« UCLA punts its football coach | Main | Taser happy cop gets MySpaced »
Starting a career at age four
Posted by Fired Fred on December 5, 2007 3:59 PM
As young as all the geniuses running Hollywood and Silicon Valley look, they would have to line up behind little Brendan Lee if they wanted to try out for a longshoreman's position in Boston. Brendan's dad, also named Brendan, put the little guy on the payroll to help him build up seniority for the day when he followed in Dad's footsteps...
The charges against Lee and others grew out of an investigation triggered by Massport, which noticed that children of longshoremen started showing up on payrolls at the Conley Terminal in South Boston, among other allegations, authorities said.So look for the union label, but don't be surprised if the person with it would rather be watching The Disney Channel than unloading a freighter on the docks.
Prosecutors said in court papers the scheme that Lee and others used did not generate cash, but was designed to position the children in seniority ranks if they chose to work with the ILA as adults.