30 Times Memes Were Spot-On About Toxic Jobs, As Shared In This Dedicated Online Group

Hierarchies are the cause of most of our problems. It's why bosses think they can treat their workers like dirt, it's why jobs disappear to developing countries where brown people can be treated worse and paid less so westerners can buy cheap stuff they don't even need. It's why rich people get away with massive corruption while our TV shows are always portraying the poor as the bad guys so we'll look down on them instead of realising all our problems are caused by the parasitic class. And no, I'm not jealous of the rich, they disgust me. You may as well claim I only dislike sex offenders because I'm jealous of them.

Somehow other countries manage to pay a living wage and still make profits.

Some of the same UK idiots also say things like homelessness is a choice, or should be criminalized.. Can’t wait to see the Tories get their butt kicked in the next elections! 😉

Republicans in the States spout the same drivel

Especially when the richest do absolutely nothing. Their "jobs" involve telling others to "make this much profit this month", not any actual instructions of how to do it.

I think there is room for starter jobs though. The kind of job that a 15 year old gets to earn pocket money and learn about saving, not the kind of job that a person gets in order to pay rent. It's just a pity that adults are in a position where they're the only jobs they can get. That's the economy failing.

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Please provide links to your proof of this.

Pffft. Nice deflection. You know darm well it means - expecting to earn a living wage for *any* job should not require "bringing more to the table" than whatever skills/abilities are required to successfully perform the responsibilities of the role. It's the very basis of what the minimum wage was meant to be before the greedy rich purchased our government for themselves outright.

And let's not forget that the billionaire class has gotten into the housing market. Remember covid? Every news org was saying housing would collapse? Guess what? housing was scooped up and jacked up. Worse poor rural communities who aren't in destination locations are unable to sell homes. It's a fawked up system, thanks to speculative money pouring into the market beginning after the internet-as-investment fail back in around 2000.

Yeah, but at least in the US, this should be covered via tipps, right? RIGHT? I mean, I, as a customer, am to blame? That's when you (hopefully) understand my (European) view on tipping in the US.

Not quite. Few states still have $2.13. Let's see, CA is now $20, CO ~$15, Denver over $18, all before tips. All those went into effect in 2024.

Really? Could you provide some reference as what is a salary of waiter in (I assume) USA?

Ehmmm not true. Depending on where you live but the majority of the US states are legally required to pay the server the state's minimum wage. I assure you that this has gone up considerably over the last twenty years. Tipping has gone up as well; and if you ever wondered how much a good server in an average restaurant makes I will tell you about the server who was offered a management position where I worked and he declined because he made more than the General Manager. WAY more. My son's GF is killing it at Denny's. While I can see that in the poor states (why, they also do not have a minimum wage law for servers AND they are red states, what a coincidence) a server might have a harder time, what you are saying is generally wrong.

ehhhhhh, as a server, I would say that tip % has generally increased. When I was growing up it was assumed to be 15%, and 10% before that. Now it's more assumed to be 20%. I'll take it.

While that may be true for their hourly wage in most states, it's technically not true. Any time menu prices increase, they are effectively getting a raise with higher tips. And don't get me wrong, I was a server! But if they work at a mid-priced or higher priced place they still are doing quite well. Many of them make more than I do per hour most days now that I'm in my supposedly better job. I mean it is better in some senses -- insurance and vacation time and the like...

Isn't it amazing how clearly, obviously borked our society is? And yet, we must resist change! Because!... that would be the terrorists winning?

Or arrested and terminated

Sad but true

Probably jailed over "theft of vehicle"

They could, but then they would still have no drivers when they try to put them all in jail and less incentive for new people to apply.

Yep.

The company will probably sue them for theft

Corporations have more rights than living flesh.

Well, if the drivers would have been sent to the courts, I dare say the judges would set them free immediately because they did what their job objective was: driving passengers to destinations.

I don’t think that how she meant it. I think she meant if your houseplant dies, you didn’t kill it, it just wasn’t tough enough…like under-supported employees whose employers burn them out. Wonderfully poignant and darkly hilarious from that perspective!!

I know, right? Debs was a SOCIALIST and proud of it.

Well, maybe communism is what the situation requires. You know where communism exercises its greatest appeal? In societies where there's a vast, disadvantaged underclass who have little or nothing to lose if the place goes communist. If communism should ever 'take over' the US, it will be because capitalism created the environment for it to happen.

I think it's OK to post the word fart. ;)

I agree with both the post and you. There's got to be a median. I would give anything to see this resolved in my lifetime but I don't think it will. Wish I was bright and wise enough to come up with a solution that would actually be implemented but sadly not a chance. It's weird how far humanity has come in some ways (e.g. technology?) but politics seems stuck somehow.

There is something between capitalism and communism and it's called socialism. It should be a balance. However, socialism is often connected to so-called "victims" (like ISIL, Hamas, etc) who would take over the world and impose their power on freedoms of thought and expression. Major issues in the world are: how do you tolerate intolerance, how do you "beat" evil with love, in short, how do welthinking people create a new balance in all this sh*t?

This, this, soooooo much this!