Posted on 11/12/2023 12:56:09 PM PST by DallasBiff
1. "The 'customer is always right' excuse, and not allowing employees to adequately defend themselves. The customer is the CUSTOMER. The service you get is a privilege, not a right, and you better believe you can be denied service."
2. "The 'workhorse' mentality they want in employees. My job does not need to be my life when I’m getting paid a Medicare wage. My sanity is worth more to me than my work. Quit asking your employees to give all of their energy to their jobs."
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
I simply stated a plain fact. The post-war generation was, indeed, the recipient of the largest generational inheritance. They did not, in turn, increase or preserve family wealth. Instead, they handed succeeding generations insurmountable debt.
You're defending the generation which gave us hippy communes, rejected Goldwater, embraced McGovern, handed South Vietnam over to the Soviets, and inaugurated the modern socialist welfare state when they swallowed LBJ's Great Society scheme.
Are you sure you want to want to get into a measuring contest to see who's more purely anti-communist? Nobody can hold a candle to GenX in that department.
I don't agree.
I’m 74 and do a lot of my computer work these days on my IPhone (basic low cost model - not the $1400 one).
If the text is beyond a few words/couple of sentences, I activate the keyboard microphone and dictate the text. It takes a little practice to get the punctuation commands down (like “open paren, ” not “open parentheses”). There are online aids to help you get the hang of it. After you have dictated the text, you absolutely must go back over the draft in detail to correct not only the punctuation, but also deal with all the helpful edits that have been done by the automatic assistant (which I have yet to figure out how to turn off).
Then send the correspondence on its way.
By the way, I use the same voice-to-text feature to write letters and emails in Notepad. When I’ve got the text down to about 85 or 90% complete, I email it to myself. Then copy and paste it into either outgoing email or into a word processing program. I finish formatting it, give it a final review for style and content and send it out.
I don’t have a voice-to-text application on my laptop, so this is a great help when I’m trying to get some correspondence done.
It just takes practice.
Yes ,I agree .
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Where do I sign up for my intergenerational inheritance, Comrade?
Being a Boomer I evidently qualify for this and was unaware and have yet to get paid. Time is running out!
“You’re defending the generation which gave us hippy communes, rejected Goldwater, embraced McGovern, handed South Vietnam over to the Soviets, and inaugurated the modern socialist welfare state when they swallowed LBJ’s Great Society scheme.”
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs became law in 1965. Three years before any Boomer was old enough to vote.
Goldwater ran in 1964. The first election when any Boomer could vote was 1968. We had to be 21.
In 1972 the 18-29 age group voted 46% for McGovern, 52% for Nixon. Maybe your definition of “embraced” is off a tiny bit.
Boomers had to sign up for the Draft at age 18. The first Boomers were turning 19 when combat troops waded ashore in 1965. The greatest number of combat deaths were in 1968 and and vast majority were Boomers, 18-22 yrs old. Go look at the Wall sometime if you can pry yourself away from feeling sorry over your harsh life.
They better find the secret of living 300 healthy years real soon - we are dying off and our children aren’t fit to take over.
That was an epic response.
Brava!
True.
Some customers are looking to grift. You don’t need them.
Twits.
That war was not our problem and we shouldn’t sacrifice our men to fight other countries wars.
Not acceptable.
If you can't be right, you can at least be flippant. You really don't like that I claimed that the boomers inherited the greatest windfall in history, but you can't challenge it.
Being a Boomer I evidently qualify for this and was unaware and have yet to get paid.
My complaint was that they really weren't qualified, but received it anyway.
Time is running out!
Well then, cherish every second.
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs became law in 1965. Three years before any Boomer was old enough to vote.
I didn't claim that the boomers voted for the social programs (since they weren't subject to direct referendum, anyway), but by the time GenX could vote, those welfare programs had been made the so-called "third rail" of political discourse by SOMEONE. One of the pillars of GenX politics was the demand for welfare reform and they were opposed by boomers on that agenda point.
Goldwater ran in 1964. The first election when any Boomer could vote was 1968. We had to be 21.
Again, I didn't say anything about voting. My generation was too young to vote for Reagan, but we certainly embraced him. I remember being on the school bus on election day, 1980, and we all knew Carter was finished. A spontaneous celebratory riot accompanied by a profane song signaled our unanimous approval of change.
In 1972 the 18-29 age group voted 46% for McGovern, 52% for Nixon. Maybe your definition of “embraced” is off a tiny bit.
In 1972 Nixon was the incumbent (who usually enjoys a boost across the spectrum). McGovern pushed the formerly conservative Democratic party far to the left when he secured the nomination by surreptitiously promising the youth vote that he would legalized pot and abortion. Going into the election season, polls had initially indicated that McGovern would enjoy a real windfall from the 21-and-below demographic, but the sort of boomer who wanted pot and abortion couldn't get it together enough to actually go register for the vote.
Boomers had to sign up for the Draft at age 18.
So did Gens X, Y, and Z.
The first Boomers were turning 19 when combat troops waded ashore in 1965. The greatest number of combat deaths were in 1968 and and vast majority were Boomers, 18-22 yrs old.
If every man jack of your generation had gone, the results would have been the same.
Go look at the Wall sometime if you can pry yourself away from feeling sorry over your harsh life.
Rhetorically I ask, "is that a victory wall?" GenX won its battles.
“””””””You’re defending the generation which gave us hippy communes, rejected Goldwater, embraced McGovern, handed South Vietnam over to the Soviets, and inaugurated the modern socialist welfare state when they swallowed LBJ’s Great Society scheme.”””””
LOL, you think children did all that? All that was done by adults, not children.
In 1964 the the old man of the boomer generation had just turned 18, the youngest boomers just turned 3, and they weren’t running anything and wouldn’t be for decades.
That was a lame post, you rebutted nothing but instead just pushed out some whiney avoidances of the facts and the realities of American life and politics and history.
We exist to see the attributes of liberty adopted in every nation which is yet a stranger to it. We are not to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed. To consider it otherwise dishonors the memory of over 58,000 who died in the cause.
Then dip your hands in the blood of 57,000 dead snd share the guilt.
Yes. The company went out of business in April. Any whining that they are doing is now on their own time.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/media/buzzfeed-news-shuts-down/index.html
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