Lazy and Dumb Kids

So I’ve been feeling really old lately. It mostly has to do with work and kids online. There’s no way that I, or any of my friends, were as lazy and dumb as kids these days. Seriously, some of these kids at work are really really annoying.

This girl was an extra cleaning person yesterday, and she was all like, ‘they got me cleaning stuff I ain’t never seen anyone clean.’ Uh… yeah, that’s because you’re the extra cleaning person. You’re cleaning the stuff that no one ever gets a chance to clean.

Then there’s the kid I was training a couple weeks ago, who kept begging to go on break. You work 4 hours and you barely do anything, why do you need a break? Then he’s all whining about how the job is so hard. He had to work a morning shift – a full day – and he was complaining about that. I told him it wasn’t that big of a deal, and he said ‘you don’t understand, you don’t work 8 hours.’ Um, actually, I work 8 hours everyday, as I have been for like, 8 years now – even while I was in school full time. As a matter of fact, when I was working at Kohl’s too, I worked every single day. 5 days at Kohl’s and 2 and the Hill. But I digress. He’s telling me I don’t work 8 hours, because he comes in at 4. Um, look at the schedule honey, the rest of us come in at noon. We’re on break when you come in at 4.

Ugh. Then, there’s a batch of kids online who just constantly admit to stupid things. Like not getting any sleep or doing any homework because they’re spending all their time online. Now… I don’t sleep a lot, I only need like 5 hours, but sometimes I don’t even get that, but it’s usually due to TV or a book. I have never in my life found myself failing a class because I spend too much time on a website. Not even MY website. I have once been late as hell to work because I was writing code for my website and got way too into it and lost all sense of time, but other than that, nothing like what some of these kids talk about. I just don’t get it.

Is this how people our parents’ age think about us? Is it all the changing of the times? Kids these days are more spoiled than I, and I was more spoiled than my parents? It’s ridiculous. Anyway. I just wanted to vent about that.