Cleaning is a man's job
October 30th 2008 03:44
Karl Walker: too young to use that thing
A cleaning company in Wiltshire, England, has sacked a 16-year-old worker on the grounds that he is not old enough to operate a vacuum cleaner. Apollo Cleaning also claimed he was too young to use washing-up liquid or hot water.
Karl Walker, who is in his final year of secondary school and plans to become a computer programmmer, had been working for Apollo Cleaning for several weeks. He worked two hours a day, five days a week, and earned £6 an hour.
That came to an end when Apollo management, citing "government guidelines", declared that workers had to be 18 years old before they could operate vacuum cleaners and use hot water and other dangerous cleaning stuff.
Karl's mum called the decision "ridiculous". Her son, she said, had been helping clean the family home for years without accident.
Karl is left to ponder the ways of a world which says he is old enough to enlist in the army and get married, but not old enough to use a vacuum cleaner.
"I just want to be allowed to earn an honest living to support my studies - is that asking too much?" he said.
Apparently so.
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I think junior management hired him and senior management fired him when they found out a couple of weeks later. By citing the washing-up liquid and hot water, however, they leave themselves wide open to lampooning.
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Amazing how a blog post can reach across the world. Good look with the driving and the work applications!
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