Why do middle class parents make their kids hold jobs during the school year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last night at a get together my neighbor's daughter is a new hostess at a popular local restaurant and said the cooks were slapping her ass with wet towels, busboys smoke dope in the parking lot, and the 20-something waiter creeps are all trying to sleep with her. She's 17.

Yes, make your kids work shit jobs. It really teaches them about "life"!

So exaggerated. Just like helicopter moms and coddled kids are.

The hostess doesn't hang out in the kitchen.
The hostess doesn't hang out in the parking lot
The hostess can go tell the 20 something waiters "no chance"

Any continues problems? Take initiative and talk to a manager instead of coming home crying to Mommy so Mommy can then complain to her Mommy friends. Get some balls instead of being submissive whiny ladies. It gets 10x worse in college and then 20x worse in the corporate world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last night at a get together my neighbor's daughter is a new hostess at a popular local restaurant and said the cooks were slapping her ass with wet towels, busboys smoke dope in the parking lot, and the 20-something waiter creeps are all trying to sleep with her. She's 17.

Yes, make your kids work shit jobs. It really teaches them about "life"!

How popular is the restaurant if busboys have time to smoke dope and a hostess has time to see it. We have several underage kids working and nobody has ever tried to sleep with her. All youngsters are either in high school or in college and are around other people all the time. Maybe she needs to find another restaurant since your local one sounds like a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night at a get together my neighbor's daughter is a new hostess at a popular local restaurant and said the cooks were slapping her ass with wet towels, busboys smoke dope in the parking lot, and the 20-something waiter creeps are all trying to sleep with her. She's 17.

Yes, make your kids work shit jobs. It really teaches them about "life"!

So exaggerated. Just like helicopter moms and coddled kids are.

The hostess doesn't hang out in the kitchen.
The hostess doesn't hang out in the parking lot
The hostess can go tell the 20 something waiters "no chance"

Any continues problems? Take initiative and talk to a manager instead of coming home crying to Mommy so Mommy can then complain to her Mommy friends. Get some balls instead of being submissive whiny ladies. It gets 10x worse in college and then 20x worse in the corporate world.

Exactly. All the more reason to work now. Builds your backbone. The PP makes it seem like the 17yr old is 7.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My parents made me get a job at the mall in high school and everyone I worked with was trash. I guess it depends on the job, but I don't how wasting hours folding t-shirts and working with degenerate losers teaches you anything. Why do upper middle class kids need to learn how to associate with and talk to bottom feeders? If you are good parents they should never come in contact with people like that. I'd rather have my kids playing sports, in clubs, instruments, etc.

It teaches you that you want to work hard in high school and college so you don't end up in a crappy job with degenerate losers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night at a get together my neighbor's daughter is a new hostess at a popular local restaurant and said the cooks were slapping her ass with wet towels, busboys smoke dope in the parking lot, and the 20-something waiter creeps are all trying to sleep with her. She's 17.

Yes, make your kids work shit jobs. It really teaches them about "life"!

How popular is the restaurant if busboys have time to smoke dope and a hostess has time to see it. We have several underage kids working and nobody has ever tried to sleep with her. All youngsters are either in high school or in college and are around other people all the time. Maybe she needs to find another restaurant since your local one sounds like a nightmare.

I think PP described pretty much every restaurant in the country. I'd never let my kids work in the service industry. If I wanted them around low people we wouldn't have paid a premium for a house in McLean.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night at a get together my neighbor's daughter is a new hostess at a popular local restaurant and said the cooks were slapping her ass with wet towels, busboys smoke dope in the parking lot, and the 20-something waiter creeps are all trying to sleep with her. She's 17.

Yes, make your kids work shit jobs. It really teaches them about "life"!

How popular is the restaurant if busboys have time to smoke dope and a hostess has time to see it. We have several underage kids working and nobody has ever tried to sleep with her. All youngsters are either in high school or in college and are around other people all the time. Maybe she needs to find another restaurant since your local one sounds like a nightmare.

I think PP described pretty much every restaurant in the country. I'd never let my kids work in the service industry. If I wanted them around low people we wouldn't have paid a premium for a house in McLean.

My ds works in the service industry and it is absolutely nothing like this. He has a great time and has made good friends there. Other than the manager, they're all high school and college students. Really good kids and it's like a family there. They tend to hire kids who are recommended by the other employees. Nobody wants to recommend someone who would be a bad reflection on them. The pp makes it sound like he must've found the needle in a haystack kind of job. But I doubt it. There are lots of positive non-"shit" jobs out there for those who want to find one.

[Anonymous]

They literally made a movie about how degenerate the average restaurant is: Waiting... (2005)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night at a get together my neighbor's daughter is a new hostess at a popular local restaurant and said the cooks were slapping her ass with wet towels, busboys smoke dope in the parking lot, and the 20-something waiter creeps are all trying to sleep with her. She's 17.

Yes, make your kids work shit jobs. It really teaches them about "life"!

How popular is the restaurant if busboys have time to smoke dope and a hostess has time to see it. We have several underage kids working and nobody has ever tried to sleep with her. All youngsters are either in high school or in college and are around other people all the time. Maybe she needs to find another restaurant since your local one sounds like a nightmare.

I think PP described pretty much every restaurant in the country. I'd never let my kids work in the service industry. If I wanted them around low people we wouldn't have paid a premium for a house in McLean.

Well I hope he gets into a college with only rich kids cause I am pretty sure your uptight snobby tool of a kid will be drinking out of a fraternity trash and munching down on low life skank in college. Will probably get some crabs and herpes too. Maybe even knock one up. Oh wait, maybe even rape a passed out girl behind a dumpster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night at a get together my neighbor's daughter is a new hostess at a popular local restaurant and said the cooks were slapping her ass with wet towels, busboys smoke dope in the parking lot, and the 20-something waiter creeps are all trying to sleep with her. She's 17.

Yes, make your kids work shit jobs. It really teaches them about "life"!

So exaggerated. Just like helicopter moms and coddled kids are.

The hostess doesn't hang out in the kitchen.
The hostess doesn't hang out in the parking lot
The hostess can go tell the 20 something waiters "no chance"

Any continues problems? Take initiative and talk to a manager instead of coming home crying to Mommy so Mommy can then complain to her Mommy friends. Get some balls instead of being submissive whiny ladies. It gets 10x worse in college and then 20x worse in the corporate world.

It's not exaggerated. Do you even know? Have you ever worked in the service industry? Because all of these things happen. And as for being whiny, you don't get to dictate how people respond to being assaulted. People are often afraid: afraid of losing their job, afraid of being called a trouble-maker, tattletale, and worse. That's why sexual harassment persists. And, yeah, no, I don't need my teen in that environment. So screw you.

[Anonymous]

I worked at a popular restaurant/bar in college and I've never been around a bigger group of white trash, half of which came from upper middle class backgrounds. I think the industry—late nights, alcohol, cash tips—attracts a lot of unsavory characters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night at a get together my neighbor's daughter is a new hostess at a popular local restaurant and said the cooks were slapping her ass with wet towels, busboys smoke dope in the parking lot, and the 20-something waiter creeps are all trying to sleep with her. She's 17.

Yes, make your kids work shit jobs. It really teaches them about "life"!

So exaggerated. Just like helicopter moms and coddled kids are.

The hostess doesn't hang out in the kitchen.
The hostess doesn't hang out in the parking lot
The hostess can go tell the 20 something waiters "no chance"

Any continues problems? Take initiative and talk to a manager instead of coming home crying to Mommy so Mommy can then complain to her Mommy friends. Get some balls instead of being submissive whiny ladies. It gets 10x worse in college and then 20x worse in the corporate world.

It's not exaggerated. Do you even know? Have you ever worked in the service industry? Because all of these things happen. And as for being whiny, you don't get to dictate how people respond to being assaulted. People are often afraid: afraid of losing their job, afraid of being called a trouble-maker, tattletale, and worse. That's why sexual harassment persists. And, yeah, no, I don't need my teen in that environment. So screw you.

But where's your daughter going to learn to thicken her skin if she doesn't get harassed and groped in high school? How will she ever survive adulthood without being traumatized by trash going nowhere in life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night at a get together my neighbor's daughter is a new hostess at a popular local restaurant and said the cooks were slapping her ass with wet towels, busboys smoke dope in the parking lot, and the 20-something waiter creeps are all trying to sleep with her. She's 17.

Yes, make your kids work shit jobs. It really teaches them about "life"!

How popular is the restaurant if busboys have time to smoke dope and a hostess has time to see it. We have several underage kids working and nobody has ever tried to sleep with her. All youngsters are either in high school or in college and are around other people all the time. Maybe she needs to find another restaurant since your local one sounds like a nightmare.

I think PP described pretty much every restaurant in the country. I'd never let my kids work in the service industry. If I wanted them around low people we wouldn't have paid a premium for a house in McLean.

OP, for your sake, I hope this quote does not come back to bite you a decade or so down the roa.d

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night at a get together my neighbor's daughter is a new hostess at a popular local restaurant and said the cooks were slapping her ass with wet towels, busboys smoke dope in the parking lot, and the 20-something waiter creeps are all trying to sleep with her. She's 17.

Yes, make your kids work shit jobs. It really teaches them about "life"!

So exaggerated. Just like helicopter moms and coddled kids are.

The hostess doesn't hang out in the kitchen.
The hostess doesn't hang out in the parking lot
The hostess can go tell the 20 something waiters "no chance"

Any continues problems? Take initiative and talk to a manager instead of coming home crying to Mommy so Mommy can then complain to her Mommy friends. Get some balls instead of being submissive whiny ladies. It gets 10x worse in college and then 20x worse in the corporate world.

It's not exaggerated. Do you even know? Have you ever worked in the service industry? Because all of these things happen. And as for being whiny, you don't get to dictate how people respond to being assaulted. People are often afraid: afraid of losing their job, afraid of being called a trouble-maker, tattletale, and worse. That's why sexual harassment persists. And, yeah, no, I don't need my teen in that environment. So screw you.

Cry my a river lady. You are so upset over your 17yr old's friend. Please. So glad you all this spent time complaining while the 17yr old did nothing for herself at the restaurant. Scared to lose her hostess job, LOL. Showing great promise.

[Anonymous]

We UMC parents need our teens to get jobs to teach them a thing or two about how the town's white trash live? Yeah, no thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We UMC parents need our teens to get jobs to teach them a thing or two about how the town's white trash live? Yeah, no thanks.

If that's all you have learned in this 9 page thread filled with legitimate reasons many parents see value in their teens working, then keep them at home. Please. I'm an employer of teens and there are lots of fantastic ones. There is no trash, white or otherwise, in my place of business.