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Millennial Job Interview

Monday, 27 November 2017, 23:34 BFH Uncategorized 33

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  1. I watched this earlier and it reminded me of a young guy I hired because he was a friend of one of my kids. First week marginal at best. Then he calls in the next Monday and claims he can’t come to work. He’s sick. He thinks it’s morning sickness. Use your imagination from there.

  4. Plus, they want all benefits, a sign-up bonus, 4-6 week paid vacations, all holidays paid, unlimited sick days, mileage, a work car, the work schedule of congress, and starting pay at $35/hour, but as a salaried amount, and do not forget the bonuses! Oh and don’t forget a safe zone, free cafeteria, nap zones, free on site child-care, and a free medical center, that provides birth control, abortions, cosmetic surgery and tattoos, along with any other medical problems.

  5. Sad but true depiction. When I meet people and they ask about Facebook, I inform them I don’t do that but they can have my phone number and address. I get few calls and even less door knocks. Life is good!

  10. Joe6pak

    Been down that road and always a dead loser. My experienced has aged but I can’t imagine much has changed. Sales men are a pain in the ass bunch of prima donas. Bwaa, give me a car.
    If I had another shot at it I’d hire a young guy that looked like he had his shit together and bring him up through the ranks. Teach him what he needs to know, show him some green, turn him loose. However I could be wrong. Again. Still.

  12. I think you’re right Brad, but I’ve missed on that too. My next attempt is someone out of the military. Here in Puget Sound they are all represented. At least I can believe they will have some work ethic.

  13. joe6pak

    I’m really liking my little DLA market. No contact with PA’s. I don’t need to talk to anybody, no politics, just quote it, build it, get paid ten days later. Quite frankly I don’t have the energy to do it any other way anymore. And I can do it anywhere. Except Alaska.

  14. Sadly, this is not a new phenomenon. No less than forty-five years (45 years!) ago, we actually hired a programmer who didn’t show up for his first day of work because he didn’t feel “comfortable” with the job. I suspect he was less than qualified, just as this girl was.

    However, in retrospect, we probably shouldn’t have invited him to a presentation by one of our most talented systems programmers. Anybody would have felt inadequate after that.

    🙂

  17. Geez, now I understand why I read reports of companies trying to recruit older generation people or trying to lure them back to work from retirement. Perhaps not so much for their own work talents as in the hope they will instill a better work attitude into the younger hires.

  18. “Amy, look at me.” I used that exactline (not the ‘Amy’ though) with a subordinate employee (a federal law enforcement officer who was about 20 something). Several days later, I found myself being questioned by our internal affairs folks. He had reported me for unprofessional conduct. Iafterwards, I found out he had tried to file a greivance through the union but they weren’t very motivated to help. It’s a challenging day in America.

  20. @Sam
    You may have just coined a new word; “lafterwards (laughterwards)”. As in, “Some little SJW spit in LCpl Jones’s face. Lafterwards, the fire dept. had the area pretty well hosed down. It was great”.

  21. Try getting one of the little jewels to perform physical labor. It’s an impossibility. These no nothing twerps think the first day on a job they should be put in charge of something.

  22. Years ago, when I was interviewing for my first industrial sales job, the guy started talking about salary, benefits, and such. I said “I don’t need a hand up. I’ll take the job right now on a straight commission basis.” I walked out of there with the job, made a fortune over the next ten years.

  23. Whatever happened to good old fashioned work ethic? I learned that from the get go delivering newspapers when I was 13 years old early in the morning in Junior High, working for my Dad pumping gas during the summers and some weeknights and weekends in High school and of course 3 years in the Navy taught me all I need to know about working hard for what I earned. All you need to know is be trustworthy, diligent, don’t dress like a slob etc. and show up on time and do the best job you can without complaining and the job will take care of itself.

  25. And I had more responsibility when I was in the Navy being the designated crew chief as a plane captain at 20-22 yrs. old than I have with any other job I’ve had in my life since then. And to think that the Navy trusted me enough as a young man to have responsibility for an F4 Phantom fighter jet with my name on it just below the pilot’s name was quite an honor and huge responsibility. It was worth it and I’d do it again if I was still young and do a better job at it.

  27. Our high school band staffs a concession stand with volunteers at a local concert venue. We volunteers work alongside paid cooks who run the grills and fryers. Most of them are millennials, and they work pretty hard. Every now and then, a noob snowflake is hired, and it is quite amusing to watch millennials school other millennials in the art of work. “Each one teach one”, as the slaves used to say.

  28. This is so on the mark it isn’t really even funny. My husband owns a small business and was invited to speak to a college class of business majors — all seniors — about interviewing skills. He divided his talk into two parts and therefore visited the class twice. In his first talk, he covered the basics, including the importance of sending thank you notes after an interview, including information-gathering interviews, to those who took time out of their day to speak with you. “Most people in business have crazy schedules, so it is always important to thank them for their time…hint, hint.”

    Only ONE kid in more than 100 picked up on the hint and, after the first talk, sent my husband an email to thank him for his time.

    Before talk #2, hubby stopped at the bank and took 100 crisp $50 bills from our account. In the classrooom, as he began his talk, he displayed all the $50s on a desk at the front of the room. The kids were oooohing and ahhhing. Then he said, “If you recall, in my first talk, I discussed the importance of following up with a thank you note when professionals take time out of their busy day to meet with you. That message sunk in…I would now like every student who sent me a thank you note or email after my first talk to come to the front of the room and claim a 50 dollar bill as a reward for paying attention and following through.

    Everyone groaned as that ONE kid walked up and took a $50. My husband swept up all the rest of the cash and put it in his computer case. Lesson learned. Maybe.

  29. Thank you, National Education Association!

    Thanks to your commitment to constructivist, guide-on-the-side, collaborative, desks pushed together teaching, you’ve given a whole generation experience in fact-free opinion spouting and an expertise in small groups without the burden of individual achievement.

  32. NOW do see why we need the H-1B visa program?
    If we can’t MAKE good doctors, engineers etc. we are going to have to IMPORT them!
    Teach your children! Charter schools, home schooling, whatever it takes.

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