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[jundp 191]

That pretty much sums up the average young worker in America. I've seen this for several years now. It's as if getting the job is the only time they work. I have seen and heard from other employers that the attendance of these young people towards the job is horrible. Often they are heard to say, "I didn't feel like coming to work". This is usually as a result of staying up very late, or partying into the wee hours of the morning or some other dumb excuse. The other prevalent problem is the lack of real work performed by these young kids. Unfortunately, these young American workers don't know how to put in a full day of work or to even perform the simplest of tasks as the employer asks. I am sure that more than one employer has been impressed with the work ethic of these Russian or Ukrainian kids and that's why they want them back.

It's time to kick some butt on the American youth.

I rarely see this where I live. I'd say 85% of the students I teach (at a private school) work more than 20 hours a week during the school year to help pay their own tuition, car insurance, gas, and/or save for college. We are not a wealthy area and many of these kids work to stay at this high school. Even in my hometown back in Louisiana we didn't see this, but again, not a wealthy area.

I'm wondering if that has more to do with socio-economic class than just being a young American?

Edited June 21, 2011 by jundp

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Gary has to be away from his pc... he wouldn't pass up on this...no way.

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[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I rarely see this where I live. I'd say 85% of the students I teach (at a private school) work more than 20 hours a week during the school year to help pay their own tuition, car insurance, gas, and/or save for college. We are not a wealthy area and many of these kids work to stay at this high school. Even in my hometown back in Louisiana we didn't see this, but again, not a wealthy area.

I'm wondering if that has more to do with socio-economic class than just being a young American?

I would say it is not so much a problem in this area for young workers, teenagers. They always have the powerful incentive of buying a car (at least for boys, for girls maybe not so much)but I definitely see it in the younger adult men. Many young men come into construction work because they hear that it pays well (it does). But they drop like flies when they get rained on, snowed on, cold, hot, bitten by mosquitos, stung by wasps, bruised, sore, and physically tired. With few exceptions I can out work men half my age, not because they are weaker, but because they have no desire to work.

Our turnover rate in construction is very high simply because so few can "take it"/ I saw a new framing carpenter, early 20's, on a jobsite maybe 3 weeks ago. I actually witnessed him whining that the crew should quit work and go home because his "tools were getting wet" when it rained. I knew he wouldn't last, he quit within a week.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I would say it is not so much a problem in this area for young workers, teenagers. They always have the powerful incentive of buying a car (at least for boys, for girls maybe not so much)but I definitely see it in the younger adult men. Many young men come into construction work because they hear that it pays well (it does). But they drop like flies when they get rained on, snowed on, cold, hot, bitten by mosquitos, stung by wasps, bruised, sore, and physically tired. With few exceptions I can out work men half my age, not because they are weaker, but because they have no desire to work.

Our turnover rate in construction is very high simply because so few can "take it"/ I saw a new framing carpenter, early 20's, on a jobsite maybe 3 weeks ago. I actually witnessed him whining that the crew should quit work and go home because his "tools were getting wet" when it rained. I knew he wouldn't last, he quit within a week.

"They don't make em like they used to" phrase pretty much apply's for a lot of today's young men coming into the construction industry here. When I was breaking into the Iron Workers as an apprentice you would never question a journeyman's authority nor would you say "I don't want to". You kept your yap shut and you did what you were told to do. You were lucky to have a job, and you did anything and everything to keep it. These kids nowadays could give two sh*ts less. They argue, and threaten you with who they are related to in the union, etc... No respect.

H*ll when I broke in it was mandatory to bring a case of beer in every Friday...no exceptions to that rule...whether you drank or not, and first year apprentices were called a "punk". You never took off your bolt bags whether they were heavy as h*ll or not... it's all screwed up now. meh

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

"They don't make em like they used to" phrase pretty much apply's for a lot of today's young men coming into the construction industry here. When I was breaking into the Iron Workers as an apprentice you would never question a journeyman's authority nor would you say "I don't want to". You kept your yap shut and you did what you were told to do. You were lucky to have a job, and you did anything and everything to keep it. These kids nowadays could give two sh*ts less. They argue, and threaten you with who they are related to in the union, etc... No respect.

H*ll when I broke in it was mandatory to bring a case of beer in every Friday...no exceptions to that rule...whether you drank or not, and first year apprentices were called a "punk". You never took off your bolt bags whether they were heavy as h*ll or not... it's all screwed up now. meh

Ah, the old days when you could drink beer and work the high steel. They still do it in Ukraine.

The foreman used to report to me the attendance. "314 in the gate today, boss" How many are drunk already? "311" Hmmm, must be Wednesday. The company docked them $10 a month for lunch which was a 500 ml bottle of water, 1 piece of meat, usually ham, a piece of cheese and a piece of bread. You could assemble a fair sandwich from it. Then men usually brought their own soup (borsch or chicken soup and not much else) and vodka. Plenty of vodka. It was officially not allowed to drink or be drunk.

I think all US kids need a two year apprentuiceship in Ukraine construction, let 'em backfill some foundations...by HAND (30 men shoveling, 20 men stomping) and they will never complain about anything ever again. Except women.

[slim 1,514]

And what does smoking weed have to do with one's performance as a cashier, anyway?

It has more to do with OSHA and Workman's Comp laws than the actual employer's wishes.

Most mom & pop places aren't going to drug tesst. But, most mom and pop places aren't going to pay well either.