Posted on 12/22/2016 7:25:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
As soon as he awakes, Brian Porrell checks his e-mail, sometimes firing off a message before he gets out of bed. He makes calls during his commute to the Waltham staffing firm WinterWyman, spends 10 to 12 hours at the office and out visiting clients, and keeps his phone by his side at night, checking work e-mails while he watches sports on TV.
Like many workers today, Porrell, 30, is on the job wherever he is — and he doesn’t count out-of-office exchanges in his 50-plus hour week.
The millennial generation, the first to grow up with smartphones in their hands, is often stereotyped as lazy and entitled. But workplace experts say workaholics are common among 19-to-35-year-olds, perhaps more so than among older members of Generation X and baby boomers.
In one online study, more than 4 in 10 millennials consider themselves “work martyrs” — dedicated, indispensable, and racked with guilt if they take time off
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Yes. And I also think I read your first response the wrong way.
Back to School or Caddyshack?
Kids need a break.
Sometimes they get in with a bad crowd or are poorly educated.
The western world needs to get rid of “educators” and bring back teachers.
Kids need a break.
Sometimes they get in with a bad crowd or are poorly educated.
The western world needs to get rid of “educators” and bring back teachers.
Neither. It's a line from one of his comedy albums. (Side 1 is titled "No Respect", Side 2 = "Son of No Respect.")
If you were moderate and steady and rarely missed work, I’d say that put you above average.
My birthday is september 27th
Loyalty is a two-way street. I don’t fault workers from exploring and, sometimes, taking opportunities elsewhere - often one step ahead of a corporate “right-sizing.”
But companies would KEEP someone for 30 years, too.
Why should people be loyal to companies that won’t be loyal to them>
I thought that State Farm was going to be the company I retired from, but after I’d been there 21 years the new crew decided that short term profits and ‘flexibility’ were more important than us geezers who had stuck around through thick and thin out of ‘loyalty’. The old agreement there as ‘as long as you are flexible about what you will do and where you will do it, you will have a job for life’. That went out the door all in the name of squeezing every dollar in expenses in so as to increase the pay of the big bosses.
Nope, any company that wants loyalty should SHOW it. The millennials aren’t dumb, we boomers were fools.
Pony Express, phones and teletypes were integral, though. Signal Corps played no small part, I'm sure.
I first entered the permanent, full-time job market in the 1970s and I have never witnessed a time where “breadwinner” jobs were all-but-guaranteed to recent graduates. We tend to romanticize the past when the present often seems to be going to hell in a hand basket.
Nobody ever made America great by:
doing email
licking an envelope
(*ahem*) sending a tweet
digging a ditch
pouring a cup of coffee
making a sandwich
changing a dressing
mopping a floor
proofreading a letter
alphabetizing a file
doing the laundry
Millions of people doing these tasks billions of times over when needed went a long way, though.
This economy isn’t like that anymore, good luck working for the same company for 30yrs. There’s little loyalty from companies and the global game means you can be replaced in a heartbeat - it’s a fast paced environment now with instant communication abilities. You need to work within those constructs, which means endless reading, email, etc. - but also looking for opportunities as the market changes.
CBS The Great Indoors is about millennials who twit and chat and email for a magazine. Poof it will soon be gone.
Summary: An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Indoors_(TV_series)
That was my point. 20 years ago that was average but today it’s above average.
In another words the bar has been lowered on recent years.
Also a bonus creep factor that existed tears ago but not anything to the extent they do today is “adult” males living at home.
Not only is it messing up males but women who are fine with it and themselves do have a relationship with a male other than their son?
Can’t tell you how many women have said they don’t want a male relationship who had a male son (often a sponge) living at home.
EDIT:
Also a bonus creep factor that existed years ago but not anything to the extent it does today is “adult” males living at home with a single mother.
Not only is it messing up male sons but the mother fore goes a relationship with another male other than their son?
Can’t tell you how many women have said they don’t want a male relationship who had a male son (often a sponge) living at home.
A significant number of ‘jobs’ now available are outright scams (esp. work-at-home jobs), “multi-level marketing” like Amway which is basically a legalized pyramid scheme, or commission only pay which is basically legalized SLAVERY. Even some places with honest *products* like Primerica have an MLM-type employment structure where the only prayer you have of making any real money is getting other suckers to sign on under you, AKA “building your team”. Some totally honest companies are also ‘hiring’ for jobs that start months in advance when what we desperately need is immediate employment.
I’ve had several offers in this week alone that were outright scams - either “work at home make BIG $$$” scams, front companies for places with very bad reputations, or ‘recruiters’ with obviously foreign names wanting to ‘represent me’ for jobs that I’m no way qualified for. Two companies that missed a total of five deadlines for final responses after a second interview at both. And one front company for Equis Financial (teamwork2wealth) with no pay and a suspicious recruiting site.
Bottom line: we’re at an incredible risk of getting a ‘fraud job’ if we don’t read the fine print and 3rd party reviews VERY CAREFULLY. If you DO get into one you either have to lie on your resume or look bad with an unemployment gap or a short period at a job. And even when we do everything right at an honest place we literally cannot trust anything we are being told because with “right to ‘work “, ironically, we have no rights at all.
Considering all this is it really any wonder that Bernie Sanders almost pulled an Obama and went from national nobody to nearly President?
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It seems they keep a job from 6 months to a year and book. Not like the old days when my grandpa worked for a company for 30 years.
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