I downloaded it yesterday and my wife and watched it in its entirety last night. We rated it 4 or 5 on a scale of 10. Mike Judge usually creates much better entertainment. He had a good idea, but in the end, the script was too dull.
With that said, when I look around society even today (forget about 500 years in the future), I see many signs of exactly what Judge was mocking. I think it shows up the best in customer (dis)service skills. In America's heyday, one could enter a store or any place of business and a knowledgeable and engaging attendant would typically appear and personally direct the patron to the items he required and offer assistance and very knowledgeable product advice. Today? You're lucky to find someone who speaks English, rather than Spanglish, Ebonics, or some other foreign language.
You're doubly lucky if you find anyone who remotely gives a rat's ass about anything beyond his iPhone or iPad. It's a much different world now -- a shittier world -- and the news is not good.
I've encountered individuals working in Wal-mart who probably have IQs below 70. Either that, or they have severe developmental disabilities or mental retardation. I'm not making fun of them at all. It's actually very sad. Those people have no business working in Wal-mart or anywhere. They simply need help. I honestly don't know how they manage to even dress themselves, much less stock shelves at Wal-mart.
Try asking a poor person like that which aisle the olive oil is on. Hell, try even asking a full manager to verify whether or not the store carries a product in inventory. In both cases, one would think that a query involving partial differential equations, asked in French, had been submitted. Such employees often have absolutely no clue or knowledge regarding the questions posed. -ng-
The point I'm making is that it's a very bad situation when a patron enters a store and knows far more about what is going on in the store and how the store is supposed to function and operate than the imbeciles who are employed there. That wasn't always the case in America. -ng-
Let me put it this way. The most knowledgeable, best-performing "managers" in these chickenshit stores these days would not have qualified to mop the restroom floors in any establishment 50 years ago. That's how far America has declined. -nfg- |
