FedEx founder’s words

 

I saw he had said, when you make work optional, your economy stagnates.

Does it seem to be the case, they here in 2022, people avoid work more than say in 1972?

For one, I see people show up at work at 10 AM, then leave at 2 PM. I see people who used to work in the office in 2019, never come to work anymore.

But then in general, it would seem people are looking for products that so simple things that they could do for themselves, and say it’s complicated to get it to work properly.

Can people / companies profit from the desire to make work secondary?

Where I live, lawns are 1/5 acre on a good day. Everyone seems to hire cos to cut them. When I grew up, my parents’ house was an acre and I had to cut it with a push mower. It was a good part of the day. Even car washes they are over $10 now, isn’t it easier to do it in one’s driveway lol

It's all about time

It's all about time management. 3 minutes thru a car wash compared to a half hour or more to wash and dry it yourself. I'm a couple months shy of 64 and not in great shape. I have a four door Jeep, much easier to drive thru the wash so I can do other stuff, than to wear myself out washing it myself.

I earn money to spend, can't take it with me. (I drive a construction dump truck, can't phone that job in, if I could I would, lol)

I'm not at the hire someone to cut my grass yet, but when I am it'll be some local kid who's trying to earn some money, not some landscaper company. I earned a lot when I was a kid, cutting grass, shoveling snow.

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. 2 Garmin DriveSmart 61 LMT-S, Nuvi 2689, 2 Nuvi 2460, Zumo 550, Zumo 450, Uniden R3 radar detector with GPS built in, includes RLC info. Uconnect 430N Garmin based, built into my Jeep. .

what work ethic?

I worked in the east well into middle age. Then I moved to the Colorado front range. There was no work ethic here when I arrived.

To be sure, back east I encountered people who would spend more time avoiding work than what the work actually required. After moving I saw work avoidance as a competitive art form.

most

people I know are at least 10 years younger, this comes from kids' ages.

Some are even 20. Once in a while, I'm the age of someone else's parents.

My wife's cousin's husband just told me Saturday, when his daughter gets her license, he's giving her the RAM1500, I think it's a 2020.

In my mind I think to myself, why? part of it has to be bragging, both for the parent and the child. But I can't see any benefit to the child at all. But he's not alone, I see this a lot. I've also seen so-called model kids suddenly turn rebellious by 15 (I know I myself resented the pressure to get into a top college, and it was easy back then, not like today < 4% acceptance lol).

I truly am really glad my mom got me a job in a restaurant when I was 16--yeah, ok, she got it for me because her friend owned it. the most valuable lesson I learned that I carry with me today was to never return to the kitchen empty-handed. I use this principle not only at work but at home, coupled with my dad's advice to try to do one more thing before you knock off for the day. Just a little more work makes you that much better. He always told me not much, just a little more.

Everyone wants to be taken care of today

A lot of people have no pride. My father taught me to have pride in the work that I did. I was the first in my family to get a college degree. Not just one, but three. Every job that I had, I took pride in doing the job the best that I could. Some people today want handouts and with the government that is in place today, the government perpetuates that philosophy. As a result, people think that they don’t have to work; the government will take care of me. My question is: What happens when all of this free money comes to an end because it cannot last forever. People need to show some responsibility for their existence.

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With God, all things are possible. ——State motto of the Great State of Ohio

Work Ethic

No matter what job I had - even early jobs that I hated with a passion - I always gave it my best shot. It's how I was raised.

Our youngest child is just going through an unpleasant divorce. Her ex gives her zero money for child support and she was looking for a job. She got hired at a well known sporting goods store about 3 weeks ago. The management there are blown away because she works hard, is always cheerful and courteous to the customers and, if she doesn't know something tries to get the answer right away. They suddenly want to hire her full time and are talking about possibly grooming for assistant manager. It's because none of the other employees give a damn about their work. It's really sad to see businesses closing because nobody will work anymore.

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exactly

thrak wrote:

No matter what job I had - even early jobs that I hated with a passion - I always gave it my best shot. It's how I was raised.

~snip~

I've always given 110% at my job, even when they didn't deserve it.

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. 2 Garmin DriveSmart 61 LMT-S, Nuvi 2689, 2 Nuvi 2460, Zumo 550, Zumo 450, Uniden R3 radar detector with GPS built in, includes RLC info. Uconnect 430N Garmin based, built into my Jeep. .

I'm 80

I'm 80 and still cut my grass, paint my house, fix my roof, wash & wax my car, change my oil (and my wife's), do minor to mid level auto repairs, fix microwaves, computers, lawn mowers, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, brazing, replaced a 2x12 floor joist eaten by carpenter ants, and most anything else that needs fixing. YouTube in my goto source for knowledge. I also spend a lot of time helping people figure out and fix their problems on the internet.

I have not done welding and can't fix a broken heart.

I have to laugh when I see AB people looking for someone to change a bulb. I guess they have nothing better to do with their cash.

Of course, when I become physically unable to do all that, hiring it out becomes necessary. And it usually takes a couple of days to recover from my car waxing stints, but then I have an excuse not to go to Silver Sneakers classes.

Since we're all bragging...

I usually don't brag about my work history but because we're in that theme, I'll mention and brag about mine.
My first job was as a paper boy (we all remembers paper boys, right?) when I was 11; after that I was a soda jerk (we all remember soda jerks, right?); then I was in the U.S. Navy for four years; Immediately after that I had a job waiting for me at IBM that I had until I retired from there after 30 years; then I was a self-employed computer consultant (not for a single day didn't I have somewhere to go); then as a consultant for a company out of Arlington, Texas; then to a bank for almost five years until they were bought out; then the week before my bank job went away I started as a part time cashier at our local Gander Mountain store where after six months my job morphed into full time until I finally retired at age 70. If you add up all of that, I was never without a job, not for even one day, for 59 years. So, yeah, I'm proud of my work history.

Phil

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"No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse."

Gezzzz

I wanted to be a gigolo...

But I figured I'd starve to death! smile

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Never argue with a pig. It makes you look foolish and it anoys the hell out of the pig!

What the kids are calling it today!

This work habit of not doing more than what is required of you has been around for like forever, but the new generation no has to have a name to everything.

They are calling it "Quiet Quitting " I laugh ever time I hear that.

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Bobkz - Garmin Nuvi 3597LMTHD/2455LMT/C530/C580- "Pain Is Fear Leaving The Body - Semper Fidelis"

funny

bobkz wrote:

This work habit of not doing more than what is required of you has been around for like forever, but the new generation no has to have a name to everything.

They are calling it "Quiet Quitting " I laugh ever time I hear that.

My intent is to report what I see today.

My mom had an expression that made me mad as a teen--"kids today."

Now, I'm old enough to look back and see, that it was in fact her generation that did the craziest most outlandish stunts known. Her generation lived like rock stars, because her generation were the rock stars!

Anyway, yes, so many today have it ingrained to do only what's required, it would seem.

But I went into the office the Friday before Labor Day.

Riddle me this. How can a 19 story office building have 7 cars in the garage? The entire executive parking area had zero, not 1, not 2, zero cars, across 3 companies. So those people with the Turbo S and electric Audis and Range Rover supercharged SVT Autobiographies, they too are not in the office lol