Child LabourThere is a special part of Hell I'd like to reserve for those arses that order every single Sunday paper. Do you know how heavy that makes the bundle of papers some poor kid (ie me) has to lug around? Funny how your papers always seemed to get mangled in your letterbox...
I loved my paper round, but, looking back, I was getting paid peanuts to ruin my back and cycle around in the cold and dark. How were you exploited as a child?
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chthonic, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 12:05)
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The pain of a million papercuts.Also curious to find out if anyone else has ever had this most mundane of temporary jobs: putting the loose bundles of free scratch cards, loan leaflets and adverts for mail-order catalogues inside magazines? I did that in a dark warehouse for a couple of weeks once. You had to count how many you'd done, and they're fire you if you didn't hit a certain "insertion per hour" quota (arf). Until I had this job I assumed it was done by robots, but no, they are not sufficiently nimble of claw and anyway young teens cost less.
And all so some random leaflets you have absolutely no use for can fall out of your magazine on the bus and be ignored.
(, Mon 20 Feb 2006, 17:47, Reply)
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