Originally Posted by Hank Kingsley

I hired a young kid in the neighborhood to do chores. Trash cans, mows the lawn and rakes leaves. I give him $10 a week, year round. Every Christmas he gets a card and $100.

I told him he's getting a raise, a buck a week. That's a 10% pay raise I exclaimed. But I need him to wash windows and pick up the dog poop. And the Christmas cards are history.

Guess what he figured out?