TexasMaam
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I did not hire these individuals, nor am I their supervisor. The group is over 200 strong, over half of whom are 18 to 25 and who behave like ten year olds.
Let's take 'Rudy' for example. Attractive young man, 2 years in the service, comes from a well respected agri-based family in the area, fairly well educated. He's 22.
On the phones with clients he insults them and chides them, then turns around and leaves the office at 3:15, returning at 3:55, on a day that his shift runs 7am to 4pm with scheduled breaks and lunchtime. There is a 2:00pm break that is 15 minutes. There is no 3:15 break that lasts 35 to 40 minutes, yet he returns, having distracted our entire team by his absence, with a Sonic soft drink in hand to work for 5 more minutes insulting and chiding clients over the phone until he leaves at 4pm.
He left his computer open for over 40 minutes unattended with confidential client information easily accessible on his screen, another company no no.
During the work shift last Friday he was away from his console more than 9 times during the day, visiting.
He is 22. He is not 14.
I am not his manager. If I were, he would no longer be employed.
Yet, there are over 100 such undisciplined, scatter brained individuals at my office who have scored quite high scores on the aptitude tests, but with zero experience in a real work environment.
It is the test scores that get them in the office. It is the corporate attitude that we must find ways to 'accommodate them' that will be the ruin of the company I presently work for.
Rudy is but one of these 'adult children' who behave this way.
It's an upper management problem, it is not my problem, but I don't have to respond when they constantly ask me for help and expect me to do their jobs for them.
I miss the days of embryo transfer, cross species reproduction of engandered species and being on the board of directors of several national organizations.....I owned my own laboratory, and I chose my help ever so carefully. My help was experienced, educated, capable, trustworthy, and even if they were 18 year old interns from the local college they were there 18 hours if necessary, focused on their work and able to perform. I was proud to write their letters of recommendation.
Times have changed.
This economy has placed many of us in positions we would not have chosen for ourselves.
I can only hope this same economy will filter out 'Rudy' and the likes of him in today's workplace. He needs a few hunger pangs, some wrinkles in his belly and a few days and nights without electricity to motivate him to stay focused at a job the required 8 little hours per day.
I recently spoke with a manager about the comportment of several of these 'wayward teenagers' who behave as if they are 11 years old.
I was told that today's workplace requires the ability to shift and change to accommodate the 'adhd generation', no rules, no formal guidelines, no expectations, or they simply will not work. I was told that 'they' would never work at all if I were a manager.
To a certain degree this 'manager' was right. That particular type of young person would never work for me.
A more dedicated, self disciplined sort would be working for me, the type of individual who would contribute to the company's bottom line, not shove it further into the red. The type of young adult that it has been my pleasure to work with over the years, a young adult that rarley exists in our society today.
No wonder we're in economic chaos.
Five years from now, or less, the companies presently catering to these undisciplined, insipid, juvenile, childish, spoiled morons will be out of business.
I dread going to work each day to put up with them, and I hope like hell something else will pan out soon.
Which brings me back to my original post.
I can't stand to work with them. I can't imagine having to take one of these undisciplined, immature, incapable young men as a sub today, for any reason on earth.
And yes, the past year working with this 'new generation' has changed my perspective of young people today, no matter what their orientation. It would take a very rare young man indeed to attract, much less hold, my attention.
All the best,
TexasMaam
< Message edited by TexasMaam -- 3/1/2009 3:07:43 PM >
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