Is it really that difficult? Do you find that to be more with the kids in high school or the young adults in their early 20’s with no direction?
Ya know, thats a good question. It seems that people under 30-35 years old are mainly the issue, something flipped in society where they thought their feelings shouldn’t be hurt, and they started rewarding mediocrity and punishing the achievers. Everyone gets a high school diploma now just for showing up. (I had an application where a guy had written “Dipma” for the degree he earned in high school)
I’ve seen people around 30 years old who cannot read an analog clock, cannot add & subtract single digit numbers without a calculator, and they all have “Dipma’s” from high school. and even had a guy who had a few years of 'Collage" under his belt.
Look at school sports, there are no more tryouts where you had to work to make the team, now everyone plays no matter how much they suck. Scores are not kept anymore, mercy rules, if someone does a crap job, they get a do-over.
That coddling stuck with them, and they do not know how to react when someone calls them out on their mistakes and tells them it is not good enough and to do it over. They’ve never had to deal with that before in their life.
I am old school, I teach my guys classic techniques, we don’t do freezer to fryer,. there is no microwave oven here, there are no non-stick pans. We use clarified butter, not some butter flavored grill oil, we use solid block shortening containing animal fats in our fryers, not liquid canola oils. If we serve it, it’s made inhouse.
