Amsterdam Has a Deal for Alcoholics: Work Paid in Beer
A group of alcoholics in Amsterdam are given beer during breaks from their street-cleaning job.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/world/europe/amsterdam-has-a-deal-for-alcoholics-work-paid-in-beer.html?ref=worldBy ANDREW HIGGINS
AMSTERDAM — After more than a decade out of work because of a back injury and chronic alcoholism, Fred Schiphorst finally landed a job last year and is determined to keep it. He gets up at 5:30 a.m., walks his dog and then puts on a red tie, ready to clean litter from the streets of eastern Amsterdam.
富萊德十年前 因工作背部受傷後他失去了工作,接著沈淪於酒精
現在政府(荷蘭)的一個計畫讓他有了一份工作,他每天早上5:30遛狗後,戴上紅領帶,到街上清垃圾
Jasper Juinen for The New York Times
Fred Schiphorst, 60, at left, making his rounds last week. “I’m not proud of being an alcoholic, but I am proud to have a job again.” Mr. Schiphorst used to be a construction worker.
His workday begins unfailingly at 9 a.m. — with two cans of beer, a down payment on a salary paid mostly in alcohol. He gets two more cans at lunch and then another can or, if all goes smoothly, two to round off a productive day.
他九點上班時就可領到2罐啤酒,中午再拿到2罐, 如果作得順手,下班時還可在拿到2罐.
他的工資就是啤酒.
“I’m not proud of being an alcoholic, but I am proud to have a job again,” said Mr. Schiphorst, the grateful beneficiary of an unusual government-funded program to lure alcoholics off the streets by paying them in beer to pick up trash.
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