Lisandra Yajuujo (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lisandrayajuujo) wrote in laekin, |
See, that's my dad right there with the pet thing, only he was marginally more humane. 'Puppy chewed on the juicer... give it back to the ASPCA.' Nevermind that the idiot left the chair right there for him to climb on, plus left the brand new juicer on the edge of the table where said puppy could munch on.
Which just confims the fact that most parents (or pet owners, who I think are just slightly different types of parents anyway) aren't taking responsibility for what they should. Discipline isn't abandoning your pet or (gods forbid) child. Moral responsibility isn't complaining to one's government about tacking mature content labels on video games and stuffing v-chips in television sets. Good parenting is something that has to be done 100% of the time, even if it means they take the extra time in learning what their child likes to watch on TV, or play on their video game console.
And to think, some parents just sit back and complain about how kids are getting worse and worse nowadays -- when they fail to realize it's their own fault. Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if that kid ended up a little skewed when he gets older, what with a mother like that.
As for work? I think I was mighty lucky to get the manager I did when I was working at Macy's Herald Square... she was always understanding when it came to my back problems (a very bad thing to have when one is standing at a register for 4-6 hours straight with no break), always gave me time to clean up the stock room (and sit down while doing it) when I got too exhausted, and never pressured me to make old ladies open up Macy's card accounts. Most other people in the store didn't get as lucky as I did, and they had the managers in their face 24/7, going so far as to call up personal cellphones and house phones if they were running late or couldn't come in for reasons beyond their control. I think Macy's in particular could use for some impersonal email handling on the managerial level, for SOME of those managers, anyway.
Though there's the fact that we barely see the people above the managers, and that always used to tick me off -- they'd come down from the office floors a few times a year and get nitpicky with how we were making things work, when they've never seen the floor in action on big selling days and therefore wouldn't know what works if a full register hit 'em square in the... erm, that's enough outta me.
*sneak sneak*
Which just confims the fact that most parents (or pet owners, who I think are just slightly different types of parents anyway) aren't taking responsibility for what they should. Discipline isn't abandoning your pet or (gods forbid) child. Moral responsibility isn't complaining to one's government about tacking mature content labels on video games and stuffing v-chips in television sets. Good parenting is something that has to be done 100% of the time, even if it means they take the extra time in learning what their child likes to watch on TV, or play on their video game console.
And to think, some parents just sit back and complain about how kids are getting worse and worse nowadays -- when they fail to realize it's their own fault. Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if that kid ended up a little skewed when he gets older, what with a mother like that.
As for work? I think I was mighty lucky to get the manager I did when I was working at Macy's Herald Square... she was always understanding when it came to my back problems (a very bad thing to have when one is standing at a register for 4-6 hours straight with no break), always gave me time to clean up the stock room (and sit down while doing it) when I got too exhausted, and never pressured me to make old ladies open up Macy's card accounts. Most other people in the store didn't get as lucky as I did, and they had the managers in their face 24/7, going so far as to call up personal cellphones and house phones if they were running late or couldn't come in for reasons beyond their control. I think Macy's in particular could use for some impersonal email handling on the managerial level, for SOME of those managers, anyway.
Though there's the fact that we barely see the people above the managers, and that always used to tick me off -- they'd come down from the office floors a few times a year and get nitpicky with how we were making things work, when they've never seen the floor in action on big selling days and therefore wouldn't know what works if a full register hit 'em square in the... erm, that's enough outta me.
*sneak sneak*
