MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT

The Montana Department of Employment, Division of Labor Standards claimed a
small rancher was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out
to investigate him.

AGENT: I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them.

RANCHER: Well, there's my hired hand who's been with me for 3 years. I pay
him $200 a week plus free room and board. Then there's the

mentally- challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about
90% of all
the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and
board, and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night so he can cope

with life. He also sleeps with my wife occasionally.

AGENT: That's the guy I want to talk to - the mentally challenged one.

RANCHER: That would be me.