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Sounds sarcastic Do you mean to say that some people are not just a whole lot more indifferent and/or incompetent than others?
I think there are a lot of jobs where you can afford to be like that without getting into trouble while other jobs simply require you to be competent and thorough, because if you aren't you will get fired.
No, people aren't getting stupider. There's just more of them allowed to live past the age where their own stupidity would have taken them out long ago. For many that would have been between the ages of 5 and 10. Now they not only flourish, but breed - and vote. All at your expense.
No, people aren't getting stupider. There's just more of them allowed to live past the age where their own stupidity would have taken them out long ago. For many that would have been between the ages of 5 and 10. Now they not only flourish, but breed - and vote. All at your expense.
Sounds like a movie that's sitting in my DVD collection.
This is what you get when you demand full employment. Put about half the people to work, the smart ones, and pay them fairly well tp perform efficiently and make simple decisions on their own. The other half, tell them to stay home. Pay them a subsistence wage so they don't become beggars in the streets---about the equivalent of minimum wage. With only the diligent and competent showing up on the jobsite, productivity will skyrocket, and there will be no problem raising the public funds to sustain the dulllards.
That's called liberalism. But the conservatives are in control of the economy, and that's why you are consantly obstructed by the morons that conservatives insist on cluttering up the work force with.
You rant about the electric company is just as much about them being lazy as it is stupid. Customer service people do it all the time, but having done it for so many years, I tend to know when they are full of crap about what they are and are not allowed to do.
none of this would have happened if you had kept your stupid account number in your stupid wallet along with all your other stupid account numbers from all other stupid companies you deal with!!! duh!
no i'm kidding. people are definitly getting 'stupidder' by the nano-second!
It seems to be the norm in our country that the average transaction on any level has gotten to be an exasperating ordeal. What the OP is describing is a much too common problem, I dread having to deal with billing errors, bank transactions, auto service, et al, the potential for an explosive blood pressure level is always there.
I also see this complaint from the other side of those counters, badly trained personel are not to be blamed for their incompetence. As for the surly employees I have no mercy, they should always be held responsible to the task, and failing that, we all know how to complain up the ladder, but most complaining is seen as a minor bother to most business'.
Stupider? I can't really respond to these observations in any other way but to realize the sadness that comes with them. We are certainly not the country we were fifty years ago, and that's not saying much given what we know about the mindset of American's in the forties and fifties. Business used to hire the most able people, pay decent wages, and, moreover, provide job security in exchange for good work. Yes as a whole business seemed to take their customers much more seriously in the past, but, it is the management that ultimately runs the enterprise, hires the help, and oversees the day to day transactional part of their business. To say that the failure is really at the leadership level is more to the point, blame them that seek those manager positions only to discover their level of competence has been exceeded.
Yes, beyond doubt !
Avg. american today has half the vocabulary of 1960.
But despite the rightists who scurry out on every post like this, it has little to do with government and everything to do with TV, rock/movie star culture, materialism and all around bad taste
of american culture.
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Do you mean to say that some people are not just a whole lot more indifferent and/or incompetent than others?
