starting to overuse/abuse the terms "creepy" "it makes me feel uncomfortable
I was told a long time ago that if you run into one asshole every day, he's the asshole. If everyone you run into during the day is an asshole, you're the asshole. So, just how often do you notice people using those terms in your presence?
Using the word "creepy" is probably a whole lot better than using the term "fucked up" in common workplace conversation.
It appears often in this type of fluff workplace article, usually when written by a woman. You also overhear it in conversations. Usually by mid twenties and younger women who still have one foot in college. Call it 12-15%. That's not to say I'm not an asshole, I just prefer the term curmudgeon...
There must be an end to this intimidation by those who come to this great country, but reject its culture.
Noted once again in passing that the part of higher brain function from which we derive wisdom, i.e. the ability to compare life lessons and act appropriately before receiving an epic smackdown of stupid, doesn't grow in for either sex until about the age of 25.
In the ER, it's not just the patients. New grad nurses who went straight through college and onto the job aren't just novices in the field, they're novices in life. After a few years' experience they're almost tolerable.
By contrast, the middle-age Kool-Aid moms who went for their license after burping out kids and raising them to an age that allows them to return to school do incredibly better from the get-go.
With the docs, it's 50-50; sometime after passing their board certification (coincidentally when they're about 25-26ish, on avg.) some manage to figure out their job and have decent personalities. The other half are broken people, and would be broken at whatever they did, but working in a field that promotes a god-complex magnifies this flaw. The salvageable ones self-correct after some interventions, either from supervisors, or screw-ups, but there are some people who'll just fly the plane into the mountain on a clear day because the terrain must be wrong.
So when you look at advice focusing on the trials and tribulations of what's more late adolescence than it is young adulthood, it resembles a bad night babysitting, except with real consequences. This is why advice to young workers should be written by somebody like Don Rickles, Clint Eastwood, or even Ed Asner (whose politics blow, but his portrayal of Lou Grant was the epitome of "STFU and do your job, punk").
This is why, IMHO, outside of the military (which has a marvelous way of growing people up ahead of schedule, in most instances, and crushing those who don't get with the program until they do), anybody under 25 should be totally ignored on general principle, and if they persist, they should be gagged. Until they either grow in the final piece of their brains, or learn to shut up without the gag in place. The number of exceptions are probably roughly equivalent to genius IQs in the general population: about 1-2 per 1000.
(And even age isn't a hard and fast rule: entire populations stay 16 or younger their entire lives. This includes any number of entertainers, social science and victim studies graduates, politicians, and various other groups of the perennially juvenile/infantile. In a more just universe, they would be left outside the city walls on rocks to starve unless they learned to deal with the real world, and helping them would be punishable by law.)
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HTRN wrote:We actually have "minions" that don't understand tape measures...
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I don't understand.
The minion part, or not understanding a tape measure part?
I have to admit, I myself have a little trouble wrapping my head around the idea that there are people with sufficient brain function that they are able to *get* (as in commute) to a job, who aren't able to understand a tape measure.
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PawPaw wrote:I was told a long time ago that if you run into one asshole every day, he's the asshole. If everyone you run into during the day is an asshole, you're the asshole.
I still think they're assholes.
Note to self: start reading sig lines. They're actually quite amusing. :D
Greg wrote:
I have to admit, I myself have a little trouble wrapping my head around the idea that there are people with sufficient brain function that they are able to *get* (as in commute) to a job, who aren't able to understand a tape measure.
Oh, yeah.. they are out there. I had to fire a kid a few years ago because his method of measuring was, "7 inches and the little line between the two bigger ones."
When I ran a metals warehouse I had a written test prospective hires took--simple stuff. One question was "How many eighths in one inch?" Guy answered "four". When I went over the results with him I queried him on that, and he replied "Sure. One eighth, three eighths, five eighths, and seven eighths." I hired him. He was a great employee.
You might not be surprised how many didn't have even a clue.
Old Grafton wrote:When I ran a metals warehouse I had a written test prospective hires took--simple stuff. One question was "How many eighths in one inch?" Guy answered "four". When I went over the results with him I queried him on that, and he replied "Sure. One eighth, three eighths, five eighths, and seven eighths." I hired him. He was a great employee.
That's pretty funny. Good thing you followed up on the test results.
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rightisright wrote:
Oh, yeah.. they are out there.
And they work first shift.
The worst part is the "infamous" one, as in "Don't be like XXX", is now back for a coupla months, because of summer vacation. My boss doesn't want him there, but he's got the CEO's ear.. This is a kid that when I walked in the door seeing him back, my first question was "What has XXX fucked up so far?"
The other ones aren't much better. One of them put one of the Kurt vise jaws in upside down, after being told to switch them all back to the hard jaws(we had extra tall snap jaws in at the time). Had me scratching my head for a second on why this $%# jaw was sticking up so high, then I noticed the gap between the jaw and the bed of the vise..
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