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8/14/2009 10:24:09 AM

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"$1.20/hour...."

i think that is illegal

8/14/2009 10:24:52 AM

Well I was on salary pay...$175 a week and I worked 144 hours a week.

8/14/2009 10:26:39 AM

so you're saying that at a summer camp with little impressionable children, all they serve is ribs, burgers, grilled chesse and pizza?

there are no healthy options? no fruit? no vegetables? nothing like that?

or are you one of those people who won't eat things like that? can't have it both ways, honey..

8/14/2009 10:28:22 AM

^Well they didn't serve ribs but they did serve grilled cheese, pizza and burgers.

Along with mac and cheese, tacos, spagetti, bbq sandwhich, chicken fillet sandwhich, various parts of a pig, eggs, pancakes, french toast, hashbrowns.

Yes we could ask for an apple, orange, bannana, and if we were lucky they would have cantalope to go with our meal, which often I would get an apple and skip the desserts they fed us. I would drink milk and water instead of the bug juice and lemonade, I do admit though, I would go for the sweet tea when I had high school one week and they served us sweet tea at lunch instead of bug juice.

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8/14/2009 10:35:16 AM

sounds like you're counseling at a shitty summer camp...

the camp I used to go to (and this is 10-12 years ago), served all kinds of healthy options. They even had a salad bar!

Your summer camp is for fatties. Is it a fat camp? Maybe it's camp designed to produce fatties?

8/14/2009 10:38:17 AM

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"Maybe it's camp designed to produce fatties?"

you mean america?

8/14/2009 10:39:26 AM

Sounds like some kind of religious camp. Load the kids down with starches to make them docile and numb the mind.

8/14/2009 10:40:49 AM

No it's actually a really awesome camp, and I don't know how the meals turned into this huge topic in this thread where I just wondering what I could do for swollen feet.

It was a church camp and the kids were there for one week. It's not a camp where we would sit around either. To get to our meals we had to hike up the mountain. We were constantly doing some sort of activity, even when it was storming and we had to be inside we were climing the rock wall or mattress jousting. The only times we were sitting still was during cabin time at night when we were getting ready for bed, or if there was a campfirmation cluster there we were sitting still (sometimes) during that.

8/14/2009 10:43:22 AM

that's something a lot of people don't seem to understand.

you can exercise your fat little heart out, but if you aren't eating right, you're still gonna be in shitty shape.

8/14/2009 10:52:15 AM

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"you can exercise your fat little heart out, but if you aren't eating right, you're still gonna be in shitty shape."

I do believe we are saying the same thing.

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"Load the kids down with starches to make them docile and numb the mind."

8/14/2009 11:06:00 AM

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"Well I was on salary pay...$175 a week and I worked 144 hours a week."

I think people like this are called suckers.

8/14/2009 11:10:33 AM

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"It was a church camp "

exposed. is it one of those camps where you go and sing new age rock god songs then guilt everyone into accepting jesus? then after they do they all go behind the baseball field and smoke cigarettes

8/14/2009 11:12:40 AM

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"exposed. is it one of those camps where you go and sing new age rock god songs then guilt everyone into accepting jesus? then after they do they all go behind the baseball field and smoke cigarettes weed"

8/14/2009 11:19:35 AM

heres a novel idea

some people actually work jobs because they enjoy what they are doing rather than being concerned with how much they are getting paid

8/14/2009 6:48:14 PM

you could be just having some poor circulation, elevate your feet/ankles and maybe try a couple advil or tylenol (I err away from pills at all, you may be more liberal with them) and see if that helps

[Edited on August 14, 2009 at 10:34 PM. Reason : oh and you may want to avoid putting threads like this in CC]

8/14/2009 10:34:25 PM

taking midol or something with a diuretic could help??

8/14/2009 10:37:51 PM

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5/11/2010 9:33:18 PM

May I please direct you to......


http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=594553

5/11/2010 9:40:57 PM

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"Well I was on salary pay...$175 a week and I worked 144 hours a week."

How did you manage to work 20.57 hours per day? Or do you consider sleeping to be work since you're not in your own bed?

5/11/2010 9:45:16 PM

I was on the job while I was asleep too. If at any point of time during the night a camper came to me and needed me I couldn't say "beat it kid I'm off the clock when I'm sleeping"

Basically I was on the clock for 24 hours a day for 6 days at a time.

5/11/2010 9:52:05 PM

lol...I don't think you can count the time you were sleeping. It's just one of those things.

5/11/2010 10:04:52 PM

Well no...I can.

I was sleeping in a cabin with my campers. That was part of the job description, to share a living space and sleep in the same facilities as the campers. It was my job to sleep, so yeah I can count that.

5/11/2010 10:12:36 PM

Yeah, that's not how it works at all.

I mean, if some turd wakes you up in the middle of the night I don't think many people would care if you counted the time spent as double time; but trying to claim that you were working while your brain was shut off and you were laying in the bed asleep is not going to cut it.

5/11/2010 11:55:46 PM

I don't think you get it though. We were required to be there. We were on duty from 1 pm on Sunday until 1 pm on Saturday.

We were getting paid to sleep in the cabins with our campers. If we weren't getting paid to do that then we wouldn't have been sleeping on those plastic foam matresses all summer long.

Just like if I am babysitting over night, I get paid for the hours that I'm there, even if I'm asleep, because when you are in child care you are always working.

It's not like any of this matters anyway, so I don't know why I'm trying to prove my point to you...



[Edited on May 12, 2010 at 12:02 AM. Reason : ]

5/12/2010 12:00:20 AM

Try to work 144 hours in six days at a real job (let's just say McDonalds cashier for example) and you'll understand that you didn't work 144 hours in six days unless you were some sort of methamphetamine consultant. I don't know how I can better get that point across.

I mean, nurses get paid for being on call, but they don't get paid anywhere near their full hourly rate because they're just watching TV or sleeping in their beds 95% of the time. Maybe that is the best analogy I can come up with.

People who travel usually get paid for ~60 hours per week even if they only spend 40 hours working/traveling as a way of making up for that time spent away from their real home.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one I guess.

[Edited on May 12, 2010 at 12:08 AM. Reason : l]

5/12/2010 12:05:54 AM

ppl on soapboxes ITT

5/12/2010 12:18:36 AM

attn: users with ~183 posts

5/12/2010 12:24:57 AM