How to treat kids like #2 101.

"One angry parent said thousands of dollars was owing - with employees getting around $900 every two weeks - but promises to get it sorted had not been honoured as the problem was passed from one person to another.

She said the whole operation seemed haphazard with one manager turning up at her home to pay her daughter $900 in cash after a previous delay in payment.

Then money stopped coming altogether. But hours after this paper inquired a Tourism spokesperson got in touch to say "the delay in salary payment to the Pop and Sizzle Ambassadors has been rectified".

Larry - what say you to someone showing up with $900 in cold hard cash? Think there might be a little problem with the um um... book-keeping over at Tourism?

Explains why everyone's walking around with shiny new briefcases....