Working at a fast food restaurant comes along with a stigma. People tend to believe that those who work in fast food restaurants can't do anything better. They assume people working at fast food's are stupid and uneducated, or they simply look down upon them because these jobs have become known as "dead-end jobs."
             The "dead-end job" assumption is unfair to fast food employees. A so-called "dead-end job" is what people describe as low-wage labor that people tend to become trapped in. While fast food workers may not be making great money, very few of these workers intend to stay in their positions at these restaurants. Many students take on jobs at fast-foods because they are convenient and can work around their schedules. Some use the money they make toward an education, and most have goals that do not at all include the fast-food world.
             Why then, does the stigma remain? Perhaps it is because it has been coined as a social prejudice, and people are afraid to disagree. Parents tend to dissuade their children from working at fast-food restaurants as the stigma of these jobs creates conflict in their social lives. Someone working at a fast-food restaurant is bound to face torment either by their peers or adolescence, and have the social stain of being viewed as poor or dirty. A lot of younger children will take jobs at fast food restaurants because very few places will hire kids when they first get their legal working papers, but fast food restaurants tend not to mind. Because of this, they are forced to get a taste of the social injustice at an unfairly young age, and sometimes it is hard for them to even understand why they are being treated differently.
             Upon asking a local fast food worker, James, how he felt about the job and the stigmas that come with it, I discovered that this social prejudice can lead to much more then being thought of as a less prestigious worker. James told me a story of how he was working on a par...