Message to teenagers

[WRT]

Been emailed this, its apparently Bill Gates Message to Teenagers. Dunno if he did actually write it or not, but there is a lot of wisedom in it, and it echos my own sentiments pretty closely.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they
did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good,

politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no

concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the
real world



Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!



Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will

expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.


Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You
won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.



Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.



Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents
had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.



Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine

about your mistakes, learn from them.



Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are
now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and
listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you
save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try
delousing the closet in your own room.



Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life
HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll
give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't
bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.



Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off

and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do
that on your own time.



Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have
to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.



Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Dunno about the last one, but the rest contain some good pointers. If only more people these days would accept responsibility for their actions and mistakes!

[MSTRS:Me]

Good one. Old, but still a good one.

[Sparky Bills]

soo true!!

[Motu]

Trouble is,it's a losing battle.

Life is not fair - being sorted right now.

- wait untill you get a boss - Bosses these days live in fear of their employees...they can take you to the cleaners and it's almost impossible to fire them.

The real world is dissapearing...

[WRT]

Was having the discussion the other day with a mate about getting rid of bad staff. On one hand if you are the employee, then you dont want to be fired because the boss heard you calling him a c#nt behind his back (or because you got drunk at the staff xmas party and called his wife a fat cow or something, or simply because he was having a bad day and decided to take it out on you).

But then if you are the employer, your the one paying the money, its your business, it should be your choice who it is that you have working for you.

Nothing worse than having some useless slackjawed dimwit thats slowing production, pissing off customers and generally fking your shit up, and not being able to kick his dumb arse to the curb.

(Yes, have been in that predicament in the past . . . just incase that all sounded a little bitter.)

[Lou Girardin]

Conversely, you could be the victim of a cowardly manager who blames his staff for his failures. Why should you be unemployed on his whim?
I'd rather make the wanker sweat over it.

[Colapop]

I haven't seen those rules before. Damn true though. I wish I'd had enough sense at school to listen to someone who could've told me those things.

[Motu]

People have so many ''grievances'' these days,they have to make their problems someone elses.We used to be able to walk in and out of jobs at will - being fired or telling your boss to stick it was acceptable behaviour.I've worked for some real arseholes - at one job interview the guy told me ''I'm a cunt of a boss...'',but I still worked for him,and happy I did,even though we had a few barney's.At one place we had 5 guys walk out in a week...I worked there for 8 days,and when I told the guy next to me who had been there only 4 days that I was leaving today,he said he was too.On his morning kick butt rounds I told the boss I was leaving today,the guy in the next bay said he would leave at the end of the week - ''No you're not! You're leaving today like your fucking mate,your pay will be in the office''. No big deal,just part of life.

[WRT]

Conversely, you could be the victim of a cowardly manager who blames his staff for his failures. Why should you be unemployed on his whim?
I'd rather make the wanker sweat over it.

Fk that, I'd go find a job where I'm appreciated, and let the wanker fail of his own accord. You spend enough time at work that you shouldnt be in a job where you have to take someone elses cr@p all day.

Unless of course, your one of the staff members that genuinely are screwing things up for the boss and you just think that the boss is unfairly blaming you. In which case I refer you to my previous comment about people taking responisibility for their own mistakes.

[Colapop]

I've worked for some absolute pricks, but never blamed my failings (I'm no angel) on them. It seems to be the problem these days is that it's never the person who's actually at fault that wants to accept responsibility for it. You see the same thing here when people get pissed about getting pulled up by the law. The f*cking pigs this or that or the f*cking laws... the plain and simple truth is that people nedd to take responsibility for themselves.

I tell my kids the three R's

Responsibility for your actions,
Respect for others, and
Respect for yourself.

[sAsLEX]

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life
HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll
give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't
bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Thanks NCEA!

[texmo]

Good read thanks, bling your way for that.

[Jantar]

Stolen from an urban legend, but very appropriate to New Zealand today.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

[xwhatsit]

Fuck that's depressing. If somebody had put all that to me while I was still in high school I probably would've given up and gone on the dole straight away.

[sAsLEX]

Sniper is pretty slow today.