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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My teen got a job at a coffee shop last summer and the[b]y regularly sent him home from a long shift after an hour of two because they weren’t busy enough, or would text him and ask him to come in immediately and then get mad when he couldn’t immediately drop what he was doing and show up. [/b]Then the customers were downright abusive; he’s an athlete and tough but people would literally come up and straight out of the gate start curse him out because their coffee order—which he didn’t even make— was  wrong. All that for minimum wage. He quit early and this summer is working as a camp counselor where at least he’s guaranteed 40 hours a week.

This country’s retail businesses are not owed an endless supply of cheap child and immigrant labor to exploit for profit so they can sell low quality food and environmentally destructive fast fashion made by exploited labor in China. If a business can’t find good workers it’s because they suck and they should go out of business. [/quote]

+1 Between the expectation of fully on-call workers + companies that say they are hiring, force you to apply online only, and then never get back to you (while complaining that they can't find employees), it's hard for teens to find a job where they can get hired and then treated with the basic respect we parents had when we were teen employees.

My DS worked summer camp counselor jobs in his earlier teens, worked at a local bakery for a couple summers, and this year after 2nd year of college is working at a mall clothing store (national chain) where they actually replied to his online application and give him a regular, predictable schedule.

For that first job, I recommend asking teen friends who have jobs to recommend them to their employers and also to focus on small, locally owned businesses. The bakery my son works at is mostly staffed with teens and they only hire via personal referral. [/quote]

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