coddle buddy.

I will openly admit it, I am a little rough around the edges. I am a very passionate person. I have a sharp tongue and I don't feel the need to censor myself nine times out of ten. However, I am generally a nice person.

Anyone coming in contact with me at any given time has at least a few chances to show me who they are with no judgments passed or assumptions made. But let me be the first to say I have been pulling back the reigns on the niceties I usually offer people. Perhaps it is just the group I surround myself with on a day to day basis, perhaps others have felt my frustration, but...people are ridiculous. What happened to accountability? Work ethic? Honesty? Respect?
The lack of people which actually contain these ideals is astounding.

My parents were not shining examples of perfection; but I was raised to understand the value of things such as a job, making your own way, independence, and hard work. I lived the life of a Huxtable, not a Banks. What confuses me the most is that I was a child through the nineties-two thousands, not the fifties. What exactly is your excuse? We were raised in the same generation and financial class yet you act like you have no idea how to function in society. I'm sorry Paris, would you like me to teach you how to balance that checkbook?

I work in a very casual, easy to function environment with the highest turnaround of any place I've ever seen. Do you know why? Because people just flat out don't think they should have to do their jobs.
"I have to clean? I quit." "You're scheduling me on a day I want to drink? I'm not showing up"
I'm sorry...what?! I have been working for a very long time, because that is what normal human beings do. Pay their bills. Earn money to buy the things they want and pay for the comforts we all expect in this country.

People are lazy, because we allow them to be. Kids don't understand things, because we don't make them. Teenagers don't have work ethic, because they don't need to. How about a little more tough love and a less coddling? How about a little faith that people can in fact do things for themselves?