Fast Food Companies VS. The Employees
Fast food companies take advantage of their employees on many levels and offer very little compensation for the work that is provided. Granted these companies do supply the overwhelming need of employment they don’t necessarily provide the support their employees need outside of a check at the end of the week. Fast food companies reel in their potential employees (mostly teenagers) with a sense of organization, visual aids to reach the top, and offer a “wonderful” family-like team spirited work environment. However, when the job offer is taken by the unsuspected employee and the curtain rises up these employees begin to perform it is a whole other world. Fast food companies take pride in hiring young inexperienced teenagers, struggling single parents, retired or fixed income individuals because they are easy to manipulate and mold into their companies’ own vision.
Fast food companies choose to hire those who are unskilled and inexperienced for they are more than willing to aspect low pay and follow all the demands to keep their pay. Only paying a few cent more than the set minimum wage fast food chains mostly prey on the younger crowd but won’t pass up any other in need individuals. The main problem with the pay at these types of establishments is that they are required to perform many jobs outside of their originally agreement for the same pay they agreed upon. For example your first weeks you are designated to fries and a few months later you have been giving two more jobs or more with no or a very small raise. McDonald’s feels that they can do this because of the make-up of their staff; which nationwide two-thirds of fast food workers in the nation are under the age of twenty (Schlosser). We will assume that the last third is those who are in need of a job but they are still inexperienced and lack skills to get better higher paying jobs. Teenagers are a great pick for fast food because most of them still reside at...