Posted on 10/25/2009 1:34:25 PM PDT by FourPeas
It gets better. Said unemployeed nephew showed up at our door just over a week ago, after we didn't respond to his email asking if he could come and stay with us while he looked for a job. He drove nearly 1000 miles expecting us to let him sleep in his truck parked on our driveway. Of course, he had a sob story. After a few days of being gone for 2-3 hours each, he's says he's now found a job...we'll see. He's been careful not to expect us to provide coffee, meals, laundry, gas for his truck, etc.
During a discussion with my nephew, a 30-something unemployed laborer, about how we pay to dispose of our trash, he emphatically stated that he would never work collecting garbage, especially not in the summer. The response came automatically without hesitation from my husband: it seems the safety net and minimum wage is too high in our country if we can't find people to do jobs like that. My nephew didn't say anything after that, but I'm sure the truth hurts, especially when it comes from his favourite uncle.
Per my last post:
It helps, when sending wish Yiddish aphorisms not to put a typo in—I meant to write “says”, not syas” (long day).
Sometimes real life isn't "classy". It just is what it is.
Garbage collectors earn:
$80,000 in New York City. 35,000 in Pensacola Florida.
Chicagoland garbage man can earn 65,000 to 80,000
.........and let’s not forget bennies.
LOL
I get what you are saying.
There are a lot of people out of work right now who would rather be working than drawing unemployment. Then there are a lot who really like that life...
I missed seeing post #27 originally. After seeing your response, my curiosity got the better of me.
I’m sorry it did. Oy Gevalt!
What are “bennies”?
We’ve been through the same sort of thing with a car. Come to think of it, this nephew called us some months ago asking to borrow money. We learned the hard way, through losing a childhood friendship, that we don’t loan friends or family money or property. We either give or we explain why we must say no.
Benefits.
Health insurance, dental, optical, 410K matching, etc.
Benefits.
ARRRRR! ;)
Glad you got a laugh from it—BTW, didn’t mean to be snarky about it—sounds like a shame, and it must be tough for you to have to witness. Your nephew’s not alone-especially these days-there are some people who only learn the hard way, it seems. Life’s hard enough without making it worse.
The discussion was about trash removal and the fact we haul ours “down the hill” rather than take it to the curb to be taken away — it’s way, waaaay too hot here in the summer to let garbage sit around and ferment when we can pay a small fee to be able to dump it in town. As part of the conversation he said he’d never take a job collecting garbage, especially in the summer.
LOL! You and I joined the same year.
A guy I knew in high school worked summers painting garbage trucks — inside and out. It was an awful, stinky job BUT he was Very Well Paid. Very. He hated the job, but kept going back summer after summer.
Technically, if a lease runs out or there never was one you need to go to court and get a judgment to get them out. Depending on circumstances and ability to pay it could take a month or more (depending on your state).
I couldn't imagine having to let a squatter live at my house because they know the law and work it...trespassers have a lot of rights.
I would not take a trash job either if I could help it. That is a nasty job. You ever done it? I had a boyfriend in high school who did it to get money for college. It really brought his spirit down. Then he lucked out and got a job driving sports cars between car dealers!
I didn’t take it as snarky at all.
My first job was on the wash rack at a chickenfeed factory when I was 14. I lied that I was 18. You have no idea. Glad to have it.
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