I understand that there are difficult jobs.
I understand that young people are not rushing out to become nurses, teachers or police officers in Montreal.
If you look at how things are in these workplaces (and others — who wants to get into politics when the insults and threats are circulating 24/7 on social media?), you can see why people aren’t to sign up voluntarily.
But isn’t there a risk of hitting a wall when more and more junior staff are turning their backs on demanding jobs?
“PHOW, IT’S TOO DIFFICULT! »
It’s all well and good being able to reconcile work and family.
And it is perfectly understandable that young people no longer want to sacrifice most of their lives on the holy altar of work like their parents did.
After all, it’s not just work in life.
What’s the use of gifting a company its prime when it comes to finding you in the straw when that company’s shareholders decide to cut their workforce to cash in?
We understand all this, we’re not crazy.
But when I hear young cops fresh out of school saying they’re not interested in working in Montreal because it’s too difficult, I tell myself we don’t have the cops we used to have. .
It seems to me that in the past boys and girls wanted to be police officers in order to be on duty. where it happens
Not having a quiet job in Saint-Glin-Glin-les-Meux-Meux. Where the only calls are about a missing herd of cows.
Yeah, it’s tough being a cop in Montreal.
Yes, there are shootings, street gangs, racy activists who see systemic racism everywhere, and plenty of people with mental health issues.
But what do you want, it’s a big city!
THE LEISURE SOCIETY!
Of course, working conditions must be improved and wages increased in certain sectors.
But I ask a question.
Could it be (I mean: could it be) that we’ve created a climate by raising our kids in cotton wool and taking out the 45 gallons of Purell as soon as they get a little sand at the rim of their mouth? where it is becoming increasingly difficult to attract young people of working age to certain areas?
I often spoke to young people in class. When I used to ask them what they wanted to do for a living, they answered teachers, police officers, doctors.
Over the years, they became singers and actors.
(And not actors in small self-governing theaters, no…)
Who knows ? We may reap what we sow.
When I was little, we were promised the leisure society.
Then it was Liberty 55.
And now it’s work-life balance.
In some areas this is possible.
Not in everything.
The population is already aging. If, in addition, young people dream of a comfortable job, we’re not off the hook yet…
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The wolf in charge of the sheep
After the UN allowed Iran to sit on a women’s rights committee and Saudi Arabia on a human rights committee, the UN is now allowing the CEO of the largest oil company in the UAE to chair the next climate change meeting!
What’s next? Ask North Korea to head a free speech think tank?
Will the green activists, who never hesitate to demonstrate against the evil Western polluters, have the courage to travel to the United Arab Emirates to protest?
A big excuse
Archive photo, Pierre-Paul Biron
Dave Alex Berthelot
After “I never attacked her except once in the cabin” and “I raped her, but I was sleepwalking,” it’s a teacher’s turn to come up with a far-fetched excuse to minimize the crimes he committed.
This man would have sent photos of his penis to college students because he was complex and “wanted to compare his sex to others”!
Uh… Wasn’t he tempted to go to the gym? He would have seen them of all sizes and colors.
Is that all his lawyer found?
Warning: There will be a warning!
According to an American study, the warnings that are sent before films and series are to warn hypersensitive viewers that this production threatens to traumatize them because it deals with this or that topic or because we can see characters with this and that gesture ineffective.
In fact, far from helping the little rabbits, these warnings would traumatize them!
My solution: Send warnings BEFORE the warnings to warn viewers that they are about to see a traumatic warning!
