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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Don't wear clothes. Beautiful post/av
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Jan 16, 2018 21:21
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om nom nom posted:Was about to post this. Goodwill makes lots of money off of your donations, and while it hires employees with disabilities, it uses a law (Special Wage Certificate Program) from 1938 that allows them to pay them less than minimum wage. They give the disabled worker a "productivity test" and decide what they are worth, I've read that some are paid as low at $0.22/hr, although that was in 2011 so I don't know what the current numbers are like. Everyone who hires disabled workers (where "disabled" means "this actually impairs his productivity*, not "lost a leg in the war and has a prosthetic limb that doesn't affect his ability to do his job) does this. It's allowed by Federal law and is specifically to incent businesses to hire disabled workers: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs39.pdf
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Jan 16, 2018 22:33
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Yeah, I tried using fabric softener just to see what it actually did and it basically dissolved all of the seams. Entire sleeves just falling off shirts as I lifted them out. And also wax. If you don't use a dryer at all, the clothes last much, much longer.
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Jan 16, 2018 23:01
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Flyball posted:And also wax. I hang my clothes up outside on a clothesline. I have a dryer, but I hardly ever use it. Hell, the sun is free.
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Jan 16, 2018 23:16
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Randaconda posted:I hang my clothes up outside on a clothesline. I have a dryer, but I hardly ever use it. Hell, the sun is free. what do you do in the winter?
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Jan 17, 2018 00:44
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mustard_tiger posted:what do you do in the winter? I live in Florida.
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Phanatic posted:Everyone who hires disabled workers (where "disabled" means "this actually impairs his productivity*, not "lost a leg in the war and has a prosthetic limb that doesn't affect his ability to do his job) does this. It's allowed by Federal law and is specifically to incent businesses to hire disabled workers: Yeah and it sucks.
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Jan 17, 2018 01:04
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Randaconda posted:I live in Florida. Good plan. Where do you go in summer? 
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Jan 17, 2018 02:40
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As I mentioned it allows them to keep social security and Medicare.
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Jan 17, 2018 02:42
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Don't wear clothes. Outside of work I usually don't 
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Glazier posted:Outside of work I usually don't Lifehack: start your new career as a prostitute, never wear clothing again
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Phanatic posted:Everyone who hires disabled workers (where "disabled" means "this actually impairs his productivity*, not "lost a leg in the war and has a prosthetic limb that doesn't affect his ability to do his job) does this. It's allowed by Federal law and is specifically to incent businesses to hire disabled workers: Yeah because people who have a significant disability don't need money or anything
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Jan 17, 2018 05:07
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Improbable Lobster posted:Yeah because people who have a significant disability don't need money or anything Note that SSDI is a thing and is not based on income. If someone is so disabled they can’t even generate minimum-wage levels of productivity, then nobody will hire that person at all if he has to pay them that, because he’d literally be losing money to do it. Like, do you just want such unfortunate people to be literally unemployable? To have SSDI as their sole source of income? I don’t see how Goodwill is being a bad guy for doing this (although maybe they’re bad guys for other reasons).
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Jan 17, 2018 05:39
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Phanatic posted:Note that
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Phanatic posted:Note that SSDI is a thing and is not based on income. If someone is so disabled they can’t even generate minimum-wage levels of productivity, then nobody will hire that person at all if he has to pay them that, because he’d literally be losing money to do it. I really appreciate this thing you do, where you are calling bullshit and post facts at people who are talking out of their asses.
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Jan 17, 2018 06:34
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So instead of just flat-out not hiring someone who is otherwise unemployable, they're not only hiring them, but paying them (regardless of how much or how little) as well? Sounds like a good idea to me. 
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Jan 17, 2018 07:43
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It can be good or it can be bad. You need good oversight and care arrangements or it can get real exploitative and ugly quick, because the employees making less than minimum usually aren't just 'oh, john has a bad back or stu's a little slow, pay him 60 cents a day' - it's 'John has extremely significant autism and will spend hours at a time sorting the same exact box of books before they go on the shelf' and similarly serious impairments. So on one hand, they absolutely aren't putting in the same amount of productive work as everyone else, but they already have income assistance to compensate, and on the other, they're also a specially vulnerable class. It's that intersection that leads to a system designed to help John go out and get work and maybe, over time, acclimate to it and the people there sometimes becoming defacto sweatshop labour.
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Jan 17, 2018 12:14
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Medicare is 200x more important than the wages (which are also important) and if goodwill or whomever paid them minimum wage they may lose their Medicare. Because if you earn a certain amount of money you are no longer disabled under the SSA* The best answer would of course be UHC and high minimum wages but lol this isn't Europe. * lots of exceptions
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Jan 17, 2018 14:20
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OF course it's not like it's a bitch and a half to get SSDI or anything, even with a lawyer
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Jan 17, 2018 14:29
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Ssi is straightforward. Ssdi can be a problem if you get a bad administrative law judge. But that is always the ultimate life hack: get a lawyer .
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Jan 17, 2018 14:30
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Disableds should move to a civilised country instead.
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Jan 17, 2018 15:05
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euphronius posted:The best answer would of course be UHC and high minimum wages but lol this isn't Europe so why don’t we try to get that stuff rather than giving up and accepting poo poo for marginalized people will be hosed up forever?
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Jan 17, 2018 16:45
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:so why don’t we try to get that stuff rather than giving up and accepting poo poo for marginalized people will be hosed up forever? bootstraps!
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Jan 17, 2018 16:48
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Ziv Zulander posted:Lifehack: start your new career as a prostitute, never wear clothing again That could be fun, I do have a neighbor who is a porn star 
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Jan 17, 2018 16:49
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ah whoops, just noticed what thread I’m in.
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Jan 17, 2018 16:53
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euphronius posted:Ssi is straightforward. Ssdi can be a problem if you get a bad administrative law judge. My wife suffers from an autoimmune disorder that attacks her muscular connective tissue, is going through this process now, and just got rejected because the judge found her able to work based off of records from when she initially entered her first claim 2 years ago- since then her condition has deteriorated and she's lost most of the use of her right arm, can't sit for more than 2 hours, can't stand for more than an hour, and can't lift more than 30 lbs. We received the certified letter from her lawyer stating that they would be dropping our case last night. Our best bet is to scrap the current claim and start a new one, throwing out all chance of back pay for the last 2 years- the new process should take 18-24 months to get an answer. Luckily, we're in a situation where I make enough to support the family, but we are astounded by the length and difficulty of this process, and can't imagine where we'd be if we were financially dependent on it. Lifehack content: My wife's crack-addict cousin is also going through the same process of claiming long-term disability, and offered the sage advice to just "lie and say you have an anxiety disorder and back problems- that's what I'm doing!"
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Jan 17, 2018 17:15
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here's an idea: when your company is called "goodwill" and your stated mission is to help the unfortunate, maybe one way you could go about doing that is by paying disabled people minimum wage even if they're not as productive as non-disabled people. you know, because they need that money to survive.
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Jan 17, 2018 18:38
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As has been explained paying them minimum wage would drastically cut their income and healthcare.
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Jan 17, 2018 18:39
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Stop me if I've got something wrong here, but the maximum you can make as an individual under SSI before you're disqualified is $735 a month. Goodwill has been paying some disabled employees less than $0.10/hr. Some as little as $0.04/hr. If you're working full-time (forty hours a week), that's about 160 hours a month - so they could be paying you $4.50 an hour before you hit that limit. And I'm guessing a lot of disabled people don't work full-time at Goodwill.
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Jan 17, 2018 18:50
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I pmed you to stop the derail
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Jan 17, 2018 18:58
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obvi the solution is to reform the social safety net so everyone can live the full and dignified life that they deserve, rather than being hemmed in at every turn by procedures and means-testing that keep marginalized and poor people stuck as second- and third- place citizens lifehack: be born rich in a capitalist country. everything will be so easy! can someone please explain what this is showing 
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https://i.imgur.com/AdoUuLf.gifv https://i.imgur.com/rB4lGR8.gifv https://i.imgur.com/cee4DbO.gifv  Phone posting if the .gifvs don’t show right. Life hack: phone post! Post with your phone to make dumb forum mistakes! #hackedlyf
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Jan 17, 2018 19:20
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:can someone please explain what this is showing One shoe at a time is half-assedly dried because it's being hung in place by the bootlace.
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Jan 17, 2018 19:25
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I discovered after buying our new dryer that the model a half-step up came with a drying table that fit into the dryer and a mode that turned off the tumble so you could dry things flat in various temperatures of dryer air. I would have liked that, dammit.
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Jan 17, 2018 19:28
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Our LG has that shelf thing. It’s pretty nice, don’t know about the non tumble setting though.
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Jan 17, 2018 19:35
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Lifehack: want to dry your shoes fast? Just throw them in the oven!
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Jan 17, 2018 19:47
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Lifehack: throw them in the oven!
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Jan 17, 2018 19:49
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Just microwave your shoes like normal people
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I just hang mine on the doorknobs to my bathroom, and also own more than one pair of sneakers.
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