Posted on 08/16/2019 3:25:27 PM PDT by simpson96
Do you remember what it was like going to High School in the 1970s? I do. I most certainly do. In fact, the older I get the more removed that I am from it. As time passes, it starts to look like some kind of a scene from “The Twilight Zone”. The truth is that the kind of life that I had growing up is really alien to the way kids grow up today. That is worrisome, and it really concerns me.
When an American intern comes in to work for me, I am stunned just how absolutely helpless they are. They do not realize that they must go to work before the start of the working hours, and cannot leave until the workday is over. They don’t realize some of the most fundamentals regarding self-initiative is totally missing from them. American kids today are robots, or maybe zombies. They need and expect constant supervision. They are afraid to do anything.
Now this only pertains to my American interns.
The interns that I get from Germany, France, Singapore, and England are just fine. What is wrong with America? What are they teaching in schools there? Ugh. I think that I will devote another post to cover that subject. As it is truly alarming.
Whenever I berate an intern about something that they did wrong, I often use examples from my childhood. I use them to illustrate key points. Such as, [1] you need to eat breakfast at home before you come to work. [2] Showers are not optional. [3] Don’t check your Facebook when you are in a meeting with the boss. [4] Lunchtime is for one hour, and long lunches are not an option. As well, as a pet peeve of mine, [5]you must do the work assigned to
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It’s on purpose they are useless and actually a hindrance many times.
You can’t bring the last superpower down if you have competent people running things and able to learn new things on their own, properly.
“Do you remember what it was like going to High School in the 1970s?”
Class of’69, here. But I get your point.
I was in HS late 70’s and early 80’s. Loved every minute of it. The girls, cars, music, movies. Wish I could go back. Such a stress free time.
Graduated in ‘78 and loved every minute of my high school years. Always looked forward to the Friday night football games and we used to take my Dad along with us.
Class of 78 here, too. It was a different world then.
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Extra effort is absolutely taboo, No sense of responsibility, and no personal pride in themselves to do the best of their abilities.
Everything is now based on unproductive obstructionism as normal.
Not true, at least with the one little intern I have some connection with. She seems to take her hours seriously despite obstacles that arose during the summer.
ML/NJ
Dupe. Year old dupe :)
(What school was like) Learning during my 1970s High School years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3670980/posts
Great read, nicely done.
Lots of good memories and truths there.
78 here as well.
"Getting the first paycheck and seeing the deductions of taxes, fees, contributions, and services from the paycheck. An American tradition: watching the expression on the face of someone getting their first paycheck and seeing all the taxes taken out. I experienced this during the 1970s. I can only imagine what a shock it must be today."
Class of 1967, but I know what you mean.
Graduated in the 70’s.
Grew up living outside in a neighborhood where everybody knew each others and mom’s stayed home. (Most had to. No dryer or dishwasher when I was young, cooking from scratch, one car, one phone, one TV. My gram had a wringer washer!) My parent were socially active and so were we kids.
I think it was Dan Bongino who summed it well. He said we have traded social interactions for social media. It was social media that taught us empathy and compassion. That’s hardly part of our culture anymore. It shows.
Class of 72. Didn’t particularly enjoy being spit on and called an effin nazi when our Army JROTC unit gathered for our weekly formation.
Class of ‘66 here....A lot of things you brought up were just coming in then, but a lot of things we did were carried on in the ‘70’s...
OPPS MAJOR!! Social INTERACTION taught us empathy and compassion.
Need to go eat something. Brain cell need a reboot.
Seems like the Pleistocene from here :-\ (and an almost entirely different country, alas)
What!?
No mumblegummer snark post?
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