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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 864235" data-attributes="member: 12570"><p>Technology is the future and you are right in that we should keep our children up to speed; however, much of what the "grumpy old man" is "whining" about is true. I have lost count of the number of times I have been run in to by a teenager walking and texting at the same time. Skills that most of us regard as basic have either not been taught to or honed by our younger generation--reading a map, changing a flat tire, interviewing for a job, making a business phone call, etc. Generation Me has been called the most poorly prepared generation in our history.</p><p></p><p>There is one part of his rant that I do disagree with. I dropped my land line four years or more ago. It simply did not make sense for me to have both a land line and a cell phone. The representative I spoke with at Verizon agreed that I was wasting my money as I rarely if ever used my land line. The problem for us as delivery drivers is with more people dropping their land lines and the phone companies not yet listing cell phone numbers in their directories it is becoming harder for us to do address corrections on "look-ups".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 864235, member: 12570"] Technology is the future and you are right in that we should keep our children up to speed; however, much of what the "grumpy old man" is "whining" about is true. I have lost count of the number of times I have been run in to by a teenager walking and texting at the same time. Skills that most of us regard as basic have either not been taught to or honed by our younger generation--reading a map, changing a flat tire, interviewing for a job, making a business phone call, etc. Generation Me has been called the most poorly prepared generation in our history. There is one part of his rant that I do disagree with. I dropped my land line four years or more ago. It simply did not make sense for me to have both a land line and a cell phone. The representative I spoke with at Verizon agreed that I was wasting my money as I rarely if ever used my land line. The problem for us as delivery drivers is with more people dropping their land lines and the phone companies not yet listing cell phone numbers in their directories it is becoming harder for us to do address corrections on "look-ups". [/QUOTE]
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