If jobs like grocery store cashier are “for teenagers,” why aren’t they closed from 8am-3pm M-F?

[Anonymous]

Op needs to educate themselves on the pay rate of a union grocery store employee. When I was a cashier I was making 3x the minimum wage with time a half on Sunday and triple time on holidays. Plus excellent health benefits— better than what I have now as the spouse of a retired military officer.

[Anonymous]

I seriously do not understand this post. What is OP talking about?

[Anonymous]

I was cashier at target in college; it was decent money at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op needs to educate themselves on the pay rate of a union grocery store employee. When I was a cashier I was making 3x the minimum wage with time a half on Sunday and triple time on holidays. Plus excellent health benefits— better than what I have now as the spouse of a retired military officer.

Most grocery stores aren’t unionized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I supported myself on a retail job and a telemarketing job while going to community college full time when I was 18.

Not everywhere has the cost of living of DC or other major city.

How old are you? Where COL is lower, salaries are lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same goes for Starbucks, Walmart, etc.

Grocery stores are open from 4 pm to 7 am and that's when teenagers can work as cashiers. Duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They want "teenagers" to drop out of school and become dumb Trumpers.

Better than getting useless master's degrees on a parents dime and then having parents support them for the rest of their lives.

[Anonymous]

When I was growing up, most of the cashiers were adults. Wasn't until more recently that it suddenly became "job for teenagers."

[Anonymous]

What nonsense. These are not reserved for teenagers, and these types of jobs also offer flexible hours and part time, which is why they are better suited for those who have other life's obligations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want "teenagers" to drop out of school and become dumb Trumpers.

Better than getting useless master's degrees on a parents dime and then having parents support them for the rest of their lives.

Tell me what these “useless master’s degrees” are, especially when they are, as you said, on the parents dime rather than loans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same goes for Starbucks, Walmart, etc.

Grocery stores are open from 4 pm to 7 am and that's when teenagers can work as cashiers. Duh.

Brilliant! We’ll have teenagers work in the middle of the night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same goes for Starbucks, Walmart, etc.

OP, what are you even referring to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same goes for Starbucks, Walmart, etc.

OP, what are you even referring to?

The conservative argument is that improving working conditions in minimum wage jobs is futile because those jobs are meant to be temporary jobs for kids/teens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same goes for Starbucks, Walmart, etc.

OP, what are you even referring to?

The conservative argument is that improving working conditions in minimum wage jobs is futile because those jobs are meant to be temporary jobs for kids/teens.

Glad you clarified that for OP. Seems like OP is missing a few screws.

[Anonymous]

Holy jesus some of you are dense. I'm not OP but it was pretty easy to figure out what they meant, so let me explain it simply for those who couldn't.

GOPers love to say "we don't need to raise the minimum wage because minimum wage jobs are supposed to be for people like teenagers who don't need to support themselves financially."

OP is sarcastically saying "well if all these jobs are for teenagers who don't need to support themselves financially, why are they all open when teenagers who don't support themselves financially are in school."

OP is not actually asking the question, they are pointing out the absurdity of Republicans saying that jobs that happen when teenagers are in school are supposed to be filled by teenagers.

For anyone saying "well not all teenagers are in school," you're missing the point. 18 and 19 year old teenagers who are no longer in school need to support themselves financially and cannot on a $7.25 minimum wage.

Once again, the GOP wants to have their cake and eat it too, or really just want to make yet another bad faith argument, speaking out of both sides of their mouth at once. "These jobs are for teens" when they want to defend the low wage, then "there are teens who aren't supported by their parents" when they want to defend the contradiction that the jobs have hours teens can't work. When they say the former, they never acknowledge the hours, when they say the latter they never acknowledge the wage.