re: Do you have any grumpy opinions about modern life?

Restaurants never returned to pre-Covid service quality. Every single restaurant is understaffed because "nobody wants to work anymore". bullshite. Nobody wants to work for $7.25 anymore, and executives/management would rather put the responsibility on patrons to pay employees more. Look at Chic Fil A. They pay way more employees than the average fast food place and they pay them more money too, and still have good food at reasonable prices. Meanwhile McDonalds is trying to offload the easy job of a person standing at the counter to take orders to a computer that can't understand the words "medium fry".

It's even worse if you have to talk to someone at a call center. They're outsourced to Indians making $4/day because Americans who speak English as a first language without a heavy accent want more than that. Why? Because the CEO could not care less about your experience as long as those savings go into his pocket.

People walking around in pajamas.

Not being able to go somewhere that isn’t full of weed smokers.

Coworkers showing up in T-shirt’s and jeans like that’s considered “professional” attire.

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I guess we can call this thread the old folks' bitching about technology thread. Funny, when you're young your eyes are strictly on the future whille old folks tend to look back and relish the past.

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Scruffy is 36 and agrees with almost every opinion posted in this thread.

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you’re simply being contrary for the sake of being contrary

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you are no fun

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left your keys the frick alone… in the door

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that isn’t what I said - I said I left then on the other side of the locked door

I’ve never done that in the 27 years I’ve been driving until I had a key fob thingy that doesn’t have to be in my hand to open the car door