Thirty Year Old Sweatshop Worker’s Seventeen Years of Service Saluted with Surprise Retirement Party

In lieu of an officially sanctioned send-off, eight co-workers of Moni Ebrahim at the Shah Makhdum garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh saluted the thirty-year old soon to be ex-seamstress of Disney brand apparel with a surprise party in honor of her seventeen years of service during their five minute break Sunday.

According to those who attended, the party was a tasteful yet low-key affair held outside the factory and featured the traditional consumption of baked treats and the giving of gifts to the guest of honor.

“We split a small loaf of bread and gave Moni a steel spoon on her final day of work behind some bushes in silence lest we be heard and beaten by the men who patrol the grounds,” said Shaheen Zibari, Ebrahim’s best friend.

Ebrahim, who by her own estimation has spent nearly 90% of her waking hours stitching Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh sweatshirts and hats since being hired at Shah Makhdum shortly after her thirteenth birthday hints towards harboring some regret over her retirement.

“I begged them to let me stay but they say I have gray hair and Disney doesn’t want workers who are old. I know nothing but this work and need desperately the four dollars and fifty cents I make per week,” Ebrahim lamented, “At the party some of the girls cried. Whether their tears were for me or for their own imminent fate I do not know.”

Regardless of all else, Ebrahim says she is grateful for the party and is looking forward to a much-deserved rest.

“I was most grateful for the party because we only get one five minute break each thirteen hour shift and I know most of the girls prefer to spend that time urinating. I was also overjoyed by the unexpected food. The bread was a nice change from rice and the spoon I can use to dig my own grave.”

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