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A 15-year-old English kid just got hosed out of his paycheck after working for a solid two-and-a-half months before realizing that his “job” was actually just an unpaid internship.
Per Yahoo:
Jay El-Leboudy, 15, had been working mornings and evenings in his local Londis for over two months in a bid to save up for gifts for his family.
However, when he came to collect his overdue wages he was told by the boss that he wouldn’t be getting them – as he was on unpaid work experience.
Furious mum Zoe Buckwell said the store’s owners – who were family friends – had arranged an internship with the view of taking him on part time.
I think I can speak for us all when I say this — man, what an idiot. Earth to Jay El-Leboudy! Ever heard of negotiating? Pretty tough to buy gifts for people when you’re just wasting all your time working for free. I mean, come on. Be honest with me, Jay, what were you thinking during every pay period when no one was forking anything over to you? This one’s on you, buddy.
Furthermore, what type of example is his mom Zoe trying to set by being furious with the shop owner? Welcome to the streets, lady. The reason that your kid got put in this position was because of you. I’m guessing you’ve got this kid in some type of secondary school, but you just realized you accidentally enrolled him in the School of Hard Knocks too.
When one of the store owners was asked for comments on what went down, he nailed it.
“I said to her [Jay’s mother] that he’s only 15. The law says he’s not allowed to work and because we sell alcohol, he’s not allowed in lots of areas, but he is allowed to follow people around.”
I bet he said this with a tongue-in-cheek, shit-eating-grin smile on his face too before walking into the back room of the store and letting out a huge, “Bahahaha.”
I’d link to the fundraising page that’s been set up for him since, but I truly don’t think he deserves it. .
[via Yahoo]
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All of these “please pity me” fundraising pages are really getting out of hand.
“I’m an idiot. Please pay my bills.”
– The 47%
“Please help me avoid foreclosure by donating $20,000.” That’s more than my net worth, #pgp.
Who takes a job without knowing the wage?
Wanting come for just showing up? Must be a Chelsea fan.
* something
Yikes, hell of a typo
They both work for Chelsea fans.
I’m a Chelsea fan, at this point I’m just hoping they avoid relegation. The team has been in shambles this year.
England sucks.
God I hate some of the GoFundMe pity party shit out there. A girl I went to college with just set up a GoFundMe page to pay off her college debt and posted the link to facebook. Gave her friends one of those… “heyy guys…(cause)….every little bit counts!” She didn’t ask for a chunk.. she asked for all of it. She’s not unhealthy and nothing even remotely bad has ever happened to her. She’s just asking for a cool 90k cuz like, that’s a lot of money for one person to pay off, ya know? She didn’t work during college and lived in a university owned sorority house for 3 years and was able to add the rent into her tuition. She’s a comm major and works at Lululemon. I’m dumbfounded by the audacity and sheer gall it took to create and post that shit.
Two girls I grew up with posted something like that asking for help to buy a new car and the other a trip to Disney World or something equally as stupid. Both got pregnant right out of high school, obviously unmarried, didn’t complete any higher education, and now can’t afford their kids on their WalMart cashier jobs. It is not my fault you’re lazy and made poor decisions.
This kid will grow up to be the meanest boss ever.