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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyway, I didn't mean to sound combative to you, but I felt like you made a lot of assumptions and I wanted to clarify. None of these kids know each other--swim coach lives several towns over--and we pay at least $10/hr. I think others are right, though. The kids don't need the money. I needed the money when I was a teen, so summer jobs were important to me. My dad made close to $1mil a year and I worked at McDonalds AND had a paper route one summer, because we were expected to make our own money and learn responsibility. It sucked when I was the kid serving the other rich kids at McDonalds, who would come in and pay me in pennies as a joke. Perhaps that all made me a little more intolerant of flakey teen labor. Clearly I need to get over that and accept that teens just aren't going to be a reliable source of help! :)[/quote]

OP, I am intolerant of flaky teen labor, and I didn't have to make my own money as a teenager, but did have to be responsible. (And also did have to be polite to people, including people who work at McDonald's. That's awful.)   I think that the PPs who are saying it's your fault are missing the point.  You're paying the teenagers to do X at time Y. If you have made it clear to the teenagers that you are paying them to do X at time Y, and they don't do it, then it doesn't matter (short of a real emergency) why they didn't do it. Even rich teenagers need to learn, at some point, that either you show up, or you call ahead of time to explain why you can't (not: don't want to) show up, or you don't get paid.

Unfortunately his doesn't help you with how to find responsible teenagers who won't flake out on you...[/quote]

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