She Shall Not Walk

my daughter my daughter my eldest daughter has worked part time weekends holidays since she was thirteen now she is older fifteen always her choice her wishes in employment first babysitting sometimes just $10 dollars for an entire day 8 hours all people could pay they often made up for it next time if they could she progressed from babysitting to fast food serving fish and chips to customers mostly cleaning experiences experiences teach life realities values the value of money hard to make easy to spend for many but in fast foods hours were bad late often not enough so she moved into supermarkets serving at checkout again she chose her days the shifts how many hours I thought she would choose less days less shifts easy but she surprised me chose most offered the hard way she began training she trained mostly learned fast she learned making few mistakes learned accurate she learned listening she learned being caring careful she learned being polite greeting smiling for customers she learned most customers are nice or indifferent busy she learned a few very few are nasty came home cried she learned a few very few are thieves thief has consequences she learned important life skills small steps confidence ability she had to learn skills removing plastic bags as plastic bags were to be outlawed a thousand dollar fine if supermarket selling soon to be illegal plastic bags skill here how to deal with customers angry missing plastic bags next how to learn checkout machine its operational parts how to reset machine functions scale perishable produce how to look up clubcard by name phone number address how to ask for age to not sell alcohol to minors $2000 fine for checkout seller $2000 dollar fine $10000 fine for supermarket plus banned alcohol sales for six weeks for supermarket a massive loss to learn difference between an on-license and an off-license the supermarket and liquor store rules as applied to checkout *** my daughter had to study pass multiple checkout skills my daughter had to study pass multiple supermarket skills aspects of employment contract skills supermarket needed my daughter even learned lotto sales rules sells lotto tickets my eldest daughter surprised as an exceptional checkout worker my eldest daughter finished all employment courses fast my eldest daughter arrived on time never missed shifts called in sick my eldest daughter worked extra shifts short staffed more than most my eldest daughter worked through outlawed plastic bag abuses my eldest daughter worked through COVID 19 customer abuses my eldest daughter worked other staff refused with COVID 19 fears my eldest daughter worked with customer crazy COVID 19 restrictions but my eldest daughter does have one big workplace grievance despite a few years of confidence efficiency workplace experience despite having more skills than some older staff polite smiles service despite being fast on express till main till packing selling lotto tickets my eldest daughter works for less than almost all staff learning new staff my eldest daughter works for several dollars an hour less than new staff because my daughter is under youth under age 16 exploitation contract prime minister bubble head Adern believes in youth exploitation contract Jacinda Adern believes under 16 youth exploitation contract is fair Jacinda Adern believes exploiting under 16 youth hard workers is fair Jacinda Adern believes not in morality fair pay because youth can't vote I believe responsible parenting responsible government employment cares I believe youth have the right to work if they wish plus right to fair pay but I do not believe my daughter has the right to walk to work in the dark I do not believe my daughter has the right to walk home nights in the dark to walk to work to walk home in dark dangers I drive her she shall not walk it may be safe it may not the dark may have danger or not but she shall not walk I will drive her she shall not walk