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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LifeGuardOkay, it doesnt SOUND terrifically horrible, but let me explain:
Basically, you get paid $6 an hour to be a baby-sitter. But this includes: sitting/baking in the sun all day, screaming at the top of your lungs "JEROME STOP FUCKING RUNNING AROUND THE GODDAMNED POOL OR YOU ARE OUT OF HERE!!!" then, when Jerome ignores you, you get to try and stem the blood flow from the kids lower lip when he slips and hits the ridge of the concrete pool deck...all the while, watching the blood pouring from his lip into the pool water and watching it dissipate.
Or there was the time that my buddy, doing the exact same job at a pool just up the road a few blocks, had a kid jump into the pool, break his neck and die on him.
All this at 15 and for just $6 an hour.
Are they MAD?!
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
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Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Tue 21 Feb 2006, 18:34,
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