Working at the Fast Food Industry

The author of this particular article, Working at McDonalds, Amitai Etzioni is a sociology professor at the institute of George Washington University and the founder of the non-profit organization known as Communitarian Netwroks. In this essay he narrates his strong belief that working at any fast food chain restaurants is detrimental towards a students future. He validates his reasons that student do not benefit any long-term skills as taught in these restaurants. He beliefs that these jobs take away time from school and/or after school activities such as sports, clubs, etc. This skews a students perspective of the importance of a high-quality education that leads them towards their dreams and goals of a career in the major they perceive to

     Jobs won’t only support teens for the things they want, but it can help benefit for the things they need. The first things teens think of for their future are going to college and getting their first car. But, let’s say there’s a well educated thirteen-year-old, raised in a low-income family, who has plans on going to college.

Someone working at a fast-food restaurant is bound to face torment either by their peers, and have the social stain of being viewed as poor or dirty. In a personal interview with another fast food worker, Whitney said, “…a lot of them [fast food workers] do tend to have that lower class background. Also, whenever you find adults working in the fast food industry, it generally means they lack an education.” A lot of younger adolescents will take jobs at fast food restaurants because very few places will hire kids when they first get their legal working papers, but fast food restaurants tend to flood their restaurant with these juvenile employees.

Freedom, independence, and opportunities; all these words come to mind when thinking about growing up, but there is no escaping a first job. Nowadays most of teens can be seen behind the counters of fast food places, but why has this become so popular? Through an appeal to ethos and pathos, Schlosser illustrates how the fast food industry utilizes the inexperience and emotions of America’s youth for personal gain and control.

The fast food industry both feeds and prays off the young. Pioneers in developing marketing strategies to target children, the fast-food chains have even infiltrated the nation's schools through lunchroom franchises and special advertising packages that answer public education's need for funds; in every way possible, giving the children a loyal friend to rely on. In many franchises, teenagers are perfect candidates for low-paying, low-skilled, short-term jobs and constitute a large part of the fast-food chains' workforce; and often practically run individual locations, having more responsibility than most adults.

Schlosser examines how youths assume a crucial part in the workforce of the fast food industry. He takes note of around 66% of the country's fast food laborers are less than 20 years old. Rather than depending upon a little, steady, generously compensated, and well‑trained workforce, the fast food industry searches out part‑time, young laborers who are willing to accept low pay. Teenagers have been the ideal possibility for these occupations, not just on the grounds that they are less lavish to procure than grown-ups, additionally in light of the fact that their young inability makes them simpler to control. Another part of strong throughput is strict regulation at fast food eateries. Organizations force strict guidelines on how an errand is to be performed and make undertakings so they require as meager aptitude as could be allowed. Subsequently, it is anything but difficult to supplant specialists with new contracts, affordably and productively. Schlosser assaults the business for gathering government endowments for representative preparing and utilizing the financing rather to make more advances to dispense with preparing for

This book discusses the fast-food industry and seeks to describe the impact of the industry on the U.S. economy and society. Also, it talks about the guys who has been investigating the fast food industry for many years. From his broad research, he has uncovered an abundance of little-known, frequently unsettling truths about the fast food industry.

In Amitai Etzioni’s essay “Working at McDonald’s”, he argues that the jobs teens take up at popular fast food restaurants are detrimental to their education. His proposal was that working at these fast food restaurants negatively affects their education by encouraging teens to be more concerned about earning money than being successful in their studies. He claims that teens are getting these jobs to spend on petty items. Etzioni states that the routine and lack of creativity of the jobs are harmful and the hours in which teens work are long and interfere with students’ abilities to further their studies and complete assignments. He states that teens that have dropped out and are working at these restaurants have fallen into a stagnant condition

Nearly 80% of teens are currently working 20 plus hours a week just to try and make a minimal living. Most teenagers that go to college end college in $30,000 in student loan debt. No wonder the idea of going to college after high school is becoming an unpopular idea for teenagers who are faced with thousands of dollars of debt after college and their only 21, and trying to make a living while trying to go to college is nearly impossible. Let alone trying to start a life while a life of debt is looming in college student’s futures. Most young people end up not being able to start their life’s because it is simply too expensive. Many students after college end up putting off living on their own, starting a family and end up

In high school, students are at the age where their priorities are all about them and their whole world involves them, themselves and maybe friends. To say the least, their priorities are not well established or correct if they have any. When the student gets a part-time job, like at a fast food restaurant it helps put their priorities straight. The students start to realize in order to make the money they need to pay for what they want, they need to make time adjustment and make real priorities. Students will learn that in order to have this job they will need to work during the weekends since school during the weekday. Working they will

Majority of Americans youngsters work and attend to school at the same time, due to the lack of money or for the pleasure of having money. Most of the times teen agers around junior year, start applying for jobs, it’s the perfect age to get a part time job. These youngsters mostly look out for fast food restaurants; for instance, McDonald, KFC or Popeye’s. These type of jobs are right-fitting for youngsters, since they undermine school attendance and involvement, and only requite few logical skills. Etzioni’s essay illustrates the difficulties and reasons why youngsters prefer easy, low income jobs than staying at school and get an education. Etzioni agrees that these jobs for the teen agers are unnecessary, since it distracts them from pursuing

In this piece of his book, Schlosser considers the workforce that keeps the fast-food industry running. Since this workforce is dominatingly embodied youngsters, Schlosser spends a significant part of the section considering how adolescents connect with the fast-food industry- - what are their working conditions; how does "low maintenance" employment meddle with school work; how do high schoolers spend their cash?

In the article Teenagers’ Work Can Have Downsides”by Jerald G Bachman describe how teens who are in high school that have jobs developed poor academic performances “ they're more likely to be involved in a variety of problems ” Jerald began the “Monitoring the Future “ project that monitored teens in high school and from college who had jobs and discovered a drop in the high school teens academics and made connections between long hours and problems behaviors are symptoms of issue like poor adjustments to school and greater interest in short term gratification .They encouraged for student to follow what they call a sweet spot a job that requires relatively few hours per week during the school year fewer hours the better.Student that have

  Nowadays, students love to have part-time jobs. Their parents approve it easily as they are said to gain experience from working. However, having a job is a big responsibility for a student. Before, teenagers at their age were working to help their family because of poverty. Nevertheless, they were actually eager to study and learn at school for their future. It was not the same as the teenagers nowadays where they are more likely competing to each other to have a job. Most of the

Money is an important component that can help ones to function properly in this society. However, money defines our self-worth and value in this society. For decades, unemployment has become a big issue in our community. The younger generation are the one who suffers the most from the crisis. In 2009 alone, 6.7 million youths joined the ranks of the unemployed, and compare this with an average annual increase of 191,000 in the 10 years before the crisis 1997 to 2007(Elder,2010). Youth unemployment is a crucial issue in our society. Unfortunately, a lot of young people are going through that situation. When it comes to find a job, young people are the less fortunate for many reasons. For instance, some employers might be biased on ages and believes that young people do not have skills or enough experiences to perform at the level required for the jobs. The problem of youth unemployment has many causes and consequences in our society. Youth unemployment can affect the economy, family relationship, increase crime rates and, mental health.