anybody have the privilege of working with today's young people
what i call ages 20-30?

There's a real problem with focus and just odd behavior.

One guy lives 6 mins away but gets to work 1 hour early. he told me he has "problems with time". I said why don't you get a watch. he just shrugged.

there's other people that just have a poor attitude, don't want to be trained or corrected when they make mistakes, dont listen. we have a guy who takes 10 min bathroom breaks once an hour and the bathroom is nearby. he didn't know what 600x2 is. he didn't know how to tie a knot in a plastic bag we
were putting product in.

just a lot of people with the 'tism.

we have to get these chemicals out of our food supply or find out whatever is going on here.
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Re: young people
By: MRO to All on Fri Oct 24 2025 09:05 pm

anybody have the privilege of working with today's young people what i call ages 20-30?

There's a real problem with focus and just odd behavior.

One guy lives 6 mins away but gets to work 1 hour early. he told me he has "problems with time". I said why don't you get a watch. he just shrugged.

there's other people that just have a poor attitude, don't want to be trained or corrected when they make mistakes, dont listen. we have a guy who takes 10 min bathroom breaks once an hour and the bathroom is nearby. he didn't know what 600x2 is. he didn't know how to tie a knot in a plastic bag we were putting product in.

I've heard the US school system isn't great these days. I've heard they've actually lowered standards so that they can claim more students are graduating. When I was growing up, I often heard about how students in the US were behind students in other countries, particularly in things like math & scence & such. Rather than improving that, it seems like the school system is making it worse.

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Hey MRO!

On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:05:10 -0500, you wrote:

anybody have the privilege of working with today's young people
what i call ages 20-30?

I'm a construction (ironworker, specifically) foreman. So yes, I've had plenty of experience with it, and I wouldn't call it a priviledge. ;)

There's a real problem with focus and just odd behavior.

Moreso than not, yes. However, there's a few I've come across that are trainable, willing and excited to learn, etc.

there's other people that just have a poor attitude, don't want to be trained or corrected when they make mistakes, dont listen. we have a

While true, when we were that age there were plenty of those guys, too. When I became an apprentice, there were a hundred or more others. Sitting in class with them all you could tell which ones were going to make it and which ones wouldn't. I'd bet out of the 100 apprentices I was a part of back in the mid 00's, maybe 10 of them are still in the trade.

guy who takes 10 min bathroom breaks once an hour and the bathroom is nearby.

I currently have a guy doing this, but he's in his 30s. Even the crane operator has asked "what the fuck is up with this guy?" I'm tempted to ask him if he has IBS, but don't want to hurt his feelings. :)

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There's a real problem with focus and just odd behavior.

One guy lives 6 mins away but gets to work 1 hour early. he told me he has "problems with time". I said why don't you get a watch. he just shrugged.

At least he is getting there an hour early and not an hour late, which is
what I would (unfortunately) expect.

there's other people that just have a poor attitude, don't want to be trained or corrected when they make mistakes, dont listen. we have a guy who takes

just a lot of people with the 'tism.

we have to get these chemicals out of our food supply or find out whatever is going on here.

I suspect it has more to do with parents spending less time with their
kids, and not setting proper boundaries, than it does with chemicals -- and that is not to say that I discount chemical possibilities. I just suspect
a lot of it could be corrected by proper parenting when the kid is young
enough that their brain (and thought processes) is still developing.

Absentee, and helicopter, parenting doesn't help.


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Re: young people
By: Accession to MRO on Sat Oct 25 2025 07:11 am

Moreso than not, yes. However, there's a few I've come across that
are trainable, willing and excited to learn, etc.

there's some real driven hard working young people but they are in the minority.

While true, when we were that age there were plenty of those guys,
too. When I became an apprentice, there were a hundred or more
others. Sitting in class with them all you could tell which ones were
going to make it and which ones wouldn't. I'd bet out of the 100
apprentices I was a part of back in the mid 00's, maybe 10 of them
are still in the trade.

i think it's worse now. i think we are in the hurt feelings era and we are dealing with people who were never corrected for anything since they were a child. it used to be if you acted weird or did something wrong people cared enough to correct you/stop being stupid. now people are silent and shake
their head and the idiot continues being an idiot.

guy who takes 10 min bathroom breaks once an hour and the bathroom is nearby.

I currently have a guy doing this, but he's in his 30s. Even the
crane operator has asked "what the fuck is up with this guy?" I'm
tempted to ask him if he has IBS, but don't want to hurt his
feelings. :)

he's got fuck around on the phone syndrome most likely.

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Re: young people
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sat Oct 25 2025 10:54 am

One guy lives 6 mins away but gets to work 1 hour early. he told me
he has "problems with time". I said why don't you get a watch.
he just shrugged.

At least he is getting there an hour early and not an hour late,
which is what I would (unfortunately) expect.

yeah but he doesn't work and can't punch in. so he goes inside and wanders around and the place isn't setup for that.
lack of a concept of time is a sign of mental illness or drug use.

we have to get these chemicals out of our food supply or find out
whatever is going on here.

I suspect it has more to do with parents spending less time with
their kids, and not setting proper boundaries, than it does with
chemicals -- and that is not to say that I discount chemical
possibilities. I just suspect a lot of it could be corrected
by proper parenting when the kid is young enough that their brain
(and thought processes) is still developing.

in 2000 it was 1 in 150. now it's 1 in 36 that have autism.
that's fucking out of control. something is seriously going on.
it's not increased awareness about autism; kids are growing up with serious issues.

i think it's pesticides and plastics and other chemicals.
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Re: young people
By: Nightfox to MRO on Fri Oct 24 2025 07:40 pm

I've heard the US school system isn't great these days. I've heard they've actually lowered standards so that they can claim more students are graduating. When I was growing up, I often heard about how students in the US were behind students in other countries, particularly in things like math & scence & such. Rather than improving that, it seems like the school system is making it worse.

It is easy to blame the school system, but I think issues like this start at home.

When I was young people always took the easy path for everything because their families weren't expecting anything from them. As a result teachers stopped giving a damn because why would they care more than parents?

The cult to mediocrity is not something that was taught at school. It fermented in school, but school was the pot, not the cause. At some point kids internalized that things were supposed to be easy and effortless, therefore the guy wanting to do anything remotely interesting or challenging was automatically tagged as an outsider.

Fast forward a couple of decades, those kids who learnt that being good at things was a social handicap are the workforce.

Enjoy the countries you have created.


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Re: young people
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Sat Oct 25 2025 17:29:16

yeah but he doesn't work and can't punch in. so he goes inside and wanders around and the place isn't setup for that.
lack of a concept of time is a sign of mental illness or drug use.

If he cannot even figure out how to put a card in a punch slot then, yeah, there is a serious problem there. Probably needs to be let go.

I know you discounted it, but the increased awareness, and testing, accounts for a lot of the uptick. Although they probably don't count in the numbers, I think there are also a lot of people who abuse the increased awareness and claim to have autism as an excuse for bad behavior.
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Re: young people
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sun Oct 26 2025 08:25 am

Re: young people
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Sat Oct 25 2025 17:29:16

yeah but he doesn't work and can't punch in. so he goes inside and wanders around and the place isn't setup for that. lack of a concept
of time is a sign of mental illness or drug use.

If he cannot even figure out how to put a card in a punch slot then,

well this isn't 1980. we don't have punch cards with a time clock.
we 'punch' into ukg aka kronos.


this guy apparently can't handle time period.
he's pretty wild eyed so i think he's nuts.
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