In Spring, Texas there is an area close to the High school with several different fast food places and shops. A Walmart, Kroger, Autozone and many other businesses. These places are recieving applications all day long every day from the nearby high school students and have a steady source of labor to choose from. They have become so selective in the process and reduced teenagers wages since they can easily fire one and get one all in the same day. At Taco bell where I worked they even cut off this Womens hours and cheated her of money from working overtime. They are able to due because they have so many people wanting to work for them that anyone who has a job there better be on time, never do anything bad, never text on the cell phone, and work as hard as possible at all times. Almost like being a slave is what they treat you like. Little could they care less and the managers for this matter are even worse for they give you little amounts of hours and expect a multitude of things. After two weeks worth of work the paycheck comes out to around a hundred dollars. Does this amount of money even pay for the gas to drive to work. Probably not for most teens, and how can they treat people so low. A company needs to realize that treating the employees fairly is the only way they will grow in business no matter what. Cannot keep firing people and wasting time/effort on training someone new. This is extra effort for everyone on the job and no one can work efficiently if one employee is not doing the job.
Now for good students who get all A's in high school, join the national honors society, and even become a member of a Hosa club or any educational club it is even hard for these good kids to get a job. Why? No work experience has been had. With all the time spent on getting wonderful grades its hard for any student to maintain a job and still have enough time for homework, tests and studying for quizzes. How can the workforce treat young teenager in this way? Jobs for teens should be created and the person who thinks of they way in which the great labor pool of high school students could be spending their extra hours or weekends making some good money and not just chump change will be rich forever. So many high school students would absolutely love to have a decent job. Now is this possible with the facts that school is a full time job requiring over forty hours a week plus extra hours put in for homework and studying? How can anyone possibly accomplish all this plus a job if they want to make good grades in school and at the same time not be fatigued all day long. School is considered a job when you have to be there by law and only so many absences are allowed to get credit. Teenagers do not have time to be making some big money at all. Students also need money badly in America and do not have nothing but the small amounts that parents can afford to give. For all this pressure on the parents to support their children it would be a much better decision to give the teens a way to help out the family and themselves by gaining experience in the workforce which is so competitive now days. Instead of spending teens time and school hours on learning about irrelevant topics classes should not focus on facts to be learned and memorized for tests. Work experience is the only key to success! A student can have all the booksmarts possible but when they get out there and cannot work hard then school has failed this child miserably on all levels. A students needs to learn about money, credit, finance, and most of all get a decent amount of work experience to be able to compete with adult who have had years of experience.
A recent resume of a teenager in college went like this; She had great contacts, references, even work experience at Taco Bell. The only problem was that thirty other applicants were applying for the job and only three spots were available. Now with all the college graduates coming out of college with good educations and wonderful degrees/qualifications. It is still hard for the entire majority of young adults coming out of college because no work experience has been obtained. Many jobs require two to three years of experience or more. How can students possibly obtain this amount of experience required when in school and studying to better oneself. No one is a wonderperson who can have two full time jobs at the same time during the same day. Employers are not to blame because they are being selective since such a grand number of applicants are applying for the same job. This is why they can be as choosy as they would like
