Bingo. I don't shop very often, but I went into a Home Depot recently to purchase a couple of items. I asked my wife if she noticed anything different...she had seen the same thing...all the employees were older...the younger ones had vanished.
About damn time. Good customer service was BACK! You could see the difference...the change in work ethic was palpable. The 'under 30' crowd screwed themselves with their arrogance, their slothful attitudes, their appearance...good riddance. Long past time that employees recognize that the BEST employees are the OLDER ones. LOL at 'generation duh'.
A few years back my house thermostat took a crap in the middle of the night and I had to drive to town to get a new one.
I wandered around Walmart for a half hour and finally found a kid and asked him for help finding what I needed. He said he could help me in a minute so I went back to the general area to wait. After another 10 minutes I looked over and saw the kid putting his coat on and heading for the door. His shift was over and he was going home.
Factory work is the same. As a paint room foreman almost all of my painters were parolees from a halfway house. They always showed up, did good work and begged for all the overtime I could legally give them. I had one 60+ year old woman who prepped parts and the 3 mildly retarded adults. As far as I’m concerned I had the best crew in the whole shop