Eye on the Silver Lining
| It’s rampant, there’s no question. I dread having to put a job ad online, for all the tire kickers.
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Drill Here, Drill Now
| At a certain point, we have to quit blaming COVID and start placing the blame on the hundreds of thousands of shitty Gen X and Millennial parents who didn't prepare their progeny to be in the work force. My buddy and his wife were small business owners for 25ish years. She was full-time manager and he was more the maintenance guy as he had a full-time career (i.e. my coworker) prior to his 2020 retirement. They were overjoyed to have sold the business at the end of 2023 as the labor market work ethic had made it miserable the last 3.5 to 4 years. No shows, last minute callouts, only willing to be scheduled a goldilocks work schedule, when they did actually show up tried to be on their damn phone the entire time, etc. made it so one of them was there practically every minute that the 7 day a week business was open. There was also multiple instances of employees showing up 20 to 30 minutes late and if they said anything the employee would quit on the spot.
Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity
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| Posts: 23304 | Location: Northern Suburbs of Houston | Registered: November 14, 2005 |
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| quote: Originally posted by Kskelton: I don’t understand how these people survive. My guess would be living off the government because our government can’t limit government programs. I’m all for government programs, but I think there should be limitations. I don’t think able-bodied twenty something year olds should be able to leach off the government for their entire life because they are too lazy to get a job, or maybe 2 jobs… whatever it takes to be an adult.
As long as those people vote " correctly " , the government will support them . |
| Posts: 4066 | Location: Down in Louisiana . | Registered: February 27, 2009 |
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| quote: Originally posted by drill sgt: Happened 10 years ago.. Had a co-worker who had trouble of getting to work on time... Shop owners made arrangements for him to get a apartment next door to the shop.. His apartment door was approx 100yards to the shop time clock.... He still had trouble of being on time.. Even with other employees going and knocking on his door he still had problems of being on time ....... So the shop fired him and he still wanted to know why he was fired............................... drill sgt.
I have to laugh because that was me in the Navy. We were in dry dock for several months. Muster was at 7 AM and the day ends at 3 PM. I, along with others who always go out drinking, were always late. They moved muster earlier to 6:30. Guess who was still late. After muster, we would go down to one of the shaft alley decks and sleep until noon when we'd wake up for lunch. Then wait until liberty call to go out to town. I remember this deacades later when I would wake up at 4:30 AM to leave the house and miss the 35 mile commute hours which would have made the trip 2 hours one way. I worked routinely until 7 PM to 10 PM at night, catching naps in my car in the parking lot. Karma.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. |
| Posts: 19691 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011 |
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