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  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    We were getting a single order of fries from McD’s in Missoula Montana and the only employee worth a damn looked around 10.

    He kept telling his mother that the fries were ready and he could just give them to us, but she insisted that orders must go out in the same order they came in. So we waited another 10 minutes.

    When he was finally permitted to give us our fries, he had this incredibly mature, put-upon expression as he said “I’m so sorry for the wait.”

  • CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I feel like important context is that they were kids of the manager. That changes this from a bad corporate governance and exploitation of labor situation to something else: a bad parenting/child abuse, bad corporate governance and exploitation of labor situation.

    • randompasta@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      I’ve seen fast food employees have their kids in the dining room just hanging out. The employee is trying to manage them as well as doing their job. I see this as an issue with lack of child care options.

      • n2burns@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        But that’s not what this is. FTA:

        Bauer Food LLC said in a statement that the two 10-year-olds are children of a night manager and “were not approved by franchisee organization management to be in that part of the restaurant.”

    • GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      There’s potentially a much more bleak explanation that could be the case since this reminded me of a moment in my childhood.

      McDonald’s management doesn’t sound lucrative enough of a gig for childcare on top of the cost of survival with 2 kids, this could simply be a way for them to watch their kid and continue earning a living. I spent a few days “helping” at a grocery store for that reason when I was 8 or 9ish, though during the day and not at 2am, and my mom got in trouble for doing that too I think, because then I just stayed home alone for the summer after that.

      Doesn’t make it much better, it would just turn it into bad parent/child abuse, because of exploitation of the labor class.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      The more important context IMO is that the 10 year olds were just the youngest of over 300 children who were working later than permitted.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Let’s meet at the lesser of two evils and get them to employ 11 year olds until 1:30AM.

    • sunzu@kbin.run
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      4 months ago

      Yep, can’t blame these parents or the kids really either. They did nothing wrong but the business must face costs for breaking the law, which we all know does no happen!

      Anyway, the real source for the immigration are these jobs anyway but acknowledging that would force both sides to actually solve the issue, which is deff not on the table. They don’t want these people here to pay them market rate wage, they are here to lower everybody else wages down while get straight fucked themselves. Owners win double more labour at cheaper rate.

      If you look at net migration into the US prior to COVID and now, you see essentially 3X the rate post covid… i wonder what sacred the owners to open up the country like that.