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Originally Posted by docbungle
...Nowadays, we have these spoiled little kids who are mentally inferior to my toilet bowl who wouldn't know personal responsibility if it snuck up and fucked them in the ass.
...It is so hard to find an employee with any sort of moral integrity within this age group.
...Then one day they just don't show up to work. No call, nothing. Just fuck you. Fuck you for giving me a job and giving me the benefit of the doubt. Fuck you for going out of your way to make me feel at home and welcome. Fuck you for being a cool dude.
...Well, I say fuck YOU, you tiny piece of nothing.
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docbungle, I completely agree. From my own personal experience in retail this is a mostly accurate view of young employees. Granted, there are a few adult employees who exude the traits you mentioned above, but I have definitely also noticed the disturbing "I don't give a fuck" attitude in young employees.
I'm new to management, but I've already noticed that I can't trust any of my younger employees to do their job. They cannot seem to use their brains, they're inefficient, and they're generally not to be trusted with any sort of important task (and especially not with money). In the past week we fired one idiot who was a no call/no show too many times to count. We've written up numerous employees for losing money, not calling in, abusing markouts and consistently showing up late. They just don't give a flying fuck, and it's annoying as hell.
I have a theory as to why this is. I work in a college town and 90% of my store's employees are college students. They have everything paid for by their parents/financial aid/loans. They do not technically NEED jobs. They basically have no incentive to work, other than to earn play money. They're not being paid poorly (Starbucks starts you at at least $7.00/hr +tips and raises every six months) -- they just don't care. Trust me, if I had the authority to fire these employees, I wouldn't think twice about canning every last one of them.
I, on the other hand, need the money I earn to live on, which makes me work much harder. Although I am the same age as my delinquent employees I show a significantly higher level of integrity and reliability. I give a damn about my job, and working with people that couldn't care less is incredibly stressful and quite enraging.
It's unfortunate that I've had such a horrible experience with high school/college-aged employees that I'm already this jaded. Again, this is only MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE -- I am not trying to insult or belittle anyone reading this who may be a hardworking teen. It is just nice to be able to identify with someone else who is experiencing the same rather worrysome trend among younger employees.