Random Thought Thread

stjones said:
Well this didn’t work out. The stretch will continue to 18 as I will be working both OT shifts over this weekend.

The young fellas at work don’t seem to want the extra work/pay but enjoy complaining about being broke.
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I remember right after I graduated I worked 28 days straight there was so much OT. Loved it and made a lot of cash but yeah the younger generation is very soft….
 
DennisM said:
Nice surprise from AES Ohio today ... 🤬
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A new record! F ME!!!

Showed the wife - that pays no bills - her response ain't that normal? NO!!! #clueless
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Is that just electric bill? I assume you have electric heat? But either way that’s crazy!

And yeah my wife doesn’t have clue about a single bill either.

Which could let me slide a knife bill in every so often🤷🏼‍♂️
 
stjones said:
Well this didn’t work out. The stretch will continue to 18 as I will be working both OT shifts over this weekend.

The young fellas at work don’t seem to want the extra work/pay but enjoy complaining about being broke.
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Oh man, recently I overheard some guys my age talking, and one was literally pitying the other because he has to work 9–10 hours a couple times a week.WHAT?!

I work 12+ hours every single day.

Honestly, this is how it happened.

Our parents’ generation — or people just a bit younger than them — worked their asses off.As a result, my generation and the ones younger are living pretty damn well, and they’ve come to think they don’t need to work that hard anymore.

I was looking for people to hire at our family store.Holy moly, most people — and not just the young ones — when they hear, surprise:They’re actually gonna have to WORK at WORK!They literally lose their minds and look at me like I’m forcing them into slavery.

Guys just don’t get it: they’re living so comfortably right now mostly because their parents overworked like crazy in their time.But now, because life is good, they don’t want to do the same.
 
One of the funniest stories ever.

I hired this kid — honestly, I just gave him a chance because he had literally zero skills — but I made him promise he’d actually learn.He was like 18 or 19, something like that.

He was so unbelievably terrible at the most basic tasks that he literally didn’t know how to give change or even use a calculator. I’m dead serious.

We fired him after a couple of days.

Then his mom shows up and starts accusing us of bullying him, making him work too hard, and completely ignoring his needs.

His “needs,” by the way, included walking around the store barefoot (okay, we were surprised at first, but whatever, fine).

And apparently, every time he had to do any actual work, he’d get a headache and his blood pressure would shoot up.

One time a customer came in, we asked him to hand over an item — and he just… sat down behind the counter and stayed there. Like, hiding or something, I don’t even know.

When I asked him what the hell that was about, why he just sat there and hid, he goes:“I got nervous because I didn’t hear what you asked me to do

He made such a miserable face that I seriously felt like I was Major Payne.Although I was just asking the guy to do completely standard stuff while training him.

Then one day his dad didn’t come to pick him up, and he had to walk home (by the way, he lives like a 10-minute walk away).He goes:“Oh man, this is such a problem that I have to walk home right now.”And he was walking around all paranoid and freaked out.

The dude is actually completely normal, like… it just seems his parents have spoiled him INCREDIBLY.He didn’t even know how to write…

By the way, he was actually an honor student at school, and as his mom put it,'very smart'.
 
But my favorite one is this:I call it «tactical TikTok»


Basically, when you’re trying to explain something to some guys, after like 5 seconds they get bored of listening to you, and they just start watching TikTok in the background while you’re still trying to explain something extremely important…
 
Moorik said:
But my favorite one is this:I call it «tactical TikTok»


Basically, when you’re trying to explain something to some guys, after like 5 seconds they get bored of listening to you, and they just start watching TikTok in the background while you’re still trying to explain something extremely important…
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TikTok has had a serious negative impact on kids attention spans. They’ve gotten so used to just scrolling past anything that bores them after 30 seconds, that they struggle with paying attention for 5 minutes.
 
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