{"id":10209,"date":"2023-11-24T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/?p=10209"},"modified":"2023-11-24T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:53:10","slug":"artful-printer-dodges-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/2023\/11\/24\/artful-printer-dodges-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"Artful printer dodges inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Paddy McCoy, an Irish printer, received a letter from the Department of Social Welfare stating he was suspected of not paying his employees the statutory minimum wage and that an inspector would be dispatched to interview them.<\/p>\n<p>On the appointed day, the inspector turned up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me about your staff,\u201d he asked Paddy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d said Paddy. \u201cThere\u2019s the printer \u2013 I pay him \u20ac240 a week and he has a free van. \u00a0Then there\u2019s the receptionist \u2013 she gets \u20ac190 a week along with free board and lodging. There\u2019s also the half-wit. He works a 16-hour day, does 90 per cent of the work, earns about \u20ac25 a week along with a bottle of whisky and, as a special treat, occasionally gets to sleep in the master bedroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s disgraceful\u201d said the inspector. \u201cI need to interview the half-wit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019ll be me, then,\u201d said Paddy.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011, DPNLIVE \u2013 All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paddy McCoy, an Irish printer, received a letter from the Department of Social Welfare stating he was suspected of not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-bit-of-fun","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}