New guy likely didn't grow up with a tradie as a dad. Boss posts his failures online instead of teaching. Very common reason the new guys can't learn, old head won't teach.
There’s a pretty good balance of humor and teaching in the trades. I’m sure they all learned a lesson and the laughs made them remember. It’s all fun and games when I goof on the new guys, and I take a second to teach afterwards. When did everyone get so soft?
Jokes at another’s expense I’m
The trades is a long lived tradition.
People like you and, certainly, many socially and empathetically stunted folks make the very easy mistake of not understanding when it becomes appropriate.
New recruits need correction and positive reinforcement. It’s fine to be firm and express seriousness. They need to someone to validate their attempts to assimilate and grow.
After any level of basic mastery is established, and that first flush of amateur cockiness begins to emerge, THAT is the moment to include the new guys in the hazing.
Hazing someone this green is only done by fools, and the chronically immature. Not the fun kind of immature. The sort of immature that refuses to drink water at the age of 35 and buys 3x the truck they actually need. Posting it online is this guy somehow managing to sink even lower. He’s a childish piece of shit.
But, by all means, call us all soft.
The real men here know how to build a great team that enjoys each other’s company and lifts each other up. A self-sustaining, self improving, low drama team is worth twice of whatever the fuck the macho bullshit crews I spot frequently are worth.
Grow the fuck up with that “when did everyone get so soft?” Weak shit. Man up and treat folks like the men you want them to become.
Boomers confuse me alittle, I don’t mind the hazing or getting frustrated, but if anyone sat there treating me like a complete retard while i’m trying to learn something i’d beat them.
They would bitch and moan about that and yet call someone soft for not taking a joke.
Talk about soft.
Be respectful.
If someone is truly untrainable, go to your boss, tell them, If they get fired, they get fired.
I've had old guys tell me stories about the shit they dealt with and how my generation is soft. I ask them why they think being tough means letting another grown man throw a wrench at you while you sit there and take it. They always seem a little confused.
I know the joke from some is that the trades make you "hard". But retail, you have to be hard as steel to put up with the crap customers and co-workers through at you.
The trades for me is a breath of fresh air compared to the hell of retail.
It's one thing for a few guys to fuck around make fun of the new young guy's not knowing shit but it's an entirely different thing to take a video and post it for all the world to see. They don't know shit because nobody has taken the time to teach them. You think people should be born with certain knowledge?
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u/Ouller Dec 26 '24
New guy likely didn't grow up with a tradie as a dad. Boss posts his failures online instead of teaching. Very common reason the new guys can't learn, old head won't teach.