Unpaid Work

[fiction-factory]

No question- just a comment.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/teen-worked-corner-shop-10-170210102.html#k1mBZMP

This story seems a bit odd to me- I'm surprised someone could work for over 2 months in a shop without receiving any pay before asking about pay

[fiction-factory]

It does- but so does the idea of a fund raising site. I'd be too embarrassed at having let this happen to set up an appeal. Reporting the shop-owner or alerting others is one thing- but this seems like begging. I'd also have been embarrassed at missing the apostrophe off JAYS CHRISTMAS FUND so maybe I'm too sensitive.

[woofgang]

If the quote from the owner on the Huff Post page is true...and its true that she paid him once...it does sound to me like the story is true......

[ummmm]

From Mamy's link...

"After some discussion, one Canterbury resident suggested starting a Go Fund Me fundraising page, to raise £30 for the schoolboy so he could buy his Christmas presents."

As I'm reading it the mother posted asking for advice on what to do about it.

[Peter Pedant]

hmmm do you think Mum has done this before ?

[ummmm]

No. It was someone else who suggested 'Go Fund Me' not the mother.

[fiction-factory]

Thanks ummmm. Perhaps not a family friend or member then. But who set the site up- this concerned local resident or someone else with Mum's blessing or did the family jump at the idea and do it? Maybe the excess over £30 will be passed on to charity

[New Judge]

What, like perhaps the mother's sister?

[New Judge]

"Maybe the excess over £30 will be passed on to charity..."

Yes. And maybe not. If th eboy has worked 100 hours (as has been calculated) thirty quid seems a bit light even though fifteen-year-olds are not entitled to the Minimum Wage.

[fiction-factory]

But I understood the appeal was to raise £30 so he could buy Christmas presents. If the stated objective is to raise enough to cover lost wages, and people give on that basis then fair enough, provided the fund is closed at a given point (maybe £200). If the aim is to raise as much as possible that's a different matter but I suppose it's all legal and you have to admire them in a way

[Baldric]

Well someone is surely being scammed, just not sure who atm.

[Svejk]

He might have been getting paid 'in the hand' and knows the shopkeeper can't admit that now. Just a thought, before my stalkers pile in.
As an aside, I was working 12hr shifts away from home and drinking all night, every night down Union St when I was 15.
Never done me any harm(much)

[ummmm]

What next? The paperboy needs to go on the books?

My son earns approx £50 - £60 working at Londis and he gets paid cash on a Friday. How they chose to book-keep it is down to them.

[Peter Pedant]

// What, like perhaps the mother's sister?// NJ

( as the suggester of the idea of public funding )

or the mother's sister's sister .... that of course could be the mother

AND // Just a thought, before my stalkers pile in. I was working 12hr shifts away from home and drinking all night, every night down Union St when I was 15. Never did me any harm(much) //

Hi schweik - stalker here - one eyed and with a stick ( when you hired me you said you couldnt afford much ) - the drinking made you the man you are !

and um when I was paper boy I was pretty sure I went onto expenses but that was 1964 - the self employed pay 2% of the UK tax burden ( NOT 2% tax ) and you can see how .....

[ummmm]

PP - I don't know what you're talking about.

[murraymints]

ummmm much credit to you and son...seem to recall you stood in for him when he couldn't ? good boy.be proud..he will grow well !.

[ummmm]

I stand in for him quite often. He's 17, he needs to have a life as well :-) Has to be prearranged though...