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[–] 117 points 4 months ago (27 children)

Something that seems immediately apparent to me is that these folks are not fresh high school students. Adults used to work these jobs.

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago (22 children)

    I can't even remember what jobs teenagers were supposed to have. Newspaper delivery? Ice cream bike guy? That's all I got.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    Bagging groceries. That job doesn't even exist anymore

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Work that grocers have passed onto their customers that they used to do themselves:

    • Gathering the groceries from the shelves.
    • Bagging the groceries.
    • Checking out the groceries.
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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    When is comes to Ikea, what you pay in time is taken off the price, according to my experience

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    In theory, yes, I agree. But make sure you properly value yourself! You only have so much time to give.

    My dude, if you can't assemble the shelf just go pay more for one that is built. No one needs to run around computing their implicit value for such a simple task.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You're missing the entire concept of IKEA's business model.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Not really. Their business model is, let’s have the customers do the work then we can charge them less cause we’re not paying workers. Just a heads up, that’s what shadow work is.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    It still does in my area. Not every grocery store, but the big grocery chain around here definitely does. Sometimes they even offer to take my groceries to the car for me which has surprised me.

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    teenagers as a group designation used to not be a thing. you were a child until you could do adult jobs and then you were an adult.

    children would have menial jobs like coal miner, day labourer, the guy who sticks their hand into the mechanical loom when it gets stuck...

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    How about none ? You're a teen, you just need to learn, socialize and have fun. Don't work before your an adult.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, privilege. Parents had ok jobs. As soon as I needed sports equipment or wanted to go out to eat/pay for friends etc etc it was lawn mowing, paper route, construction from 6th grade.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yeah, I dunno, I wanted to work, because I know it would give me money to go do things I wanted to do. Got my first job at 15, which was the youngest you could work in NJ, and have had consistent employment ever since. Money is, unfortunately, important.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    If it's possible to earn something voluntarily is great.
    Tyvm.

    I delivered advertisement for a marketing agency of various local businesses.
    Was the pay shit? Yes
    Did I make enough money to not be a bum and make my mother pay for a gaming pc? Yes.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    And they were a proper fleet who has delivered in the same areas for years, making them extremely experienced in navigating those streets.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    This also led to better customer service. You had a relationship with your driver.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    There's a local restaurant that still does their own delivery, and we order lunch from them each week on the same day pretty regularly. We recently moved (still in area) and he was like "Hey wait you moved!" and we had a nice lil convo, it was pleasant. I miss that.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Sort of. I did this at 16-18.

    Also, one person didn't do all that, still doesn't. Phones, oven, and delivery are all separate jobs, with phones and oven overlapping during slow shifts.

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