The Lazy American Workforce

On October 7, 2008 John McCain said "American workers are the best in the world."  NOT.  We are lazy and unmotivated.  Okay well not all of us, but a large portion.  At my job, I spend more time trying to keep busy from the nothingness I have assigned than doing actual work that pertains to my job.  Then, when I am actually asked to do work, I find reasons as to why I shouldn't be wasting my time with such nonsense.  

I'm sorry, I just figured a college degree meant something.  Guess not.  If we all have to pay our dues doing menial tasks in order to get recognized at work, then I think that is a major problem in the current job structure.  Instead of working hard to move my way up the ladder, I get more and more frustrated at the stupid tasks I am assigned to complete.  

Here is the Catch 22 for recent college graduates.  We are eager to get jobs and enter the American workforce.  Okay, maybe not eager, but we are willing at the realization the party train has reached its destination.  However, in applying for jobs we rarely have the required experience because we just graduated from college.  Hence, I wonder how we are expected to get the experience if nobody will take a chance and give us a job.  Thus, we are forced to accept jobs that have us doing nothing, and instead of being challenged at work we complain about being bored out of our minds.  At least I do.  

The baby boomers need to be kicked to the curb.  The younger more qualified workers ought to rise faster among the ranks and make a change.  Enough of paying your dues as the dishwasher and coffee gofer.