Crazy man why can’t we just live in a world where people just chase a fucking bag and not worry about who’s next to you

Because rich people never aknowledge the sacrifices people make to maintain a country and economic system that allows them to make money, to get educated enough to be viable in the way they are.

I don't see millionaires going down and shaking the hands of truck drivers for delivering their companies products on time despite harsh conditions. The wealthy invest and pretend like their intellect or their choices are what got them there when there's blood on that money. There's some guy pushing himself 60 to 80 hour weeks to get that investment profitable. The rich at best have a PR issue and at worse don't care.

Sure there's risk involved but do the poor risk less? What's the good of money if you can't even live your own life because your supervisor intentionally supresses your transfer request so your stuck making 40k instead of up to 80k after 20 years with a company? I didn't see the rich stock holders of Pepsi giving a single shit for that.

I effectively lost the best job I could get in my current circumstances because I didn't know the completely rude, casually dressed dickhead that literally tossed his keys at me while our parking was full was not just a VIP, but the vice president some ways up the chain of ownership of the restaurant I was Valeting for.

I kept my mouth shut, didn't say anything, but because I didn't jump when he whistled, he snapped his fingers and suddenly I don't work there anymore

Hey it's okay as long as they turned a profit.

Just pisses me off.

my coworker made some bullshit reasoning that I was supposed to 'research' the local VIPs names and faces, but that's absoilutely fucking unreasonable for how many degrees of seperation this guy's authority came from

said coworker, by the way, did recognise him, and made no effort to inform me of his identity until after the incident

They probably didn't want to give you a raise and keep that turnover higher.

I knew a guy who worked at Boeing that kept getting raises and objected to it because he knew they wanted to lay him off so they pushed him into that threshold.

I hardly believe it was planned that far ahead, but god help the guys who were newer than me there, I guarantee they don't know any VIPs by heart

You'd be surprised.

Maybe not at that company but there's internal lists companies keep with your start dates and when it goes off for 2 years they start finding ways to fire you or lay you off.

and as for pay, it was Valet, dude. it was $7/hr

but the tips were fucking gorgeous

Some states have benefit requirements after two years.

and perfectly proportionate to the workload for each given day

I really don't believe I was the victim of some 'parking company conspiracy'

but I can definitely confirm the big guys don't give a flying fuck about the little people

I wouldn't think so but lol.

that being said I should clarify he didn't have the power to get me fired from the valet service, I just wasn't allowed to work that location anymore.... but the only other place they could put me was fucking awful

I’m not arguing that there aren’t dicks who are rich just as there are dicks who are poor. Doesn’t mean they didn’t work hard to get where they are. It took 18 years to get where she’s at from college, she research’s cancer medication and most of my friends families who are wealthy are simply very skilled and not managers/owners or anything, how is their money dirty? Why is their money deserving to be taken?

that perfect proportion of work-to-reward fucking evaporated

more effort, more frustration, for a fucking pittance of compensation compared to before

and a pittance of hours

I didn't say it deserves to be taken. I said the wealthy ignore the plights of the people that afforded them the ability to be where they are. Most research I know either comes from three places. Private funding, Public Funding, or School Funding which can be a mix of private and public. Unless it's private it's funded by taxes of people who don't want to be rich but don't want to have to choose between paying the rent and eating.

Private funding for research is pretty fucking rare.

especially in drugs

Want to know the difference between a parking garage and a parking garage the government paid for? The governments cost 300% more.

She works for Covance

Whatever that is

who is "she?"

sorry, got here late

The researcher. I don't think we need names.

It's a for instance

fair enough, just lost for context

Oh my mom mb

Forgot to add it 😁

I'm glad it's not easy to get a gig as a researcher.