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.
Yeah the extra on OT makes zero sense.
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.
His username is “Flip Barry from reddit.” I take that as meaning he is Filipino.