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Most of those classist bourgeois swine wouldn't last a day in a burger-flipper job with all the standing around, the pace, the shitty bosses, and the shitty customers. I know I wouldn't. Most "unskilled" jobs are more demanding and difficult than the skilled ones.
ReplyDeleteInfidel - You got that right.
DeleteAll so true, and if someone works shouldn’t they be able to afford to live with a roof over their head ?!
ReplyDeleteBecause one day it might be you, as more and more people are one or two paychecks from being homeless :(
-Rj
Rj - Yep.
DeleteWe'd be in a world of shit without those non-college educated, hard-working folks. Literally in a world of shit.
ReplyDeletewhkattk - Absolutely.
DeleteWhat do you mean we “would be”… It looks exactly like we “will be” in a matter of a few months…
DeleteThat last one... so true. All of these ring true. It's very sad... this society.
ReplyDeleteThe WHOLE conversation about "affordable housing" has gotten so out of whack over the past few years! I can remember when an "efficiency" apartment, a good one, was about $100.00/month in the middle 1970s, in DFW. A two-bedroom could approach $400.00/month for a really nice one in an upscale complex. But many entry-level jobs paid about $1200.00/month wages for 40 hrs of work.
ReplyDeleteMany real estate owners now feel that "IF I'm not charging market rate, I'm leaving money on the table." As the "market rate" is determined by "others" on that business, that extra profit is theirs' to lose. So they "follow the leader".
Two things at play, here. Investors want a "nicer" apartment complex for many reasons, which can mean higher rents. Then we have "single mothers" with multiple kids in the household. ONE, maybe two, jobs she works to pay the rent. With some other side-issues involved, too. Not pointing fingers, just mentioning things! Might be several generations before this deal MIGHT get better!
Cdadbr - It will take much too long to right this wrong.
DeleteA pilot once told me, "No offense, Steve, but your job is unskilled labor." I responded, "Of course it is, if you think all I do is send Coke. But I have more power to bring people back to the company or send them away. Including you, Captain. So when parents disembark, I can say, 'Goodbye' and mean it. Which do you want to pay me for?"
ReplyDeleteLeftField - I don't get your story.
DeleteSorry about that. Didn't read the text before sending it . I meant to say "serve" not "send".
DeleteI was a flight attendant and the captain said my job was unskilled. I told him that if I said goodbye to my passengers, I could mean it as See you later, or goodbye for ever.
LeftField - Thanks.
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