• voracitude@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Let me get this straight. These absolute psychopaths want you to:

    • Pay them
    • To employ
    • CHILDREN
    • AS YOUNG AS FIVE

    Are you FUCKING joking with me right now what the FUCK is this dystopian hellhole bullshit

    Okay, okay. I wasn’t thinking clearly when I wrote this, it makes no sense for this to be a thing during opening hours. I think it’s understandable why I read it that way, and I think at least a few others did too, but I can recognise I was wrong, that this is an actual “summer camp” kind of thing, and that the company isn’t being cartoonishly evil here.

    I do not doubt that whoever approved it thought that it might add to the crop of future applicants in a “butterfly effect” manner, and smiled at the thought, but it would be too much even to say that’s a secondary goal.

      • voracitude@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        Christ. You’re right that it’s not better. Work experience I can get behind, apprenticeship I can get behind, but this is so blatantly exploitative and dangerous the only thing that surprises me more is that parents are dumb enough to fall for it.

        • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          21 days ago

          Yeah, just wanted to make sure people knew this wasn’t some new thing. It’s been going on since at least the 90’s, and I’d bet if you found someone older, they’d say it’s been going on longer

            • MagnyusG@lemmy.world
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              21 days ago

              kids are dumb, they like things that we as adults wouldn’t even consider ‘enjoying’, an afternoon behind the counter of a fast food restaurant they like going to would absolutely be a blast for a child. same reason why we had the macca’s fisher price thing back in the 90s, or Barbie sets with real world grocery items, it’s a different type of playground for them.

        • Lowpast@lemmy.world
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          21 days ago

          Define exploitative? As a person that had led these events (not organized them), work basically halts during these events. You are literally showing children how to operate machines. It’s a show for the parents. The kids are not being exploited anymore than if you took them to a ranch and they brushed a horse. The children are not improving operations or efficiency. Bu all definitions, they make work worse.