I just started working at a summer camp in a nearby town for my ex-chemistry teacher as a junior counselor, full time. The work definitely isn't very hard aside from a bit of running around to set up things for the children and that I'm exhausted by the end of the day, but because I'm a "paid intern" I have an hourly wage of $1.28, as shown by my paycheck of $18.81 for 16 hours' work last week (minus deductions).
I will admit that I had somewhat of an idea about the wage the day before I accepted the job when my teacher had told me that for the summer (7/10 - 8/22), because I'd be working as a paid intern, it would be ~$400 total. I'm handicapped so I didn't entirely think about how much I'd actually be paid hourly because I was just excited to take the job.
There's always going to be one cumlord friend who thinks I should be on my knees for being paid at all at a job where they'd probably think that I just sit on my ass all day. It's a problem when you can literally make more money an hour looking through your couch at home than being bossed around all day by snobby people who get paid 10x as much as you do easily; which I guess is preparation for working for an office but at least there the wage would probably be nice.
What's even worse is that the directors and my boss are seemingly eager to just jump the gun and fire people. They fired one of the junior counselors on Monday leaving only two of us to handle all of the work, and they just fired a counselor yesterday. His main responsibility was to set up the projector for the kids at the end of the day to watch movies. Instead of putting that on another counselor they put it on my partner to handle it every day, which honestly isn't very easy considering the screen is very large, perhaps over ten feet long at least, and needs to be lowered from high up.
The obvious solution to this problem is quitting my job, but in doing that I would probably forget over the summer camp. The counselors would then be responsible for setting up the building and running around doing menial things, which isn't feasible for them apparently. I also like my chemistry teacher and I wouldn't want to screw him over either; he doesn't decide on my wage, after all.
I'd really just like to get across to any of the younger people here to not be a handicap like me and watch out for "paid internship" at places that don't have any educational value, like a summer camp, and that if you do plan on becoming a junior counselor at one, then to be prepared to be treated like rooster.
cunt cunt cunt
