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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tess Anderson on July 16, 2014, 12:46:54 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018630959
Battlehymn's case:
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 02:56 AM
blur256 (225 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.
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blurrynumbers' family has every right to be embarrassed.
You'd think somebody with a master's degree would know how to write using paragraphs.
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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 02:56 AM
blur256 (225 posts)
I have a master's degree.
You have a master's and working in a booze store. Way to go. Spent all that time and effort in a unmarketable field of study I imagine.
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Didn't this already get posted? Surely there isn't another loser with a Master's Degree working in a liquor store :rotf:
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Didn't this already get posted? Surely there isn't another loser with a Master's Degree working in a liquor store :rotf:
Yes.
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=96873.0
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Didn't this already get posted? Surely there isn't another loser with a Master's Degree working in a liquor store :rotf:
Yeah. It happens. But anyway:
comment 2577:
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=81827.2575
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I just have one thing to say about DUmbass blur256:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc[/youtube]
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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.
Make the minimum wage livable. Make it so that the people in this country can live a normal life. Until then, this country will continue to be a third world country.
Well, DUmmy, it sounds like the people in this country are doing okay, except for you.
What can we infer from that? Hmmm?
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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.
Life, Liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.
I didn't see "Good" job.
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Didn't this already get posted? Surely there isn't another loser with a Master's Degree working in a liquor store :rotf:
She's such a huge embarassment that it needs to be pointed out twice
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I hope she's using the Internet at the library because that monthly payment could help pay down some of those payday loans.
Cindie
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Well, DUmmy, it sounds like the people in this country are doing okay, except for you.
What can we infer from that? Hmmm?
That's what I was wondering. Maybe she doesn't make a very good impression on her interviews, or has some shoddy work references.
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That's what I was wondering. Maybe she doesn't make a very good impression on her interviews, or has some shoddy work references.
Using a mint and getting that tuna smell off her breath would do wonders too.
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No wonder why DUmmies have poor relationship with family members. :mental: