To expect my 16 yr old to get full time work for the summer?

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At least 8 weeks until they go back to school for A-Levels. I worked full time at that age. AIBU to think they should get a job for the summer?

After two years' work preparing for GCSEs and several weeks of revision and exam hell, isn't the poor kid entitled at least to a couple of weeks' grace?

Mine will be the one wanting a job. She's rather ambitious/fond of dosh. How she'll swing that, God only knows. I think it's good for them to get bar work etc., so that they can pick up a couple of weekend shifts while at uni to fund the alcohol etc. From the day she was born though she wanted to be independent. I'll have to rein her in a bit as usual. Please God.

YABU

My two have had part time supermarket jobs since they were 16 and pick up extra hours in the holidays. You are being very unrealistic expecting dc to work full time just for the summer.

16 year olds can't do bar work. And most employers want over-18s.

She will struggle to get wrk at that age, they normally want 18yr olds, mine struggled and he was 17, eventually got in to Aldi, but it was tough going

Perfectly reasonable to expect them to get a job. But I would point out that full-time might be hard to come by. It doesn't seem to be as easy to pick up full time temp positions as it was when I was a teenager.

I would just tell them that they need to get a job and leave it at that. If it's only a few shifts a week I would be ok with that.

If they can find some work, fine - but they should have some actual holiday, and time for sports/hobbies etc too. All work and no play...

Depends where you live. If you live in a city with a temp agency it may be possible.

I know that agencies employ cleaners, my DP had a medicine student move to london to work as a labourer in London - by all accounts he was a nice sort and kept his head down so the 'lads' didn't take the piss out of him for being young. My friends worked in bars, I waitressed, worked on a farm, collected litter, worked in a factory etc. etc. I also was a full time nanny at one stage but was fired aged 16 for falling asleep. I was possibly the worst Nanny ever lol.
You do anything and everything at that age to get a few extra pounds? My problem was that my mother wouldn't ALLOW me to work!!! I was mad to work! My parents certainly were not going to give me any money!

I made mine work during the summer holidays.
I bought the eldest a bucket and sponges and he went door knocking offering to wash cars and mow lawns, he had a lot of customers by the time he went back to college, so kept them on to do at weekends.
Maybe your's could do something similar OP?
The rest of the kids worked in a supermarket and did a couple of hours before school 3 mornings per week, as well as weekends. That took the hours up to 30 per week.
X 2 12 hour shifts on sat and sun and X3 2 hour shifts 3 during the week.
If they want money then they have to learn to earn.

I take it you are happy to treat her as an adult in other ways by letting her come and go at whatever times she wants.

Because of course you wouldnt want it both ways OP. To have her behave like an adult when it suits but then treat her like a child when it suits.

Also worked in a supermarket as a sort of host while they were renovating it - my job was to make sure customers were not upset by the new layout changes. The manager read my letter of application and said 'I need to meet this girl'. It was a handwritten letter back in the day!

does your teen even drive/have access to a vehicle?

OP’s daughter is 15/16, so I bloody hope not...

Even temping, full time is not very realistic.

think it's good for them to get bar work etc., so that they can pick up a couple of weekend shifts while at uni to fund the alcohol etc.

Yeah; this isn't going to happen at 16.

If they've anything on their CV they can usually pick up bar work.

A lot of people had jobs in the student union bar just collecting glasses if they had any sort of bar experience.

@Totur. Call me what you like, but don't call my kids cunts. Thanks.

I've seen the teenagers in my family struggle to find part time work, let alone full time. A lot of places won't take on under 18s and those who do almost certainly don't want someone full time for the holidays.

I would certainly encourage her to look for part time work. My DD worked for an event company at that age, unfortunately the nature of the job was zero hours so some weeks some very long days and other weeks nothing.

My brother (17) has two jobs that fit around school, glass collector and in a cafe but he has had these ages. His pals trying to get work for the summer aren't having luck. No way can you get full time at that age!

@Totur

16 year olds don't work in bars, not in the uk anyway. There will be no 16 year olds collecting glasses in the union at night.

I went through this a few years ago and there was literally nothing for a 16 year old.
I live on the south coast in an area with a tourist trade and still no summer work.
The amusement arcades want 18 because of the gambling laws ad 17 to man the rides. Pubs over 18. Shops and restaurants just give their student staff extra hours and they are mostly 18 year olds studying at the two local colleges.
Agency work was factory or care work and neither was looking to give work to a 16 year old.

Mine didn’t manage to find anything that year but did the next when he was 17. He spent a few months being exploited working the rides in an amusement park ( had to be there ready for work at 11 but if the weather was bad or it was very quite they had to hang around until they were told to start work could be over an hour for which they were not paid then shift ended at 7 but if it was busy they had to stay on.
Once he became 18 he got bar work until he finished college.

to contribute to the granddad or gramps fiasco my father said past tense that it was granddad with 2xdd and there is no masculine equivalent