@Sarah977 @Brett3
This afternoon I almost....god it was close...struck a pedestrian!
I was driving on a busy road here in our town and he just walked straight across a 4 lane road texting on his phone, not once looking up to assess whether it was safe.
We have bred a generation of morons who's rite it is to be spoon-fed through life without taking any responsibility for their actions.
I blame our education system here. At school sports day there are no winners anymore, just by participating, you are a winner....cannot possibly offend the sensitivities of the under-achievers.
Brett, I learned in business that a company rolls along at the pace of it's weakest link. You can have a wonderful product, a first class managerial staff, great 'front of house' personnel......You just need some marginally employable individual out in the warehouse and the whole company rolls along at the pace of that individual.......True!!
This was one of the reasons I gave away work, left my business and retired 20 years ago! To cut a long story short, I airconditioned a very expensive house for people I knew. I took two of our employees around there and walked them through the last part of the job. At one point one of these employees came out of one of the rooms and, with his ladder, hit and broke an incredibly expensive light fitting. I went around and knocked on the door, Sue answered it and I could see she had been crying!
I said...."Sue, what can I say"!
She thumped me in the chest and said..."I trusted you"!!
I personally never broke or damaged a thing in my working life.....but I belong to a different generation!
Hopefully Brett we will be able to see out life without being 'dumbed-down' too much.
Cheers.....Rob