Taking Personal Responsibility to new lows.

am1958 wrote:

WTP-GC wrote:
With all this talk about snowflakes (including those removed) and the fact that we're apparently raising up a generation of people who can't take responsibility for themselves, I have to point out an interesting observation...

Nowhere, absolutely nowhere in this thread or the "review in question" is the reviewer's age or demographic indicated. Are they 20 years old or 100 years old or somewhere in between?? Or is just easier and more convenient to assume that this person must be some young snowflake millennial that was always handed participation trophies instead of considering that they may be a retired baby-boomer?

Again, just an observation

Having just slid past 60 I can assure you that my generation had it's fair share of snowflakes and they have been breeding profusely it would seem. I see quite a few of them on these forums to be honest*.


* Comment not aimed at anyone in particular - just an observation after a couple of years reading here regularly.

I don't know what generation I am...most likely a member of the arsehole generation. I have sat patiently by and watched the millennial and X gens come into the commercial construction industry as they graduated college, and took over management positions from the old school people. One thing most of them have in common is a distinct lack of having a set of stones for any conversation, either face to face or on the phone, when it comes to business dealings. If it's the slightest bit confrontational forget it. Now they have a large set of stones when it's an email, but they melt in a face to face conversation. And if you leave a voicemail over an issue that does not benefit their position in some way, most likely you'll never get a return call. That's the rule more than the exception IME.

am1958 wrote:
My father put the cane to my rear more then once... I'm still not a serial killer...

Odd that...

Now thats funny...........Jr High School, Asst Principal Mr Eisamann (a huge bastard, looked like a wrestler on TV), circa 1974, locker number 85. 85 was the locker directly across the hall from the office, which he lined you up on when you assumed the position, right before he let loose with a 1X6 board about 3 and a half feet long with a handle carved in the end and full of 1/2" holes drilled through it.........Man did that sting, and you could hear it about 1/2 a mile down the hall if you were not the one on the receiving end. I'm not a serial killer either LOL.