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Originally Posted by DESS
I'm pretty sure that being a lazy slob isn't a mental illness.
I think offering these people a job is showing a degree of compassion and it's certainly helpful. At first I was excited to be able to pass along an opportunity to them with a nice salary, benefits, a bonus, etc. I was naive and thought they'd appreciate that our economic boom and shortage of workers had finally given them a chance to get a foot hold in society again.
Sadly, these people don't want to work because they are pathetic losers. Half the time they'll accept the job only to not show up the next day.
You are right about it being easy to judge, though. It's easy to judge when I am offering them money and a place to work - in spite of their obvious short commings, mind you - and they turn it down because they don't want to work. It's that simple. If you ever have first-hand experience with these people I'm sure you'll come to that conclusion as well.
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From personal experience with someone in this situation, I can tell you that something like Bi-polar disorder would leave them feeling fine, accepting your job, optimistic to start work and then unable to remember their tasks from day to day, frustrated at that fact and resentful at the world, curling up in a ball and quitting the next day or even through the day. . . . . and going through job after job in that kind of a cycle.
I agree there are certainly a group of uncompetitive people who have made a deliberate lifestyle choice, or at least a choice to compete at the lowest possible level . . . . . but I wouldn't lump all of the people you encounter in your circumstances into a single category.
On the issue of addiction, addressing another poster, people chose to become addicted and then, after the fact, may require help to move out of that cycle. But the initial choice is often their own.
Cowperson