pay and work ethic sometimes go hand in hand
Sometimes. But very rarely in today's shitty service economy and job market.
If you're a secreatary, you're going to get a secretary pay. It doesn't matter how fast you sort the mail or if you answer 2 extra e-mails. When I worked maintenance, I worked my ass off SIGNIFICANTLY harder than the rest of the staff when we had to paint, cut grass, or snow shovel...and they all made more than me and I never got a raise more than some slap in the face $.25......if I knew then what I know now, I would not have put one modicum of effort in for that company.
I haven't worked retail/service type jobs, but I'd wager if you work your ass off and there's some lazy pos who doesn't give a rats ass, you'll both be making the same. What's the motivation to seperate yourself from others in a deadend position other than personal pride?
and the work ethic in this country is starting to go down the shitter.
I don't buy the whole walking up icey hills both ways for a second.
Today, competition is fierce for good jobs. I literally had to spend 5 years in college and pass one of the hardest exams in the world.....by going into debt...to have a
CHANCE to get one of the few safe career types jobs left. People who don't have the means or ability to do something like this can't just walk into a factory, get a good job, and live a normal life like the older generation could. Literally...all those people did was graduate high school and walk into a career. No effort required. Just like kids today who walk out and don't put effort in....but the difference is there's no golden career sitting on a silver platter protected by unions that made it impossible to get fired. Are they "lazier"? Not really, they just don't have the same opportunity.
"kids these days are lazy" is and will always be a load of bullshit. If someone is going to say kids are lazy, then they're going to have to acknowledge that kids have ALWAYS been lazy. The world has just changed. And the idea that the U.s has gone downhill because of this generation is absurd...considering we are all too young to have had anything but the smallest of impacts...we aren't even in positions of authority....that would be X, Y, and the worst of them all...the boomers.
Note, I'm not ranting at you per say. I've just heard this so many times from older folks and it's unbearable to listen to.