{"id":2601,"date":"2025-01-01T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T08:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2025-01-01T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T08:18:19","slug":"a-rancher-in-montana-gets-investigated-for-not-paying-proper-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/a-rancher-in-montana-gets-investigated-for-not-paying-proper-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rancher in Montana gets investigated for not paying proper wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<article id=\"post-25975\">\n<div>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jokesoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cowboy-1417244__340-e1552777215872.png\" alt =\"1\" width=\"157\" height=\"150\"><\/h2>\n<h2>A man owned a small ranch in Montana.<\/h2>\n<p>One day the labor department got a tip he wasn\u2019t paying proper wages to his employees so they sent an investigator to find out what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease tell me how many employees you have and how much you pay them\u201d, the investigator asked the rancher.<\/p>\n<p>The rancher replied, \u201cMy ranch-hand has been with me 3 years and I pay him $1200 per week plus free room and board\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cThe cook has been here a year and I pay him $1000 per week plus room and board\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there is a half-wit.\u00a0 He works 18 hours a day with no days off, doing about 90% of the work around here.\u00a0 He makes about $10 per week and pays his own room and board, although I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night.\u00a0 He also sleeps with my wife occasionally.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>The investigator said, \u201cUh huh! That\u2019s the guy I want to talk to!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou already are\u201d, replied the rancher.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man owned a small ranch in Montana. One day the labor department got a tip he wasn\u2019t paying proper wages to his employees so they sent an investigator to find out what\u2019s going on. \u201cPlease tell me how many employees you have and how much you pay them\u201d, the investigator asked the rancher. The<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2184],"tags":[1207,661,663,1116,700,2287,2285,2284,2286],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny-jokes","tag-agriculture","tag-funny","tag-humor","tag-investigation","tag-joke","tag-labor","tag-montana","tag-rancher","tag-wages"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jokesoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/A-Rancher-in-Montana-gets-investigated-for-not-paying-proper-wages.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}