BonesOfTheMoon10-year-olds found working at McDonald's until 2 am.
Flying SquidThey were almost certainly migrants, because the child labor issue is mostly an immigration issue.
I never would have believed we’d invent time travel, yet here we are going backward in time.
Time travel? It never stopped. Agriculture was always rife with legal child labor. Now it’s just seeping into other industries.
I feel like important context is that they were kids of the manager. That changes this from a bad corporate governance and exploitation of labor situation to something else: a bad parenting/child abuse, bad corporate governance and exploitation of labor situation.
CatoblepasThe more important context IMO is that the 10 year olds were just the youngest of over 300 children who were working later than permitted.
I’ve seen fast food employees have their kids in the dining room just hanging out. The employee is trying to manage them as well as doing their job. I see this as an issue with lack of child care options.
But that’s not what this is. FTA:
Bauer Food LLC said in a statement that the two 10-year-olds are children of a night manager and “were not approved by franchisee organization management to be in that part of the restaurant.”
There’s potentially a much more bleak explanation that could be the case since this reminded me of a moment in my childhood.
McDonald’s management doesn’t sound lucrative enough of a gig for childcare on top of the cost of survival with 2 kids, this could simply be a way for them to watch their kid and continue earning a living. I spent a few days “helping” at a grocery store for that reason when I was 8 or 9ish, though during the day and not at 2am, and my mom got in trouble for doing that too I think, because then I just stayed home alone for the summer after that.
Doesn’t make it much better, it would just turn it into bad parent/child abuse, because of exploitation of the labor class.
FTA:
Bauer Food LLC said in a statement that the two 10-year-olds are children of a night manager and “were not approved by franchisee organization management to be in that part of the restaurant.”
So at very least, they’re in the back of the restaurant, where they shouldn’t be. However, given fact that the company isn’t disputing the two 10-year-olds were working, I think that pretty much means they were working.
NeatoStraight to jail for the owner.
In America?
Let me dream… 😢
DiplomjodlerThis is what they want to go back to:
Nonsense. They would prefer chattel slavery.
Only until they can get perfect robot slaves, then they just want to kill us
dactylothecaAnd depending on your intersectionality bingo results they may already want to kill you
Jojo, Lady of the WestBingo!
Aw… I made myself sad…
I’ll drink to that
Not pictured: all the children killed by unsafe working conditions.
I mean, they may be pictured, just before their accidents
Midnight WolfAlways gotta look on the bright side!
I, uh, that wasn’t… it’s not… I… you know what, you’re right
Look at their hands.
lumpenproletariatLet’s meet at the lesser of two evils and get them to employ 11 year olds until 1:30AM.
And the land of the freeeeeeeeee
We were getting a single order of fries from McD's in Missoula Montana and the only employee worth a damn looked around 10.
He kept telling his mother that the fries were ready and he could just give them to us, but she insisted that orders must go out in the same order they came in. So we waited another 10 minutes.
When he was finally permitted to give us our fries, he had this incredibly mature, put-upon expression as he said "I'm so sorry for the wait."
It’s the American, I mean the capitalist’s dream.