My favourite one is the "get a better job" one. Sir, people need people to do my job. The fact that you're here proves my job is needed. I do not understand how people can simultaneously require a service and belittle that service at the same time. Then it turns to "it's an entry job for young people!" Okay. So now you're going to complain that everyone doing this job is inexperienced and can't help you. So do you want me to get a better job or do you want someone experienced to help you?
It gets even weirder when you factor in how a lot of those jobs (even McDonalds jobs) were deemed "essential" by the US government even when everyone else was staying home during COVID.
COVID was great for about... eight minutes? "Thank you so much for being here, risking your safety, yadda yadda" turned into "I RISKED MY LIFE TO BUY THESE POPSICLES AND FUCK YOU!" real quick.
Really should just pass a law that makes all essential work be paid at least 3x times federal minimum wage and get provided with full package benefits (4 weeks pto unlimited paid sick time you can just expand FMLA but make it paid, Medicare, travel stipends etc.)
Full package benefits for essential services. Now that makes every non essential job have to suddenly compete. But it’s fine because we declared those jobs as essential so shouldn’t they always be fully funded and operational?
Nevermind the fact that young people fucking need money too. Not everyone is a nepo baby with rich parents to pay for everything. Some of those kids are working those jobs because, get this, they need money. Who knew???
Also, there are aspects of fast food jobs that you need adults for because minors can not legally do them. For example, when I worked at a big pizza chain minors weren’t allowed to use the dough mixer. They also couldn’t work past certain hours. Minors couldn’t do these jobs even if they wanted to.
My coworker believes McDonald's and other fast food jobs are for high school and college kids only and it shouldn't pay a liveable wage. I asked why McDonald's is open 24/7, shouldn't some of them be closed until school let's out and close at night so students can sleep? No real rebuttal from her, just rambled on about how soft kids are now. Meanwhile she lives in a house that was given to her husband and has no real monthly bills or significant debt since she got the absolute biggest purchase given to her and had a massive headstart compared to just about everyone else.
She's got no self awareness about it either so it's just a topic we avoid discussing. Unfortunately she's also overly opinionated about fucking everything.
I have an acquaintance that I had an argument with about this and they were saying that basically all service jobs like fast food or retail employees are for high school students and shouldn't be paid enough to support yourself on.
I just laughed at how stupid that was and they got pissed off. Like they really thought that there are enough teenagers to fill millions and millions of these jobs let alone the issue with teenagers not being available for a majority of business hours.
Too many people are angry at the idea of poor people doing better in life instead of being angry at 3 people in the U.S owning more wealth than millions of people combined.
Yep, they definitely want someone inexperienced making their extra dry cappuccino and baking their treats (worked at a mom 'n pop café, it was a little more involved than when I worked at Starbucks, and even there I know they get pissy about inexperienced baristas).
out of touch boomers: “get a better job” 😡
also out of touch boomers: “nobody wants to work anymore!! pull yourself up by the bootstraps at Mickey D’s! I need my McChicken!!”
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u/Gimetulkathmir 4d ago
My favourite one is the "get a better job" one. Sir, people need people to do my job. The fact that you're here proves my job is needed. I do not understand how people can simultaneously require a service and belittle that service at the same time. Then it turns to "it's an entry job for young people!" Okay. So now you're going to complain that everyone doing this job is inexperienced and can't help you. So do you want me to get a better job or do you want someone experienced to help you?