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The average age of a McDonalds employee is 23. https://www.zippia.com/mcdonalds-crew-member-jobs/demographi...

I'd also like to add my own experience with jobs that tell me constantly to go faster and faster: that you have to do everything so fast requires a certain level of durability in your equipment and tools. If you are moving fast, you have less leeway to be careful with things.



The average age of a workplace being run by one 60-year-old manager employing five 16-year-olds is also 23.


Then maybe they should hire fewer 16 year olds.


Having a job while in one's teenage years can be a huge benefit to many people, in many ways. Learning the basics of how to participate in a workplace, experiencing self-worth as a result of providing others with things they want, and the opportunity to build a resume which will come in useful. It can be hard to understand these things if one is from a wealthy background where teenage years are filled with extra-curricular activities in anticipation of 'higher education'.


I grew up the son of a single mother who has been working more or less constantly in some capacity since the age of 15, so kindly take your presumptive comment and stick it somewhere anatomically inappropriate.

I'm not commenting on whether or not 16 year olds should have jobs: I'm saying it's pretty rich to (according to the comments I replied to anyway, the actual demographics are much more varied) hire a bunch of children to work at your restaurant, and then complain that they break things. Like, I dunno man, maybe if your business needs to hire so much labor that is JUST over the line of legally allowed to work (or as recent news shows, isn't) and pay them as little as you can legally do so in order to function, maybe your business sucks or, more likely, you suck at running your business and you should close it.


If the mean age is 23, then the median age is likely much lower.


Ok 23 isn’t that far from teenager and I agree employers are at least partially (maybe largely) at fault, but that just backs up that Taylor is not selling lemons.




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