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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Low-end fast food is disgusting and eaten by poor people, mostly. Mega negative stigma associated with them that didn't exist in the 90s.

2. Fast food managers want desperate employees they can work like slaves (local welfare recipients that need minimum hours for their welfare and recent immigrants). They know smart kids won't take bullshit from some flunky psychotic manager.

3. Travel sports and student orgs and AP classes leave iffy availability, see #2.

4. College admissions is RIDICULOUSLY competitive, so every hour flipping burgers for welfare recipients is an hour some Asian and Indian kid is studying their ass off.[/quote]

Every 3rd kid I know is going to Maryland, JMU, GMU or similar -- is it soooo hard to get into those that 10 hrs a week of working will keep them out and they need to be studying 24-7. Give me a break. You don't want them to work, that's great. But school is not an excuse.[/quote]

Just because they end up at those colleges doesn't mean the parents didn't have higher hopes. And don't get me wrong, the average kid is sitting on their ass for far too long -- but it doesn't necessarily translate to great availability for a fast food joint.[/quote]

I agree that school is an excuse that parents here want to make. But I also wonder if fast food and national retail chains have gotten less accustomed to having to work with student schedules -- scheduling people for 10-15 hrs a week after school and weekends only -- bc now they have a much much larger immigrant/Hispanic population available that is available to work 40+ hrs a week. It's likely easier for management to have people who can be scheduled at any time rather than having a line up of teens who are only available after 3 pm -- and then having to hire adults to be available at 11 am. This also explains why it's easier to get hired at local stores (to the extent we have any left) -- those stores are often owner operated and just need a bit of part time help, not 40 hr/wk help.[/quote]

Actually, those places want people working PT so they don't have to provide benefits. A lot of workers have a hard time making ends meet because their hours get cut last minute. A lot of the big chains use "just in time" scheduling - so workers don't know their schedules until the last minute. Can you imagine planning life/childcare/school without knowing your hours until the day before? Awful.[/quote]

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