
The nation’s employers have been deluged with a torrent of teenagers on work experience who do not know how to do the most basic of tasks.
Britain’s shops, offices and leisure centres are inundated by 15- to 17-year-olds who are there to learn about the working world and are doing so by sitting in a corner on their phones.
Jim Bates, manager of a dry ski slope, said: “I understand why we’re doing this in theory. It’s just in practice that it has no function whatsoever.
“I’ve taken on three teens who it appears believed they would get to ski about for free all day, and instead are resentfully handing out the wrong size boots or not grasping the principles of sweeping up. I’m just not sure who this helps?”
Customer Lucy Parry said: “It’s infuriating. These kids, recovering from months of high-pressure exams, should really be much better at carrying out tasks they’ve received minimal training for.
“If I were them I’d be skipping towards a week in a menial position they’re not being paid for. But instead they’re awkwardly loitering around the place and communicating in monosyllabic grunts. That’s a privilege you have to earn.
“The sooner they fuck off to university and I can complain about them being woke and getting pissed all the time, the better.”
Of course.
Funny, how being paid to do something can focus the mind.
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...and persuade you to bite your tongue. Jx
DeleteWell daily match could be on to something. This newer generation is so much into their phones and gaming that they've lost all Sensibility on how to communicate when they're out.. for example like talking in a bar or a club. So very few can carry a conversation I find.
ReplyDeleteWe're doomed, dear... The age of fabulousness, witty repartee and fun is dying, only to be replaced by - a mobile phone!? Jx
DeleteSpot on as always and they have got it bang to rights.
ReplyDelete“I understand why we’re doing this in theory. It’s just in practice that it has no function whatsoever.
I see them around my office, looking like rabbits caught in car headlights. No idea what they, or the employer, get out of it... Jx
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