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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a fish thingfirst summer job from uni, small fishworks in aberdeen, mostly salmon (not smelly), some white fish (smelly) ... boss was a grasping capitalist cunt of the first order ... paid students substantially less than other staff as "they don't pay tax" (a lie), left an open barrel of fish guts lying around all week until it was swarming with maggots then delegated staff to maneouvre it out the door for the fishmeal truck to collect ...
and once when packing salmon in a mini-production line, i managed to accidentally spang another staff member in the face with a shovel (ice fell off it, the release of weight let the shovel rise, the other guy was leaning over a packing box, i broke one of his front teeth)
i was pretty guilty but the boss was solely concerned that the now toothless student wasn't going to sue him ... bastard
also this was a long long time ago (chaz & di wedding) ... on the day the office staff got champagne and a tv so they could watch and celebrate - we got fuck all (didn't want anything but a complementary gesture would have been nice)
old bastard
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