Decline of Functioning Society

[Australia Sucks]

I've read a lot of stuff from American and Canadabros about the new immigrants' inability to get orders right at fast food restaurants. I must say I've never experienced this here in Australia...until 2 hours ago.

On my designated carb reload day, I went to get some pastries from McDonald's drivethru. A guy with an insufferable Indian accent (and this is by my standards, someone of partial Indian descent) greeted me. I asked for an apple crumble muffin and banana bread. "Sorry?" he said abrasively. I repeated my order.
"So, you want 3 hamburgers?" was the reply from him.

I loudly asked "Excuse me"? and the order was taken over by a female with an Australian accent.

Why employ someone for Drive Thru if they don't speak English properly? Surely there are young people from Aus who need the work.

Australia like other western countries has been experienced incremental but consistent decline in customer service standards (amongst other problems). 20 years ago customer service in Australia was generally quite good on average. Now it’s merely okay on average. At the rate we are okay in another 10 - 20 years we will be at complete 3rd world levels of customer service.

And on a related I’m in Kosovo now which despite being a poor shithole country their roads are far better than Australias roads.

 

[Blade Runner]

Australia like other western countries has been experienced incremental but consistent decline in customer service standards (amongst other problems). 20 years ago customer service in Australia was generally quite good on average. Now it’s merely okay on average. At the rate we are okay in another 10 - 20 years we will be at complete 3rd world levels of customer service.

And on a related I’m in Kosovo now which despite being a poor shithole country their roads are far better than Australias roads.

yay socialism/communism, egalitarianism and immigration!

 

[TruckDriver9]

What if they show up with their parents?

 

[Blade Runner]

Brought a parent to the interview? Wow, that's low.

As bad as some of those candidates might be, though, the employers these days are often just as bad, or just as disloyal.

 

[FrancisK]

Brought a parent to the interview? Wow, that's low.

As bad as some of those candidates might be, though, the employers these days are often just as bad, or just as disloyal.

Maybe large companies, small business right now treasure their employees....problem is you just can't find any worth a damn.

 

[TheSurveyor]

I now get excited to hear a black woman on customer service, they are so much better than the random dude from Bangladesh, who learned English last Tuesday.

 

[Northumber]

I just came back from a trip to Italy. I hadn't been there in about 7 yrs and was struck by the amount of tattoos everyone had. I distinctly remember Italians looking more classy in the past. I started challenging myself to take note of people without a tattoo and it was surprisingly difficult.

 

[SkiPro]

I just came back from a trip to Italy. I hadn't been there in about 7 yrs and was struck by the amount of tattoos everyone had. I distinctly remember Italians looking more classy in the past. I started challenging myself to take note of people without a tattoo and it was surprisingly difficult.

It's bad there huh. Italians are slave to fashion and once tats became fashionable, EVERYONE has one.

These days you're unique if you don't. Quite the reversal.

 

[InspCallahan]

Real Soldiers, Sailors, Real Old Skool Bikers, or 70's-90's Alternative Underground Rock Stars are the only ones that should be allowed to have tattoo's... And that's coming from somebody that doesn't care for the trend or culture of it.

Nothing worse than porky fair skinned young gals and neck beard fellas dawning them as a normal accessory.

 

[Samseau]

There is an old saying “never work for a company that is always hiring.”

Generally companies having these types of problems are shitty places to work. They don’t pay enough and treat employees like dirt then complain that people stop turning up to work or quit entirely. Whereas good companies to work for always have low staff turnover, very few job openings and lots of eager applicants. If people aren’t showing up to work as a company what have you done to cause this to happen? Fucking muppet managers who take zero accountability for their idiocy and incompetence. It seems these days it’s almost a prerequisite to be a moron to be in a management position.

When a company is a good place to work it generally doesn’t have the problems of the place above.

I've read a lot of stuff from American and Canadabros about the new immigrants' inability to get orders right at fast food restaurants. I must say I've never experienced this here in Australia...until 2 hours ago.

On my designated carb reload day, I went to get some pastries from McDonald's drivethru. A guy with an insufferable Indian accent (and this is by my standards, someone of partial Indian descent) greeted me. I asked for an apple crumble muffin and banana bread. "Sorry?" he said abrasively. I repeated my order.
"So, you want 3 hamburgers?" was the reply from him.

I loudly asked "Excuse me"? and the order was taken over by a female with an Australian accent.

Why employ someone for Drive Thru if they don't speak English properly? Surely there are young people from Aus who need the work.

You pay for what you get

 

[It_Is_My_Time]

Nice summary

There comes a point where you gaze out into the morass of popular culture and realize we are not getting anything “good” again in our lifetimes.TV, movies, music, books. It’s all terrible. Yes, you might get a random outlier that slips through the cracks here and there. But nothing regularly, repeatedly produced of any value. It is a canary in the coal mine. Mass, vulgar culture is the lagging indicator that higher culture is dead. To have “a culture” you have to have a civilization everyone in consciously part of wherein you understand you play a role in perpetuating it and carrying it forward into the future. Does that describe how anyone feels about the society we live in? It is not over, we are still alive, but titanic political and cultural shifts will have to take place before the average person even has a particular way of life again and feels he is part of something much bigger than himself. Only now are people starting to grapple with the death of what we had, and this is just the first step in building whatever comes next.

 

[TheLoneReader]

Nice summary

So true. Nothing excites me anymore -- Hollywood is dead and they don't know it.

I recently spent a few hours at a used bookstore buying a few paperbacks from the 1970s of authors I have enjoyed. Book-wise, there is still some good content out there, but you're not going to find it perusing Barnes and Noble like you used to be able to.

 

[It_Is_My_Time]

So true. Nothing excites me anymore -- Hollywood is dead and they don't know it.

I recently spent a few hours at a used bookstore buying a few paperbacks from the 1970s of authors I have enjoyed. Book-wise, there is still some good content out there, but you're not going to find it perusing Barnes and Noble like you used to be able to.

I haven't seen a movie preview that interested me probably since Inception came out. And even that I didn't go see in the theatre. If I turn on the TV, it is some old show. Everything coming out now is low IQ garbage for the new low IQ population. I even heard a catchy song on the radio, YouTube'd it, the official music video played, and it was complete garbage.

This is all good, they are unable to distract frustrated young men any longer.

 

[TheLoneReader]

I haven't seen a movie preview that interested me probably since Inception came out. And even that I didn't go see in the theatre. If I turn on the TV, it is some old show. Everything coming out now is low IQ garbage for the new low IQ population. I even heard a catchy song on the radio, YouTube'd it, the official music video played, and it was complete garbage.

This is all good, they are unable to distract frustrated young men any longer.

I agree. In a way the world is coming out of the delusions of Hollywood and mass media. I would certainly say I have in my own life in the last several years. Even with some older shows that I used to enjoy, I find myself viewing it all through the lens of "Is this really worth the watch?"

 

[Christos_NIKA]

Hollywood is dead and they don't know it.

I'm now deliberately going back and watching great films and TV series from the 70s and before. There was amazing work done back in the day and much of it is forgotten.

 

[SkiPro]

We are on holiday and today we went to see Garfield the Movie as a family.

Notes:

1. From some of the advertising that was on before the movie, you would think that the UK is populated only by black and Asian people. Weird.

2. Relevant to the points above, the movie was absolutely garbage. For a 7 year old it was way to violent, complex and for her, frightening. The plot was ridiculous and in some places inappropriate. Maybe we are keeping her too naive but I don't think so. This is what the kids are growing up with today as a U rated film. Disgusting.

 

[dgbrown]

Notes:

1. From some of the advertising that was on before the movie, you would think that the UK is populated only by black and Asian people. Weird.

It’s even funnier/simultaneously sadder when the second-tier, out-of-the-city-center malls in Katowice, Poland and Debrecen, Hungary (i.e. not even the first-tier malls in these provincial cities) display this kind of obsessive multikulti advertising.

It’s weird even in the gayest, wokest corners of Warsaw and Budapest, but in the suburban precincts in non-capitals in Eastern Europe it’s more depressing still.

 

[Caduceus]

We are on holiday and today we went to see Garfield the Movie as a family.

Notes:

1. From some of the advertising that was on before the movie, you would think that the UK is populated only by black and Asian people. Weird.

2. Relevant to the points above, the movie was absolutely garbage. For a 7 year old it was way to violent, complex and for her, frightening. The plot was ridiculous and in some places inappropriate. Maybe we are keeping her too naive but I don't think so. This is what the kids are growing up with today as a U rated film. Disgusting.

You've been on this forum and previously on RVF for years and still don't know that all movies nowadays are woke globohomo satanic garbage ??

 

[PurpleUrkel]

You've been on this forum and previously on RVF for years and still don't know that all movies nowadays are woke globohomo satanic garbage ??

To be fair, I like movies and music (especially pre-1990's) even though I know they're basically not good for me. I guess you could say I'm addicted to 1970's independent films. However, even with this acknowledged flaw, I'm not watching porn or listening to songs with clear anti-Christian lyrics and so I feel that the lesser of two evils rule applies here.

Along with this "addiction" to old school filmmaking I sometimes give new cinema a shot in hopes of experiencing a positive momentary escape from the depressing facts of modern life. 9 out of 10 times I walk out of the theater mid-film. However, occasionaly I still find a modern film/TV show worth watching.

 

[SkiPro]

You've been on this forum and previously on RVF for years and still don't know that all movies nowadays are woke globohomo satanic garbage ??

I haven't watched a movie at the cinema for years now. I was thinking that there would only be so much they could do to make a mess of Garfield.

Apparently not