Re:Poor Kids Need Summer Jobs. Rich Kids Get Them
by dsfyu404ed on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:15AM
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In dining services we'd half jokingly use phrases like "throwing bodies at the problem" because a pulse was our primary qualification for employment. It's mind boggling that they didn't make money hand over fist when ~50% of their employee costs were returned via work-study reimbursement from Uncle Sam.
Re:Poor Kids Need Summer Jobs. Rich Kids Get Them
by biocomputation on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:44AM
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Yup. That sounds about right.
It means that even knowing how to iron a shirt and pants ( so they look good with a tie ) can be an important distinction in terms of accessing opportunity.
Sad but true!
Shift-work during university. Hiring was a cattle call; just a long line of people my age.
Sat down. Interviewer told me I was hired because I was the only person wearing a tie. Wrote down first shift, stood up, left. Sixty seconds.