I think what there has been an increase in is part-time jobs; you can get maybe one or two shifts a week at the supermarket, if you are a student or a young mother who wants to get out of the house....
Yeah...there's been a big increase in part-time work. There's a big increase in under-employment too. Aren't you lucky to have skipped the harsh economic reality facing today's students who go into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and still have to do a shitty minimum wage job to keep themselves? Not to mention the "young mother" trying not to get de-skilled and left behind by a workforce that puts the onus on her for exercising her "choices". Who's looking after her kids BTW in your scenario? Her husband is at work I assume, so she's either working nightfill after putting the kids to bed, or she's lucky enough to have friendly garden pixies who step up when she needs a refreshing break doing a menial job for a pittance. She can't put the kids in childcare because supermarket casual rosters don't give you the same shift each week and childcare requires you to keep the same days and hours.
Feel free to edit me mods. It's possible that I'm slightly incredulous.
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Date: 2015-03-18 11:42 pm (UTC)Yeah...there's been a big increase in part-time work. There's a big increase in under-employment too. Aren't you lucky to have skipped the harsh economic reality facing today's students who go into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and still have to do a shitty minimum wage job to keep themselves? Not to mention the "young mother" trying not to get de-skilled and left behind by a workforce that puts the onus on her for exercising her "choices". Who's looking after her kids BTW in your scenario? Her husband is at work I assume, so she's either working nightfill after putting the kids to bed, or she's lucky enough to have friendly garden pixies who step up when she needs a refreshing break doing a menial job for a pittance. She can't put the kids in childcare because supermarket casual rosters don't give you the same shift each week and childcare requires you to keep the same days and hours.
Feel free to edit me mods. It's possible that I'm slightly incredulous.