HR and Payroll would both get an earful if hundreds of people at your company didn’t get their paychecks.

In Washington D.C., about half of the 19,000 students signed up for the summer youth jobs program haven’t received all, or in many cases, any of their pay.

And that’s not the only problem with the program, according to the Washington Post.

Students are supposed to be doing arts programs, such as making jewelry, painting and singing in a choir. They are supposed to learn certain life skills such as job readiness.

But some of the teens have been sitting in a hot school auditorium doing nothing.

Program administrators say the students were stuck in the auditorium of one school for two weeks because the program hadn’t received proper permission for the site from the school system. Programs were delayed in some cases for another two weeks because more than 500 students not in the system still had to be registered.

Officials say all the students should have received their proper pay this week.

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