I have a job where I employ lots of college age "children." It seems as if they have no sense of responsibility when it comes to a job! It is very frustrating. Since when is it ok to have your mommy call in sick for you when you are 22 years old? Or {gasp} there are 5 flakes of snow in the air and I don't want my 21 year old daughter on the road (even though she no longer lives at home!!!). I don't get it, I was raised that if its my job, its my responsibility. If I was sick and had to call out, I did it. Not my mom or dad, because ITS NOT THEIR JOB!! Its my job. And I when I mention to to my employees, they look at me like I have 3 heads! Even more discouraging is when I talk to the parent on the phone and I tell them that I can't speak to them, I need to speak to their son/daughter because its their job, they don't understand why and they get mad AT ME!!! What happened to teaching children to take responsibility for their actions and teaching them to work for what they want?
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secretlife said on Feb 25, 2007....
i remember driving to work in a snowstorm and getting stuck there all night my first job. it was in a call center, and calling in sick wasn't an option.i don't know why the kids today feel like the world owes them...and that they have to make no concessions.perhaps i'm just seeing it this way because i'm OLD now! LOL...that's probably it, but i swear to you it was different 25 yrs ago! -
husbandhater said on Feb 28, 2007....
It's called Coddling Minnie. Minnie if they can't be mature show them how the real world works! Fire the lot of them and find new college students! Or better yet make an example out of 1 infront of the rest so they get the message! I only call my hubby out of work b/c he has a debilitating disease(diabeties which when his sugar shoots to low triggers an epileptic seizure which screws with his speech pattern( he occassionally bites his toungue when he comes out of the seizures he is out of it and loses track of time and dates, I've seen him lose a year once not long after we 1st was married. Tell them unless this is the case mommy and daddy shouldn't be calling for them and if they do they can find another job! -
minniemouse said on Feb 28, 2007....
Secret- I've been there too....stuck overnight because of a snowstorm....I feel your pain. You are correct though, I've interviewed plenty a "kid" that either flat out say in an interview or actually put on the application that they left their last job because they had to "work too hard." UGH!HH- Oh believe me, I have done exactly what you said...I've fired, I've made examples of, but there's always a new one...Oh well. And you calling your husband out is understandable, he's got a valid medical condition. Unfortunately for my employees, being hungover is not a valid medical condition!!! LOL!!!!!Thank you both for listening to my rant!! :-)
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