tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1447797165203083511..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: A Millennial's Guide to Office EtiquetteStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-50290536634509575342017-05-17T07:43:11.735-07:002017-05-17T07:43:11.735-07:00Want to make your clients feel special and wanted?...<i>Want to make your clients feel special and wanted? Ring them to arrange your next meeting</i><br /><br />No! Do not call me on the phone! Email me, please. Do not force me to interrupt what I am doing to answer the phone and then have only one hand available to check my calendar.the golddiggerhttp://diaryofagolddigger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-68228852923283214162017-05-16T05:53:36.793-07:002017-05-16T05:53:36.793-07:00Wear socks and shoes around the office. No bare fe...Wear socks and shoes around the office. No bare feet. I wish I could say I'm making that up.Doug Cranmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12980827610582358520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9744868538981542132017-05-16T05:39:19.624-07:002017-05-16T05:39:19.624-07:00@ Sam L.
so, you think the jarheads have an edge ...@ Sam L.<br /><br />so, you think the jarheads have an edge on bringin' up young Americans proper? Then read on and learn, my son...<br /><br />A Coastie went into the head to take a leak, and saw there was a Marine doing the same at the far end.<br /><br />The Marine finishes then goes to the sink and turns the water on. The Coastie finishes, zips up and heads for the door.<br /><br />"Hey, Puddle Pirate!", the Marine barks out; "Whatcherdoin? Didn't your DI ever teach you to wash your hands after you piss?"<br /><br />The Coastie turns, looks at the Marine and responds - "Nah, Jarhead - in our bootcamp we learned never to piss on our hands in the first place."<br /><br />"nuff said,<br /><br />The JG<br />(USCG 1984-2000)Jacksonian Grouchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04210166545725754741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-2500646710962378532017-05-15T18:22:13.130-07:002017-05-15T18:22:13.130-07:00I don't know Sam, I went through army back in ...I don't know Sam, I went through army back in the days of muzzle loaders. I do remember the Drill Sgts for some reason had very little interest in my personal problems. They probably had never gone through diversity and micro aggression training.<br />It was the first and only time I experienced levitation. With all my gear I found myself suddenly in the back of a cattle truck. Other recruits claimed a drill sgt had kicked my rear end up into the truck. It was a scientific marvel.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-49719420519202512452017-05-15T16:15:58.617-07:002017-05-15T16:15:58.617-07:00James, I understand that Marine Basic IS a big, ba...James, I understand that Marine Basic IS a big, bad, nasty reality.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-37179777703064346302017-05-15T07:07:41.225-07:002017-05-15T07:07:41.225-07:00My favorite part:
"‘We still don’t understand...My favorite part:<br />"‘We still don’t understand how this happened because he fasted and prayed the whole week. They finished him in a couple of minutes.<br /><br />‘All that was left of him when they finished eating him is a pair of sandals and his underwear floating above the water.’"<br />Thus the tale ends with the Millennial attending his first corporate meeting.<br /><br />Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9021511744398914292017-05-15T06:50:14.758-07:002017-05-15T06:50:14.758-07:00This is a perfect allegory for Millennials in the ...This is a perfect allegory for Millennials in the work place.<br />http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/15/pastor-trying-to-prove-how-jesus-walked-on-water-gets-eaten-by-crocodile-6637431/Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-74343245093865122112017-05-14T17:41:53.914-07:002017-05-14T17:41:53.914-07:00I don't know Sam. I think it's going to ha...I don't know Sam. I think it's going to have to take big bad nasty reality to do the job. One of the things that has struck me about the Millennials and the high tech barons is their very odd faith in a strange jumble of tech/government for the resolution of some of life's deepest mysteries. This is sort of getting into Ignatius's territory, but remember about a year ago the talk from the high techies about life extension and the possibility of immortality. When you here people talking like that they've really cut loose from reality and are in for a big surprise. Well I've blabbed enough already. Millennials would just quit the services (if the standards are not relaxed). They don't realized that the majority of wealth created by the new tech has been for socializing. Their devices (and themselves) cannot fix anything, they can call for a repairman, but one has to answer. To the stool of silence!<br />Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-8398260672240876822017-05-14T17:41:43.856-07:002017-05-14T17:41:43.856-07:00Stuart: The millennial generation have grown up wi...Stuart: The millennial generation have grown up with technology at their fingertips and are skilfully adept at holding conversations via Whatsapp, iMessage and email. When it comes to interfacing with human beings in the flesh, where communiques from one’s lips cannot be edited before emitting, they struggle.<br /><br />A very good point, although the quality of asynchronous communication in emails isn't necessarily low. That's a choice.<br /><br />And for in-the-flesh I'd suggest Toastmasters, if you want to polish your ability to speak and think on your feet, and express leaderships in organization.<br />http://www.toastmasters.org/<br /><br />Much cheaper than management schools, even if the certificates of achievement are not necessarily signs of competence.<br /><br />But if we want the ultimate antirole model for Millennials, surely our Commander-and-Tweet, the ultimate entitled and self-aggrandizing muddled thinker.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-39272312209788710042017-05-14T16:27:36.203-07:002017-05-14T16:27:36.203-07:00Marine Basic Training would cure millenials. Army...Marine Basic Training would cure millenials. Army, Navy, and Coast Guard could likely do it. too. Don't know about Air Force.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-501463089984366512017-05-14T10:01:32.302-07:002017-05-14T10:01:32.302-07:00If the Millennials get their way in their work pla...If the Millennials get their way in their work places then reality will come knocking and the work places will just go away and they will have no place to go. No organized business can succeed under the millennial's ideas of how it's done. Which of course throws them right back into the arms of the government and us subsidizing their existence, which of course as we are told constantly is a "right".<br />I don't want to sound like an old fuddy duddy and I know many of the same arguments could be made by the horse and buggy crowd about young people in their day, but this is different.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.com