let me tell you a story and what happend to me
one day after spending a night at a friends place my mum came to pick me up and she said she had found a job for me. As the holidays here have been long and kinda boring a job would have been nice keep myself busy and get some money. She told me that i will pick strawberry's at a nearby farm. as i thought to myself that would be pretty cool picking strawberry's and starting at 6AM would just be a part of the work. so i called another friend who was also looking for work and told him that they needed 2 people to work there so i invited him to my place to stay for the night so that we can go together in the morning.
the next day we woke up at 4:45am had something to drink and eat and then my mother drove us to the strawberry farm to start work we got there exactly at 6 but nobody was there. We waited for 15 minuets then we saw a car come and it was one of the workers we asked where the boss was as we were supposed to register so that we can get taxed (this is a official bussiness). the worker said that the boss is probably at home but a co suppervisor was to suppose to be here soon. So we waited for another 45 minuets and then the co suppervisor showed up ,we both got 2 crates which we were to fill then return and grab another crate seemed simple enough.
After working for about 2 hours making many jokes like farming levels in Runescape we asked one of the other workers who was working next to us how much we get paid in a hour aperantly we dont get paid by the hour but by the KG's of strawberry's we pick after getting about 4 crates each done in the 2 hours we thought that each crate weighs about 3-Kg's we asked how much we get paid and the nice women said that we get paid $0.50 per KG WHAT THE HELL that is slavery in 2 hours we gathered about 12Kg's in total giving us only $6 that is less then half what is required by law to be paid in a hour so me and my friend we just walked away.
so what i am kind of telling here is that do you think what i did is right and that i should mabye report this to the government or just keep it as a funny story for the future.
Edit yea we never went back its just there is a difference between work and slavery all that was missing was a guy sitting on a horse using a whip on me.
one day after spending a night at a friends place my mum came to pick me up and she said she had found a job for me. As the holidays here have been long and kinda boring a job would have been nice keep myself busy and get some money. She told me that i will pick strawberry's at a nearby farm. as i thought to myself that would be pretty cool picking strawberry's and starting at 6AM would just be a part of the work. so i called another friend who was also looking for work and told him that they needed 2 people to work there so i invited him to my place to stay for the night so that we can go together in the morning.
the next day we woke up at 4:45am had something to drink and eat and then my mother drove us to the strawberry farm to start work we got there exactly at 6 but nobody was there. We waited for 15 minuets then we saw a car come and it was one of the workers we asked where the boss was as we were supposed to register so that we can get taxed (this is a official bussiness). the worker said that the boss is probably at home but a co suppervisor was to suppose to be here soon. So we waited for another 45 minuets and then the co suppervisor showed up ,we both got 2 crates which we were to fill then return and grab another crate seemed simple enough.
After working for about 2 hours making many jokes like farming levels in Runescape we asked one of the other workers who was working next to us how much we get paid in a hour aperantly we dont get paid by the hour but by the KG's of strawberry's we pick after getting about 4 crates each done in the 2 hours we thought that each crate weighs about 3-Kg's we asked how much we get paid and the nice women said that we get paid $0.50 per KG WHAT THE HELL that is slavery in 2 hours we gathered about 12Kg's in total giving us only $6 that is less then half what is required by law to be paid in a hour so me and my friend we just walked away.
so what i am kind of telling here is that do you think what i did is right and that i should mabye report this to the government or just keep it as a funny story for the future.
Edit yea we never went back its just there is a difference between work and slavery all that was missing was a guy sitting on a horse using a whip on me.
