7-Eleven manager schedules 17-year-old employee who gets out of school at 2:50 PM for shifts starting at 3 PM, refuses to push her start time back: 'Get here faster'

Workplaces that employ teenagers should know that for the vast majority of kids with after-school jobs, school comes first. There are kids who are willing to sacrifice their education for work because they need the money to support their families. However, even these kids shouldn't be asked to work during school hours. Involved parents will never let their kid miss class because their 33-year-old manager at Sonic Drive-In is upset about them missing work for Geometry class. If workplaces really don't want to compete with mandatory education for their employees' time and attention, they should refrain from hiring high school students altogether. Instead, they should employ full-time adult employees who can fully commit to work as their priority. Of course, these kinds of workplaces will never do that because then they'd actually have to give benefits to their employees, and that would be sacrilege.

Employers of teenagers might not schedule them during school hours, but they probably shouldn't schedule them in the hours immediately before or after school either. Kids need time to get from school to work, and if you've ever been in a high school parking lot at 3 PM, you know that might take them a minute.

01

via Kenny Eliason

_{Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.}
Advertisement
The young woman in this story wants to get to work on time, but that's virtually impossible when her school gets out at 2:50 PM and her shift at the local 7-Eleven starts at 3 PM.
02
School gets out at 2:50, boss puts me on the schedule for 3, boss gets mad that I’m late

via u/Dry_Caramel7820
03

via Nicholas Fuentes

_{Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.}
04

via u/Dry_Caramel7820
Advertisement
05

via Getty Images (Unsplash+)

_{Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.}
06

via u/weirdoldhobo1978
Advertisement
07

via u/evilchris
08

via u/External-Amoeba-7575
Advertisement
09

via u/spoonman1342
10

via u/lasey_guy
11

via u/KennyLagerins
Advertisement
12

via u/CynthiaChames
13

via u/MayaPapayaLA
14

via u/Mikeybackwards
Advertisement
15

via u/Puzzleheaded-Gap740
16

via u/E_boiii
17

via u/celestaire
Advertisement
18

via u/CynthiaChames
19

via u/KennyLagerins
20

via u/wastedpixls
Advertisement
21

via u/KennyLagerins
22

via u/digital121hippie