Current Events > McDonalds is not a job for teenagers and it is hilariously easy to prove.

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Teenagers go to school... yet McDonalds is open for lunch....

hmm

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Don't know about you but I graduated from high school when I was 18

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Same with the grocery store. Last I checked, they have people attending checkout and bagging during school hours...

Manager: "I need you to work the lunchtime shift all week."
Worker: "But I have midterms."
Manager: "That's not my problem."

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Solar_Crimson posted...

Manager: "I need you to work the lunchtime shift all week."
Worker: "But I have midterms."
Manager: "That's not my problem."

This ain't even a bit it actually happened...
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Solid Snake07 posted...

Don't know about you but I graduated from high school when I was 18

20 is not a teenager.
Is your idea that McDonalds hires every HS graduate for 2 years and then rinse and repeat?

.....you do know.... they are open after school hours.... right? Most students start working at 3/4 and work until 10/11.

I don't know the figures but In my anecdotal experience the majority of fast food workers are 30+ adults

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Ivany2008 posted...

.....you do know.... they are open after school hours.... right? Most students start working at 3/4 and work until 10/11.

so who is working before that? who cooked your breakfast?

I tell my mom this and she says "I don't want no teenagers cooking my food ANYWAYS!"

WingsOfGood posted...

20 is not a teenager.
Is your idea that McDonalds hires every HS graduate for 2 years and then rinse and repeat?

20 might as well be a teenager.

If you're over 30 and working a non managerial position at McDonalds you need to get your shit together.

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Solid Snake07 posted...

If you're over 30 and working a non managerial position at McDonalds you need to get your s*** together.

Why?
Because you think a place open 24 hours most of which cannot be worked by a teenager is a job for teenagers?

JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

That PROVES TCs point!1!

Most people know this and still say these are jobs for teenagers.
The reason is because if McDonalds paid their adult over 30 workers more, they would feel bad because they can't say to themselves "least I am making like double those losers at McDonalds are making! hahhaa"

WingsOfGood posted...

Why?
Because you think a place open 24 hours most of which cannot be worked by a teenager is a job for teenagers?

I never said it's a job only for teenagers. I said if you're in you 30s and working a bullshit fast food job you need to get your shit together.

Unless it's something temporary while you're looking for something else between jobs. I'd never shit on someone for taking any job they can get while they figure something else out.

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Most of the people who think it's a job for teenagers wouldn't last one shift tbqh

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Solid Snake07 posted...

I said if you're in you 30s and working a bulls*** fast food job you need to get your s*** together.

What makes it bullshit? McDonalds is a billion dollar company with stores all over the world.
Why are these bullshit jobs?
Someone has to do the work or McDonalds ceases to exist as a billion dollar company.

Solid Snake07 posted...

If you're over 30 and working a non managerial position at McDonalds you need to get your shit together.

Why? People need money, and even with college degrees, the only jobs available to them may only be in fast food or retail.

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I mean...he's right tho.

Conservatives say these jobs are only meant for teenagers, but that'd mean they could only realistically be open from 2-ish to 10 on weekdays if their entire low-level workforce was teenagers, not even accounting for any extracurricular activities.

Of course, however, the narrative has changed from that to telling workers it's a job anybody can do and therefore they don't deserve a living wage until they pick up a "real" skill (and then being butthurt when their local McDonald's is now understaffed and struggling to find workers).


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saspa posted...

This ain't even a bit it actually happened...

Solar_Crimson posted...

Manager: "I need you to work the lunchtime shift all week."
Worker: "But I have midterms."
Manager: "That's not my problem."

Oh man when I was trying to go to college, but the boss kept scheduling me during class time. I needed to job to afford to go to school.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I mean...he's right tho.

Conservatives say these jobs are only meant for teenagers, but that'd mean they could only realistically be open from 2-ish to 10 on weekdays if their entire low-level workforce was teenagers, not even accounting for any extracurricular activities.

Of course, however, the narrative has changed from that to telling workers it's a job anybody can do and therefore they don't deserve a living wage until they pick up a "real" skill (and then being butthurt when their local McDonald's is now understaffed and struggling to find workers).

Thanks.
Ofc it is right, easy to prove it.

I worked at McDonald's when I was 16, i worked after school,weekends and on holiday break.

So yes, it is a job for teenagers. My schedule was worked around for school.

Chadawah posted...

I needed to job to afford to go to school.

Should have been born to wealthy parents tsk tsk.

WingsOfGood posted...

What makes it bullshit? McDonalds is a billion dollar company with stores all over the world.
Why are these bullshit jobs?
Someone has to do the work or McDonalds ceases to exist as a billion dollar company.

You need me to explain to you why a part time hourly job at McDonald's is a bullshit ass job?

I'm pretty sure you're entire contention is that it's a bullshit ass job.

And corporate McDonald's makes the vast majority of their money from real estate leases to their franchisees. If you work an hourly position at McDonalds you work for that franchisee, not corporate.

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CoasterFan1990 posted...

I worked at McDonald's when I was 16, i worked after school,weekends and on holiday break.

So yes, it is a job for teenagers. My schedule was worked around for school.

That's not what he's saying....

What he's saying is that if McDonald's is just a job for teenagers, then it shouldn't be open until 2 in the afternoon during the weekdays, since that's when they're expected to be in school.

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Solid Snake07 posted...

You need me to explain to you why a part time hourly job at McDonald's is a bulls*** ass job?

You think they have 0 full time employees?

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I mean...he's right tho.

Conservatives say these jobs are only meant for teenagers, but that'd mean they could only realistically be open from 2-ish to 10 on weekdays if their entire low-level workforce was teenagers, not even accounting for any extracurricular activities.

Of course, however, the narrative has changed from that to telling workers it's a job anybody can do and therefore they don't deserve a living wage until they pick up a "real" skill (and then being butthurt when their local McDonald's is now understaffed and struggling to find workers).

Yep

And the crazy thing is when I worked in retail I absolutely worked a lot harder than I do in my fancy "adult" office job, all for minimum wage.

Conservatives can fuck off

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WingsOfGood posted...

You think they have 0 full time employees?

I would imagine it's fairly rare outside of managers.

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littlebro07 posted...

And the crazy thing is when I worked in retail I absolutely worked a lot harder than I do in my fancy "adult" office job, all for minimum wage.

Definitely didn't have time to post on gamefaqs like I am doing now.

But this is the real skilled job huh?

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

That's not what he's saying....

What he's saying is that if McDonald's is just a job for teenagers, then it shouldn't be open until 2 in the afternoon during the weekdays, since that's when they're expected to be in school.

Except that's not what OP said

CoasterFan1990 posted...

Except that's not what OP said

Is literally what I said wtf

WingsOfGood posted...

Teenagers go to school... yet McDonalds is open for lunch....

hmm

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

This is what you said

Plus the topic title doesn't say it either.

shockthemonkey posted...

Its not a job exclusively for teenagers, which was very obviously TCs point. Whats the point in acting too dense to understand this.

First time? Welcome to internet arguments!

CoasterFan1990 posted...

This is what you said

Wtf are you on about

Solid Snake07 posted...

20 might as well be a teenager.

If you're over 30 and working a non managerial position at McDonalds you need to get your shit together.

it's not by choice dude

the job market and education system is terrible

Sometimes your "choices " are menial work or bust

or the military I guess

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Conservatives would love teens dropping out to work min wage at their jobs and then being stuck at that wage level without a hs education to question things

Solid Snake07 posted...

Don't know about you but I graduated from high school when I was 18

I was 19, but that's because of late start when transferring schools. I graduated on my actual 19th birthday. I got my driver's license at the end of freshman year of high school lol.

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Maze_ posted...

it's not by choice dude

the job market and education system is terrible

Sometimes your "choices " are menial work or bust

or the military I guess

"That is your fault cause hahhaha I am better than you"
Most likely what he thinking

WingsOfGood posted...

Same with the grocery store. Last I checked, they have people attending checkout and bagging during school hours...

At least where I live it is hard to find a cashier who can sell you alcohol. So many of them are under age right now.

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creativerealms posted...

At least where I live it is hard to find a cashier who can sell you alcohol. So many of them are under age right now.

But pay the adults a good wage? Nah.

Why can't I find anyone who can sell alchohol!!

Full time employees rarely exist in a retail/fast food industry outside managers, and even they have troubles getting that status. The reason for that is that the moment you are classified as Full-Time you have to be paid certain benefits and even gain stock options. You are also unable to be fired without reasonable cause. This is mandatory by law, at least here in Canada.

They get around that by having what is called Part-Time/Full-Time, which gives you just shy of full time hours (40), at a maximum of 36 hours a week. They don't have to guarantee you hours, or benefits but some companies do. They also have the option of firing you for even the most miniscule of things and outside of extreme cases you can't do anything about it. I know this because I have been fired once in my life and literally took the company to court over it. Didn't win, but managed to get the company removed from my permanent record.

WingsOfGood posted...

But pay the adults a good wage? Nah.

Why can't I find anyone who can sell alchohol!!

Yeah I agree. Pay them a living wage.

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Really jogs the nog

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