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Gen Z an Unemployable Army of the Entitled? My Degree of Shock Is Underwhelming

Posted: December 27, 2024 by datechguy in business, culture
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Harvey: When l get off this boat, l’m going to get my father to put you all in jail. You’re all kidnappers.,,,

Captain Disko: Well, l guess there ain’t nothing else for it.

Harvey: …l’ll bet they put you all in jail. ln jail for the rest of your lives, and l’m going to do it, too.[ Disko waps him upside the head knocking him down to the ship’s deck] You Hit me?!

Captain Disko: Now you just sit there and think about it. 

Captain’s Courageous 1937

As we near the last days of the blog as a business venture I think back on all the stories I’ve covered. There have been a lot of stories I’ve seen that have surprised or shocked me.

This is not one of them.

As many recent graduates face complaints about how they fit into the workplace, employers report increasing hesitancy in hiring them, according to a report by the education and career advisory platform, Intelligent

You mean all that expensive DEI education is not translating into job skills?

The report, which was based on a survey of nearly 1,000 hiring managers, found that one in six employers were reluctant to hire Gen Z workers mainly due to their reputation for being entitled and easily offended.

Moreover, more than half said that this generation, which refers to people born between 1997 and the early 2010s, lacks a strong work ethic, struggles with communication, doesn’t handle feedback well, and is generally unprepared for the demands of the workforce.

Amazing! Who would have thought that people who had to have counselors if the wrong person wins an election or if someone who disagrees with them politically speaks on a campus is completely useless in the real world.

Holly Schroth, senior lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, explained that Gen Z’s focus on extracurricular activities to boost their college competitiveness rather than gaining job experience has led to “unrealistic expectations” about the workplace and how to deal with their bosses.

And even worse, they don’t come equipped with safe spaces!

Do a web search of “Gen Z” and “polite” and you’ll find a wave of stories on how this generation has no idea how to act around actual human beings.

So treating your kids as your friends and buddies instead of being the parent and spanking them then they need it produces useless idiots.

Who knew eh?

Bad News Present, Good News Future

Posted: December 1, 2024 by datechguy in baseball, Sports
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This was supposed to be the 3rd straight 10 hour day at work but alas things were quiet enough that I ended up going home at 1 pm, which costs me overtime and bodes ill for hour for the rest of the year.

I was able to get home in time to watch the New England Patriots. As of this moment the Colts are up and while as of this writing the game is up in the air thanks to 4 holding penalties a missed kick and an almost impossible interception there is no question that the Patriots will finish with one of the worst if not THE worst record in the NFL.

Those are the bits of bad news.

The good is that this is the last year of the Biden administration and I suspect next year the economy will be rolling at such a pace that I won’t have a lot of time for Sunday football or anything else once Thanksgiving rolls around.

Furthermore while this will be a bad year for the Patriots there is absolutely no question that Drake Maye is the real thing and once they give him some tools on offense and a better offensive line (and with a high draft pick and no need to get a QB next season it’s very possible they can fill both needs via trade in one season) the Patriots will be producing quality football perhaps all the way to my retirement and beyond.

With the good young talent on the Redsox and a Celtics Championship team that has dynasty written all over it I suspect I might be watching championship level talent year round for the rest of my life.

Not bad indeed.

Drake May, Robert Kraft and the Lack of the Connie Mack Option

Posted: October 21, 2024 by datechguy in business, nfl, Sports
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Riddle: What’s the best way to make a small fortune?

Answer: Start with a large one.

One of the things that a lot of people forget about pro-team owners is that many of them begin as businessmen who have been successful in an industry, Robert Kraft is no exception having done very well in his Kraft Group of business holdings and even better with the Patriots with a lot of help from Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.

Right now however that investment in the New England Patriots does not seem all that grand as he has a team that is 1-6 and likely to finish so bad as to end up with, at worst a top 5 draft pick for the 2nd consecutive year which will be the first time since before he owned the team.

Given that eventuality there have been those who have questioned putting Rookie Quarterback Drake May on the field with an offensive line that is below average at best and a receiving corps that is almost as bad if not worse. After all while the playing time may be of use you are risking a prime asset without the prospect of a return in wins.

The problem of course is that with a team that has managed only a single win he doesn’t have the luxury that Connie Mack the owner/manager of the Philadelphia A’s for 50 years did.

The A’s were Mack’s business and his goal was to make a profit. On that subject he would say that in terms of business the best result for him would be a team that started strong but finished 4th (in a 8 team league with no wild cards). He explained why saying:

A team like that will draw well enough during the first part of the season to show a profit for the year, and you don’t have to give the players raises when they don’t win.

Alas for Mr. Kraft his team has started so badly that the danger of fans deciding it was not worth the price of tickets or the price of the parking. And with no stars of any note, that also meant no shirt sales and all the other gear with the Pats logo that they get a cut out of.

So what do you to keep the butts in the seats and the eyes on the screen. You give them a reason to watch and right now the only reason to do so is a young Quarterback by the name of Drake May.

No he’s going to win you many games with this team and yes you are going to have to risk your valuable 3rd round pick getting himself pummeled.

In the end however this is a business and the only way you’re going to hold the public’s interest long enough so they will still be there when there is a product worth paying for on the field is to give them hope and right now Drake Maye who has proved that he can produce some offense for a team that can’t win, is that hope.

Jews in Hollywood, It’s History, not Some Vast Conspiracy or Something we Can’t Mention

Posted: February 5, 2024 by datechguy in business, comedy, culture, entertainment
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German Woman talk show host: Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not much comedy in Germany?

Robin Williams: Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?

Today at Don Surber’s site he celebrates the contributions of various ethnic groups, starting with Blacks as it’s black history month and ending with the WASPS who founded this country making all those other contributions to America possible. He notes many people who might have been forgotten a few I had never heard of and in going through the list he has this section about Jewish Americans:

As for Jews, I can go on all day about them. They gave the country physicists, Irving Berlin and a host of comedians. Jews invented Hollywood by founding Columbia, Fox, Paramount, Universal and MGM. Even the Warner Brothers were Jewish. Could we kindly stop the anti-Semitism already?

Emphasis mine

That reminded me of this Dave Chappelle bit on Kanye & Jews:

Now the hesitancy to talk about Jews in Hollywood/Entertainment or bring it up is something I’ve never understood. When various ethnic groups come to a country and start a business you will see family coming over and joining in. There is a reason why so many pizza places were run by Italians.

If people start a business, especially people outside the dominant culture they tend to hire family and people from their same ethnic group, additionally people who come to a country looking for work tend to check first within their ethnic group, same culture, same language and once they assimilate they and/or their children & grandchildren branch out.

So see a lot of XXX and sons, but you very rarely see XXX and grandsons because by the time you reach that generation the kids are Americanized and go their own way.

So Thomas Edison not withstanding if Jews went all in on entertainment, if Jews founded Columbia, Fox, Paramount, Universal MGM and Warner Brothers why should anyone be surprised if.

  1. They tended to hire a lot of Jews when they started.
  2. A lot of Jews tended to gravitate to the entertainment business
  3. And a ton of Jews are still in the business today. 

This makes sense particularly if you consider that Jews historically have not been particularly loved or treated well through history. Why wouldn’t you get involved in an industry that is:

  • Profitable
  • Secure (meaning that it won’t disappear)
  • Has influence
  • And gives you the change to put the Jewish point of view out there

Alas because some were far leftists you had a leftist point of view pushed too but I digress.

Bottom line I’m not about to get my knickers in a twist because ethnic Jews took the risk to get into the ground floor of the entertainment business which provides comfort and joy to people all over the world and still reaping the rewards of that risk. If you have a problem with that then that’s your problem.

But neither am I going to deny that’s the case because people might feel upset about it being said openly. Frankly I think the reaction of of a Jewish person to the “Jews run Hollywood” business should be: ”Yeah Jews are big in Hollywood and I’m damn proud of it!”

It’s not a conspiracy, it’s just the way things went naturally.

I’ll leave you with the Robin Williams joke I started with, he delivers it better than I write it.

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