I have heard some messed up stuff lately. A few days ago I heard some young guy say that if his company was going to pay him just to enough to keep him from quitting, he would do just enough not to get fired.
A couple of days before that I heard a couple of cashiers talking at Walmart about how much the company sucked, it didn't pay enough, on and on.
In my life I have had some messed up jobs, but you know what, I busted my ass at every one of them. If a company is going to hire me and give me a paycheck every week, I am going to earn that money. I'm going to do the best job that I can do every day. You know what happens when you do that? You get promoted or get a raise. Employers notice when you do a good job. They reward you for that.
Taking pride in your work is a good thing. If a company hires you to wash dishes you should strive to be the best dis washer they ever had. Why is that lost on the current generation entering the workplace? It's not rocket science. There is nothing wrong with starting at the bottom. From there you have nowhere to go but up.
The entitlement mentality is really getting on my last nerve. Nobody owes you a damn thing. Get a job. Do a good job. Make more money. Get some pride. Be a productive member of society instead of a leech. It might actually help your self esteem...
Sorry for the rant...
No need to apologize, BillyBob. I'm over 60, and when I returned to college in '99 to get my RN (after earlier careers as a peace officer, EMT, construction, etc. - started out after the Navy as an orderly in an emergency room for the princely wage of $1.10 an hour), the young students that attended the school I went to all said the same thing to their instructors: "I don't wanna hear about all that stuff. Just teach me what's gonna be on the test!"
ReplyDeleteI don't know if they learned that attitude from their parents, their public school teachers, or where, but what we end up with are the Occupy drones who want high-paying jobs handed to them with no effort, based on degrees paid for by the taxpayers, if Mom and Dad didn't have the scratch to put them through. Add to that all of the high school drop-outs, or those who were simply "Present" for their high school years (like a certain Kenyan dope and rope smoker we know) who feel they have a "Constitutional" right to a good-paying job, and you have an economy doomed to eventual failure, even if our government wasn't already deliberately spending us into failure.
RegT, it's a much different world than we grew up in. I was mowing lawns and washing cars before I was 10. I got my first real official job at 14 flipping burgers at Dairy Queen. It paid $2.65 an hour. I worked hard and I was proud of the job I did. Nobody gave me a damn thing then and nobody gives me anything now. I wouldn't accept it if they tried. I make my own way, I take care of my family and I am damn proud of it. Pride... it's a crying shame there isn't much of that left in this Country. Me and You, RegT, we are a dying breed...
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