Link: "Chip on his Shoulder" disease afflicting thousands of athletes

Catfish said:

About 8 or 10 years ago, I had a job for a couple of years that required me to hire and, when neccessary, fire employees. It didn't take me long to realize that 90% of kids under 30 expected to start out at $60,000 a year, get started late, knock off early and and take off whenever their social lives required it. I ended up firing all but one person I hired under 30. I had one kid who was about 27 that was absolutely worthless. One day, he hadn't gotten a project done that he should have been finished with several days before. Only because there was nobody else to do it, at the beginning of the day, I told him that he had until the next morning at 8:00 to finish it or I was going to fire him. This was a typical assignment, similar to others he had finished in 5 or 6 hours before, when he felt like working that day. The next morning, he came in 8:30ish and told me he'd have it to me by noon. I told him not to bother and that he was fired. He started wailing like a three year old, literally tears streaming down his face. Screaming, "You're firing me?!?!?! Why are you doing this to me?!?!?!" I said, "Buddy, you did it to yourself."

EVERY SINGLE person I hired over 40 worked out. No exceptions. Last I heard, most of them are still with the company. One of them has my old job and another has my old boss's job. :biggrin2:

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