My daughter works for a large retail chain in the Southeast. She was recently promoted from Sales to a position in Human Resources ( why they changed it from Personnel I don’t know).
From the beginning she noticed big problems with hiring and keeping employees. This really is a good employer, by the way–large employee discounts, performance bonuses, great pay, advancement and recognition–you name it.
Here’s what happens far too much of the time.
Someone is hired, fills out all the required 
complex paperwork, and never shows up.
Shows up for a few days, then disappears.
Works one day, calls in the next day, then disappears.
Stays out, never calls in.
And so on.
It is a constant churn of interviewing and hiring. Very few new hires actually remain as permanent employees.
I had heard of these employment problems before, but was not aware of how bad it truly is.
This is a symptom of a vast cultural un-caring. Where is the work ethic?
How do these people think?
And how do they manage to live?
I’m sure we are now seeing the results of the participation rewards given to children in primary school. You get a prize just for showing up.
This does not bode well for the future of our country.
God bless everybody
Patty
The schools fill students heads with dire warnings and basically tell them that Western Civilization is a failure, so these kids have no sense of future and they resent anyone who succeeds. It brings to mind the words of Isaiah 5:20
“Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
xwho put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!”
That’s what these kids are facing in the schools and many of them have been trained not to care.
I often would say they (the kids) don’t know who they are, where they are and when they are–because of confusing teachings, no concept of geography and no history.
I’ve worked with young people fresh out of college and been amazed at just how clueless they were about how the world operates. Actually, it reminds me of what happens to children who are raised in adventist traditions, and taught the Christ is returning imminently and that nothing in this life will matter, once that happens. Such youngsters develop a sense of unreality regarding the world around them. The doom and gloom taught in many schools is a secular version of the same thing.
good heavens, I was unaware of that. Not good.
Unknowable2 is spot on.
My kids (4, in their 30s) were homeschooled, and they don’t have those problems. But they noticed it long ago in many of their friends and aquaintances.
I have 3 nephews who suicided in their late twenties, after a few years of encountering the real world after high school. My brother said his son was not into substance abuse, had a lot of friend, but had no interest in anything and couldn’t make decisions about his future because he didn’t believe there is a future.
My kids say what they notice most in their peers, even those with good jobs, is that they don’t care about anything enough to be interested in finding out more — history, science, nature, culture, etc. It’s difficult for me to understand or explain. It’s so sad and it’s our future generations.
Our life, our future, and our hope are in God’s hands, and not in the predictions of humans.
This is so tragic. Young people feeling hopeless enough to want to end their lives. God never should have been taken out of the public schools.
That’s the thing. Without the hope of something better, life just becomes a series of setbacks and disappointments.