“What state was this in?”
Texas, but I also do a lot of work in Ohio, Oklahoma, and North Carolina. And I see it about the same everywhere.
Many of the younger people I work with almost seem to be waiting, as though something magic is going to happen and everybody will just reside in the land of milk and honey. No real need to worry about too much today.
Wish they’d let me in on when this is going to happen, because I don’t see any salvation ahead except through working harder and smarter.
Only reason I asked is it reminded me of a shop I worked in by Lake Travis doing some tech stuff.
Smart phones and texting has done something to their brains, I honestly am beginning to think. We’ve been blessed enough at my current company to grow through four or five pretty rough years in the local economy, and I can tell you we’ve had to let quite a few people go because they just absolutely cannot put the things down.
That, and those under thirty as a group seem to believe it’s OK to just not show up if there’s something more interesting to them going on elsewhere. These are sometimes degreed individuals. I know jobs of any kind are hard to find, that’s pretty much why I landed there. The work is detailed and varied, so boredom shouldn’t be a complaint. Pay is just so-so, not the best but certainly not the worst. It’s just the most amazing thing to me.