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VANITY - Am I the only employer experiencing this idiocy?

Posted on 04/10/2007 1:03:17 PM PDT by hardworking

This is unashamedly a VANITY post but it is intended to be a SERIOUS one. I have finally reached the point of complete bafflement in wondering what , if anything, is being taught to our young people in school! Here are some of my RECENT experiences as an employer. Am I the only one experiencing this level of idiocy in our country? 1. Two days ago I said the word 'penicillon' in a conversation. A young employee interrupted me and asked, "What is that?" I didnt' know what she was asking until she repeated, "What is that peni...you just said". 2. I recently told an employee that we needed to 'dilute' a substance before using it. They didn't know what 'dilute' meant. 3. I recently said that a substance would go into 'suspension' and the employee looked at me with a blank stare. 4. None of our young staff can calculate a percentage WITH A CALCULATOR, let alone without one!

Can someone please tell me WHAT these kids are doing during the hours they are in school? It appears that they are not learning even the most basic skills.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: china; dumbingdown; education; india; publicschools
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To: hardworking

Income disparity is growing for a reason.


41 posted on 04/10/2007 1:51:51 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: hardworking
Patience my FRiend. You have the unique opportunity to shape these young people’s minds and futures. Be part of the solution.
42 posted on 04/10/2007 2:00:25 PM PDT by wolfcreek (DON'T MESS WITH A NATION IN NEED OF MEDICATION !)
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To: wolfcreek
Why should it be their job to re-raise or educate these people?
43 posted on 04/10/2007 2:03:42 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: hardworking
FRiend, the last time I took public applications in my businesses was 1985, and after I got through about 150 of approximately 500, without finding a single, cogent idea expressed about "why I want to work for you," I tossed them all in the trash.

It's long been a problem.

FReegards, from the Swamps of Georgia...

44 posted on 04/10/2007 2:04:09 PM PDT by backhoe (Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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To: hardworking

No more soup for anyone on this thread!


45 posted on 04/10/2007 2:04:17 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Hey mister, can you spare a carbon credit?)
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To: wolfcreek

Wrong answer.

He is a business owner that needs skilled employees. It isn’t his job to teach these buffoons. It is the schools job to educate these people so they can function in society. Unfortunately that society appears more like a “Lord of the Flies” society than “Fountainhead”.


46 posted on 04/10/2007 2:12:21 PM PDT by SFC Chromey (We are at war with Islamofascists, now ACT LIKE IT!)
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To: SFC Chromey; A CA Guy
“Wrong answer.”

If you want *skilled* employees, don’t hire teenagers. They don’t have any job skills therefore, must be trained.

If they were my employees, they would be good little Conservatives in no time flat and know a hell of a lot before they left that position. Those mush minded souls are ripe for the pickin.

I totally agree public education sucks but, that’s not a reason to give up on them nor, is it the Christian thing to do.

Teaching is a lifelong process that never ends and neither does learning.

47 posted on 04/10/2007 2:25:07 PM PDT by wolfcreek (DON'T MESS WITH A NATION IN NEED OF MEDICATION !)
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To: hardworking
Publik Skoolz strike again!

Seriously, you have just made a very good argument for school vouchers/choice.

48 posted on 04/10/2007 2:28:06 PM PDT by LibKill ("RUDY GIULIANI" is just "HILLARY CLINTON" misspelled and wearing a dress.)
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To: JimWforBush

Make that TOO easy.

;9)


49 posted on 04/10/2007 2:49:42 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: hardworking

Are you slowly and clearly pronouncing your monosyllabic words using a simple sentence structure?


50 posted on 04/10/2007 2:57:05 PM PDT by ThomasThomas
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To: hardworking

I advised a factory worker to cut a product 3.5 inches. He asked me what I meant by .5. Now I know that was a little obscure. But if a dim wit like me could think of it - why couldn’t he understand it??


51 posted on 04/10/2007 3:32:11 PM PDT by llevrok (When there are more illegals than citizens, will we be able to open casinos?)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
the cashiers could count back change to you!

The comedian - Larry the Cable Guy - always likes to give a young kid at McDonald's etc. $10.01 for what ever the bill is to see them wrestle with how to handle change for the 1 cent.

52 posted on 04/10/2007 3:34:52 PM PDT by llevrok (When there are more illegals than citizens, will we be able to open casinos?)
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To: llevrok

What’s not to love about Larry, huh? Maybe we could get him to run for Pres...?


53 posted on 04/10/2007 3:40:43 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (I won't settle)
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To: eastforker

On the other hand, if you have a need to get a condom on a banana, you’re in luck!


54 posted on 04/10/2007 4:06:18 PM PDT by MooseMan (Sarcasm included at no additional charge)
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To: hardworking

Hire home-schooled kids or illegal aliens. Once the EduKKKrats get ahold of them, they’re wothless as balls on a sow.


55 posted on 04/10/2007 4:08:31 PM PDT by lesser_satan (FRED THOMPSON '08)
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To: lesser_satan

The home schooled girls around here are the wildest ones around.


56 posted on 04/10/2007 4:23:05 PM PDT by Shyla
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To: hardworking
I've met many college grads who couldn't write out a check.
I feel no pity for them either.
57 posted on 04/10/2007 4:27:07 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: eastforker

So, that makes you beet-red faced?


58 posted on 04/10/2007 4:29:07 PM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: hardworking

Don’t always be so quick to blame the schools—oftentimes the failure is the student’s. I am a product of public schools (graduated HS in ‘99) and don’t think I turned out too poorly.


59 posted on 04/10/2007 4:41:13 PM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (A Day Late and a Dollar Short)
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To: wolfcreek

I agree with most of what you said, but what employer has the time to do all that and stay afloat with new employees?

I can see them doing a special project employee here and there, but overall they need to do better interviews to find the ones with brains IMO.


60 posted on 04/10/2007 5:21:15 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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