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Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« on: September 22, 2013, 04:31:32 PM »
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The Working Poor. A Frustrated Vent.



A little over a month and a half ago, I started working for a local hotel. It's nice enough for Northern Maine, fairly quiet, clean, generally a safe working environment. It's the first time I've worked full time in over a year. At first I was excited, thrilled, I felt almost rich to be earning about 250 a week. From torn up clothing and rags to fresh new attire from Walmart and secondhand stores. From no mobility to a shiny 2008 red Ford Focus that only shakes when you go over 50. It was exciting, at first.

There has to be some serious mental illness or a drug problem in here somewhere. Or maybe just an English degree.


Yet day after day the little things are piling up until I want to scream, or break down and cry, quit my job and live in my parents basement. I complained to a fellow front desk clerk the other day that I was going to have to work eight days in a row without a day off. He told me he'd worked four months without a day off. I stared at him blankly for a second and said, "No way in hell would I do that." He shrugged, "Then they'd probably let you go."

Oh no! 8 days in a row??? How will you LIVE?


For one thing I think that's illegal, isn't it? For another... the job we have isn't a bad one, we are fortunate compared to many. Yet there are no breaks, neither for fifteen minutes nor for lunch, dinner, or breakfast - and it is a twenty-four hour gig where someone has to be behind the desk at all times. When the manager is in, we can break for a minute or two to go to the bathroom - some times, if she's in a good mood.

Liar.


It's on your feet night after night, swallowing tylenol and advil so you don't collapse - because you cannot sit down. Now they want me to do more, and be grateful for it. I'm already working weekends and a 3 to 11 shift that gives me very little time with my girlfriend and her three children. They want me now to work two or three weeks in a row without a day off - and to start working over-nights as well. Is that legal? (weeks without a day off part) It shouldn't be, if it is.

You haven't mentioned the overtime you're making, moron.


The money runs out a few days after I get it because life is expensive as hell. And there is no where I can look to for help. Even my parents, earning 8 grand a month, have expenses of 7600. I can't even imagine how they can manage that.

They spend it at the None of Your ****ing Business store. Locations nationwide, Mr. Senti.


No insurance, in medical and college debt up to my eyeballs, and I feel like I'm headed for a breakdown. Maybe for perfectly healthy, normal people, this is life as usual and I should be grateful that I have the chance to work full time - many do not. It just sort of makes it a whole new level of screwed up when you throw my PTSD on top of everything else.

Liar. PTSD? Pathetic Titty-Sucking DUmmy, maybe. College debt? For what degree?


Last year, going to college for the first time, in school for the first time in eleven years... I was happy, optimistic, looking forward to my future. At the end of the year, the money ran out and I realized I was thousands of dollars in debt - including out of pocket expenses that have to be paid (some time in the next thousand years, if they're lucky) before I can go back to school.

Ahhhh....Clown or Barber college. That explains it.


My boss is a millionaire with three homes, owning two hotels, half a dozen cars. And he's a total jerk who makes everyone around him miserable. When he comes up to visit for a weekend, everyone tiptoes around, speaks softly, and kisses his ass - myself included. For all that, at the slightest mistake he has a way of making people feel like slugs, even breaking down and crying.

How do you know this, LIAR? And even if he is...he gave your sorry ass a job.


Maybe I'll go live in the woods like a hermit. Has to be a cave somewhere with my name on it...

I'm sure a lot of DUmmy dudes have a warm, moist cave with your name on it.


Does it ever get any easier? Does life, at some point, suck less? I'm more or less becoming resigned to the fate of the working poor, it sucks, but I don't feel that I have many options. Just want to break down, cry like a baby, and sleep for a week, wish I could.

You already did/do that, which is why you're a DUmmy.


What qualifies as working poor anyway? At eight dollars an hour, roughly 12,000 a year, do I? I wonder if there's a "Man, you suck" category.

You're in it. It's called DU.




Oh, the drama.


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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2013, 04:36:07 PM »

More on the liar:

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Thu Jul 18, 2013, 04:19 PM


Back in early April, as I was reeling from gathering student loan debt and my struggle to find work, I was finally hired part time by a small radio station up here in Maine. I jumped at the opportunity because I needed work, because I thought I could use my creativity and perhaps even have a little fun - and maybe start to balance out the station's programming. Every morning, we play Glenn Beck from 9-12, followed by Rush Limbaugh from 12-3, followed by Howie Carr from 3-7.

As the Program Director (fancy title that doesn't mean much, it's a small, struggling station with only myself and one sales person/general manager) I was hoping that I could make some changes to bring balance, perhaps open up the County a little more to different points of view. The receivers though, were too old to carry any new programming we wanted, which included pretty much every liberal talk show. The cost of a new one would have been in the thousands, more than the Station owner was willing to pay.

So I sit here day after day, running logs, running and monitoring the boards, managing production and commercials... and it is wearing on me that I am actually enabling - even promoting, truly despicable human beings that fight in favor of ignorance, cruelty and selfishness. Listening to Limbaugh arrogantly rant on and on right now makes me feel like throwing things.

Does anyone else have a job that strongly opposes their beliefs? How do you manage to keep at it every day? I've only been here since April, but I feel all of my initial optimism and enthusiasm for the job just draining away, more with every passing week. If I didn't need the job, if I had other options, I'd probably go somewhere else. But when it comes down to either staying here or losing my car, my home, and any ability to go anywhere or do anything... then I see no viable option but to remain here for my 10-20 hours a week.

Having recovered only a year or so ago from a depression that lasted for quite a long time... I worry that I feel myself sinking back into it.

Any thoughts? Am I a rotten human being for enabling the likes of Limbaugh? Or does the need for work justify it? I can't help but question the man in the mirror - and I'm not sure I like the answers I come up with.


Still employed as of July 18. Posts on Sept. 23 that he's been at the hotel almost two months.

You do the math.
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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2013, 04:47:48 PM »
More on the liar:


Still employed as of July 18. Posts on Sept. 23 that he's been at the hotel almost two months.

You do the math.

Using my new DUmmie math calculator, he's been working 22 years at the motel.....or so you would think.
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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2013, 05:04:02 PM »
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When the manager is in, we can break for a minute or two to go to the bathroom - some times, if she's in a good mood.


Yes, I'm sure she angrilly makes you stand there and soil yourself if she's not in a good mood.  

That goes over well with the guests..."Oh, Mrs. Wummerblummer...Do please humiliate one of the plebeians for us again..make him shit his pants..haw haw..."

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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2013, 05:17:12 PM »
If he is that hard up for money, why did he quit the station job at 10-20 hours a week, and not add that to the full time one at the hotel?  Wimp, sucky cry baby.








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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2013, 06:46:09 PM »
Perhaps you should have gotten a degree in something besides Womyn's Studies.   :loser: :loser:

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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2013, 07:00:34 PM »
If he is that hard up for money, why did he quit the station job at 10-20 hours a week, and not add that to the full time one at the hotel?  Wimp, sucky cry baby.


Strange place he works at.   Front desk at big city Motels and Hotels is a busy time, But I have never seen a front desk that had no seats for the Greeter to sit in and do the computer work required.

I smell 3 day old fish in this story.   One does not stand up in one spot for 10 hours when there are no customers coming in.  A lot of paper work involved, or Computer work, who is in what room, how long will they stay, house keeping involved, ----Room 12 needs more towels or heat/air does not work.

Keeping an eye on the switchboard, He says he is alone from 11-7 at night so he also has to keep an eye out for security in the parking lot and handle the drunks, druggies and hookers that cause problems.  

Even in a off the beaten path Motel up in dumb f*ck Maine, problems come up at anytime day or night.

      Stayed at this Motel with 4 kids and one of the toddlers crawled under the TV. stand and unplugged the TV.   Darn horns, bells, and whistles went off from the anti theft device and took 30 minutes to get someone to come turn the damn sound off.   People in adjacent rooms pounding on the walls,  Kids screaming in fear, the dog, a ST. Bernard we had smuggled into the room barking locked in the bathroom, ------Those were the good old days.

Sounds to me this poster may have what I call a fun job, never know when you will find a dead body or the SWAT Team arrives to arrest a guest or two.   I would say this is good training as you learn to read people, see the best and the worse of people, a good job to learn about life and what to expect from others down the line.

This young man needs to chill out and realize that every job he gets is added experience for him, hell even digging post holes for a living is honest work and one learns about the conditions of the soil, how deep to dig them and all about the ground cover.  




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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2013, 07:04:17 PM »
I'm sure you realize he never had either job.

The first bouncy was a statement against conservative talk radio, a struggling little two-man station that airs Rush and Beck. His car and home are dependent on his 10-20 hours per week.

The second bouncy was a statement against evil millionaire Republican corporatists like WalMart who work employees like slaves until they die with no compensation.

This DUmmy clearly made up both tales.

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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2013, 08:26:05 PM »
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Response to davidthegnome (Original post)Sat Sep 21, 2013, 05:49 PM
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14. Life is awfully short to spend making an asshole richer.

Is there something you could do to improve your future while living in your parents' basement? A computer-based home business? Selling on eBay? Making something to sell to the tourists?

Maybe he could sell pies?  He'd be better off by far making some asshole richer than trying to go it alone.  This DUmmy most likely needs to be watched closely.  He's probably got his ass chewed out for going on a bathroom break and disappearing for half an hour.  That's the vibe I'm getting from his droning on and on about bathroom breaks.  A computer-based home business?  Ha.  Selling on eBay?  Ha.  Making something to sell to the tourists?  What a bunch of stupid ideas.  The Dummy needs to buckle down and quit whining
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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2013, 10:12:25 PM »
"What qualifies as working poor anyway? At eight dollars an hour, roughly 12,000 a year, do I? I wonder if there's a "Man, you suck" category."

No, $8 an hour is closer to $16,480/yr.  You do the math 8x2080.  Further you claim to be working what would seem to be a lot of overtime, which really becomes expensive in a hurry.  So, let's say you pulled the 11p-3a shift for one month straight, without considering possible shift differential, 8x160(four weeks of work at $8)=1280  plus 12x64(hours and overtime)=768.  That equals $2048/mo.  which isn't great, but it isn't horrible either. 

I may make better per hour for what I work right now, but $2000 is a good month.  I'm willing to bet you don't have to visit your fellow democrats homes because they screw up the places the government arranges for them and make repairs they could make if they had any gumption at all.  I have to conceal carry to be left alone to do my job these days Dave, do you want to trade?

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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2013, 05:53:58 AM »


No, $8 an hour is closer to $16,480/yr.  You do the math 8x2080.  Further you claim to be working what would seem to be a lot of overtime, which really becomes expensive in a hurry.  So, let's say you pulled the 11p-3a shift for one month straight, without considering possible shift differential, 8x160(four weeks of work at $8)=1280  plus 12x64(hours and overtime)=768.  That equals $2048/mo.  which isn't great, but it isn't horrible either. 



Either he's not counting his overtime, or he's exempt and making minimum wage. 

I don't know of many employers that hire people for what would be the equivalent of minimum wage, i.e, a salary of $250 a week, and then make them exempt. If that's the case, then he's a fool for staying on. 

Notwithstanding any foreseeable lamentations to the effect of "I sent out 10,000 resumes and this is the only job I could get..." What a bunch of B.S.  I'm so sick of these "I haven't worked in two years, I couldn't find anything" stories....There is work out there, its a matter of motivating yourself to find it, or lowering your high opinion of yourself enough to actually go do it.




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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2013, 07:24:42 AM »
Either he's not counting his overtime, or he's exempt and making minimum wage. 

I don't know of many employers that hire people for what would be the equivalent of minimum wage, i.e, a salary of $250 a week, and then make them exempt. If that's the case, then he's a fool for staying on. 

Notwithstanding any foreseeable lamentations to the effect of "I sent out 10,000 resumes and this is the only job I could get..." What a bunch of B.S.  I'm so sick of these "I haven't worked in two years, I couldn't find anything" stories....There is work out there, its a matter of motivating yourself to find it, or lowering your high opinion of yourself enough to actually go do it.


I got me this idea about a home business for him.     Just over the border is a large store called the Trading Post.  One day while looking around I found some unique jewelry.

So my idea is for him to camp out all summer and collect Moose Poop.  Winters he can make the small balls into earrings and necklaces to sell to the tourists.   Some tourists  just love the strange and unusual junk they buy. 

BTW I am wondering if that $250.00 a week includes room and board. It would be nice to have that much cash left over from a paycheck after paying for food, rent, utilities, laundry, paper products and someone to clean a room and change the sheets every other day, take out the garbage ( all I would guess tax free)  under the table so to speak.         

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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2013, 09:14:36 AM »
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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2013, 10:05:07 AM »
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Been videoing Reggie and Obama through the window have you.....you peeping Tom. :-)
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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2013, 11:23:02 AM »
Maybe $250 a week is after taxes.  Maybe they charge him for a uniform too.  Hard to say.


 
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« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2013, 11:26:12 AM »
Remember when you do the math that DUmmies now work no more than a standard 0bamaweek of 29 hours.

The jug-eared muslim's healthcare scam has forced his minimum-wage base to lose 25% of their income.

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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2013, 12:11:50 PM »
Remember when you do the math that DUmmies now work no more than a standard 0bamaweek of 29 hours.

The jug-eared muslim's healthcare scam has forced his minimum-wage base to lose 25% of their income.

Good.

Now, if only we could cut their freebies 25%.
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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2013, 12:14:50 PM »
But Pelosi said there is no where left to cut in the budget.
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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2013, 12:23:00 PM »
But Pelosi said there is no where left to cut in the budget.
Wasn't it also Pelosi who said the health care bill had to be passed to see what' in it?

They could cut congress' salaries and perks.

edited to add:  Foreign aid could be reduced/eliminated, especially for the countries that don't like the US.
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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2013, 12:24:27 PM »
But Pelosi said there is no where left to cut in the budget.

Aside from supporting the military, border protection agencies and Federal employees working out of DC, why on earth are we sending the government money for anything else?

 

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« Reply #20 on: September 23, 2013, 12:47:04 PM »
Aside from supporting the military, border protection agencies and Federal employees working out of DC, why on earth are we sending the government money for anything else?

 




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Re: Whiner DavidIgnoble pissed about marginal existence
« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2013, 03:34:39 PM »
Sucks to be a DUmmy.  I cannot imagine living a life of perpetual rage and bitterness. :mental:
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« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2013, 04:16:21 PM »
Awhile back, weren't DUmmies agitating for a 4 day work week like France has....and extended vacations. Well, they got what they wanted ......and more..... :lmao:
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