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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It takes family to really exploit child labourMy father ran a coach painting garage and from the age of 12 to 16 my brother and I had to work there, every weekend and school holiday, 9 till 5. During this time I was involved in numerous incidents which health and safety would have been upset about, including close encounters with power tools, chemical burns, fires and the final straw of having a ford cargo lorry layed on my index finger whilst changing the tyre. All this for the grand sum of 2.50 a day(with a bonus £1 if I worked on till 7.30pm).
Our "salary" would accumulate over the year, all noted down in a book, until payday came in August. It was always short and it was some time before the penny dropped that payday was suspiciously close to our birthdays.......... Ended up quitting and working the night shift at Safeway, it felt like paradise by comparison.
(, Tue 21 Feb 2006, 13:57, Reply)
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