to think you don't need an apprenticeship to work as a minimum wage fast food server

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www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/-45070

14-month (!) apprenticeship to learn how to make sandwiches for Subway.

And there's me thinking the whole point of fast food places is that you don't need a 14-month apprenticeship.

AIBU to think these fuckers are just dodging the minimum wage law by claiming you will somehow be more employable after doing this slave labour for 14 months?

YANBU. It's the same with a lot of apprenticeships. My local college has apprentice vacanies for care assistants, warehouse operatives (just picking and packing), receptionists, basic admin roles (job descriptions with things like 'photocopying documents' in them) and customer service (call centre) workers. There is no way on earth any of those jobs take 12 months to learn. At one point, they were advertising shorter 'traineeships' in retail too.

Apprenticeships should be for skilled jobs that require real time and practice to learn how to do the job not any old entry level role that could be picked up in a month of on the job training.

Presumably theres an NVQ in retail or customer service included?

It's worse than you think these apprentiships are open to everyone so you could have a desperate single mom at age 42 applying for the role (Yes I have yes I am that desperate for work)

Part of my family is German. In Germany there are apprenticeships for everything. My cousin started at the local supermarket on an apprenticeship. Started stacking shelves and working the tills and evenings at college. 15 years later he was the manager, 10 years after that, district manager. Not bad for a guy who left school barely literate due to dyslexia.

That is an absolute disgrace. An apprenticeship offering "the chance to progress"? Cynical in the extreme. You hear so much about how young people are supposedly "entitled". Well they are - to a lot more respect (and money) than is evident in this shitty excuse for cheap labour. Utterly reprehensible.