I'm gonna do a quick mini-rant. Used to live in a medium-sized southern city. I worked 40-50 hours construction in the summer in residential houses before the AC was in the house. Trimming out the whole house and hardware. 1 or 2 a day, sometimes 6 days a week. Developed a foot fungus because of the sweat.
Started doing DoorDash and Grubhub delivery apps for about 15-30 hours a week on top of that for extra money. I could pull in about 18 an hour pre-taxes. Paychecks were nice.
I'd bust my ass doing trim with no AC, then go work the apps for 3-5 hours a night. It hit me one night while I was delivering to the damn projects two blocks away from my expensive ass apartment. Smelling weed everywhere. Nobody's working because you can smell weed at literally any time of day. 11 AM, 3 PM, midnight. Weed. I deliver to these projects on the first of the month. Answering the door with beers and weed smoke. No tip. I'm busting my ass and my hard work if supplementing their lives. They live in a destination city with expensive ass houses and apartments everywhere. They don't contribute. They live off the working man like leeches. And they don't even give me a dollar tip of my own money back.
I still get pissed thinking about it, obviously. Didn't really have to work that much at the time but two paychecks is sweet. Now I'm making much more so my side work nowadays is not as common but higher paying. I'm gonna go drink a beer.
Nah, everybody has radical thoughts, but few people act on them. If you were to hear what people really thought you'd be extremely shocked. But I don't think that makes you crazy or anything, it's probably way more common than you believe.
Well said, but blacks would almost never tip me and they would treat me like shit the whole meal, call me racist names, laugh at me and ask for shit they don’t need plus they eat all their meal, complain, get another one for free and demand a 100% discount. It’s commonly known the restaurant industry that most are cheap skate bastards
I would be all for the drug testing if the state paid the bill for it, which would make it constitutional. I wouldn't mind a small tax to pay for the testing, say a nickle a week from everyone should more than cover it. A three strike clause: first, get retested, second would be a 3 month suspension of benefits, third would be permanent denial like convicted felons. It would mean a shit tonne of savings in the long run. Excess at the end of the year would be raffled away as a lottery, because we can't trust the politicians with any extra money.
Coming from a college-grad in STEM. I see this from a slightly different perspective.
I worked my (insert word for posterior) off to get my loan paid ($100k - thank you hazard pay temp assignment) and now I see tons of people just wanting to vote for their student loans to be forgiven. And I've worked with some of these people, they drive new cars, spend money frivolously, and ignore their financial obligations. It hurts to see that my hard work could mean nothing if they get those loans forgiven.
Here's the positive side though. We are better prepared at life. When things go bad, when things collapse, we'll be better prepared to weather the storm and/or benefit. When COVID happened, I had saved a small chunk of money (started saving since I recently paid my loans off) and threw it all into the stock market. I can't exactly buy a fancy car with it, but it's extremely encouraging.
I'm hoping I can have enough money saved to buy some property / a house when land values drop. Everyone is buying land / houses like crazy (and far above value) right now and it seems unsustainable. Interest rates are currently very low.
I'm gonna do a quick mini-rant. Used to live in a medium-sized southern city. I worked 40-50 hours construction in the summer in residential houses before the AC was in the house. Trimming out the whole house and hardware. 1 or 2 a day, sometimes 6 days a week. Developed a foot fungus because of the sweat.
Started doing DoorDash and Grubhub delivery apps for about 15-30 hours a week on top of that for extra money. I could pull in about 18 an hour pre-taxes. Paychecks were nice.
I'd bust my ass doing trim with no AC, then go work the apps for 3-5 hours a night. It hit me one night while I was delivering to the damn projects two blocks away from my expensive ass apartment. Smelling weed everywhere. Nobody's working because you can smell weed at literally any time of day. 11 AM, 3 PM, midnight. Weed. I deliver to these projects on the first of the month. Answering the door with beers and weed smoke. No tip. I'm busting my ass and my hard work if supplementing their lives. They live in a destination city with expensive ass houses and apartments everywhere. They don't contribute. They live off the working man like leeches. And they don't even give me a dollar tip of my own money back.
I still get pissed thinking about it, obviously. Didn't really have to work that much at the time but two paychecks is sweet. Now I'm making much more so my side work nowadays is not as common but higher paying. I'm gonna go drink a beer.
Lyndon Johnson bloated the welfare state monster created by Franklin Roosevelt. Working Americans have been paying for it ever since.
Nah, everybody has radical thoughts, but few people act on them. If you were to hear what people really thought you'd be extremely shocked. But I don't think that makes you crazy or anything, it's probably way more common than you believe.
His username is “Flip Barry from reddit.” I take that as meaning he is Filipino.
Fuck those roaches!!!! Blacks go my restaurant to be racist to and demean me, that’s part of why I had to quit
Well said, but blacks would almost never tip me and they would treat me like shit the whole meal, call me racist names, laugh at me and ask for shit they don’t need plus they eat all their meal, complain, get another one for free and demand a 100% discount. It’s commonly known the restaurant industry that most are cheap skate bastards
It's an unspoken truth in hospitality.. among any race working in the industry.
Cultural facts ≠ Stereotypes.
drug testing for welfare.
Ill pop a cold one with you, pede.
One thing that I really wish would happen in Term 2 is cut welfare.
Or just drug testing for welfare.
Potheads can buy their weed on their own dime.
I would be all for the drug testing if the state paid the bill for it, which would make it constitutional. I wouldn't mind a small tax to pay for the testing, say a nickle a week from everyone should more than cover it. A three strike clause: first, get retested, second would be a 3 month suspension of benefits, third would be permanent denial like convicted felons. It would mean a shit tonne of savings in the long run. Excess at the end of the year would be raffled away as a lottery, because we can't trust the politicians with any extra money.
Excess budgeted as a refund equally distributed to all taxpayers
Take the cost out of benefits themselves. A nickel here and a penny there will eventually end up as dollars.
Totally agree. Problem is, they'd say it's medical.
That's checkers.
Time to play chess.
Wanna claim medical?
Now it's a whole new ball of wax and paperwork.
Fuck em and fuck em again.
Would that make much of a difference? I thought most welfare dollars come from the state level.
Coming from a college-grad in STEM. I see this from a slightly different perspective.
I worked my (insert word for posterior) off to get my loan paid ($100k - thank you hazard pay temp assignment) and now I see tons of people just wanting to vote for their student loans to be forgiven. And I've worked with some of these people, they drive new cars, spend money frivolously, and ignore their financial obligations. It hurts to see that my hard work could mean nothing if they get those loans forgiven.
Here's the positive side though. We are better prepared at life. When things go bad, when things collapse, we'll be better prepared to weather the storm and/or benefit. When COVID happened, I had saved a small chunk of money (started saving since I recently paid my loans off) and threw it all into the stock market. I can't exactly buy a fancy car with it, but it's extremely encouraging.
I'm hoping I can have enough money saved to buy some property / a house when land values drop. Everyone is buying land / houses like crazy (and far above value) right now and it seems unsustainable. Interest rates are currently very low.