OT: Employees and the snowflake generation

R D S · 2019-05-21T17:14:07+00:00

This got me thinking about my own early working experiences and how things are different now. Better?Took an apprentice on, hes frankly not developing after 8 months.Been as patient as humanly possible but he's careless, untidy, poor punctuality, slow to the point where he's actually holding the job up.He had a week off so I got a reminder of how absolutely piss easy his job is so decided to manage him better on his return.20 years of age (19 when we took him on), not worked before, I don't want to just bin him off I'd rather right by him.We had words and i've been monitoring him more closely, encouraging him to work faster/more efficient & tidier and (gently) cracking the whip so to speak.He's told his dad we are bullying him at work, dad's response rather than suggest he gets his shit together in the first paid employment he's had, or talk to us, was to call the training company and tell them we are depressing him.So we had someone in today from the 'safeguarding' dept.No wonder this country is fucked.

May 21, 2019 Last reply: 7 years ago 148 Replies

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Levi Jones 7 years ago

But the Plowman never had anything like that.

Plenty of others like the DEC LSI-11s had internal hard drives too.

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Bob Eager 7 years ago

I have one, although the drive is probably dead by now.

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tim... 7 years ago

Shredding ribbons after use was fairly routine, even for just commercial confidential stuff

tim

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whisky-dave 7 years ago

No it was the external HD20 for the Mac 512K and usuable on the Macplus and almost any Mac that had a SCSI interface.

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Robin 7 years ago

Especially the "one-time" carbon film ribbons which could be read like ticker tape!

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Cursitor Doom 7 years ago

That was the plot from an old Columbo episode.

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spuorgelgoog 7 years ago

Has there ever been such a thing as a *new* Columbo episode?

Owain

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tabbypurr 7 years ago

IIRC there was a sizeable time gap between old and new series. The new aped the style of the old all it could, but he could not hide his age when it came to a fight. All he could do was move out the way without speed.

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bert 7 years ago

A long time ago in a galaxy far ......

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