You speak absolute truth. When I was at the mine I was flat rate! My pay reflected the work I completed. I used to hear "your making us look bad doing all that work"
Umm, no, you have that backwards.
Then they would try and throw up roadblocks to slow me down. That would make me stabby..
It took awhile but for the last decade I was there everyone knew to stay out of my way and leave me alone.
Was a great job.
Is it just me or are young adults under the age of 25 just plain lazy?
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"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
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I told my boomer dad in his final years “You remember when you used to physically discipline us and occasionally forgot to open your fist? You should have done that more often.”
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I blame the Boomers. They were the lazy ones.
As the oldest of the millennials, I'm fortunate in that I had a decent childhood, free of electronics and the stuff created by the Boomers that make life 'easier'. That stuff just started to become common while I was a teen. It's ironic that I'm writing this on a smart phone
Some of the boomers spent their lives trying to get out of working as their parents did. It is very apparent today as we see how the boomer politicians have handled (and still handle) the government and the finances of the country. And they're STILL doing it. Look at how they've left the roads and bridges crumble apart while wasting money on studying stupid thing that have zero to do with anything. Or fighting wars in places that most can't even locate on a map.
I can't speak for everyone else my age, but once I hit a certain age and started to look at the bigger picture of life, I realized that my generation and those that come after are screwed by the actions of the previous two generations.
So you older folks call us lazy. Well, we're living as we were taught. And now we're left to pay for the older generations laziness. And for some, like myself, it pisses us off that we're expected to carry the ridiculous load we have placed on us. WE are left to foot the bill for literally everything that you older folks are now enjoying. And YOU created most of this crap, knowing that you would be the beneficiaries of it all.
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We are going through a time called The Great Resignation. People have adjusted their lifestyle to 'free' government stimulus checks and bonuses. Why work when everything is provided for you? Plus if you have say $100k in student loans, there is a better chance of not having to pay it back if you can show you don't have a job. Part of it is that pay has stagnated over the decades. The anti-union juggernaut has won and proven that when the Man has all the control, he will keep pay rock bottom. The working class has lost the union organizing knowledge plus with the advent of mass information technology and mind control, people have been programmed to believe unions are bad. So therefore you have a couple of generations who have lost their work ethic and drive for success.
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At age 17 I bought my own pickup truck for $1,000. 1999 F150 with 264,000 miles on it. Drove it to high school every day and went to work after lunch on the co-op (work release) program my school had. Turned wrenches on cars making $7/hr until I graduated. Band-aided the truck together until I had enough money to buy my '03. It only had 226,000 miles on it.
Ran heavy equipment for a small landscaping company after I graduated, still cut grass and plowed driveways on the side. Never made enough money to save up a nest egg, lived paycheck to paycheck my whole youth. Never asked my parents for money.
At age 20 I took out a personal loan for $3,140.00 for the act 120 municipal police academy. Attended that for 11 months and worked 11p-7a at a power plant as a guard. Graduated that, rented a house, worked as an LEO for 4 years.
Got into trucking at age 25 and am now 27. I own a house (well the bank does) own a 2014 pickup with less than 80k on it (well the bank does), have 2 quads, a daughter, and a savings account.
I don't want to hear about the young generations complaining about everything and being lazy because every "seasoned" trucker I've talked to does nothing but complain. They could win the lottery and complain about having to go pick up their winnings. You only see the young people that do complain, you never see the millions of us that shut up and do our jobs day after day.Sirscrapntruckalot, Rctruck87, Longarm and 22 others Thank this.
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