They just don't make them like they used to...

[alexarae]

I have a new intern, he's young...ambitious...about to graduate from the University of Texas with a degree in Construction management. However, he has that "I'm young and the older generation is fading" attitude. Which is his opinion but I'm not in agreement.

To continue, his resume was superlative. However, while I'm stuck sick at home I asked him to list a few things for me.
It's simple "hazing" to make the newbie nail up signs and wash the windows. You all know how it is.

Oddly, I drive by one of the houses today and much to my amazement, the house note says "house for sell."

Not "sale" but "sell".
Thinking it was a typo, I text him to send me what the flier said verbatim. Again...he wrote "sell".

The 67 year old architect who has checked plans for my dad for the past 37 years may be older but at least he can spell the word "sale".
Spell check has dulled the human mind.

[RainMan]

Re: They just don't make them like they used to...

lol that is hilarious and he is/was in college

[cichlid1409]

Re: They just don't make them like they used to...

sounds like a grammatical error not spelling. hes the morer stupidest  :mrgreen:

[Kiovo]

Re: They just don't make them like they used to...

yup, spell check, emails, and texting has ruin our generation  

[jeebus]

Re: They just don't make them like they used to...

Its funny that this thread was started, because a similar thread was started on a forum for us Houston firefighters. This is what the original poster said:

First off, it came to this because I believe we (and I don't mean only the fire service but the private sector as well) are facing a generational problem. It seems to me the twenty something generation has spent the last twenty years playing video games in the a/c. This created an individual who is used to having things handed to them.

To which was replied with this by another poster:

Come on Sir, all due respect - generational problem has been the same song and dance since the dawn of man. Dont hate me because I'm 29 - and dont assume that my generation X birthday makes me someone that needs somthing "handed" to him.

To which I replied FTW:

I think the generational gap has between parents and adolescents has narrowed greatly.

However, the maturity of man from boy has widened. Where it used to be a teenager was expected to be a man, we now have 30 year old children working among us who still live with mommy & daddy.


Now, where I posted this originally, I didn't need to expand, because its well understood. But here I'll explain exactly what I mean:

What I stated above is very true where I work. Most of my co-workers are men, and we work in a blue collar environment. When the the 40+ year olds were 20-somethings, they were expected to be self-sufficient, independent, and capable. You talk with any senior co-worker and they will tell you how they had a job when they were 16, moved out at 18, paid for college (if they went that way), and never looked back. No "mommy", no "daddy", no living at home, etc etc.

Teenagers were Men - the end. Now men are children.

Its a social-disease that is slowly killing our society. We will eventually be a nation of services provided by weak-willed, weak-minded people. We just keep getting softer and softer - and its really sad.

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[Kiovo]

Re: They just don't make them like they used to...

I blame it on the parents!!!  I think most of our parents grew up a lot harder than we did and therefore do not want us to experience the same hardship they went through.  I'm 25 (and granted I'm married, have a kid, college degree, house, car etc etc) but every time I see my father, first thing i do is ask him for money, no shame here!  

[CichlidFan]

Re: They just don't make them like they used to...

Let's face it, life in the 20th century had its drawbacks as well as it's advantages, now that we are in the 21st Century, things are likely to get even more lopsided towards a society where things are taken for granted, and more is expected from those who have been spoiled by the buracreacy of big governments.

Just me thinking outloud...

CF

[jeebus]

Re: They just don't make them like they used to...

now that we are in the 21st Century, more is expected from those who have been spoiled by the buracreacy of big governments.

Expand on this one, please.