You gotta watch this .....

Always the occasional discussion shows up here on the YT forum about the generation of kids heading out into the work force nowadays. This might be at least slightly exaggerated BUT I'm sure if I was a business owner, I would have experienced at least something like this over the past few years. Anyways, it's funny but in a lot of ways, it's not funny at all .....
A newbie at her new job

This was posted on Tool Talk a couple of weeks ago. Discussions on page 2 of TT forum.

she went all four years and learned that from her professors .

"first day on the job"

Wow, I don't know what to say. I am technically part of the millennial generation, but I sure don't feel like I belong to the group. I've had my share of temper tantrums over ther years, but I sure wouldn't be crying about something where I was in the wrong, like that. I guess everyone is entitled to any and all things these days.

I couldn't even make it through her rant. Her video and her attitude offends "ME"!

Can't help but wonder why the drastic change in the youth of today compared to the youth of, say, 100 years ago. I think for the most part there are 2 reasons: 1) kids have it MUCH easier nowdays. Let them travel back 100 years - no shopping malls, no cell phones, no internet, no personal car. Often times kids had to work to help support the rest of the family, even when that meant working in sweat shops or delivering newspapers. It's what you had to do to survive, and it wasn't just about "your" survival, but that of your entire family!
2) I think animals also play a huge role in how kids turn out. If a kid has ever had livestock, and the health/well-being of the livestock could make or break that family, then you did everything in your power to make certain the livestock were tended.

In short, life used to be about more than just oneself.

I think it's really difficult for those of us who were born/raised in the old world, and now see this new world, and find out that our hands are tied. What can we do? ...Beats me! But these kids will eventually grow into adults, and MANY will not have the fortitude to be the provider that their families need for them to be. I see lots of problems in the future of the younger generations.

Life used to have a way of weeding out those types - the ones who just wouldn't/couldn't get with the program. It was called "Survival of the Fittest", or maybe "Only the Strong Survive". Whichever, it seems to be fading into the past rather quickly. Eventually there will be a reset......but by then, will it be too late?

Yes, I see it now on Tool Talk, sorry for the duplicate post. Yes of course it is acting which I realized. The message is an exaggerated effort at making a point about some issues that many employers must face these days, that was the reason for my post. A lot of the replies on Tool Talk had to do with who she is, where she came from, and what she was doing, etc. which I had no interest in.

I hope she's just joking

Satire

If all people coming out of college have that attitude the future is not looking good."male white boss" give me a break lol.she is a spoiled brat that hasn't had any hardship in her life.people like that make me sick!! I'm glad to have grown up poor,I appreciate what little I have. Wow

I already saw the video, but what I saw today made me a bit upset, I saw an 80 year old woman pumping gas and her 15 year old grandson sitting in the car while she did all the work, she was just finishing up when I pulled up to the other side of the pump, I never let any woman pump her own gas that I was ever riding whether it be my momma, wife or grandma, and I always grabbed the heavy end when picking up something with an elder man. Dadgum disrespectful youngins!

That's what they learn in college. The world owes me. I was raised that I owe the world. First thing needed is a fast moving 2 x 4 meeting her head just above eye level then the same thing with the college professors and then finally her parents for raising a spoiled, useless brat.

I learned it as "Work or get Fired!!!!" She can take the signs in her trunk and stuff them up her trunk.....

Since It's been realized that the video is satire, I'll defend young folks a little....

I'm an evil millennial, turned 20 back in may. And I'm trying to keep the farm alive by myself after Dad died last fall, all while going to school for Mechanical Engineering, honors program to boot. And while trying to finish putting together the machine shop that Dad let me try to start a few years ago. So I have lots going on and am ALWAYS covered in gease/diesel/dirt...

While the folks I got to school with (University of Houston) may not be able wrassle an 8D battery off a truck crane upper 8' in the air, lay down a weld bead, or swing a sledge hammer all day. The majority that I see every day (albeit honors engineering is separated from the majoirty of the student body) are good hard working very intelligent folks.

Yeah you get the morons addicted to their cell phone, but no need to write them all off. I'll step off the soap box now.

Everybody calm down. Its a joke. Satire.

(quoted from post at 14:18:23 07/18/17) Always the occasional discussion shows up here on the YT forum about the generation of kids heading out into the work force nowadays. This might be at least slightly exaggerated BUT I'm sure if I was a business owner, I would have experienced at least something like this over the past few years. Anyways, it's funny but in a lot of ways, it's not funny at all .....
A newbie at her new job

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It is satire and very funny. I am continually impressed with all the young people I meet.

I find it comical how many folks were duped by an obvious fake. Even though the exact same video was posted and debunked last week on Tool Talk.

You can convince almost anyone to believe almost anything...just as long as it's something they WANT to believe.

I admit I didn't watch the video and have no interest in seeing it. I used to be a trainer where I work and have seen every type of attitude you can imagine. It's bad enough the trainers had to go back to training to learn how to train newer generation workers. We were informed the current generation has never had to work and has no concept of it. So we have to train them not how to do the job they were hired for but how to work and what having a job means. There's about a 1 in 10 chance they make it 6 months. We had such bad turn over management wanted to hold the trainers "accountable" for every trainee that didn't make it. I turned in my certification before I found out what accountable meant. I honestly can't blame any company for heading across the border instead of trying to make a workforce out of this generation. One really sticks to mind though. He was there for a couple months. Notice I didn't say work and I use the term there loosely. I can't remember him making it every day for a single week. He came in to work once wearing a $200 tie and $1,000 suit. Told us he knows his worth and was meant for management. He said laboring was fine for someone like me but not for him. He went up to the supervisor and said he couldn't work wearing this attire so they had to train him for management now. Couple days later he came in driving a $70,000 brand new Mercedes. Figured that would get him noticed by the higher ups. When that didn't work he walked right in to the head bosses office put his feet up on the desk and demanded a promotion. That was the worst case I've run into but most come in with an overinflated ego, thinking they're better than they are.

Re "much easier these days"

Have a read of "Growing up with the country: Childhood on the Far West Frontier" by Elliot West. Univ. New Mexico Press

One quote is about becoming a really useful worker at the age of four IIRC

Though I've not experienced anything so egregious, Kansas, I'm not surprised.

Most of the young "workers" that I meet believe that society owes them a living.

Given circumstances, it's hard to blame them.

Dean

While it was posted as a joke, its funny because its true.


I help recruit from colleges, the men in the construction science degrees are for the most part good hard working guys who need some direction. Men and women in the business degrees are a mixed bag. Some think all they need to do is show up, hang out on Facebook for 7 hours and maybe work an hour, others show up ready to work but again - they need direction and they need constant feedback and the feedback needs a level of constant encouragement or they get frustrated and quit. For most of these people this is the first time they have ever worked in their lives - never had a job at McDonalds, never had their own lawn mowing jobs, never did much around their home growing up. If you can channel it without getting frustrated you can make them an asset.


The absolute worst are the educators and abundant arts degrees. I have little experience with these people but my wife works with them everyday as a teacher. The video above is a pretty good indicator of what you get.

I work with younger people and am impressed for the most part. Not much different from when I grew up really. I don't understand the cellphone addiction, but my parents did not understand my affection for stereo, either. We need to remember this. Young people sometimes display bad manners because older people set a poor example for them.

Nearly half a century ago I went to school for mechanical engineering. School didn't work out for me and I went into auto mechanics. It was a tough job but the one thing I didn't appreciate was that if you were half way descent, let alone great, there was no such thing as unemployment. Work was even better during recessions. After 27 years of that I got a job in high tech Manufacturing Engineering. Loved it however the next recession the engineering department (like what happened to many others I've known) was the first to get cut and since I had worked my way up to the higher pay scales I was the first of many to go.