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I would literally rather run out of money, break my lease, move in with a friend or relative, and deal with the inevitable depressive episode than work retail or food service during this pandemic. I am a single guy so I can understand people with actual responsibilities not feeling the same.
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Both the Little Caesars and Long John Silver's here are closing at 8 PM every day due to lack of workers. Just those two though, everywhere else is open until at least 10 PM.
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Sep 27, 2021 19:44
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Twelve by Pies posted:Both the Little Caesars and Long John Silver's here are closing at 8 PM every day due to lack of workers. Just those two though, everywhere else is open until at least 10 PM. There's two Arby's by me that are just plain closed on Saturday and Sundays. A few other places have posted in the local forum some thinly veiled "We're hiring because lazy people don't want to work" posts. Really is a reckoning right now.
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Sep 27, 2021 19:49
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I went to pick up my own breakfast yesterday to save on door dash fees and my local McDonald's was stupid slammed. Took me 30 minutes to get breakfast and a bunch of the other people waiting around were literally saying OUT LOUD the poo poo like "nobody wants to work" "this generation is so lazy" etc. I (stupidly) tried to push back against some of that verbally and I dunno if it was because I was presenting femme yesterday or what,but some dude got literally up in my face to scream about how he will NOT calm down and that him waiting for his McMuffin was a big deal.
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Sep 27, 2021 20:15
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"I've been gettin a mcmuffin at this MCD every morning for the past forty years and I ain't stoppin' now cause of the demoncrat plague I tell you what" 
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Sep 27, 2021 21:09
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jivjov posted:I went to pick up my own breakfast yesterday to save on door dash fees and my local McDonald's was stupid slammed. Took me 30 minutes to get breakfast and a bunch of the other people waiting around were literally saying OUT LOUD the poo poo like "nobody wants to work" "this generation is so lazy" etc. "These people are barely able to afford to live on th-" BUT WHAT ABOUT ME HAVING TO WAIT FOR MY MCMUFFIN?!
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Sep 27, 2021 21:16
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As always it comes down to unemployment should be something people are humiliated to be on and treated like second class citizens, and they should take whatever lovely job they can in order to avoid that humiliation.
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Sep 27, 2021 21:25
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I'm soooo loving tired of the "nobody wants to work bullshit". U.S. worker productivity has done nothing but rise for decades as wages have flattened or even dropped. This is really feeling like some sort of flash point or us absolutely reaching critical mass. I hate to bring up the tired Late Stage Game of Monopoloy Meme but it really feels like that's what we're living in. Nobody wants to buy Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road and even if they could, they've been snapped up by investors and can't afford it anyway. If they COULD afford it, it wouldn't change the game at all. Just more struggling. The bosses I've worked for lately don't seem to understand that they're getting hosed just as much as the rest of us, failing to realize that they're not in the 5% either and never will be, which is where ALL of the loving money is. They're super pissed that the money isn't rolling in like it's "supposed to". That's why they're mad but they're blaming the wrong people. The places I've worked lately require an obscene amount of knowledge to make LESS than I made only 10 years ago. Capitalism doesn't work when nobody has any money to buy the poo poo that drives it. All the money has trickled up. Don't give me this bullshit that tossing out $1400 checks is crashing the loving economy. *posts pie analogy video*
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Sep 27, 2021 21:25
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jivjov posted:I went to pick up my own breakfast yesterday to save on door dash fees and my local McDonald's was stupid slammed. Took me 30 minutes to get breakfast and a bunch of the other people waiting around were literally saying OUT LOUD the poo poo like "nobody wants to work" "this generation is so lazy" etc. I mean your telling Americans aka the slave empire to have humanity for others. They own people via proxy. And the slaves of the empire is the global south.
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Sep 27, 2021 22:11
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Grimdude posted:I would literally rather run out of money, break my lease, move in with a friend or relative, and deal with the inevitable depressive episode than work retail or food service I went from food to emergency vet tech for no raise and despite the worse hours and going home covered in dog blood half the time, it's so much better. At least I do a bit of good instead of busting rear end to give some maskless fucko their bacon biscuit.
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Sep 27, 2021 22:11
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Medullah posted:As always it comes down to unemployment should be something people are humiliated to be on and treated like second class citizens, and they should take whatever lovely job they can in order to avoid that humiliation. The sick thing is how much self-loathing is built into society because of the steady great man propaganda that people still lap up hungrily. Every single time I have sought assistance I feel like a massive worthless piece of poo poo. It's seriously hosed.
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Sep 27, 2021 22:47
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jivjov posted:I went to pick up my own breakfast yesterday to save on door dash fees and my local McDonald's was stupid slammed. Took me 30 minutes to get breakfast and a bunch of the other people waiting around were literally saying OUT LOUD the poo poo like "nobody wants to work" "this generation is so lazy" etc. Next time use the drive through
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Sep 27, 2021 22:49
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Practically every drive through I've seen is like 10 cars long at any given time of day. People just cannot fathom cooking for themselves instead of sitting in a 30+ minute line.
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Sep 27, 2021 22:54
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Mercury_Storm posted:Practically every drive through I've seen is like 10 cars long at any given time of day. People just cannot fathom cooking for themselves instead of sitting in a 30+ minute line. That could also be inflated by grubhub/ubereats/doordash. Ever since the mobile treat economy I haven't seen an empty drive thru no matter what time of day.
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Sep 27, 2021 22:59
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Elephant Ambush posted:Next time use the drive through Okay so I'm over explaining the joke at this point, but I placed a mobile order and the drive thru line was such that I wouldn't have been able to get to the speaker and confirm my order til after breakfast hours ended and the app auto cancelled it. So i went with in store pickup. I don't at all mind a long wait, but I did really want the breakfast menu haha
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Sep 27, 2021 23:11
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I teach economics and careers in high school. For years, I have told kids that the economy will not be the same that they face today and that they need to be prepared for it. I talked about how Walmarts in the future May end up as warehouses where workers fill orders (like they do now) but there is no more going through the building. The company sells more by using the app to increase impulse purchases and they save money on labor by not having to stock shelves other than just boxes. I have decided that this is a labor shift that was going to happen in a decade or so as those shifts happen but the pandemic sped it up. People left low paying jobs through no choice of their own and, using the UI, they took a risk on either staying home or starting their own business. “You need to find a better job or stop bitching” has now led to those people doing just that and finding out how to survive without that work life.
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Sep 27, 2021 23:49
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jivjov posted:I went to pick up my own breakfast yesterday to save on door dash fees and my local McDonald's was stupid slammed. Took me 30 minutes to get breakfast and a bunch of the other people waiting around were literally saying OUT LOUD the poo poo like "nobody wants to work" "this generation is so lazy" etc. You went out to splurge on fancy pants McDonalds instead of raising your own chickens, slaughtering the hogs on your farm and making your own bread?
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I saw a Reddit post where a guy who moved to Denver from the south was like "Where are all the 24 hour places to eat and shop?" The answer was basically that there's a bunch of places like that in, say, Tuscaloosa because labor is cheap and plentiful. In Denver, it's scarce and expensive. The night cashier at the grocery store is needed during rush hour. Her overnight supervisor in Tuscaloosa? They're a head teller at a bank here. So everything except for 7-11, Denny's, and a smattering of dive bars and independent all night diners shuts early. Kroger used to be 24 hours, then 5-midnight, now it's 6AM-11PM. Target "overnight" shifts, even at busy stores, are more like 4AM-1230PM. Anything that pays below $15 an hour is going to struggle to get anyone through the door to work. I kind of don't mind this. Nice to see labor getting a tiny bit of power for once.
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blackmet posted:I saw a Reddit post where a guy who moved to Denver from the south was like "Where are all the 24 hour places to eat and shop?" Yeah, tbh even though the lovely customers were bad too, I probably could have eked it out in retail as second earner forever if we could just be open reasonable hours. But the last motherfucking manager wouldn't even let me have sunday as my one guaranteed shift off so I quit to focus on my health care* and find a better job when I'm ready. This time we at least have enough family support that I'm not stopping until I get a job that matches my own self-worth. *exacerbated by the gently caress face's text that I better start calling him directly for calling out when I was in between er and urgent care visits because I literally could not keep food or liquids down for almost a week. Never felt better about quitting on the spot in my life.
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Sep 28, 2021 00:50
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The greatest lie the devil ever told was "left vs right" when it's just the top making GBS threads on everyone else.
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Sep 28, 2021 13:07
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BiggerBoat posted:Capitalism doesn't work when nobody has any money to buy the poo poo that drives it. All the money has trickled up. Don't give me this bullshit that tossing out $1400 checks is crashing the loving economy.  while forgetting that capitalism works until you run out of your own money and let's put your bank account up against bezo's and see who wins.
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InsertPotPun posted:"socialism works until you run out of other peoples' money" Well the good news is Jeff Bezos has a lot of loving money so I think socialism still has the edge in this comparison, and it's honestly hilarious that these idiots that post that kinda poo poo can't see it.
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InsertPotPun posted:"socialism works until you run out of other peoples' money" How can you run out of other people's money though?
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Taerkar posted:How can you run out of other people's money though?
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That's why California, the state with the highest state tax rate in the entire US, is well known for having absolutely no rich people living in it.
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From 1936 to 1981 the top tax bracket in the United States was at least 70%. During that period we put a man on the moon, built the Interstate Highway system, funded the New Deal, fought WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, eradicated several diseases, saw the birth of the Internet, and built hundreds of 2 and 4 year colleges. Then Reaganomics hosed up the economy, possibly irretrievably.
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Doctor Butts posted:Not sure if it was here or somewhere else but basically someone said that conservatives must think that their kids are taught history by walking through a park and asking what the statue is for.  Seen here: history in action
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Sep 29, 2021 06:49
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Getting real 'good guy' vibes from the grinning skull in a crown
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Sardine Wit posted:Getting real 'good guy' vibes from the grinning skull in a crown Look at this guy who doesn't know about Ralph
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Sep 29, 2021 10:55
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"That's a hell of an act, what do you call it?" "The Internet Aristocrat!"
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the sex ghost posted:Look at this guy who doesn't know about Ralph John Goodman just keeps losing weight
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Sep 29, 2021 12:11
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What is Sargon even up to these days?
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Sep 29, 2021 12:23
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Is there another Milo, or is it the edge lord "padeophile is actually okay oh no my career got nuked from obit literally before the best era for being a troll poo poo lord"
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GoutPatrol posted:
This aged well. I remember seeing it when someone first published it and thinking what a huge load of garbage it was. I guess I was psychic because I think every one of the referenced idiots has fallen off the radar in the past few years.
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Sep 29, 2021 15:40
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Local Weather posted:This aged well. I remember seeing it when someone first published it and thinking what a huge load of garbage it was. I guess I was psychic because I think every one of the referenced idiots has fallen off the radar in the past few years. I have no idea who they are
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Sep 29, 2021 15:42
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DarkHorse posted:I have no idea who they are How could you forget Adam?! Adam!
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Sep 29, 2021 15:50
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DarkHorse posted:I have no idea who they are I think they're all connected to Gamergate somehow...? The only one I'm familiar with is Milo, notable for dropping out of the right-wing-o-sphere after he lost a lucrative book deal because he outed himself as a pedophile. Not too sure on the others but quick Google seems to associate the other names with Gamergate.
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Sargon of Akkad wasn't a gamergater iirc, he just liked to yell about Western Civilization using a cartoon of a bust of a mesopotamian sculpture as his avatar. And is british, so not exactly "of Akkad" but they prolly stole the bust at least once, and he's prolly ok with it.
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IIRC the Sargon guy actually ran for office in the UK and everybody shat all over him.
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