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water_boy1999 · 10-29-2004, 11:11 AM

I am glad I found this thread. I have enjoyed reading it.

Slim, I AM a business management major. I can quote Peter Drucker's theory of management till I am blue in the face. I can tell you how Maslow's Hierarchy ends in an individual's self actualization. I can mold a scanario using quantatative mathematics analysis to explain the statistical proof of many business decisions today. In addition, I have been in the staffing industry since I graduated and I have been through more training classes, sales classes, and extended learning classes than one should EVER have to go through.

With that, I can tell you that there is a general trend in the youth of today and a generalization that they do not have the same work ethic that we had just a short decade ago. This is not ALL teens, but it is a recognized trend in society today. You go into most retail environments nowadays and what do you see? I see a bunch of teens sitting by the register, talking to one another while a customer looks impatiently around the place for some assistence. I seldom hear or see a teenager with actual sales training anymore. I walk into FootLocker (where I used to work years ago) and I am not greeted like I was trained to do so long ago. I notice lazy retail associates because they can not associate the amount of money they are making with the quality of work they are providing. As has been said in a previous post, you can't get the fun and rewards in a job if you are not working to earn it. You can't expect young workers to come into the working world and make as much as seasoned professionals. They are in retail jobs, restaurant jobs, and other low paying jobs because these are the opportunities society has put forth to enable our youth to gain some work experience. In my current career, I hear on a daily basis, someone didn't show up for work at one of my clients. No calls, no notice, nothing. You can't blame this on management. You have to look at the trends of hy the quality of work has gone downhill over the past few years.

And again, this is not every young person entering the workplace, but a generalization. I feel that teens today are lazier. I think that they have more money, technology and options available that we did not have and this has made them look at the workforce differently than we did.

10-29-2004, 11:11 AM	#70 (permalink)
water_boy1999 Fly em straight! Location: Above and Beyond	I am glad I found this thread. I have enjoyed reading it. Slim, I AM a business management major. I can quote Peter Drucker's theory of management till I am blue in the face. I can tell you how Maslow's Hierarchy ends in an individual's self actualization. I can mold a scanario using quantatative mathematics analysis to explain the statistical proof of many business decisions today. In addition, I have been in the staffing industry since I graduated and I have been through more training classes, sales classes, and extended learning classes than one should EVER have to go through. With that, I can tell you that there is a general trend in the youth of today and a generalization that they do not have the same work ethic that we had just a short decade ago. This is not ALL teens, but it is a recognized trend in society today. You go into most retail environments nowadays and what do you see? I see a bunch of teens sitting by the register, talking to one another while a customer looks impatiently around the place for some assistence. I seldom hear or see a teenager with actual sales training anymore. I walk into FootLocker (where I used to work years ago) and I am not greeted like I was trained to do so long ago. I notice lazy retail associates because they can not associate the amount of money they are making with the quality of work they are providing. As has been said in a previous post, you can't get the fun and rewards in a job if you are not working to earn it. You can't expect young workers to come into the working world and make as much as seasoned professionals. They are in retail jobs, restaurant jobs, and other low paying jobs because these are the opportunities society has put forth to enable our youth to gain some work experience. In my current career, I hear on a daily basis, someone didn't show up for work at one of my clients. No calls, no notice, nothing. You can't blame this on management. You have to look at the trends of hy the quality of work has gone downhill over the past few years. And again, this is not every young person entering the workplace, but a generalization. I feel that teens today are lazier. I think that they have more money, technology and options available that we did not have and this has made them look at the workforce differently than we did. __________________ Doh!!!! -Homer Simpson Last edited by water_boy1999; 10-29-2004 at 11:15 AM..