EMPLOYEE ABUSE

Contributed by Paula L.

The South Dakota Department of Governmental Oversight heard that a small local farmer was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to investigate him.



SD Govt employee: I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them.


Farmer: Well, there's my farmhand who's been with me for about a year. I pay him $200 a week plus free room and board.


Then there's the mentally challenged worker. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night so he can cope with life. He also sleeps with my wife occasionally.


SD Govt employee: That's the guy I want to talk to...the mentally challenged one.


Farmer: That would be me.