Upset:

[bulldogchesty]

I am am so upset at my nephew right now. I got him a job working at our aircraft plant doing some light maintenance jobs. He was just fired for calling in too many times. What the hell is wrong with the younger generation? All he had to do is show up. Hell, I even drove him to work when he came in. Try to help family and some **** on you. Dammit.

 

[BJS racing]

Kinda dealt with the same **** with my older brother man. I will really piss you off when you bend over backwards to help them and then they make you look like a fool. Sorry brother. I know the pain. You finally get to the point where you just don't do crap for them anymore. It sucks but it eventually happens and I don't think anyone could blame you for it. Don't let it eat at you too much man!

 

[patrick66]

I feel your pain. I have one son, going to school half a day AND working a 40-hour-per-week swing shift, busting his *** and trying to do right. My other has had numerous employment opportunities handed to him, and he never follows through on them, or quits after a few days.

 

[commando1]

[h=2]“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”[/h][h=1]
― Socrates



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[amazinblue82]

I am also sympathetic to the stories above. I have TOO many to tell and the thought of some of the people who have let me down just raises my blood pressure. And my Sawbones says that's bad for an oldtimer like me.

BUT, my two kids (28 and 26 yrs old), accomplished by any measure AND of whom I am quite proud, are different people than me and their mom in terms of how they value their "free time".

The way me and their mom worked to "make it" -- the hours, the sacrifice, etc --just is NOT part of what makes life worth living for them.

Again, my kids excelled at everything they did...but if that "little extra" to be the very best conflicts with their quality of life as they have defined it, they are not going to do that little extra. Love 'em to death but I don't get it.

Someone called it, and i think its true to a degree, "Millennial Generation" behavior ..people born in the 1980s to about 2000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials.

Anyway, "young" people by definition have room to grow and develop better habits and skills, so I still try to help even the ones who burned me in the past if they come to me again -- after a few years staying on the right path though.

A few others just seem beyond my help...and that saddens me.

 

[Samplingman]

At one point we were the reason for the question "what's wrong with kids today....?"

 

[polara66hardtop]

My youngest Daughter (now 30 years old) went to school her whole life in order to teach at a major University, which she now does. She recently told me how shocked she was by how lazy and stupid her 18-19 year old
College freshman are. Ten years ago she was quite liberal, but she is quickly turning much more stern and Intolerant of that crowd as times goes on. So, there is hope!

 

[bulldogchesty]

Thanks for the stories. I am not beating myself up about it. He has to pay his rent and cell phone bill, not me.

 

[polara66hardtop]

My youngest son would give his eye teeth to work at an aircraft plant. Six years Army on the H-60, and a degree now, but there aren't any plants near here. I hope your nephew comes around,,,He may surprise you!:yaayy:

 

[CanCritter]

see it in my job everyday most are afraid of hard work

 

[Big blubber]

I am am so upset at my nephew right now. I got him a job working at our aircraft plant doing some light maintenance jobs. He was just fired for calling in too many times. What the hell is wrong with the younger generation? All he had to do is show up. Hell, I even drove him to work when he came in. Try to help family and some **** on you. Dammit.

There's nothing you can do or say that would make a difference to him ,It's the generation of now as to the generation of our time ,I used to help my dad cutting grass chopping wood for the fire I even took his sandwiches to work if he forgot them ,and I didn't ask him to do it I just done it My boys 17 and if I asked him to do the same he just laughs ,I feel like slapping him but there's no point Have I brought him up the wrong way I don't know you feel like a falure a rotten dad but I just think that's the way things are with younger kids nowadays there just not interested

 

[commando1]

When I started in the trucking business, we all....

Aw forget it. Waste of bandwidth.

 

[Ironwolf]

There's nothing you can do or say that would make a difference to him ,It's the generation of now as to the generation of our time ,I used to help my dad cutting grass chopping wood for the fire I even took his sandwiches to work if he forgot them ,and I didn't ask him to do it I just done it My boys 17 and if I asked him to do the same he just laughs ,I feel like slapping him but there's no point Have I brought him up the wrong way I don't know you feel like a falure a rotten dad but I just think that's the way things are with younger kids nowadays there just not interested

And it does not help that their education has become skewed by these teachers and professors with their liberal agendas brainwashing our children that they are owed everything and hard work is for the every day common man and that they are much better than that, They teach them that they need to start at the top and not work their way up. And forget about teaching them common sense ops:

 

[Wollfen]

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”


― Socrates

Interesting quote that harks back to an age far beyond our own and it gives me pause to think that maybe it's a cyclical thing. For so many years many parents spend their lives working hard and slaving away at their jobs to give their children a better life. Thing is, many are presented their better life without understanding what sacrifices were done to make it happen. Some get it but a lot don't.
Then again, there's always going to be those that cannot get it through their heads just what hard work means and why it is needed. I could go on about certain people in my own immediate family, but it would simply be a repeat of what has already been spoken of here. No point in beating your head against a brick wall.

 

[Big blubber]

When I started in the trucking business, we all....

Aw forget it. Waste of bandwidth.

No Stan tell us the story enlighten us please .

 

[commando1]

No Stan tell us the story enlighten us please .

It's all been said and it's just my version of what almost everybody else here has seen in their lives.

 

[Ironwolf]

No Stan tell us the story enlighten us please .

Yeah Stan tell us about your first truck !!!!

 

[Big blubber]

I bet you it was a Peirbilt or a Kenworth

 

[commando1]

Hey, you want trucking stories? Go pick on Jerry.

 

[Big blubber]

Hey, you want trucking stories? Go pick on Jerry.

Is that , Big BarneyDude