Posted on 08/06/2008 10:27:28 PM PDT by newbie2008
It's pretty tough to mentor a kid who politely approaches you for work, then won't listen when you try to correct him on mistakes he makes. This most recent kid, instead of listening, decided it would be a better idea to flip me off and tell me to go f*ck myself, all because I pointed out some spots he missed with the weed eater. I fault the parents more than I fault the kid in this incidence. Clearly, this kid has had little or no home training.
You are right, though, it's a different era. If I'd have hired on with a neighbor when I was a kid, then quit two days later, my father would have dealt with me in his own way. He would have sought out the person who hired me to find out what happened. My father didn't tolerate quitters, cheats or liars. My father also would never have let me back talking an adult slide, much less tolerate a kid actually having the audacity to spew vulgarities at an adult. If this kid had been me at 13 I wouldn't have been sitting down for a while.
I predict that this kid's parents will be bailing him out of jail in the not too distant future......
Obviously, you also grew up in an era when or household where respecting one's elders was normal, self-respect was prized, and self-esteem came after that, in moderation.
My father also would have pursued the facts, and then acted accordingly.
Had I quit for cause, he would have stood behind me.
Otherwise, there was always something which needed to be done around the house, and the list of onerous chores was unending (until I found another job which would invariably pay much better).
That was understood, and Dad and I had few problems, ever.
Spewing vulgarities at adults was definitely out, and spewing vulgarities in general not tolerated.
It is interesting to note I had heard none of the late Mr. Carlin's notorious 'seven words you could not say on television' on television until well after I graduated from college. Now, most are commonplace.
I have overheard language which would have had one up on obscenity charges in the day--(not that we did not ever cuss, but that there was a time and place for everything).
Unfortunately, parents have been stripped of many of the tools which instilled respect, or at least sufficient dread of punishment to cause children to maintain a modicum of civility.
But the machinations of Socialists in Government and academia designed to eliminate the family as the fundamental unit of government have been steadily eroding parental authority for decades, and our culture is only just beginning to reap the 'benefits' of that effort.
And that’s it right there. How many of these minimum wage jobs now require their employees to be billingual? I have seen a bit.
Dang! Too bad we don’t live by you. My 14 year old would love to have a job like this.
A University probably isn’t in his future.
You bet...If my 16 year old daughter wanted to go work with a bunch of 40 year old illegal aliens at Burger King or McDonald's, I'd tell her to forget it. Of course, any young person with a brain wouldn't go looking for that kind of abuse.
Same reason why we no longer support these organizations with our money.
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