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by watmough 4070 days ago
This really sucks, in fact many low-end sales jobs suck.

And to cap it all off, some young smart-looking black kid actually interrupted me to sell stuff at my front-door whilst I was reading this article.

How do you address something like this? It's hard to imagine there's so much competition for jobs at McDs or Chick Filet or Aldi (reputedly $12/hour+benefits), that smart-looking, communicative people would rather go door to door selling magazine subscriptions.

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>It's hard to imagine there's so much competition for jobs at McDs or Chick Filet or Aldi (reputedly $12/hour+benefits), that smart-looking, communicative people would rather go door to door selling magazine subscriptions.

When I was in High School I worked in fast food. 2-3 days a week we had people asking for applications - which we never accepted because we had a ton. These weren't teenagers either. I was shocked at how many people wanted to work there. This was in a fairly low income area - it was a job and people were looking for jobs.

Unemployment rate >0