dosekies
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- Mar 23, 2017
See that's the thing, I was not like that and most teens of my generation where not either. Of course you always had the few but for the most part we all had jobs starting at 15 and we did the job as we were supposed to. My first job was in a bakery at a grocery store. There was 1 supervisor for the whole store who stayed up front by the registers most of the evening and the departments had teens and early 20s working them. We all did our jobs and did them the right way without anyone standing over us telling us over and over to actually do our jobs. If you forgot to do something you sure as heck heard about it and never made that mistake again. Of course back then if you went to apply for a new job they would call your old job to see what kind of worker you were. They can't do that anymore so you could steal, cheat, lie, etc and your new job would have no idea what a horrible employee you where. The first thing they told us when we were getting hired is that if you are old enough for a job then you are old enough to do the job right. They would not talk to your parents if you wanted to call in sick or wanted a day off, etc. So back then, you did the job and did it right or you did not have a job until you matured and learned a work ethic, or not and you lived in your parent's basement forever.
And if you ask millennials, most of us will tell you that this doesn't describe most of our fellow generation either. Everyone I know took starter level positions in jobs that had no relation to our majors but still go to work everyday proud of our jobs and with a strong work ethic. We don't want to call in sick scared that we might fall behind. We work as many hours as we can get our hands on. We worked fast food jobs in college to pay our loans. We do everything we can to not have to live with or rely on our parents. Are there kids my age who are like you described? Sure. But the handful you work with don't speak for all teenagers. Stop being so negative about everything. If you hate your job as much as it obviously comes off as you do, then get a new one. If teens are such bad workers, a great employee as yourself shouldn't have that hard of a time finding a new position.
Oh I agree that for some reason people are not raising their kids the way that they were raised. I don't know why. Something has gone wrong especially in this country. It started with the Dr Spock and the the "shrinks" who tell these parents that you have to worry about your kid's feelings and that you should get down on their level and explain things. Nope, obviously that does not work. It is truly horrifying to see how these kids are now turning into school shooters.
I literally can't roll my eyes hard enough. Maybe you should parent every teenager in this country so that the school shooting will magically stop all of a sudden.
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