"Unskilled?"

Make 20+ sandwiches every 10 minutes for a couple hours, then tell me about "unskilled".

-Laelth

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It's a shame that so many people depend on others who are damaging their health by eating at those places. It would just be nice to do something worthwhile, anything at all that could be productive and beneficial.

Teenagers have always worked in the entry level, low skill jobs. This is nothing new. I know I worked at Subway at that age for Summers and University breaks. You work at McDonald's for four years during breaks and graduate and go on to other employment. Now I know it is a bit harder today but still he is 19. I just hope that McDonald's doesn't go the route of Applebees and begin using self orders with computers. What will this 19 year old gentleman do then?

if a business model relies on welfare to subsidize its workers' salaries, then that business should not be allowed to exist much less expand... that is the point, regardless of the age of the adult...

I agree, but I think some of these workers are playing with fire. They are going to end up being pushed out of work through computers. I hope at least he is in school or some trade school. He cannot rely on McDonald's forever. I am 44 years old and could not imagine still working at Subway 20 years later. I started making practically zero and today I work at a University making 75K a year. It is healthy to start in a low paying job and then improve over the years. If you start at 15 dollars an hour, it will be very hard to find a job that makes more than that for a long time. I think what they should do is match minimum wage increases with Social Security raises every year. Perhaps that might eventually make the Social Security raises better….

If I run a company, I shouldn't rely on welfare to subsidize my employee's low paychecks.

If I can't afford my employees then what kind of business success should I expect.

As a taxpayer, I am getting tired of making up for the low pay these jobs offer.

He does window cleaning here in Texas...

He went to a strip mall and he said out of the first six stores he landed five of them. That was enough to justify going out and getting the couple tools he needed. Said the spider webs out there are a pain in the ass though. He went out for a couple days to make some cash ended up clearing close to $500.


I don't care what anyone says, there is ALWAYS a better paying job you can find than fucking McDonalds. I could get that kid on my neighbors landscaping crew tomorrow. Of course it's going to be "work"

(FYI, my first job was at McDonalds, after almost a year i realized I could make $2.00 an hour more at White Castle I left )

But some people do not have the skills or -dare I say it- the smarts to be so innovative as your friend.

It's the same concept as providing welfare. Some will pull themselves up to be even better than before. Others will simply 'get by' but that's the case with any safety net. It doesn't invalidate the idea that there needs to be a safety net in place to catch those who are temporarily on the outs as well as those who will always be on the outs.

Same with McDonald's and other fast food corporations. Society has a need for people doing menial, fast food jobs. And for those who do it, whether it's temporary or a career choice, they should get a decent wage.
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I'm so glad to our workers starting to stand up in actions all across USA.