Fast job, fast food, what are you waiting for?

Today in the USA, as it has been for a long time in many countries, most teenagers and some adults resort to finding a temporary job that does not require too much experience or specialty for a variety of reasons. These can range from being a school dropout to the difficulty of finding a job in these bad economic times. For those people, getting a Job in the places that we call: McDonalds, Wendy´s, Burger king, Dunkin Donuts and other fast food restaurants, is an opportunity.

People may think, “This may be a great opportunity for me”. For those who want to start from the beginning but don’t know how or don´t have any other way, jobs in fast food restaurants are the answer for them. They earn money fast because “fast food” is available for anyone; it´s cheap, fast and convenient for a rush moment or a quick stop for a bite. But why is it that it´s so easy for anyone to working these places?

In places like McDonald´s, the food is already done, thanks to the advanced machines of today. They can do anything for you, even have most part of your lunch done, so the only thing that you have to do is pack them to go.

But when it comes to this kind of situation, even though it gives the chance for anyone to have a job, it can also lead to many types of negative consequences. For example, some teenagers who drop out of their studies to do this type of “unskilled” work, but there is no way to grow without getting a better education. Some skill must be necessary especially when it comes to other people´s food. Also on the other side, just because the work is very accessible it does not mean that all “unskilled workers” can successfully do this type of work.

So the question is: Should we forbid the chance to get jobs easily in fast food restaurants for the good of other people´s food and lay off those people who really needs the money and opportunities like this? Or, keep with the open jobs in fast food restaurants for anyone without caring of the possible consequences in the future?

In my opinion, there should be a kind of balance about this issue. Not give out the jobs in fast food restaurant so easily but neither deny them to those people who want and needs the job. Perhaps fast food places will need better rules for hiring new people than the ones that are being implemented right now. Will that be enough?