Next time you eat at McDonalds, your food could be served by a college graduate
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Next time you eat at McDonalds, your food could be served by a college graduate
http://washingtonexaminer.com/mcdona...Hl2mI.facebook
Many businesses now-a-days are getting to this point. No degree, no job. Dont like it...open your own business and work for yourself.
McDonald's want ad demands bachelor's degree, two years experience for cashier
With colleges producing more graduates, and youth unemployment at a sky-high 11.5 percent, even landing a job selling Big Macs is getting competitive.
Consider: A job opening at a Massachusetts McDonald's restaurant for a full-time cashier requires one to two years experience and a bachelor's degree.
"Get a weekly paycheck with a side order of food, folks and fun," offered McDonalds.
It is not clear if the fast-food restaurant really wants that kind of experience or is fishing for the highest-qualified applicants. The website for the Winchedon, Mass., McDonald's also lists jobs in Spanish.
Youth advocates said the ad is proof of how bad the employment situation is for kids. "Sadly we've taxed-and-spent our way to an economy in which there's intense competition for just about any job. Combine that with government meddling in the student loan market that has artificially inflated the cost of higher education and young people are getting screwed over even worse than the country overall," said Evan Feinberg, president of the Washington-based youth advocacy group Generation Opportunity.
The ad: http://www.jobdiagnosis.com/index.ph...gn=SimplyHired
With colleges producing more graduates, and youth unemployment at a sky-high 11.5 percent, even landing a job selling Big Macs is getting competitive.
Consider: A job opening at a Massachusetts McDonald's restaurant for a full-time cashier requires one to two years experience and a bachelor's degree.
"Get a weekly paycheck with a side order of food, folks and fun," offered McDonalds.
It is not clear if the fast-food restaurant really wants that kind of experience or is fishing for the highest-qualified applicants. The website for the Winchedon, Mass., McDonald's also lists jobs in Spanish.
Youth advocates said the ad is proof of how bad the employment situation is for kids. "Sadly we've taxed-and-spent our way to an economy in which there's intense competition for just about any job. Combine that with government meddling in the student loan market that has artificially inflated the cost of higher education and young people are getting screwed over even worse than the country overall," said Evan Feinberg, president of the Washington-based youth advocacy group Generation Opportunity.
The ad: http://www.jobdiagnosis.com/index.ph...gn=SimplyHired
Many businesses now-a-days are getting to this point. No degree, no job. Dont like it...open your own business and work for yourself.
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not likely cobra. lol
I thought it was uk that had horrid serive.
Once i ordered a big mac and was given £32 worth of food. So that day i just parked up and stuffed my face lol
I thought it was uk that had horrid serive.
Once i ordered a big mac and was given £32 worth of food. So that day i just parked up and stuffed my face lol
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You only have to buy a robot once, and one person can maintain a fleet of them. And they can make more burgers than Spongebob, with no mistakes. Simple, repetitive, menial jobs are going the way of the buggywhip maker's apprenticeship. If you can't do something useful requiring specifically human talents, you're screwed.
This was the vision of the future, when our grandparents were young. Doesn't anybody else remember the image of kicking back in a lounge chair while robots did all the work? No more pool boys and no more miners, no more punch press operators. All leisure, all the time. Except if you have to toil at slave wages to pay off your doctorate in basket weaving.
This was the vision of the future, when our grandparents were young. Doesn't anybody else remember the image of kicking back in a lounge chair while robots did all the work? No more pool boys and no more miners, no more punch press operators. All leisure, all the time. Except if you have to toil at slave wages to pay off your doctorate in basket weaving.
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Update: Chinese robot slices noodles all day, better, faster than human chef . . . purchase price is 1/3 a human's annual salary per robot
http://singularityhub.com/2013/04/19...ng-a-good-job/
which will free up a whole bunch of bottom-tier chinese labor for . . . well, the farm is probably still there, back home . . .
http://singularityhub.com/2013/04/19...ng-a-good-job/
which will free up a whole bunch of bottom-tier chinese labor for . . . well, the farm is probably still there, back home . . .
