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Generation Y too "lazy & unfocused" to hire...

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  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    sjaypink wrote: »
    In my head I always read your posts in my usual accent HM, but for some reason that read Scottish :)

    Which is even funnier as I don't actually have a Scottish accent.:D
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Which is even funnier as I don't actually have a Scottish accent.:D
    Thats interesting.. with your ID & avvy.... Where you from originally? :)
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • Cornball
    Cornball Posts: 256 Forumite
    Out of my team of 6 direct reports, 3 are 'Gen Y'. I have had issues with personal mobile phone usage where the youngsters couldn't quite make it through the day without texting everyone they know! After several warnings this resulted in an all out ban but other than that there is no difference in their work ethics to the 'oldbies' of 30, 30 & 34 and they are much admired for their eager-to-learn attitudes.
  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    MOST mobile phones are now more intelligent than their teenage owners, it emerged last night.

    Researchers at the Institute for Studies found the latest Nokia smartphone has an extensive vocabulary, a built-in calculator and is not permanently ripped to the tits on low-grade skunk.

    In a bid to boost grades, some schools have begun excluding their students from classes and simply teaching the mobile phones instead.

    Roy Hobbs, a head teacher from Hatfield, said: "They are genuinely interested in subjects like geography, modern literature and British social history instead of the heads of famous women that have been grafted on to the bodies of !!!!!! actresses who are taking it up the back passage."
  • FATBALLZ
    FATBALLZ Posts: 5,146 Forumite
    But if generation Y can't get jobs who is going to be able to afford to pay £5m for the average house in 30 years time?
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    sjaypink wrote: »
    Thats interesting.. with your ID & avvy.... Where you from originally? :)

    Scotland. :rotfl:

    But the accent is the product of a public school education and a lot of time overseas.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Scotland. :rotfl:

    But the accent is the product of a public school education and a lot of time overseas.
    I dinnea never ken ?

    :o Sorry people. Bin a while since I read an Irvine Welsh :)

    Thats intriguing though Hamish, I never expected that either!
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Aye didnea nay ken?
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Aye didnea nay ken?
    Sounds better :o

    Graham, youre a computer bloke, or if any other boffin is reading, save me a trip to the techie forum.... my laptop is fooked, keeps putting the low battery popup up every 2 secs even though battery is ok. annoying cos i have to keep ok-ing it to carry on doing what im doing!
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    LOL at Maxi :D

    No idea Sjay. Could try shutting the laptop down, removing the battery pack and then reseating it. Dunno why this would work, but it worked on my phone once when it kept bleeping at me saying the battery was low!
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