Where did the work ethic go??
I was raised in the generation that was taught to "mind your manners","respect your elders", "no back-talk" and when you make a commitment you follow through with it.
Going back to work after 17 yrs ( I stayed home to raise my daughters) was a shock to my system. Not a shock that I was working again, but the shock was in working with this new, younger generation! I am amazed in their LACK of work ethic and their attitude toward their job and superiors!
Back when I was a teeneager/young adult, if you had a job (and we all did), you shoved up at your scheduled time, didn't whine about EVERYTHING, did your job and went home as scheduled. The kids today don't have any undestanding of this concept. They are notorious for coming in 10 min. late--ALL THE TIME!!! Because they are a relief person, this means either their co-worker (usally a mom trying to get home to fix supper) has to stay late or we are short-handed until they get to their register. These kids also whine for the most part, if you ask them to do something--they would rather just stand there and talk. In any business, the customer ALWAYS comes first. These kids will constantly talk to each other while waiting on customers. And this isn't just my store--I have been the customer at other establishments and this has happened to me!! Customers are your paycheck--if you disrespect them, they won't come back. There goes your job!! And your money!!
These kids are constantly "calling out", i.e. calling work a short time before their scheduled time to say they can't come to work. Now, once in a while because they are legitimately sick is one thing. But constantly??!! As an example--you have a teenager that works 3 days a week. She requests more hours because she needs the money. The next week you schedule her for 4 days--and that week she calls out one day!!! She still is working only 3 days!! And this happens all the time!! I don't understand them. Some of the blame falls to the parents. I had one parent call to say his daughter wouldn't be in on a Friday night (our busiest) because he dicided to take the family out to dinner and his daughter was going!! Great role model he set for her work ethic!!! This same father called another day to say he was taking his daughter shopping for school clothes!! He couldn't have done that when she got out of work??!!
Years ago, when you messed up at work, you received a written warning. Three warnings and you were fired. Guess what--doesn't happen anymore. A kid can mess up a thousand times, but you can't fired them. Well, you can, but know what happens?--they get to collect unemployment--no matter what they do!! Now this means my company has to pay them to sit home on their rear ends and play video games all day!! I had a co-worker who was great when he started. After a while, he started messing up on purpose. He told me he was doing this so he could get fired and collect--he didn't want to work anymore but wanted the money from unemployment!! Needless to say--management knew what he was up to and he ended up quitting and not receiving unemployment. Now, I understand equal rights for all, but this is getting carried away!! What are we teaching these future generations--it's okay to be a "screw-up"-you'll get money anyways!!??!!
The parents of these kids are my generation. I am so embarrassed by this. I was not raised this way--how were they?? My generation seems to be so concerned with money and material possessions--how much can we make so we can buy "stuff". Both parents work-never spending time with their kids so they can't seem to teach them the values of life they are going to need later in the "real world".
I must add here that not ALL of the kids are like this. I truely work with some great kids who come in on their days off, do their job and then some, and are pleasant and a joy to be around. It's the others that I have a problem with. If it was one or two kids, it probably wouldn't be noticed, but it's a lot more than a couple. It really makes it seem like the whole generation is like this. If you remember the 1960's, you think of that generation as a bunch of drug-taking, "free love" kids. Well, I was that generation, and I was not like that and neither were a lot of people I know. But the generation as a whole seemed like that. That is what I am afraid of for this generation. They will be catagorized as a group of kids that "don't care about anything but themselves". What a terrible legacy to have.
I can't wait to see what happens when this younger generation is the boss of a company, and their subordinates are always "calling out" or not getting work done because they are talking or late. Boy, do they have a rude awakening coming!! By they I'll be retired, sitting on my porch with a cheshire grin on my face thnking--"what comes around goes around!!".
Have a great day, and stay safe!!
Me
Going back to work after 17 yrs ( I stayed home to raise my daughters) was a shock to my system. Not a shock that I was working again, but the shock was in working with this new, younger generation! I am amazed in their LACK of work ethic and their attitude toward their job and superiors!
Back when I was a teeneager/young adult, if you had a job (and we all did), you shoved up at your scheduled time, didn't whine about EVERYTHING, did your job and went home as scheduled. The kids today don't have any undestanding of this concept. They are notorious for coming in 10 min. late--ALL THE TIME!!! Because they are a relief person, this means either their co-worker (usally a mom trying to get home to fix supper) has to stay late or we are short-handed until they get to their register. These kids also whine for the most part, if you ask them to do something--they would rather just stand there and talk. In any business, the customer ALWAYS comes first. These kids will constantly talk to each other while waiting on customers. And this isn't just my store--I have been the customer at other establishments and this has happened to me!! Customers are your paycheck--if you disrespect them, they won't come back. There goes your job!! And your money!!
These kids are constantly "calling out", i.e. calling work a short time before their scheduled time to say they can't come to work. Now, once in a while because they are legitimately sick is one thing. But constantly??!! As an example--you have a teenager that works 3 days a week. She requests more hours because she needs the money. The next week you schedule her for 4 days--and that week she calls out one day!!! She still is working only 3 days!! And this happens all the time!! I don't understand them. Some of the blame falls to the parents. I had one parent call to say his daughter wouldn't be in on a Friday night (our busiest) because he dicided to take the family out to dinner and his daughter was going!! Great role model he set for her work ethic!!! This same father called another day to say he was taking his daughter shopping for school clothes!! He couldn't have done that when she got out of work??!!
Years ago, when you messed up at work, you received a written warning. Three warnings and you were fired. Guess what--doesn't happen anymore. A kid can mess up a thousand times, but you can't fired them. Well, you can, but know what happens?--they get to collect unemployment--no matter what they do!! Now this means my company has to pay them to sit home on their rear ends and play video games all day!! I had a co-worker who was great when he started. After a while, he started messing up on purpose. He told me he was doing this so he could get fired and collect--he didn't want to work anymore but wanted the money from unemployment!! Needless to say--management knew what he was up to and he ended up quitting and not receiving unemployment. Now, I understand equal rights for all, but this is getting carried away!! What are we teaching these future generations--it's okay to be a "screw-up"-you'll get money anyways!!??!!
The parents of these kids are my generation. I am so embarrassed by this. I was not raised this way--how were they?? My generation seems to be so concerned with money and material possessions--how much can we make so we can buy "stuff". Both parents work-never spending time with their kids so they can't seem to teach them the values of life they are going to need later in the "real world".
I must add here that not ALL of the kids are like this. I truely work with some great kids who come in on their days off, do their job and then some, and are pleasant and a joy to be around. It's the others that I have a problem with. If it was one or two kids, it probably wouldn't be noticed, but it's a lot more than a couple. It really makes it seem like the whole generation is like this. If you remember the 1960's, you think of that generation as a bunch of drug-taking, "free love" kids. Well, I was that generation, and I was not like that and neither were a lot of people I know. But the generation as a whole seemed like that. That is what I am afraid of for this generation. They will be catagorized as a group of kids that "don't care about anything but themselves". What a terrible legacy to have.
I can't wait to see what happens when this younger generation is the boss of a company, and their subordinates are always "calling out" or not getting work done because they are talking or late. Boy, do they have a rude awakening coming!! By they I'll be retired, sitting on my porch with a cheshire grin on my face thnking--"what comes around goes around!!".
Have a great day, and stay safe!!
Me
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