Posted on 08/01/2016 5:29:28 PM PDT by vannrox
Are you kidding? The reason is the Millenials are ignorant of the real world, both in the US and the rest of the world. Of course companies are going to hire us for less money than someone from that generation.
Have you talked to those people? They have a confused world where their view of how things are don’t really match up to how things are, but they try to make it fit to their world view anyway. The few that do see clearly will have to fight against the tide of those who have abandoned logic. That will be a tough fight.
While it is true that we may need to work longer than previous generations, it is also true that younger workers are incompetent.
The Calvinist work ethic is gone and the employees can't get out of the place fast enough. That's why they are mopping floors and spraying poisonous cleaners around while the people are still eating. That's why the customer now comes last as they attend to all their little tasks.
Don't get me started on the recent immigrants, who don't even know what a vacuum-sealed bottle is but think you can replace a top and put the soda or juice back on the shelf. The faulty English has resulted in many an f'd-up order. Sometimes total incomprehension. The busboys come and try to take your plate away while you are still eating. They don't ask, they just stick their thumb right in there. They are all desperate for money. The college grads only want to be coddled and praised.
I could go on and on. I'm trying to get my Girl Scout badge in Curmudgeonry.
An in-law points out that the property tax in NJ is actually regressive, because it impoverishes the middle class to the benefit of the really wealthy, who could care less.
Not really. The Mason-Dixon takes a curve in order to keep NJ in the north.
bump
**** “I’m 61, and I figure I’ll work until I die, or get too sick to work. Started in the berry fields at 7” ****
I got ya .... I started at 6 driving the ol Studebaker Hay Truck (standing on the seat, Granny Gear, just steering)
But I know what you are saying and we are the same age, at 8 my Dad had Walking Pneumonia? Anyway he was in the hospital for 3 days and I had to milk the cows... Mom said I did a really good job so... it was my job forever after... then Berries Beans, Cucumbers and Hay (BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE)
I too will have to work till I die... married a Young Woman, divorced now and “That” Contract will probably not end till the day I Die, hoping that it ends sooner would deprive my children of their Mother so ... I’m OK, I’ll work.
Got nothing else to do
*** “Like an old plow horse I will probably die in the harness” ***
I’ve thought/known that but never with the words that make it so palatable. Thank you
**** “Me too (age 74) ...if you call UBER a job” ****
Your PAX get a ride and a History Lesson! (You should Charge Double!)
BUMP!
Don’t throw me in that Briar Patch!
*** “a pitcher of Bloody Marys, and the hot tub” ***
I have a story about a Pitcher of Gin and Tonic (mostly Gin) and a Hot tub along with the three waitresses
(probably should keep it to myself)
>> Me too (age 74) ...if you call UBER a job.
Godspeed, and good wages.
*** “Topic two. Older workers know how to show up, are generally better educated, and less entitled” ***
And we take the Row assigned and figure out how to make it work instead of complaining ...
I do a lot of different “Jobs” I always look at it like ... “How do I make this pay Twice or Thrice”
Experience and knowing a lot of people and you can take the “Worthless” Contract or Job and make it work (most of the time) These are usually the only ones available to the non-frat party oldsters.
I don’t tell them if I succeeded or failed... I just ask for another one.
**** Everyone who could went Galt years ago. It had an effect****
I’m waiting for my Invitation to Go Galt, in the end I may have to Infiltrate and just lay low once I get there.
I’m an outdoors person; won’t work...
Our property taxes basically are a high overhead that childless people in particular are unlikely to bear; there is no reason for them to absorb such costs without using the school system. The taxes primarily benefit the government worker caste (our upper middle class), and much of it passes through them right into the Democratic Party’s coffers - who use it to hire MORE government workers. A vicious cycle...
I am a defacto mentor to many young people. Many are bright and well educated. They are great kids. But they simply do not know how to work hard and they cannot cope with harsh people. I help them with by both by being their “friend” and using them, abusing them, and just generally running them into the ground. But we are usually successful and I give them the credit. It has held launch several into the exec ranks already.
Must be ME! I am working as a CAD Engineer refurbishing Tools for The Semi-Conductor Industry, I am 63, have a criminal record, make more money than I have ever in my Life,..he he..I have a job for LIFE..Just Paid off my Harley in one Year, having the time of my LIFE...http://www.entrepix.com/
bkmk
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