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Oh snap...finny just went all kach on us! :eek:

Just kidding.

We've had 3 job openings in our dept for the past 6 months. Still trying to fill them. It's pathetic.

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Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte (Post 8364032)

Oh snap...finny just went all kach on us! :eek:

Just kidding.

We've had 3 job openings in our dept for the past 6 months. Still trying to fill them. It's pathetic.

That really hurts! The difference is that these charts actually have to do with the topic under discussion and include some explanation why they are pertinent.

Don't worry, you will soon have thousands of potential new employees immigrating to Arizona. Help is on the way.

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Originally Posted by uncle_scott (Post 8359043)

At 30 years old, I feel like I straddle the Gen X and Millennial's line, and it is a strange place between two opposing generations. I grew up with engaged parents, rode a bike to school through junior high school, and felt safe on the streets of my neighborhood. I know how to fix a toilet, repair a car, pour and finish concrete, and how to treat a woman and care for my family and animals. I don't expect anything from the world, and I have worked myself through college and grad school and into the excellent job I have. On the other hand, I do have a beard, carry student loan debt, and my pants are probably too tight in your eyes. Nothing in my childhood or in my young adult life led me to believe that I am an emasculated male...I am more Al Borland than Tim Taylor, and I am nothing like Homer Simpson. What the heck generation did I come from??

YOU sir...have your shyte together, and buck the trend, and I commend you for that.:D

Remember that statistics apply to a group, not the individual, just as a culture defines what's 'normal', not the individual.

Our normalcy at the moment is pretty jacked, but historically the US has been in some pretty bad times, but we pulled thru. Nothing stays the same forever.

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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy (Post 8361545)

If we're generalizing by generations and their impact on the world, it's pretty tough for baby boomers to point the finger at ANYONE. Millenials and their skinny jeans aren't to blame for my health care costs nearly doubling in a few years, my former employer going bankrupt after 2008 and being taken over by a competitor, crushing national debt, failing programs like social security, yada yada yada. Didn't happen on my watch boys....

The millenials and everyone else is paying exorbitant health care costs because collectively as a nation, we just don't take care of ourselves:

We feed our kids 'diabetes in a cup' at the fast food places...we eat garbage(and are overweight/obese)...we smoked and drank excessively...we became slaves to gross consumerism(hence massive debt)...all throwing caution to the wind, and now that health-care bill is due.

We are like a drunk walking down the hall, and the only thing that's holding us up right now is the walls we keep bouncing off.

Significant change will happen, but not in the foreseeable future. Let's keep our fingers crossed it's for the good.

The moral of the story is: "feel good" decisions have consequences.