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Hey Dude! Here’s My Resume
Bruce Bialosky | May 05, 2013


I have avoided writing a column about this for a while despite aching to do so. Part of it was because I did not want to seem like a crotchety curmudgeon, even more than I may appear at times. But I read a column by Richard Cohen from the Washington Post who came out and said he had enough. The problem became he did not go far enough in addressing the over-the-top informality of the current generation.

Cohen properly addressed the fact that we have become a country of false familiarity. You can be sitting in your office and you get a call from someone you have never met and they will start by saying “Hey, Bruce how are you? I am calling from Broadside Home Construction and we would like to do some work on your house.” My first question to a call like that is always – “Do I know you? No? Then why are you addressing me like your bar buddy?” It is particularly infuriating when you can tell from the voice it is someone young enough to be your child.

I don’t quite understand why this generation feels empowered to address their elders in such a disrespectful manner. I have asked around and come up with some theories. One would be the fact that they feel entitled by all those soccer trophies they earned by just showing up. Or they learned from my peers to call their parents or teachers by their first name. Some speculation rests with the fact that there are no longer any common social standards being established...

http://townhall.com/columnists/brucebial...84008/page/full

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One of my pet peeves addressed.

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Hey Dude! Here’s My Resume
Bruce Bialosky | May 05, 2013


I have avoided writing a column about this for a while despite aching to do so. Part of it was because I did not want to seem like a crotchety curmudgeon, even more than I may appear at times. But I read a column by Richard Cohen from the Washington Post who came out and said he had enough. The problem became he did not go far enough in addressing the over-the-top informality of the current generation.

Cohen properly addressed the fact that we have become a country of false familiarity. You can be sitting in your office and you get a call from someone you have never met and they will start by saying “Hey, Bruce how are you? I am calling from Broadside Home Construction and we would like to do some work on your house.” My first question to a call like that is always – “Do I know you? No? Then why are you addressing me like your bar buddy?” It is particularly infuriating when you can tell from the voice it is someone young enough to be your child.

I don’t quite understand why this generation feels empowered to address their elders in such a disrespectful manner. I have asked around and come up with some theories. One would be the fact that they feel entitled by all those soccer trophies they earned by just showing up. Or they learned from my peers to call their parents or teachers by their first name. Some speculation rests with the fact that there are no longer any common social standards being established...

http://townhall.com/columnists/brucebial...84008/page/full

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One of my pet peeves addressed.

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This twenty and under generation has been sheltered by parents and grandparents to the point of being totally useless.
They haven't been taught history, manners, etc., any of the things we were taught in school.

Then, most of their school life has been integrated with others that are illegal and have no pride in our country, can barely speak english, delinquents that take up most of the teacher's day with cursing, laughing, etc., until they graduate with no skills, manners, a sense of the history of our country...and absolutely no manners!
I could write a book.

Since I work in the detention section of the school, it's easy to see what has happened to our kids. It's a hopeless situation for any parent that wants their child to actually learn something in a class room..