 starts a whole new generation.
I once watched a news video of a couple young millennial guys who were extremely pissed off at older generations because we supposedly had fvcked up the world so badly and would be leaving it to them as their legacy.
When you consider that, ever since I was a kid, each generation of parents has said the same thing - “We’re not going to be as hard on our kids as our parents were on us” - and you see where that policy has gotten us, it makes me wonder how many ‘millennials’ are among all the rioters and antifa members who are currently causing so much havoc.... 🙄🙄
Please don’t misunderstand - I’m not including you in that category of people. Your statement alone is evidence that you’re not one of those I mentioned... 👴🏻
“Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers. Children are now tyrants.” - Socrates, thousands of years ago.
People have always felt this way about their kids. My personal pet peeve is the kids who are unable to make eye contact anymore because they're so used to looking at their phones that it's uncomfortable. Those kids are going to have a pet peeve about their kids once they're older, and so on. These issues aren't related to a "generation", but instead just youth in general. For some people it takes longer than others to realize that hard work pays off either in your current job or in training for your next one. That comes with time for most. Then they'll be upset with younger people for not realizing it earlier, because what they're really upset about is that they themselves didn't.
I think there has been a degradation ( or perhaps corruption) of the definition of strong work ethic. It used to be get there first and leave last. Things are not as clear cut these days, probably residual belief in the “ as long as the work gets done “ mentality. This leaves variations in employee and employer expectations... I typically try to align those expectations, ie show up on time or we find someone else who can.
@Shaner9er said:
man I've already dealt with someone like this. pretty sure at my age i'm considered a millennial but i don't think i'm this bad.
Yep. You’re one. According to Pewresearch.org, anyone born between 1981 and 1996 is a millennial. 1997 starts a whole new generation.
I once watched a news video of a couple young millennial guys who were extremely pissed off at older generations because we supposedly had fvcked up the world so badly and would be leaving it to them as their legacy.
When you consider that, ever since I was a kid, each generation of parents has said the same thing - “We’re not going to be as hard on our kids as our parents were on us” - and you see where that policy has gotten us, it makes me wonder how many ‘millennials’ are among all the rioters and antifa members who are currently causing so much havoc.... 🙄🙄
Please don’t misunderstand - I’m not including you in that category of people. Your statement alone is evidence that you’re not one of those I mentioned... 👴🏻
im so deeply offended right now that i dont even know what to say ;P
not really obviously yeah.. i think a part of this comes from environment as well my environment did not put any of this stuff into my brain though i will admit i do have a problem with authority.
@Yakster said:
I think most cigar smokers have problems with authority.
Sez who?
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^ you guys laugh but a few years ago we had a 26 year old engineer who didn’t show up til 8:45-9 everyday for about 6 months. I asked him about it a couple months in if anybody had yelled at him yet and he told me no and it was just habit from his last job that he hated. He would not go in there until 9-10 am and left at 4 everyday, he wanted to be fired so he could get unemployment but no one every said anything to him so he quit and of course we hired him.
man I've already dealt with someone like this. pretty sure at my age i'm considered a millennial but i don't think i'm this bad.
Yep. You’re one. According to Pewresearch.org, anyone born between 1981 and 1996 is a millennial. 1997 starts a whole new generation.
I once watched a news video of a couple young millennial guys who were extremely pissed off at older generations because we supposedly had fvcked up the world so badly and would be leaving it to them as their legacy.
When you consider that, ever since I was a kid, each generation of parents has said the same thing - “We’re not going to be as hard on our kids as our parents were on us” - and you see where that policy has gotten us, it makes me wonder how many ‘millennials’ are among all the rioters and antifa members who are currently causing so much havoc.... 🙄🙄
Please don’t misunderstand - I’m not including you in that category of people. Your statement alone is evidence that you’re not one of those I mentioned... 👴🏻
“Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers. Children are now tyrants.” - Socrates, thousands of years ago.
People have always felt this way about their kids. My personal pet peeve is the kids who are unable to make eye contact anymore because they're so used to looking at their phones that it's uncomfortable. Those kids are going to have a pet peeve about their kids once they're older, and so on. These issues aren't related to a "generation", but instead just youth in general. For some people it takes longer than others to realize that hard work pays off either in your current job or in training for your next one. That comes with time for most. Then they'll be upset with younger people for not realizing it earlier, because what they're really upset about is that they themselves didn't.
I think there has been a degradation ( or perhaps corruption) of the definition of strong work ethic. It used to be get there first and leave last. Things are not as clear cut these days, probably residual belief in the “ as long as the work gets done “ mentality. This leaves variations in employee and employer expectations... I typically try to align those expectations, ie show up on time or we find someone else who can.
im so deeply offended right now that i dont even know what to say ;P
not really obviously yeah.. i think a part of this comes from environment as well my environment did not put any of this stuff into my brain though i will admit i do have a problem with authority.
I think most cigar smokers have problems with authority.
Sez who?
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain