[geeks] Little Kids + Unix

[Kris Kirby]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 dave at cca.org wrote:
> Getting kid's attention these days is hard. You've gotta
> show them something pretty killer to tempt them away
> from the Windows environment "all their friends run".

ARG! KIDS!

We went to Subway the other night and the 16 year old girl at the counter
was the most surly worker I've encountered ever. She acted as if making my
sandwitch was the most cumbersome thing in her life. Every step of the way
I tried to be helpful and flexible but met with resistance. Hell, I even
caught her not paying attention.

I really wish I'd have brought my really misanthropic friend with me. He'd
have (verbally) cut her to shreds. He's got a food allergy: mustard. 8-)

<RANT>
I work in a factory with dumb people but I know how to do my job and I do
it. I watch people around me loaf off all day long, yet I work hard. Why?
My shift out-produces the weekday shift by a *large* margin -- typically
100-200%.  I work in the only plant with a (3x) 12 hour weekend shift
left. All the other plants have closed or shutdown. These idiots are
complacent. The kicker -- if they cut production, they cut my shift first!
</RANT>

I've talked with some of the other older workers at $FACTORY and they've
come to the conclusion that parents today haven't taken any effort in
raising thier children and the result is that the kids are untrainable,
resulting in an ineffective work force.

According to my boss, I'm an "average" worker. This is interesting to me,
because he's overlooked the fact that I haven't returned from a single
break on-time since I started working in the coating room. That and being
a quick learner, etc. I picked up a new skill in three days when it takes
most people seven. He forgot these things though...

After the performance review, I felt like Wally from Dilbert: "Woah. I
better lay down until the motivation lays off."

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