how the fuck does the post office not have federal oversight anymore

yeah it's hilarious that there are people grovelling for $15 an hour here while the postal service is hiring hourly wages starting at $11

why the fuck is some lebanese mofk named ahmed getting paid $5.6m /year to cut services

here's how to stop losing money as the post office

STOP SELLING FUCKING DVDs

the biggest problem with unemployment isn't that people don't want to work

it's that getting a job these days is now a process that gets 10 other people jobs

like here they have all these recruitment agencies even for basic jobs at small stores

it's not like you can respond to a help wanted sign anymore

if you combine that with an overall lack of jobs and a government unwilling to realize that spending money on getting people into work is better than punishing them for being on welfare

it's just a mess

a massive mess that i think is primarily to do with scale

basically any domestic chain here pulls at least half of its workers from international students from india and shit

yeah. there are at least 5 or 6 people that benefit from my job who do absolutely nothing

i don't want to bitch about race here

because it's not about race

it's about paying $4 less an hour or whatever so you can return more money to shareholders

it's more effective signalling to throw millions at charity than hire pepole who were born here

and it all comes down to being cheaper

all these companies invariably get bought out by foreign interests

woolworths here are playing some similar game with farmers

devaluing their produce

they also started manufacturing their own food which crippled quite a few businesses

then again to sell anything at woolworths you had to be making at least a million items a week

big rant but big troubles on the way i think

@fallot the problem is that people don't so work

They want to be robots

So certain cultures with a history of not working hard hit the wall and cultures with a history of rote learning hit another wall.

Even among the Arabs at my school, you can tell where someone is from by their grades and degree.

All the Saudis and Gulf Arabs have bad grades and bullshit degrees

The people from North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant tend to have STEM or Humanities degrees and decent grades.

I'm just using this as an example of ethnically, religiously, and linguistically related cultures with different attitudes towards work.

In a way, I don't care. I just want to be around and hang out with Germanic/Scandinavian/Western European people mainly.

I have a new good friend from Northern China. He's graet.

he's only here because of the terrible air pollution there. Was killing his kid.

he's very reactionary-conservative.

and doesn't believe in miscegenation. Great guy!

People from work want me to go to a happy hour with them

Whoops. I thought I wrote this in Varg's Backyard

@spaceplacenta go for it. have a drink! 😉

Do I know you Jake?