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When I was an 11 year old, I got a job working for a local swim club. I'd go to the property, open the gate, and clean the grounds and take out the trash. They
by MisterBastahrd 4y ago
When I was an 11 year old, I got a job working for a local swim club. I'd go to the property, open the gate, and clean the grounds and take out the trash. They figured since I wasn't technically old enough to work, they could pay me $2.30 an hour when $4.25 was the minimum wage at the time. I adjusted my recorded hours versus worked hours accordingly. Given that there were no cameras on premises, the timesheets were manual, and I was always there alone, I never had an issue.
- LarryMullins 4y agoReminds me of a lifeguarding job I had at a private lake club when I was a teen. They let me report and set my own hours. I never abused that trust, but it was pretty strange when my boss explained that they'd pay me for however much I chose to work during daylight hours (the lake was "closed" after dark.) I did end up working a few very long days on holidays for the extra cash.
- nostrademons 4y agoI do wonder how many of these are honeypots to see which workers they'd like to invite back next year. It's pretty well-known that the point of an internship isn't to actually accomplish any useful work, it's to determine which students you would like to extend an offer to for full-time employment. Not a large leap to assume that a lot of adolescent employment follows this pattern. The wages you'd pay a teen are chump change for most businesses, but responsible, intelligent, trustworthy employees basically disappear from the job market after their first job (because everybody wants to keep them), and so it can be a great investment to identify, vet, and introduce yourself to them before they're on the open market.
- nostrademons 4y ago"We pretend to work and they pretend to pay." -- Soviet Russia