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Re:When McDonalds Came to Denmark by MomoXenosaga on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:14AM (#28615909)
Pretty much every employee I see at McDonald's is in their teens or twenties. It's not exactly a career choice (unless you're the franchisee I suppose).

In fact every fast food place makes me feel old.

Re:When McDonalds Came to Denmark by moksly on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:22AM (#28616004)
Why would any Dane who is not in their teens or early twenties work for $22 an hour?

Even the MCD “franchise” workers move on to better things.

Re:When McDonalds Came to Denmark by pistolpeteDK on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @01:44PM (#28619370)
education is free(yep) in Denmark. You even get paid to study (about 1000$/month for living expenses).

The result is that a lot of people are well educated. If you haven’t completed an education in Denmark, you might not have a lot of options but to accept 22$ an hour

Re:When McDonalds Came to Denmark by moksly on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:25PM (#28622804)
You get paid $28 to corona test people.

We’re actually in a shortage of both unskilled and skilled labour, or you could say, we’re in a shortage of people who are willing to work for $22 an hour in general.

It’s actually really hurting a lot of of the service industry. Covid forces their cooks, clerks and waiters into other jobs and none of them are coming back now that we’re done with the pandemic.

Places like McD get around this by using part time students. Which is sort of where the article also gets things wrong, because they don’t get the same benefits a fulltime employee gets, well not exactly at least.

Re:When McDonalds Came to Denmark by jopsen on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:17PM (#28618180)
> It's not exactly a career choice (unless you're the franchisee I suppose).

But if you look carefully, you'll see lots of people who don't have a career.

Not a majority, but still a lot people.