Lmao my man came here with his green text telling everyone how happy he is for getting money for doing essentially nothing and people here are just straight up calling him a dumb poor bitch.
People see a 4chan post and just immediately go full hater mode.
Fucking ballistic
Home depot is the most depressing of hardware stores. I wouldn’t want to work there even if what this fake ass post says is true.
Also $17/hr is shit pay. You can’t even rent an apartment at $17/hr.
Not all entry-level jobs start you at a “living wage.” When I was in middle school, delivering newspapers, I didn’t make enough to rent an apartment either. In college, I had roommates because none of us earned enough to rent a place by ourselves. So climb off your arrogant and ignorant high-horse.
Also, for the lazy ass dude who started this, work hard and don’t be a leach. If you think you can do better than where you are now, move on to that place and stop gaslighting everyone.
I’m renting an apartment at $16 move to a better area.
Surely they need to move to a shitter area.
Assuming lower cost of living means shittier is very home country of you.
Depends on your area.
Edit: working a full 40hr/wk at $17/hr can afford rent up to ~$880/mo.
$880 is how much people pay for a bedroom in someones else’s house in my city.
*This is mostly because the zoning laws require all new apartment complexes to have one parking space per tenant which means land owners who want to develop their land to provide more density have to put in an underground parking garage on their lot which would make recouping the cost of development pretty much impossible (there’s no room for surface lots). My city is almost entirely zoned this way which creates situations where the university is fully surrounded by single family homes that are “renovated” to provide jury rigged density.
Thats something like 50 percent of your pay in my area.
$17/hr can afford ~$880/mo. rent. Not impossible, especially with a roommate or domestic partner.
You forgot about other things like food, probably a car, phone bill.
I did not. I calculated rent as 30% of income, the level generally considered affordable. Admittedly it is pre-tax income, so arguably the number is a bit lower, but it’s a start.
I did it by after tax cause thats how people actually live.
Holy fucking shit. I almost was exposed to a swear word on the Internet by some asshole cunt. That bitch didn’t know it’s fucking illegal to swear on the Internet. Thank fucking god someone put a thin line over it that barely covers it. I was about to shit a brick.
fuck
New copy pasta just dropped.
The only explanation I’ve heard is that big domains like .world use AI to scan images for filtering. That and reposting content from other website with strict profanity filters.
.world use AI
Damn. There goes the neighborhood. Cya all in a lower instance.
The hell are on about? This is not Instagram.
Those alleged filters are so fucking strict that a four year old who barely recognizes motherfucking letter would read that shit like a spelling bee champion.
I doubt it is .world and not every mainstream social media
What’s with people and their hate boners for a bar over a swear word? They’re just reposted from Reddit or twitter or something
Because I’m tired of the culture where we call things “grape”, “corn” and “pewpews” and infantilize serious topics for the sake of being advertised to.
Come at me, “It’s not that serious” brigade.
Pew is for Ray guns. You mean powpows.
its annoying that people want to share these posts but are offended (or afraid of advertisers being offended) by the words “fuck”, “shit”, “bitch”, “pussy”, “rape”, “suicide”, so on and so fourth.
*forth
You can’t just say f*th on the internet. You’re free to go fourth and say anything else your perverted heart fucking desires you sick and twisted parent fucker, but not that
:(
Yeah, I don’t get it. I personally don’t like swearing, but I honestly don’t mind reading or hearing it. It’s really weird to me that people get mad at not seeing swearing, as if somehow naughty words make something better.
Express yourself however you want.
In my opinion it is not about swearing, and (not) seeing it, it is about censorship. Some big sites censor content that contains words that are considered bad by advertisers, these are not only swear words but also words like die, suicide, porn… This has changed the way some people communicate, with people using euphemisms or censoring words in images themselves: people censoring themselves before the big internet site censors them.
As you wisely said: “Express yourself however you want”. The original author of the text in this post used a swear word and later it was censored by someone reposting it in social media to avoid upsetting the censorship machine or whatever website it was. I find this unacceptable.
I fully support using a rich vocabulary and not using swear words, being polite. There are many reasons to do this: respect for others, improving ones communication skills, practising formal writing… but giving in to censorship imposed by social media websites should NEVER be one. Fuck censorship. It is unacceptable to allow big tech companies to shape the way we speak with their censorship.
Express yourself however you want, if the website you’re in doesn’t allow you to do it don’t give in to censorship, give up that website and look for a place where you can express yourself.
I agree with everything except the conclusion. There are a lot of good reasons to censor on a platform (kids use it), and good reasons to go along with it.
I think it’s not about swearing making something better than it is about swearing being apart of the original text. After all, nobody would be complaining if there just wasn’t a swear word to begin with. Now we get a giant block of color that distracts from everything around it and half the time doesn’t even do it’s job (I can still see and clearly tell what the word is)
Honestly, I wish we’d copy/paste the text for these, snapshotting an image just sucks.
So this is why when I come in for the morning shift nothing has been done.
This was how it was in the good old days working third shift at Walmarts back when they closed at like 9-10pm. You were just there to unload the trucks and restock the shelves, so our store would put the peddle down and be finished at 3-4 in the morning. Our shift was until 7am so we’d typical goof off playing video games in the electronics department or watching movies.
Getting paid to be there through the night for the times when a person is actually needed, as well as being on site to keep an eye on things. Sounds like honest work to me
Especially since it’s nights - when most people don’t want to work, and when it fucks up your health doing it regularly.
I work overnight at a home Depot, this has not been my experience.
You’d have to be pretty low volume not to have shit to do. Hell, moving pallets around that were placed in overstock way far from their stock location because people were too busy would be a full time job itself. That said, it’s rare for anyone overnight to get the training to actually know what needs to be done.
European here (we don’t have Home Depot),isn’t Home Depot a hardware Store?What is there to do at night for eight Hours?Nevermind the Question was answered one comment below 😂
Home Depot is an hardware shop in the USofA, right?
If so, why is an hardware store open overnight? What DIY emergency can come about that it can’t wait for working hours?
These stores are not open at night. They sometimes have overnight staff that process loading bay trucks and/or restock shelves on the retail floor.
Basically every chain grocery store does this at least once a week as well. I remember them trying to get me to do it when I worked for one while in college. Acted like it was such a great opportunity to get an extra buck an hour, which I quickly refused.
Go to any 24/7 store around 3-4am and you’ll probably see people restocking shelves.
I actually forgot 24/7 stores existed. I am too rural to have those nearby.
Yeah, most of our stores close by 10, with a couple open to until 2. I worked as a night custodian for a time and hit the one 24/7 store sometimes on the way home.
I worked retail at a major store ~45k sqft and we had people come in at 2-3am and work until 10-11am “stocking shelves”. Thing is, part of our closing duties when it wasn’t busy was to restock the shelves. So most of the time the people stocking just ducked around for 8 hours. They were always super chill but had terrible weed.
They were always super chill but had terrible weed.
Gotta save the good stuff for after work 😎
That’s how I learned to code. Got a night security job to pay bills and just took my laptop there. In my whole time there I had to get up from my desk maybe 2 times because some drunk dudes would get lost and stumble into the territory lol
It’s somewhat the same argument for universal income. Gives people time to learn valuable skill sets without giving all their time and energy to some company.
I agree, though I prefer the Negative Income Tax formulation over Universal Basic Income, for the simple reason that there’s a lot less bookkeeping (only need to pay out for people making <$X). Ensure everyone is over the poverty line whether employed or not and we can eliminate the minimum wage and people will likely be better off since they can pursue their passions (which they’ll likely be a lot more productive at) instead of doing whatever makes enough money.
Not disagreeing with the idea, but it seems like this would also have the side effect of incentivizing employers to aggressively and artificially reduce wages and pass that burden on to the taxpayer, if you’re eliminating minimum wage.
I think it’s an interesting idea, but one that seems prone to abuse by unethical parties. Not that our current system is immune to that either.
My state has no minimum wage, so we inherit the federal minimum wage ($7.25 IIRC), yet starting wages tend to be $10-12 in my suburb (probably higher closer to downtown) and median is $13 for fast food.
Yeah, companies will probably try to reduce wages, especially if those wages are essentially subsidized by NIT. But at least in my area, that would only happen if worker supply increases (in this case from people quitting worse jobs). Since almost nobody actually works for minimum wage here, I don’t think that’s a major concern.
On net, workers would probably be better off. I think we’d see a bit more intentional unemployment, which should drive wages up instead of down.
The main people who would lose out are middle class people relying on Social Security for retirement. We could balance that by removing the income cap on Social Security to preserve some traditional benefit for retirees (I propose income caps for benefits).
Ah, that’s actually really great. I always wondered how UBI would work on a large scale when already wealthy people are in the mix. I mean, they don’t exactly need it.
They’d basically pay it back in taxes. But the tax bill looks super unattractive for UBI for any reasonable amount ($15k is federal poverty line, which is ~$4.5T assuming 300M people).
NIT could probably replace Social Security without changing taxes at all. There are ~37M people in poverty, which is $550B, and Social Security spends $950B every year. If it replaces other welfare programs or if we lift the income cap, we could increase benefits, and states could chip in their own as well. We could also phase it in, so people under some age only get NIT, while people over some age only get SS. If it works as intended, we should decrease beneficiaries over time as people break the cycle of poverty and start businesses and whatnot.
I think it’s totally feasible.
I agree. I’m lucky I got this opportunity which really made me believe in social safety net as an ideology. So many people are stuck because there just no time to respecialize and re-invest your human resources. Automation, AI, robotics are only a problem because of this. If AI can take taxi driver’s job and the taxi driver has the support to re-specialize to something more fulfilling then it’s a win-win for everyone.
That’s the dream.
Home Depot getting inventive with their recruiting strategies
Ok, but what are the benefits? Is there a union? $17 is barely more than minimum wage.
It’s livable in rural ohio
$7.25 is the federal minimum, which is the still minimum for many states.
Eh I’m sure they’ll raise it to $7.50 in a few years
And $12-15/hr is a completely reasonable wage for an adult in many states.
reasonable for who, exactly?
Wot now?
Added some details here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/15969744
Which states? And can they have the same kind of financial freedom like the 80s?
Many of the southern and central US states with low cost of living, like Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc. You’re not going to be rich, but you could afford housing, food, and other basic necessities.
An equivalent yearly salary in SF, for example, is $45-56k/year (cost of living calculator), or $22-28/hr. You certainly couldn’t survive on $12-15/hr in SF, but $22-28 might be doable.
Calculations assume 8 hours/day and 250 work days per year.
Less than, in some places
The federal minimum is less than half of that
Why not cut out the walking around in a store for 8h and still getting paid 17$/h. Universal Basic income now!
I hear what you’re saying but the walking was probably the best part of that job. Barring disability, walking is so good for our bodies.
S H I T
Where is $17 a lot of money? In your parents basement??? I guess tendies would be covered for this greentext. Get an education and get double that, still be broke, and still work until your mental breakdown, at which point if all of you’s can organize your break downs to align, we might be able to take that mental anguish out of the 1% families who’s houses are burning in the palisades. Yeah I said it, the universe hates the palisades. Burn baby burn.
Applies to all Palisades equally
