slave wage person gets fired over complaining about slave wages

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Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Eat24 sucks and this girl deserves her terrible life for moving into an apartment that costs 80% of her income or whatever

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 04:21

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 09:31

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Also her dream job that she'll never get now was to parlay her English degree into writing corporate tweets, maybe she should kill herself

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 04:23

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Maybe this girl and the various homeless co-workers she mentions should try to get garbage tier customer service jobs in places that aren't San Francisco

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 05:05

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Oh boy I got a job making minimum wage that might get me a better job after an unspecified amount of time. I'd better move into an apartment that costs 80% of my monthly take home pay

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 05:29

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Oh no, a whole year in customer service before I get my shot at the witty Twitter department? How will I afford my rent

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 05:34

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

SHISHKABOB posted:

And get hired by no one because you live a thousand miles away in fuckin Alabama.

Seems unfair to me, I'm pretty sure corporate tweeting is a perfect fit for remote work

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 05:59

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

I read that whole letter and I think this is my welcome to the Republican party moment. Also your rent being 30% of your net income isn't "ideal", it's supposed to be an upper limit if you aren't a dummy

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 06:32

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Bruce Kison posted:

Wait, she's complaining about 20 dollar co-pays for full medical and dental? Jesus Christ.

She's complaining about cheap copays on insurance that doesn't even cost her anything out of her paycheck, I don't think I've ever had a job that just gives me insurance without slicing out part of my pay

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 06:35

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Shaquin posted:

That's cool with an average rent cost of roughly 1000 dollars that's actually 100% of your budget at 40 hours a week on an 8 dollar minimum wage after taxes no matter where you are living.

You can live with roommates, and in fact in many places you can find multi bedroom apartments where the rent may be over 1000 but splits to reasonable levels with multiple people. I'm sure it's hard/impossible to do that in the San Francisco area, but perhaps you shouldn't move across the country to work a minimum wage job there in that case

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 06:43

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Moltke posted:

it only took goons 3 pages to come up with the perfect bootstrapping plan for this girl. how many pages do you think it would take to help the other 4 billion people living in poverty make good decisions so they arent poor anymore? math goons help me out, lib arts here

Is "don't move across the country to San Francisco to work a minimum wage job" really an outlandish plan, because I'm pretty sure she could've panhandled at her local interstate exit while she worked on her Twitter portfolio and done better

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 06:54

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

nomadologique posted:

ya but there's a way to split the difference btw "move to bumfuck where cost of living is bottomed out but there are no jobs and everything is depressed" and "move to san francisco, the worst bubble in the USA, for a minimum wage job you know in advance is below living wage"

No I'm pretty sure this minimum wage job at second rate grubhub in SF was the only opportunity she had, so it's good and cool that she rented a single apartment for 80% of her expected income and maxed out her credit card to move there

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 07:03

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

Ideally, she would be able to go back in time and abort herself

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 07:05

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Shaquin posted:

I'm glad there are legions of computer janitors ready to tell everyone things are fine when someone is having a hard time economically no matter the circumstances or case. And have an arsenal of semi reasonable sounding but no less gymnastic rebuttals when it's about everything being broken from the ground up and not hot tips on how to make it work.

There are better hills to die on in the class war than this one, and I'll have you know I generate the garbage that computer janitors have to clean up

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 07:17

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Naerasa posted:

Easy boot-strapping move for women with english lit degrees who want to live in san francisco but have no money: marry someone with money.

You're welcome.

Maybe you should've tweeted this sweet lifehack at her before she was tricked into going into debt to move across the country to work in a call center by a big city Twitter huckster

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 07:29

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Shaquin posted:

I have really been trying to not get heated and slap fighty in GBS and I hosed that up here. I'm not saying she is deserving of sympathy for her string of ill thought maneuvers but rather that a 20-25 year old should be able to make mistakes and recover from them and the system they are participating in should have the flexibility to allow for that without undergoing a bleak and soul sucking gauntlet. I understand the economic realities of the situation in this country and how they should impact your planning and decisions, but am not apathetic enough to not speak out about how no one should be in this situation in the first place.

She can always declare bankruptcy and move somewhere cheaper to do freelance tweets

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 07:38

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Moltke posted:

you cant fix an economic system that is objectively broken because, as this thread shows, anytime you suggest theres a problem, millions of bellowing goons descend shrieking THIS IS THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE

I don't see the problem with this girl descending into poverty for doing no planning before maxing out her credit card and getting an apartment for 80% of her salary so she could break into the clever tweet business at a food delivery app, this is the way it's supposed to be

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 18:09

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Professor Shark posted:

She seems pretty insufferable

I assumed she migrated to SF from bumfuck nowhere in the midwest. It makes me think she's an even bigger dummy now that I know she moved from LA to SF. It's not like she got dazzled by the dream of big city life or whatever, she just decided "Welp no clever tweet jobs in this major metro area, better move to a more expensive one"

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 19:14

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Mega64 posted:

Funny that she didn't mention her other job at Cracked in her angry CEO letter.

Then again it's Cracked, so

She did, actually. While she whined about her phone and internet bill, she mentioned she was too stressed about money to work her freelance job and make more money

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 19:18

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

TheWhiteNightmare posted:

can somebody please actually say this because i feel bad for this guy

I thought I already said that earlier in the thread

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 19:48

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

https://twitter.com/fart/status/700850837887660033

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 20:13

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Enderzero posted:

Correct. The Federal Reserve creates money out of thin air and credits bank registers to keep them from failing. I suspect the Ubermensch in here insisting a youth be punished for their mistakes have a much quieter voice on punishing banks for their mistakes even though the importance of punishing the latter is vastly more important to long term economic survival.

We should nationalize the banks and create a socialist utopia in which corporate twitter writers still starve and die on the streets, imo

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 00:36

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

InterceptorV8 posted:

I had some English major correct me on how to say "Nevada" when calling about my bank, I complained to the supervisor.

Dude earned a black mark from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmUf9FDUOTk

why how did you say it

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 02:37

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Parallax Scroll posted:

he probably said it "nevada" lol

lol what an idiot

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 02:39

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

InterceptorV8 posted:

The right way, not the East Coast "I take it in the rear end by my girlfriend" Way.

Mispronouncing Nevada is a perfectly valid safeword please don't kinkshame me

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 04:41

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

etalian posted:

It's pretty much a poster child for how not to use social media.

Some companies do use social media as way to screen out applicants or spy on current employees

I don't think it counts as spying when she tweeted dumb garbage at the company Twitter account

Relin posted:

steak is not a fancy or expensive food, i dont know where people get that idea

Actually, it's both and I don't know where you get the idea that it isn't. The cheapest cuts of beef are always more expensive than cheap chicken and pork, and easily become the most expensive and "fancy" once you start going past london broil and bottom round roasts

Dial-a-Dog fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Feb 21, 2016

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 06:06

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

QUEEN CAUCUS posted:

http://throwaway779999.imgur.com/all/

THIS GIRL
All those photos were posted a few weeks ago while she was eating nothing but rice, dust, and tears. Including the 40$ bourbon and steaks.

Lol, come on at least clean all the food pics off your instagram before you write an open letter to your ceo claiming you've been subsisting on a giant bag of rice for the last six months

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 06:24

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Enderzero posted:

That's true but jumping from that to 90% of jobs are gone within 4 years and "sales bots" is incomprehensible

fuckin sales bots lol

Obviously the sales bots will be interacting with corporate buyer bots, idiot

# ¿ Feb 26, 2016 06:19

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 09:31

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

Bobbie Wickham posted:

A STEM degree isn’t necessarily some magic ticket to a six-figure job, though. What’s a Bachelor’s in Math going to get you—a cushy job at the local cosine factory? A lot of people in those fields end up going to grad school for a more practical Master’s in teaching or library science, anyway—nobody’s really chomping at the bit to get a physics major in the office. The point of college isn’t just to acquire knowledge in a specific field; in theory, people are supposed to be acquiring skills like critical reading, time management, how to formulate/express/defend ideas coherently, do research with a discerning eye, and so on. Every degree is worthless, if you don’t know how to hustle.

Actually, while the computer science part of my degree has certainly gotten me most of my work, every time I apply for a job they always comment on and sound impressed about the physics double major I had with it. I'm pretty sure it's a big part of the reason I've gotten job offers. Also lots of math majors I knew were doing it to make bank as insurance actuaries. I think liberal arts majors are neat and I like things like literature and history, but I don't think there's an actuary equivalent for art history, and I don't think anyone gets impressed by English majors unless maybe you're applying for jobs in China

# ¿ Feb 27, 2016 06:19

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