Working At Mcdonald's Analysis
Response to Etzioni’s working At the McDonalds
The 1986 article by Amitai Etzioni on working at McDonald's discusses an intriguing argument of how teenagers are negatively affected by part-time jobs at fast food factories. Being the trendsetter, pioneer, and symbol for fast food factories, McDonald's employ the most significant number of senior and junior high school students. The teenagers provide a low-cost form of labor hence they help the company to reduce its expenses. The teenagers are trained on how to operate different food processing machines and cash registers. Although these jobs have been considered to aid in bringing up productive youngsters who are self-reliant and work-ethic driven, they hinder the teenagers from attending school regularly.
Consequently, the author argues that the jobs done by teenagers are not only educational but also do not provide room for creativity and innovation. The author outlines that the teenagers are only taught how to operate machines and fill cash registers. Additionally, the nature of the job is highly structured hence there is no room to learn new skills. As a result, teenagers who work while in high school only gain limited marketable skills that will be useful in their future lives. From Etzioni's …show more content…
They are additionally expected to monitor closely the institutions which are employing the teenagers to ensure that they consider the educational needs of the students. Teenage employment, therefore, has both advantages and disadvantages. For instance, it trains the teenagers to be independent and responsible while at the same time it encourages students to neglect school work. The chief purpose of this paper, thus, is to respond to the ‘working at the McDonalds’ essay by Amitai Etzioni and express my agreement and disagreement with Etzioni’s position on working in fast food
The 1986 article by Amitai Etzioni on working at McDonald's discusses an intriguing argument of how teenagers are negatively affected by part-time jobs at fast food factories. Being the trendsetter, pioneer, and symbol for fast food factories, McDonald's employ the most significant number of senior and junior high school students. The teenagers provide a low-cost form of labor hence they help the company to reduce its expenses. The teenagers are trained on how to operate different food processing machines and cash registers. Although these jobs have been considered to aid in bringing up productive youngsters who are self-reliant and work-ethic driven, they hinder the teenagers from attending school regularly.
Consequently, the author argues that the jobs done by teenagers are not only educational but also do not provide room for creativity and innovation. The author outlines that the teenagers are only taught how to operate machines and fill cash registers. Additionally, the nature of the job is highly structured hence there is no room to learn new skills. As a result, teenagers who work while in high school only gain limited marketable skills that will be useful in their future lives. From Etzioni's …show more content…
They are additionally expected to monitor closely the institutions which are employing the teenagers to ensure that they consider the educational needs of the students. Teenage employment, therefore, has both advantages and disadvantages. For instance, it trains the teenagers to be independent and responsible while at the same time it encourages students to neglect school work. The chief purpose of this paper, thus, is to respond to the ‘working at the McDonalds’ essay by Amitai Etzioni and express my agreement and disagreement with Etzioni’s position on working in fast food