Posted on 04/06/2016 9:34:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Employers, especially in the restaurant and food services industries, are far less willing to take chances on who they hire with so much money on the line. I was shocked to learn that some restaurants—comparable in quality to the ones that hired me with little or no experience on the East Coast—
here required a minimum of three to five years of restaurant experience, even for support staff positions like hosts and bussers. I had multiple managers glance at my resume, see that my past jobs were seasonal or temporary, and tell me upfront that unless I could commit to at least a year of labor, they simply wouldn’t hire me, despite my qualifications.
I’m a young, educated, white male who comes from an upper-middle-class background. In other words, I’m exactly the type of person that society supposedly favors over all the rest. If it’s this difficult for me to land an entry-level, minimum-wage position, then what must it be like for more disadvantaged individuals,
the very people compassionate liberals likely have in mind when they advocate for a spike in the minimum wage? Surely the poor inner-city teenager lacking education and job experience, or the struggling single mother who needs to work much more than just part-time to support her children, will lose out to other applicants even faster than I did.
The fact that cities like Seattle, and now states like California, can freely experiment with economic policy demonstrates the virtues of our nation’s federalist system. However, our local laboratories of democracy aren’t always foolproof. Sometimes, they get it wrong.
And I’ll bet my non-existent income that in time, the recent minimum wage hikes in cities and states throughout the country will provide further proof of this reality. Alas, in the meantime, my job search continues.
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Liberal policies have driven all the good-paying unskilled and semi-skilled jobs away. Now they think they can replace those wages simply by mandating $15/hr minimum wage and we are seeing the results of their brainless meddling.
But as usual, all that counts wil liberals is how they FEEL about something. Results, even when they harm the people they are supposed to help, are ignored.
Sounds like a Psychology Major.
High opinion of himself, no concept that the world doesn’t need his ‘skills’.
I saw a job advert for a data entry/telephone order taker that required a college degree.
Pretty soon, you’ll probably have to have a degree in hospitality arts or something to get a job at mickey d’s.
Most places already require a food handling safety certificate which is ridiculous. Everyone knows perishables should be refrigerated and that we need to wash our hands and use clean utensils in a clean kitchen and don’t come to work sick.
College requirements are really about making sure one has the right(left)mindset so they can fit into the hive with all the other drones(unless it’s a specialized job like doctor, lawyer, CPA, etc)
“You will never be paid what you are “worth”.”
Moreso because your employer expects to do better than just break even on the deal. He hired you to benefit him, not you.
Yep. This guy is a fool. He can sit on his ass watching TV and smoking pot all day. Then go out to the club at night to get lit up with his friends. The Welfare check, Obamaphones, Obamacare, food stamps and utility low income programs will cover him. If he needs money for a better grade of weed, just find a lawyer to argue to SSI that he is disabled and he’ll get crazy checks too. Livin’ the new American Dream!!!
Wow. So you’re really into this national government thing as opposed to the republic that was intended. aren’t you?
Have to admit I’m surprised at that.
Lost any sympathy for the twerp there. I wouldn't hire him for anything, either.
Every time he was in McD’s getting a big mac he asked them for a job... that is only 25 days.
I have taken to using "dumb as a bag of dog-sh!t.
Rocks actually are useful as aggregate in concrete, or as projectiles from hand held weapons.
Dog-sh!t has no use. It doesn't even make good fertilizer.
What the cartoon does not show is that now the still hired employee must do the work of two people as one got fired.
Cue up "Like A Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan.
Young, educated and white guarantee's nothing without experience and the right attitude.....this ignoramus has an entitlement attitude so well known among the youth today...that the world owes them a living......it doesn't.
Bernie and Hillary have promised to use executive orders to suspend the laws of economics to prevent this. Now increasing the minimum wage will actually reduce unemployment.
I think I see the problem, Mitch....................
Well, there's the problem. This guy seems to think progressive policies acknowledge a small thing like "reality".
The “white privilege” programming crap just oozes through. He’s allowed the deck to be stacked against him.
That is only part of it.
Union wage scales are tied to the minimum wage of any particular area.
If the minimum wage is raised, then the union wage scales shift up accordingly, by contract.
That means more union dues to fill the coffers of Democrat supporting union treasuries.
That means more campaign contributions to those that support the raise in minimum wages.
And the cycle continues............................
The kid was on “College Break” from the E. Coast no less...so he was looking for yet another fill in job that obviously those who he applied with weren’t interested in.
Wonder if he applied for dish washer anywhere?
Good point but does that work with local or state min. wage or just Federal minimum wage.
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