Working At Mcdonald's Analysis

Working at McDonald’s

In “Working at McDonald’s” Amitai Etzioni argues that teenagers’ work in the world chain can be seen as very useful for their future professional career as this kind of work is neither creative nor developing employee’s initiative. On the contrary, it develops skills which were necessary in the past while working on the industrial lines. The negative moment here is that the number of investigations on the issue is far from being sufficient, they were conducted in the past and they were relevant to the requirements of the society of that historic period. The positive side of working in McDonald’s was seen in the fact that teenagers were just working and earning money. Nobody was interested in the influence of this work

Amitai has supported his thesis with evidence from different studies, arguing that it is not only against the work ethics, but also that they are not learning any creative work. They are merely engaged in a routine under teen supervision for money they are to spend not on education, but mostly on their fashion and hobbies. It is also that this little earning merely makes them independent but mars their future as a professional. Etzioni is of the view that these part-time job providers are not only teaching wrong work ethics, but also taking much of their time and providing them unnecessary money that they throw away to

His first claim is that the jobs these outlets provide are un-educational. He is of the view that as these youngsters only learn two or three skills, which require only twenty to thirty minutes learning, they do not acquire any skill. In return, to these skills, they destroy much of their future by reserving their times in the part-time jobs. Therefore, he is right when he questions that little attention is paid about the skill as "what its significance is" (Etzioni n.p.). The second claim is that as mostly these outlets hire teens to supervise the teens. Therefore, the teens do not learn anything, as there are no mother or father figures to teach them the skills. Rather, they only learn "blind obedience" and "shared alienation" (n.p.).

The third claim made by Etzioni in his article is that most of the students waste their precious time in doing part-time jobs. Although there is a benefit that those who work part time, get some good jobs, but in return, there are several who are mired in these part-time jobs and do not learn any good skills. They toil for their entire lives but do not progress beyond the same office boy or sales boy. He also refers to a study carried out in this connection, claiming that more than 58% seniors "acknowledged that their jobs interfere" with their live at school and study