Management is a pain...

Stupid people should not be allowed to work at all, at least not with me. I hate dealing with people who either don't know how to listen or don't have any common sense at all but there's no way around it. Every where you turn you're bound to find someone incompetent nearby and chances are that they have a job and suck at it. Recently I returned to my old work place to train this guy. He's a sophomore in college and attends a school of which I shall not name. I'm still friends with a lot of the people there and trained this person as a personal favor for them. Most of the employees are extremely busy trying to fill out orders since the holiday season is right around the corner. A system that should have taken a half hour to learn and maybe 2 hours to memorize took this guy 2 days to learn and probably even longer to memorize. I had to come back a second day to continue training this fool because he couldn't grasp the concept. I wanted to hit this kid in the head with the keyboard and send him home to momma. Being that I was no longer an employee, I couldn't fire this kid. There are some people who aren't bright at all, but they supplement that with hard work and a little charisma and that's perfectly fine. These people are still a pleasure to work with. But not only was this slow, he had no personality at all. He just sat there nodding. When asked what he does in his free time, he simply replies, "Chillen." Then I asked him whether or not he's athletic and what sports he's interested in and he simply replies, "It's cool." Any possibility of further chit chat or cooler conversations ended with that reply.

I suppose this will be a life long challenge for me. I need to develop greater of degree of patience in the workplace, if I don't then I'm probably going to end up firing every person that comes along. If anyone has any tricks of the trade for dealing with these sort of people, than please let me know, I'm all ears.