Jobs for Teens
My aunt did a nice thing for my daughter – made up a job for her. My mother has a ‘sitter’ in the home – a woman who comes in every afternoon and does stuff with my mother… stupid stuff like painting her nails, taking her downstairs in the home, doing her hair. Just stuff to keep her occupied, cuz otherwise, I think my mother would spend every waking moment, sleeping.
My aunt asked my daughter if she would be interested in sitting two mornings a week for two hours each day. She thought it would be a way for my daughter to make some money and have her first job. My mother didn’t really need another sitter, but my aunt was being helpful.
So my daughter was supposed to work Tuesday and Thursday mornings. My aunt started holding her money for her since she was spending it all on crap, and my aunt was holding it so that my daughter would have some money to take with her when she goes on vacation to Newfoundland end-August.
Well, on Thursday, my daughter never showed up for work. She didn’t call, she didn’t answer the phone, she didn’t do anything. When I called her to ask about it she said that she wasn’t feeling well that day so she stayed in her room all day. Right.
I told her she should do the responsible thing and call my aunt to let her know what happened since my aunt didn’t know what was going on and didn’t know if she’d quit, or whether something had happened to her that day – that’s why my aunt called me… because she was worried that something had happened to my daughter since she didn’t show.
After that conversation my aunt told me that she still hadn’t heard from my daughter. So I called her again to tell her to give my aunt a call and let her know what was going on. She said that she would.
Early this morning, on my vacation day, I went over to visit my mother. She slept through most of the visit (wasted my money buying her a coffee) and I stayed until 10:10, expecting my daughter to show up for her job at 10:00. She didn’t show. And she didn’t answer the phone when I called.
My aunt once again called me and I called my daughter and told her she’d better call my aunt to at least tell her that she’d quit – apparently she told her dad that she didn’t want to do it anymore. I can understand that. Get a job for a couple of weeks, start no-showing and up and quit with no notice of any kind.
Although my daughter once again said she’d call my aunt, when I called my aunt a little while later, there had been no phone call.
I don’t know WTF is going on. I don’t think it takes a helluva lot of effort to call a family member and let them know that you don’t want to do what you’re being paid to do. And where are the ethics? That’s the part that gets me. Too fucking lazy to get out of bed and go to work for two hours twice a week?
I really hate to think where this is headed. I don’t know where the sense of responsibility is. But this girl better wise up soon, cuz the first time she pulls this in the workforce, she’ll find herself without a job. And rightly so.
So much for my aunt and her favour. It must be true that no good deed goes unpunished.
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