I hope you get a job you like soon.

I feel your pain, sister. I have a horrible thing for spiders. Not 10min ago I was going through clothes in my drawers and a spider fell right onto my bare foot. I screamed like a little girl and just ran for the hills :P

It's true about how restaurants can be surprisingly gross. At my old job we had a problem with fruit flies and moths, and there were like 3 times when someone found a spider in their food (still alive). Just because it looks clean doesn't mean it is. OP, you did a much better job keeping your calm than I would have. If there was a bug crawling up my pants, I would freak the heck out.

I've worked a lot in the food industry and not one of them had a bug problem. I can understand the cell phone bill and saving up for university, but what other necessary expenses does a 16 year old have?

^school, food, clothes, transpiration. Believe it or not not every parent pays for everything their child needs, for many possible reasons. Not saying she has to pay for all but it's very possible she pays for some of them. it's very naive to think every 16 year old has no expenses of their own to look after.

The glue traps are a good idea. I don't favor them for rodents (those guys deserve to have their necks cleanly and quickly snapped) but I've never seen anything more effective on roaches than glue traps (not even poison).

#144 praying dearly you meant 'transportation'. It's odd to think anyone would have sweat as an expense.

Sweat is perspiration. Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from plants. Way to fail at correcting somebody.

For the person asking about what expenses a 16 year old has.. Not all of us get things handed right to us. Just as OP does, I also have to work to pay for stuff, which started the month I turned 16 (now 17). Without my job, I couldn't pay for my car, gas, phone, clothing, lunch money for school, certain school events, etc. Even with my job, it's still a struggle because at our age, wages are very low, so our money is limited and doesn't go far.

yeah sorry but @ 16 the parents are responsible for supplying a roof and food and clothes for the kids. maybe where you are is different.

wow so you parents don't feel they should feed you. part time at 7.25 is not bad. you all need to stop complaining min wage when I started was 3.25

you know just because you dont see them doesnt mean theyre not there and for all you know they could be laying eggs in the coffee machines or w. e thats rather selfish that you think of yourself before the well being of others. how would you feel beinf served food at a place full of cockroaches

Unfortunately it's not completely preventable. Have you ever spent the entire summer with windows closed and still ended up with fruit flies or bees in the house? Bugs are "smart" in that they know how to get in. They can lay eggs on clothing and all of a sudden hatch in your home. Or in the case of a restaurant, there might be something in the fresh fruits and veggies. Bugs are just a part of life.

Know what else carries disease? Everything.

since everything carries disease why dont you eat out of a plate where a rats ass has been(:

Because people in this day and age have common sense. Most of them anyway...