What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[ultrarunner]

This afternoon several Hospital parkers must have cleaned out their cars dumping trash on the ground…

I only saw one in action but making a scene is how one gets shot or car keyed…

 

[rontaki]

This afternoon several Hospital parkers must have cleaned out their cars dumping trash on the ground…

I only saw one in action but making a scene is how one gets shot or car keyed…

Wait until they're no longer there, and put their trash back in/on their car. -or- Take a picture of them trashing the place, print it out and post anonymously in the break room, or just sneak it onto the boss's desk.

 

[Dftodd]

Do they still build 'em out of stapled together 2x2"s?

Depends. More and more are going to aluminum. The ultralites have aluminum framing for sure.

There are several places in the cubbies in my fifth wheel where you can see the aluminum.

 

[ultrarunner]

These are non employees… often the purps have no connection with facility.

On the way home a clean 2019 Mercedes was tossing out fast food trash, speeding and blatantly blowing stop signs… not as if they just robbed a place but as if they couldn’t care less…

Sad state because there is no excuse but I guess it’s kicks for them.

Probably good I was not selected for the police academy because I would have zero tolerance…

Wait until they're no longer there, and put their trash back in/on their car. -or- Take a picture of them trashing the place, print it out and post anonymously in the break room, or just sneak it onto the boss's desk.

 

[Camofurever1]

It's everywhere now, not just fast food. It's a cultural shift of entitlement, and people thinking they shouldn't have to clean up after themselves, everywhere. Our prior country club was one of the worst places for that in recent years, we've since dropped our membership as a result, but it wasn't that way 15 or 20 years ago.

It's not just eating places. Places of employment are the same way. The entitled generation doesn't think they have to do their job correctly. They think they can leave it up to everyone else to finish or repair their work for them that they constantly mess up. Then they whine, cry and throw a fit when they get written up for it and cry that they were personally discriminated against by the big, bad Boomer generation.

And F&^#*@n cell phones. They can't go more than 3 minutes at a time without picking the damn thing up and fiddling with it for a minute or two each time. Retirement just can't get here quick enough. I am fed up with baby sitting a bunch of entitled brats.

 

[WinterDeere]

Retirement just can't get here quick enough. I am fed up with baby sitting a bunch of entitled brats.

That's funny. I was going to say the opposite, that I've been really impressed with most of my younger hires, but then I realized it was more than 10 years ago that I hired my last "fresh out of school" engineer. So the group I'd be defending is more the Millenials, than the gen-Z kids you're probably observing. I was also never hiring anyone with less than a Master's degree, more often Ph.D. if they were coming into my group without prior work experience, so maybe not exactly the best representatives of their generation as a whole.

There's good with the bad there, though. I've noticed the younger generation of engineers are much less territorial and competitive, more inclined to want to collaborate than isolate. When working highly-technical problems where the probability of an error or oversight is high, this is so much more beneficial, than my gen-X tendencies to want to gather up the whole project in my own arms, and go it alone. Whether it's out of avoiding responsibility, or just in their nature given the way schools tend to push group work these days, I did find that's one thing my generation could learn from theirs.

One thing I've observed my entire working life, is that most people suck at their jobs, no matter what the age or what that job is. If they're not lazy, they're incompetent, oblivious, or unskilled. It's maybe one in ten employees who really "get it", and have the skills and motivation to really carry the whole operation along. I think what we're seeing is just that the way the rest of them suck has changed, over the course of time.

 

[Oaktree]

It's not just eating places. Places of employment are the same way. The entitled generation doesn't think they have to do their job correctly. They think they can leave it up to everyone else to finish or repair their work for them that they constantly mess up. Then they whine, cry and throw a fit when they get written up for it and cry that they were personally discriminated against by the big, bad Boomer generation.

And F&^#*@n cell phones. They can't go more than 3 minutes at a time without picking the damn thing up and fiddling with it for a minute or two each time.

Agree with you on cellphones, but this is hardly restricted to younger generations...many boomers are just as bad.

As far as "kids these days" goes, I'm sure when our grandparents were young their elders said the same thing about them. We boomers are hardly the first generation to claim how much more industrious, virtuous, polite people were in "our" day.

 

[Paystar]

Canada putting milk in stupid tiny bags. Pain in the a$$

 

[masseyrider]

Canada putting milk in stupid tiny bags. Pain in the a$$

They aren't intended to be inserted anally.

 

[ultrarunner]

That's funny. I was going to say the opposite, that I've been really impressed with most of my younger hires, but then I realized it was more than 10 years ago that I hired my last "fresh out of school" engineer. So the group I'd be defending is more the Millenials, than the gen-Z kids you're probably observing. I was also never hiring anyone with less than a Master's degree, more often Ph.D. if they were coming into my group without prior work experience, so maybe not exactly the best representatives of their generation as a whole.

There's good with the bad there, though. I've noticed the younger generation of engineers are much less territorial and competitive, more inclined to want to collaborate than isolate. When working highly-technical problems where the probability of an error or oversight is high, this is so much more beneficial, than my gen-X tendencies to want to gather up the whole project in my own arms, and go it alone. Whether it's out of avoiding responsibility, or just in their nature given the way schools tend to push group work these days, I did find that's one thing my generation could learn from theirs.

One thing I've observed my entire working life, is that most people suck at their jobs, no matter what the age or what that job is. If they're not lazy, they're incompetent, oblivious, or unskilled. It's maybe one in ten employees who really "get it", and have the skills and motivation to really carry the whole operation along. I think what we're seeing is just that the way the rest of them suck has changed, over the course of time.

There is the theory of promoted to incompetence.

One of my very good friends career ATT was the best at his job and promoted to manager of a work group.

It gave him ulcers and he hated being responsible for the work of others managing a time.

He had 25 years with never a sick day but absebtism was a huge problem for his metrics… people out ill, family leave, religious holidays…

He went back to his old job and reverted to his highly productive competent and and happy self.

He didn’t seek promotion to management and gave it a year and it was the worst year of his career…

We find similar in the Hospital… very rare to younger excellent staff accept or seek management…

Often overtime and extra hours shunned… a lot of younger RN seek 3 or 4 day work week…