[cripplecreek]

A forklift should not be operated by some teenager earning barely more than minimum wage who has no long term stake in the job.

Yet they do it in shops all across the country. I learned to drive one as a $5 per hour temp.

I personally would have a problem with a pay cut.

[driftdiver]

pay cuts suck, being unemployed sucks worse

[RipSawyer]

Teenagers don’t grow up the way they used to. When I was in high school South Carolina had STUDENT bus drivers. The minimum age to drive a school bus was 16. I would have been one had I not made one stupid error on the driving test, no mistakes were allowed. I don’t recall any accidents involving student drivers and they even drove the buses on trips such as to the state fair which involved driving at night to take the students home. Of course the average 16 year old then was in many ways more mature than most forty year olds now. By the time I reached the ripe old age of TWENTY THREE with an honorable discharge from the Navy, driving a new Mustang and earning the equivalent of at least sixty thousand a year now I was considered a failure. Why, you might ask, I didn’t have a wife and children!