Sad for our Future Generation

This morning I was asked to help unload some items that needed to be unloaded from a business next door to our business.  There were two young (less than 25 years old) men who were there to help but when I arrived, they were just standing around looking at the items on the truck.

I said, "Does everything need to be unloaded?" and one of them said, "Yes".  There was no pallet near the truck, so I asked one of them to grab one.  He just looked at me like I was from outer space.  I was going to grab the pallet but waited until he brought it and then just looked at it and did not lay it down.

Finally I had had enough as I needed to get back to my work.  I went back to my office and the two pallets of material took them three hours to unload.  Last week me an another elderly gentleman unloaded two pallets in less than ten minutes.

When I walked out into their facility five hours later, the material was still in the back room.  The shelves were empty.  These men we just sitting behind the counter.  Since it was not my business, I walked away.
It was during a conversation with an older person last week and he told me his wife worked at a large distribution facility in the next town.  She said that about 80% of the new employees who are under 25 do not last more than four hours on the job.  Either they walked out because it was too much work or we released by the foreman.

The attitude of "Pay Me because I am entitled", seems to be the main focus of so many young people today.  They would rather live on welfare and food stamps than to find work and make a good living.  Now this is not all young people but the more I see it I am no longer mad but sad.

When something major happens and the government can no longer hand out free money, how will these people survive? 

When I look at the book of Proverbs there is so much to say about work.  Proverbs 21:25
Lazy people finally die of hunger because they won't get up and go to work.  There are so many warnings in the Bible about people who expect everything without  lifting a finger.

How will our next generation survive continues to worry me.  I suggest that you find a young person and try to teach them good work habits and the rewards that come from a good day's work.  I know I hated it when my dad pushed me to hard farm labor, but the lessons he taught will remain for the rest of my life. Many of those lessons have now been passed on to my children.   Thanks Dad you taking the time to care.

The next generation may depend on you.