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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BattleHymn on June 25, 2014, 11:12:06 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018630959
I added paragraphs to this OP. It was giving me a headache trying to read it.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 02:56 AM
blur256 (221 posts)
So I had a rant on Facebook, and my family told me I was embarrassing...
I don't post here often, and when I do, I realize it is a lot of self loathing, and I deeply apologize for that. But I have to talk to someone, anyone about this. I wrote a post on what the lack of having a useful minimum wage does to a person who is working at a job that does not pay enough. I get $10 an hour working at a liquor store. I apply for jobs all of the time with nothing back (when I do get interviews, I don't hired because of my credit, which is shitty because, well I don't get paid enough). I have a master's degree. And I cannot find a job right now. No, more accurately, I cannot find a career right now. I live on payday loans and I don't have a vehicle at the moment. I am in serious trouble for someone who worked a long time and now is in debt because of it to become what I have.
Don't get me wrong, I like my job. But I do not get paid enough for what I do. I am the best employee that store has, I mean people come to our store just to see me. I'm not tooting my own horn, they literally tell me that. I lift heavy boxes all day, I put on a smiling face all day, I do what is asked of me and more. And I still get paid $10 an hour. THAT is not a living wage. And I posted about how the income inequality is out of hand in this country, and what happens? My family tells me that is embarrassing.
My family. Some family. They don't get it because they all have good jobs. They will never understand what it is like to have to work 60, 70 hours a week to hopefully pay the electric bill, or the gas bill, or rent, because they have it made. My mother hasn't talked to me in months because I am such an embarrassment to her. My mother. The one person in my corner, my father, passed away almost five years now, and now I have no one except my partner, and she doesn't earn any more than I do. But at least she has my back. I can't believe that there is nothing else in the world for me, but at the moment I am stuck.
So I make my plea here. Make the minimum wage livable. Make it so that hard working people like me and everyone else in this country can survive. Not on payday loans. Not on paying bills late. Make it so that the people in this country can live a normal life. Make it so we don't feel guilty for taking a day off. Make it so we can provide for our families. Make it so we can hold our heads up high with dignity that we work hard, and get paid accordingly. Until then, this country will continue to be a third world country. And regardless, I will work 12 hours tomorrow, just to pay off a payday loan to pay off another payday loan. There has to be more than this.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 04:05 AM
Half-Century Man (2,400 posts)
1. There should be more, I agree
Telling us is preaching to the choir.
Write letters to the editor of every paper you can.
Volunteer what little time you can.
Do what you must to force change.
It's a long rough road filled with potholes and debris, but it beats sitting at the shoulder waiting to die.
Just another bump in the road.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 04:19 AM
Star Member eShirl (13,163 posts)
2. Keep ranting; eventually it might sink in.
Keep ranting; eventually they will all unfriend you.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 04:31 AM
Star Member pinboy3niner (35,839 posts)
3. One suggestion for your rants and for posting here
Divide your text into short paragraphs with line spaces in between. It makes a huge difference in readability and those who won't read a "wall of text" will read something that's more reader-friendly.
You might try editing the OP that way and see what you think about the difference.
Paragraphs: Just another service CC offers.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:36 AM
Star Member TBF (24,697 posts)
5. People in this country have been brainwashed and
several years of FAUX news has not helped.
We are in a similar position. We happen to be high income but only after many years of education. Most of our debt is student loan but we did have the credit cards that messed up our credit (used those while trying to get through grad school to improve our chances). We did get jobs afterwards but it is a big hole to dig out of with little room for error even when you are working. I can't imagine doing it on $10/hr.
This is why I continue to advocate. The people of the US deserve better. Hugs
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:41 AM
Chan790 (16,593 posts)
6. Wow blur, that sucks.
1.) We're going to continue to fight for a liveable wage.
2.) You have my permission to tell your family to piss off and unfriend you if they don't like what you post on Facebook.
3.) Stop taking payday loans. Call your creditors, see if you can work something out...but stop taking payday loans regardless. They just dig you a deeper hole and make future financial responsibility increasingly impossible. As a former licensed banker, I can't believe I'm saying this, but...you're better off being late or not paying things than you are using credit-cards and payday loans for everyday expenses and bills. All the loans are doing is burning what income you have coming in, making the hole deeper...at some point, it's better to stop digging, take the lumps and get out of the hole any way necessary. Stop with the payday loans...call debt-relief instead.
4.) What's the MA in? How tied are you to your area? (I'm assuming "not-very" if you don't like your family and your partner is in the same situation you are.)
1.The Chan790 primitive, who as far as I know, hasn't been employed since August 17, 2011. It wasn't too long ago he was complaining about long-term unemployment was crippling his chances of being able to go out on the weekends.
2. He doesn't need your permission; his family will more than likely unfriend him first. Who needs whom more? The liquor store clerk making $10 an hour, or his well-off family?
3. Good advice, but suicide would be faster.
4. Underwater basket weaving, with an emphasis on wimmins studies, and central american slavery.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 10:25 PM
woo me with science (26,634 posts)
12. K&R
You have my great respect and gratitude for posting this.
Yes, we all deserve better. Way past time to throw out the sociopaths who orchestrate this, and create a system that values human beings.
Woo me with paragraphs.
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60, 70 hours a week
Wait a minute. You're bringing in $500-600 a week and you can't make ends meet?
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Wait a minute. You're bringing in $500-600 a week and you can't make ends meet?
Double that. It states that it's in a dual-income household.
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Double that. It states that it's in a dual-income household.
More proof that DUmmies can't handle money, but don't let that stop them from telling you how the country should be run.
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Double that. It states that it's in a dual-income household.
I imagine his "partner" is most likely in the same situation... a bunch of over-educated morons. I spent half as much time in school and earn just as much without having to work the overtime.
Life is good.
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^ that sounds about right. This kid sure has time to play videogames and make youtubes, better hope his employer doesn't see these posts.
He's everywhere, so why not? "Blu256":
(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Vkzs2IO9vMQ/hqdefault.jpg)
gen y burnout
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I can't tell if that's male or female. Ew.
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I can't tell if that's male or female. Ew.
Seriously, I really can't tell.
Also, as mentioned above, he/she's a bull shitter. She's working 60-70 hours a week, on dual incomes, but she can't make ends meet?
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blur256 (221 posts)
I live on payday loans
That there is it's problem. If you are poor, live like you are poor. Find a cheaper place, cancel the cable bill. Payday loans are a killer.
This is why we call them DUmmies.
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Helping customers with a pleasant attitude is called: YOUR ****ING JOB! You don't get extra points for that because it is the bare minimum. Don't do that and you're out of a job.
And I still get paid $10 an hour. THAT is not a living wage.
Obama said it was. What are you? A racist?
Make it so that hard working people like me...
You're not working hard, you dough-faced retard.
TBF (24,697 posts)
5. People in this country have been brainwashed and
several years of FAUX news has not helped.
We are in a similar position. We happen to be high income but only after many years of education.
BUncha self-centered entitled pussies.
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The OP reminds me of Pennsatucky from Orange Is The New Black.
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(when I do get interviews, I don't hired because of my credit, which is shitty because, well I don't get paid enough).
Make bad choices,suffer bad consequences.
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blur256
I get $10 an hour working at a liquor store... I am the best employee that store has, I mean people come to our store just to see me. I'm not tooting my own horn, they literally tell me that.
Unless your name is Jim Beam, George Dickel, or Bacardi, trust me no one is coming to see you, primitive.
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Chan790
As a former licensed banker, I can't believe I'm saying this, but...you're better off being late or not paying things than you are using credit-cards and payday loans for everyday expenses and bills. All the loans are doing is burning what income you have coming in, making the hole deeper...at some point, it's better to stop digging, take the lumps and get out of the hole any way necessary
Wow! That's a special level of stupid.
Good thing you're a "former" banker.
So don't pay and accrue late fees and possibly face an accelerated interest and payment rate, or pay like you've been doing. Sounds like either way your money is going to go to someone else.
How about this: Quit spending money you don't have.
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Primitive -
All register jockey jobs are entry level positions. If you want to find a better path, take that masters and get supplemental training in whatever is hiring in your area, and learn to make adjustments.
I was an el-ed major with concentrations in music. Do you know how many music teachers there are out there ? So, I deliver mail, and make a good living doing it.
The missus is a Psychologist. Instead, she makes her living installing, removing, diagnosing and repairing electric meters, and makes more than I do. I get good medical insurance from my job, and kickass life insurance, the wife covers the family in dental and vision. Together we gross six figures, yet neither one of us are doing what we went to school to do. How is that possible, primitive ?
Here is a clue.
“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.â€
― Charles Darwin
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60-70 hours a week at $10 per hour.....hmmm......40 hrs. X $10 = $400.....plus 30 hrs. at 1 and 1/2 overtime pay = $450 and in total that comes to $850 a week.....DUmmie be DUmb and smoking to much pot or something.
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I forgot about overtime pay. It's been so long since I got any, I didn't think to add it up. :rofl:
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I have a master's degree.
My mother hasn't talked to me in months because I am such an embarrassment to her. My mother.
DUmmies never mention what field their useless degrees are in. Why? The DUmmie also doesn't mention college loans so it may be assumed that the family paid for that useless degree. Might be why mom is ashamed.
So many DUmmies have worthless degrees, yet they blame the bankers for their unpaid loans, never their poor choices at college.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018630959
I added paragraphs to this OP. It was giving me a headache trying to read it.
Thank you for your service.
I really wonder what makes people like this tick.... how they got to this place of blame. So I went looking at old posts from this DUmmy, and found some insight....
From a year ago - $10.00 an hour seems to be a recurring theme......
blur256 (221 posts)
I changed someone's mind today...
So I have worked for a cable company for the last 3 weeks as sort of an in between to figuring out what I really want to do with my life. I got "let go" today, but I'm cool with it (I'm not good at high pressure sales). I should probably be upset, but I have a Master's degree and I was selling things for $10 and hour. But I digress... So I had a customer come up to me today and tell me that they had to have Fox News as a channel on their cable. I asked him why, and he says it is the only news source he watches. I was about to send him away when I just decided to ask him why. He tells me that it is what his family watched, so therefore that is what he grew up on. I then asked him who he voted for when it was the presidential election (he just turned 19 and was on his own). He actually told me he voted for Obama. When I asked him why, he said, to be honest, I have been on my own for a year now, and I can still get health insurance through my parents which would cost me way more on my own. I said, once again, why do you watch Fox News, they tell you that this is a bad thing... And he actually said, I think I don't care about them anymore. You just made a great point. And that was my one sign up for the day.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022832100
Zero bongs.
From 2 years ago:
blur256 (221 posts)
Tonight, I really dislike the 1%
I have been working at my job for five months and found out my boss has expenensed:
His condo
$30,000 parking spaces for said condo
His two acuras
plus other expenses including a steamer.
On top of his ridiculous salary.
And i was told today that I could not attend a necessary conference because of budgetary constraints - even though they paid $600 for it already. Just because of mileage and hotel. I am sick to my stomach right now. And I can't even pay my water bill right now as a campus dirctor of a college.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002581195
Uh huh.
Also two years ago, more pissing off the family on facebook:
blur256 (221 posts)
My girlfriend just said this to me...
I turn you on when I vote don't I. This is her first time voting, so I'm like, "Hell yeah." And she says, you aren't getting laid until Obama wins because you have convinced me so well. Go Obama! But just to tell you as a side note, she is so freaking proud it isn't even funny. She has been wearing her sticker all day. Love this girl and love my president! Oh by the way, just came out on the Facebook because I'm so proud of her. My mom is gonna be pissed (teacher in the buckle of the Bible belt) but I can't help myself. Love this woman and love my President. 4 more years!!!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021736084
Hey DUmmy - maybe your Mom will be pissed not because you're gay, but because you chose to share such a momentous announcement with the general public before you told her.
Those three pretty much represent all the whiny, typo-filled posts by blurred numbers.
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If dykes don`t like men why do so many try to look like one?
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Oh, I remember this dummy. She said her life was ruined over a broken headlight.
Then it posted a letter (rant) it wrote to an employer .....epic :lmao:
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=94040.msg1183269#msg1183269
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So whats the Master's in? If its one of those popular with the young crowd degrees like "Pre Columbian porn" I would think its a pretty narrow field. :-)
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So whats the Master's in? If its one of those popular with the young crowd degrees like "Pre Columbian porn" I would think its a pretty narrow field. :-)
It said the master's was in Management, undergraduate work in advertising and public relations. Also took some classes in web design.
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Oh, I remember this dummy. She said her life was ruined over a broken headlight.
Then it posted a letter (rant) it wrote to an employer .....epic :lmao:
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=94040.msg1183269#msg1183269
Do we have an award for the DOTY that involves repeated failure at personal finance? I'd call it the Keynesian Prosperity Award
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I don't hired because of my credit, which is shitty because, well I don't get paid enough
:???: So you take out lines of credit that you are supposed to pay back but you know you won't pay back and it's shitty they don't hire you because of your character?
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^ that sounds about right. This kid sure has time to play videogames and make youtubes, better hope his employer doesn't see these posts.
He's everywhere, so why not? "Blu256":
(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Vkzs2IO9vMQ/hqdefault.jpg)
gen y burnout
People come from all over to the store to see her!
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:???: So you take out lines of credit that you are supposed to pay back but you know you won't pay back and it's shitty they don't hire you because of your character?
I think these are the emoticons you're looking for, milady . . .
:thatsright: and :mental:
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Betcha I could find an illegal 'immigrant' who would LOVE that liquor store job for $5 an hour. Then the DUmmie would be making nothing.
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OMG, it is a girl. Could've sworn it was a guy:
https://www.facebook.com/courtney.staley.7
^ kind of looks like Clay Aiken there to me.
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I have a master's degree. And I cannot find a job right now. No, more accurately, I cannot find a career right now. I live on payday loans
Let me take a real wild ass guess that your :bouncy: degree is not in economics, finance or anything business related.
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Let me take a real wild ass guess that your :bouncy: degree is not in economics, finance or anything business related.
Probably Wymyn's Studies with an Underwater Basketweaving minor.
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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 02:56 AM
blur256 (221 posts)
I am the best employee that store has, I mean people come to our store just to see me.
Probably for the same reasons that people go to the circus. I think you'd make a fine addition somewhere between the bearded lady and the otter kid
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OMG, it is a girl. Could've sworn it was a guy:
https://www.facebook.com/courtney.staley.7
^ kind of looks like Clay Aiken there to me.
I can't remember the nuances of our rules, and so I won't bring over anything from the facebook page, but let me just give a high recommendation for pure DUmmy entertainment value over there, if anyone needs to kill some time. Also, she could be wallduded in about 5 seconds for some of what she put up there.
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Why isn't this primitive paying its state income taxes?
Why did the state have to get a tax lien against this primitive?
The government needs that $1244.58 more than you primtive.
Suck it up, and pay.