Cost of living. Teens with no jobs

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The whole COL crisis is exacerbated by huge supermarket chains (one example) who are making huge profits. They don't employ as many young people (automation) so the cost of the kid's needs falls on the parents who have huge bills themselves.
I always had a Saturday or evening job.
Businesses aren't hiring nearly as much as 30 years ago.
Aibu?

Yep. My DP's 19 year old nephew lost his café job, and it took him well over a year to find another. He applied for anything. He tried apprenticeships too.

My first job as a 16 year old was working weekends at Woolworths. £3.25 an hour plus 50p London weighting. A Saturday job was a rite of passage for kids my age then and virtually every one of friends had one. They were pretty easy to find and 90% of the staff at Woolies were 16-18. During Summer holidays and Xmas we worked extra hours with time and a half on Sundays and I still remember feeling like a millionaire when I picked up a paycheque for £300-£400. At 17 I started driving lessons with money I saved. Lessons were £12 an hour so very doable. At 18 most of us left for uni. No tuition fees and some qualified for maintenance grants. No social media, no widespread issues of anxiety, feeling triggered by xyz. They were halcyon days.

I look back at that time in my life and feel desperately sorry for teenagers today. Those milestones I went through seem unattainable for so many. My friends with teens tell me about driving lessons that cost £45 an hour, no PT jobs available to fund any of that and kids crippled by anxiety sitting in their rooms glued to screens. I fear the worst for my 10 and 12 year old.

That’s why I recommended going through a hospitality agency - hotels, golf courses etc… use them for weddings and events rather than take on staff directly.

It’s at odds to what everywhere else including the BBC is saying

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wl17l3ggqo

My parents didn’t take a penny from me and yet I knew the importance of money and I earn well and manage it well etc. what I’m saying is Joni don’t expect my dc to get a job to alleviate my finances. I chose to have them so that’s my job to provide clothing, food, money for hobbies (because most parents start them off in said hobby anyway!) and yes fun money for chores! A job is a bonus!

Bring the retirement age down. There's people in their 60s who don't want to work but can't afford to retire. At the other end teenagers who can't get a job. The employers wouldn't have to pay as much per hour to them either. Its a no brainer to me.

Bring the retirement age down. There's people in their 60s who don't want to work but can't afford to retire. At the other end teenagers who can't get a job. The employers wouldn't have to pay as much per hour to them either. Its a no brainer to me.

No it isn’t bar the basics.

Well good for you.
We didn't all grow up the same with the same privileges.

I went with YABU just because DD has always had PT jobs ever since turning 16 and so did most of her friends.

Theyre not the greatest jobs in the world but they’re enough to keep them going.

This! Some of us struggle to pay for school transport, school trips, an occasional family holiday, uni etc

Depends if the people in their 60s are in jobs a teen could do.
My DM is a pensioner but still works. A teen could not do her job.

OK but that doesn’t make it right!

Make what right?

That you didn’t grow up with those privileges and had to contribute to family finances…it’s not right to expect a teenager to do that imo

Iabthe manager Indian?

This is common.

Hardly equal opportunities

But you did grow up with them, and it is very blinkered for you to tell parents that do have a contribution from their working teen that they are in the wrong because you do different.
You don't seem to realise that other families are different, with different finances etc.

Sure. I agree, 2.4% of a large number.

The reason that it's a large number is that the supermarket provides goods to a large number of people.

We acknowledge that Tesco can't sustainably have sub zero profit? So the largest possible improvement is a 2.4% cost reduction, which doesn't seem like a lot.

And also, what is the alternative? Say that there's an upper limit of allowable profit? Such that once Tesco had reached a certain size, it would have no incentive for further growth?

Don’t be ridiculous.It’s not family finances it’s extra spending money for individual teenagers who need to learn money doesn’t grow on trees. My kids have had support at uni, the odd family holiday, the odd school trip, scouts/ guides etc paid for and family days out. They have not missed out. Sorry we don’t have endless cash, choices have to be made.

Where I am, (west country) there are jobs that a 16-20 year old can get, for sure. Not so much supermarket, these days those are hard jobs to get. But plenty of:
Cafe
Barista
McDonalds
Sticking up skittles in a wooden skittle alley (west country thing)
Wedding venue staff
Cinema

Yep, and not charging a teen/YA anything is going to set them up for a shock when they leave home and find they have to pay for everything.

It is wrong to expect your teen to contribute to family finances whether it’s needed or not! You should have a child and provide for them until they are 18 at the very very least!

I had no shock whatsoever, neither did my brother or cousins.

A quick google search points to the Indian trade deal which exempts Indian nationals on short term visas from paying national insurance contributions for 3 years. They are cheaper to employ.