Current Events > 2 months after the $300 ended, have people gone back to work yet?

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xAzNPimP4LiFex posted...

^damn would people rather be broke than make. Some money? Better than nothing no?

Are you saying you really can't think of any reasons why a person wouldn't go back to a high traffic work environment with the variant raging?

I feel like people playing the "they just don't want to work" card are part of the reason folks don't want to go back to these jobs. They just seem like real charmers.

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Ruvan22 posted...

Are you saying you really can't think of any reasons why a person wouldn't go back to a high traffic work environment with the variant raging?

Variant or not, yall still have bills to pay

Pretty sure taking those low paying jobs are better than nothing. Just saying.

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AzNDarkSamurai posted...

Variant or not, yall still have bills to pay

Pretty sure taking those low paying jobs are better than nothing. Just saying.

You didn't answer my question. Are you saying you can't think of *any* reason people wouldn't go back to those specific jobs?

Ruvan22 posted...

You didn't answer my question. Are you saying you can't think of *any* reason people wouldn't go back to those specific jobs?

I just gave you a reason. I am pretty sure anything is good if they dont have anything

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AzNDarkSamurai posted...

I just gave you a reason. I am pretty sure anything is good if they dont have anything

That wasn't a reason why people *wouldn't* go back, which is what I asked twice. If you seriously can't think of anything it's fine to say so and I'll list some.

b_hamnite posted...

I feel like people playing the "they just don't want to work" card are part of the reason folks don't want to go back to these jobs. They just seem like real charmers.

yup

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The Tim Hortons I went to had 3 ppl working at like 6pm


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Solar_Crimson posted...

So, you want corporations to keep screwing over the working class?

That is exactly what he wants. He said so before. But there's no way a guy like that has a stable job. He's either a NEET living with his parents or homeless himself and drags down other people to his level.

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M_Live posted...

Maybe those places should pay more so that people would want to work at them

Or maybe they should use that as motivation to strive to have higher life aspirations than expecting Walmart and McDonalds to give them the big bucks for doing minimum wage work.

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AzNDarkSamurai posted...

Variant or not, yall still have bills to pay

Pretty sure taking those low paying jobs are better than nothing. Just saying.

No, they're not better than nothing. That's the point. We're tired of being wage slaves, divvying out our good years and precious time and earth doing bullshit for bullshit compensation. The beginning of Covid was the closest the human race has come to annihilation since the Cold War; it felt like the beginning of every zombie outbreak story. Made everyone realize we could die tomorrow and we shouldn't be burning away precious life on nonsense. Basically the Office Space effect.

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TheApexPredator posted...

Or maybe they should use that as motivation to strive to have higher life aspirations than expecting Walmart and McDonalds to give them the big bucks for doing minimum wage work.

How do you pick yourselves up by your boot straps if you don't have boots

You're literally describing the hunger games mentality; those jobs will still exist regardless, so then we just have to continually work insanely hard just to get a rung higher on a ladder that slants backwards while those born under the right conditions just cruise on an escalator.

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CommonStar posted...

I reckon all the people bitching about low staffed places and crying about how these positions aren't being filled are failing to recognize that they're part of the reason a lot of people are refusing to go back to work at these shit wages to deal with shit customers like themselves.

Fuck yes

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How many times have you made this topic now, TC?

ShyOx posted...

No, they're not better than nothing. That's the point. We're tired of being wage slaves, divvying out our good years and precious time and earth doing bullshit for bullshit compensation. The beginning of Covid was the closest the human race has come to annihilation since the Cold War; it felt like the beginning of every zombie outbreak story. Made everyone realize we could die tomorrow and we shouldn't be burning away precious life on nonsense. Basically the Office Space effect.

You talk a big game when you can't be thrown on the street, but now those protections are gone. Believe it or not most people would rather have a roof over their head than not.
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Why the fuck would someone willingly work a minimum wage part time job where they get treated like shit by management and customers when they can literally open the Indeed app and find a work from home full time job that pays $20/hr plus benefits

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I've been tipping more and better for ok service.

Pre-covid on take out I wouldn't tip or I would tip the remaining change. Now I'm giving at least dollar + change, except at the places that only allow pre-set %s, them I leave 0 for takeout.

Places that are more dine in focused I'm leaving $2+ change for take out.

I'm still not dining in.

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voldothegr8 posted...

You talk a big game when you can't be thrown on the street, but now those protections are gone. Believe it or not most people would rather have a roof over their head than not.

I can be thrown on the street right now. Im not runnin back to some shit day job either. There are other roads. I never relied on the eviction moratorium

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AzNDarkSamurai posted...

I just gave you a reason. I am pretty sure anything is good if they dont have anything

what if that premise is bullshit though

voldothegr8 posted...

You talk a big game when you can't be thrown on the street, but now those protections are gone. Believe it or not most people would rather have a roof over their head than not.

do you think evictions happen overnight?

i bet you do

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People are getting thrown out anyway because smaller landlords are selling out to rental corporations or landlords with 50+ properties. It's a loophole.

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