Oh, no, not at all. No, I actually break into peoples' houses all the time and fill up their fixtures with cheese. I really do. You do believe me, right? Right?
Not really. At the end of the day I'm pretty happy. So there is no point in holding a grudge. Then again, I'm only 23. Life is just beginning.
23 was a God-awful TERRIBLE time in my life. But that's about typical for me - I do everything ass-backwards. Theoretically you're supposed to have fun in your youth then fondly wax nostalgic over it when you're old. Now I'm old I'm enjoying life 1000 percent more, and going hell-bent for leather to try to forget my younger days!
Hey, they deliver on the TOS prequel that year of hype promised, I'm as over it as rain over a London street.
I don't do many things wrong. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable for my age when it comes to 'real life' things. I was never brilliant in school, but I probably had more common sense than most kids who got 95% averages. Most of that was because my father always made me figure stuff out on my own. So while growing up whenever I had a problem I was told to solve it on my own, provided that was actually possible. It was often very frustrating, but I soon learned how to fix my own shit. Now, 10 years later, whenever I have a problem, I don't need much help in working through it. Most of it is common sense. Dealing with kids these days that are 18-19, holy shit are some of them fucking incapable of figuring shit out.
It's okay - they can download an "app" for everything. It's great being old and not having to worry about that technology.
It's mindblowing to me how many kids can't even do addition or subtraction by longhand, much less in their head. Let's say someone buys a Coke and a pack of gum for about $2.56 (in Cali, there's a tax for the bottle AND a gloriously high sin tax for it being a Coke ) and gives the cashier a twenty. Well, the person fat-fingered the keyboard and added two extra zeros, so they now "owe" the customer $1997.44 I can't tell you how many times I was called over to help someone on another lane at Target figure this shit out. Don't even get me started on basic multiples.
AWESOME! Where is this store? They might lose some money with this policy they will sure get a lot of business.
Okay, you know how obnoxious I've been in the JJ Trek threads? Well, multiply that by a factor of about 1,000, then add on a whole army of sycophants backing me up. That's Mike Wong.
I have never and will never get over Karen in security. Come to think of it, Debbie from high school, too.
??? Do you deal with 18 year old kids on a daily basis? The overwhelming majority of them need to be babied in order to teach them something. I know every generation says that about the generation younger than them, but holy shit they are stupid. I train these kids on the jobsite all the time, and common sense isn't their strength. It doesn't help getting straight As in school, when you can't function IRL.
Well I'm not old at all. But when I graduated there was no 'app' for everything. That shit came out after I was gone from high school. You're pretty much right though. Not to many kids can put the damn technology away and work without it. I have an open rule that anyone that comes up on a windmill with me and they have a phone, I'm throwing it down. We have handsets for a reason. Don't need them texting when people are hanging by a harness. When you tell them that they think you're fucking crazy. And yes, we are WAY off topic.
!!!!!!! I got like 75% averages in math, and I can do everyday math a hell of a lot faster than the kids that got 95% averages. Jesus Christ don't get me started on this shit. Imagine trying to tell a kid that he has to think 6 steps ahead on the jobsite when he has a hell of a time figuring out how much safety cable he needs to compensate on a 200' windmill. :angry: I'm happy when they can figure shit out without me having to lead them every step of the way. I'm the proudest guy in the world when a 19 year old punk becomes independent and does their job without me ordering them around. Sheesh. And yes, this is me venting my frustration. School recently ended, and guess who I'm training these days?
Imagine being a Drill Sergeant these days - I'm sure they go thru the same thing! They definitely earn their money. Anyway about technology - the last time I had to take a group of students around a Land Navigation course (just before I retired in late 2005) the group had a GPS. Jesus what a headache. By the time I could figure it out (spoiler alert - the kids blew me out of the water working the GPS) I could just grab a map and compass and plot everything out. My son said at Benning they did it old school - no GPS! My son's group ran the three hour course in one hour. The key was experience - my son never depended on a GPS. He's never been big on technology so he was always using/drawing maps and exploring all over the place. From what I saw on his unit's facebook page they were using (gasp) iron sights on the M4.
My cousin went through Benning oh... three years ago now? They weren't using iron sights then. I are confused. It's good to learn with and without GPS. In a war with China the GPS satellites will be down anyways.
The pics on the unit FAcebook page show the camera looking down iron sights. But that could have been for a cool pic - I'll write my son and ask him what's up.
absolutely. it may take me a while to forgive someone if they hurt me really bad, but i don't think i'm even capable of forgiving myself.
