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Well, here's my story, whether you care to read it in it's enirety or not.

During the break from College over the summer months, I'm working for my father at the family business (which is a factory job). Dad promised me that he'd have me switching and moving around as far as what I'm doing, learning first the shop, then outer tasks, and the office as well, etc.

Well, I only had June, July, and August to work. I recently was accepted as a RA at college (which means I get my own room + free food + $$$ as long as I police other students and basically keep residents in line. It's a good deal). This fortunate event means that I now have to go back to school on August 17th.

I've made prior arrangements with my Girlfriend to stay with her at her cabin on August 8th till August 15th, so this means that I can work at the latest up to August 6th.

Now, I need to earn money to spend while at college, and I can only do so in this short period of time. HOWEVER..

Dad isn't holding up his bargain. I've been in the shop the entire time, doing the same things. Even despite the fact that I now must leave a month earlier than before, I'm still doing the same things. What makes it worse is the fact that it's a factory job, meaning his employees will sit down, stop working, take breaks and whatnot at every possible oppertunity.

I obviously will not do those things because it's costing my father money. I've informed my father of my findings and he doesn't care, citing the reason being that "They have to do this job day in and day out every day, they aren't going to break their backs to do it."

So..I'm supposed to? But I can't just sit on my ass, what kind of an influence is that? And I can't quite tell them to "get to work" because I'm the new guy, just starting this summer, and if I were to do that it'd cause more internal politics (there is already bickery between the Caucasians and the Mexicans, though I am cool with each party), and then I'd become an outcast from both parties -- all the while I really have no justification in barking out orders.

I got so frustrated today (Monday). I worked for an hour and a half straight from 6:30 till 8:00 AM, and in that time period others must've sat around for at least a half hour if not more. In that time I watched one employee take position on a saw, and promptly go outside, get on a forklift, move material around meanderingly (non-progressively), park it, come back, take a drink of pop, smoke a cigarette, use the bathroom, come back, and hold a conversation with his buddy working another machine.

A different individual, to lazy to start fabricating raw materials into product, opted to pick up boards and hold them pointlessly in order to hand them to another worker who was operating a machine which only required one person to operate. Once every three minutes he would hand him some boards, then he'd pick up a few others and sling them on his shoulder and sit around.

My co-worker, working with me on a repair table is supposed to be building new material while I'm tearing apart old ones to recycle or set up for repair. Nope..instead, while I'm tearing apart, if he has nothing to repair, he won't fabricate new material, he'll sit on the repair table and smoke and drink soda.

A different employee simply crouched between a few stacks of pallets in an obscure place, making him hard to locate while he haunched over for nearly 20 minutes straight, before he made his exit and left the building (presumingly headed for the bathroom).

While this was occurring, I watched on while I worked continuously. I got soo damn pissed off at this, I worked hard while they sat on their asses. Gah! And I could do nothing, and my father won't change things.

So I'm held to a double standard, employees can sit around like lazy bums while I must work like a dog because I'm his son. WTF?

I left work at 8:00 AM this morning and drove off on my motorcycle, got some lunch and drove around trying to think.

What should I do now? Where can I get a temporary job for the next 25 days? I stand to lose $1200 if I don't work 40 hour weeks for my father the next three weeks or so, but to hell if I'm going to bust my ass while others sit around, that makes me so angry that it becomes unbearable.

So..what do I do? I need some advice..

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