Matt You Remember this Girl?
Nobody Want's to Really Work
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Matt You Remember this Girl?
Matthew Norman
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I do remember. She opened up a consignment shop.
junker1
Roundtable Host 2009
I have a hard time believing that the young people today do not want to work. makes me sick. I had my wifes 20 year old nephew work for two days. cant work no more he isn't up to it. isn't up to it! what the f&#% is that? I also have a 52 year old that works with me. now hes the man. top shelf worker. I wouldn't trade him for 3 20 year olds.
AquaMike
New member
AquaMike
New member
I've hired people of all different ages and there are always the lazy ones and the hard workers in each group.
junker1
Roundtable Host 2009
when it comes to work, Do you think the younger people today are different then the youth of 30 years ago? I know this, My daughter, son in law and grandson were living with me. we were in the car when I pointed out a place he might be able to get a job as a laborer. he said he couldn't be a laborer but would be better off as a janitor. real high ambitions on this one, A JANITOR
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Send him to college and he might have a chance at getting the janitor job, but after the degree he won't have enough sense to know to mop with the fluffy end. Lol
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F*ck yes there's a difference.
When I was in my teens I would work 80+ hours a week in the summer, we all did... Doing all sorts of things. We would work hard too. I paid my way through school and didn't have to worry about working while I was going. I worked the summer after my senior year doing 80 hour weeks while I had mono from associating with dirty tramps . All summer long, but I didn't have to work a minute the rest of the year.
Today, you have some hard workers but it's a small percentage. For a lot of these kids a 30 hour week is too much. They need naps, recreation, breaks and vacations during the summer.
junker1
Roundtable Host 2009
His parenting skills are horrible. never worked a day that I have known him and that's been 5 years. Can not manage 20 dollars let alone any kind of budget. he doesn't know how to do laundry or take out the trash. USELESS at the ripe old age of 24. He is pretty much dead weight for my daughter
junker1
Roundtable Host 2009
This is no BS, when I was seven I would go down to American park and be a bat boy for the bar league softball team. They would give me 2 dollars a game. I would go door to door soliciting jobs from the stay at home moms. store runs, raking leaves whatever. 13/14 years old I worked at the car wash 66 hours a week, ten hours a day, 6 hours on Sunday. minimum wage was $3.35 an hour. shoveling snow was a payday 50/60 bucks in an afternoon yahoooo.
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
At 10 I was babysitting for neighbors.
At 11 I was working 14hrs every Saturday on a farm and 24hrs a week in the summer baling hay, cleaning fence rows, castrating livestock, feeding, cleaning, etc.
At 13 I worked 4 hrs a day after school at a mini mart.
At 15 I worked 4 hrs a day after school at piggly wiggley till sports took me out of that.
At 16 I worked at McDonald's.
The highest I ever made was $2.35 an hour till McDonald's. Made $1.00/hr on the farm.
I am sure 90% of that is outlawed now.
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At 11 I was working 14hrs every Saturday on a farm and 24hrs a week in the summer baling hay, cleaning fence rows, castrating livestock, feeding, cleaning, etc.
At 13 I worked 4 hrs a day after school at a mini mart.
At 15 I worked 4 hrs a day after school at piggly wiggley till sports took me out of that.
At 16 I worked at McDonald's.
The highest I ever made was $2.35 an hour till McDonald's. Made $1.00/hr on the farm.
I am sure 90% of that is outlawed now.
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Christopher
Moderator
Working for my father cutting down and trimming trees growing up. In Jr. High School I started getting paid $0.75 per hour and then got raises as I could do more skilled jobs.
If we wanted things other than the basics, we had to work for the money for them.
There are too many people out there that just don't want to work, some of that coming from these false reality shows where people don't work for a living, just stay at home doing nothing and stupid people out there in fantasy land think that this is how most people live, money just comes to them and that is why I don't like most of those false reality shows on tv.
I see so many people out there at stores, corners of streets just standing there asking for money when there is nothing wrong with them, they are just too lazy to work.
I really wish that the medicaid, food stamps, wic, workers comp, unemployment and other government programs did weekly drug and alcohol tests as a lot of these people just sell their food stamps for money for drugs, beer, pot, crack, etc..... and a lot of times there is no food in the house for the kids.
I don't have a problem with people drinking, just with those that don't work for the money to buy the stuff and get the money from the government from our working and paying taxes so in effect we are feeding these lazy s.o.b.'s
If we wanted things other than the basics, we had to work for the money for them.
There are too many people out there that just don't want to work, some of that coming from these false reality shows where people don't work for a living, just stay at home doing nothing and stupid people out there in fantasy land think that this is how most people live, money just comes to them and that is why I don't like most of those false reality shows on tv.
I see so many people out there at stores, corners of streets just standing there asking for money when there is nothing wrong with them, they are just too lazy to work.
I really wish that the medicaid, food stamps, wic, workers comp, unemployment and other government programs did weekly drug and alcohol tests as a lot of these people just sell their food stamps for money for drugs, beer, pot, crack, etc..... and a lot of times there is no food in the house for the kids.
I don't have a problem with people drinking, just with those that don't work for the money to buy the stuff and get the money from the government from our working and paying taxes so in effect we are feeding these lazy s.o.b.'s
junker1
Roundtable Host 2009
And I would bet $100 you earned every penny of it. But when you got your money weren't you proud? I know I had a sense of pride working.
JDhomeservices
New member
You guys have to give young people these days a little bit more slack. Things are not the way they were 20, or even 10 years ago. There is no longer any incentive for anyone to work hard. As companies constantly try to adjust to a changing economy, they increased the prices of their goods and services, decrease of their employees pay, get rid of any pay raises or bonuses or benefits whatsoever. If you have been a loyal, hard working employee for a company for many years, what did that get you? Forced early retirement. Your hard work and loyalty mean absolutely nothing if they can find someone that will do your job for half the price. Is it really any surprise that this generation has been forced into an attitude of doing as little as possible to get by without being fired?
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Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Chris, my work at a young age pales in comparison to my son Chris S.
At around 13 he was delivering DMV packets all over for Shelly on a Go-ped. It was a 16 mile round trip to just the DMV not counting other deliveries.
He was unloading and tagging clothes at night and up at 430am to sort them for the route before going to the indoctrination camp every day.
By 16 he was driving a delivery route plus all that other stuff. By 17 he was on the roofs cleaning filters and coils in115 degree weather
At 18 he was an iron worker apprentice and they made him lug 150 lbs of gear up 30 flights of stairs everyday. Over and over again.
He is my hero. He and his wife Jill give me hope for this generation.
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At around 13 he was delivering DMV packets all over for Shelly on a Go-ped. It was a 16 mile round trip to just the DMV not counting other deliveries.
He was unloading and tagging clothes at night and up at 430am to sort them for the route before going to the indoctrination camp every day.
By 16 he was driving a delivery route plus all that other stuff. By 17 he was on the roofs cleaning filters and coils in115 degree weather
At 18 he was an iron worker apprentice and they made him lug 150 lbs of gear up 30 flights of stairs everyday. Over and over again.
He is my hero. He and his wife Jill give me hope for this generation.
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Rance
Active member
Like Tony said "Send him to college" then he'll be able to turn that janitor pay into "Custodial Engineer" pay!
junker1
Roundtable Host 2009
It has always been like that, even worse. slave labor. you think they didn't know I was 15 when I worked at the carwash? they gave no overtime pay,you worked the 7 day 66 hour week or got fired. Like tony said in an earlier post " 90 percent of it illegal today " so forgive me I am Not really good at felling sorry for people that think like that. Its in your blood, you either want it or you don't. you want to at least try and succeed. If you fail you put on your boots and try again. I have failed In the past but that doesn't put me in a perpetual slump. My two daughters have the same attitude.
AquaMike
New member
I'm sorry but it's just plain old lazy. Ask any employer if they'd pay their employees more money if they stepped up to the plate and REALLY did what they were hired to do and I'll bet the answer will always be yes. I've had guys that I pay half of what I would pay them if they weren't so lazy. I seem to just get by with them. What's the point of paying them double because you know their lazy attitude will come right back.
JDhomeservices
New member
I see what you're saying, and I'm not excusing laziness. Its a little bit different with a small business where the guy in charge of handing out raises is in front of the employees everyday. If you see someone working for you who is doing a great job and making you a lot of money, of course you want to give him incentive to keep working hard and keep making you that money. But that is not the attitude of the average place where a teenager or someone in their 20's would get their first job. I remember a few years back working part time at a Pizza Hut while I was going to school. I remember the GM telling me day after day how impressed he was with me and how I was the hardest worker he has ever had. Did that stop them from paying me minimum wage? No. He just scheduled a couple less people per night when I was on the shift because he knew I would pick up the slack. There was recently a story on the local news about at school teacher who had been called Teacher of the Year for the whole state or something like that. Apparently people would move from all over the state so that they could get their kids in his class. Well, he had been teaching for 7 years and he finally just had to quit because after 7 years he had never seen a raise. He was scraping by to feed his family on 30k a year. Again, I'm not excusing laziness, but ambition and good work ethic is not something people are just born with. It has to be learned and taught. And I'm personally glad that my dad drove that into me as a teenager. But if he hadn't, I don't think my life experiences would have taught me that hard work pays off. Before I started working for myself, the only reason I worked hard was because that is what my dad instilled in my character, not because I had any motivation. It wasn't until I started working for myself that I saw the benefits of hard work.
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