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Indentured Servitude in Panama City Beach

 
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10/05/2015 02:03 AM
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Indentured Servitude in Panama City Beach
Geez...just spent a week there. Haven't been in 20 years and holy crap it just the same stores over and over again for miles. Nothing to do there anymore, just these weird beach shops, and my woman and I were wondering what kind of money laundering is going on...well, gotta love the Putinites:

"I was in Panama City Beach last week and learned something astounding from a first hand source. If true, then a form of indentured servitude exists in the beach shops down there.

The whole Story:

I have met many, many young Russian, Ukrainian, Moldovan, Belarussian students working in these beach shops in PCB. Mostly they are 20 and female, though there are some males mixed in. They all say they are on some sort of work/student visa, some for 3 months, some for 1 year. These beach shops are staffed almost entirely by these young students. I will talk exclusively about Alvin's Island, the oldest and largest of these beach shops, since this is where this information comes from.

I was told by a former employee there (an American girl who met her boyfriend there ) that the eastern european students were being exploited by the ownership there in ways I had difficulty understanding.

According to my source:

The students are paid $8 per hour of which one dollar is kept by thier "handler" for his fee per hour worked, making the pay $7 per hour. Each student was required to live in one of the apartments sponsored by the "handler" for $300 per month, for which they got a bed in a room with 6-7 other people, meaning around 10-14 people lived in a 2 bedroom apartment. If you quit your job at Alvin's, you had to move out of the apartment. I did not ascertain whether the student was allowed to move out into another location without losing the job.

These " nice" people also charged each student $25 per week for a taxi service so they would be able to go to the stores or malls, and also to provide transportation to work and back.

When I asked these students how many hours they had to work at Alvins, they all said around 50-60 hours per week because it was the only way to make money to send back home after expenses."

more here:

www.russianatlanta.net/forums/thread/191418.aspx
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