I am in Washington State. I didn’t hire teenagers because of the work rules. It made scheduling a nightmare and disrupted production. Plus, the work ethic, for the most part, is atrocious. But, the main reason were the work hour limitations and the liability exposure.
Yeah I’m in WA as well and ...when I was a youngster is so different as to be undecipherable as a world view 2013.
I picked strawberries. I picked raspbrries, cukes, worked in the high school offices under work study programs, all at the same time because I wanted more money than crops could bring me, but then there were the canneries and I worked there too at night because I WANTED to go to college and that’s how I could pay my way!