Poor working conditions, low pay wages

Is it fair to work hard long hours, and just get paid enough to pay rent? I personally don’t think so. This one of the biggest problems employees in fast food restaurants experience every day, is the fact of getting pay low wage salaries after working many hours a day and getting a half and our break if they get to have one And know that by the end of the week they are going to have enough money only to pay rent and buy groceries. This may affect teenagers a lot,and because of this reason they don’t get to focus on school, but imagine how hard is it for the other employees who have to support houses;and what about their other needs? They need to buy clothes for them and their kids, school supplies, furniture and other things for their houses, or maybe support their families in other countries. They have to choose if either get an extra job to earn enough to support their houses and families, which wouldn't allow them to be with their families and or get to spend some time with their kids and cut other necessities.
“While the real value of the wages paid to restaurant workers has declined for the past three decades, the earnings of restaurant company executives have risen considerably” As Eric Schlosser states pg 173 behind the counter. Is not fear that when we employees do a lot more work than managers get paid so little.

The cheery faces of McDonald's employees seen in television commercials mask the reality behind the counter, a group of former fast-food workers suggested yesterday. Other complaints include low wages usually the minimum wage, unpaid overtime and on-the-job accidents. As this article from lexisNexis (poor working conditions, low paid among complaints) states. Their salaries are so low that they don’t even feel like being at work, and the worse part of everything is the fact that some employees are force to stay there since that’s their only option to get money for many reasons for example: age, gender, some others are illegal, or they just can’t find another job.

THE RIGHT AGE FOR A PART TIME JOB.

Which is the right age to start working? Could it be at the age of fifteen, when most teenagers are starting to work par time jobs at fast food restaurants? I certainly don’t believe so, and is not just because of the age is the fact that teenagers have so many other things in mind like school, relationships, family conflicts, what’s new on fashion and many other things that at this age is kind of hard to deal with all of them at the same time and not go crazy.

As the paragraph in Eric Scholosser, behind the counter pg80 states “ A report on child labor published by the National Academy of Science in 1998, concluded that the long hours many American teenagers now spend on the job pose a great risk to their future educational and financial success.”
Working may be a good thing for teenagers, it helps them increased not just their personal responsibility but their self esteem. But of course it all depends on how many hours they spend at work. It’s really difficult to focus on school when working for certain hours, after coming back from work the only thing in mind is the bed and the guilty thought of not doing the homework. This is one of the many reasons as why teenagers drop out of high school, and lose their minds. Is so much the stress these experience, that they lose interest in school and everything else, sometimes the only thing in their head is getting money.

I personally have experience working at a fast food restaurant (Mc Donald’s) in which I got to lived many of the effects of having a job while being in high school. My schedule was to get up at 6 in the morning get ready and go to school from 7: 45 to 2:30 pm, after I would come home eat something really quick and than go to work from 4 to 11 most of the times. After coming back from work I was so tired that I would just go to bed without even eating, and this was a routine every day. My parents told me many times to stop working but I was so used to getting my check that I wasn’t able to quick. It is really difficult to deal with school, work, relationships at the same time that I used to feel like crying without even having a reason, it was just the stress I had that a couple of times when I just wanted to give everything up. Working a lot of hours can definitely affect teenager’s lives.

McDonald's More Than Just A Famous Brand

McDonald’s more than just a famous brand.

When we talk about the best fast food, we talk about a hundred of companies who compete every day to be recognized. This is a process that takes a lot more than just choosing a name or a logo to represent a company. It goes from what type of food is going to be sale, how well is the brand being advertise, how many different products representing the brand can be sale and finding the best strategy to get people to buy their products. In this case, I will share the experiences I have had while being at McDonald’s and the many things I discovered.
When I first came into the store, there was a big sign showing a promotion they had of 2 filet o fish for only $3.00 the picture had a bright background and the sandwich looked provocative. The whole store was colorful and divided in different sections, there was the two seat tables, four seat tables and they even had some big round ones where you could probably fit 8 people, and of course you can’t leave the baby seats out. While I was waiting on the line, I noticed that, almost every single person asked for the two apple pies that were in the dollar menu, and of course the French fries. When I finally got my order I realize that every little thing had a logo of McDonald’s (the cup, the box where the burger was, the bag with the fries and even the tray. I also notice that the large side cup had a picture of people playing sports. But one of the things that caught my attention the most was the kid’s meals. They had their own menu where you could find (apple slices, apple juice box, white milk or chocolate milk, nuggets, burgers and of course the most important thing of the happy meal the Toy. There is also a little section where they had cartoons and toys to pick.
After reading a section of the book Fast Food Nation: The dark side all of American meal by Eric Schlosser; many thoughts came to my head things that I usually don’t pay attention to, things that I would have never thought while being at a McDonald’s. In his book he explains the dark side of big companies, the things us costumers don’t know about and the many strategies these companies use in order to get clients. James U. McNeal, a professor of marketing at Texas A&M University provides marketers with a thorough analysis of “children’s requesting styles and appeals.” He classifies juvenile nagging tactics into major categories, as Schlosser says. Marketers study children behavior, they analyze the things they like, why they like them, what is their idea of a Fantasy world and bring all these ideas into the company’s products. The toy McDonald’s was offering that day was an I Carly toy and “coincidentally” this is one of the most famous television shows of the moment. Is unbelievable the idea of having people out there studying us and our kids. The things we do, the things we like and dislike, and why we like them. And all of this to give companies another chance to get us to buy their products.
These companies don’t miss a thing, not just they show us advertisings of food, but they give us the opportunity to combined that with our favorite sports, and for our kids their favorite cartoons. All these reasons are what make them successful, because they study every little thing before putting it out to the market.