from what I heard of the US, they usually don't have labor contracts anyway. Many nations have special contracts for teens, with lower hours and special rules. I think the US has rules regarding minors working as well.
@@Nerobyrne there is absolutely strict regulations for minors who work in the US. One major part of my old team, was determining who should work when, and balancing hours for the minors was always tough. You can only work them during specific hours and only for a certain maximum daily, meaning if the employee coming in after was unreliable, the team I scheduled would have to make do without their extra employee or the minor because I can’t force them to work longer then their limits!
@@Nerobyrne most labor contracts for the kind of wages we're talking about are "jobs" like Paper(boy), e.g. Vendor distributors. You basically agree to Deliver products to a location, X times a day/week. Some of these "Contracts" you pay a "fee" for the "right" to do these jobs. Something like "Paper(boy)", might have a "contract" for adult employees, but for "children" they'd just be paid by the hour/job, and only so many days of the week. An anecdote of this, I knew a guy who was a vendor for Beer, Bread, and Pepsi, all while working at Walmart. Guy would work 8+ hours at Walmart a day, + 4-6 hours of vendor a day around town, for 3 different companies every day. He effectively earned around $30/hour total, working an insane amount of hours.
Pretty sure the paper delivery boss was either breaking or trying to get around child labor laws, op did good putting his foot down but the mother should have asked for a copy of that new contract and reported him.
@@bradenr867 gotta love these companies and people who can fire on a moment's notice but as soon as you apply the same principal because of the shit work conditions understaffing that makes you work multiple positions and whatever else god forbid they throw a hissy fit if a job doesnt feel the need to give me two weeks notice when my livelihood is at stake then why should I for them I just dont get corporate america sometimes
Welcome to the entirety of employers in the Smoky Mountains. I'm pretty sure there's a federal law that states that any business with more than X number of employees must at least offer them all health insurance. Problem is that the fee they get charged for non-compliance is actually cheaper than giving employees insurance, so they just pay the fee instead.
For the newspaper story, I'm not a lawyer, but I'm like 90% sure that minors can't be expected to honor contracts. I've heard that its one thing if they choose to honor a contract and it becomes valid after they become of age, but I was made to believe that at any time a minor chooses to opt out of a contract, it has to be respected.
Newspapers are just in general evil places to work.. But in terms of child labor laws, they get a lot of exceptions for minors, even though theres actually very few minors anymore who deliver newspapers its like 95% done by adults and has been for decades. When I was 19-22 I delivered about 260 newspapers a day too, yeah it pays pretty decent mainly because theres no real way for the IRS to track your earnings, the paper sends you a blank 1099 and most people just pitch them right in the garbage, its okay money so long as you can get your customers to pay you, which... is easier said than done unless the paper handles all delinquencies for you... mine... did not...it sucked.
his parents had to agree to it on his behalf. the real issue was illegal work hours: minors can’t start that early no matter what state they live in. 4AM is pushing things as it is, before that is definitely not legal
Children under the age of 18 can't actually be held to contracts, because they aren't adults. Saying "Honor your contract" to a child is a moot point, there is no way to enforce it.
they can be if the contract is entered into with a legal guardian present which is stupid to say because it's the guardian who is responsible for it at that point. location matters too, you never know what insanity awaits in your local government
@@theautisticartist9370 allowable hours are related to state regulations and whatever your work permit says which can be changed as a result of your grades.
@@DracolegacyOfficial Legal guardian is not the employer, therefore if a contract needs a legal guardian, then it's non-binding unless you get that signature or have them witness.
@@avenguard9503 I would say "I hope I wouldn't have to deal with Karens then" but i'm used to verbal abuse from my entitled brother and have developed a lot of sass (and a temper that i'm working on)
@@fortawesome1974 I'm guessing that Google has a very nice algorithm that catches when people post links to websites that harvest phony pseudoscience. Its worked on you 5 times.
@@fortawesome1974 the media and celebrities say that the sky is a figment of our imagination and ppl will believe it, the media will say anything and ppl will go along with it. We live in a world where people would rather go along with false fear mongering information to appese minority groups (not racially speaking but socially). And now if one disagrees with those redundant movements that person is guilt tripped, harassed, belittled and have their own right infringed upon because they don't swallow everything the main stream media, celebrities, and influencers shoves down their throat. With every new bill or law passed, is a right taken from us but people are ro blind to see the whole hearted truth of the reality we live in. People are so focused on not hurting people feelings or not offending anything that they are willing to give their rights away. Fucking stupid.
The post below yours say you use pence. Not everyone knows that. Pounds are a given, most people do know that, but not everyone knows what you call your change. Currency education is lacking. Sorry
@@katashworth41 That's because you speak 'Murican and should know these things. Unfortunately a lot of us in the states don't seem to know that English came from England.
@@patrickmaddy4611 I am from England, I’ve been asked if I’ve ever left my house because I didn’t know a shop we don’t have here. I was complaining about the ‘Murricans
@@katashworth41 I got that, sorry I wasn't clear. I was trying to be sarcastic about how many of us in the US don't seem to understand even basic things about the rest of the world, including and up to the fact that you speak English in the UK too.
6:52 I remember a similar story in the uk. At a cafe a female employee said now she was 18 they have to pay her more by law. The cafe couldn’t afford the increased pay so fired her for ‘being cheeky’. She sued them and won.
“But if my principles slightly inconvenience me then it’s not that big of a deal” If that's a reason to compromise your principles then they aren't principles, that's just virtue signaling.
^ This. The remote revolution has made it so even people like me who are disabled can work a 40 hour week. The power is FINALLY back in the hands of the laborers and not the companies and we demand change
@@Phoenix_DarkMoon adapt or perish. Companies that tighten their holds on their proverbial leashes will find out quickly when they begin being outperformed by competitors, or perhaps when they're poised to go under when their own personnel heads for the hills. They'll learn to listen to those who are actually most important to the companies...or die trying
I heard a story where this person (wearing a mask) told a woman who didn't wear a mask that the masks protect you from the government or something like that. The person left the store and heard the woman telling someone about that on the phone
@@nightrayneraven1323 I out tinfoil-hatted someone. They were judging my mask, and I went on a rant about facial identity camera's. Take that you wet cabbage.
@@thelastoutlawofkc ive been here since the beginning, I remember his ackward voice and I'm so happy to see how much he's grown. I don't think I've missed a single vid.
Edit: I wanted to add more stuff to this Yes, we do have a right to not wear a mask if we choose. And businesses also have the right to refuse to serve us. You can’t have it both ways. Yes, you are free to make a choice, but that means you have to accept the consequences of your actions. Screaming at employees and businesses for protecting their workers and customers doesn’t make you a patriot, it makes you and ASS. Don’t mistake inconvenience for oppression.
We tell customers at my store, "If a doctor has given you a mask exemption he has given you an exemption from entering this private business." Call in for curbside or send someone to shop for you. Meanwhile they are screaming and yelling proving they have no breathing issues and have no reason to not wear one. Another customer tried the I have an exemption because of trauma from a past s*x**l assault... nice try, call in for curbside or send someone to shop for you. We only made exceptions for young children and people on the spectrum with sensory issues. We allowed face shields with no mask for crying out loud, we bent as much as we could. Anything more in allowances would have netted the boss a 2500.00 dollar fine.
@@terramarini6880 If you have a medical condition that is so bad you can't wear a mask, then you DO NOT want to catch a potentially lethal respiratory disease! Their logic is completely bonkers.
Where did I say I had a medical condition? I masked until I was vaxxed and the mandate was pulled, we still sanitize touchable surfaces on the regular and try to keep a level of distance between us and the customers. Vaccinations don't preclude you from getting it, it stops you getting so sick you are hospitalized. If I feel unwell I will stay home to protect the customers who can't or won't vaccinate. I have ALWAYS been a hand washer...I know where that cash has potentially been, up someone's nose, in a strippers g string, some sweaty woman's boob money etc.
May I suggest to anyone complaining about people not wearing masks, please do some research into the effectiveness of the masks. A little reading into the survival rate of the virus vs flu and mask that do nothing to prevent the spread because of filter size difference. Why is everyone trying to push a "vaccine" with more side effects than commercials from lawyers advertising harmful drugs. All I see is people trying to shame others (looking at you Terra Marini @ Eivind Falk) to make them feel good. Quit being a sheep.
5:55 the most outrageous part of that story to me is that you can be paid less for the same work because you're a minor. How is that not the pressing issue here? I would never work as a minor in the UK.
So wait, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it actually ILLEGAL to have a minor work past/before certain times of night/day? I know a lot of kids have a paper route, or used to, but I know when I was in school under 18, I couldn't work past 10pm or before 4am. 10-4 was off limits to minors. So that boss was potentially also doing something illegal? WOW.
I delivered papers for several years as a kid. They didn' drop them off in front of my house. I had to bike 1/2 mile to get them. After 4 years of rain, sleet, snow, excessive heat, and delivering when I was sick, I was SO glad to never have to do that again.
I worked in a metal fabrication auto plant for 32 years. Safety glasses with side shields, hearing protection, kevlar gloves, sleeves and leather boots with non-skid soles were a requirement for employment. These were jointly decided by the company and union as requirements. Yes, they were at times uncomfortable, yes, they were hot in the summer, the alternative was risking a serious injury around razor sharp metal, losing an eye to flying metal or at the very least going deaf from the cacophony of a high noise environment. These folks who won't wear a mask forget that the business is privately owned, just like the plant I worked in and can enforce their own safety protocols, such as "no shirt, no shoes, no service" as well as wearing a mask to protect their employees and customers. If they came to my home without a mask I do not have to let them enter, their so called civil right to be mask free stops at my doorstep.
True. But you’d be enforcing a rule in your home that is worthless. The masks don’t help at all and just force the person to rebreathe their carbon monoxide.
@@tommoore2012 carbon monoxide is absolutely tiny. Saying that a mask keeps in carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide for that matter is like saying You use a fishing net to filter sand. The waterdroplets containing the virus are several orders of magnitude larger than any gas molecule you would need from the air. A mask cant keep Carbon monoxide in but let a virus pass through. Thats not physically possible
And that is going to do wonders now that Nurses and Doctors have chosen to stop working due to needing to wear masks...It's kinda funny - I look forward to seeing how the entire U.S. will survive even just ONE new wave of the virus with half the working medical force. Oh boy are potential deaths going to roll - AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT TEN TRILLION NEW MANDATES NEEDED FOR EVERY VARIANT OF COVID IN THE FUTURE.
I have a deviated septum and when you combine that with summer allergies, I won't wear a mask. If my allergies aren't so bad then I will. Nobody has had a problem because it's pretty visible (it's bad but you have to look below my nose to see that I basically have 1 nostril) but mask cultists have been driven insane by the television and internet. No store owners or employees have had an issue, just mask Karens. If you're that scared about your health, just stay home.
@@tommoore2012 I will enforce any rule I choose in my home, whether you think it's useless, I wore a mask, I did not become ill, I got the vaccine, I did not become ill. If you choose to expose yourself to the danger, be my guest, I am ONLY concerned for my health and I don't really care what happens to you. I am so damn tired of hearing this BS. Do what you want.
When I was a teenager i pulled a similar stunt on my dad when he said i could only use my laptop charger once a day... he failed to specify when and how long for, spent several days with it just plugged in for hours. He laughed at my finding the loophole then rephrased his statement and restarting my punishment 😂
Here's a tip if you're in high school and your boss that you're working for is trying to make you work hours that you cannot work, Talk to the school. Your principle will probably be more than happy to chew your boss out. Edit* Especially if it's starting to affect your grades.
5:49 That would be the best case scenario for him yes. Worst case OP would get a payout and Don would be charged with obstruction of the education of a minor.
5:38 If his boss took him to court, there's one teeny tiny detail that more people should know, abs that the judge would ABSOLUTELY bring up: CONTRACTS SIGNED BY MINORS ARE NEITHER LEGALLY BINDING NOR LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE!!!
Here in Washington State, you CAN go around without a mask, so long as you’ve been vaccinated, BUT businesses are able to choose if they’ll still require a mask to enter or not. With the new Delta variant coming up, I’ve noticed that people are starting to mask up more often than not again, where before it was a gradual trend downward.
#1: I'd have liked to see payroll dock her for what they had to pay you guys to play games all day. That'll teach her to keep her big mouth shut. #2: NOPE!!! Can't change the contract in the middle just to suit you boss. Go ahead and fire me. Hope YOU enjoy delivering at 5AM. #3: Minimum wage is NOT discretionary...THAT'S why it's called MINIMUM WAGE not DISCRETIONARY WAGE!!!
The boss: "My underage employee doesn't want to wake up at 1am instead of 4am to deliver news paper WAAAAH!" Me: "Yeah, ok, first of all both scenarios are illegal..."
Oh, that last one about masks... I've heard SO many excuses for not wearing one and have yet to hear one based in the most basic of the sciences. According to the fogging on any mirror, my breath (and everyone else's') has moisture droplets that carry pathogens. Yes, I find masks uncomfortable, but I also find coats and sweaters uncomfortable in cold weather, but it still beats the alternative. At least me forgoing winter wear won't make others sick, masks help keep that in check.
You do realise masks are 100% useless unless they are N95 or respirators!!?? The mask issue isn't really anything to do with rights. It's about simple science!! The covid virus is 100 nanometers. The microscopic gaps in surgical masks is 1000 times that size and the gaps in cloth masks is 5000 times that size!! It would be like trying to stop someone throwing a handful of marbles at a house covered by some building scaffolding!! Nearly all or all are going to pass through without any résistance!! Hundreds of scientists and specialists in Europe and the UK have signed a protest against mask mandates saying it's a comfort blanket that does literally nothing to help you but makes the government seem like they are doing something to help!! www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/17/cloth-face-masks-comfort-blankets-do-little-curb-covid-spread/
@@fortawesome1974 while yes, the virus itself is indeed small enough to pass through the gaps, viruses are quite bad at living without a host, hell they obly reproduce by hijacking other cells So a virus just alone is quite likely to die before it gets anywhere However, a virus in saliva with your cells in it? Now that‘s a different story. And saliva is considerably easier to stop with having something in front of your face. Say, like some small piece of paper that has been made to be pretty much waterproof If only we had something like that, huh?
@@fortawesome1974 - The science does not support your assertion as the virus is carried by the moisture exhaled by someone. If you breath on a mirror you can see the moisture, that is what carries the virus. The assertion you are going with is that the virus is not carried by anything but the wind. If this were the case, it would not be transmissible It simply would not be able to survive long enough to infect anyone. As for a source, I direct you to www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html which is not some news outlet but an actual source where news outlets get their information.
I felt the hairstylist story on a visceral level. When all the dog grooming salons came back from the COVID shutdown, a lot of people had gotten dogs (or another dog), and we were slammed, booked weeks or months in advance. Every now and again, we'd have someone angrily cancel an appointment because we were unable to move it to another time that day for their convenience, as the schedule was PACKED. We would oblige, cancel the appointment, apologize for the inconvenience, and fill the spot with the very next phone call. Then, the day would arrive, and Angry Caller shows up for the appointment she cancelled, dog in hand. We would just explain that when she told us to cancel the appointment, we did that, and now we don't have a groomer available to groom her dog because we all have full schedules. This happened every couple weeks for some reason, never with the same person twice. They always acted cordial in person, and would simply reschedule and get on the cancelation list. It was like they were so embarrassed they flew off the handle that they tried to pretend it didn't happen, but pretending to be nice doesn't sprout a groomer from the earth to groom your dog.
“Honor your commitments” Honor them to a point, but your life is more important than imagined “honor”. Do what you can, whenever you can and work your ass of when you can, but don’t die over any job, it’s just not worth it…. Especially as a child delivering paper lol
You’re a little late to upload today, I was starting to get a little worried. My day doesn’t start til I hear my RSlash ❤️ thanks for being so reliable, uploading every single day. You’re awesome. 💜💜
Possibly TH-cam. Creators have to upload a video before it's supposed to be released for the bots to look for copyright, wrongspeak, or other arbitrary things (That they pulled out of their ar$eholes). Sometimes creators complain that this process can take hours.
@@neilprice513 thanks for the explanation! I just usually watch his videos around 9 am when I get up (I’m a bartender) and it was later than usual. I have no complaints he is awesome for uploading new content daily, it was just a little out of the ordinary.
“It’s my right to breath air/ not wear a mask” yeah and it’s also MY right not to be exposed to your germs Edit: I spent most of 2020 and the early 1/4 of 2021 staying at home and shielding due to my poor health,
The newspaper story. Who else thinks that OP's boss was the one who had to drive to that other town, at 2am, to collect the papers and was trying to force OP to do it?
Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing, but I also think that it's totally illegal to have a MINOR do it. I don't think you can make a kid work between the hours of 10pm-4am, unless something changed or it varies from state to state, but I know that when I was a teen working at McDonald's, I couldn't take any closing shifts since they all ended at 11pm (this was before 24 hour was a thing, I'M OLD!), so I had to do opening or mid.
@@RibbinOpinion Even "IF" it was illegal for a kid to work between 10pm and 4am, I can easily see the boss not officially employing OP for those hours and trying to force them to still get up at 1am to get the papers at 2.
I work in an immersive theatre as an actor. We still have a mask mandate in place because we have hundreds of people coming through every day and we have a number of close contact experiences. Guests are told they *must* wear a mask if they want to take part in these experiences, but I still get people coming into my part maskless. Fortunately, my character is an obnoxious, domineering a**hole, so when I ask them why they don't have a mask and they smugly reply "I'm exempt" then I respond with "Well then you just exempted yourself from my office. You either wear a mask or leave!" It's amazing how many of them will suddenly decide they *can* wear a mask when they find out they're going to miss out. In fact, of the several thousand people who have been through the attraction since we reopened, I've only had two people who left when being told they had to wear a mask. The close contact part only lasts five minutes maximum. Don't get me wrong - I know there are people who genuinely cannot wear a mask. I know several people who can't, especially one who suffered an abusive relationship and gets triggered if anything goes over her face (her ex-partner used to grab her around the neck and face before abusing her), but in my experience the vast majority of "exempt" people simply don't want to wear one. Oh, and I still constantly have to remind people that the mask goes over your nose and mouth, not just your chin, and that taking the mask off every time you speak kind of defeats the purpose...
OMG, "Don" sounds EXACTLY like MY sucky newspaper delivery boss! He even tried to guilt me into work while I was literally in the hospital recovering from surgery to correct injuries sustainedI was hit by drunk driver while on my paper route!!! I had been working after the accident until I HAD to take leave for surgery. Finally leaving that job earlier this year has vastly improved my health just with the drop in stress alone! PSA: delivering newspapers is ONLY a temporary fix for desperate times, and it's nearly impossible to get fired because they are desperate for ANYONE, so there's always an open position for anyone with no life, no family, and ..... IDK immortals who don't get sick? 🤷
The salon story reminded me. When the lockdown happened, I was a letter carrier for the USPS. I delivered to mostly to a small town, downtown area. One of the places I was delivering to was a Salon. Its mail was piling up cause they were just closed all the time. One day, about 2 months into it I finally caught the owner. "I was like omg, please can you take your mail. I have so much of it and several med-large sized packages." (You have to take the mail out, unless they have put a hold on it, then you can leave it at the P.O.) I drive the truck around and help her load all the stuff in to her SUV. Back then I was working in Marble Falls, TX. Which is known for being a retirement town. Bunch of rich, stuck up ppl that have more money than sense. She tells me "That one client is paying her $500 A DAY to be on call for her. And cut her hair at her place. Plus travel(like a extra 20 bucks, but hey money is money), plus free brunch made by a 5 star personal chef. She's been sitting at home doing nothing, being paid what she makes on a good day. So she can once a month go cut this old lady's hair. Whenever she wants it done. And she's still taking the odd client she likes in at double the normal rate."
I feel bad for the lady who cancelled her wedding hair appointment. It's a really important day and government policies are tangibly making it worse. She was probably super stressed out and upset that the government is creating such an imposition on everyone.
There was a court case a few years back in the UK over minimum wage for teenagers. One seventeen-year-old reminded her employer that she was about to turn eighteen, and was due a pay rise. She was promptly fired for being rude. It was only a Saturday job, but she took her employers to court and won about five hundred in damages - the equivalent of several months earnings.
Anti-maskers can actually be prosecuted by the law and yes it is absolutely legal. The only way to get past the mandate is to prove 100% that the ordinance has no purpose. Which is impossible since it is, "for the public safety."
I was working in menswear ( I did for a lot of years ). The company I was working for went bust, but fortunately ( umm...not really ) they found a buyer...a company with an Italian name...but owned by some guys from Bradford...which has a very high Indian population ( make of that what you will ). The shopping centre where the shop was had a rule that said they had to be open on a Sunday...so the new company decided that despite the fact I'd already 'worked my week' I would have to work overtime. 'I said fine...double pay on Sundays' ! 'Oh no....we only pay time when you work overtime ( figure that out !). I told him that 'time' and 'overtime' were two different things....and over time meant you were paid 'OVER time'. They didn't get it...needless to say we had a very high turnover of staff...that company closed less than a year later....I wonder why ?
9:40 and apparently some other people did as well, no one just dies without explanation, my guess is that a disgruntled found out she was screwing them out of wages and over time, that they probably did the unthinkable to her, some might say "murder" but I believe it's just karma catching up with her, I've never actually been to cali but I do know that people get vicious when they get screwed over from money
OMG! American labor laws for minors are unbelievablely strict! If only OP had known when they were delivering papers. One of the strictist rules are that employers can NOT negatively affect a minors education. Years ago, this was a $25,000 fine. I wish OP had known to report that idiot boss for labor violations. I can just imagine what their reaction to his plan for OP to start work before 2 am would be.
I don’t get anti maskers, like, yes, you have the right to not wear a mask… but businesses have the right to just not serve you. You can do whatever you want, so don’t be surprised when a business doesn’t want to cater to you because you’re risking their staff. So yes, whilst you can decide not to wear a mask, you however cannot force businesses to deal with your bullshit. Your actions have consequences, so you can do whatever you want, but so can everyone else, and we don’t have to deal with you if we don’t want to. Edit, of course anti-maskers would come crying in the comments about how the mean government, protecting lives and caring about their health, is oppressing them. I ain’t replying to your dumbasses, you’re just proving my point: you have the right to not wear a mask, but shops also have the right to deny your patronage. That’s how it works, cry about it.
The problem is the govt forcing buisnesses to operate this way. If an owner legit wants masks i just wont patronize. But our state is shutting down shops for not requiring masks. So no, the problem isnt the owners, its the government. And yes, it is a violation of your rights.
I strongly suspect that the boss in the first story was also maliciously complying. He may have sounded begrudging, but I think he knew that it was a ridiculous request and green-lit everyone's overtime. If I were a manager and someone insisted my staff all come in when there's nothing for them to do, I'd happily let them claim overtime for doing nothing
The OP in the second story could have walked at anytime. You can't have a contract with a child. I'm pretty sure that the boss would find if he took him to court that he would have been laughed out of it.
he got an F in math, but he had enough skills in math to know that the end of the month was yesterday, meaning that the teacher could just be bad, or it doesn't take higher than an F to know when the month ends because calendars exist
That paper route story was hilarious. How dumb is that boss? "Do this or I'll fire you" only works as a bully tactic on people desperate for their job, NOT for people who literally want to end their contract. He basically said "Do this or else you'll get exactly what you want!" How did he think that would end? He's not only a shit boss, he's an absolute idjit.
The newspaper, is this in the US. In the US last I knew, minors are not allowed to enter into a contracts. They are considered a child until they turn 18.
I had a paper route back in the early 70's. It was an evening paper, I could deliver it after school, but every 2 weeks I had to collect the payments from the customers and late Saturday afternoon I was required to drop off the collected cash at the paper's office. There was an amount set by the number of customers I delivered to, and I had to pay that amount even if some customers were not home to pay when I tried to collect. If they hadn't paid, I had to cover the shortfall from my earnings & hope to make it up next collection period. After a couple months of this I found out about minimum wage laws, did some calculations, quit the paper route & got a job as a dishwasher. Easier work, more money, and a steady paycheck.
I think bad bosses use the line "If you don't like it, leave!" as a bargaining chip. But they don't realize they will lose their most valuable employee because they are so stuck up to realize their hubris will put them out of buisness.
no way in hell that the paperboy delivery was legal, there’s child labor laws and there’s no way in hell that he was required to work before 4AM and the attempt to get him to do so would have resulted in a huge fine and slam from the state no matter how conservative that state is
In the paper route story, I don't know what country op is in, but most places don't allow minors to enter contracts. In the US and Canada minors can enter contracts, but they are voidable, meaning the minor can exit it at any time. There's a lot more complexity to it than that, but the boss may not have been able to even sue OP if they did stop working.
For the paper route kid, he basically got fired for not breaking the contract, which to me sounds like the employer breaking the contract. OP probably could have pressed charges
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“It took me a few weeks to muster up enough courage to demand that overtime money. But, before I could, she died.”
Well that escalated quickly.
She probably died because she didn't believe in workers comp and got injured on the job.
wouldn't have taken me 3 weeks to demand my $12
She died, or she "died"? As in faked her death and ran to escape the probably incoming missing wage violations.
Note to self: FIRST, get overtime, THEN kill her.
Hope it wasn't a workplace accident. No sense in the company being on the hook for the likes of her.
In the US, minors can't legally enter contracts anyway lol. That owner of the newspaper route was full of it.
100% this.
from what I heard of the US, they usually don't have labor contracts anyway. Many nations have special contracts for teens, with lower hours and special rules.
I think the US has rules regarding minors working as well.
@@Nerobyrne there is absolutely strict regulations for minors who work in the US. One major part of my old team, was determining who should work when, and balancing hours for the minors was always tough. You can only work them during specific hours and only for a certain maximum daily, meaning if the employee coming in after was unreliable, the team I scheduled would have to make do without their extra employee or the minor because I can’t force them to work longer then their limits!
@@rushoflife2368 oh yeah, I heard about that, but I don't think there are any labor contracts, even for them, right?
@@Nerobyrne most labor contracts for the kind of wages we're talking about are "jobs" like Paper(boy), e.g. Vendor distributors.
You basically agree to Deliver products to a location, X times a day/week. Some of these "Contracts" you pay a "fee" for the "right" to do these jobs. Something like "Paper(boy)", might have a "contract" for adult employees, but for "children" they'd just be paid by the hour/job, and only so many days of the week.
An anecdote of this,
I knew a guy who was a vendor for Beer, Bread, and Pepsi, all while working at Walmart.
Guy would work 8+ hours at Walmart a day, + 4-6 hours of vendor a day around town, for 3 different companies every day. He effectively earned around $30/hour total, working an insane amount of hours.
Pretty sure the paper delivery boss was either breaking or trying to get around child labor laws, op did good putting his foot down but the mother should have asked for a copy of that new contract and reported him.
Plus, contracts with minors aren't legally enforceable. They can cancel them whenever they want.
Maybe she didn't think of it at the time.
Yeah, 100% guaranteed delivery boss was breaking multiple laws centered on child labor.
@@FiveOnAFriday unless a parent signed which is usually required, that’s why schools have your parents sign class contracts too and not just you
@@bradenr867 gotta love these companies and people who can fire on a moment's notice but as soon as you apply the same principal because of the shit work conditions understaffing that makes you work multiple positions and whatever else god forbid they throw a hissy fit if a job doesnt feel the need to give me two weeks notice when my livelihood is at stake then why should I for them I just dont get corporate america sometimes
Imagine working for a boss who's so uncaring that they genuinely believe labor laws are optional.
Welcome to the entirety of employers in the Smoky Mountains. I'm pretty sure there's a federal law that states that any business with more than X number of employees must at least offer them all health insurance. Problem is that the fee they get charged for non-compliance is actually cheaper than giving employees insurance, so they just pay the fee instead.
She died just so she wouldn't have to follow them
For the newspaper story, I'm not a lawyer, but I'm like 90% sure that minors can't be expected to honor contracts. I've heard that its one thing if they choose to honor a contract and it becomes valid after they become of age, but I was made to believe that at any time a minor chooses to opt out of a contract, it has to be respected.
Newspapers are just in general evil places to work.. But in terms of child labor laws, they get a lot of exceptions for minors, even though theres actually very few minors anymore who deliver newspapers its like 95% done by adults and has been for decades. When I was 19-22 I delivered about 260 newspapers a day too, yeah it pays pretty decent mainly because theres no real way for the IRS to track your earnings, the paper sends you a blank 1099 and most people just pitch them right in the garbage, its okay money so long as you can get your customers to pay you, which... is easier said than done unless the paper handles all delinquencies for you... mine... did not...it sucked.
This is true in the US, at least. Minors cannot enter legal contracts. (IANAL but I taught Business Law at the HS level)
@@Nekulturny that’s bull crap. the laws are clear
his parents had to agree to it on his behalf. the real issue was illegal work hours: minors can’t start that early no matter what state they live in. 4AM is pushing things as it is, before that is definitely not legal
@@sourisvoleur4854 that is a very unfortunate acronym
Children under the age of 18 can't actually be held to contracts, because they aren't adults. Saying "Honor your contract" to a child is a moot point, there is no way to enforce it.
they can be if the contract is entered into with a legal guardian present which is stupid to say because it's the guardian who is responsible for it at that point. location matters too, you never know what insanity awaits in your local government
And you also can’t have them working certain hours, or more than.. I forgot hours.
@@theautisticartist9370 allowable hours are related to state regulations and whatever your work permit says which can be changed as a result of your grades.
@@DracolegacyOfficial Legal guardian is not the employer, therefore if a contract needs a legal guardian, then it's non-binding unless you get that signature or have them witness.
@@DjGrimmace yeah, i have kids and at one point was one myself, i understand the concept of a legal guardian.
playing board games and watching movies for livin', that sounds like my dream job
Hmm. I did just get laid off. Lol
I play Wow and reset password lol
At my job we call those people managers
@@avenguard9503 I would say "I hope I wouldn't have to deal with Karens then" but i'm used to verbal abuse from my entitled brother and have developed a lot of sass (and a temper that i'm working on)
That’s called a baby sitter my friend
Isn't it illegal to make a minor work at 1:00 am. I thought federal working hour laws for minors during school months was 4 to 9 pm?
Based on the fact there was a 6 month employment contract and the way they talked about enforcing it, I believe the OP was not in the US.
Minors are allowed to work during certain hours, 1am is definitely not one of those hours ,😂👌
@@vickishaw6053 I imagine the judge in that particular theoretical scenario wasn't too impressed with that special bit of law-skirting stupid.
before 4 definitely, it’s possible that even before 5 is illegal
“But if my principles slightly inconvenience me then it’s not that big of a deal” I almost choked on my morning coffee 😂
That absolutely made my day.
I can't stand maskholes
@@fortawesome1974 I'm guessing that Google has a very nice algorithm that catches when people post links to websites that harvest phony pseudoscience.
Its worked on you 5 times.
@@fortawesome1974 If it was a study to justify maskholes it was rightfully deleted.
Junk science
@@fortawesome1974 And it does tell me that youtube is deleting this stupid unscientific shit
@@fortawesome1974 the media and celebrities say that the sky is a figment of our imagination and ppl will believe it, the media will say anything and ppl will go along with it. We live in a world where people would rather go along with false fear mongering information to appese minority groups (not racially speaking but socially). And now if one disagrees with those redundant movements that person is guilt tripped, harassed, belittled and have their own right infringed upon because they don't swallow everything the main stream media, celebrities, and influencers shoves down their throat. With every new bill or law passed, is a right taken from us but people are ro blind to see the whole hearted truth of the reality we live in. People are so focused on not hurting people feelings or not offending anything that they are willing to give their rights away. Fucking stupid.
rslash: four pounds and eighty three cents
me, a brit: confused screaming
The post below yours say you use pence. Not everyone knows that. Pounds are a given, most people do know that, but not everyone knows what you call your change. Currency education is lacking. Sorry
@@amberwriker5237 but we get the tiniest little thing wrong about the US and we get seemingly the entire country asking how we don’t know “xyz”.
@@katashworth41 That's because you speak 'Murican and should know these things. Unfortunately a lot of us in the states don't seem to know that English came from England.
@@patrickmaddy4611 I am from England, I’ve been asked if I’ve ever left my house because I didn’t know a shop we don’t have here. I was complaining about the ‘Murricans
@@katashworth41 I got that, sorry I wasn't clear. I was trying to be sarcastic about how many of us in the US don't seem to understand even basic things about the rest of the world, including and up to the fact that you speak English in the UK too.
6:52 I remember a similar story in the uk. At a cafe a female employee said now she was 18 they have to pay her more by law. The cafe couldn’t afford the increased pay so fired her for ‘being cheeky’. She sued them and won.
“But if my principles slightly inconvenience me then it’s not that big of a deal” If that's a reason to compromise your principles then they aren't principles, that's just virtue signaling.
As the saying goes, "Principals only mean something if you stick by them even when it's inconvenient."
I'll always love these stories. It shows exactly why the Great Resignation is happening, and probably won't be ending too soon
^ This. The remote revolution has made it so even people like me who are disabled can work a 40 hour week. The power is FINALLY back in the hands of the laborers and not the companies and we demand change
@@Phoenix_DarkMoon adapt or perish. Companies that tighten their holds on their proverbial leashes will find out quickly when they begin being outperformed by competitors, or perhaps when they're poised to go under when their own personnel heads for the hills. They'll learn to listen to those who are actually most important to the companies...or die trying
"I can't wear a mask for health reasons."
"Then we can't do business with you for health reasons."
(cue surprised Pikachu with CYE theme)
I heard a story where this person (wearing a mask) told a woman who didn't wear a mask that the masks protect you from the government or something like that. The person left the store and heard the woman telling someone about that on the phone
@@nightrayneraven1323
I out tinfoil-hatted someone. They were judging my mask, and I went on a rant about facial identity camera's.
Take that you wet cabbage.
Yeah
Has asthma, still wears mask.
I don't like wearing the mask, but I do. On the plus side, haven't caught a cold for about a year and a half.
Boss: If you dont like it then quit
Op: Ok
Boss: **surprised pikachu face** Whaaaaaaat?
I’m pretty sure that OP still could have sued that woman’s estate for the missing overtime.
I wonder how she died
yeah....., but she died and it would be a pretty bu*tholish move to defame a dead person
Paying hundreds of dollars to file a complaint for 12 dollars in OT does not make fiscal sense.
50/50 he killed her 😜
@@terramarini6880 I was talking about taking the estate to small claims
There’s something so satisfying about malicious compliance.
It is because it is great having jerks get angry because you did what you were told to do.
Seeing fools fool themselves are satisfying
Acting like a pedantic asshole AND being justified in doing it? What's not to like?
Absoliutely and its even sweeter when you're the one executing it.
The reason I like rSlash is that he can speak nearly as fast as I can read. Many thanks for all the entertainment.
My day doesn’t start until RSlash posts
SAME
I was so scared…. LOL. Excited for another Rslash vid!
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Remember when forgot to hit submit? hard times my dude!
We're rslash addicts and we almost missed our daily hit
@@thelastoutlawofkc ive been here since the beginning, I remember his ackward voice and I'm so happy to see how much he's grown. I don't think I've missed a single vid.
Same
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Yes, we do have a right to not wear a mask if we choose. And businesses also have the right to refuse to serve us. You can’t have it both ways. Yes, you are free to make a choice, but that means you have to accept the consequences of your actions. Screaming at employees and businesses for protecting their workers and customers doesn’t make you a patriot, it makes you and ASS. Don’t mistake inconvenience for oppression.
We tell customers at my store, "If a doctor has given you a mask exemption he has given you an exemption from entering this private business." Call in for curbside or send someone to shop for you. Meanwhile they are screaming and yelling proving they have no breathing issues and have no reason to not wear one. Another customer tried the I have an exemption because of trauma from a past s*x**l assault... nice try, call in for curbside or send someone to shop for you. We only made exceptions for young children and people on the spectrum with sensory issues. We allowed face shields with no mask for crying out loud, we bent as much as we could. Anything more in allowances would have netted the boss a 2500.00 dollar fine.
That's ok in certain areas in my state a poc does not have to wear a mask because its considered oppressive.
@@terramarini6880 If you have a medical condition that is so bad you can't wear a mask, then you DO NOT want to catch a potentially lethal respiratory disease! Their logic is completely bonkers.
Where did I say I had a medical condition? I masked until I was vaxxed and the mandate was pulled, we still sanitize touchable surfaces on the regular and try to keep a level of distance between us and the customers. Vaccinations don't preclude you from getting it, it stops you getting so sick you are hospitalized. If I feel unwell I will stay home to protect the customers who can't or won't vaccinate. I have ALWAYS been a hand washer...I know where that cash has potentially been, up someone's nose, in a strippers g string, some sweaty woman's boob money etc.
May I suggest to anyone complaining about people not wearing masks, please do some research into the effectiveness of the masks. A little reading into the survival rate of the virus vs flu and mask that do nothing to prevent the spread because of filter size difference. Why is everyone trying to push a "vaccine" with more side effects than commercials from lawyers advertising harmful drugs. All I see is people trying to shame others (looking at you Terra Marini @ Eivind Falk) to make them feel good. Quit being a sheep.
5:55 the most outrageous part of that story to me is that you can be paid less for the same work because you're a minor.
How is that not the pressing issue here? I would never work as a minor in the UK.
So wait, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it actually ILLEGAL to have a minor work past/before certain times of night/day? I know a lot of kids have a paper route, or used to, but I know when I was in school under 18, I couldn't work past 10pm or before 4am. 10-4 was off limits to minors. So that boss was potentially also doing something illegal? WOW.
I delivered papers for several years as a kid. They didn' drop them off in front of my house. I had to bike 1/2 mile to get them. After 4 years of rain, sleet, snow, excessive heat, and delivering when I was sick, I was SO glad to never have to do that again.
I worked in a metal fabrication auto plant for 32 years. Safety glasses with side shields, hearing protection, kevlar gloves, sleeves and leather boots with non-skid soles were a requirement for employment. These were jointly decided by the company and union as requirements. Yes, they were at times uncomfortable, yes, they were hot in the summer, the alternative was risking a serious injury around razor sharp metal, losing an eye to flying metal or at the very least going deaf from the cacophony of a high noise environment. These folks who won't wear a mask forget that the business is privately owned, just like the plant I worked in and can enforce their own safety protocols, such as "no shirt, no shoes, no service" as well as wearing a mask to protect their employees and customers. If they came to my home without a mask I do not have to let them enter, their so called civil right to be mask free stops at my doorstep.
True. But you’d be enforcing a rule in your home that is worthless. The masks don’t help at all and just force the person to rebreathe their carbon monoxide.
@@tommoore2012 carbon monoxide is absolutely tiny. Saying that a mask keeps in carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide for that matter is like saying You use a fishing net to filter sand. The waterdroplets containing the virus are several orders of magnitude larger than any gas molecule you would need from the air. A mask cant keep Carbon monoxide in but let a virus pass through. Thats not physically possible
And that is going to do wonders now that Nurses and Doctors have chosen to stop working due to needing to wear masks...It's kinda funny - I look forward to seeing how the entire U.S. will survive even just ONE new wave of the virus with half the working medical force. Oh boy are potential deaths going to roll - AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT TEN TRILLION NEW MANDATES NEEDED FOR EVERY VARIANT OF COVID IN THE FUTURE.
I have a deviated septum and when you combine that with summer allergies, I won't wear a mask. If my allergies aren't so bad then I will. Nobody has had a problem because it's pretty visible (it's bad but you have to look below my nose to see that I basically have 1 nostril) but mask cultists have been driven insane by the television and internet. No store owners or employees have had an issue, just mask Karens. If you're that scared about your health, just stay home.
@@tommoore2012 I will enforce any rule I choose in my home, whether you think it's useless, I wore a mask, I did not become ill, I got the vaccine, I did not become ill. If you choose to expose yourself to the danger, be my guest, I am ONLY concerned for my health and I don't really care what happens to you. I am so damn tired of hearing this BS. Do what you want.
News paper boss: Child labor laws? What are those?
Judge: Laughs, then throws book at the Boss.
also as far as that first one, isn't it pretty common in contract law that minors can void most contracts?
Dying to avoid paying an employee $12 was such a boss move
Sounds like mr. Krabs.
When I was a teenager i pulled a similar stunt on my dad when he said i could only use my laptop charger once a day... he failed to specify when and how long for, spent several days with it just plugged in for hours. He laughed at my finding the loophole then rephrased his statement and restarting my punishment 😂
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Here's a tip if you're in high school and your boss that you're working for is trying to make you work hours that you cannot work, Talk to the school. Your principle will probably be more than happy to chew your boss out.
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Especially if it's starting to affect your grades.
Watching Malicious compliance at work with full volume and looking at my boss to establish dominance
lmao i guess that is indeed a strategy
@@autumnerez lol I hope so
9:13
"I'd rather die than pay you overtime"
"I still insist on getting paid"
"Watch me"
5:49 That would be the best case scenario for him yes. Worst case OP would get a payout and Don would be charged with obstruction of the education of a minor.
Not to mention that if a minor signs a contract without a legal guardian co-signer, then the contract isn't enforceable.
That first story with the boss saying to mind your business and don't worry why they don't work on Sundays almost killed me how funny.
Rslash saying ‘cents’ when talking about UK currency honestly irritates me. We Brits don’t use cents; we use _pence._ Often abbreviated to just ‘p’.
He might not know that or he just got confused for a moment. Chill out. Not everyone knows the currency of other countries. It was an honest mistake.
Maybe let him know
I love that we were all getting worried, thanks Brianna lol
5:38 If his boss took him to court, there's one teeny tiny detail that more people should know, abs that the judge would ABSOLUTELY bring up: CONTRACTS SIGNED BY MINORS ARE NEITHER LEGALLY BINDING NOR LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE!!!
Only now, when I hear these stories, I start to actually appeciate my current boss, Who is honestly the farest man I ever met
9:41 - "I really did hate her."
9:11 "It took me a few weeks to muster up enough courage... ...she died."
Got to hand it to her, literally dropping dead in order to get out of paying 12 bucks is real dedication to your position.
9:10
couldnt you just go to her grave and demand the money untill her ghost pulls out the money and gives it to you?
If i was the dad in the story with the kid that got an F in math, I would have laughed and then lightened the punishment
Here in Washington State, you CAN go around without a mask, so long as you’ve been vaccinated, BUT businesses are able to choose if they’ll still require a mask to enter or not.
With the new Delta variant coming up, I’ve noticed that people are starting to mask up more often than not again, where before it was a gradual trend downward.
rSlash, you make me look forward to listening to stories of malicious compliance. Your content is funny, and it is definitely something I reccomend.
4 Pounds and 83 Cents, As a brit this hurt.
This is like the 5th Malicious Compliance thumbnail and title with this exact premise.
#1: I'd have liked to see payroll dock her for what they had to pay you guys to play games all day. That'll teach her to keep her big mouth shut.
#2: NOPE!!! Can't change the contract in the middle just to suit you boss. Go ahead and fire me. Hope YOU enjoy delivering at 5AM.
#3: Minimum wage is NOT discretionary...THAT'S why it's called MINIMUM WAGE not DISCRETIONARY WAGE!!!
The boss: "My underage employee doesn't want to wake up at 1am instead of 4am to deliver news paper WAAAAH!"
Me: "Yeah, ok, first of all both scenarios are illegal..."
Oh, that last one about masks... I've heard SO many excuses for not wearing one and have yet to hear one based in the most basic of the sciences. According to the fogging on any mirror, my breath (and everyone else's') has moisture droplets that carry pathogens. Yes, I find masks uncomfortable, but I also find coats and sweaters uncomfortable in cold weather, but it still beats the alternative. At least me forgoing winter wear won't make others sick, masks help keep that in check.
You do realise masks are 100% useless unless they are N95 or respirators!!?? The mask issue isn't really anything to do with rights. It's about simple science!! The covid virus is 100 nanometers. The microscopic gaps in surgical masks is 1000 times that size and the gaps in cloth masks is 5000 times that size!! It would be like trying to stop someone throwing a handful of marbles at a house covered by some building scaffolding!! Nearly all or all are going to pass through without any résistance!! Hundreds of scientists and specialists in Europe and the UK have signed a protest against mask mandates saying it's a comfort blanket that does literally nothing to help you but makes the government seem like they are doing something to help!! www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/17/cloth-face-masks-comfort-blankets-do-little-curb-covid-spread/
@@fortawesome1974 while yes, the virus itself is indeed small enough to pass through the gaps, viruses are quite bad at living without a host, hell they obly reproduce by hijacking other cells
So a virus just alone is quite likely to die before it gets anywhere
However, a virus in saliva with your cells in it? Now that‘s a different story. And saliva is considerably easier to stop with having something in front of your face. Say, like some small piece of paper that has been made to be pretty much waterproof
If only we had something like that, huh?
I heard someone say "It's AgainSt my reLIGiOn." It was some white kid. Lmao sure buddy.
@@fortawesome1974 - The science does not support your assertion as the virus is carried by the moisture exhaled by someone. If you breath on a mirror you can see the moisture, that is what carries the virus. The assertion you are going with is that the virus is not carried by anything but the wind. If this were the case, it would not be transmissible It simply would not be able to survive long enough to infect anyone. As for a source, I direct you to www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html which is not some news outlet but an actual source where news outlets get their information.
BAAAA
'I see where you got your terrible math skills from' LOL! That cracked me up
My days off of work are for cleaning and listening to r slash in the background. Love it!
At least the hair bride admitted defeat and didn't spend an hour yelling at the stylist.
I felt the hairstylist story on a visceral level. When all the dog grooming salons came back from the COVID shutdown, a lot of people had gotten dogs (or another dog), and we were slammed, booked weeks or months in advance. Every now and again, we'd have someone angrily cancel an appointment because we were unable to move it to another time that day for their convenience, as the schedule was PACKED.
We would oblige, cancel the appointment, apologize for the inconvenience, and fill the spot with the very next phone call. Then, the day would arrive, and Angry Caller shows up for the appointment she cancelled, dog in hand. We would just explain that when she told us to cancel the appointment, we did that, and now we don't have a groomer available to groom her dog because we all have full schedules.
This happened every couple weeks for some reason, never with the same person twice. They always acted cordial in person, and would simply reschedule and get on the cancelation list. It was like they were so embarrassed they flew off the handle that they tried to pretend it didn't happen, but pretending to be nice doesn't sprout a groomer from the earth to groom your dog.
“Honor your commitments”
Honor them to a point, but your life is more important than imagined “honor”. Do what you can, whenever you can and work your ass of when you can, but don’t die over any job, it’s just not worth it…. Especially as a child delivering paper lol
You’re a little late to upload today, I was starting to get a little worried. My day doesn’t start til I hear my RSlash ❤️ thanks for being so reliable, uploading every single day. You’re awesome. 💜💜
Possibly TH-cam. Creators have to upload a video before it's supposed to be released for the bots to look for copyright, wrongspeak, or other arbitrary things (That they pulled out of their ar$eholes). Sometimes creators complain that this process can take hours.
@@neilprice513 thanks for the explanation! I just usually watch his videos around 9 am when I get up (I’m a bartender) and it was later than usual. I have no complaints he is awesome for uploading new content daily, it was just a little out of the ordinary.
@@neilprice513 oh he said he forgot to jitc publish before
This didn’t come out until after I left home for work but listening to a new rslash is the best way to unwind from work
“It’s my right to breath air/ not wear a mask” yeah and it’s also MY right not to be exposed to your germs
Edit: I spent most of 2020 and the early 1/4 of 2021 staying at home and shielding due to my poor health,
@George Fentanyl it totally is their right to not get exposed and almost die from things you could prevent.
@George Fentanyl I thought in America you had the right to live?
10:24 he is lucky his parents arent strict lol
The newspaper story. Who else thinks that OP's boss was the one who had to drive to that other town, at 2am, to collect the papers and was trying to force OP to do it?
Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing, but I also think that it's totally illegal to have a MINOR do it. I don't think you can make a kid work between the hours of 10pm-4am, unless something changed or it varies from state to state, but I know that when I was a teen working at McDonald's, I couldn't take any closing shifts since they all ended at 11pm (this was before 24 hour was a thing, I'M OLD!), so I had to do opening or mid.
@@RibbinOpinion Even "IF" it was illegal for a kid to work between 10pm and 4am, I can easily see the boss not officially employing OP for those hours and trying to force them to still get up at 1am to get the papers at 2.
I work in an immersive theatre as an actor. We still have a mask mandate in place because we have hundreds of people coming through every day and we have a number of close contact experiences. Guests are told they *must* wear a mask if they want to take part in these experiences, but I still get people coming into my part maskless. Fortunately, my character is an obnoxious, domineering a**hole, so when I ask them why they don't have a mask and they smugly reply "I'm exempt" then I respond with "Well then you just exempted yourself from my office. You either wear a mask or leave!"
It's amazing how many of them will suddenly decide they *can* wear a mask when they find out they're going to miss out. In fact, of the several thousand people who have been through the attraction since we reopened, I've only had two people who left when being told they had to wear a mask. The close contact part only lasts five minutes maximum.
Don't get me wrong - I know there are people who genuinely cannot wear a mask. I know several people who can't, especially one who suffered an abusive relationship and gets triggered if anything goes over her face (her ex-partner used to grab her around the neck and face before abusing her), but in my experience the vast majority of "exempt" people simply don't want to wear one.
Oh, and I still constantly have to remind people that the mask goes over your nose and mouth, not just your chin, and that taking the mask off every time you speak kind of defeats the purpose...
OMG, "Don" sounds EXACTLY like MY sucky newspaper delivery boss! He even tried to guilt me into work while I was literally in the hospital recovering from surgery to correct injuries sustainedI was hit by drunk driver while on my paper route!!! I had been working after the accident until I HAD to take leave for surgery. Finally leaving that job earlier this year has vastly improved my health just with the drop in stress alone!
PSA: delivering newspapers is ONLY a temporary fix for desperate times, and it's nearly impossible to get fired because they are desperate for ANYONE, so there's always an open position for anyone with no life, no family, and ..... IDK immortals who don't get sick? 🤷
The salon story reminded me. When the lockdown happened, I was a letter carrier for the USPS. I delivered to mostly to a small town, downtown area. One of the places I was delivering to was a Salon. Its mail was piling up cause they were just closed all the time. One day, about 2 months into it I finally caught the owner. "I was like omg, please can you take your mail. I have so much of it and several med-large sized packages." (You have to take the mail out, unless they have put a hold on it, then you can leave it at the P.O.) I drive the truck around and help her load all the stuff in to her SUV. Back then I was working in Marble Falls, TX. Which is known for being a retirement town. Bunch of rich, stuck up ppl that have more money than sense. She tells me "That one client is paying her $500 A DAY to be on call for her. And cut her hair at her place. Plus travel(like a extra 20 bucks, but hey money is money), plus free brunch made by a 5 star personal chef. She's been sitting at home doing nothing, being paid what she makes on a good day. So she can once a month go cut this old lady's hair. Whenever she wants it done. And she's still taking the odd client she likes in at double the normal rate."
That im so sor "click was so perfectly done by Rslash
I feel bad for the lady who cancelled her wedding hair appointment. It's a really important day and government policies are tangibly making it worse. She was probably super stressed out and upset that the government is creating such an imposition on everyone.
There was a court case a few years back in the UK over minimum wage for teenagers. One seventeen-year-old reminded her employer that she was about to turn eighteen, and was due a pay rise. She was promptly fired for being rude. It was only a Saturday job, but she took her employers to court and won about five hundred in damages - the equivalent of several months earnings.
There is no such thing as "A lovely day playing Monopoly". Because you're playing Monopoly.
Bosses who act shocked when the employees leaves when asked to. What did they expect lol.
Anti-maskers can actually be prosecuted by the law and yes it is absolutely legal. The only way to get past the mandate is to prove 100% that the ordinance has no purpose. Which is impossible since it is, "for the public safety."
Where exactly is it that non adults can sign a binding contract?
I was working in menswear ( I did for a lot of years ). The company I was working for went bust, but fortunately ( umm...not really ) they found a buyer...a company with an Italian name...but owned by some guys from Bradford...which has a very high Indian population ( make of that what you will ). The shopping centre where the shop was had a rule that said they had to be open on a Sunday...so the new company decided that despite the fact I'd already 'worked my week' I would have to work overtime. 'I said fine...double pay on Sundays' ! 'Oh no....we only pay time when you work overtime ( figure that out !). I told him that 'time' and 'overtime' were two different things....and over time meant you were paid 'OVER time'. They didn't get it...needless to say we had a very high turnover of staff...that company closed less than a year later....I wonder why ?
9:40 and apparently some other people did as well, no one just dies without explanation, my guess is that a disgruntled found out she was screwing them out of wages and over time, that they probably did the unthinkable to her, some might say "murder" but I believe it's just karma catching up with her, I've never actually been to cali but I do know that people get vicious when they get screwed over from money
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Same here! 🤣🤣
Its been 2 years the way i have seen rslash's voice evolve is ridiculously incredible
OMG! American labor laws for minors are unbelievablely strict! If only OP had known when they were delivering papers. One of the strictist rules are that employers can NOT negatively affect a minors education. Years ago, this was a $25,000 fine. I wish OP had known to report that idiot boss for labor violations. I can just imagine what their reaction to his plan for OP to start work before 2 am would be.
I don’t get anti maskers, like, yes, you have the right to not wear a mask… but businesses have the right to just not serve you. You can do whatever you want, so don’t be surprised when a business doesn’t want to cater to you because you’re risking their staff. So yes, whilst you can decide not to wear a mask, you however cannot force businesses to deal with your bullshit. Your actions have consequences, so you can do whatever you want, but so can everyone else, and we don’t have to deal with you if we don’t want to.
Edit, of course anti-maskers would come crying in the comments about how the mean government, protecting lives and caring about their health, is oppressing them. I ain’t replying to your dumbasses, you’re just proving my point: you have the right to not wear a mask, but shops also have the right to deny your patronage. That’s how it works, cry about it.
The problem is the govt forcing buisnesses to operate this way. If an owner legit wants masks i just wont patronize. But our state is shutting down shops for not requiring masks. So no, the problem isnt the owners, its the government. And yes, it is a violation of your rights.
@@dominohoe1171 I mean its not because there is a very simple solution. You wear a mask. Do you give the same stink for no shoes no shirt no service?
@@reejarino1298 they never like us bringing up no shoes/no shirt... 🤷🏽♀️
@@reejarino1298 wearing shoes and shirts don't hinder how we breathe or how deaf and hard of hearing people communicate.
@@dinahmyte3749 Because shirts and especially shoes serve a purpose.
Nah, that OP in the grounding story is just a big brain
As a minor looking for a job, I have read child labor rules. That boss is breaking them!
I strongly suspect that the boss in the first story was also maliciously complying. He may have sounded begrudging, but I think he knew that it was a ridiculous request and green-lit everyone's overtime. If I were a manager and someone insisted my staff all come in when there's nothing for them to do, I'd happily let them claim overtime for doing nothing
The OP in the second story could have walked at anytime. You can't have a contract with a child. I'm pretty sure that the boss would find if he took him to court that he would have been laughed out of it.
he got an F in math, but he had enough skills in math to know that the end of the month was yesterday, meaning that the teacher could just be bad, or it doesn't take higher than an F to know when the month ends because calendars exist
imagine having parents that forget punishments. man i would do anything for that
The week of your wedding! She was tripping.
Now I just want to open up a business just so I could have the strongest mask mandate possible
I'll shop there routinely. Please sell chocolate.
@@Kiefsti chocolate would be top priority
@@TheNewSoda
You have my business.
If you don't like it quit, okay should be it's own category for reddit
That paper route story was hilarious. How dumb is that boss? "Do this or I'll fire you" only works as a bully tactic on people desperate for their job, NOT for people who literally want to end their contract. He basically said "Do this or else you'll get exactly what you want!" How did he think that would end? He's not only a shit boss, he's an absolute idjit.
I was worried when Rslash didn't upload at 9am. Now I'm relieved.
Rslash doesn’t post a video at 9 in the morning like usual.
Audience panic ensue
The different voices are so good lol. Especially the ones he uses for entitled people
The newspaper, is this in the US. In the US last I knew, minors are not allowed to enter into a contracts. They are considered a child until they turn 18.
I had a paper route back in the early 70's. It was an evening paper, I could deliver it after school, but every 2 weeks I had to collect the payments from the customers and late Saturday afternoon I was required to drop off the collected cash at the paper's office. There was an amount set by the number of customers I delivered to, and I had to pay that amount even if some customers were not home to pay when I tried to collect.
If they hadn't paid, I had to cover the shortfall from my earnings & hope to make it up next collection period.
After a couple months of this I found out about minimum wage laws, did some calculations, quit the paper route & got a job as a dishwasher. Easier work, more money, and a steady paycheck.
nothing better than a healthy dose of malicious compliance :)
I think bad bosses use the line "If you don't like it, leave!" as a bargaining chip. But they don't realize they will lose their most valuable employee because they are so stuck up to realize their hubris will put them out of buisness.
no way in hell that the paperboy delivery was legal, there’s child labor laws and there’s no way in hell that he was required to work before 4AM and the attempt to get him to do so would have resulted in a huge fine and slam from the state no matter how conservative that state is
I hope everyone have i great day
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You as well
Funfact : you are the first comment in this video
In the paper route story, I don't know what country op is in, but most places don't allow minors to enter contracts. In the US and Canada minors can enter contracts, but they are voidable, meaning the minor can exit it at any time. There's a lot more complexity to it than that, but the boss may not have been able to even sue OP if they did stop working.
For the paper route kid, he basically got fired for not breaking the contract, which to me sounds like the employer breaking the contract. OP probably could have pressed charges