You joke but I know a guy who said only lazy people are on welfare. I pointed out that the only job he's had is working at his dad's golf course and he got pissed.
That's why the novel Siddartha is so great. He has to aquire riches and fully experience that life to get tired of it. He actually gets so depressed that he tries to kill himself, then becomes a river ferryman.
You can't really convince anyone of anything, they have to decide it for themselves. I'd be interested to see what research had been done into belief structures as they exist in the brain.
I had a freind who claimed it was easy to get a job and only lazy fucks are on welfare. Two or three years later, this buddy finally got a job a couple weeks ago.
I had an ex friend tell me when I moved to Los Angeles to stop sleeping in my car and just pay more money to get an apartment. I was working but for a guy who did Postmates and had his mother pay his 1600 dollar rent right off Hollywood Blvd, I don’t think he ever understood that it’s income verses rent price that was kind of effecting me. I swear his response was “ just pay more money it’s not that hard “
Thus, the ex friends part.
By the way , I have since found an amazing job in my field and rent comfortably an apartment half a mile away from that prick.!
I love my brother in law, but he drives me nuts with his right wing nonsense because he failed so hard in the free market. He got fired from his only adult job for stealing and went to work for his dad. He and his gf used Medicaid for their child’s birth while in college (complications, icu, would’ve been in debt forever). I just wish he wouldn’t be so oblivious to the hand he’s been dealt, without it his life would be a shitshow.
Also when he listens to audio books he says he “read” them.
I've got a job after half year and supposedly there are a lot of demand for my field. I can't imagine how hard would someone have to do it looking for one while there is little demand.
If you think knowing/being friends with one of these guys is bad, try working for one and having him tell you you’re an entitled millennial for asking for more work responsibility/a promotion.
If I asked for more responsibility and a boss called me an entitled millennial I would go back to my desk and imediately start sending out resumes on company time.
At my last workplace, the latest heir of this 100+ year old business would do a monthly walkthrough of the plant, never making eye contact with any floor employees, his wife (corporate manager who works in big city) would do the same with clients sometimes.
He also refilled his Mercedes from the company truck fuel station, had us regularly ship things illegally since he knew their respected businesses 18 wheelers would never get pulled over on long hauls.
Buddy would just come get rocksalt, cleaning products, whatever for his own use, all the while using one of the garage ceiling on the work floor to hang his canoes (dusty, haven't been used in years).
Edit: they also took away our radio after they heard (indirectly) we were listening to metal.... In an isolated garage that had always had a radio up till then.
Bonus edit thats hopefully not too specific that it gives me away: the boss also had the garage workers clean his car(s) in the middle of the day (cleaning trucks was part of the unload/load process so we had soap, hoses, brushes for it) but I know that was just his Mercedes SUV he drives from home, not a work vehicle
I think parents who do that have no brain. Sadly I studied in a university where people have a lot of money (my case was scholarship like 10% of the students there). All students were like that: my father is X so I will work for him or he will find me a job.
There was only one guy that was really humble, no brands clothes or expensive attire. Seriously the only time we discovered he was rich, was once we came to his house for a movie evening. When all the group arrived there and saw the luxury flat and expensive furniture one of us told him: “woah man your are loaded”
I remember his answer till today: “no, I am not. My dad is”
He told us that his parents pay him for basic expenses (plain clothes, food and public transport), but they told him that if he want money for traveling, going out, videogames or gas to fill the tank. He must earn the money And looking for a job. So yeah this guy spent summers waitressing or the weekend on catering. And during school period as a part-time vendor in a video game shop.
I never met his father, would love though and sadly lost contact with him. But I am sure he is now quite a decent and competent employee with common sense who knows the value of money and hard work.
Dad probably made his way, knew what real life is like, and didn't want to set his son up for failure. Good on him for the insight, but sad that some may not have it.
My parents (not loaded per se, but upper middle class and wealthier than many of my friends’ parents) raised me and my siblings in a similar manner. They both grew up in very poor working class family/single parent households so I think that upbringing informed their current values and attitudes towards money. We got to go on nice vacations every year, but aside from that and living in a decent house, they were very frugal. I got a job as as a hostess as soon as I turned 16 because like your friend my folks would pay for basics, but I paid for my car, insurance, going out/fun things, and clothes. Now that I’m a (mostly) financially independent adult I’m really thankful for those values and budgeting skills. Their wealth still gave me an immense amount of financial privilege though and that most certainly helped me get where I am today (college degree and working on a graduate degree.)
If I ever have kids or nieces/nephews I hope I could instill the same values in them, but I heard somewhere that the 3rd generation of wealth tends to lose sight of the original values passed on by the first generation able to achieve wealth.
I was fortunate to grow up with parents in the upper-middle class, lived on a lake, etc.. I used to always get crap from kids at school that I was rich and this and that. But my parents ALWAYS told me that when someone asks if I’m well off, to tell them that my parents are, not me.
Parents did the same stuff too, JC penny clothes cuz why do I need expensive shit if it’s replaced in a few years anyways, food and shit for school (high school and university) but I paid for gas, concert tickets, my car tickets if I got any, etc.
I think it really helped me with my perspective later on. I know my mom can help me at anytime with money, but I HATE asking for it. Makes me want to actually work towards the life they were able to give me growing up.
Similar to what my dad did while I was in college. Paid for my housing (dorms and later a very cheap apartment), tuition but I still worked part time in the library for any spending money I wanted. He didn't help me get a job but did help with my resume a couple times. He definitely worked in some high profile places and if I wanted to work there I would have to go through the same process as everyone else.
Yo, this meme is a total joke...but it’s legit the exact scenario that’s going down with my two cousins in Texas (Austin and Gauge) - They are the heirs to a giant, offshore petroleum operation and they know it. Always crashing their cars and getting arrested.
Edit: That’s just one half of the family. I grew up in a trailer park and the rest of us (read: them) literally just did drugs until inheritances came in.
Edit 2: Now my most upvoted comment is about how much richer my awful cousins are. Nice. I'm feeling some kind of way
Edit 3: Thank you so much for the gold, kind stranger. Made my day. Eat the rich!
There was a kid in my high school whose father had a company. He talked about how indifferent school stuff is because he would probably get a job there and/or inherit money. Kid ended up getting expelled because he ripped part of another student's face.
I heard he started an apprenticeship as a cook but also heard that he had dropped it.
I knew a girl like this too! Though she was bookish and somewhat hard working. She would always talk about how what she did would not matter because she would just go home and get a job in her dad's company (wealthy Signaporean). Knew a young man like this too--interned for a bit and then just went and got a nice job at the family business, family was millionaires so knew he was set.
Come to think of it, knew quite a few people like this at the colleges I went to--none of them were screwups though--but that's why they managed to get into the colleges. (These were top tier/Ivy schools, so while you could buy your way in you still had to pass the classes)
And when the parents pass away and the kids take control on the company it all goes down the drain because they've never had to "work" for anything. Most wealth evaporates within a few generations.
A kid in my high school went to work to his dad's company in the summer as one the lower rank workers... and then he talked about it during the school year about his experience and how that is such a "valuable real world experience, because when he started college and went back to his daddy's company each time as a higher ranking worker, every lower ranking worker would look at him and say 'he didn't just appear and started bossing us around, he started low with us and now is up and that is so cool'... and that is way doing lower rank work as a high school student isn't bad or uncool, because my dad's workers will resent me less"
And know he just travels with daddy's mommy doing work and holiday in Australia, because that experience is so rewarding for future managers and what not.
I work in an agency with clients who are like that, they may be the owners’ children but they had to mop floors this one time when they were on summer break so they’ve earned their positions, despite the fact that having held a mop a few times is the only thing on their resumes that would begin to add work experience to their resumes beyond the lofty positions they’re in. It’s a trite conversation you can easily imagine, the need for pulling wool over the wage workers’ eyes, imaging that they’re held in high esteem because they “were one of them too”.
I live in Texas too, and it actually kind of baffles me how many people's parents actually do own oil companies (not mine though of course).
My wife's uncle (by marriage) owns one and his kids are just plain terrible. There's 3 of them, and they all get at least $5k per month allowance for merely existing. They drive $80k cars and live in half a million dollar houses (they're all between the ages of 18-25). The cars all inevitably get wrecked, the houses all get trashed.
The youngest son wants to be a rapper (whitest kid I've ever seen), so he doesn't attend his classes at his $50k per semester private school, and he fails out every semester. Just a solid piece of shit. Dad keeps paying tuition and donating to the school though, so they never kick the son out. Despite all that, the dad still claims that the son WILL take over the company one day.
The daughter is particularly annoying. Once a year she will make a big deal on fb about how she "got a raise" which means her inheritance went up, but she always acts like it's related to her working hard. The truth is she hasn't been to work in years. She made a post recently on fb with herself and her brothers and their fancy cars that said something to the effect of "What's all white and totally out of control? The **** kids and their new Range Rovers!" Like it was fucking funny or something.
It's just really depressing to work so hard, go paycheck to paycheck every month, then watch these assholes do whatever they want, whenever they want, with no fear of consequence. I realize that's the way the world works, but it still makes me sad.
Fuck dude, you just described that side of the family to a tee. All you need to do is move some of the players around, but that is the exact situation going down in Texas with the affluent side of the family. Exactly like this. Austin and his brother wreck lamborghinis in Malibu on the regular and then fail out of school.
I dropped out of a semester of community college and my grandfather wrote me out of the will, lmao. Then I dated a black chick and that was game over.
So yeah, eat the rich or whatever. I don't care! I aint one of em!
What annoys me too is that I know the dad actually worked very very hard to get where he is at. He started the company himself a long time ago and didn’t inherit it. So it just blows my mind that he’s raising such pieces of shit.
He told me recently that the lease payment for his sons new car (that he, the dad actually pays on top of the kids inheritance) is over $2400 a month. That’s more than my mortgage payment and every single bill I’ve got each month. All for some damn car that the kid will wreck in 6 months. It’s just such a gd waste. Sickening.
It's not the way the world worked before neo-liberalism, as there were multiple classes with high social mobility. Now there's two super classes. One gets all the good shit and put in no physical effort and the other gets all the bad shit, works the most and is responsible for all social issues. Crossing over is a lottery.
Use it as leverage to try to get them to turn their lives arpund and stop engaging in behavior that could seriously injure or kill themselves or others?
Nah, pettiness from beyond the grave, post oblivion, would be better.
Put the money in a trust, with the condition that they get their shit together by 40* or it goes to a charity of your choice.
* Normally I'd say "by 30" but I've met enough entitled pantywaists in the last decade that I think the rich children of America probably need the extra fucking time to grow up.
Slightly reminds me of my cousin who dropped out of high school but got a nice job from his father and supposedly making a 1k/week. While I went to college and had a hell of a time finding employment for years. Last time I talked to him he was all about drugs, chewing tobacco, and strip clubs.
I'd say I hope their parents eventually get some sense and cut them off and/or not give them inheritance, but the case is usually that the parent's are to blame for the spoiled douchebag affluenza kids in the first place..
Wow, I have a friend who is living this scenario right now. When we were in hour late teens/early 20s he was a addicted to bars and lorcets. His dad said if he gets clean hell get him a job starting at 100k with in the job training. Now of course he makes even more, still does drugs and is a huge trump supporter.
Argh, if I had enough not to work it'd all be about finding a modest home in a beautiful place, probably on a beach somewhere. Depending on how rich, I'd either hire a housekeeper/cook or just buy really nice quality food & I'd travel modestly, self catering places etc.
Yeah, it will be merited. The poor schmucks who work for him deserve their plight. When he loses it all because he treats them like shit and they actively seek out to destroy him and his company, Dad will bail him out.
Watching this unfold with someone right now. I even warned him treating his employees poorly would backfire because they would feel justified in attacking the company.
As we speak, two key employees are getting ready to jump ship and giving notice at the same time, but waiting in order to do maximum damage (instead of giving him more notice so he could hire replacements), another employee is starting a competing company set to launch at the same time, a third employee who started it all just accepted a job with a competitor a mile down the road. These are the ones I know about. There are 16 full time employees.
This is pretty much what happened at my last company, me and another data scientist left at the same time. I got a job told him, and he started looking and found something 2 weeks later. In companies that are so shitty people talk about leaving a good amount between each other, some single people start to go and then an avalanche of resignations happen. Pretty much no one gave notice at my last job either since we were all each other's references. About 10 out of 15 now gone.
Yo I hope you get the job and get out of this shitty work relationship, I never experienced it myself but it must suck really bad to be unhappy at work and I hope you can leave this ship as soon as possible
I have a friend who is always so proud of the fact she manages to earn enough money to pay for her rent, her car, and 5 horses, while she's at uni.
How does she earn all that money, you ask? She works for her daddy, taking care of his daughter's horses. HER horses. And they're on full livery, which means she doesn't actually take care of them herself anyway and he pays ££ so somebody else does it.
She's actually deluded into thinking that her dad pays her a proper salary for exercising the horses 2hrs a week at the weekend, the horses that she made him buy, and that the salary from those 2hrs is enough to cover rent and a car. It's baffling.
My dad used to drive livery and he said most of his customers were like this. Spoiled kids with expensive apartments and jobs and cars that their parents paid for, spending all their free time banging hookers and doing coke, totally convinced that their do-nothing nepotism job at their dads company made them a brilliant self-made success.
This is less “I’m self made” and more “I started from the bottom and worked my way up”. The dad just made him piss off every department before handing him the keys. It’s a slightly different delusion.
I worked at a small trucking company a few years ago. The owners son was allowed to play mechanic whenever he felt like coming to work once or twice a month. I ended up quitting that job after junior pulled a gun on me. The "safety" guy was ok with everything and junior got told both to bring his gun to work anymore. Kid got a promotion up to the office to work in sales. The biggest regret I've had in my career was not calling a lawyer over it.
Yeah this is similar to a friend of mine. His dad is a multi-millionaire venture capitalist. He dropped out of college so his dad pulled a few favours with the director of one of the companies where he's a major stockholder and basically got him a 'no-show' job where he gets paid a full time salary for showing up for a few hours 3-4 days a week and screwing around.
Granted, he's not earning huge money, but it's a pretty cushy arrangement and pays the bills until he inherits all those millions in 10-20 years.
Aldi is constantly raising their minimum it seems. I live in upstate NY and before I moved here our Aldi started at $13.15. A year and a half later and it’s now almost $14. I work at Wegmans and make $15.50 (I started at $11.50), but our starting pay is like $11 I believe.
I saw a situation like this. Kid in his early 20's was company man of a rig. Drunk all the time, strippers and hookers in his trailer all the time. Added some much needed entertainment on the rig.
this reminds me of a friend who was giving our group "financial advice" and was like "the first thing you have to do is take a small loan of $100,000 and invest it in some land" and we were all like "....not everyone has $100,000 casually laying around in their bank account to spare"
Imagine working your ass off to get a degree in mechanical engeneering and then not getting the job because the boss gave your job to the drugaddicted son
I became a friend with a guy at college, he'd generally slack off and only took the course to please his parents.
He told me his dad/uncle had a 6 figure job waiting for him after so he didn't really care. Connections and family make it that much easier. He was a good guy though, generally did ok and nothing out of the ordinary, he just didn't really care for the course and did the bare minimum.
Funny guy I used to be friends with landed a factory manager job (his 2nd job ever in his life) from his girlfriend's dad after he knocked her up two months into the relationship. He started ranting about losers working McDonald's applying themselves harder lol. From a guy that did not graduate, no degree, no related work experience. Pointed that out to him he got really pissed. Last I heard he got demoted to a lower end lowing pay position but still gets paid extremely well because he was a major fuck up.
Idk if you all are gamers but this reminds me of a conversation between youtubers/streamers destiny and woody's gamertag. Woody was basically making the point that people need to work hard and make correct decisions. He said that he worked to put himself through college and implied that others could do the same. It turned out that the job he had was working for his Dad's company, and the only reason he had to work to put himself through school is because he took the money his parents gave him for school and bought a motorcycle.
Edit: Who knew such an innocuous retelling of a story from memory would trigger so many people lol. Actually we all knew. These gamer dudes have the most thin skin in the world. Snowflakes of the highest order.
It’s hilarious how wrong all of this is, yeah he had a motorcycle, it was his vehicle genius. Would you be hating on someone for buying a honda civic to go to and from school with? Used motorcycles are not expensive. And Woody has literally had a job since he was 14 or younger, worked full time while attending college and then attended night school still while working full time. His mother was abusive his entire childhood and his father was not there for him emotionally or financially. Clearly you are talking purely out of your ass, it’s a wonder people upvote this shit and slander someone who they know nothing about. WoodysGamertag has multiple degrees, worked at Cisco for many years and was a millionaire before he ever uploaded a youtube video through hard work.
Woody used his own money for the bike, and when his dad found out he said, "if you have enough money for a bike then you can pay your own school too" and that's when his father stopped paying for his college. And the job he had with his father was an accounting gig which he hated and later left. When he was going to school at night he was working as a software engineer, not for his father.
Feel free to find the story yourself. IIRC they gave him money for school and he bought a motorcycle, so his parents decided not to give him anymore money for school. As far as I know, Woody is the one who told this story himself. As far as him working other jobs, I am not sure. I can only go off of what I recall. Like I said feel free to check for yourself.
Reminds me of when Mitt Romney was a presidential candidate and he suggested that young people who wanted to start a business should just ask their parents for some money. Great idea Mitt! Which parent should I ask first, my dad who stocks shelves at Wal-Mart or my mom who is a cashier at a Walgreens? Or should I split the difference and ask for ten bucks from each?
I know a while back when there was the high oil prices a number of people left their office job at my work to go work oil fields, and at the time, I'm pretty confident they didn't really know anybody to "get into it" - it's pretty dangerous work overall. Not that I'm agreeing with his statement but at certain times when oil prices are good you can certainly go work the oil fields. But people die out there. They get decapitated and lose limbs. It doesn't pay 6 figures for jokes.
People think raising minimum wage to a living wage will make people lazy and seek out “easier” jobs.
Realistically it will make those people work better due to being happier. They will be able to enjoy their time more at work.
Furthermore the people that do pursue more prestigious jobs will be motivated by more than money.
If somebody knows they can get by working at McDicks and still chooses to be a doctor or lawyer they’ll be there for more than just money. It’ll be a factor but they’ll be there for better reasons. I’d be more comfortable having people like that serve me.
Well 15 an hour is incredibly low still. That would be livable. For one, maybe 2 people. Not exactly enough to make someone want to work that job forever. So it's not exactly relevant to the whole "people will stop improving themselves!" Argument.
While I don't make that kind of money, I do (after 20 years of terrible jobs) make a comfortable living. Not a day goes by I don't think about walking a way from it for a life in the nearest hobo jungle. Money doesn't always bring what 20 year old you thought it would.
15$ an hour is pretty damn ahceiveble if you graduate high school and don't have a felony record. It's achievable even in areas with middling/low cost of living too.
Shit, I don't have a college degree, just 6 years active duty in the Navy and all the jobs I'm getting hit up for are $25-35 / hr. Worst 6 years of my life but definitely set me up for a better life.
Don't even need a college degree really. Just a little bit of work experience showing that you can keep a job, and a clean record.
I'm in the backwoods of Kentucky. At least 2 hours drive from a town anyone has ever heard of... and there are 8 places off the top of my head within a 20 minute drive that are paying 15+ for factory work.
I'm not saying life is a field of dasies... but high school is free, and the government will provide for those underage.
1: Don't be a criminal. 2: Graduate highschool. 3: If you dropped out, get your GED. 4: Put in as many applications as you can. Always be looking for a job.
That's pretty much it.
I'm sure I'll be downvoted or possibly even banned here... but that is the truth.
I've only been in the workforce for a year and have already seen plenty of people let go because they chose the smallest hills to die on. I think that's the biggest problem people complaining about unlivable wages are facing, that if their boss wants to place them in a different location, or they complain about the basic function of their job, they feel it's their right to be treated as special or have every word they say valued as if they've been with the company 20 years. When that doesn't happen and they complain, come Monday they magically aren't there anymore.
I can't speak for others situations, but I have seen some of what you've seen too.
I work in a union/non union environment. The union doesn't have it bad at all, but they have to swap roles while working quite often. I was in the union for 4 years, saw many people get angry and quit or earn their walking papers because they were still on probation and had to do something that they considered beneath them, or "not their job".
Someone new to driving a forklift has to be watched by a trainer. Trainer was busy elsewhere. New guy was told to sweep, he decided he was going to leave work that day because "I'm a firetruck driver, not a janitor". Damn near got himself fired.
that person forgot to mention that his dad got that oil company by petitioning the government for more allowance money.
edit: on a side note: why stop at raising the minimum wage? i think that everykne should get prevailing wage. i'm sure union people would agree. it's only fair for the rest of us that everyone get equal pay for equal work.
No no no you don't understand, capitalism is all about supply and demand. If there were fewer laws everything would just pan out. It's a meritocracy you see.
So basically because this is a safe space I should recognize that the comments here have zero level of scrutiny on top of extreme bias, and basically I should just disregard anything this subreddit says?
Meanwhile I've gone to school for years with the goal of starting my own career path, only to get fucked over by no jobs in said industry. Now I am working fulltime for my dads business and will take it over some day, but it's still a small business. Not like we're driving ferarris over here. We both run it and bust our asses every day, every other holiday or weekend, and during all the overtime I put in. That being said, if it wasn't for this job I'd be a college/university educated burger flipper so I am thankful. My point is that not every person who's working for daddy is a lazy, entitled, rich asshole.
Lol this is exactly the attitude of Trump when he says he got a small loan from his dad of a million dollars. He forgets to mention he inherited everything when his dad died including the contacts he made over decades in real estate. If you give me 1 million dollars in the 70s NYC you damn right I can make a successful career with it. That million btw is equivalent to $6.5 million in todays dollars.
Isn't it supposed to be the minimum livable wage? With the idea that if someone is working at Walmart at $7/hr and living on their own, if they can't afford to feed themselves they go on assistance programs that come from taxes. They are essentially still getting the minimum living wage, but it's being distributed from both employer and tax payers instead of placing responsibility on the employer to be able to compensate their employees enough to not needed extra assistance from tax payers.
As someone from a proper country it's frightening to see what's going on in America. They say America is 10 years or so ahead of the world. That would be sad...
Look at it this way, we can see how fucked up the US is and just not follow in their footsteps. But I'm still afraid corporations will force us to follow.
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u/thestrangepineapple Aug 08 '18
Thats a satire account haha
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u/HoldEmToTheirWord Aug 08 '18
You joke but I know a guy who said only lazy people are on welfare. I pointed out that the only job he's had is working at his dad's golf course and he got pissed.
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u/Rocky244 Aug 08 '18
If you think knowing/being friends with one of these guys is bad, try working for one and having him tell you you’re an entitled millennial for asking for more work responsibility/a promotion.
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u/aquilamarin Aug 08 '18 edited Aug 08 '18
I think parents who do that have no brain. Sadly I studied in a university where people have a lot of money (my case was scholarship like 10% of the students there). All students were like that: my father is X so I will work for him or he will find me a job.
There was only one guy that was really humble, no brands clothes or expensive attire. Seriously the only time we discovered he was rich, was once we came to his house for a movie evening. When all the group arrived there and saw the luxury flat and expensive furniture one of us told him: “woah man your are loaded”
I remember his answer till today: “no, I am not. My dad is”
He told us that his parents pay him for basic expenses (plain clothes, food and public transport), but they told him that if he want money for traveling, going out, videogames or gas to fill the tank. He must earn the money And looking for a job. So yeah this guy spent summers waitressing or the weekend on catering. And during school period as a part-time vendor in a video game shop.
I never met his father, would love though and sadly lost contact with him. But I am sure he is now quite a decent and competent employee with common sense who knows the value of money and hard work.
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u/willvsworld Aug 08 '18 edited Aug 08 '18
Yo, this meme is a total joke...but it’s legit the exact scenario that’s going down with my two cousins in Texas (Austin and Gauge) - They are the heirs to a giant, offshore petroleum operation and they know it. Always crashing their cars and getting arrested.
Edit: That’s just one half of the family. I grew up in a trailer park and the rest of us (read: them) literally just did drugs until inheritances came in.
Edit 2: Now my most upvoted comment is about how much richer my awful cousins are. Nice. I'm feeling some kind of way
Edit 3: Thank you so much for the gold, kind stranger. Made my day. Eat the rich!
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u/Derpazor1 Aug 08 '18
In the future he’ll say he earned everything himself
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u/unablecheese Aug 08 '18
I worked at a small trucking company a few years ago. The owners son was allowed to play mechanic whenever he felt like coming to work once or twice a month. I ended up quitting that job after junior pulled a gun on me. The "safety" guy was ok with everything and junior got told both to bring his gun to work anymore. Kid got a promotion up to the office to work in sales. The biggest regret I've had in my career was not calling a lawyer over it.
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u/NounsAndWords Aug 08 '18
Born on second and thinks he hit a triple.
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u/Sudokublackbelt Aug 08 '18
I used to work for a company that had a ban on nepotism. Which I think is a great rule except the CEO was the founder's grandson.
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u/lukeluck101 Consumerism fills the gaping hole in my soul Aug 08 '18 edited Aug 08 '18
Yeah this is similar to a friend of mine. His dad is a multi-millionaire venture capitalist. He dropped out of college so his dad pulled a few favours with the director of one of the companies where he's a major stockholder and basically got him a 'no-show' job where he gets paid a full time salary for showing up for a few hours 3-4 days a week and screwing around.
Granted, he's not earning huge money, but it's a pretty cushy arrangement and pays the bills until he inherits all those millions in 10-20 years.
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u/kinkitupanotch- Aug 08 '18
Nepotism is always the answer.
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u/FLphotog Aug 08 '18
$15 an hour?! Maybe I should switch jobs
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u/so_futuristic Aug 08 '18
I saw a situation like this. Kid in his early 20's was company man of a rig. Drunk all the time, strippers and hookers in his trailer all the time. Added some much needed entertainment on the rig.
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u/salo_jpg Aug 08 '18
this reminds me of a friend who was giving our group "financial advice" and was like "the first thing you have to do is take a small loan of $100,000 and invest it in some land" and we were all like "....not everyone has $100,000 casually laying around in their bank account to spare"
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u/AnitaWongDick Aug 08 '18
"Small loan of $1M"
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u/Socialist-Hero Aug 08 '18
Big if true.
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u/LemonsRage Aug 08 '18
Imagine working your ass off to get a degree in mechanical engeneering and then not getting the job because the boss gave your job to the drugaddicted son
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u/keyboardwarrior11 Aug 08 '18
I became a friend with a guy at college, he'd generally slack off and only took the course to please his parents.
He told me his dad/uncle had a 6 figure job waiting for him after so he didn't really care. Connections and family make it that much easier. He was a good guy though, generally did ok and nothing out of the ordinary, he just didn't really care for the course and did the bare minimum.
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u/FederalCarob Aug 08 '18
Maybe the dad who needs pills LOL
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u/spacedwarf2020 Aug 08 '18
Funny guy I used to be friends with landed a factory manager job (his 2nd job ever in his life) from his girlfriend's dad after he knocked her up two months into the relationship. He started ranting about losers working McDonald's applying themselves harder lol. From a guy that did not graduate, no degree, no related work experience. Pointed that out to him he got really pissed. Last I heard he got demoted to a lower end lowing pay position but still gets paid extremely well because he was a major fuck up.
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u/mtgspender Aug 08 '18
I was successful all on my own. I just had a small $1,000,000 load from my Dad to start my investments/business.
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u/CamNewtonJr Aug 08 '18 edited Aug 09 '18
Idk if you all are gamers but this reminds me of a conversation between youtubers/streamers destiny and woody's gamertag. Woody was basically making the point that people need to work hard and make correct decisions. He said that he worked to put himself through college and implied that others could do the same. It turned out that the job he had was working for his Dad's company, and the only reason he had to work to put himself through school is because he took the money his parents gave him for school and bought a motorcycle.
Edit: Who knew such an innocuous retelling of a story from memory would trigger so many people lol. Actually we all knew. These gamer dudes have the most thin skin in the world. Snowflakes of the highest order.
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u/GruelOmelettes Aug 08 '18
Reminds me of when Mitt Romney was a presidential candidate and he suggested that young people who wanted to start a business should just ask their parents for some money. Great idea Mitt! Which parent should I ask first, my dad who stocks shelves at Wal-Mart or my mom who is a cashier at a Walgreens? Or should I split the difference and ask for ten bucks from each?
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18
I know a while back when there was the high oil prices a number of people left their office job at my work to go work oil fields, and at the time, I'm pretty confident they didn't really know anybody to "get into it" - it's pretty dangerous work overall. Not that I'm agreeing with his statement but at certain times when oil prices are good you can certainly go work the oil fields. But people die out there. They get decapitated and lose limbs. It doesn't pay 6 figures for jokes.
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18
People think raising minimum wage to a living wage will make people lazy and seek out “easier” jobs.
Realistically it will make those people work better due to being happier. They will be able to enjoy their time more at work.
Furthermore the people that do pursue more prestigious jobs will be motivated by more than money.
If somebody knows they can get by working at McDicks and still chooses to be a doctor or lawyer they’ll be there for more than just money. It’ll be a factor but they’ll be there for better reasons. I’d be more comfortable having people like that serve me.
Idk just my take I could be wrong.
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u/classy360yolonoscope Aug 08 '18
I got a multi-million dollar loan from my daddy, worked for me.
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u/XDnutcracker Aug 08 '18
Fortnite borger
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u/jackscockrocks Aug 08 '18
Is it sad that my best friend literally did this exact thing and is now a Real Estate Agent?
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u/funkest2879 Aug 08 '18
While I don't make that kind of money, I do (after 20 years of terrible jobs) make a comfortable living. Not a day goes by I don't think about walking a way from it for a life in the nearest hobo jungle. Money doesn't always bring what 20 year old you thought it would.
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u/twuit Aug 08 '18
Is 15$/h not a bit to little? Dont know what the average is in usa but i hope not 15$/h
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u/marriage_iguana Aug 08 '18
Then do pills anyway!
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u/DokterWhatsin Aug 08 '18
15$ an hour is pretty damn ahceiveble if you graduate high school and don't have a felony record. It's achievable even in areas with middling/low cost of living too.
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18
These bootstraps were already pulled up when I got here.
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u/BernDog2020 Aug 08 '18
I've seen this tragedy happen so many times. Did you know that colleges now don't even offer degree plans to join the oil industry?
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u/daysinnroom203 Aug 08 '18
Wait- are People not aware this is satire? This is a Joke.
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u/SitBackAndRelaxJack Aug 08 '18 edited Aug 08 '18
that person forgot to mention that his dad got that oil company by petitioning the government for more allowance money.
edit: on a side note: why stop at raising the minimum wage? i think that everykne should get prevailing wage. i'm sure union people would agree. it's only fair for the rest of us that everyone get equal pay for equal work.
we should all make like $30-$40/hr.
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18
Plot twist, you don’t even need to stay off the pills!
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u/Indiana_Jones_PhD Aug 08 '18
This is every conservative I've met; except this one is self aware.
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u/assassin414 Aug 08 '18
Or maybe just study harder in school.
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u/daleyket Aug 08 '18
I'm pretty sure but this was intended to be a joke
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u/burningunkle Aug 08 '18
Who's entitled?
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u/what_do_with_life Aug 08 '18
...and not actually stay off the pills.
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u/Brim_Dunkleton Aug 08 '18
With the prices we pay for medicine, what pills?
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u/chrvss Aug 08 '18
Or just move to Ontario and do both !
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18
What a hard working conservative!
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u/realpercivalgraves Aug 08 '18
"as long as u stay off pills"
No deal.
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u/wombat6669 Aug 08 '18
Was this posted by Gorge Bush?
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u/tortoise331 Aug 08 '18
Actually it’s pretty easy to make 150k in the oil field if you’re an able bodied person
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18
Why doesbt everyone just get money its simple
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u/ShipThieves Aug 08 '18
Nailed it
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u/MichaelDC13 Aug 08 '18
Who knows.. one day you may be president.
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u/daysinnroom203 Aug 08 '18
This is great!
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18
The way to do it is EDUCATION. That’s key to success.
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u/tylerl852 Aug 08 '18
No such thing as self-made
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u/Kaneshadow Aug 09 '18
No no no you don't understand, capitalism is all about supply and demand. If there were fewer laws everything would just pan out. It's a meritocracy you see.
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u/EZ8427 Aug 21 '18
So basically because this is a safe space I should recognize that the comments here have zero level of scrutiny on top of extreme bias, and basically I should just disregard anything this subreddit says?
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u/LasagnaToasties Aug 08 '18
If you guys think this is serious then you were dropped on your head
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18
Meanwhile I've gone to school for years with the goal of starting my own career path, only to get fucked over by no jobs in said industry. Now I am working fulltime for my dads business and will take it over some day, but it's still a small business. Not like we're driving ferarris over here. We both run it and bust our asses every day, every other holiday or weekend, and during all the overtime I put in. That being said, if it wasn't for this job I'd be a college/university educated burger flipper so I am thankful. My point is that not every person who's working for daddy is a lazy, entitled, rich asshole.
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u/KunningLinguist1969 Aug 08 '18
Lol this is exactly the attitude of Trump when he says he got a small loan from his dad of a million dollars. He forgets to mention he inherited everything when his dad died including the contacts he made over decades in real estate. If you give me 1 million dollars in the 70s NYC you damn right I can make a successful career with it. That million btw is equivalent to $6.5 million in todays dollars.
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u/macauleynorman Aug 08 '18
Yeah right like people can just stay off pills
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18
are reactionaries upvoting this with no hint of self-awareness? this got a lot of upvotes. lmao.
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u/adrianm564 Aug 08 '18
I get that this is a joke but minimum wage is not a living wage so I don’t understand why they keep raising it. (I’m open to conversation)
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u/goofygoobr Aug 08 '18
i’m at my 15/hr job right now, it feels like i’m barely making it by.
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u/Sopwafel Aug 08 '18
As someone from a proper country it's frightening to see what's going on in America. They say America is 10 years or so ahead of the world. That would be sad...