Anyone Seen Common Sense?

Granny here,

You know since I have been dealing with different people during the sale of my home and the buying of another one I have found that there is indeed something missing in our society today. Matter of fact there are several things missing. Let's see, there's common sense, some degree of intelligence and just basic everyday knowledge that any 3rd grader should know. It seems to have been replaced by stupidity.

I had to go to the bank the other day to do some business and the lady was suppose to print out a copy of something for me and she warned me ahead of time that she would probably do it wrong and sure enough she kept her word. I wondered how long have you been working here? You haven't learned how to place your paper into your printer yet and you have a good paying job in a bank of all places. Is there something wrong with this picture or is it just me?

I have had several experiences where the employee didn't seem to know their job, they don't know how to make change, they don't know how to take an order if it isn't worded just as they have been programmed.
They seem to have no sense of working on their own or figuring out things a different way. In other words there is no plan B if the programmed way fails to work.

Listen folks! We need to know a little more than just one way of getting the job done. Things don't always work the way they should and without a backup plan one could find themselves in deep do do. What has happened to folks these days. I know I've been out of the old classroom for many moons but do they still teach readin', ritin', and rithmatic? I can't tell it if they do by what I'm seeing out there in the workplace.

Oh, I'll admit that there are some smarts out there as long as it has a button attached. If you have to click a button, look at a screen, plug it in or use a password the younger folk don't have a problem, they're all over it but put them in a situation where they have to figure it out for themselves and they draw a complete blank.
This can't be good for our society folks, we need a backup plan, we need some good old fashioned common sense, intelligence and basic knowledge.

What would happen if everything electric went on the blink and it will only take one hit on our power grids and it's all over folks. Then where would we be? Would we have to go to the nursing homes and bring out the brains that have been stuffed into ten by ten rooms to take over and pull us out of the mess that all the intelligent geniuses have gotten us into. Don't get me wrong, progress is a good thing but we had better hold on to that which has already been proven to hold it's own before we move too far into the future.

Don't put the knowledge that has gotten us this far into storage just yet but combine it with the new and we can go even farther but don't make the mistake of thinking it is no longer needed. That is a big mistake!

Every generation has much to learn from the one left behind so don't move too fast or else you will find that you can't find your way back to pick up some of that book learning that you thought you didn't need. So put down those gadgets for a while and learn how to do something on your own, you never know when you'll be caught without you I phones, I pads, I touches, etc. and you will have to depend on the real I. YOURSELF

Granny here, just saying!