Let's pay 16 year olds $31.2k to sweep floors!!!!

[Glassunion]

185. If that 16 year old needs full time employment, it's for a damn good reason.

They should be in school at that age. However, this is life and shit happens.

I've been working every day of my life since I was 14. Dad died, I need to go to work. Between 14 and 15 I worked part time by pulling 4 hour shifts after school, and two 8 hour shifts on the weekends. At 16, I went to work full time and school part time because I was supporting members of my family. But what you're implying is that all 16 year old kids have a job for shits and giggles money and they'd be "high flying" as you put it.

Trust me, if a 16 year old only has a job for shits and giggles, they are not going to school for 7 or 8 hours a day, to then head off to work for another 8. They are probably part time.

Now to your other point... If a kid is sweeping a garage or a country store, how many hours would it take for them to get the job done? Now, if the kid needs 8 hours to sweep a garage, or country store, it'd be a warehouse sized building. But we are not talking a warehouse sized building... we are talking a country store or a garage...

A human can sweep about 1000sq ft in 10 to 15 minutes.

This garage would take about 20 to 30 minutes to sweep.


This mom and pop country store would take 1 hour to 1 hour 15 min to sweep the store and upstairs apartments.


What are they doing with the remaining 7+ hours? Well... they could bust out a mop, stock shelves, take calls, clean the windows, take out the trash, clean the bathrooms, ring up customers.... Shit. I think I just described a full-time employee who should be paid a living wage. Sorry.

I hate to say it, but if they are only pulling in $25K a year for themselves, they should not be hiring people on a full time basis. They don't need full time help, because they don't have the customer base to necessitate the need for more help. But, if they just need someone to sweep the floors once a day, hire a kid looking for a shits and giggles job to come in, and spend an hour or so helping you clean up. That kid will have to get by on $75 a week.