Here’s our list of the employers that had entry-level jobs:
• Party City
• Jack Rabbit Sports
• Wet Seal
• Annie Sez
• Aerosoles
• Starbucks
• Free People
• Potbelly
• Chop’t
• Pret A Manager
• The Soft Serve Fruit Co.
• Hale and Hearty
• ALDO
• Daffy’s
• White House Black Market
• Metro Drugs
• Bourbon Coffee Shop
• Pink Tea Cup
• McDonald’s
• Top Brgr
• New Valentino Market
• Mesa Grill
• Arden B.
• Flavaboom Frozen Yogurt
Why, at a time of high unemployment, don’t more people apply for these jobs? The owner of the Pink Tea Cup, one block away from the welfare office, said, “They don’t want to get off the welfare system because they’re happy it’s taking care of them.”
“They don’t want to get off the welfare system because they’re happy it’s taking care of them.”
This country is becoming morally bankrupt with a lack of personal pride.
I’ve always said to my wife that - if I had to - I would readily take a job at McDonalds flipping burgers. I’ve also told her that she could expect me to be managing that same McDonalds within six months.
If you are competent, all you need to do is get your foot in the door.
30-ish years ago.....Dad got laid off and went back to school. Mom took a job at a gov't agency - one of her jobs was to pass out free cheese (GREAT cheese, BTW, but I digress).
She was making $3.80 an hour. Since she knew how to work the system, one day, she figured out what she'd make if she quit and gamed the system.
It was $6.30/hr....almost double. She kept working, pride is worth something. Also, she didn't stay at $3.80 forever.
However, there is a lesson there. Shorter-sighted people would say "Screw This" and go on the dole.