Man, I had to deal with some crazy stuff while playing Paperboy back in the day, but this shit is ridiculous!
In Collinsville, Ill., Daniel Burrus scrolled through digital photographs of bloodied faces as he described how, on a crew he helped manage for several years, men who missed their sales quota were forced to fight each other.
In Flagstaff, Ariz., Isaac James sat with his wife and newborn daughter as he told how he and others on his mag crew — as they are typically called — stole checkbooks, jewelry, medicine-cabinet drugs and even shoes from customers’ homes.
[Update] I was just reading through the rest of the article and had to share this quote that I came across, from a manager at one of the “clearinghouse” companies:
Mr. Smith said he viewed most stories of drug use and physical abuse as exaggerations. “I don’t put a lot of stock in them because, to be brutally frank with you, abuse is like beauty. It’s in the eyes of the beholder,” he said.
[Update 2]: Ok, and furthermore, what about this one:
“I know it sounds crazy,” Ms. Steele said. “But I believed my manager when he said he would never let that happen again, and I believed him when he said my mom had told him she didn’t care about me.”
Isn’t “Your mom says she doesn’t care about you” what Creepy Guy #2 says in like, the “McGruff Takes a Bite out of Kidnapping and Molestation” comic book that they hand out in 3rd grade or whatever? I think that if I was ever forced to utter or hear such a cliched thing my head would explode!
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