Young People

[Eupher]

Especially those who purport to be in the workplace. Pathetically ignorant, most of them aren't worth the powder to blow them to hell.

I'm speaking of those who are somewhere between 18-22 and have their heads so far up their asses when they fart their ears pop.

This is how bad it is. HR is now gunning for my ass.

**** 'em:

The employee showed up on the day in question at 8:10 AM. She was escorted into the small conference room where [one of my directs] and I were waiting to administer New Employee orientation for temps.

[My direct] is tasked with conducting this training, but it was her first, so I observed and provided commentary.

One aspect of this training involves assessing the employee’s ability to see well enough to inspect product. This assessment consists of having the employee use a standard ruler to take two measurements of a small rectangle on the form used for the assessment. After a short explanation which I gave, and that also mentioned that many new employees seemed to struggle with how a normal inch ruler is constructed and how it’s divided into increments, the employee was invited to take the measurements and answer the questions indicated on the form, namely, the dimensions that she measured. The employee took the ruler and made an attempt to measure the attributes of the rectangle. She appeared to be confused and unable to determine what she was looking at. After asking her several questions about how a ruler is constructed, she could not correctly answer.

This employee did not understand inches or increments of inches, this despite an explanation of the requirement. I found this surprising and a little frustrating. We weren’t gauging her knowledge of a ruler, we simply wanted to know if she could see well enough to take measurements at the scale of less than one inch.

After multiple attempts to explain what was expected, I asked the employee how many increments the ruler’s inch was broken down into. She answered “twelve.” The ruler clearly showed 16 and after she insisted her answer was correct, I invited her to count. She still answered twelve. I registered surprise that she evidently couldn’t count up to 16 on a ruler’s tick marks and explained that this was basic arithmetic learned in school. She replied she wasn’t good in arithmetic.

At this point she either didn’t understand how a ruler was constructed and couldn’t count the tick marks on the ruler, or she was not able to pass the assessment. I wasn’t sure which. We pressed forward with the second part of the test, which consisted of reading some small font text aloud. She did that successfully.

We eventually moved on and concluded the training and turned the employee over to the production group lead. I concluded privately with Amy that the ruler aspect of the assessment was evidently beyond the capability of many new employees (not just this one) and instituted change control through Amy to remove it. It simply caused too many problems.

About 20 minutes after this, the Production Manager approached me and [my direct] and asked what had happened, that the employee was crying in the restroom. I explained what had happened and that if anybody had upset her, I probably did because of the visual test assessment.

Rant on:

****ing two-bit dipshits can't even count to sixteen. Read a ****ing ruler. Are so clueless that they don't even know they're clueless. And then apparently have the temerity to bitch to the temp agency because they're "upset."

 

I need to retire.

YESTERDAY.

[thundley4]

I really like those stupid memes on the interwebs asking why we need so much math in school when it will never be used. 

[Eupher]

I really like those stupid memes on the interwebs asking why we need so much math in school when it will never be used. 

Sample questions I asked this stupid bitch -

"How much is half of one?"

"How much is half of one-half?"

"How much is half of one-quarter?"

"How much is half of one-eighth?"

"How many tick marks do you count between the 0 and the 1 on the ruler?"

All of these questions asked while physically showing her what one-half/quarter/eighth/sixteenth of an inch looks like on the ****ing ruler.

****ing kids are coddled to the point that when they're confronted with the very clear evidence that they're dumber than a ****ing box of rocks, they whine and cry and all of the sudden, the guy that's trying to get a job done is the one who's guilty.

Reminds me of the time when, as a supervisor, I told a temp who couldn't stop texting her boyfriend to put the phone away. I was fired for that for creating a "hostile work environment".

Pussies. And the males aren't any better. In fact, they're even more stupid. 

[thundley4]

It will only get worse with common core being taught in schools.