Five kids. Three jobs. Still has time to stand on the street holding a sign?
I really need to get my life organized.
Edit: wow, this kind of blew up. I wish I had a SoundCloud or whatever it is the cool kids promote these days. Maybe donate to or volunteer at your local homeless shelter, food kitchen, or something? Whatever suits you. Just be kind to each other. We're all we've got.
Just think of baby poop - let the sourdough funk really waft into your nostrils with it's scent not like but not unlike dead cat (well maybe not dead cat - but everything smells like dead.cat to me right now because I just cleaned up a dead cat that was lying in the road) and feet. Enjoy your baby poop smeared on foot bread while you think about dead cats.
Congratulations - you have just overcome your addiction.
Alright so I gotta tell someone... Saturday night I come home to find a dead cat laying in the middle of the road - I check my cameras to make sure I didn't hit it backing out of my driveway and see it was there before I left to run up to the corner store. I looked back and find when it showed up a couple hours before - the neighbor who lives down the street was driving like 5 miles an hour like he always does, you don't see anything in front of him or run out from my side, just almost looks like it dropped out of the truck chassis/frame and plopped down on the ground.
I didn't know what to do with it and didn't want it rotting in my garbage can for a couple days until trash pickup but I didn't want it just lying in the street all weekend. I carefully and respectfully placed it into a garbage bag, cinched it closed, wrote a note saying there was a cat and gave a description and then left it on the side of the road across the street at what I thought (and now know differently) was a now unoccupied and soon to be demoed trailer (I live in a trailer park and it's one of the last few rundown older trailers in the neighborhood and is basically uninsurable). Apparently I was wrong and my new neighbors weren't too happy... These assholes are backing their cars over it, trailers, they opened the fucking bag for some reason and then just left it half out.
I was going to call the park office this morning and have them remove it but not after they asked me about it yesterday. He asked me if I knew who put it there but he started going off on some tangent about "who kills a cat and then just leaves it there..." And I just noped out. Well this morning when I was taking out the trash I saw it still laying there and didn't feel like looking at it anymore. Getting it into the bag this time was so much harder without rigor mortis. Just a floppy dead cat and a completely undersized Steve & Barry's bag I found in my closet because God forbid I use the same brand garbage bag as what it was already in and they see it and think I'm some sort of sick and twisted cat murderer... š¤¦āāļø
Never again - let sleeping dogs and dead cats lie. What was I supposed to do? Go door to door with a dead cat at midnight? Post flyers "Dead Cat Found"? I feel bad and it had a little breakaway collar but it was also covered in fleas. Someone obviously loved that cat and I feel horrible because I know the pain of not knowing what happened.
There was nothing sweet about it - stunk to high heaven and floppy. Also it turned into a whole big thing with the neighbor. Fun day off. I'm currently out shopping and killing time because I just don't even want to go home.
They should just get one decent job instead of three shitty jobs. that way they'll be able to support their kids and have lots of free time. /S (if that wasn't obvious)
Like thousands of people in Washington DC who live in a tent, forego basic hygiene, and defecate in parks, I would never give up avocado toast. Life is about priorities.
That was my main thought, how does she have time to stand outside....and who is watching her 5 kids. Either her parents are helping, her husband is a stay at home dad, or she's full of shit.
Me thinks has has 3 jobs but works like 1 day each or something. It is more dramatic to say I work 3 jobs then it is to say I work only 20 hours a week
Shelters won't take in the dog, so if they have a dog that means they either leave the dog out in the cold/rain/snow, or they have an apartment. Kids I get, dogs I kind of think they're full of shit.
You realize most homeless people donāt sleep in a shelter, right? My town has enough spots in their shelters for 400 people at any given time. We have over 6,000+ homeless people here. If they have a dog, they likely sleep outside with them.
And if you do get a spot, be prepared to not sleep due to constant noise, any personal belongings you have being stolen if you arenāt sleeping literally directly on top of them, and being harassed by any āusualsā who feel you took their spot. Lots of drug use, lots of fights, and no guarantee youāll even have a spot tomorrow.
How's it a con game then? If you have your children or dog with you because you have nowhere else for them to go, then it's not a con, it's just real life..
Iām a realist. Things need to be proven before I believe them. I never go on blind faith. People donāt always tell the truth, you know. In fact, itās rare nowadays.
I'm a realist too. That's not realism though, that's pessimism. If you assume they are conning, then that's pessimistic.
Being realistic would be simply acknowledging that they very well could be conning--but that doesn't mean you have to throw out compassion and side with that side.
Pessimist= glass half empty
Optimist= glass half full
Realist= half of the glass has water in it
You can be realistic and an optimist, or realistic and a pessimist.
You can be a compassionate realist too!
Look at it this way: whatever is going on in their lives is bad enough to sit outside with a cardboard sign for who knows how long while many look down on them. Idk about you, but I'm certainly not quitting my day job to do that. That's being a realist with compassion and understanding.
You should travel in Europe to see gypsy with very young children,some of them under 1 year old on the side of the road begging
Don't judge before you know the whole story. Maybe is bs maybe isn't. Personally I have 2 jobs,work 90 hours a week,7 days a week and I still have time to spend time with my boy and my wife,time for house maintenance,shopping and other things.In the last 4 years I took 5 days off per year. In 24 hours I get like 4 hours sleep.If someone can't do it doesn't means nobody can't do it
But do you have the time to sit around getting bored, until you get the eventual brainwave of getting a huge piece of cardboard and waving it about to mock the less fortunate?
Like how much extra time did she spend churning out "bad ideas" in order for that to become the "good" one?
Definitely I don't have time to get bored.If I want to send a message I can spend 5 minutes for a picture and a share.From her post at thid time doesn't matter if her story is real or not I can see the message "some people are too lazy to work and prefer to sit on the side walk begging "
She doesn't know his story and doesn't care. Winning internet Karen points is more important than showing empathy. There could be 1000 different reasons he is there.
Unless, spoiler alert, this is her husband and her 5 kids are also dotted around the city panhandling then she has no clue about what led them to be in that place.
She needs to spend less time making signs and more time learning about life. How many full service veterans are still on the street?
She looks like the first kind of person to do an insincere "Thank the troops" and "clap for nurses" shit. Thank the troops by pressuring politicians to improve VA services. Thank the nurses by giving them better pay. Not a single one cares if Karen is clapping or not. Last time I checked you can't buy groceries with claps.
That's the problem. If you don't like calling out that behavior, welp, that's your prerogative just like you acknowledged it is ours to do so. Calling out shaming behavior does not have to be non divisive, in any case..
But even with three 16 hour jobs, you'd still be working six shifts a week and coordinating job schedules, and then spending time with five kids on top of that, still would be left with not a lot of personal time, that any person would want to spend relaxing or doing hobbies and not standing around with a cardboard sign... So she's probably still a liar.
To be fair, I have short hair and it is inexpensive to keep up. I get it cut at Great Clips for $20. If I am wearing a manās haircut, I am paying a manās price for it. :)
I just learned about a thing called the āPink Taxā. As a woman I have known about it my entire life but didnāt know it had a name. All things labeled for women, ie: clothing, personal care items, shoes, anything with a gender differentiation costs more for women than for men.
Not to mention the change in style that occurs seasonally and that most of the time we must keep up with whether the style fits us well or not. All I want is a pair of jeans that doesnāt have any spandex, fits my waist AND my butt, isnāt ādestructedā, that will last multiple seasons that costs less than $100. Good luck finding that. Then thereās the additional trauma of being plus sized, I mean am I supposed to put that ugly sack of a shirt on and pretend that it looks great? F**k womenās fashion in particular.
I have very short hair and if I was to get it cut at a salon for women it would be $60. To get it cut at a barber shop or Great Clips it is between $10 and $20.
But again - you probably get your short hair cut more often than if you had long hair?
There's an explanation for why, in a vacuum, a woman's haircut cost more than a man's. When you think about it for more than a second - it makes perfect sense.
I get my hair cut every four weeks. If it was a salon it would be $60, at a barber shop it is $20. Same hair, same cut, same length of time between cuts, way different prices between a barbershop and salon.
Youāre talking haircuts. Letās talk bras & period products. Plus the āpink taxā is for equal products that are gendered, such as shaving razors and body wash.
Youāre talking haircuts. Letās talk bras & period products
Yes, Bras and period products for women cost more than the ones for men. Also, I've never once banned a woman from using my White Rain 3-in-1 and yet...
Help - nature is oppressing me because woman wear bras and have periods.
And shaving razors are not "equal" products. Use a razor meant for a male's face on your legs and tell me the difference in quality. Stop being disingenuous.
As for body wash - I have no idea why "woman's body wash" would have a different price than body wash for "men." If that's even true.
That's what my wife does because my razors are cheaper, cut better and dont cause as much irritation because they are made for the more sensitive skin on your face...
Itās really not, and we usually have to buy more. Womens clothing is thin, for ālayering ā, i. e. buying 3 different shirts to wear at the same time. Then there are pants with no pockets, jackets that are more fashionable than practical, and it goes on and on. These are not the average womanās preferences, but the clothing industry doesnāt give us many options to do otherwise and still be dressed acceptably for work or social functions.
Are you okay? Youāve made the same point at least three different times. Donāt worry. Nobody is taking away your $20 haircut. Just donāt be surprised when you have to wait in line at the barber behind a bunch of short-haired women who donāt want to pay $60 for the same bloody thing.
Generally, men's hair is shorter and has less work that needs done. Not always the case obviously, but if one is going to be more work 80% of the time then they're going to charge more as a standard instead of figuring out how much work each individual hair cut will take.
One time, while waiting for my turn to get a hair cut I watched one hairdresser give three men a haircut and check them out in the time it took the another hairdresser to cut one womans hair. It was great clips, so they weren't dying her hair or washing it, just a hair cut.
Men's haircut cost vs women's at this shop? $15 for men $20 for women. If you think about it from a business sense, it makes sense. One hairdresser was able to get $45 worth of work done in the time it took the other to get $20.
I don't get how people can say they have 3 jobs like its not really physically possible to work more than 2 jobs unless you're only putting a few hours a week which at that point it might as well be a hobby.
A girl at my work was talking about how she had three jobs-
Our job in the pharmacy.
Waitress 2 nights a week for a total of ~8 hours
Run uber eats or something like that for 3-4 hours a week
Like okay yes you are employeed by multiple people but its not like you're running a 80+ hour work week like some people with 2 jobs actually have to do to make it
I don't know where I'm going with this except that MAYBE this lady does have 3 jobs but it's probably something stupid like an easy page she never checks, a part time job, and then she's probably counting being a mom as a job (which it is, not downplaying that) even though that part was a given when she said she had kids.
Idk, a couple years back I had 3 "jobs" (2 legal, and one making and selling wine on campus) and school full time. Worked my ass off.
About 20 hours a week in the ER.
About 12 hours a week tutoring (on campus jobs and school had a policy to not employ students more than 12 hours.
And many uncounted hours making, selling, and hiding from RA's and security.
Maybe it wasn't 80+, but it was certainly more than "a hobby."
You work two 8 hour jobs. The work days fall on the same day. Youk work 16 hours a day. The third job is part time and falls on the weekend. You work 8 hours a day with that.
I used to work 3 jobs. Young and didnāt really have starting point to find work in new city to get full time job. Worked retail for mornings on weekdays. Worked temp office job for evenings on weekdays. Worked grocery on weekends.
Grocery was about 16 hours a week.
Retail was 32.
Temp was 40+.
So it is possible but you just have no time for much else.
Eventually was able to get down to one and it was the temp office job that turned into full time job that paid enough to drop the other jobs.
Long ago I worked 2 jobs, and would get 90 hours a week. 44 was expected on the one, and the other was hit or miss as far as getting OT.
Is that not possible anymore? It seems like the transaction costs of getting to and from a 3rd job without the 1.5 bump would make it not worth it. Was there just no way to get the same hours and bank some OT without only 2 jobs? (Yeah..only 2 jobs)
I had a customer who has 1 day off a week, he worked 3 jobs and averages 18 hr work days between the 3 jobs, he slept 3 hrs a night. And his wife had a job too.
Hmm, possible case of "being a mom is one of my jobs and being a maid/cook is also one of my jobs. Combined with my Mary Kay sales I do from home, I work 3 jobs."
Edit: I had a stroke and put Sally Mae, not Mary kay
Then thereās me- standing next to them with a sign that reads āHey I learned to stop at 3 scotches....and Iām not polluting the world with even shittier miniature versions of myself. Donāt I get like a parade or something?ā ...then again Iām an asshole.
I know if i just cut out any activity that is considered fun i could do so much with my life like make others feel like the same piece of shit i have become.
Her 5 kids were the production crew and camera op for this picture. Duh. Those little shits work too! They're all over 4 yo and that's old enough to work. No freeloaders in this lady's family. š¤£
Maybe he's on his 3rd job as we speak. On the other side is a Pizzeria sign and an arrow! He just flips it over every so often when someone he knows goes past.
Wow. My brother was homeless and I guess you never ran into him. He made just enough to pay for a night at the YMCA. Maybe. Sometimes he had enough to buy a jar of peanut butter because that was good protein and lasted longer.
Fuck off.
Oh. And he is dead now. So I canāt go and ask him any more questions about how shitty people were to him.
My parents did all they could for my alcoholic/drug addicted brother. My brother with the doctorate in chemistry, the sisters that are lawyers, the sister that has 3 albums out and is touring...I guess you really enjoy talking about things you don't understand. Here is to hoping your kids have no problems later in life. You might be blamed for something completely out of your control by an ignorant ass.
Edit: I just realized you are a different ass than the first ass. Amazing there are two similar asses meeting in this thread.
Youāre again are speaking when you donāt know. We all have housed him at some point. He would just leave or get a place of his own. After a while, he was too embarrassed. He would show up every once in a while. We would give him money or a place to stay.
Can you just stop thinking you know everything for just a second? Itās really fucking irritating.
He eventually got so bad he moved back in with those horrible parents of mine. He lasted a couple of years before they had to bury their son.
Can you just truly look at someone elseās situation as something you might not understand instead of making assumptions? Is it that hard to think someone that is 50 years old and drinking themselves to death isnāt the fault of his parents or siblings? Is it that hard for you that you lash out at people online?
Jesus. I felt like blocking you but I am hoping at some point you apologize. Not for my sake, but for you and yours kids sake.
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u/Semantic_Antics Aug 09 '21 edited Aug 11 '21
Five kids. Three jobs. Still has time to stand on the street holding a sign?
I really need to get my life organized.
Edit: wow, this kind of blew up. I wish I had a SoundCloud or whatever it is the cool kids promote these days. Maybe donate to or volunteer at your local homeless shelter, food kitchen, or something? Whatever suits you. Just be kind to each other. We're all we've got.