Millennial Job Interview

[MossRoad]

30 or 40 years ago most people knew how to work and had a reasonable sense of a work ethic; most.

Now the gap between the millenial hard workers with a brain and the completely lazy, only want to game and snapchat, is vast. I know some outstanding millenials and I know some I wouldn't have work for me if they paid me.

SC Basketball coach Frank Martin said that he doesn't blame the millenials, it is their parents. I agree with him. If you know a lazy millenial; look to the parents.

The baby boomers are the parents of the millennials. The baby boomers obviously didn't get any parenting skills passed down from their parents. So it's really the fault of anyone born before about 1946.

 

[MossRoad]

He may have been using "new math."


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Steve

YIKES!

 

[dstig1]

And if you haven't seen this one, it is truly a stitch!

Like many others have said, there are great ones, and then there are the ones that make these stereotypes ring so true...

 

[ultrarunner]

As a side note...

Each year around the holidays we hire seasonal help on the Christmas Tree Farm... these are real jobs with W2 and withholding and time cards.

Every year the guys and gals continue to impress... not all, but most very much so... the ones that don't are not around long.

Almost all are enrolled in the local Community College or High School, work and live semi rural with jobs at the feed store or farm/ranching... many previous go on to the military or work towards getting on at the Park Service, Fire Dept etc...

Never been an issue with drugs, discipline or language... one of the guys liked to chew and when told it was turning off the customers he apologized... really gave me a different prospective compared to the kids where I live seeming to be always ready to mobilize for a protest...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wait until one of those millennials is in charge of a project that you are a contractor on. Everything is expected to be done in 2 weeks. And dont bother testing......

 

[Botaskinner]

The baby boomers are the parents of the millennials. The baby boomers obviously didn't get any parenting skills passed down from their parents. So it's really the fault of anyone born before about 1946.

Not so fast, Moss Road. Generalizations like that can be offensive.

Both of my parents went thru the depression and WW2.
They taught me and my brother everything we could absorb. A strong work ethic was instilled in us at an early age.

My father saw a need to better his lifestyle and moved us to California in 1962 so he wouldn't have to work on Cat earthmovers in the snow.

By the time I was 12, I could drive a tractor, build fences, till and plant a garden, and take care of the yard on our lot. And by the time I was in high school, I could and did overhaul car engines, use an oxyactelyne torch and do framing and wiring.

They stressed the importance of a good education and reminded us that no one owed us a living.

They also taught by example to take care of family members that fell on hard times.

We have since passed these values to our son, born 1982, who is having many of the same issues with his age group now that he has been in the workforce for 10 years or so.

Let's keep it civil, ok?

 

[RichM752]

I recently hired a neighbors 25 yrs old who is a "professional kayak guide". He was home for a few weeks in need of funds, and wanted work as a laborer. Poor kid, could not use a shovel properly, didn't know how to use a paint brush, and was always using his smartphone. It was hard to tolerate for the 10 hrs I paid him. My goodness.

 

[MossRoad]

Not so fast, Moss Road. Generalizations like that can be offensive.

Both of my parents went thru the depression and WW2.
They taught me and my brother everything we could absorb. A strong work ethic was instilled in us at an early age.

My father saw a need to better his lifestyle and moved us to California in 1962 so he wouldn't have to work on Cat earthmovers in the snow.

By the time I was 12, I could drive a tractor, build fences, till and plant a garden, and take care of the yard on our lot. And by the time I was in high school, I could and did overhaul car engines, use an oxyactelyne torch and do framing and wiring.

They stressed the importance of a good education and reminded us that no one owed us a living.

They also taught by example to take care of family members that fell on hard times.

We have since passed these values to our son, born 1982, who is having many of the same issues with his age group now that he has been in the workforce for 10 years or so.

Let's keep it civil, ok?

It was tongue-in-cheek... Someone whitewashed the millennials' parents, so I whitewashed their grandparents. We could keep on blaming parents all the way back to Adam and Eve if we wanted to.

 

[4get gto]

The baby boomers are the parents of the millennials. The baby boomers obviously didn't get any parenting skills passed down from their parents. So it's really the fault of anyone born before about 1946.

That made me laugh! And think their parents complained about them too.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

You just have to remember that this type of calculation does not come easy for some people. I often think and do just what you did, but it often results in blank stares and confusion.

HAH!!! Now think like a carpenter, with a base 12 and 16th's, not a base 10... unless it's that ridiculous metric system...:confused3: