Millennial Job Interview

[Industrial Toys]

As long as you didn't ruin your skinny jeans! You would have had to drive right back to the Mall and demand your money back. Maybe driving on the rim and demanding a new tire and rim as well!

I saw a You tube video on the weekend of a girl that couldn't park her car to save her life. Finally she got it parked inches from the next "properly" parked car. She got out and kicked the properly parked car. Go figure. Its her that needs the good swift kick, not for her lack of parking skills but her attitude.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I had the benefit of living in both worlds. The "old ways" and the modern world of the present. I grew up knowing how to make change, "back in the day" of outdoor toilets (yep that is what we had the first 6 years of my life), we finally got a party line telephone. 10 parties too. Phones in automobiles were unheard of in my time. Yes I know IMTS a form of automatic mobile phone came into existence about 1964, but no one had ever seen one where I lived. That was a New York or Los Angles thing. And somehow even in those huge cities, there were served by the 13 radio channels of IMTS (Improved Mobile Telephone Service). Imagine that, 13 little channels to serve a city of millions. That tells you how many persons had them. Satellite navigation wasn't even a gleam in some military planners eye yet. And I will place my "dead reckoning" inertial navigation system in my head up against anyone else's. We had huge maps in our heads of vast areas built up over years. But all of these "old ways" while not forgotten, I am happy to supplement with the latest technology too. I am an adopter, and lover of technology. If tech fails, I can revert back to the way we used to do things in a heartbeat. I can kill animals and live off of the land if I have to, I have done it before. I have changed plenty of flat tires. One not long ago, and ruined a good pair of suit pants. .

A country boy will survive...

 

[Redlands Okie]

 

[ultrarunner]

Not sure how to put this. It seems typical now that people do one narrow field of work and have a very narrow set of skills to get that job done. It does provide for a lot of jobs since it takes more people to get something done. With this setup and it seems to me basic human behavior you get what we have today.
Many youngsters are raised pretty comfortably and are not informed or taught that it took mom and dad a while to get to the point fo providing that style of living. The attitude of “I do this, not that and I deserve a good living from it” seems to be common.
As a side note I am amazed at what seems to me to be the lack of interest in anything beyond the basic requirements needed to get some money and be able to be entertained. Increasing ones knowledge of the world, of how things work or function around you or ones work environment seems to be very l limited.
One of the neat things about these forums is the people in here with and interested in a variety of skills and experiences.

Yep... everyone needs to fit the HR job description... I had only previously encountered this in a Union Shop years ago...

It is a real problem in a big company when one person crosses over into many job descriptions... kind of fitting a square peg into a round hole... it can be forced but not without resistance.

 

[Creamer]

Yep... everyone needs to fit the HR job description... I had only previously encountered this in a Union Shop years ago...

It is a real problem in a big company when one person crosses over into many job descriptions... kind of fitting a square peg into a round hole... it can be forced but not without resistance.

Agreed! A generalist is not valued at many companies because they do not fit the job description exactly. At smaller companies this is not true but larger companies are run by many specialists.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Yep, our job descriptions are very specific, and they expect you to be able to produce right from the start, no training.

 

[Firemanbuck82]

I simply can't tell you how many young and older people I stop and ask for directions (I don't use a GPS as I like to know where I am) and I get the impression that the people don't have a clue about their environment or where on the earth they are!

And yet you're the one asking for directions.....:laughing:

 

[Creamer]

And yet you're the one asking for directions.....:laughing:

That's OK. At least it gets people talking. The less we depend on one another the more we lose community.

 

[MossRoad]

And yet you're the one asking for directions.....:laughing:

Maybe he's just testing them... :scratchchin:

 

[3Ts]

As for calling roadside assistance - there are places in this country where a cell phone won't work. Maybe a satellite phone?