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Originally Posted by kane
Sure, if you are not a kid and you are working at a place like McDonalds there will be some people (likely younger people) who will make fun of you. And there are some people who will make fun of anyone that does a job that they consider beneath them. It just seems like in the last few years a sort of anger towards these people has emerged. I think part of it is that there recently has been more talk about the business practices of these companies (like McDonalds and Walmart) and there have been more cases of people working at these places talking about how they want to earn more money.
Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it just seems like things have gone to a whole new level.
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I tend to agree.
And at the same time there's also those communities that have been hit quite hard with a slumping economy and loss of better paying jobs (manufacturing sector) that have little else to offer except service industry positions like fastfood restaurants, Wal-Mart, etc.
In which case, people tend not to ridicule anyone (regardless of age) for working these menial positions.
In the past decade our local region has lost nearly every major manufacturing plant that used to pay good wages. We've gone totally from a manufacturing base to a service industry economy...and people from all walks of life are lining up to take low-wage positions just to barely pay the bills.
And it's not an isolated situation these days.