Jobs Market isChanging

[kthompson]

My wife 'teleworked' for years and it was never a problem but she was always disciplined about her work time. She would still go in about once a week anyway. She retired a GS13 step 10 and I thank the lord she had the job she had. She carried her health and welfare into retirement and if it wasn't for that insurance, we'd be bankrupt today. My hospital bill for my cancer was just over a million bucks and it's still ongoing.

Not trying to ask questions here but I am a health insurance agent. If you are under age 65 you should be eligible for an Major Medical Health insurance plan with NO pre-exisiting conditions in it. Maybe at subsided prices. If you want to discuss this further send me a private email. I am not trying to sell you anything but most likely I am not in your state and only sell in South Carolina. NOW CHECK TO BE SURE MEDICINES AND PROVIDERS are in any new plan. Hey they change in all plans over time.

Now if you are on Medicare you again have plans you should be eligible for. Again if you want to ask me anything PM me.

Maybe I ought to begin this a thread...

 

[kthompson]

Made this separate from my reply to 5030 for it is totally separate here in topic:

I have been a life and health agent for 36 years. Customer service has seen many change over all those years. Many of the health insurance companies use outsourcing for customer services. It is complaint city!! Have one company who tells the agents it is terrible, has the insurance call you, you call us and we will handle it (this is the sales managers and such telling us this.) At the same time that company is spending something like 60 million dollars to build and staff the USA customer service center to solve those complaints.

I have another company (the one I have myself) who not only uses only USA customer service, but they are also their employees, in the same city, in the same building as the sales operations and management operations. I sell about 90 with that company, why? Because of how great their customer service is.

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

Out sourcing to india? Like boeing did with the programmers for the 737 max 8. Worked really well for them

There was a lot more to it than just that.

 

[jyoutz]

Interesting discussion. I think you are both right. The problem I see is we have raised a generation that does not believe in hard work. When I was a youth I believed the harder I worked the more I earned. Not so with todays' workfarse. It started with participation awards. We all knew that was BS but young parents insisted their child not suffer the anguish of defeat. There would be no winners or losers, just participants. From there they went on to $100k college degrees in nothing useful. They resided in their parents home and quit any job that was not fun and easy.
Basically we have a entitled society. People today feel they are entitled to the things we worked our buts off for, like a nice home, a nice car, a good job, health car, retirement funds, vacations and more. This will surly bankrupt the nation unless the next generation wakes up and gets to work.

I think you are generalizing about an entire generation. My two sons worked their way through college, well they are are still in school working on PHDs, but they are also working. Their degrees are in useful fields. Their wives also have useful degrees and work full time. In my field, I interact with and hire recent graduates. I’m very impressed with most of the recent graduates and think they are better prepared for professional work than my generation was after graduation.

 

[mapper]

Had an experience a couple of weeks ago that gives me hope for the young workers coming into the workforce. We had a new quartz countertop installed. The two early 20 something, young men who installed it did a flawless job. There were 2 seams in the counters that required color matching the epoxy to the quartz. They took the time necessary to mix the color for a perfect match. When they were done the seams were barely visible and the joint is perfect on both the countertop and the front edge.
I can't say enough about the care and attention to detail these young men displayed. And they were proud of the work and determined that we would be completely satisfied before the left.
This gives me hope for the younger generation.

 

[ultrarunner]

Hard to Outsource hands on in the field work…

When the steam boiler needs new tubes or the medical gas system has a leak or a patient needs assistance it’s still going to be a person hands on…

 

[Thomas]

I know of some people who move away from high C19 areas and states working remote and now companies saying return back to their office,some are putting up fuss and expecting companies to help with their changes...hmmm.

 

[Hay Dude]

Last winter, One of my customers had me install a couple thousand feet of split rail fence. Unfortunately, my son was at college and could not help me. The customer kept trying to push these two 20-something’s on me as helpers. I told him if HE wanted to pay them to help me, he could.
BAD mistake. These 2 “geniuses” spent 1/2 the day looking at their phones, taking selfies and re-tying their “man buns”. I coulda whupped them both in a fight and ended up doing more work then both of them combined. I had to teach them how to use a shovel and post hole diggers.
Customer kept bringing them both cold drinks and talking to them. No wonder they sucked at work. For the love of God I was happy when that was done. Never again will I do that.

With all that said, it’s the PARENTS of these softees that are responsible for this. Parents need to stop with the coddling and start applying the boot to the butt on these kids. They will learn and appreciate that you taught them hard work. I know my kids appreciate I wouldn’t stand for any of that nonsense.

 

[scootr]

Last winter, One of my customers had me install a couple thousand feet of split rail fence. Unfortunately, my son was at college and could not help me. The customer kept trying to push these two 20-something’s on me as helpers. I told him if HE wanted to pay them to help me, he could.
BAD mistake. These 2 “geniuses” spent 1/2 the day looking at their phones, taking selfies and re-tying their “man buns”. I coulda whupped them both in a fight and ended up doing more work then both of them combined. I had to teach them how to use a shovel and post hole diggers.
Customer kept bringing them both cold drinks and talking to them. No wonder they sucked at work. For the love of God I was happy when that was done. Never again will I do that.

With all that said, it’s the PARENTS of these softees that are responsible for this. Parents need to stop with the coddling and start applying the boot to the butt on these kids. They will learn and appreciate that you taught them hard work. I know my kids appreciate I wouldn’t stand for any of that nonsense.

Well, that's old school. Not saying you are wrong. I was raised the old school way. Heck I ran with scissors, drank from a garden hose, and talked to strangers, and worked like a mule most of my life.
But today's kids see the world differently. Most of them view hard labor as something to avoid. I saw it as way to make lots of money but todays kids have money making opportunities we never dreamed of. They buy and sell stuff on the internet. They deliver people and things with their own car. And they minimize their expenses for housing and food by living at home. It's a different world today, we have to realize our values are not their values. I didn't raise any kids so I'm not shouldering any of the blame

 

[ArlyA]

The older generation has been claiming that the younger one is worthless, for thousands of years.