Yes , but in those days, the Boss lived next door 
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He might be depressed.
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Is that societyâs problem?
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He got a job, whatâs not to like.
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Is it our place to judge what someone is going through? A lot of young people are depressed and struggling with a modern world with so many challenges and a bit of a bleak future.
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You will NEVER see an adult working at Maccas (unless it is a manager), Maccaâs staff have an award but workers under 21 get a percentage of the adult award under Junior pay rates (all the other award conditions are the same). eg a 17 year old gets 60% of the adult wage in a lot of awards.
Maccas, Dominoes, Pizza Hut etc only employ under 21s, it gives the young people a very good job to be able to put on their CV and save the chain a bit in wages. Two of my kids started at Pizza Hut when they were still at school.
I learned this when I applied for my very first Technicianâs job in Australia in the 1960s, at the interview the bloke asked my age, at the time I was 19 which I said. âSorryâ, he said âI didnât hear you, did you say 21?â. He wrote down 21 and told me to always say I am at least 21 so I get a full adult wage.
https://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wages/minimum-wages/junior-pay-rates
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Starbucks, Costa, Esquires, and you can find them snuggled away in some big stores like Next, Tesco, Sainsburyâs, M&S and even some B&Qâs ChilliâŠ
There was no such thing as a âCoffee Shopâ back in the fifties and sixties (not round here anyway) they were called cafeâs and mainly sold tea.
Coffee came from watching too many westerns and American films, it cost three times the price of a cup of tea, and holds up the queue in Greggs when all you want is a sandwich and some tosser wants a cappuccino with all the trimmings that takes half an hour for some spotty faced teenager to make.
They even have a fancy name for the person who makes itâŠA Barista!
They probably got a doctorate in it from University.
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Yes, so annoying Foxy, there should be a dedicated queue for those tossers, and the bacon bap crowd
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It can be made to look pretty as you like, donât stop it stinkin
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Or costing a kingâs ransomâŠ
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See Foxy, us non remainer folk donât do Coffee
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Iâll never understand the politics of coffee drinking.
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The coffee is secondary, it the continental cosmopolitan lifestyle aspiration it implies
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Thatâs interesting, a coffee person? 
Thatâs another term which has been âstolenâ from us and has had the meaning changed. 
Another word is âlatteâ which simply translates as âmilkâ. If you come to our bars and ask for a âlatteâ, youâll simply get a glass or cup of milk.
We donât have a name for someone specialized in coffee making. In our bars which sell coffee/tea etc, as well as soft drinks and alcohol-based drinks, anyone working in a bar is called a barista and is qualified to sell any type of drink/snack.
Weâve âstolenâ many words from English language and changed the meanings, or even created new words, such as the word âfootingâ which means âjoggingâ.
During the pandemic, the need to work from home became known as âsmart workingâ and we still use this term, which in English is actually called âremote workingâ or âworking from homeâ, if Iâm not mistaken. Or do you call it âsmart workingâ too?
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Not very smart if you work from home and pay your own heating bills, use your own toilets and consider one of the rooms as an office, and no canteen!
At least when I was self employed I could put my office (spare room) 25% of my electricity and heating bills and some other household things on my expenses.
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Care to explain ??
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We donât like the âsmartâ word. Whenever itâs mentioned, we know thereâs a catch. Someoneâs about to lose their freedom or their sanity. 
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There were, though perhaps they hadnât reached the woad wearing parts of the north - coffee bars were a great hang out when I was at school.
What we didnât have were Milk Bars which I discovered when I first went to Australia, they have largely disappeared.
At that time the coffee culture in Australia was just beginning with an influx of Italian and Greek migrants. They started to dominate the retail food industry in the the same way that the Chinese are today.
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Often the drinkers of a Maxwell House mug of coffee imagine themselves, not at their kitchen table on a cold wet day in Chesterfield, but at some chic brasserie on a trendy street in Paris or Milan, under the shade of an umbrella, watching the fashionable walk by. Perhaps reading Proust. Youâve nailed the hopes and dreams of all who ever drink a cup of coffee. It is the only reason they drink the stuff.
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