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No. What I see is at work are people playing games on their computer or cruising the net. Case one in point: I ordered electronic components from a company in Minneapolis. Fed Ex picked it up and delivered it to an address in Cincinnati. Two weeks later it wound up in Ball Ground Georgia. Two weeks after that it was declared lost. One week after that the battered and torn package with now useless contents showed up. Case two in point: I ordered components from a company in Texas. It routed through Los Angeles and then to Knoxville Tennessee. It is said it will be delivered in a week.

I live in a town close to Atlanta, a major shipping hub.

It seems the dweebs that work for FedEx aren't making good use of their computers or even a map of the Nation.

Most everyone I deal with seems to totally inattentive to the work at hand. It takes three or four emails to get a point across even though the first email delivered detailed information about the problems. Their emails clearly indicate that they didn't read the entire email before responding. I suspect they respond using a script.

It used to be easy to get things done.

I'm old enough to remember when offices ran from green-bar printouts and three ring binders. That worked better than what is going on now.

But as I said previously, employees should answer their phone so that they reflect favorably upon their employers. Nobody purposefully does business with a flippant nitwit.

That was her personal/home phone.

Not where customers are going to be calling and interacting with her.

I think you and others are overreacting.

… that said, if you want to talk about work ethic … yeah, that’s another topic. The funny video where a guy interviews a young girl for a job only to find her idea of knowing technology was social media proficiency (but not Facebook because that’s for old people), SIRI is a research tool and finally that she just doesn’t do 8 AM may tragically ring bells for some.

Completely random aside:

Noritsu manuals were just the best. You could rebuild a System 2 from the circuit diagrams.

Fuji: “A fuse is blown. Replace it.”

I’m not exactly sure why I thought of this old memory … but since we’re being old guys….