Kinda quiet in here...

 

Yes it is, Doc. Yes it is. Anybody wanna send me some snow my way? I'm turnin blue over here waiting to go plowing.

 

Make up yo mind,a while back you were whimpering about the cold and snow.Now you want more??????

 

If I'm gonna suffer through this cold I want some freakin snow to come with it so I can play with the new toy and make some $ at least.

I don't mind the cold so long as my fingers aren't turning purple cause I'm trying to do something precise that can't be done with gloves on. That's when I start to mind the cold.

That or let's put this in a hypothetical for ya. Let's say that the company had a late 80s truck with a plow on it that wasn't perfect but it worked. Let's say that same company's owner was thinking of upgrading to a 2000 7.3 with a Fisher plow on it. Let's just say that, hypothetically, the son of that company's owner who also works for that company said let's wait to sell the old truck til we get the new truck. Then let's say that maybe the owner of that company went off on his kid about how he didn't need a lecture from his own bleeping kid and blablabla this that and the other thing. Let's say that company owner then sold that truck in the middle of winter and the kid was stuck on an OROPS tractor clearing snow in the freezing cold sometimes clearing slush that would freeze up if left standing while it was raining out, and had to road that tractor to the various places that had to get done. Meanwhile winter ended and there was still no new truck. Mid-summer comes around and that company buys a truck to use but it needs plow wiring installed and a new rear end. Let's say that company ended up just putting a plow on a newer truck and didn't have it ready until mid-January of that next year. Think that kid might have a slight reason to be p*ssed off?

*ehem*
Of course that's all entirely hypothetical.

 

You just gotta be tough

 

I second that! Most (not all) young people (younger then I even) are pansies.

When I was out working in Alberta in the patch I got to see a whole mess of the "new generation" of workers, and all I can say is they were sad.

 

Good Morning All.....

 

The "New Generation" does not know what the comment "Manualy Work" means today. To them "Manual Work" is having to get their sorry asses up in time to warm up the car that daddy bought them, so they can take their little brothers and sisters to school, moaning and groaning all the way.

Yesterday, "Manual Work" mean getting up three hours before school, having a **** pot of hard chores to do, and they had to be done regardless of what mother nature was doing, then going to school, coming home and still more chores to do before the homework ws done.

I have watched the sun come up while tending a garden, storing hay in the barn and the list goes on and on. That kind of work would kill the "New Generation." Pansies just does not cover it. "Whining P******" is more like it.

 

I must have been lucky, I didnt have no 3 hours labor before school.. but you can bet you **** I had chores when I came home.

Although I have not read this entire thread regarding the New Generation, they do seem to come in to work feeling "entitled". I believe it comes from a lot of different things, but one of the things I can give an example of, I can show right now, my son was playing the position of Goalie in soccor yesterday, he sucked, he let two goals in before you had tiem to blink. His coach was telling him what a great job he did, WTf? SO he came home jumping up and down about the great job he did as a goalie..

I had just got done telling him that he did not do such a good job, and that he needed to pay attention while in the net, and the reason he was pulled from the game was because of how he had played..Snd the coach pulled that.. oh boy..

 

Morning everyone.

There is a reason psychologists are calling the new generation "the entitled generation"....or as I heard it called, Generation ME!

 

Morning everyone, sure is Froggy out there this morning
No really, tells how you feel I've roaded a couple of OROPS backhoes in the rain...no fun, but it had to be done. Just remember it could always be worse than what it is. You could be working in a meat packing house, building railroad track (hand tools only) or roofer; those kinds or jobs are the pits and will make you appreciate the easy things.Oh I know exactly what manual labor is. I try to avoid when I can, but when it comes down to it...sometimes you just have do suck it up and do it. I'd rather drive a truck or run a locomotive verses stack groceries or build track. But sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Yes, I'm overweight...there's a reason. I'm lazy and I'd rather do a psychically easy job (drive a truck, run locomotives) than do a manual labor job any day of the week.

Good thing about today is a Federal Holiday...no junk mail or bills. I've given up on Ed McMahn sending that check he's been promising for 25 years.

 

I was the only girl in the house, and older than 4 boys.....while in high school, I had to get up, take a shower, seperate laundry, cook breakfast, clean the kitchen and then go to school...after school, I had to do the laundry, fix dinner, take care of the newborn brother, straighten up the house, clean the kitchen after dinner, and iron......all before going to bed....just to get up and do it again in the next day....c'est la vie


I am definitely NOT a Generation ME......

 

i understand where this "generation ME" and "entitled generation" comes from but let me tell u its not because of guys like Petey.
trust me that kid did a lot manual labor to get the shop ready before Jim (megawatts) injector install gtg and I've met is pops he is no slacker and doesn't let Petey be either

as for me im over weight too but i bust my a$$ everyday for the family business that put the food in my gut growing up and i plan on having my boys bust there backs for me. A high school teacher of mine one told our class "the problem with your generation is all you care about is feels good right now" then went down a list of y we were entitled
thinks like having a car, no job, gas cards, cell phones, ect
well i raised my hand to despute him and he put me on the spot that i drove to school in a jeep everyday and had a cellphone so i proceded to show him the last ten calls on my fone were work related and that my jeep i bought for $200 and rebuild the engine myself

just an example but i def think may, not all, of the "kids" on this site are not part of "generation me" just cause they were born in a certian year

PS
sorry for the rant and horrible typing/ spelling id rather be digging a ditch

 

I have worked my *** off for everything I've ever owned.

I waitressed in high school and almost always worked doubles, all to save money for college.

I put myself through college taking 15-18 credits a semester, held two jobs and usually worked more than 45 hours a week and still managed to graduate with a 3.5.

Growing up, I lived with my dad and my brother, and being the girl in the house I was also expected to cook and clean up after them. When I wasn't doing that, I was out in the garage with my dad fixing his Harley, changing oil or fixing one of the vehicles, or using the torch to cut up scrap. I've shoveled manure, mixed concrete by hand, shoveled asphault, laid brick, laid tile, built a deck, installed wood floors, laid shingles MANY times sometimes in 100 degree temps.

While I may not have had it as hard as a lot of you did, I don't think I fit into the ME generation either.

Edit, I agree with you Jim, and I'd also say Nick doesn't fit into that category either. I've never seen a kid so willing to jump in and help.

 

ME generation is kinda a fitting name for it!

I know some guys here arent considered part of that generation. Sadly alot of them are though.

I feel ive been somewhat babied with how to work compared to my dad, and his dad, and I feel like the youth today are babied way more then ever. Dont get me wrong, I had to work hard as a kid too, on the farm there is no easy work, no "work smarter then harder" (as pete put it) kinda work.

You learn to work hard, then smart. First learn how to do things, THEN learn how to do them better! Combine the two and your set. My dad had to work way harder then I did as a kid, and my grandpas even more harder!