Lack Of Enthusiasm In The Workplace – Why?

Last week, I watched a program on TV which compared the behaviour of pensioners and young people in employment.

The Pensioners were all eager to do their jobs correctly, be on time, give a good days’ work whilst 3 out of 4 youngsters who were given the same opportunities opted to stay at home on the second day without notification to their employers.

Today, during an appointment with my chiropodist, we talked about this program and she confirmed that her husband had the very same experience by hiring a girl with a view to training her to be come a Hairdresser. The youngster arrived for one days’ work and was absent the next day. When questioned, she said,: “oh, the sun was shining so I thought I’d go to the beach.” No sense of responsibility and no respect for herself or her employer.

This alarmed me greatly as I felt, that this youngster as well as the jobseekers in the above mentioned TV program lacked motivation, self-respect and vision.

With youth unemployment at a very high level, one would imagine that someone giving these youngsters a chance could at the very least expect some respect.

Where has it all gone wrong? A lot is blamed on the disintegration of the family where youngsters no longer receive any guidance from their parents and there are no role models to emulate. If they are lucky, they have a set or two of grandparents who often despair anyway at the wayward behaviour of their grandchildren. Children are very often largely compensated with money, not with love and attention and guidance simply because the parents are working all day and are tired themselves after full-time work and struggling to make ends meet and don’t know any better.

I pondered a long time on this topic and wondered whether there could be a Mentoring Program introduced into the schools to instil in these young adolescents, a sense of pride in achievements, a sense of wanting to help, to care, to matter as well as social skills which few children learn at home at home these days.

Parenting classes should also be compulsory to make adults aware of how to treat their children. Children need discipline and guidelines and routine to feel safe and secure.

Some parents have allowed their children to become so powerful that they will no longer accept any advice from the parents and once the parents realise this, it is too late. This then translates into bad behaviour at school and in society.

Not only is the disintegration of family at the root of the problem but the fact that money seems to be in ready supply at all times, no hardships are imposed on the children from a young age. They don’t have to work for their money. They don’t have to think of someone else or take responsibility for anything, not even themselves. Of course no parent wants to see their children go short of anything but, it is no good handing out all the time, a fact that is very much part of the economic depression we are experiencing at the moment because the same scheme is happening with the unemployment benefits. Many people get more on benefits than those who bother to go out to work.

Daily, I hear from people who lived in abject poverty and did not know where the next dollar was coming from. They did not want to ask their families because they knew that the parents had been struggling to get by all their lives too.

Yet, they took any job they could get, very menial tasks for very low pay but at the core of their existence there was a drive, a desire to better themselves and succeed whatever it took. They are today’s self-made millionaires. They tell you that it is possible to succeed in any economy.

The truth is that these situations when you are at rock bottom in your life, are actually great for building character. It makes youngsters realise that they must sink or swim and do something and take responsibility for their own lives and better their circumstances and financial situations and many have the drive because the last thing they want is to depend on handouts and live limited life of lack of money and luxuries their parents did.

My parents used to say: ‘The worst things parents can do is to let their children grow up without manners, courtesy and respect.’ It is true, without this, how can they succeed in the world at large.

There seems to be a serious lack of social skills among young people today. How could this be changed? By holding mentoring classes in schools on respect, manners, courtesy and good behaviour. Parents too should be required to take classes in parenting in order to give proper guidelines to their children.

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