02-15-2014, 12:40 PM
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Originally posted by unknownjulie
I have yet another part time job. I am being bumped off of shifts by a person already retired. When I asked this person "why do you want to work so much?", the answer was basically, "I am bored and don't like sitting around the house".
This post is not about hating this person, because I can find other things to do with my time- other than work- but I just find this mentality odd. I will stay "poor", and the other person will stay "rich"- and this bothers so many people- but for me it comes down to- "isn't there some kind of obligation to allow others in the prime of their lives/working years, to have a chance at working, and developing a professional persona?"
I really cannot imagine- if I were retired and bored- bumping someone off shifts who has three kids to take care of. I guess I would just "find something else to do"- possibly unpaid volunteer work.
Ask yourself; why is that a retiree is just as valuable as you, doing the same job. He's old and BORED, yet can replace you no problem. Don't you find THAT odd?
Here's the answer: "isn't there some kind of obligation to allow others in the prime of their lives/working years, to have a chance at working, and developing a professional persona?"
As an employer in the private sector, I hire on attitude first, skills and experience second. Whenever I get the sense that an employee feels they are "entitled" to anything that was neither promised or required by law, they are quickly shown the door. They serve as a cancerous tumor in any organization or society for that matter. Government labor seems to be able to absorb this mentality much more readily, probably because they had a lot to do with creating it in the first place.