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Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« on: September 27, 2010, 05:37:03 PM »
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Not when "hard" is defined by people who think that your ass is lazy if you're not gasping in misery at the end of the 10-hour work day.

Not when "hard" means standing on my feet on hard concrete surfaces without a break for hours, with a bare few minutes for lunch and bathroom breaks, and hot, smelly air choking me until the migraine is so bad I can hardly find my locker to pick up my purse at the end of the day.

Not when "hard" means that my "exempt" job "exempts" me from being paid overtime for the extra ten hours a week I routinely have to put in at a flickering computer monitor in an ergonomic nightmare of a chair, with sleazy supervisors telling me how lazy I am and denying me raises because the company's profit margin isn't inflated enough.

Not when "hard" means bending over in the hot sun, muscling a heavy piece of equipment intended to be operated by two people all on my own.

Not when "hard" means accepting shitty pay and constant disrespect, suspicion, and superior attitudes from people whose only "qualification" for the job is that their brother-in-law is a company Vice President.

Not when "hard" means getting a theoretical two weeks' vacation I never get to take because if I do, my job will have been disappeared by the time I get back, "re-organized" so that two even worse-paid part-time employees take over the work.

Not when "hard" means no benefits and barely enough pay to eat on and three months behind in the rent and no money to pay for the medication I need to keep breathing without wheezing constantly, but I'm still expected to be on-the-bounce, cheerful, willing to stay late and arrive early and take over the extra work required when a co-worker is out sick.

No, you ****ers, you're right. I DON'T want to "work hard," you piece-of-crap smug sleazy empty suited heartless amoral assholes. I DON'T want to "work hard" so that you can keep making payments on your Lexus and sneer at me because I'm behind on my mortgage and "not making good financial decisions."

I want to WORK.

I want to work with DIGNITY.

I want to work for a LIVING WAGE.

I want to work for the feeling that what I do is IMPORTANT and APPRECIATED and DECENTLY COMPENSATED.

THAT'S how I want to work.

That's what UNIONS used to be for: To keep you slimy, self-righteous, greedy, arrogant shitheels from being able to take advantage of my need for a job, my need to support myself and my family and feel like I'm pulling my own weight in the world by regarding me as a disposable commodity that can be pushed around, treated like crap, and ditched whenever your ****ing profit margin drops below two hundred percent and your bonus or your stock options are in jeopardy.

And then you can justify your smarmy, hypocritical, vicious, parasitical behavior by sniffing superciliously about how I "don't want to work hard."

Damn'.

****ing.

STRAIGHT!

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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2010, 05:41:01 PM »
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I want to WORK.

I want to work with DIGNITY.

I want to work for a LIVING WAGE.

I want to work for the feeling that what I do is IMPORTANT and APPRECIATED and DECENTLY COMPENSATED.

THAT'S how I want to work.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2010, 05:47:52 PM »
So find a better job, beyotch.  Oh, you say you've tried and can't?  Well, maybe you are already as high as you deserve to be on the Cosmic Wheel of Employment, at the limit of what all your skills, attitude, and motivation will ever enable you to achieve.  Ever consider that possibility?

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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2010, 05:50:13 PM »
Eat shit and die you worthless ****,you have the mind of a loser so you will always be a loser.
You hit the horizon you aim for and yours is pitiful and pathetic.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2010, 05:59:41 PM »
Quote from: CactusCarlos on September 27, 2010, 05:37:03 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x561844


Blah Blah Blah.

STFU and get back out there. There's still 6 hours left in your shift and that shit won't shovel itself.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2010, 06:30:18 PM »
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15. Union, YES!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah!

[youtube=425,350]Mm6pSfpQ9ms[/youtube]

Weird, I posted a youtube and it didn't show up.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2010, 06:35:25 PM »
This is what the 'self esteem" programs in the K-12 have done. 

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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2010, 06:37:22 PM »
Oh there it is.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2010, 06:40:28 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on September 27, 2010, 06:37:22 PM
Oh there it is.

Yeah.  And it's a doozy! 

I live such a sheltered life, I guess.  I was shocked.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2010, 06:44:20 PM »
I like the foot up on top of the wooden post.  This is for you, mr-beer-drinking-exaggerated-posture-man...
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2010, 07:19:02 PM »
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I DO NOT want to WORK.

I DO NOT want to work with DIGNITY.

I DO NOT want to work for a LIVING WAGE.

I DO NOT want to work for the feeling that what I do is IMPORTANT and APPRECIATED and DECENTLY COMPENSATED.

THAT'S how I DO NOT want to work.

There ya go, you f'en piece of garbage DUmmie. Fixed it for ya. That's more the style you and all the DUmmies portray. :bird: :censored:
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2010, 07:30:17 PM »
Quote from: longview on September 27, 2010, 06:40:28 PM
Yeah.  And it's a doozy! 

I live such a sheltered life, I guess.  I was shocked.

I was so disgusted when I saw it.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #12 on: September 27, 2010, 07:31:40 PM »
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I DO NOT want to WORK.

I DO NOT want to work with DIGNITY.

I DO NOT want to work for a LIVING WAGE.

I DO NOT want to work for the feeling that what I do is IMPORTANT and APPRECIATED and DECENTLY COMPENSATED.

THAT'S how I DO NOT want to work.
Why does this remind me of 'Green Eggs and Ham'?

    I could not, would not, in a house.
    I would not, could not, with a mouse.
    I would not work with a fox.
    I would not work in a box.
    I would not work here or there.
    I would not work anywhere.
   
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #13 on: September 27, 2010, 07:37:29 PM »
Methinks someone isn't improving his employability and is living beyond his means.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2010, 07:44:01 PM »
All the lazy ass DUmmies are flocking to that thread like flies to sh!t.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2010, 08:02:51 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on September 27, 2010, 07:31:40 PM
Why does this remind me of 'Green Eggs and Ham'?

    I could not, would not, in a house.
    I would not, could not, with a mouse.
    I would not work with a fox.
    I would not work in a box.
    I would not work here or there.
    I would not work anywhere.
   

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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2010, 08:05:25 PM »
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46. Sweat Shop conditions are slavery . . . how many are also working weekends now?

Well let me see, I worked a full-time job and a part-time job (15 hours a week, part time job was at night and included every other weekend) for 15 years, and a few of those years I was going to school, and you're bitching why?
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2010, 08:14:02 PM »
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No, you ****ers, you're right. I DON'T want to "work hard," you piece-of-crap smug sleazy empty suited heartless amoral assholes. I DON'T want to "work hard" so that you can keep making payments on your Lexus and sneer at me because I'm behind on my mortgage and "not making good financial decisions."

I want to WORK.

I want to work with DIGNITY.

I want to work for a LIVING WAGE.

I want to work for the feeling that what I do is IMPORTANT and APPRECIATED and DECENTLY COMPENSATED.

THAT'S how I want to work.

Wow, DUmbass, that's quite a list of "wants".

You know what I want?  I want a new truck.  Yep, a new truck.  A brand, spanking, new Ford Super Duty. 

I already have a good job, a broad skill set (electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, course development, instruction, management, etc), experience, house, and kick ass insurance.  Funny thing how all of that happened - I worked very ****ing "hard" to get it.

That's right, ****wit, I did what you are obviously too damned good to do.  I swallowed a lot of shit, worked a lot of ****ed up hours, and did it with a smile and it paid off in spades.

So while you are sitting behind your keyboard, bitching about what you aren't being handed, with one thumb in your mouth and the other in your ass waiting for the nanny government to yell "switch", I'll be continuing to work "hard" and make more than some ****ing idiot union would ever get me.

DUmbass, I'll reach my goal long before you will.   ;)
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2010, 08:24:52 PM »
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I want to WORK.

I want to work with DIGNITY.

I want to work for a LIVING WAGE.

I want to work for the feeling that what I do is IMPORTANT and APPRECIATED and DECENTLY COMPENSATED.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYb9XjZglSw[/youtube]

That's all I have to add to this thread. 
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2010, 08:27:12 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on September 27, 2010, 08:05:25 PM
Well let me see, I worked a full-time job and a part-time job (15 hours a week, part time job was at night and included every other weekend) for 15 years, and a few of those years I was going to school, and you're bitching why?

Why ?

They feel entitled to an executive salary with perks for a 5 hour a year work week because of the education system (all this self esteem BS) and because society doesn't squash such attitudes with large doses of reality like it used to do.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2010, 08:33:46 PM »
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2010, 08:36:16 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on September 27, 2010, 08:05:25 PM
Well let me see, I worked a full-time job and a part-time job (15 hours a week, part time job was at night and included every other weekend) for 15 years, and a few of those years I was going to school, and you're bitching why?

My husband has been working overtime all last week and into this week.  He works 10 hours a day (not including the 30 minute lunch), five days a week = 50 hours a week for DUmmies.  My husband also went into work on Sunday and this coming Sunday he is going in as well.  That's another 20 hours of overtime.  He will have 35 hours of total overtime on his next check.   

My job has never requires overtime since I've worked there.  I've heard at the end of the year we have to work a weekend to help with end of year/month/quarter stuff, but that's not a big deal.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2010, 09:31:26 PM »
Quote from: LC EFA on September 27, 2010, 05:59:41 PM
Blah Blah Blah.

STFU and get back out there. There's still 6 hours left in your shift and that shit won't shovel itself.

Hey now, I am cleaning stalls and feeding horses as a side job right now. No DUmmies would work remotely that hard.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #23 on: September 27, 2010, 09:35:13 PM »
And I just got called 15 minutes ago, and have to go into work and be there at 10 p.m.  Less than an hours notice to go to work.
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Re: Damn' Straight, I Shouldn't Have to Work "Hard"
« Reply #24 on: September 27, 2010, 09:41:34 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on September 27, 2010, 09:35:13 PM
And I just got called 15 minutes ago, and have to go into work and be there at 10 p.m.  Less than an hours notice to go to work.

Do you work for the railroads?

My FIL is an engineer and always gets called in at odd hours after being home for a short while.
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