At $15 an hour, teenagers or anyone else would get hired if they were all that was available. The reason teenagers don’t get hired is that older people need the work and can show a resume of having held responsible positions until they were laid off because their job went to India. Personally, I would be fine with paying an extra dollar for a whopper meal if it meant that the person serving it to me was able to live a middle class life on the job they were doing for me. In fact, when I go thorough a drive through, I insist that they keep an extra dollar, telling them that’s my contribution to the $15 an hour they should be getting.
At $15 an hour, teenagers or anyone else would get hired if they were all that was available. The reason teenagers don’t get hired is that older people need the work and can show a resume of having held responsible positions until they were laid off because their job went to India. Personally, I would be fine with paying an extra dollar for a whopper meal if it meant that the person serving it to me was able to live a middle class life on the job they were doing for me. In fact, when I go thorough a drive through, I insist that they keep an extra dollar, telling them that’s my contribution to the $15 an hour they should be getting.