Please Use a Service Manual.
Yeah, she learned that members of your generation are a bunch of dicks. Offer to help her up? Ask if she was ok? Nope, made a snide comment, crossed the street. And she's self absorbed? :realcrazy: Think maybe your "advice" would have gone further if you'd offered to help her up and acted like you cared for two seconds?
It's always interesting when these threads devolve into "the whatever generation doesn't know anything, can't pay attention, doesn't have respect, can't whatever". It's interesting because it's the LAST generation that didn't teach them whatever it is they now lack. And usually, it's that same last generation doing the complaining. Or maybe the one before. Still, if you didn't teach your kids then they can't teach theirs.
I didn't intend my post to be a slam on any particular generation specifically. Some people are just as mechanical as rubber ducks- they probably shouldn't work on cars. Me, I can identify about 8 different colors and they all come out of a Crayola 8 pack, so, I probably shouldn't be a graphic designer (Just ask joey about our "purple" banners). But at work when I run into a graphic designer that's now doing something else for a career, I don't write him off, I TEACH him what I can. It's true, some individual people are a lost cause when it comes to mechanical aptitude, because not all of it is teachable. And just opening a manual isn't going to help them, which was the point of my original post. But most people just haven't been taught. There's a shortage of skilled workers now because no one is teaching the skills anymore, we shut down all the auto and wood shop classes to save money. Less people want to do hard work because no one taught them to value hard work, just to value money. That's at least as much the fault of the last generation and the one before as it is the one that lacks the skills and work ethic. Sure, there's always those people that don't know and won't listen, but I know people twice my age that have that problem, it's not new.
Maybe some of you folks should pair up with a "millennial" and exchange some knowledge. Maybe we'd all get to see fewer backward suspension parts and less complaints about how no one knows how to use the new forum software.
Here ya go :D. They come on CD too, but, that may not even help anymore...
Yeah, she learned that members of your generation are a bunch of dicks. Offer to help her up? Ask if she was ok? Nope, made a snide comment, crossed the street. And she's self absorbed? :realcrazy: Think maybe your "advice" would have gone further if you'd offered to help her up and acted like you cared for two seconds?
It's always interesting when these threads devolve into "the whatever generation doesn't know anything, can't pay attention, doesn't have respect, can't whatever". It's interesting because it's the LAST generation that didn't teach them whatever it is they now lack. And usually, it's that same last generation doing the complaining. Or maybe the one before. Still, if you didn't teach your kids then they can't teach theirs.
I didn't intend my post to be a slam on any particular generation specifically. Some people are just as mechanical as rubber ducks- they probably shouldn't work on cars. Me, I can identify about 8 different colors and they all come out of a Crayola 8 pack, so, I probably shouldn't be a graphic designer (Just ask joey about our "purple" banners). But at work when I run into a graphic designer that's now doing something else for a career, I don't write him off, I TEACH him what I can. It's true, some individual people are a lost cause when it comes to mechanical aptitude, because not all of it is teachable. And just opening a manual isn't going to help them, which was the point of my original post. But most people just haven't been taught. There's a shortage of skilled workers now because no one is teaching the skills anymore, we shut down all the auto and wood shop classes to save money. Less people want to do hard work because no one taught them to value hard work, just to value money. That's at least as much the fault of the last generation and the one before as it is the one that lacks the skills and work ethic. Sure, there's always those people that don't know and won't listen, but I know people twice my age that have that problem, it's not new.
Maybe some of you folks should pair up with a "millennial" and exchange some knowledge. Maybe we'd all get to see fewer backward suspension parts and less complaints about how no one knows how to use the new forum software.
Here ya go :D. They come on CD too, but, that may not even help anymore...
