Posted on 03/28/2014 11:35:58 PM PDT by daniel1212
One of the big problems in America today is that a lot of people simply do not seem to care about what they are doing anymore. The level of sloth, laziness and apathy that we are witnessing in this country is absolutely mind-numbing. Of course this is not true of everyone. There are still many Americans that are extremely hard working. But overall, it really appears that people are not taking as much pride in their work as they once did. Some of the examples that I am about to show you are quite funny. Others are more than just a little bit disturbing. But they all have a common theme. Americans from all walks of life are simply giving up. Whether they are teachers, delivery people or fast food workers, the truth is that there are a whole lot of people out there that seem to have mentally checked out.
For example, in the YouTube video that I have posted below, you can watch a postal worker drive her truck on to someone's lawn. She is so lazy that she doesn't even have the energy to take a few steps and place the package at the customer's door...
And in this next YouTube video, another postal worker does not even get out of his truck. He just carelessly tosses a package (which could contain something very expensive) toward the customer's home...
What would cause someone to act like that?
What has caused so many Americans to no longer take any pride in their work?
Another place where this can be seen frequently is at fast food restaurants...
For instance, the photo that I have posted below of a Wendy's employee gulping down soft serve ice cream with his mouth under the Frosty dispenser went viral on the Internet a while back...
I don't know about you, but to me that is absolutely disgusting. Needless to say, that worker quickly lost his job.
And of course there is no shortage of other fast food horror stories out there.
The following is one of my favorite examples...
Tony Hill, a pastor in Baltimore, Maryland, once got a deep-fried mouse along with his chicken at Popeye's. The old "I found a rat in my fried chicken!" urban legend is decades old - this particular story was given a little credence, however, by the fact that local health authorities confirmed that the Popeye's in question had a rodent problem.
These days even the criminals are getting lazy.
The following story is very tragic. Violent crime in America is on the rise, and as the economy continues to get worse people are going to steal just about anything that is not bolted down.
In the little town of Denison, Iowa, a couple of thugs recently shot and killed an elderly couple while they were attempting to steal some scrap metal...
A Denison man told investigators that he and another man shot two people, then set fire to a trailer with the victims inside, according to court documents.
Jayden Chapman said he and Michael D. Schenk shot Marvin Huelsing, 80, and Alice Huisenga, 81, on Monday, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed in Crawford County District Court.
This is the kind of thing that we are going to see a lot more frequently in the years ahead.
Those thugs thought that they would get away with murder by burning the victims inside their own trailer, but they foolishly left behind a receipt from the Wal-Mart where they had just been shopping at the scene of the crime...
A pickup truck more than 200 yards north of the trailer also was burned. Near it, investigators found on the ground a receipt from the Denison Walmart with a debit-card number from a food-stamp card. Authorities determined the card was assigned to Schenck.
In this case, justice was served by the slothfulness of the American people, and I hope that those murderers are given the highest penalty allowed by law.
But in general, slothfulness is a terrible thing. And it isn't just a few people that are being slothful. This is a national disease. I like how Jim Quinn put it in his recent article...
The government controlled public education system has flourished beyond all expectations of your owners. We’ve become a nation of techno-narcissistic, math challenged, reality TV distracted, welfare entitled, materialistic, gluttonous, indebted consumers of Chinese slave labor produced crap.
But even though so many of us are aware of what is happening to us, we just can't seem to break out of it as a nation.
It really does seem like most people are walking around in a fog these days.
Maybe the fact that 70 million Americans are on mind-altering drugs has something to do with it.
I don't know.
But unless Americans start taking more pride in their work again and start living their lives with meaning and purpose, it is going to be very difficult to envision a positive future for this country.
So do you have any stories similar to the ones in this article to share?
Please feel free to add to the conversation by posting a comment below...
It is a fact that the quality of the labor pool is pretty bad. Seen it at *multiple* companies, over and over. The most significant qualification a potential employee has now is showing up every day on time. That what it takes to make the grade.
People would be surprised to learn how many get hired and don’t even show up the first day. Or if they do, manage to make it on time. And stupid? Dear God, the level of education I see would have embarrassed an 8th grader in the 60s. At least me when I was in the 8th grade.
Plus, never ending unemployment benefits have helped create a permanent “on the dole” underclass that is largely content to be there.
How could a postman hate his job? Getting paid big bucks and have a great health and pension plan and never have to worry about getting fired.
Give me that job and I will do it humming show tunes.
Affirmative action hurts all.
Thanks. It is part of the victim entitlement mentality described in Scripture. And you should like this: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/CauseEffect.html
They cannot advance, so why try.
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I was brought up to take pride in whatever work I was doing, no matter how lowly. Suspect this trend has more to do with children being brought up with a sense of entitlement.
I have amazon prime...have not had a problem whatsoever, and I order A LOT from amazon.
I've had packages delivered by fedex and even a woman who delivered a package in her own vehicle at 8:00 pm.
I'm very satisfied with the service.
FMCDH(BITS)
So do many infants. Elderly and conservatives next?
I used to help my past mailman deliver mail on the street even use the bar code scanner. But that’s in the city.
Well said — as usual.
I used to work 60-70 mostly year round, as a truck driver delivery (load yr. own truck) by God's grace. Too much really, but the working class should be revered by the welfare class as the one's who pay for their food and rent, rather than being looked as the oppressors who should be divested of their income so all live as under Communism. Except for the liberal elite would, like the devil, believe they are worthy of the highest status.
I have the greatest UPS driver on the planet
Our is very industrious. You do not see them dogging it. In contrast, when i first began delivering milk in the inner city the warning was not to get stuck behind a city truck.
Mine was one of those super saver shipping (35 or over). The replacement came Prime. Thank God.
You are so right in everything you said. Children’s tv and books are all about cooperation, and little or nothing about the triumph of the individual.
It isn’t Amazon; it is their merchants that do it. Check to see who you are purchasing from - Amazon directly or a merchant. The merchant will “ship” UPS/Fedex, but all that UPS/Fedex is doing is dropping the shipment off at the post office.
Sometimes it is at the shipping site Post Office, sometimes the “destination” Post Office. Can’t quite remember what the service is called, but it is cheap and takes a very long time.
UPS has been the best, though they, like Intel (i bought an AMD instead) dropped the scouts due to the sodomite issue.
50% of high school students had at least one drink of alcohol during the 30 days prior to a CDC survey: 32% had 5 or more drinks of alcohol on at least one occasion during the 30 days preceding same survey http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r2k0609b.htm
In 1998, 39 percent of boys reported being drunk in the previous 30 days, versus 26.6 percent of girls. In 2008, 29.2% of boys reported being drunk during the 30-day period, while girls remained almost the same at 26.2 percent. Partnership for a Drug-Free America, 2009 Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS)
About 8% of 8th, 23% of 10th, and 32% of 12th graders report having been drunk during the past month. Johnston LD, O'Malley PM, and Bachman JG. Data tables from the 2000 Monitoring the Future Survey. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan News and Information Services [On-line]: www.monitoringthefuture.org; accessed January 18, 2001. http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/alcohol/factsheet.htm
By high school graduation, 80 percent of students have tried alcohol. http://www.restoredcog.org/youth/articles/0312-pia.html
In 1999, about 14% of 8th, 26% of 10th, and 30% of 12th graders reported binge drinking (5 or more consecutive drinks for males, 4 for females) during the past 2 weeks. http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/alcohol/factsheet.htm
2005: One in four high school students and adults (21 percent of men and 10 percent of women; 16 percent of whites and 10 percent of blacks) ages 18 to 34 engaged in binge drinking in the past month [September]. Almost one in three adults and two in three high school students who drink alcohol also binge drink. Binge drinking varies widely from state to state, ranging from 6.8 percent of adults who drink alcohol in Tennessee to 23.9 percent in Wisconsin. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reported by Reuters, October 05, 2010
<79% of college students living in a fraternity or sorority house report binge drinking. Grant BF and Dawson DA, National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey. Journal of Substance Abuse 9:103-110, 1997
Since 1993, colleges have seen a 125 percent increase in binge drinking by women. http://www.restoredcog.org/youth/articles/0312-pia.html
"Binge drinking" (5 or more drinks in a row) increased 17 percent among all adults between 1993 and 2001, 56 percent among 18- to 20-year-olds. Adults age 21 to 25 went on drinking binges an average of 18 times. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.cdc.gov
Among those living in a fraternity or sorority house, the rate of binge drinking is still higher (79%). Wechsler H, Lee J, Kuo M, and Lee H. College binge drinking in the 1990s: A continuing problem: Results of the Harvard School of Public Health 1999 College Alcohol Study. Journal of American College Health 48:199-210, 2000. http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/alcohol/factsheet.htm
On a typical campus, per capita students spending for alcohol--$446 per student--far exceeds the per capita budget of the college library. (Eigen, 1991 in the 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse).
47% of college students now drink primarily to get drunk. Grant BF and Dawson DA, National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey. Journal of Substance Abuse 9:103-110, 1997
44% of college students reported binge drinking in 1999 . Wechsler H, Lee J, Kuo M, and Lee H. College binge drinking in the 1990s: A continuing problem: Results of the Harvard School of Public Health 1999 College Alcohol Study. Journal of American College Health 48:199-210, 2000 http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/alcohol/factsheet.htm
College students spend over $5.5 billion a year on alcoholic beverages (mostly beer)--more than they spend on all other drinks [soda, tea, milk, juice and coffee] and books combined. Sidney Ribeau, PresidentBowling Green State University http://www.collegevalues.org/diaries.cfm?id=476&a=1. See also www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/rpt1998/CAS1998rpt2.html [which is also a illustration of how to do a survey.]
According to a U.S. Surgeon General, nationally college students drink almost four billion cans of beer and enough wine and hard-alcohol to make their annual consumption of alcoholic beverages an unthinkable 34 gallons per person. Sidney Ribeau, President, Bowling Green State University. http://www.collegevalues.org/diaries.cfm?id=476&a=1
More undergraduates will die from alcohol related causes then will obtain MA's or PHD's combined. Eigen, L. February 1991. Alcohol Practices, Policies and Potentials of American Colleges and Universities. An OSAP White Paper. Rockville, MD: Office for Substance Abuse Prevention. http://media.shs.net/prevline/pdfs/phd858.pdf
Much more
And in contrast .
Even at 10 the prices will really go up, and more work outsourced. Once the lowest paid get that much an increased, those above them expect the same. Instead, give them more of a tax break the more they work.
And tell management why. There is another reason why foreigner are often hired, nor are all the same. Cultural differences.
Wow, that was so stupid that people who are called stupid are making fun of her for saying something that stupid.
I like Prime too. I have only had one time I wasn’t ahppy with the delivery.
Prime is going up to 99 dollars, up from 79 dollars next year, or whenever you renew.
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