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.
Depends on your area.
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
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.
The hell are on about? This is not Instagram.
This screen cap is two years old. Who knows how many site filters it has had to filter through.
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 a life one must lead for this to be so upsetting it’s worthy all this pearl clutching. This is borderline edgelording.
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
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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.
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.
I worked at the tire center in wal-mart when I was in college. To accomodate my school schedule I started at 2 in the afternoon and worked until the tire center closed. Then I was supposed to work with the people inside doing whatever they did for the last few hours. They never actually told me who to report to or what I was supposed to be doing for the last 3 hours so I would just go sleep in my car then go back in and clock out at the end of my shift. I did this for like 9 months and no one ever questioned me.
Did you quit or did someone noticed after 9 Months?
I quit when I got another job. My boss was gunning for me for other reasons when I left though.
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
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
That’s basically it. They’re just there just in case they’re needed and many people actually can’t stand working like that. There are a ton of jobs where someone only needs to be there just so any potential work gets done right away. But it’s shocking how few people actually enjoy getting paid to do nothing most of the time. It definitely takes a certain mindset.
I work a similar job right now. I’m support in a factory. I show up to work with the expectation that I’ll only actually be working for maybe about 20-30% of my shift. If a machine needs attention or a production coworker has a question then I deal with it, otherwise I read a book. Whenever one of our production workers gets promoted to support, it always takes them months to get used to not working. They always start out trying to take literally every call just to have work to do and nervously twiddling their thumbs while staring into space at their desk when they don’t. Eventually they start pulling out their phone but they always look so guilty about it and hide it as soon as a boss walks by. And these are internal hires who even have the advantage of having personally watched me fucking around on my phone sending memes to my boss all day at work every day without issue. We actually just lost an external hire maintenance guy because he was constantly woried that he wasn’t doing enough work and was going to get fired.
That’s a failure of management.
Or rather, that’s a symptom of a certain kind of management that incentivizes people to look busy, punishes those who don’t, and doesn’t give people accurate and realistic guidance on their responsibilities.
Especially since it’s nights - when most people don’t want to work, and when it fucks up your health doing it regularly.
Ok, but what are the benefits? Is there a union? $17 is barely more than minimum wage.
Less than, in some places
$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.
The federal minimum is less than half of that
I work overnight at a home Depot, this has not been my experience.
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 $950B every year. If it replaces other welfare programs or if we lift the income cap, we could increase benefits, and states could chip in their own as well. We could also phase it in, so people under some age only get NIT, while people over some age only get SS. If it works as intended, we should decrease beneficiaries over time as people break the cycle of poverty and start businesses and whatnot.
I think it’s totally feasible.
I agree. I’m lucky I got this opportunity which really made me believe in social safety net as an ideology. So many people are stuck because there just no time to respecialize and re-invest your human resources. Automation, AI, robotics are only a problem because of this. If AI can take taxi driver’s job and the taxi driver has the support to re-specialize to something more fulfilling then it’s a win-win for everyone.
That’s the dream.
Not the American one though sadly.
Home Depot getting inventive with their recruiting strategies
Why not cut out the walking around in a store for 8h and still getting paid 17$/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
Am I right? He censored SHIT but left
america…
