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5:54 am on May 10th, 2009
I think it’s important to identify central causes here, and I think THE central cause is an unprecedented lack of maturity in younger workers today. I’d elucidate, but the following, written by a high school teacher, does a better job than I could:
http://donaldgallinger.com/dons-blog/jack-from-missouri/12-my-self-of-steam.html
Hilarious yet really quite scary.