I’m 16. I thought it’d be a good idea to get a job over the summer to save money for college. Not that I can afford to go away anywhere but just to be able to pay for the commuter branch of my state university, even though academically I could get into a much better school than that. Anyways. I’ve been through 11 or 12 job applications in the two weeks. Physical, online, every which way. I’ve gotten one rejection and haven’t heard back from any of the others. All from places that were supposedly desperate for workers, “HIRING URGENTLY!” Yeah, no. Fuck you and your fast food job application on Indeed that you want a resume for and your cute little “now hiring!” lawn sign by the street.
All the adults with gray or graying hair (or no hair at all) always talk about the worker shortage and how nobody wants to work and how the young kids are too lazy. How you can work everywhere and it’s so easy because everyone is desperate for workers right now. How the minimum wage is so high compared to when they were kids. Well I say bullshit. Maybe if we weren’t paying five dollars for a gallon of gas and 120k for a college education, yeah, our minimum wage would be higher than yours. Maybe if the manager at Wendy’s didn’t have a sign posted on the drive thru window that said “now hiring! $13 – Adults, $10- Minors” it’d be as easy as you say it is. Maybe if the smoothie shop didn’t want a high school diploma to mix fruit in a god damn blender and pour it into a cup I could start to save up money. Maybe if the managers around this country got their heads out of their asses there wouldn’t be a worker shortage. But what do I know, right? The baby boomers and gen x got the system ALL figured out, all you have to do is pull yourself up by the bootstraps, not spend as much on Starbucks and put a little money in the stock market! Oh, and keep that positive attitude! Because these shit-for-brains honestly believe the stock market will go up and up forever on a dying planet with dwindling resources and that we have it easier than they did when they were kids.
Fuck them and I hope they live long enough to get their rude awakening.