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I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?

 
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I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
All of my staff, and the staff of others in my role, all have what must be ADD. They cannot stay on a task long enough to finish it, forget endless amounts of detail and always are trying to juggle shifts and come in late or leave early in pursuit or because of some recreational event like concerts or festivals or I don't even know what. It's like they are grown up infants. They cannot do even light manual labor without endless breaks and complaining and end up with a sore back. Even the guys who look tall and tough are absolute wimps after ten minutes of basic work. They all claim they have ADD or some condition that apparently gives them a free pass in their minds to screw the pooch all day. Do not even get me started on the mindless texting and Facebooking. I have told them all I will fire the next person I see zoned out texting on a phone. I work in a semi office / light labour environment. Not a tough job for these guys but you need to stay somewhat busy. Everyone is constantly zoned out and blanking staring into a phone. I wish there was workplace cell phone jammers allowed to take away these endless sources of distraction. And it doesn't phase anybody when important jobs aren't done that could affect the company. There is zero personal responsibility. These people are all early to mid twenties and live at home or have six roommates and no gumption in life beyond texting and hanging out giggling. Today's youth are useless. Skinny jean wearing eunuchs. I would take an old worker over ten youths today.
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04/22/2014 09:54 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
Meddling kids
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04/22/2014 09:56 AM
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Yes, agreed.
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04/22/2014 09:57 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
just ban cell phones during work hours. tell them to keep them in their locker or car etc..

I almost ran over some dumb ass 20 something crossing 4 lanes of traffic while they were glued to their fucking phone..
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04/22/2014 09:57 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
Phones, antidepressants, heavy marijuana use, culture that valoroizes weakness ("I have a condition") and victimhood ("I am an indigo genderqueered indvidual who is 1/164th Innuit; my people have been oppressed so I deserve free mocha lattes.")
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04/22/2014 10:00 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
they are just aware on deep level , that everything they enjoy is going away soon when the economy crashes. prolly all have sneaky apps off the dark web on how to slowty and painfully turn the boss into food and fertilizer when shit collapses )
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04/22/2014 10:00 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
Hell, I have a brother I work with and he's like that. And he's 40 ! Something about the younger generations where they think they should work half as much as everyone else and make twice as much money.
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04/22/2014 10:01 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
When you were in your 20s, old people said the same about you. Oh, and work is overrated.
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04/22/2014 10:04 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
Smart phones, way too much processed sugars, food coloring, and artificial sugars in the diet, and that made up diagnosis of ADD and there you have it. ADD is an excuse to let your mind control you instead of you controlling your mind. It actually takes effort to focus and these people are so accustomed to everything being effortless that as soon as the difficulty presents itself they assume, oh i can't focus, i have ADD, I'm a victim.
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
The guys giggle like cheerleaders. They get squealy when excited. It's disturbing to an oldster.
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
bump
Your "light manual labor" will be really heavy for them, thats so blue collar for them. Any job for them should pay well just for showing up, even late.
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04/22/2014 10:08 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
It's the same in white collar work. Many seem to think they've got entitlements such as leaving the workplace during the day to get a haircut, going out to have coffee with a friend at a nearby cafe or taking a day off without telling anyone. The whole concept of "being at work" seems to be unclear to them.
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04/22/2014 10:10 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
Its not ADD its lack of respect for everyone and themselves, its a lack of good parenting, and mostly its lack of morals and leadership.

When everyone you see is either openly Corrupt and lazy even your own Government, or everything you see is lies being told to you by the MsM, and the SHIT the networks put out as entertainment is so trashy what do you expect.
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04/22/2014 10:12 AM
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totally agree.

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04/22/2014 10:15 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
too much tv causes add
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04/22/2014 10:17 AM

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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
When you were in your 20s, old people said the same about you. Oh, and work is overrated.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57187313


then the kiddies don't need to work for the OP, if it's overrated, let them stay home and watch tv.

We know they won't be doing anything productive.

I have 2 offspring in the approximate age group we are discussing here. OP is right about far too many of these kids.

But a few were raised correctly. No tvs in bedrooms, ever. No computers in the house until everyone knows how to read and write

INCLUDING CURSIVE!

OP, in my opinion you are seeing what I call the daycare effect.

In prehistoric societies, children may have had siblings all around, but the ages were staggered. No woman gives birth to 18 kids at the same time.

Some kind of herd instinct is triggered when we put a same-age group of 15 kids together, year after year after year.

They only have loyalty to the group. Your and my concerns do not matter.

My own children were largely able to escape this. I work in a school and the daycare effect is visible wherever you look, and the starting point was when women started leaving kids in daycare full-time.
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04/22/2014 10:18 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
too much tv causes add
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And smartphones/tablets take it to another level...the crack-cocaine version of that.

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04/22/2014 10:19 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
Phones, antidepressants, heavy marijuana use, culture that valoroizes weakness ("I have a condition") and victimhood ("I am an indigo genderqueered indvidual who is 1/164th Innuit; my people have been oppressed so I deserve free mocha lattes.")
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57081728


Adding this to your list makes everything else you say...stupid.

Congratulations!
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
When you were in your 20s, old people said the same about you. Oh, and work is overrated.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57187313


Back in the late 90's when I was in the community college, I was working at an assisted living facility and the oldies used to tell me, you have it so much easier. Back in the day, we didn't have AC, or we had to walk to work cause there was only one car, etc.

So yea, older generation will always complain about the younger one, but hell, back then we weren't texting of facebooking or surfing the web. I mean, we used to talk shit when there wasn't much to do, but there weren't the technology distractions there are today.

i just wonder what went down in the 80's and 70's at the office.
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
If your a hard worker in an office the giggly idiots then think your an outsider and get rid of you.

Then you go the self employment route and the government kills you with taxes and regulations so instead of working 60 hours a week its 80 and your stress levels are through the roof.

You have no time for your family.

I am tired of it all.
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04/22/2014 10:20 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
I see both sides, I am a young man myself and grew up working with my dad, which I thank for my work ethics but at the same time I am not happy at work now... I know it's a waste of my time naturally and that society is fucked in its thinking to make me scrap by working to live just to play their game. Managers want you to give your life up for the company, to make them look, effective and productive while they enjoy the benefits. I have no care for your success as you truley don't care for mine, I live in poverty to make another a living and you expect me to care? I care about the people who don't eat, have no housing, you know the others that don't appreciate these games, or just can't keep up any longer. Hope you figure it out, those teens see what you don't, my life is worth more then your game tokens and shitty attitude.
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
Phones, antidepressants, heavy marijuana use, culture that valoroizes weakness ("I have a condition") and victimhood ("I am an indigo genderqueered indvidual who is 1/164th Innuit; my people have been oppressed so I deserve free mocha lattes.")
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57081728


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and Cultural Relativism:
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add in a splash of hedonism and a splash of atheism and you get these monsters.
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Phones, antidepressants, heavy marijuana use, culture that valoroizes weakness ("I have a condition") and victimhood ("I am an indigo genderqueered indvidual who is 1/164th Innuit; my people have been oppressed so I deserve free mocha lattes.")
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57081728


clappa
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04/22/2014 10:22 AM
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
Geriatric.
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pinned for you, OP.


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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
I see both sides, I am a young man myself and grew up working with my dad, which I thank for my work ethics but at the same time I am not happy at work now... I know it's a waste of my time naturally and that society is fucked in its thinking to make me scrap by working to live just to play their game. Managers want you to give your life up for the company, to make them look, effective and productive while they enjoy the benefits. I have no care for your success as you truley don't care for mine, I live in poverty to make another a living and you expect me to care? I care about the people who don't eat, have no housing, you know the others that don't appreciate these games, or just can't keep up any longer. Hope you figure it out, those teens see what you don't, my life is worth more then your game tokens and shitty attitude.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56772282


I agree with this. Managers act too CRAZY and that is why workers become less productive, because they are sick of you. Managers expect workers to do work when there CLEARLY is none to do to "keep busy". People get tired, we are not robots. Standing for hours hurts the lower back and the feet. Breaks are necessary. Managers need to stop being dictators and learn how to calm the heck down and stop treating the workers like slaves. If there is nothing to do and they just stand around for a while, so effing what? Is that damaging your paycheck in any way?
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
All of my staff, and the staff of others in my role, all have what must be ADD. They cannot stay on a task long enough to finish it, forget endless amounts of detail and always are trying to juggle shifts and come in late or leave early in pursuit or because of some recreational event like concerts or festivals or I don't even know what. It's like they are grown up infants. They cannot do even light manual labor without endless breaks and complaining and end up with a sore back. Even the guys who look tall and tough are absolute wimps after ten minutes of basic work. They all claim they have ADD or some condition that apparently gives them a free pass in their minds to screw the pooch all day. Do not even get me started on the mindless texting and Facebooking. I have told them all I will fire the next person I see zoned out texting on a phone. I work in a semi office / light labour environment. Not a tough job for these guys but you need to stay somewhat busy. Everyone is constantly zoned out and blanking staring into a phone. I wish there was workplace cell phone jammers allowed to take away these endless sources of distraction. And it doesn't phase anybody when important jobs aren't done that could affect the company. There is zero personal responsibility. These people are all early to mid twenties and live at home or have six roommates and no gumption in life beyond texting and hanging out giggling. Today's youth are useless. Skinny jean wearing eunuchs. I would take an old worker over ten youths today.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26064162


but young workers have seen how older workers were treated by huge corporations or small businesses
nobody want to take care of employee...there is no compassion from management ...
people have seen that profits alone don't matter much..
why to be mindless drone working 16 hrs per day ,have no friends,no family for making profit for a company like GE,GM,Betchel ,micreosoft,godlman sachs?and these companies fire you for slightest fault...
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
ADD has simply become an excuse for the entitled.
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
Phones, antidepressants, heavy marijuana use, culture that valoroizes weakness ("I have a condition") and victimhood ("I am an indigo genderqueered indvidual who is 1/164th Innuit; my people have been oppressed so I deserve free mocha lattes.")
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Register a free account, coward. I love you and wish to stalk you.
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
totally agree.

clappa
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This^^

Also, you can buy personal cell phone jamers for a cheap price on ebay.
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Re: I'm a 40 year old manager who cannot stand today's 20 something workers,they ALL have ADD?
This proves our GLP theory that the MKUltra television has worked in our society and the generations following the 60's and 70's generations!





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