An R-rated rant on Gen-Z males that's not work-safe if you are using the caption reader. Some of you young guys have some work to do. And a lot of what's wrong won't just buff out.
I wanted to add to this that in addition to all the things you said that generation has no concept of etiquette. That goes between both the male Aunt female. I held the door the other day for a younger female and I was given a look that was like you got to be kidding me. In addition, I watched an old woman to struggle to get into a store, I rush forward and the young guy that went in before her just basically said the hell with it. If that had been me as a young person my mother would have slapped the back of my head so hard it would have spun around.
Entertaining rant and perspective on where our society is! How did we get here? I believe part of the problem starts with our leadership being very poor examples of courage, responsibility, accountability and work ethic.
Our young men and women who sacrificed so much have been betrayed by lies and deception: Vietnam, bogus weapons of mass destruction, equipment and weapons selected by which Congressman's district makes them on and on without our leaders taking the responsibility and accountability for their self serving. One so called president even called our soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice, "losers" and "suckers" and never taken responsibility for any error in judgement or misdeed.
We need leaders, educators, coaches, company CEOs, etc. that are good examples of courage, responsibility, accountability and work ethic, unfortunately I don't see many!
You never know where you will meet Miss Right, probably not on the internet at this point with all the scam accounts and false profiles out there, but on the other hand, there are an awful lot of women that you shouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole, for a variety of possible reasons, and accusations at school or work of "sexual harassment" are no joke for a guy. So I sympathize that there are difficulties in sorting through the noise (really, for males and females) that we didn't have.
You cover a lot of ground this post, and re the work ethic: nothing is worse I think than a coworker who is working the union and HR and the "poor me, everyone is mean to me" to management, for all it's worth to make management apparently hesitate to get rid of him, and so there we are, never knowing when the next major blunder will happen (nobody has died yet), and if compelled by personnel circumstances to a full load of work when still only capable of handling a partial load after a year, enough of a mess will occur that the next shift will be spending a long time cleaning it up. (Apparently management hasn't learned from the previous examples of the same attitude when it takes months of documentation to get rid of the employee, to act sooner than later with a trainee at the early stages of seeing the same work ethic emerge...) Delivery wanton incompetence may be funny if annoying, but in a hospital environment that level of incompetence has potential to be much more serious.
A union in an academic environment is about the worst thing that bad dreams are capable of conjuring. Luckily, I could fire underperformers and cheats. It wasn't always easy, but I generally prevailed.
I retired as adjunct faculty... but have stayed working in a hospital lab... both have their problems with the current environment and some younger people's idea of what sort of conditions they are entitled to at wrok.
Another epic rant!
This had me chuckling loudly. My wife and I have this conversation regularly, especially about the lack of getting out and meeting young ladies….
At the least, they are missing out on a lot of good stories about the past crazy women they have ran into…
Too many momma boys that missed out on what a robust childhood and taking chances returns in spades!
Martin, great article.
Amen old friend amen
Even Patton was impressed by Doolittle ... stones the size of an asteroid ...
Amen to that. What moxie.
I wanted to add to this that in addition to all the things you said that generation has no concept of etiquette. That goes between both the male Aunt female. I held the door the other day for a younger female and I was given a look that was like you got to be kidding me. In addition, I watched an old woman to struggle to get into a store, I rush forward and the young guy that went in before her just basically said the hell with it. If that had been me as a young person my mother would have slapped the back of my head so hard it would have spun around.
Young women are another topic. Much of the DEI/trans/anti-Israel nonsense is religion to young women.
Entertaining rant and perspective on where our society is! How did we get here? I believe part of the problem starts with our leadership being very poor examples of courage, responsibility, accountability and work ethic.
Our young men and women who sacrificed so much have been betrayed by lies and deception: Vietnam, bogus weapons of mass destruction, equipment and weapons selected by which Congressman's district makes them on and on without our leaders taking the responsibility and accountability for their self serving. One so called president even called our soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice, "losers" and "suckers" and never taken responsibility for any error in judgement or misdeed.
We need leaders, educators, coaches, company CEOs, etc. that are good examples of courage, responsibility, accountability and work ethic, unfortunately I don't see many!
Amen, Bad Bob.
Another great rant, Martin. Good times create weak men, unfortunately.
Oh my gosh. The number of times I've said the same thing at morning coffee club. Salute!
You never know where you will meet Miss Right, probably not on the internet at this point with all the scam accounts and false profiles out there, but on the other hand, there are an awful lot of women that you shouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole, for a variety of possible reasons, and accusations at school or work of "sexual harassment" are no joke for a guy. So I sympathize that there are difficulties in sorting through the noise (really, for males and females) that we didn't have.
You cover a lot of ground this post, and re the work ethic: nothing is worse I think than a coworker who is working the union and HR and the "poor me, everyone is mean to me" to management, for all it's worth to make management apparently hesitate to get rid of him, and so there we are, never knowing when the next major blunder will happen (nobody has died yet), and if compelled by personnel circumstances to a full load of work when still only capable of handling a partial load after a year, enough of a mess will occur that the next shift will be spending a long time cleaning it up. (Apparently management hasn't learned from the previous examples of the same attitude when it takes months of documentation to get rid of the employee, to act sooner than later with a trainee at the early stages of seeing the same work ethic emerge...) Delivery wanton incompetence may be funny if annoying, but in a hospital environment that level of incompetence has potential to be much more serious.
A union in an academic environment is about the worst thing that bad dreams are capable of conjuring. Luckily, I could fire underperformers and cheats. It wasn't always easy, but I generally prevailed.
I retired as adjunct faculty... but have stayed working in a hospital lab... both have their problems with the current environment and some younger people's idea of what sort of conditions they are entitled to at wrok.
California?
No, WA.