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My boss threatened me today
I work as a handyman in a retirement community in VA. They allowed me to live here at a severely reduced rent for six months while I work here. The whole process was sketchy and rushed and I admit I should have taken more precautions but these days we all know how hard it is to find an offer like this. Well the idea was I would be able to fix maintenance issues for the community when no other crew member was available. The past four weeks of my life since starting here have been an absolute rollercoaster. They dug up my personal life, forced me to talk about my sexual orientation, tried to force my wife and I into a separation (whole other story) have refused to train me while simultaneously riding my ass about not learning or pulling my weight. I was keeping my head down and going…
As a systems guy I find Mondragon interesting on an organizational level. They have an internal economy of cooperatives, with cooperatives for social safety nets, pensions, health care, and unemployment. Some critics say this would never work in the U.S. in part because we're too individualistic, even though we already have some successful kinds of cooperatives like credit unions, but I disagree. We have the technology. I think someone could feasibly build a service to connect workers to form businesses. Workers could be organizing, starting their own cooperatives, and cooperative alliances, instead of putting up with the constant b.s., and even drive meaningful change. If you could, would you? What do you think is stopping this from happening? More info on Mondragon Corp. *This was originally meant to be a poll but for some reason that option isn't available here.
My Grandpa has no education past the 7th grade, and as an adult was the only person in the house who worked and was able to comfortably put all 4 of his kids through private school, buy his house, hire a maid, and pay for his car all while still being completely financially stable. He sold cows that they raised on his family farm. That's it. No side hustle, no 5 jobs, he just raised and sold cows. Sometimes I wonder why any of us even try anymore nowadays
Help me settle an argument with a family member. My mother’s friend has an 18-year-old son I’ll call him J who just got fired from his pizza job. So everything is pretty split on this one. I guess they were giving free pizzas to the employees. He went in for his free pizza and went to the kitchen. According to him the owner was in the back doing some prepping, and asked him to hand him a pan. J let the owner know he is off the clock. The owner got pissy and said I don’t care I’m just asking you to hand me a pan, a favor. To which J simply replied again I’m letting you know I’m not on the clock right now. Apparently the owner went off on him, about him being able to get free pizza and not being able to do him a simple favor.…
And no one is allowed to say that some of these kids act like demons and threaten to rape teachers. They are on video beating up the teachers! What more do you need? edit: Since people don't believe these precious little angels can be violent: https://www.google.com/search?q=student+beats+up+teacher&sxsrf=APq-WBvkhzg2WUFMtEtbxlvH3her5EeVlQ:1644897143881&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWt8-v54D2AhXSIEQIHT74BVsQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1440&bih=789&dpr=1
It's time to take back our lives back, demand what's ours; or we start murdering the rich until we get it. This isn't asking for much, this is basic living costs adjusted for inflation. Crunch the Numbers: Average rent for a 1bdrm apartment in the US currently costs ~$1,100 a month; $20 x 160 = $3,200 a month; the 1/3 rule for income/rent affordability puts you at $1,066 before taxes; after taxes you're only at ~$2,500 a month, meaning you can only afford $850 for rent; just a little less than enough to afford a room in a shared apartment for most major US cities. a $20 minimum wage is really just asking for the bare minumum, the ability to reasonably afford a basic room; not a 1 bedroom apartment, but a basic room to share an apartment with in order to avoid being homeless. There shouldn't be any homeless…
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