Poor American kids in Florida to take immigrant jobs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reality is the jobs will simply go unfilled. And eventually they will sound the alarm and lobby to import workers.

You don’t get outside your UMC bubble. Like ever. Do you?

Do YOU??? Have you been to a regional amusement park/attraction and tourist trap area outside of July 4th-Labor Day? There is never enough help. No one to pick up towels at Great Wolf Lodge. Bathrooms are dirty. Trash is piling up. Half the rides are closed because no one is available to run them, and 20 minute long lines at every food stand and an hour wait at the sit down restaurants in town. And all the employees are running around like their hair is on fire.

Most Americans take these little trips on long weekends vs. a big week in Cancun or Paradise Island Bahamas or whatever. But they suck now because there’s just not enough employees.

[Anonymous]

Walmart employs 16 year old teens. Several from my school work there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Overnight shift for a growing child who needs to be in school? No breaks?

That's inhumane.

It prevents any success in high school. Quite possibly keeps the kid from graduating from HS. But some parents will pressure kids to do it anyway to survive economically— especially as the effect of tariffs and boycotts hit and we hit full recession.

But then, maybe FL is actually forward thinking. Create a permanent underclass trap to replace immigrants. American citizen kids whose parents can’t earn enough to survive/ can’t go to work for fear of ICE raids and work full time overnight in high school to put food on the table. Must sleep sometimes and dont get a real education/ even a high school degree. Continue their whole lives in minimum wage jobs, can’t have abortion, limit access to cheap, safe effective birth control. Destroy the social safety net and blame 16 year olds for not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and supporting their families while pulling good HS grades. Pop out more kids than they can afford and send those kids into the fields at 14, instead of them getting an education. Rinse. Repeat.

Ron DeSantis is a frigging genius! (Pardon me while I go puke. A full shift with no meal break for 16 year olds?).

Not really, I graduated near the top in my class. We had a banquet for the top ten; the waitress knew my name at the banquet. Everyone wanted to know why she (who happened to be a high school dropout but they didn't know that ) knew my name. I had worked there since before I was old enough to drive, 14 hours a week during the school (except basketball season), 40+ during the summer, holidays etc.

I'm thinking I'll probably try to do something like that with my kids. Looking back, I should have stuck with those jobs instead of going to college. It would have been easier to get managerial/business experience, and I wouldn't be stuck in one of these dead-end cubicle jobs in a low standard of living area like DC. Work experience is great for young adults.

[Anonymous]

Gosh some people on here complain over nothing. I had many jobs as a kid and I intend for my kids to do the same. We don’t need the money but it’s great life experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gosh some people on here complain over nothing. I had many jobs as a kid and I intend for my kids to do the same. We don’t need the money but it’s great life experience.

+1 Too many DCUM parents are helicopter parents raising their kids in privileged bubbles. They don't have a clue about teens who work, go to school, and stay out of trouble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gosh some people on here complain over nothing. I had many jobs as a kid and I intend for my kids to do the same. We don’t need the money but it’s great life experience.

People this legislation is to allow kids to work overnight in jobs that migrants held. If you want your kid working the overnight shift in the factory, you do you.

This issue is that this bill wouldn’t be necessary if we let migrants stay, and also because it’s a slippery slope without a department of education and the very high risk (especially after today’s demented rant) that we enter a depression. Kids will be FORCED to work instead of go to school because the family is impoverished. Despite what the felon said, eggs are now down 59% today, not are groceries down.

Please think it through.

[Anonymous]

Eggs are NOT down 59%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My teen wanted to work over the summer, but foreign Eastern European temp workers took all the jobs.

Did he want to work overnight with no breaks on school nights?

Also, where are you located? Everywhere in FFX is advertising for lifeguards right now. Never met an “Eastern European temp worker” in that role…

+1. Wtf MAGA. So if they’re going to be legally working overnight now-is MAGA saying they no longer need to attend school at age 14?

[Anonymous]

OMG some of you are so stupid. No one is saying teens shouldn't work. We're saying they shouldn't work OVERNIGHT SHIFTS, which is what Desantis is saying teens should be able to do.

-parent of two teens who work, during the day and evening.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like natural consequences to me. Sorry kids. You have poor people for parents.

FIFY

Not every poor person is an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gosh some people on here complain over nothing. I had many jobs as a kid and I intend for my kids to do the same. We don’t need the money but it’s great life experience.

People this legislation is to allow kids to work overnight in jobs that migrants held. If you want your kid working the overnight shift in the factory, you do you.

This issue is that this bill wouldn’t be necessary if we let migrants stay, and also because it’s a slippery slope without a department of education and the very high risk (especially after today’s demented rant) that we enter a depression. Kids will be FORCED to work instead of go to school because the family is impoverished. Despite what the felon said, eggs are now down 59% today, not are groceries down.

Please think it through.

That's good advice, now you should go look up what the department of education did. Doesn't cover these kids.

[Anonymous]

I read that ir only applies to homeschooled kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My teen wanted to work over the summer, but foreign Eastern European temp workers took all the jobs.

Did he want to work overnight with no breaks on school nights?

Also, where are you located? Everywhere in FFX is advertising for lifeguards right now. Never met an “Eastern European temp worker” in that role…

The PP is referring to resort/beach towns. Her kid wanted to show up mid June and leave early August with the 4th of July and weekends off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG some of you are so stupid. No one is saying teens shouldn't work. We're saying they shouldn't work OVERNIGHT SHIFTS, which is what Desantis is saying teens should be able to do.

-parent of two teens who work, during the day and evening.

Where does it say kids will be mandated to work overnight shifts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read that ir only applies to homeschooled kids?

That tracks if true. Kids who don't go to a school building are more ripe for unreported abuse.