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?
(
chthonic, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 12:05)
« Go Back
Mandatory VolunteeringI was in both the Girl Scouts and youth groups in church, so I/we had ample opportunity to be exploited for free. Among the things we were made to do:
Thouroughly clean up before and after whatever space we were using
Make chicken salad (shredding cold, pre-maranated chicken with bare hands = disgusting)
Sell soda - get the cans from cold, cold ice boxes with bare hands
Sell corn - get disgusting boiled corn smell on you for hours
Man various game booths
Bus all the tables in a space the size of a basketball court (which it actually was)
Run a haunted maze (scaring kids is actually fun)
Host other churches for meetings
Make up stupid ice-breakers for said meetings
For all my griping I have to say we girls didn't have it as bad as the boys; for one thing they always had to carry our luggage when we went on our retreat in the mountains :3
(, Tue 21 Feb 2006, 10:24, Reply)
« Go Back