I say this in utter sincerity, without a shred of sarcasm: Goddamn liberal pussies.
lmao…
Special snowflakes and their feelings…
The butthurt generation.
Wow.
As one of the token “liberals” on this forum, I agree sincerely with smh_23.
Fuck those guys.
Just wow…
So now we have kids coming to work who don’t understand how to figure things out unless you give them specific, line by line, activity by activity, instructions.
A few years from now, every interaction they have that doesn’t meet their expectations will cause them to “trigger” and go ape-shit.
lol.
I feel for people who truly do have issues and stuff like this causes them to “trigger” but its plainly obvious those people haven’t sought out or gotten the help they need to deal with their traumatic issue which will continue to get in the way of their life until they do. But, let’s not teach them that skill. Let’s just shield them more until they fail in the real world.
[quote]ZJStrope wrote:
Just wow…
So now we have kids coming to work who don’t understand how to figure things out unless you give them specific, line by line, activity by activity, instructions.
A few years from now, every interaction they have that doesn’t meet their expectations will cause them to “trigger” and go ape-shit.
lol.
I feel for people who truly do have issues and stuff like this causes them to “trigger” but its plainly obvious those people haven’t sought out or gotten the help they need to deal with their traumatic issue which will continue to get in the way of their life until they do. But, let’s not teach them that skill. Let’s just shield them more until they fail in the real world.[/quote]
You don’t have kids do you?
I’m not asking that as a defense of these people, but as in you don’t have a lot of experience with the average contemporary parent.
At least with the absolute weaklings I live around, your last phrase is a rampant epidemic of catastrophic proportions.
I make interns and staff cry on the regular. You want to know how? I’m honest and critical of them. This brings more men in their early 20’s to tears than I care to admit.
Pathetic…
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]ZJStrope wrote:
Just wow…
So now we have kids coming to work who don’t understand how to figure things out unless you give them specific, line by line, activity by activity, instructions.
A few years from now, every interaction they have that doesn’t meet their expectations will cause them to “trigger” and go ape-shit.
lol.
I feel for people who truly do have issues and stuff like this causes them to “trigger” but its plainly obvious those people haven’t sought out or gotten the help they need to deal with their traumatic issue which will continue to get in the way of their life until they do. But, let’s not teach them that skill. Let’s just shield them more until they fail in the real world.[/quote]
You don’t have kids do you?
I’m not asking that as a defense of these people, but as in you don’t have a lot of experience with the average contemporary parent.
At least with the absolute weaklings I live around, your last phrase is a rampant epidemic of catastrophic proportions.
I make interns and staff cry on the regular. You want to know how? I’m honest and critical of them. This brings more men in their early 20’s to tears than I care to admit.
Pathetic… [/quote]
Haha no kids, but I experience these kids in Public Accounting and it’s freaking sad and I don’t even work in that industry anymore (but I deal with them a lot in IA)
My gf is a manager and I feel soo bad for her. She literally had an INTERN ask if they can reschedule her Intern Exit Interview from Friday morning to Thursday afternoon b/c she wanted to sleep in on Friday. And to top it off, she didn’t understand why she was told “no” lol.
I feel for you Beans, I really, really do.
[quote]ZJStrope wrote:
I feel for you Beans, I really, really do.
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Nah, it isn’t that bad. You get a good egg everyone once in awhile, and I work small firm so we can trim the fat pretty easy. Big firms have HR departments and have to coddle the snowflakes… We can melt the fuckers, lol.
I could go on and on here with examples of the piss poor life skills these kids are coming up with now a-days… but I’ll save it for now.
I would have some smart ass comment about all your northeastern pansies and California weirdo’s but unfortunately I cant. My dad was just telling me the other day that he had made three guys cry and two had quit because he yelled at them, on an offshore drilling rig. He said he hadn’t even gotten harsh, a mildly raised voice with no cursing and one of them literally looked at him and said, “You don’t have to yell at me.” If I would have ever said that growing up I think my dad would have whopped me upside the head and worked me to the bone just to toughen me up. I cant wrap my head around this type of behavior. These people couldn’t have ever played sports or anything growing up.
I recently tripped over a copy of the NYT on my doorstep.
Please place a trigger warning in the topic title.
Thank you.
I DO want a “parental advisory, explicit content” label on every book written between 500 BC and 500 AC.
It could very well be the best possible way to encourage teenagers to read them.
Make them believe Homer was a dirty gangsta rapper.
[quote]kamui wrote:
I DO want a “parental advisory, explicit content” label on every book written between 500 BC and 500 AC.
It could very well be the best possible way to encourage teenagers to read them.
Make them believe Homer was a dirty gangsta rapper. [/quote]
Ha you might actually be on to something there.
Why not?
In fact, since most universities accept tax dollars (subsidized tuition), offensive material should be removed all together.
Just like in business/sports recently.
I’ve always hated how entertainers and academics think their spheres should get a pass on rooting out the offensive and non-pc. Especially when they’re silent on it, even supportive of, in other spheres. Reap what you sow.
Bring on the gray, neuter, monoculture!
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
I could go on and on here with examples of the piss poor life skills these kids are coming up with now a-days… but I’ll save it for now. [/quote]
As I’ve stated on here before, I work in public education, so I deal with adolescents on a daily basis. This crop of phlegmatic young adults with “piss poor life skills” is not going away anytime soon.
My observations are anecdotal and only my own. I can’t sit here and give you a scientific answer for what’s happening, but a fascinating societal change was noted in extensive research published by sociologist Norbert Elias. He observed that in his lifetime, the most significant fundamental societal change (between 1939-1989) was the transfer of authority from parent to child. This sweeping change in the role within the family has led to an expectation that the child and parents are more on a peer level, which is a reciprocal role of sorts, creating a situation of status insecurity for parents in which they don’t have a firm grasp of their own authority over their children and are able to provide little guidance about how to address modern issues (e.g., work ethic and responsibility).
If you look at the school as a social institution, there is a push from the elementary levels all the way up to the collegiate levels to make sure that kids do NOT fail. It doesn’t matter what it takes, they have to pass, and educators must pass them. **** simply leading the horse to water, you better make sure you find a way to hydrate it, even if it kicks you in the balls.
I even have a friend who teaches at the university who was told not to fail students because we “have to keep the customer happy.” This just leads more and more young adults to enter the post-secondary world with an expectation that there are always second chances, everyone is a star in some way, and that they will succeed no matter how much they lack self-motivation to even put their name on their paper. Until society decides to start holding children and young adults more accountable and stop insulating them from being offended or criticized, these tales are going to keep emerging from the crypt with an increasingly mind-numbing frequency.
So kids read about the joys of fisting in 3rd grade then are warned about reading The Great Gatsby at university? No wonder kids are so fucked up these days.
SM needs a trigger warning on all mens butts. 
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
SM needs a trigger warning on all mens butts.
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You may not be a wit but you’re certainly halfway there.
That’s my alma mater.
I don’t know what to say other than, perhaps every class should disclose that there is potential subject matter that may be offensive, be it violence related, sex related, culture related etc?
It seems kinda like the same warnings that are put outside of buildings in ca…
Prop. 65 hazard signs arouse controversy
Just an fyi, many things are linked to cancer, so these signs are a big joke to people who have decent understanding of cancer.
If you don’t sense the sarcasm, it’s there. It’s just that her stupid complaint seems to apply to any subject, and is in large part subjective in that such triggers can exist for all sorts of things.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Just like in business/sports recently.
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I think there is an obvious difference between an employer punishing an employee for tweeting about a coworker’s “horrible” kiss with his boyfriend–i.e., talking shit about a coworker’s relationship by way of a visible and openly accessible online publication–and a kid demanding to be warned about antisemitic triggers in The Merchant of Venice.
I don’t understand why people continue to act like the Dolphins/Jones thing is something that it absolutely is not.
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
So kids read about the joys of fisting in 3rd grade then are warned about reading The Great Gatsby at university? No wonder kids are so fucked up these days.[/quote]
Yep.
A couple hundred kids (none of whom were in the third grade, according to the material you linked to last time this came up) heard someone answer a student’s question about fisting a decade and a half ago. So, logically, “kids read about the joys of fisting in 3rd grade.”