The fast food industry has made its mark on the world. Almost everyone has been a customer to at least one fast-food place in their lives. With about two-thirds of the nation’s fast food workers are under the age of twenty, the effect is widespread throughout all ages. Schlosser has two main claims he makes in his book. That the fast-food industry resembles the manufacturing business and that teenagers are the ideal employees for the fast-food industry. I support both of these claims, and from personal experience, fast-food industries care more about their product getting out there and having more money incoming rather than how their employees are doing. They target teenagers because they don’t know any better than what they are first given.
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They accept it because, well its their first job, it’s the first time they are making money for themselves. In addition, the treatment of these workers is very similar to how the manufacturing companies are run. Long hours, opening the restaurant at 6 in the morning, working 8 hours, or closing at midnight after 8 hours of work on their feet. As a past employee for Taco Bell, the treatment I was given, along with my coworkers, was as if we were working pack mules and we didn’t stop until we physically couldn’t stand or think. Even then we got 20 minute breaks every 4 hours. Working 8 hours in the day and only getting a total of 40 minutes to breathe, eat, and regain strength for the rest of the shift is extremely hard. In conclusion, the overall effect of fast-food industries is deeper of just how unhealthy it is, its unhealthy physically and mentally for the employees working there. With the tiresome work hours and targeting of young teens who don’t know any better, the negative effects trumps the
They accept it because, well its their first job, it’s the first time they are making money for themselves. In addition, the treatment of these workers is very similar to how the manufacturing companies are run. Long hours, opening the restaurant at 6 in the morning, working 8 hours, or closing at midnight after 8 hours of work on their feet. As a past employee for Taco Bell, the treatment I was given, along with my coworkers, was as if we were working pack mules and we didn’t stop until we physically couldn’t stand or think. Even then we got 20 minute breaks every 4 hours. Working 8 hours in the day and only getting a total of 40 minutes to breathe, eat, and regain strength for the rest of the shift is extremely hard. In conclusion, the overall effect of fast-food industries is deeper of just how unhealthy it is, its unhealthy physically and mentally for the employees working there. With the tiresome work hours and targeting of young teens who don’t know any better, the negative effects trumps the