$15.00 and hour?

[Mostly Harmless]

These are the ones who will eventually be taking care of us and running the country! Sad state we're in when most now a days can't even tell time unless it's a digital clock.

Tons of successful mathematicians who don't know how to use an abacus. Plenty of brilliant engineers who don't know how to use a slide ruler. CNC operators who don't use punch cards.

There are also plenty of older people that can't save a document in PDF or create a presentation in powerpoint, of fix a computer beyond restarting it.

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[AzScorpion]

Tons of successful mathematicians who don't know how to use an abacus. Plenty of brilliant engineers who don't know how to use a slide ruler. CNC operators who don't use punch cards.

There are also plenty of older people that can't save a document in PDF or create a presentation in powerpoint, of fix a computer beyond restarting it.

Technology is here to make our lives easier and provide betters ways of accomplishing tasks.

I have no use to create a presentation with powerpoint in my career and I make enough money to be able to pay someone to fix my computer. What I can do is get through life with basic normal skills like telling time from a clock or making change without having to rely on a computer to tell me how. Those that rely on these are one EMP strike away from a total meltdown. lol

Technology is good in some senses but in others has made people more lazy. I bet most couldn't call half the people on your favorites list on your phone without looking up the number? I still hand dial at times and I still do all basic math by hand and I deal with numbers every day, it keeps your memory sharp.

 

[AzScorpion]

your expecting gud spellings from a danper user?

Dave, when did u ged a dampener? ?

 

[myothercarizahearse]

with much regret, a year ago. it's kind of necessary when opening the tailgate from inside the GFC

 

[THLONE]

You have to admit that gymnasium is a stupidly spelled word. Like pheasant or phony or woke. In Tucson we have a road spelled ajo. The snow birds pronounce it just like it looks. The locals say aaho.

 

[AzScorpion]

You have to admit that gymnasium is a stupidly spelled word. Like pheasant or phony or woke. In Tucson we have a road spelled ajo. The snow birds pronounce it just like it looks. The locals say aaho.

That's like the town called Gila Bend, the G is silent and most says it wrong. It's pronounced ila Bend.

 

[T Bone]

hell, most of the 20 somethings around here cant tell time on an analog watch, my daughter (i am ashamed to say) is one of them. she has one of the trendy huge ass faced analog watches and i told her a couple of weeks ago the time on it was wrong. she looked at me with a duh face then proceeded to tell me she cant use it to tell time anyway.............my retirement looks bleak lol.

 

[RetiredNotFired]

So, I go to lunch today... Order my food. The attendant asks me my name, I tell her "Jim".

I get the receipt and it says my name. I'm curious so I look in my old paperwork only to find out that my real full name is "Gymnasium".

Looks like I've been spelling it wrong for 64 years.

Who knew?!!

So, I go to lunch today... Order my food. The attendant asks me my name, I tell her "Jim".

I get the receipt and it says my name. I'm curious so I look in my old paperwork only to find out that my real full name is "Gymnasium".

Looks like I've been spelling it wrong for 64 years.

Who knew?!!

i hear you. I went to a restaurant where the menu listed 8 oz burgers. I asked the high scool age waitress for a 1/2 lb burger and was told they only had 8oz burgers. The girl working next to her said 8ozs is a half pound as she looked at me and rolled her eyes. The first waitress said "oh!". SMH

 

[Ames]

Man, I thought the receipt was just funny. Then the thread took a real "get off my lawn" turn.

I spent about 15 years in the service industry and I can say for sure that the staff at any restaurant is a good cross-section of society. The people working there are smart, dumb, young, old, conservative, liberal, etc. The people up front aren't there for their critical thinking skills. They are there because they are supposed to either be eye candy or good with customers. The kitchen staff is usually pretty smart (in my experience). Yes, there are idiots, but you can't spend much time around knives and fire if you don't have 2 brain cells to rub together. Hell, look at this thread. We've got people who are able to look at historical data and provide sources for well-reasoned arguments, and we've also got people who think vaccines are used to kill people and have a medical degree from the University of Facebook. Sometimes I wish things were actually bad so people would have a legit reason to bitch.

It's going to be okay. I promise.

Now, back to the damper discussion...

 

[Motorpsychology]

Tipping has lead to horrible underpaid wait staff. maybe if we got rid of tipping and paid them a flat rate the quality could improve.

Most likely not as then restaurants would actually have to pay their staff.

It used to be that a tip was for above and beyond expected service: keeping the coffee coming, checking on the table often but not hovering, pleasant engagement, attending to problems like food not cooke to order, missing or wrong sides, etc. Now it's more of an entitlement mentality at many places.
Except this one. It's a little diner in the middle of nowhere between Iron River and Drummiond, WI with fantastic food and fantastic-er staff!

 

[Porpoise Hork]

So, I go to lunch today... Order my food. The attendant asks me my name, I tell her "Jim".

I get the receipt and it says my name. I'm curious so I look in my old paperwork only to find out that my real full name is "Gymnasium".

Looks like I've been spelling it wrong for 64 years.

Who knew?!!

I have had a myriad of interesting spellings for my name from places like this.

It's Bret... It's a single syllable name and I say it clearly, yet I have had Bref, Brad, Bren, Fred, Crais ? and...

Wait for it...

...Tent...

Yes, really...

Tent..

 

[Ames]

I have had a myriad of interesting spellings for my name from places like this.

It's Bret... It's a single syllable name and I say it clearly, yet I have had Bref, Brad, Bren, Fred, Crais ? and...

Wait for it...

...Tent...

Yes, really...

Tent..

I have a really unique name so I just tell them I'm Tom. It saves me a lot of hassle. It seems like it's almost worse that I'm an average white guy from the middle of the US. The name plus that fact just makes people really short circuit.

 

[Porpoise Hork]

I have a really unique name so I just tell them I'm Tom. It saves me a lot of hassle. It seems like it's almost worse that I'm an average white guy from the middle of the US. The name plus that fact just makes people really short circuit.

I resorted to telling some places that are exceptionally bad at names that mine is Mud..

 

[Motorpsychology]

if you wanna play the brain game for all the marbles, without using google, how many grams is that?

My local grocery store has a deli dept. They are a good employer of high school kids and have a generous if challenging scholarship program (employed 4 consecutive yrs= $1500 scholarship/military bonus). For a brief time, they had a girl behind the counter who was not quite up to converting fractions to decimals. I would order a half pound of pastrami and a third pound of ham or turkey, as I'm the only one in the household that eats it and any more than this spoils. I'd place my order for a third pound of Virginia ham and she would take her tongs and put a heap on the scale. 1.265lb. "is that OK?" "No, that's way over" I say. she takes some off: .816lb. "is that OK?" "Ah, no, I only want a third pound." Another customer who is going impatient with the situation says, "He wants dot-three-three-three-pounds!" The lights came on in her eyes and she removes ham until .335 shows on the display and I say "That's good right there!" She gives me an "omg why didn't you just say so" look.

To be fair, I think we are not doing an adequate job of preparing young people
to be practically literate. My 10 year-old grand daughter can do long division on my iPhone's calculator but struggles solving it on paper. Palmer method script writing is no longer taught in our school system.
Rant closed. I'm going to go make a dot-one-two-five-lb pastrami sandwich. Sheesh.

 

[GlockGirl]

Our younger generation is such a disappointment

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