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| To whom? Civilization? LGBT people? Enablers of the LGBT agenda? |
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| Well, Mz Bullocks, I suggest you open restaurant in a large city WITH YOUR OWN MONEY and run it for a year and we will see if you are a millionaire? I expect you to put in 70 hours a week. Words are cheap, baby-cakes. |
The shocker is that bosses are firing Gen Z (1997-2012ish) because they are not able to use "technology".
In general, Gen Z thinks "technology" is the most recent iPhone release and being proficient on the most popular social-media platforms.
Bosses think "technology" involves databases, spread-sheets, using spell-and-grammar checks on communications, hot-wire anemometers, PID controllers, not downloading malware and making the ethernet work flawlessly.
There is very little overlap between the two perceptions of "technologies". The Gen Z might tell you they are a "Rock-star" at technology and the boss might wonder why they are spending hours playing on their iPhone 144 Prophylactic Maximilian with the flexible screen.
If I could change ONE thing about Gen Z workers, I wish they would be just a little quicker to ask questions. An honest question does not make them look stupid. It makes it look like they care.
A society that hands out trophies for participating and banning actually naming winners is creating a future of incompetence. Most workers these days are incompetent because competence was never required at any level prior to reaching the workforce.
ReplyDeleteYes!!!!!!
DeleteNot only was merit punished...
Not only was mediocrity lauded...
But failure was accepted, rewarded, told its all allright, it'll be ok, don't you worry....
It wasn't told to try harder, it wasn't told to practice more, it wasn't told to ask for help.
It learned it was accepted as is, for is, regardless of success or failure.
And frankly, at the risk of sounding selfish, imagine you are a young person starting out their profession/adulthood. You are educated (better than your peers, you paid attention and really graduated HS), you have effort, drive, a willingness to learn, desire to do better... demand what you are worth. You will be paid handsomely once people recognize you for what you are. The new unicorn!
Just like “two countries divided by a common language …” tipping is ‘cultural’ (and one of a million tiny differences between the countries that’ll catch out tourists daily – and there are some real hilarious/embarrassing ‘misunderstandings’ as a consequence. Really don’t brag about wearing your favourite “suspenders” to a Brit).
ReplyDeleteIn Britain it is assumed that the staff are paid ‘properly’ and they accept that they pay a little more for the product so that the staff get paid a reasonable wage, and tipping is entirely voluntary and only/exclusively for ‘exceptional’ service.
In America it is assumed that whilst paid, the staff only make sufficient income by including tips, and everyone tips … everyone (even when the service sucks) because it is effectively ‘required/mandatory’.
Neither is right/wrong, better/worse. In both cases you (the customer) are paying extra to ‘top up’ the staff wages. Neither is superior or inferior, just ... different.
And if you think the British don’t add tips to the bill, or Americans don’t pad the bill a little to make-up wages … you’re being naive.
My objection is that the writer is sure that every person who owns a restaurant is a millionaire and living a life of leisure.
DeleteRestaurants exist in a brutal, Darwinian environment and many inherited fortunes have been squandered by people with her shallow mindset getting into that environment.
I worked as a busboy in '75-'76. Tips were commonly 10% and very rarely over. As inflation surged tipped employees sought a bigger percent, asking for 15%.
DeleteCleverly forgotten in the conversation was the the base price from which tips were calculated was increasing at the general inflation rate. Thus moving from 10 to 15% was increasing income by half. That was the point that I opted out of the narrative. I tip 10% for good service, 15 for excellent or memorable service, and I have tossed a penny into an empty beer pitcher from 20 feet for memorably bad service!
I see the tech issue as further evidence of the ever increasing ‘feminisation’ of education (and the downstream cultural effects as a consequence).
ReplyDeleteThe change from nuts-and-bolts fundamentals to style-over-substance reflected the assumption that we were now no longer a manufacturing based country/economy, but a service based (value-added) one, but also that education (at every level) was now run by, and for, women.
Ask a woman to describe her car (“it’ s pink” and she ‘might’ include the brand if it’s fashionable, whilst a man will spend an hour describing engine, miniscule engineering variations and modifications, construction techniques, etc. and probably forget to tell you what it looks like).
Women tend towards, and thus value and support, those value-added (style over substance, clean, safe, air-conditioned) careers. As such we’ve gone from a culture where the average Joe was lauded for building a radio from components (or rebuilding the Charger from the ground up), to one where having the ‘best’ looking website (however badly it runs) is celebrated (and for owning a Hyundai that has been lowered, sprayed in garish paint, has spinners and gets basics like a wheel change done at the local garage – whilst the manual warns ‘them’ not to drink the contents of the battery – but it ‘looks’ good right?).
Gen Z was the first generation entirely (from the cradle) brought up in this new system and as a consequence the one showing real-world effects of it. Now imagine (if you dare) what subsequent generations will be like.
There is a chance they will be back to throwing rocks and cooking over open fires.
DeleteTipping. A slippery slope. In Spain, my wife and I had a meal in the nearby city. A “cocido “ which is a boiled extravaganza of pork and beef parts, chorizos, potatoes, chickpeas and kale/cabbage. Kicked off with a clear soup, ended with a selection of desserts such as thin pancakes and other more calorific temptations.
ReplyDeleteAccompanied by a bottle of local wine, mineral water and bread.
35 Euros each. No tip or service charge added.
El Corte Ingles department stores have restaurants and cafeterias which do not allow tipping.
One of the surprising things I found - and it was not just Gen Z - was when we had equipment issues, the immediate first response was not to call the manufacturer and see if they had any suggestions or input. This blind spot was repeated enough that it was not just an isolated incident but an actual way of thinking.
ReplyDeleteA Manifesto, so dangerous, so detailed, so diabolical that just reading it will turn any sane adult into a frothing, gender-bent, gun totin' lunatic !
ReplyDeleteSound like a Reefer Madness-type film.
On tipping, I placed an online order for some seeds from a California outfit last weekend, and after calculating shipping costs, the online order page asked me how much of a tip I wanted to leave. I kid you not. The tipping expectations have gone out of control. I'm going to start demanding tips as a customer, turn this thing around - if the business asks me for anything not strictly related to the transaction, I'm asking for a tip as a consideration of my service.