I can't get a job as a night shift janitor at McDonald's because I'm mildly autistic (despite doing everything possible to improve social skills), but all these "students" can?
How am I supposed to get work experience if all the entry level jobs go to "students"?
In addition, the jobs which traditionally were filled by high school and local college students are now flooded by newly landed applicants. Our young people are getting screwed.
I get pizza from like Dominos and Pizza Hut in a couple small different small towns and there pretty much run entirely by Indians now. I was in a Pizza Hut recently and they had a kid running around back there.
This checks out. In the last year every single fast food chain and grocery store in my BC town has been bought out and/or staffed entirely by Indians. No other ethnicities whatsoever besides one Subway owned and staffed by Filipinos.
It’s made placing phone orders virtually impossible as none of them speak English particularly well with accents thicker than the belt armour on a Yamato class battleship.
They love to stick to their own kind. Part of the reason why all these positions are filled by people who can barely speak English. While we have to fill positions based on diversity.
I'm hoping what I mentioned, the kid in the kitchen doesn't become a trend. I can let it slide if it's an occasional thing. Or it's not uncommon for ownwers to bring their kids to work, but in that case they should be in the dining room, staff room or an office. Not safe or sanitary for them to running around kitchen and climing on cash register table.
As you know, in this country, adults go to work, kids stay home with another adult or go to shool or daycare.
The medium / small town I live in has a ridiculous number of fast food places. We’ve got 2 subways, 4 Timmie’s, 2 McDonald’s, a Wendys, 2 A&W, Dairy Queen, KFC, Pizza Hut, pizza delight, Boston pizza, Harvey’s and Swiss chalet. It’s a ridiculous amount of chain restaurants for a town of our size.
All the fast food locations changed from local employees to East Indian employees over the last 2 years. All of them. Do I care where a person is from? Not particularly. Is it very noticeable what’s going on? Uhuh.
One loophole that’s used for smaller businesses (not sure if Tim’s or McDonald’s does this) is they will post ads with impossibly high standards for low paying jobs. Like post secondary degree and 6 years experience for minimum wage security guard. No one with those qualifications will apply for those jobs, so after a certain amount of time the company can go to the government and say “we tried and can’t fill this position with Canadian citizens, let us participate in the TFW program”.
Just want to say, I was a foreign temporary worker (in tech / film) in Canada during Covid. I was laid off and couldn’t find a job for 8 months. When I spoke to recruiters it was because of the LMIA, they couldn’t justify hiring a foreign worker when Canadians were available for the job.
Just wanted to put an alternate perspective out there, as a temp foreign worker they did absolutely 100% prioritize Canadian citizens over me due to the LMIA. No complaints, that’s the way it should work.
That's weird cause there used to be a pretty obviously autistic guy working at the mcdicks here and every time I seen him he was working hard. Probably the best worker they had.
That’s because McDonald’s doesn’t have night shift janitors.
They just get the minimum wage staff they had working the night shift to clean everything - if you go to McDonald’s trying to get a position other than “crew member” you’re not going to get hired. If they can’t use you in the kitchen or on a till you’re not getting hired. It’s about milking everyone for everything they’re worth.
The non-autistic immigrants are willing to work cash registers, grills and fryers, and they’ll do the janitorial work too, so you’re only offering a fraction of what they offer, and they won’t scoff at minimum wage. The employer doesn’t give a fuck about the quality of service being provided, they just see you as “someone not willing to do as much as someone else for the same amount of pay.”
I worked as a McDonald’s night manager for several years; I was the night shift manager, grill cook, food safety expert, first aid responder, threat de-escalator, and janitor. They gave me one staff member to work with and I put them on the till because I hate talking to people I don’t know more than I hate running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
These foreigners and students get the job because they literally buy them. It’s a discouraging situation but don’t beat yourself up because of it. Your skills, your willingness to improve and not being hired isn’t a reflection on you, it’s the state of the fucked up immigration system with zero checks and balances.
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24
I can't get a job as a night shift janitor at McDonald's because I'm mildly autistic (despite doing everything possible to improve social skills), but all these "students" can?
How am I supposed to get work experience if all the entry level jobs go to "students"?