Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US
Witchhatswamp@lemmy.world 6 months agoThese jobs you are speaking of–washing cars, mowing lawns, even kids working in their parents’ store–do you think that is the same as working for a multinational conglomerate handling food with no breaks and minimum wage?
roscoe@startrek.website 6 months ago
No they’re not the same. The multinational conglomerate is way better.
Chores for the neighbors and the paper route paid peanuts. Once I was old enough to work for the conglomerate (where I received food safety training) my pay more than doubled, I started contributing to my future social security check, I received paid breaks and there was a maximum amount of hours I was legally allowed to work.
Flipping burgers beats the hell out of lugging Sunday papers around the neighborhood or knocking on doors to mow lawns in the summer heat or shovel driveways in the freezing cold. Back then I counted the days until I was old enough for a “real” job.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is what I don’t understand about all the angry people in this thread. Of course it’s not okay to have children working in like fucking coal mines and not regulating the hours they can work and the pay you can give them. Of course that’s not cool and should be stopped. But the people doing that (and there are many) aren’t the ones doing it out in the open in a fast food restaurant.