I’m a paramedic. My job requires a broad set of skills: interpersonal, medical, and technical skills, as well as the crucial skill of performing under pressure. I often make decisions on my own, in seconds, under chaotic circumstances, that impact people’s health and lives. I make $15/hr.
And these burger flippers think they deserve as much as me?
Good for them.
Look, if any job is going to take up someone’s life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There’s a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, “These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys.” And elsewhere on FB: “I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.”
And that’s exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don’t realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It’s in the bosses’ interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it.
My company, as they’re so fond of telling us in boosterist emails, cleared 1.3 billion dollars last year. They expect guys supporting families on 26-27k/year to applaud that. And that’s to say nothing of the techs and janitors and cashiers and bed pushers who make even less than us, but are as absolutely crucial to making a hospital work as the fucking CEO or the neurosurgeons. Can they pay us more? Absolutely. But why would they? No one’s making them.
The workers in NY *made* them. They fought for and won a living wage. So how incredibly petty and counterproductive is it to fuss that their pile of crumbs is bigger than ours? Put that energy elsewhere. Organize. Fight. Win.
Are you suggesting the Hair Loop, which has been passed down by the Armstrong family for generations, which has survived countless battles and remained perfectly coiffed, is not a testament to the ELEGANCE and STRENGTH of the Armstrong legacy?!
Anonymous asked: Your comment on that post was bad
I said a lot of shit you’re going to have to specify which one
Anonymous asked: I can understand that you do need some money but selling art is a business like anything else you want to sell. I understand that you do need to make a profit but your prices need to be competitive. $7 for a rough sketch is pretty steep considering that for $8 you can get a custom from Dracini that is fully colored and everything. Also receipt paper (at least from where i live) is pretty brittle and breaks easily and if the postcard is folded it will get damaged. Not the greatest for shipping.
Yes I see where you’re coming from but this wouldn’t be a main thing this would be a way for me to make money by doing what I love to do at work. Doodling. Besides you’re not getting ONE rough sketch you’re getting FOUR (I should have specified before I have a system and draw four on one long thing of receipt paper). So, if I got a specialized notebook I would have to charge $5 each because the paper would be better quality and it wouldn’t be a signature thing of mine anymore. Just…a sketch on paper.
Also in not worried about the shipping. I can back them on better paper or like add something stuff to the envelope and put “DO NOT BEND” all over it I’ve never had that issue.
Pretty sure anon is just butthurt that they don’t have enough money to buy a rosexknight original.
Ross O’Donovan, the Rubber Ninja, breathes his last. Another animator has fallen. If Arin Hanson can’t animate, nobody can. There is only Egoraptor, or there is nothing.
The ninjas are falling. Soon arin will face the greatest ninja who has cheated death many times and would be able to easily defeat him if it weren’t for one thing. The Greatest ninja to exist retired so he can dance and play videogames and is arins best friend.
so these producers from jurassic park needed a goat for there new movie coming out in 2015 and they happened to drive past my house and see my goats in the pen outside and now my goat named earl is going to be in a movie and is more famous than ill ever be in my entire life.
Since I’ve been getting several messages like these over the months, I’ve decided to make a post about it.
Please, please, please do not send me messages asking if we can be friends or talking to me as if we already are friends.
It makes me highly uncomfortable and I always end up trying to be polite which somehow accidentally gives off the impression that I’m interested in when I’m really not.
I dislike talking to strangers unless it’s in a group chat setting (like streams and whatnot). If you’re a familiar name, chances are, I’ll be more interested in chatting because I know you (or of you).
Relationships will occur naturally with general communication and asking someone if you can be friends is something you do in kindergarten.
I’m not the most sociable person nor do I know how to do small talk. It’s exhausting and frustrating and I’m unfortunately losing my patience.
I am not the “friendly” person you might think I am.
I’m mostly reserved and I barely even talk to the people you might think I’m close to on this site.
I’m sorry if this comes off as cold and mean but I’m just tired of all these constant messages. I’m wasting your time and you’re wasting yours. If I really am interested in you in anyway, you’d feel it and I’d definitely be proactive about it.
Please understand that I simply can’t ‘click’ with a lot of people and I’m not obligated to befriend anyone who simply asks to.
***(If you’re a stranger but you come into my inbox asking about stuff, commenting on stuff or saying nice things, I’ll still really appreciate it all and I’ll be genuinely friendly. It’s just when people come into my inbox asking if they can be friends and treating me like we are already close that frays my nerves.)
