Fast food and supermarket chains are treating entry-level dishwashing and shelf stacking like Goldman Sachs analyst roles. Applicants now have to film videos explaining their passion for minimum wage work. The person posting washed dishes in the 90s. Worked hard, got paid, moved on. No one needed a manifesto about loving grease traps. This is what happens when HR departments mistake corporate theater for hiring: they create barriers to jobs that should be barriers to nothing. An 18-year-old trying to get a supermarket shift shouldn't jump through YouTube auditions.