I wasnt sure which base to post this on,maybe Kenny or Yyonne will move it I dunno.. I hate the world today. You get in a car with someone and they are on thier phone constanly or you hear beep,beep,beep as someone texts them!! Its very annoying... This guy gets paid to come take me out 2 times a week for shopping and all and he is horrible.. He is on his phone most times when he should be paying attn to me!! I dunno,I think the days of the 70s and earlier should still be here!!! MJCH BETTER TIME!!
Bobby has been saying the same thing about our Walmart+ delivery person. They are supposed to bring the groceries to your door, but Bobby always walks down the driveway to their vehicle and brings the groceries in himself. The last two times, we had the same delivery guy, and Bobby said he just opened his car door and sat in the car with his phone, and Bobby had to take the groceries out of the car even. Walkmart requires a picture of where the groceries were delivered, and the picture this guy posted was of his car steering wheel ! I am thinking that if Walmart is checking those things, they will not be happy with him at all.
When I engage in (or hear) observations like this, I think of the holdouts when land lines were first installed. I'm sure there were those back then who spat on the desire to be so daggone accessible all the time. And like all technology (communications, television, internet), it goes from being a tool for higher achievement to something that should reside at the bottom of a toilet in a decade or so. I'm sure many of us remember having a Party Line, and just about all of us recall when answering machines hit the scene. Never missing a call is hardly the key to saving humanity.
Yes, those "good old days" of stopping at a gas station and the attendant/attendants would come out and check your oil, water and even wash your windshield. All my wife's older sister does is text on her cell phone to her kids and grandkids. When I asked her "why?", she told me, "if I didn't text them, they would never talk to me." The only thing that has come back from those "good old days" is some clothes worn today. As far as service goes, those employees want the money, and more and more of it, but they don't want to necessarily do the job. Cell phones are a great thing, but the younger generation takes that much further. Or, they will say, "I don't get paid enough to do this or that."
I used to manage a Hess gas station. We washed the windshield, the back window, the side view mirrors, the headlights, the tail lights, checked the oil and the tranny fluid, and a few other things I can't recall (I believe there were 10 total.) As far as "the younger generation" goes... I worked in a drug store in 1972. We had one guy who was early 20s who would clock in, then make a bee-line to the stockroom. He would climb the filthy, dirty storage shelves in the back room all the way to the top (15'-20') where he had a chaise lounge, a stack of magazines and some room temp sodas stashed. He would spend his entire shift up there. There was another guy who was pushing 30 come in on a Saturday for his 1PM-10PM shift. He asked the manager if he could bring in a pitcher of margaritas because he had been at a pool party all morning long and didn't want to sober up on the job. I managed people for my entire 40 year career. I got like-kind horror stories of lazy people who were way older than I was that I worked around or who worked for me (for a very short time.) This "younger generation" stuff is no more valid that people pissing their pants about how "Boomers" have screwed everything up. Divide & Conquer, baby.
I hear ya. I have a friend who's in a wheelchair (Cerebral Palsy). She has a paid assistant for help with bathing, driving & minor house cleaning. She's constantly on her phone - playing games, prayer meetings etc. She doesn't want to replace her because decent people are not easy to find & while she's looking for someone else, she would be without any help.
As for my saying "the younger generation", we stopped going to our local Taco Bell due to the way the area behind the register looked. The floor was an absolute mess! Employees were stepping on food dropped on the floor. It was all young folks working there that, obviously, didn't care about how the area looked. Again, apparently, they didn't think they made enough money to keep the place clean. OTOH, the Taco Bell we went to by our apartment complex in Jacksonville, Florida, the entire place was "spick n span". We talked to the manager who was in her late 40's. We complemented her on how nice the restaurant looked and she said "that's the way I require it." As far as good/great management, and keeping a area clean/organized, just hire a former military person. Unfortunately, most-to-all former military personnel, wouldn't think about working at a fast-food restaurant. We were told by a Master Mechanic, that owned a repair shop that we took our old Durango to, "It's very hard to get good help today. Most young kids want the money, but don't want to work for it." Seriously, that's what he told us.
What makes me smile is the ones that talk to their phone robot and have them type out the message and send as a text. Why not just call? My Grandkids say it is because there is less confrontation this way and you get a chance to review it before sending. You can't erase spoken words heard by the other party.
It is very dangerous too, texting while driving. I am always looking out for them coming into our lane.
"Employees were stepping on food dropped on the floor?" Well, how do you think they make their sauce & bean dip?
I hope they do, because those "big city" Taco Bell young folks are known to have serious foot fungal growth.