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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nutgrassfrigging nut grass.. my dad being the lovely tightfisted bastard that he is, once paid my sister and i $10 each to spend the weekend picking out "nutgrass" from our newly turfed backyard.
Little did we know that nutgrass grows back overnight and we ended up sitting outside for 20 hours pulling grass from the ground.. all for $10 each.. at the time it seemed like a bargain, but wrong!
after we did it, he paid us the $10 each, until he went out the next morning and saw it was all back again. He yelled at us and told us we hadnt dont it properly and that we were lazy little bitches. He ended up taking $10 off one of us and making us split the remaining $10 between us.
$0.25/hr.. what a generous pay rate.. especially to spend the whole weekend earning this pitance
we got him back though.. scattered bird seed all over the turf so weeds would grow.. muwahahaha
(, Sat 18 Feb 2006, 10:43, Reply)
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