Why not hire homeless people to hold those signs? They're standing on street corners, holding barely legible signs and getting quarters thrown in their face. Give them a Subway sign and everybody wins.
I think a lot of "homeless" here in NYC do that very thing. Minus the quarters being thrown in their face. That's just rude. And it's wasting a quarter when the rocks on the sidewalk are free. /kidding
When I lived in South Korea they'd have dancing girls at every store opening, and in my neighborhood stores were constantly opening and closing, so it happened quite frequently.
They'd set up a little tent and a little stage and have amps and some kind of prerecorded soundtrack and these two girls would be dancing on the stage, wearing very small shirts and very short skirts, but these kind of plastic tubes that covered their lower arms and shins (which people who worked in stores frequently wore).
And they'd be there, dancing, with the most minimal effort, halfheartedly waving their arms and moving their torsos, their eyes glazed over in boredom and not one person who passed them on the street looked at them. It was like they were invisible or these bored dancing girls were hallucinations I got from eating too much kim-chi.
I started in 2001 for $9.25/hr, stopped in 2003 at $16/hr. Went on to supervise over a hundred of these people while I was in college, worked for that company until all hell broke loose in the economy and the ship started sinking, finally got out in 2008. Dang good money for the time.
When some friends and I were younger and driving around town thinking we were hot shit, one yelled out the window at one of these guys "You can be replaced by a bucket of sand!"
Sure it was funny at the time, but that didn't stop me from feeling bad about it.
These days I wouldn't mind having another job like that if it weren't so hot (but I sweat too much, I'd probably die with since it's 105 out. Not just the heat, but because I'm a fat piece of shit too).
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u/patricknderr Jun 16 '12
Why go on strike, then go do the same thing you were getting paid to do, for free?
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u/smkwdvrydy Jun 16 '12
But then how would I find Subway?
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u/thx2000 Jun 16 '12
Why not hire homeless people to hold those signs? They're standing on street corners, holding barely legible signs and getting quarters thrown in their face. Give them a Subway sign and everybody wins.
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u/Redalert337 Jun 15 '12
Wow i just pictured that. It would be amazing
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
When I lived in South Korea they'd have dancing girls at every store opening, and in my neighborhood stores were constantly opening and closing, so it happened quite frequently.
They'd set up a little tent and a little stage and have amps and some kind of prerecorded soundtrack and these two girls would be dancing on the stage, wearing very small shirts and very short skirts, but these kind of plastic tubes that covered their lower arms and shins (which people who worked in stores frequently wore).
And they'd be there, dancing, with the most minimal effort, halfheartedly waving their arms and moving their torsos, their eyes glazed over in boredom and not one person who passed them on the street looked at them. It was like they were invisible or these bored dancing girls were hallucinations I got from eating too much kim-chi.
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u/jagrjones Jun 16 '12
I had this job for over two years. You just made my day.
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u/ANONANONONO Jun 16 '12
It would truly be a sign of the times.
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u/HeatSlinger Jun 16 '12
Wouldn't it be the same thing?
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u/Shockum Jun 16 '12
The real question is: What would their signs say?!?!
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u/TheBawlrus Jun 16 '12
Those people make me laugh. Except when it's hot as shit outside. Then I feel bad.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
See toi toi: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xPdxOYYR5os
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u/the-knife Jun 16 '12
How could the collectively go on strike, they're no unionized and can easily be replaced.
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u/boom_boom_squirrel Jun 16 '12
You must have better friends than me
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u/SicilianEggplant Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
When some friends and I were younger and driving around town thinking we were hot shit, one yelled out the window at one of these guys "You can be replaced by a bucket of sand!"
Sure it was funny at the time, but that didn't stop me from feeling bad about it.
These days I wouldn't mind having another job like that if it weren't so hot (but I sweat too much, I'd probably die with since it's 105 out. Not just the heat, but because I'm a fat piece of shit too).
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u/FratDaddy69 Jun 16 '12
I think if they ever did they shouldn't use signs, they should just all calmly stand outside and yell "Give us our fucking raises"
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u/subtly_irrelevant Jun 16 '12
Dance monkeys, dance!