This is a key point that those who argue against loosening child labor laws utterly fail to understand. Teenagers can be fools, but a lot of that comes from lack of experience. There's only one way to get experience, and that's engaging with the world. Give a teenager some achievable tasks and some accountability for their completion, and you'll give him cause to start giving a shit about developing the skills he needs to make it in the adult world.
Every time I suggest letting pre-teens and teenagers legally work more, or that doing to will help them develop a sense of responsibility and ethics, people look at me like I have two heads. A common response is accusing me of wanting to send little kids to die in mines and pre-OSHA factories to prevent them from going to school and escaping poverty.
You are 200% correct about the need to build skills.
And its not doing the job, its showing up on time, looking/acting reasonably professional, not acting like a total annoying fuckwit. Stuff they should know already but don't.
I used to work in education supporting the school's backend, we had a student employment budget, and the number of absolute mongs that cam through was staggering, and I doubt its gotten better. Even when you filter out the clearly no idea how society works people, you had to explain to a good portion of them basic facts of life "if you aren't going to show up for your shift you need to call, text, or email. Yes I know you had confrontation but you can't just ghost your shift. No, you don't get paid for not showing up".
that said, we had good number of student workers who understood basic shit so at least not EVERYONE in the next generation was a worthless workshy faggot.
We need to have two minimum wages. A burger flipper & toilet mopper at McDonalds doesn't need to make money to support a family of four - But the shift manager should. We shouldn't need a minimum wage but a lot of particularly franchise owners are utter scum - not all, but more than a handful - and keeping retarded teenagers from being exploited should be part of it. But we need to allow and encourage people to get workforce experience so they arne't complete tards when they come out of college.
Two jobs back we had an applicant show up
with his mother for a white collar job. His mother was perplexed she wasn't able to accompany her snowflake into the interview room. The interview actually went better than you'd think, the shockers was the kid wasn't a total mong, technically he was about average for what you'd expect for a wet-ink dipoma. But softskills wise... he behaved about like you would expect a kid who had his mother come with him to reception and did all the talking with the receptionist.
NPR (National Public Radio) is absolute garbage
Around 30%-35% of NPR’s funding is paid by taxpayers. And yet it is an entirely far-Left radio network. Why should ANY taxpayer who isn’t a batsh*t insane Leftist have to fund this crap:
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NPR has always been a little libby, but they went full retard after Trump. I carpooled with a friend and we listened to NPR as they carried the entire ocean for Obama and it was a little annoying. But once Trump started to run seriously it was just 100% Drumpf Drumpf Drumpf 24x7. And it was all the same libshit lies allowed to be repeated unchallenged because "its an opinion segment".
So I made my friend a deal, we could listen to NPR but we had to change station or turn it off the first time the focus of a segment was Trump or shifted to Trump. Basically anything other than doing a factual reading/reporting of news that included Trump. Eventually we didn't even make it the main road before we would switch stations and ended up just doing a Top 40 station.
