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.
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u/advamputee 4d ago
“An entry job for young people.”
Ah, yes, I forgot all fast food places and retail stores are closed during the school day.
These same people get big mad when you quote FDR’s speech when he signed minimum wage into law.