[Choose Ye This Day]

Funny on so many levels.

[Perdogg]

"...is a rising freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University"

[KarlInOhio]

I really hope that this was supposed to be satire.

and I am being paid minimum wage--a fact I did not learn until the first paycheck came out.

Has anyone ever accepted a job where the pay wasn't known until he got his first paycheck? Or maybe he just didn't know that the pay he was offered was minimum wage.

[ilgipper]

In short, it is all about the profit and not about the overall good of society

so much left to learn, this one. Businesses exist to make profit. That is their sole purpose for existence.

[bboop]

small violin needed

[glaseatr]

OMG.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Management demands that he remove his lip rings (?) when he works, which he feels is silly since he serves many people every day that have piercings.

Does he also serve some people that wear shirts and ties? Shouldn’t he then also wear a suit?

[RobinOfKingston]

Addison Herron-Wheeler is a rising freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Heaven help us.

[TornadoAlley3]

Addison Herron-Wheeler is a rising freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University...who is voting for Obama for change.

[PGR88]

Kid - I really encourage you start your own restaurant or other business. It will answer EVERY question you just asked - why you can’t wear your lip rings, why left-over food isn’t given away, why others get more hours than you, why entry-level kids are paid minimum wage.

[IYAS9YAS]

To top it all off, the fast-food industry is wasteful and goes against even the most basic environmentalist practices. Mishandled food or food that can't be served is thrown away, not saved to be taken home by the workers. Each sub is wrapped in paper and then placed into a small plastic bag--basically the equivalent of a grocery store giving customers one bag for each grocery. Even the apples we sell come sliced and packaged in plastic, although they would be perfectly sellable without any of that.

Most of this brought into place by liberals and their big government approach. Used to be they could sell the excess food or donate it. Can't do that now.

[Hegemony Cricket]

[commonguymd]

Is this satire? Lip rings? Good Lord, if you choose to be a dingdong and look like a freak then you will be doing a job that fits the look. Dress for success buckaroo, you freakin loser. Grow up.

[count-your-change]

I suppose that since the heads of major corporations aren’t looking for replacements his job with Subway is the best he can get. But who knows, maybe Bill Gates will need a dept. head and move the lip ringed boy up the ladder. Maybe.

[GSWarrior]

Addison Herron-Wheeler

Male or female?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Even in a system where it was from each according to has ability to each according to his need the state would require a refund from this idiot.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Google this moron... he’s a serial whiner on the op-ed page.

I guess we’ll be reading his stuff someday in the SF Chronicle or Village Voice.

[Doohickey]

The management also demands that I remove my lip rings while working...

Boy, reality is going to be a bitch when he tries to land a white-collar job with a junkyard haning off his libs.

[Moose4]

As a proud 1987 grad of James Madison University, after reading this column, my sense of moral superiority over those who have attended Virginia Convict University has risen yet another notch.

(OK, we have idiots in Harrisonburg too, I’m sure. But morons like this guy couldn’t stand it there for long...too small, and the smell downwind from the Rocco/Wampler turkey processing plants would run ‘em right off.)

}:-)4

[radiohead]

In short, it is all about the profit and not about the overall good of society.

It's a business, not a charity, Addison.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Addison Herron-Wheeler is a rising freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University."

Whoever paid the tuition for Addison's freshman year really ought to consider a malpractice suit against the institution.