slave wage person gets fired over complaining about slave wages

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Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Are you dumb pinko commie nerds still white knighting this princess of the capitalist dreamworld? lol

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 10:23

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 22:52

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Your posterchild: Not a victim of genuine oppression and poverty, but a pampered white girl who is insufficiently rich

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 10:24

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

tuyop posted:

Only if we actually give a gently caress about this actual person. We shouldn't beyond the basic concern we should share for all other people.

I think her particular purchasing habits are irrelevant to the conversation unless the conversation is about subjecting a dummy to shame for being dumb or maybe lying.

I mean, her basic point, peppered with non sequiturs and lovely writing, is that it's hard to live with dignity on the kind of wage an entry-level service worker can earn. Whether she's in that situation is kind of irrelevant. What some of us seem to be doing is the same old tired Olaudah Equiano debate about whether this instance of legitimate grievances are fictional, instead of about the grievances the work of (possible) fiction depicts.

I guess it does matter if you're considering giving her money. You shouldn't give her money unless you think the problem is that enough real people working for lovely wages don't have kickstarters to pay their rent. Then you're just wrong, but go hog wild if you believe her I guess.

Keep rallying around the heiress of the dream job tweeting dynasty dude, as long as you keep the conversation centered around this dumb spoiled bitch you're making sure normal people never actually look at your issues on their own merits :thumbsup:

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 22:41

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

tuyop posted:

Do Americans not have freedom of movement? Like, the right to live and work wherever you want in the country?

Because otherwise you end up just ghettoizing the poor oh wait...

what glorious egalitarian society do you live in where there is no difference in cost of living anywhere in it?

# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 00:34

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

It depends on whether you're one of the 30% of Alaskans who have a TLC/Discovery reality show about them

# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 01:10

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Moltke posted:

up until about 15 years ago you could afford to live in the middle of manhattan making low wages like these. failure of the government to adequately regulate rental units is one of the major driving forces behind nyc and san fran becoming unaffordable. i dont think its entitled to want to have a similar standard of living that our parents and forebears had.

I have clear memories of shopping for jobs in 2001 and I don't recall central NYC being very practical on minimum wage (it wasn't practical at $50k either).

# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 09:41

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

clearly the time is right for a memecrafter's union

e: it was right back then too, it's always been right

# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 09:52

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Klyith posted:

who exactly was disputing it? from page one most people have been at the conclusion that you have only recently arrived at

but some people just get so hyped up on righteousness that they see any dissent from the crusade as bootstraps talk

THE HONOR OF A WHITE PRINCESS HAS BEEN SULLIED

TO ARMS TO ARMS

# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 21:48

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

I CARRY THIS PRINTER IN YOUR NAME MILADY

# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 21:51

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Decrepus posted:

The only times I've seen them are when you are doing sales/services and have clients that you could poach away.

I've seen them applied a lot more broadly, to people in plain old consulting roles, basically to discourage people from quitting to find better jobs in the same field.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 07:29

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

My basic rights and freedoms include sassing my ur-boss in an open letter

# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 19:31

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

I think he was referring to, like, SEX

# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 05:21

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

NObodiesGeek posted:

I tell people I run across, when they complain they want a better job for whatever reason, to apply where I work at. All you need to be able to do is read and write and do some very easy math. Virtually none of them ever apply. Why do you think that is?

you work in a poo-sculpting studio? :shrug:

# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 07:00

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 22:52

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Chomp8645 posted:

Pretty telling that any thread that deals with low economic opportunity is automatically a "millennial thread".

yeah not like the thread is about an LA princess in her early twenties who like, hits every box on the bingo card

# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 21:02

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