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Problem is something has happened (SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT) that has the Boss Afraid to FIRE THEM!!! FIRE THEM FIRE THEM FIRE THEM!!!! Okay..sorry, I just HAD to get that out of my system. The Boss allows THEM to LOAF, but I'll lay money he turns to the worker bees and asks/expects them to pick up the slack! Am I right?!!! What The H is RIGHT! Someone tell me..Why Aren't the Loafers Being Fired????
It seems as just about every person can claim discrimination these days...
Not really. Work is ...work. Thinking--isn't. Unless it actually pains you to have to think. Thinking is a leisure activity, because it comes easily to me. Work is when I actually have to exert myself...and is NOT fun. If it was fun or easy, it wouldn't be "work".
You think like a child, and I am serious, not joking. Take two tablespoons of "Grow-UP" 3 times a day for the next 5 years, Repeat.
Seriously, I think on a higher plane than you could ever imagine. That's why I always found school so boring...it was beneath me. I was correcting teachers' errors. They are supposed to know more than the students, aren't they? But they did not.
Then I reiterate my point. Americans are lazy because they THINK they are somehow entitled to a certain wage, and won't do a thing if they're not getting that wage. At least, that is true for the vast majority of them.
The media and politicians are always pandering and telling us that Americans are the hardest working people in the world. Yes, some Americans are very hard working and there are lots of impressive people in our country. But in general I find most people I meet to be very lazy. In fact I come in contact with more lazy people all the time. I teach at a college in the evening and so many students are lazy and will do the absolute minimum to pass. During the day I work as a manager at a very good company and we are constantly having trouble with lazy employees who lack creativity, skills and drive.
Do you believe that Americans of all ages are becoming lazy and are Americans still the hardest working people in the world?
Nooo ...
(Some) Americans are spoiled and not used to working hard - or smart -for some reason.
Some get little exercise, and therefore the blood doesn't flow to the brain and other parts of the body. The energy level is low due to lack of exercise. So here comes the lazy feeling.
Also, reading a book - a REAL book (not the "talking" one) may be virtually obsolete. Why read and get the brain flowing when a book can "talk" to one, and one doesn't have to think?
Additionally, there's more opportunity for sitting down and having something else do the "creative thinking". For example, sitting at the computer and surfing the 'Net. Resources on the 'Net do the "thinking" and "creating". All one has to do is type what they need, and up it pops on the 'Net - design and all. Sometimes there's no room for one's own creativity. Internet assistance is great - even vital. But it shouldn't be a substitute for human creative thinking.
(Some) Americans are spoiled and not used to working hard - or smart -for some reason.
Some get little exercise, and therefore the blood doesn't flow to the brain and other parts of the body. The energy level is low due to lack of exercise. So here comes the lazy feeling.
Also, reading a book - a REAL book (not the "talking" one) may be virtually obsolete. Why read and get the brain flowing when a book can "talk" to one, and one doesn't have to think?
Additionally, there's more opportunity for sitting down and having something else do the "creative thinking". For example, sitting at the computer and surfing the 'Net. Resources on the 'Net do the "thinking" and "creating". All one has to do is type what they need, and up it pops on the 'Net - design and all. Sometimes there's no room for one's own creativity. Internet assistance is great - even vital. But it shouldn't be a substitute for human creative thinking.
NEED MORE SEX! LOL (sorry) It's great exercise, given the effort though!
I have never been a "hard work fetishist" who believes in working hard just for the sake of working hard. As others have noted, that can be a quick path to someone else's enrichment as well as an early grave.
Hard work is great if you have a discrete, attainable goal that is likely to raise your material standard of living and which might make it possible to reduce your workload in the future.
It's almost heretical to mention this, but some of the most successful people I've known in life were quite lazy. They were not hard workers at all. But they had certain advantages - for example, trust funds along with some degree of intelligence (money begets money rather easily), good "connections" (though family, school, etc. - the type of people who can park you in a good job where you don't have to stress yourself), luck (such as pairing up in college with a roomate whose software project was purchased by SAP AG), or excellent interpersonal skills/good looks (such as a girl I know who got a job marketing pharmaceutical drugs, and then yachts - interesting progression there).
Some people are mentally wired to get a lot of pleasure out of working hard, regardless of the particularities of the task. Most are not. So, for the majority of the people, working hard all the time would mostly result in a lot of mental suffering, and if that's what life is all about, that would be rather grim.
So I can hardly blame people for looking for better ways of leveraging labor and effort for money.
With the advent of computers, x-box, and other sedentary games ... along with the creativity-destroying TV/ Movie addiction ...not to mention absentee Parent(s) in many cases , kids are not getting conditioned for work nor are they being taught the importance of work . That, combined with the pop-philosophy of Entitle-ism (americas great pride and shame)... it all makes for apathetic, unresourceful, non creative Young People who turn into aimless Adults . Thats how i see it.
The people picking the tomatoes for your garden party tonight are not lazy. The people bucking the logs to make the lumber to build your McMansions are not lazy. The people mining the coal to keep your ass warm in the winter and ensure your big-screen TV is powered are not lazy. The people working on the oil rigs to keep your Hummer fuelled up are not lazy. The people working 14 hour shifts to sew your $1000 five piece are not lazy. The people wandering around in the heat and cold all day to keep track of your future t-bone steaks are not lazy.
Yea, but most of the people doing the jobs that you point out are not Americans.
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LOL (sorry) It's great exercise, given the effort though! 
