Child labour

Desperate times call for desperate measures. With Singapore's tight labour market, declining birth rate, and unseemly scramble for graduate talent, Saffron was head-hunted for the day by an ambitious SME looking for a few good three-year olds.



The cleaning lady will be in for a shock come Monday morning, and Saffron seems to have persuaded everyone to dig deep and buy her gummy sweets in the absence of close parental supervision when I was out on sales calls, but she seemed to amuse herself with (almost) more whiteboards than she could shake a marker pen at, and all the stationery an aspiring artist could wish for.



Still, after eight hours of terrified screams (my colleagues) and whoops of delight (the puppet mistress), I can see why child labour has been phased out of all advanced economies...