Imperial core USian born and raised, started working under the table at 7 to help my single mom pay rent for the trailer we lived in, the one with broken doors and a hole in the floor where you could see the dirt and racoon shit. But hey, at least I didn’t have to smell it since I had a neighbor who cooked meth. The restaurant owner I worked for was nice though, only paid me about $3/hour but at least I got to each one cupcake a day during my shift, so long as I made it myself during my only 15 minutes unpaid break, as long as he didn’t have anything he wanted me to do, still unpaid, during that break. I also learned a lot of things about safety there, school of hard knocks style. I learned to be careful reaching into murky dishwater to retrieve dishes, just in case there was a dirty knife in there. Also the dishwashing machines use hot as hell water, so it is best to wait a little, but not too long or you’ll get screamed at, before touching the dishes. I also learned how to cry in private and not in front of people, after all we can’t have patrons hearing a child cry in the kitchen, so the freezer is a great place to cry it out. Also learned how to hide from Department of Labor inspectors, cuz it’d be a shame if both my mom and I got fired.
…Hang the bourgoisie and make their admirers do the executing. 😤
Please tell me you are exaggerating. For my sanity’s sake.
That’d be nice. Not sure if it is “common” but it was my experience for a couple years until my mom met someone and our income drastically improved. After that didn’t have to work again until I was 15, and then it was legal and thus included certain protections. Also wasn’t a shitty ass restaurant, but a retirement home with a lot of nice old folks.
I have many stories like this, of myself and basically everyone I know from my hometown. Child labor never went away here.
Mine was mostly wood-cutting and moving logs from one place to another, unpaid ofc. My ex worked at a restaurant similar to the shit you describe basically since they could stand upright. Meth explosions happened all over town, but I had the fortune of living over 2 miles from any human being, let alone the 20 miles it took to get to town anyway, so we were in no danger of getting blown up. Mostly just worried about getting shot by stray hunters wandering onto our property or by kids doing drive-bys at our mailbox for fun. A meth-making fam I knew was the closest neighbor we had, pretty regularly heard screaming coming from that direction, both obviously angry and also obviously terrified screams. Sorry you went through what you did comrade.
Thank you comrade, unfortunately I feel more stories like this will happen as things get worse here.
…in Taiwan
…Okay. Assume it’s true. So… Are they suggesting folks shut up about it and not talk about those things?
It’s not exactly the dunk they think it is.
China has stronger labour protection laws than the US. Never forget that.
Americans going to work their second job after 8 hours on their first job, while feeling sick with a broken wrist (they can’t afford health care or rent).
