Management Vs. Parenting

When hired as an employee your first thoughts may be; money, money, money. At least, that’s what mine were. I got a job because I had to get a car and I had to get a car to get to my job. I was probably one of the more reliable employees where I was hired because anytime someone needed a shift covered, I’d always take it. Nowadays, I’m seeing people who beg for these minimum wage jobs, then once hired, won’t do shit.

I think that with the change of everything in this new world, our work ethic had dramatically decreased. I have to train a lot of the new hires and the expression on some of their faces when I ask them to do something so daunting as getting a fitting room or taking out the garbage is quite delightful. You got hired here to do this; you’re actually getting PAID right now to do this, why are you complaining? I wish that was more of a rhetorical question. My parents both always tell me how they would work 50 hour weeks so on and so forth and there are 16-18 year olds getting hired where they act as if it’s the end of the world to do simple tasks. I didn’t ASK you if you wanted an application, in most cases, you turned one in, in hopes to get a call back-interview-then hired. It’s not fair for companies and businesses to be wasting time training kids like this who act as if they’re some sort of royalty.

Not to mention it’s a waste of payroll, or even other associates or perspective workers who might actually NEED a job, not just want one because they don’t get enough allowance a week. To me, your work ethic is your morals. That is what your drive is through life. My drive is to get happy, be successful in myself and not having to worry about living paycheck to paycheck. With that, I work hard to get the money I need to do things in my everyday life I consider a pleasure. It is hard to judge someone who is asking for a job, because you don’t really know what they will turn out like upon being hired. Someone can talk you into thinking they are the best worker alive, and deserve nothing but to be accepted into the workplace. On their first day they have a hard time grasping that, YES I DO expect you to work just as hard as you wanted this job because YOU told me how hard of a worker you were.

If you want something bad enough, work for it. You can’t expect to get what you want without effort. Don’t expect to get respect by being just the opposite. Hard concepts? No they are not. I think that this society as we know it is going downhill. Kids are more concerned with their iPhones or headphones while people across the world are worried about if they’re going to have a meal to eat the next day. Fair? No. Parents aren’t setting boundaries and it’s clear in the workplace with the outcome of these new faces in the ‘working world’. In conclusion, it’s sad to say that the parents themselves don’t even have the time of day to see these occurrences in their very own households.