What is it with 26 - 30 year old adults these days?

"These kids these days...with their loud music and Hula-hoops and fax machines!!!!!"

 

Do you advertise too nonspecific perhaps?

 

Are you not an old man?

Are you not spouting BS?

Because a simple description of the facts doesn't qualify as a personal attack. You engaged in sloppy, terrible generalizations about an entire generation of people, on the basis of interviews with five kids. There is no getting around that.

 

And that's a personal thing for you. However, logic would suggest your blanket statements are bound to inaccurate. Interviews are bull(*)(*)(*)(*) anyway. It's a stupid game both the employer and potential employee play in most cases. I've had good interviews that didn't have any bull(*)(*)(*)(*). Those were the ones where they wanted to see how realistic I am, how eager I am to please and how far I'll go to sacrifice for the company. Because that's what an interview is about. The actual tasks and ability to accomplish can be established by a simple look at education. "Is this person smart enough? Yes." Done. Now let's get into the personality and how much they want to work for me. Let's find out if they're pliable so that they fit the missing puzzle piece I need. Team dynamics is more important than a specific person's personal life. If you got 3 experts with great work history and they suck as a group, you suck as a manager unless you're a magician that can get real comradery (sic) and cooperation out of them. I could take a team of, in your eyes, 'poor work ethics that didn't work during college' that work well together and be more productive than your team of 'great work ethics' who can't even be bothered to help one another.

So your work ethics as the apparently prime hire/pass is faulty to a large degree in my opinion. Obviously the best team is one that's expert and are like one big worker with tentacles all operating together, but that's not going to be determined by whether someone has previous experience or not.

 

I live in liberal Eau Claire, Wisconsin. (pop. 65,000) People driving on one of the town's busiest arterial streets will stop at a corner where there is no stoplight or stop sign, to let a University student cross the street if the student is STILL STANDING on the curb- hasn't even stepped onto the street- he's just waiting to cross. Then all 5 cars behind the front car and so many cars coming the other way!!!, will have to wait until the driver has let the college student step into the street, walk across. There are no signs saying to do that, no lights, no nothing.

Talk about entitling people. 25,000 pounds of cars stopping to let a 150 lb. person cross the street for what reason? Courtesy? What about the 10 cars of people that have to wait. (of course half of them are liberals who might do the same kind of "assuaging their guilt behavior").-if that's what it is. Talk about teaching kids that people owe them something.

Let the kid wait till there aren't any cars, for cryin' out loud.

 

It is parents fault, we were told you have to save for your kids college education. Many get a free ride because of it.
I never told my kids they'd get a free ride, I'd pay for school stuff, everything else is your responsibility.
But when my youngest was under 16, it was difficult to get a job. Laws prohibit from working if under 16. Outside of mowing lawns/babysitting type work.

 

When I was a manager at a factory, I didn't care so much about exact technical skills and running particular machines. A general background related to the work environment, a positive attitude and a 'can do' spirit were most important to me. Anyone can be trained to run just about any factory machine.

 

Please tell that to all those positions out there that advertise somethong similar to "Entry Level Forklift Driver needed. Must have 6 months experience minimum."

Honestly I dont know who is giving these 6 month ling forklift driving classes but ads like this kept me out of warehouses when I was looking for a job. How something can be entry level yet requires experience in the job being offered (not side experience which may be necessary to perform the job offered) is beyond me.

 

Really, it is because of that. We can't work when we have to take honors and AP classes. We shore up our resume with clubs and other activites. School is, no matter how you look at it, a full time job (At least in high school). It's a mad dash to get that financial aid while it lasts. Chances are, they were telling you the truth.

 

Their misfortune? Who is going to pay for my SS retirement money that I worked so hard to pay for someone older than me? And regardless as to how someone is raised, we should all know how to act when we grow up. Parents can only do so much.

 

Statistics show a completely different story.

 

The Navy doesn't call their Senior Petty Officers as Non Commissioned Officers (NCO). Are you sure you didn't make that part up about being in the Navy? And by the way, many veterans are in job recruiting positions and prefer to talk with someone they have something in common with which helps them understand what kind of soldier, Marine, Coastie, airman or sailor someone was.

 

5 out of 10 applicants = 50%. those were just mine. Please learn some math before coming back with more drivel

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No they are simply lazy. I worked while in high school and college as did my kids. Mad Dash? LMAO

 

Education means nothing with no experience to back it up. We have a new MBA employee that I am prettry sure will be gone the end of the year if not before because he simply has no real world experience. I find it pathetic that a kids can go to school for 6-7 years and be no more capable of simple tasks than another kid without a degree at all.

 

same thing in my town with a small college. The cross walks are marked with signs and you wouldn't believe how many step out there without even looking while texting or talking on their phones. 3 students have been hit so far this year

 

Yes, I realize that 50% of 10 is 5. What relevance does it have? The post title asks "What is with 26-30 year olds?" which consists of millions of individuals. Which makes your comments about people of that age sloppy, hilarious generalizations.

 

Here in Oregon, the law states that we have to stop at any corner where someone might cross. I do agree with you that it's complete BS. Whenever I'm waiting to cross, I always wait for the cars to clear. If it's on a busy street with traffic lights, there's always a clearing every minute or two, so it's no big deal. People just gotta have patience.

 

Blame OSHA for that. They require a fork lift 'cert.' Looks like you can get that training though.......

http://www.superiorforklifttraining.com/individual.html

I wasn't referring to vehicles either.

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Yes, something from 8 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon of mandatory classes that try to get you to do things that are out of your specialty. Then factor in afterschool activities, sports, homework. Then clubs that do stuff outside of school, weekend practices, projects, studying. SATS, ACTS, AP exams are in a few months. Then the college resumes, going to colleges finding something to do with your life. Learning how to drive and the 100 hours of driving you have to do before getting your license. There's a lot to do. That's not including trying to juggle your social life, love life and other things you do to unwind. If that weren't hard enough, the costs of going to college is going up. You can get a part time job sure, but compared to the thousands of dollars you can get through scholarships and grants, it's much easier to kill two birds with one stone. Sure, working at McDonald as a cashier and get $5000 closer to paying for college is nice, but putting down on a resume that you worked trying to end hunger by donating your time at a soup kitchen, will get you a $5000 scholarship and make it seem like you care about your community. Jobs are simply on the back burner when it comes to education. It's the job of a student to learn, and anything that interfers with that is simply a distraction.

 

Well, I remember facing interviewers like you when I was their age.

Back then, people our age called us the "me generation".

 

Because we can.

 

Wish I'd known about that 10 years ago, then again I wouldn't have had the 80 bucks to spend on it (gotta make over bills and then booze expense when you're 1. This actually goes into why our highschools should let people know about trades and training outside of college. Not everyone wants to go to college out of highschool; I know I didn't. Took me 4 years in the Army and another 2 of security jobs to figure out that I would rather get a degree and do software engineering professionally rather than as a hobby.

 

I guess fighting in America's longest war in history has made them lazy.........................................

Maybe college debt is so high because baby boomers are receiving trillions more in government money than they paid in taxes. Money that once went to support higher education.

 

mCdonalds type jobs (or other min wage jobs) is first experience..... not professional jobs. Professional jobs do not bear that responsibility.

 

excuses excuses..... I did all those things, too.


sacrifices have to be made. Sorry you don't have time for a g/f or to party this weekend because you have a red-eye shift on Sunday morning. It's called collateral damage.