We have a boy working at the shop half a day and going to school half a day. We had him awnser the phone some and he had a problem talking to people then one day we had him go to town and air a tire up. He calls back to the shop and trys to tell me the core is stuck in the cap. What?? we went around and around. One of the other guys said he would go and find out what was wrong. What happen was the end of the stem had broke off even with the cap.I couldnt figure out what was the deal with him and the phone tell a women told me she had a kid on the same work program that couldnt speak on a phone.She made up abunch of stuff were he had to make alot of calls and it realy helped him out.
Social media, texting, email etc has really set certain age groups back in their social skills. Seems to me a lot of parents also have their heads so far up their posterior that they don’t even see it and take appropriate measures to heaven forbid teach their kids some life lessons let alone simple skills. A very small portion may actually have a little developmental issue or like I was when younger....I just didn’t want to! Haha
My co worker recently told me his child a high school graduate getting a scholarship could not make change. "Why should I, I swipe the card? " I also heard they dont teach cursive writing any longer.
LOL, yeah I see it all the time, especially with making change... I like to mess with em sometimes and give then an extra dime or two!! that really throws em' off
I don't know my man. Have you really read what you just posted, or any of your other posts? They are barely comprehensible. Run on sentences, tons of spelling errors, missing punctuation and capitalization, etc. Try the carriage return button once. As the saying goes, communication is not a skill, it's the skill . I'm probably considered a "kid" by most here, but I don't see this as a generational issue.
I can talk on the phone just fine but I hate it, and phones suck for talking these days. Text and email also has a nice record of “no this is what we told you and you replied to it”
Agreed that having a record of things is good in certain potentially unwanted scenarios. That being said it would be nice if we all had a pleasant phone voice and the demeanor to go along with it. I, for one, wouldn’t look near as intelligent without this “smart” phone fixing my grammatical errors. I suppose face to face or talking on the phone we might be perfectly articulate but writing maybe not so much. Having talked to Doug on the phone numerous occasions I assure y’all he’s wonderfully articulate!
The problem here is you just can't get the tone that someone is speaking in when they're texting or typing. You can be typing quite angrily and it might sound quite pleasant when they read it back to themselves
Absolutely. More than one fight I’ve had over two marriages was exacerbated by misunderstood texts!
This post was unnecessary, IMO. And, I'll stop right there.
Guy emails his neighbor. I been using your wife, been using it for years. When your gone , I'm on your wife. Hit it on the weekend, in the evening, every chance I get. I've been made aware of how wrong it is. I'm trying to make amends. I'm willing to pay whatever you think it was worth. I've been on your wife since I moved in. Let me know what you think is fair. He sees that the neighbor kicked his wife out in the front lawn and was screaming at her. He walks over and asks what happened? The neighbor looks at him like he's gonna kill him. You use my wife and have the nerve to ask what's wrong? Your wife, what are you talking about. The neighbor showed him his phone. Oh my God, dude, I meant wifi. Autocorrect must have changed it. Sorry
It's the Christmas season, and it seems like today everyone is at everyone else's throat's. If I wanted to see a bunch of bickering and name calling, I'd go to more family get together's. I'm telling you, its ruining the whole vibe.
Don't get me started on the texting and social media. I have 4 kids between 28-36 that will text a 30 minute conversation that would take 1 minute by phone call. I will text them 1 or 2 sentences, after that I'm ringing their phone. If they don't answer it, I will not leave a message and assume it wasn't important. Its even worse in business, numerous calls to people and no response...…..but they will email me. Makes no sense whatsoever.
I went to a "Gender Reveal" party w/ the wife.. That's where these DAM KIDS reveal the gender of the baby to the spouse.. It was actually pretty kool.. but worthless at the same time.. ALL the ADULTS were laughing, mingling & having a GREAT time.. ALL their 20 something friends were in the corner "playing" on their phones.. WHY the hell did they even come.??
Wes J you didnt say any thing that i dont know. The computer for me isnt something i have been able to learn and get better at like mechanic work, welding, being a machinest, driveing a truck or moveing dirt. I didnt like school some of it was tuff for me. I may have hit a nerve with you i have worked with several kids or guys that were alot younger than me. I know how it was to be treated like i didnt know any thing and i try not to treat young guys this way.I never made fun of him about the valve steam and it hasnt been talked about in the shop agin. The first week i had him help me change out a truck tire while the rim was on the truck. I ask him if he had done this before or saw it done he said he hadnt. We were puting it back on i was tapping it back on with a hammer and he tryed to pry it on witch wouldnt work because theres no room to swing a tire iron i said that wouldnt work and was going to tell him why but before i could he said maybe you dont know what your doing. I some how held it in it wasnt going to do any good to tell him i was fixing truck tires before his grandpaw could drive a truck.He has natural talent and has learned what he knows on his own. I dont think any one has tryed to teach him any thing about mechanic work and he has a hard time figureing out that there may be some one that has been there and done that before. At first i thought i dont know if he will work out but he has started to trust us and listen to us. I know he is learning and i dont want him to hate working with us.
Yer a better man than I. Kid gets lippy, he gets corrected. Disrespect your elders, first time, free explanation of why you don't. Second time, well, there shouldn't be a next time. I have no patience for that. I ain't that old . I owe everything I know and am to the old timers that took a couple minutes out of their days to teach some punk all those years ago.
You have to look at it from the kid's perspective, though, for every old timer full of awesome tips and tricks there is another one full of wives tales, bad and lazy attitude . He may not have figured out that you are the former. But one thing he does need to figure out is not to pop off with wise cracks like that. If somebody is telling you to do it the hard way and you know a better way best to keep your mouth shut and either do it his way while he is watching you or just let him see your way work better [if he doesn't get upset by it] but a sharp word never helped anything, ever.
As a young guy under 30 I hear from older guys that my generation is garbage and yes there are worthless people in my generation but there is also a lot of good ones that no one wants to put the effort in on It takes a lot of patience to work with someone green most of the young guys now are really green because no one has ever taught them anything so they dont realize there is so much to learn and the ones coming out of tech school were told at school they are now journey man mechanics because they went to tech school and were so overwhelmed by being taught in depth systems that they missed the basics and therefore can't apply the technical knowledge because they dont know how I know if the master mechanic that worked for my dad when I was growing up was not as patient as he was I would be no were near what i am today cause he was the one that got it through my head to shut up All I can really say is good for you Doug the world needs all this knowledge passed on cause none of us got to this level without some guidance on more than one level
For you all you older guys here, the only thing I have to add is that you guys raised us. It’s your fault. Merry Christmas to all.
Define “older” lol
Well isn't that just typical don't take any responsibility .Blame it on someone else. it's not my fault I'm a knucklehead you raised me boo hoo
If you have to ask the question then I would hate to break it to you. Lol And on the it's the older generation fault I guess the jokes on us young guys cause I used that line on my dad the other day and was told that's my personal problem and it sucks to be me to have such short comings that I can't over come lol
It’s a relative thing lol. When I was a kid 40 was ancient. Now that I’m 40 it doesn’t seem so old!
When I turned 40, someone said it was the perfect age... you’re old enough to recognise mistakes you have made but young enough to make some more.
I'm 57 and still make mistakes. Trouble is I'm at the age when I can't remember whether it's the first time I've made the mistake or not.
I'm 46, and evidently I've had some hard miles. I've got a operator that is about my height, and 4 years younger, and everyone asks if we're a father/ son outfit. It happened on like 3 jobs in a row this summer, and now its the running joke at the shop.
Hell when I turned 25 I was depressed. I don’t even want to think about 30. Depresses me.
You're lucky. I get "when do/did you retire" or "aren't you dead yet?"
I still feel 20 and am fired up for next week already. I still think next week is going to be my best week yet, people that think their best time was high school- that depresses me. I don't feel old, but evidently I look it. I already got the senior citizen discount question at a fast food chain. That's the shocker, when some pert young gal is checking you out from behind the cash register, but she's really just deciding whether you're old enough for the over 65 discount.
Turning 40 was just another day. I’ve been fortunate and aged well aesthetically. I remember dad in his 40’s comb-over and all! Haha. I do think it’s a sweet spot in life. Past experience guiding us and still a little youthful spunk to get us in trouble here and there. Somedays my boys keep me young and others I swear they age me years in the span of a few minutes!
Man 62 and beat half to death I feel as Ancient as they come!!
When I was 50 and my father was 70 were talking about work and work experience. I was kidding him when i told him it had taken me 50 years to make him as smart as he was then... That little comment was not well received! Mental note to self; prepare answer for that comment
IDK about talking on the phone, but how about some grammar classes. I read this post on this forum 3 times and can't figure out what is being asked:
lookz gud 2 me