justathought

I have a niece who is just beginning her adventure into the workforce world.  Her first job is a customer service position in a call center environment.  She is eighteen, almost nineteen, and feels grateful everyday that her first job could be in a professional setting rather than the local McDonald’s or Burger King.

We went to lunch yesterday and she began to tell me about the sort of workplace conversations one of her co-workers has been having lately.    The main topic has been one of sex.   This young lady seems to get great pleasure out of talking about the following:

• what her sexual skills are
• what sort of sex she had the night before
• any and all types of conversation that includes sexual innuendo

I begin to wonder what sort of self-esteem this young lady (she is only 21) must have and why no one has taught her about the topics that are appropriate for the workplace. While my niece is displaying the appropriate amount of disgust that the young lady would think to have these sorts of conversations on the job, I begin to wonder how many other young people out there would see no problem with this sort of conversation. Are we not doing enough to prepare our children for the adult world they must one day enter?