14-year-old gets father to pay her $200 to take 6-month break from Facebook

14-year-old gets father to pay her $200 to take 6-month break from Facebook

If you’re going to give up something that you really enjoy, you might as well get paid for it. That was the mentality of a 14-year-old girl who wanted to focus on “getting a job and working harder at school” when she asked her father to draft a different sort of contract.

The agreement, shown above, was that she would get off of Facebook for 6 months in exchange for cold hard cash. According to Buzzfeed:

Paul Baier, a vice president for Boston energy firm Groom Energy Solutions, drafted up a legal agreement for his 14-year-old daughter Rachel. The contract agrees to award Rachel $200 if she can stay off Facebook for six months. She gets $50 in April and another $150 in June. The funniest part is that it was her idea. She wanted to get a job and focus more on school.

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Kevin Liston
February 9th, 2013 at 8:25 am

Someone needs to redo their month math, February 4th to June 26 does not equal six months.

 

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