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There 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?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 12:05)
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Keyser here just reminded me...
...that I worked in Morrissons for a spell too when I was 15ish.

Piss-poor wages, worse working conditions and yes too, an Assistant Manager who was one of the most small-minded, up-his-own-arse wankers I had ever met, oh-so-proud of the fact that he had scraped his way up to lording it over 2-dozen or so herberts like me who all thought he was a prick. I found out from my then-girlfriend that he'd made a move on her a few months before at someone's xmas party - she was 14 and he was something like 24 FFS. Kiddy-fiddling fucker. That said, the GF could scrub up well and was a bit of a bunny ;)

I lasted for about three months until the aforementioned tosspot bollocked me for losing a label gun that I hadn't lost at all, accepting no explanation other than that he'd made up in his own itsy bitsy mind. I gave up trying to explain and just walked away from him. 'Walk away when I'm talking to you and you needn't come back!', he said to my back, so I took off my fetching navy-blue overcoat and chucked it into the overhead lights on my way out.

EDIT - looking at this post and my others for this Q, I think it's becoming clear that vocational injustices tend to bring out the petulant git in me - already deleted one because it was just too nasty, and not especially relevant :)
(, Mon 20 Feb 2006, 14:55, Reply)

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