I've experienced a frightening trend lately. Kids are paid so poorly to work, that companies pay them with food as an incentive.
I'm not talking about a 'per diem' lunch. I'm talking about the fact that they are paid so poorly they can't afford to eat.
And instead of paying the kids so they don't develop nutritional deficiencies... they 'order food'... from a restaurant and give everyone their dab at the menu.
Or even worse, ordering whatever they want and offer as a gift. As if the bill wasn't actually being footed by these soldiers hard at work... and hungry.
The concept that these kids treat these meals with galore is a show of just how hungry they are. Not hungry for success, that would entail being fed.
They're hungry like their tummy hurts and yet they keep trekking in order to impress someone upstairs. Years go by, and then out to dry.
They get the email that food has arrived, and out they go, in a sneaky way. Not to get their crack fix, similarities are several, but to get their meal.
Worse than jail. At least in jail, everyone gets the same meal. Here it's only a select 'elite' few. Let's call them 'the Starving'.
So now they've gone upstairs, and grabbed their secret meal. And then bring back to the common work area. Some act like they're not even doing it. As if they had some sort of 'Harry Potter' cloaking device hampered around everyone else's eyes and noses. Cause... um.. your food smells. ahah And it usually smells bad. ahh
So what are we saying to these generations? I remember bums on the street would wear signs saying 'Will Work for Food'; an almost laughable concept. I mean this is the US, isn't it?
Now they don't wear signs. They're inside huge expensive office buildings, on prime real estate. Getting paid just enough to pay the rent for the room in the apt, they never go to.
Plausible solutions?