Note to parents with teens looking for Summer work...

[634-5789]

Yesterday a 17 YO girl came in to work the counter here at Donut Heaven .
It's simple work, put on gloves, pour coffee, put donuts crullers, bear claws in bag or box, take their money and repeat as needed. No heavy lifting, no kitchen work. Occasionally mop if you miss the cup and pour coffee on the floor. That's the job. Pays minimum + $500 untraceable cash bonus for job well done on last day of work, usually August 1. Basically, gives the full timers a couple weeks off.

Anyway...girl comes in, I'm back there showing her the bathrooms for employees, and she's texting. I show her the donut traying area, and by golly she's texting. I took her out to the front and tried in vain TO SHOW HER HOW THE CASH REGISTER WORKS, but apparently the emergency with her friend Becca was way too much important for her to understand the job, and how to collect the same funds that would pay for her phone.

She didn't get the job. Maybe Becca will come in......

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. I would not have gone past the doughnut tray.

If she cannot pay attention to my instruction when I hired her to do the job, then she can go find another.

And, if she wants to go on social media and try to 'cancel' me and mine, I would then go on and post the security footage that showed her doing just what I said she was doing (and, not doing!) and then let her followers know that she is a manipulator and a liar. If she wants to escalate, fine. Social media is designed for this.

It's one of the reasons I do not like it. At all.

[OhioBack2Blue]

2. And yet....

....people over 50, with vast skills, knowledge, experience, work ethic, and capacity cannot secure employment because....(insert big corpo propaganda).

[3Hotdogs]

3. About two years ago - local ice cream store. Kid was on the phone.

Manager looked at him, “ If you have time to text. you have time to clean”

The kid put the phone in his pocket. He made it through the summer.

[multigraincracker]

5. If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

Had a boss tell me that when I was a kid in my first job.

[irisblue]

4. Maybe this was her first interview ever. Did you tell her that the texting needed to stop?

Some people need information told directly to them. She might have been just clueless

[Escurumbele]

6. That is a funny story...It is sad at the same time.

[FakeNoose]

7. I think your point is that the parents need to tell their kids

... about work behavior and what is expected when they work for wages.

Many of today's kids are shockingly stupid about such things. They need to be told how to behave, and it is UP TO THE PARENTS to do this before they send their kids out to look for jobs.

Parents should teach their kids that phones must be put away (or left at home) when someone else is paying them for their time.

[RockCreek]

8. The parents may be modelling this behavior!

If the parents work.
The oarents may also be perpetually available to kids by text, even at work.
And if parents worked at home during COVID, the kids may have seen the behavior directly.