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Hurt feelings and a hair trigger. Hahaha.

Describes you to a T .

Yep, lots of young guys in the Bakken.

People wrongly assume that the amount the bank will loan them is also the amount they can afford to pay.

I hire young folks when I can, but only a tiny percentage know enough to be worth the effort... or are willing enough to learn.

Damn crying shame for sure.

Had a young fella (that had done some $20/hour roofing for me a while back) ask if I had more work for him.

I told him I had $10/hr. work, $15/hr work and $50/hr work.

He told me he would take the $50/hour work.

I asked if he had his own HVAC gauges and tools.

He asked me what HVAC was...

Idk...I got a 14 year old boy that plans on running heavy equipment. Wants to play a little football at tech school while taking some business courses to get a few pieces of iron of his own. School is paid for of course...by his JOB. He's saving for a pick-up too. Kid could work circles around most guys I work with.

I left an office full of millenials a few weeks back. Other than being kinda whiney and not knowing how to talk in a construction trailer, they were pretty hard workers.

Our industry is really struggling with them. They can’t stay off their phones.

I'm not so sure. We have exceptions but have seen the same.

THAT is quickly becoming an issue. Kids have a hard time seeing they don't have to keep up with the Joneses.

Humans have a hard time accepting that the Joneses are best left to themselves.

If that is true, why does inflation adjusted GDP per capita continue to grow?

I agree that those of working should fund commitments for basic care for retirees, this is an important entitlement program. I disagree that the solvency problem that entitlement program faces is due to a lack of “work” being delivered, more that the program has been expanded without a corresponding increase in funding.

Hatari and Calvin for the win!

People haven't changed significantly in a thousand years.

Repeat that in your head.

We are intrinsically lazy and selfish.
We like pleasure, we dislike discomfort.

Those suddenly surbuban and affluent parents in the mid century
spoiled you baby boomers. Suck that up Buttercup. They made
sure you finished high school, got educated. Way better start than they got.

I'm in a crack. 1969 birth year. My parents weren't boomers, a bit older.

Boomers, already spoiled, spoiled their kids even more.
Used to be, kids played sports, at home parents ask about the game.
Not Boomers and following parents. I'm taking a vacation day Monday
to drive 40 miles and watch a District tennis match.

Suck it up Butter cups, we as parents are to blame for the crops we raised.

As kids have moved off the farm, and not had to truly work,
things have slid.

My daughter is 16, plays sports and is in accelerated academic classes.
She has a job.
She got called in Tuesday immediately following an after school tennis match. They needed her, she went.

Very few of her compatriots work.
All have money, many have a car of their own.
The smart, affluent, high class kids are being taught to suck the titty bottle.

Ironic, but the Vo-tech, general studies, poor kids are the ones I see that
are working.

God forbid, who would peel the potatoes now?

The kids today are less into mortgages than previous generations.

They are budget conscious for sure.

Out of necessity I suppose!

Well that is not as much their fault as it is the parents fault.

Their parents, and their parents parents were not willing to do the study and pay any attention to the foundations of history and righteousness. And so we have a largely self-centered generation who raised a largely self-centered generation, who then gave the USA a super self centered generation who work hardest at finding excuses.

And someone is surprised?

This is called Sowing and Reaping. And now with them wanting to be labeled as mentally ill, (for the "benefit" of free care and "no stress") it will be legal to disarm them, and to deny them voting rights in the future ----- as soon as their "leaders" figure they have served their purpose to augment the communist plan.

Sorry folks, but this fault is OURS not theirs.
Individual responsibility is the foundation of freedom.
"Group think" and victim mentality is the stand of slaves.

Pigs LOVE lots of free food that fattens them up. Their fatness is not a problem because nothing is required of them.........as long as they are alive. They never wonder why the food is free. They just expect it and scream when it's late. But one day there is no food, and that gives their guts a chance to empty. They scream loud and yet their masters do not feed them. They are given only water.
Then they are butchered.
And the masters get a good profit.

Socialism is nothing more then raising people as livestock, and manipulating them toward a purpose of profits and power of the "elite".
I say again: Individual responsibility is the foundation of freedom. "Group think" and victim mentality is the stand of slaves. And they do stand for it. Standing for freedom is just "too hard for them". Ask them and they will tell you so.

Lots of anxiety on here.

It's just different words. We used to tell the a-hole, overly demanding boss "take this job and shove it". The current generation quits because they feel "anxious" or whatever the current trending pop-psych term is.

Nothing changes, human being haven't changed, just the verbage we use, and the economic circumstances. The 60's happened because of the roaring 50's, and the economic flexibility allowed the boomers to become brats. My generation came of age during the 70' and 80's during stagflation and decades long double digit unemployment. Yeah, we busted our arse to get and keep a job. Today, with the Trump economy, these kids are behaving like the boomers in the 60's; they don't have to put up with crap at work because there's plenty of other jobs where this one came from and at better pay and benefits.

I remember when we used to work 74 hour days for no pay!

That was the way we liked it!

Nowadays these gay kids wont even work 65 hour days for no pay!

The end is near!

You also have to factor in the actual employer. In the Age of Super CEO's who cut cut cut I feel for people thave have to face a few decades of rocky employment.