Maybe it’s just me…….bwahahahahahahaha!…..But when I was growing up I was taught not to take things for granted. I was taught things like manners, punctuality, morals, ethics and yep you guessed it…WORK ETHIC.
Work ethic. Hmmmm what exactly is work ethic? Work ethic as defined by Google is as follows ‘the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward.’ In other words you work hard, you get rewarded. You don’t work hard, you don’t get rewarded. It seems pretty easy peasy to me. Fairly self explanatory, basic even. Yet….
Finding a young person these days that actually does more than just show up, and that’s usually late, is amazingly difficult. Being a small business owner I can’t pay a lot, however the job takes little more than a strong back and some common sense. I hire young people who are just starting out. They don’t have much higher learning if any at all. So I can’t imagine that they should expect more than a bottom rung job. I have plenty of work.
I’ve mowed through eight of these young people in the past three months. Not because I’m a haneous boss, a tyrant or even slightly an asshole. Not because the work is demeaning or illegal. But simply because their phone bill gets paid and they decide that they’ve had enough of work for awhile. Blows my mind.
When I was young, which mind you was twenty some years ago, I was hungry. I wanted experience. I wanted to accomplish something. I wanted money.
It seems these days that once these young people get their most basic needs met they just tralalala on down the road. Which in and of itself I guess is fine, but come on!
Even the ones that float to the top tell me when working is convenient for them. They call in when they’ve had a long day the day before. And by long day I mean a full eight hour shift. I work 90-100 hours a week (THAT’S TWO AND A HALF FULL TIME JOBS FOR ANYONE THAT’S COUNTING), run a small business, have a farm w/ animals to tend to, spend time with my family and still find some time to explore life. What the fuck.
In the past week I’ve had one guy call in for the fifth time, after he let me know when he could work. Apparently he felt it neccessary to skip a day “so he could give me 100% the following day”….that’s a fucking quote.
And another kid decide that he was done for the day at 3:45 in the afternoon. He’d catch me later in the week when he felt like working again….
AND THESE ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST I can find. No drive, no determination, no fucking work ethic.
I’m quickly becoming a fan of mandatory military service for all young people. Someone needs to teach them what their parents didn’t.
JUST DO YOUR FUCKING JOB!
i’m out.
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