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Kids Working · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mamas. Dear mamas, why is it
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  so hard to hire young people these days, to actually get them to do
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  good work. Well, let's ask our American mama's Alma Mama and joining us
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  now our American mama's Terry Nutteville and Kimberly Burlison. The father in me.
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  When I hear this question, I'm like, well, not my kids.
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  My kids are. They're hard work And actually, specifically my daughter's very hard
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  worker. She's very good at work that she does. But my brother also
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  runs some companies, and he says, yeah, frankly, it's a lot
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  easier for us. It's a lot more effective for us to hire somebody over
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  seventy five than to hire somebody under twenty five, really, just because they
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  get better work out of the person who's already retired in coming back to work.
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  I have a friend who she's an empty nester, and one of her
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  friends owns mini popular chains of ice cream shops in Texas, and he asked
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  her to come in to one of his stores and just kind of helped because
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  he's having a lot of problems with the employees. So she goes in and
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  she said they're all high schoolers. And she said, you would not even
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  believe the stuff that she was dealing with. The disrespect, the vaping in
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  the freezer, lesbian girls going outside to make out in the car because their
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  parents don't know their lett I mean, horrendous stories she was dealing with.
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  So she goes back to her friend and she says, Okay, I need
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  to do this my way. If you really want me to help you,
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  then I need to do it my way. So she sits outside. She
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  says, she set up a table outside of the store, and she had
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  twelve employees. She ended up firing ten of the twelve, and then she
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  went on and she said, they work their butt off trying to keep things
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  going. And then she started hiring and she said, and I wasn't hiring
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  what you would think are the typical hirable types. She said, I went
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  for the kids that were marginalized, the ones that were quiet, the ones
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  that were uh struggling and struggling in some way. And she said, in
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  what she found was these kids found a community at that branch of location and
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  loved their job. They had a purpose, and they have been the most
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  amazing employees that this company's ever had. The interesting thing is the two kids
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  that she kept on. You know, she fired the ten at twelve.
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  The two kind of got pushed out because they no longer felt that they fit
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  in because these kids, a lot of homeschool or kids, were really good
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  kids, and they didn't want to be around them anymore. So this branch
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  is killing it. They're doing so well. Interesting, So the guy that
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  owns the other shops, he's like, can you go to our other location?
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  So she went to another location and it was predominantly African American, and
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  she said, I can't do the same thing. It's going to take a
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  very strong mother figure manager that's also African American, because that's what they can
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  relate to. Each branch or, each store needs to have someone that's relatable
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  but also expects a lot of them. It has expectations and helps set goals.
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  But she's kind of like that mother figure in the branch. And she
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  said, and women seem to do a better job of that than men managers
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  when you're dealing with young employees, young children, kids. That does make
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  sense because I do believe that women have that nurturing instinct inside of them.
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  And I'm just thinking, you had homeschool kids, kids that were marginalized.
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  When you give kids a purpose, when they feel like that they are doing
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  something that's bigger than themselves, it does lend them to have a sense of
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  I don't know, empowerment. But isn't that all of us? Yeah,
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  that's all of us. That's so for her to recognize it and see it
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  in these kids that probably have not been exposed to the world in the way
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  that public school or you know, just school kids are different. I remember
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  when I worked at Children's Hospital in Arkansas, the homeschooled kids, and that
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  was a new thing like this, that was twenty years ago, thirty years
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  ago, I guess. Anyway, those kids that signed up, you had
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  the kids from the schools and you had the homeschool kids. The homeschool kids
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  showed up for their volunteering hours every They were never late. They would work
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  their tails off. Nothing was beneath them. And then a lot of and
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  I loved even the public school kids, but they were about visiting with each
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  other. They would sometimes help me with the kids and stuff, but it
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  was about being with each other and then taking off and going throughout the hospital
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  and you wouldn't see them for a little bit entitled Yeah, and they just
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  wanted me to sign the you know, the volunteer forum that they were there
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  for two hours. But I saw such a market difference between the homeschool kids.
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  That's what she said. Her kids were also homeschooled, and she said
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  the same thing. But look look at Chick fil a. Ah, yeah,
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  look at their mass and the kind of kids, and they do hire
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  a lot of homes school kids and they Christian. Being a Christian is like
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  absolute And look at the difference in service productivity. Oh you have people have
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  that make tiktoks over that. Yeah about the line and how perfectly sure,
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  Yeah, you know, it really does bwell down to that when you can
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  hire people that just make it, even if they didn't enjoy that particular fry.
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  If the experience is enjoyable and you feel like that the people doing their
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  jobs are doing their jobs, they're happy to do their jobs, it makes
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  a difference. Because think about the flip side of that. If you go
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  to a restaurant and you can tell that your waiter or waitress is not all
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  about it. They don't want to be there, they don't want to serve
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  you, they don't come back with your you know that's for water three times
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  or like they just ignore you walk by, you know what I mean.
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  It's like it makes that experience less than so. How smart of Chick fil
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  A? How smart of our friend, yeah, to notice that that's what
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  it takes to have a good business, someone who actually appreciates an opportunity.
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  Yes, if you like deskar America was a question good Our website Americanground Radio
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  dot com. Slash mama and click on the ask them Mama's button. Terry
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  Nuteville, Kimberly burlisten, Thank Oll so much. Thanks