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Sitting in absolute awe at how trash Burger King is. 
Sitting in absolute awe at how trash Burger King is.
It was good a long time ago. Now its trash tier fast food.
Monster ultra series where it's at imo
The white and all green colored are the best
I like them as well. Have the Tetris flavor right now which is idk what flavor. Seems like a fruit punch type.
Couple buddies of mine drink their powder stuff and they really like it.
Thinking of giving my two weeks at work. Nothing lined up, but what they’re asking me to do is basically corporate abuse. There’s so many opportunities out there. Now would be the time. Only had two jobs in my entire life. 20+ at one and five at current.
You don't happen to be my boss by any chance?
I swear my company sits around all day thinking of new and unusual ways to torment me.
I want to quit my job too; I'm sick of it. The pay is lousy, the equipment sucks, and the warehouse yard sucks. Only reason I tried it was to work a warehouse yard and not have to highway drive anymore.
That sucks. I really wonder about this great worker shortage. It seems to definitely be a thing for a lot of hourly and front line jobs, but I don't really see it in the white collar world. My company has lost a couple people and is going with the "the beatings will continue until morale improves".
I've been keeping an eye on the job market and there's lots of jobs, but they all sound like more work and less pay. It is amazing how many "IT manager" jobs are really just you alone doing everything that a full IT department does. You're manager and the only employee.
My company seems to keep paying me just enough to where it isn't quite worth it to jump ship. We actually had a director retire, yet they only name an interim director, but aren't hiring the job. So, any chance of promotion is out the window.
I've been keeping an eye on the job market and there's lots of jobs, but they all sound like more work and less pay. It is amazing how many "IT manager" jobs are really just you alone doing everything that a full IT department does. You're manager and the only employee.
My company seems to keep paying me just enough to where it isn't quite worth it to jump ship. We actually had a director retire, yet they only name an interim director, but aren't hiring the job. So, any chance of promotion is out the window.
Just dawned on me… The $5000 raise they offered is actually only $3000 because they don’t give bonuses and I got a $2000 bonus this year and last.
I don't know if the worker shortage is real everywhere but, where I work we've had a lot of young people who are hired and they either decide not to show up at all or they'll show up for their first day and never come back, they don't call and say it's not for them and they won't answer when the boss calls. It seems like it's a lot of young people who just think they shouldn't have to work. Minimum wage here is $15 an hour now and while that's not a living wage in CA and hasn't been for years it's still a decent starting wage for someone who's still living at home.
Yeah but actually being offered a job and leaving on your own would disqualify you, all you have to do is write down the names of companies that are hiring and put the address etc in showing that you applied.
A lot of young people are still at home, or moved home during the pandemic, so they can just "peace, out" anytime they want. When you've got no rent and Mom cooks, you can do whatever you want.
With housing costs exploding, a lot of these 20-somethings just can't get a job that pays enough to live on their own, so they play video games all day at home.
Lots of parents don't want their kids working customer facing jobs where you're constantly exposed to getting covid. So, Mom and Dad let them stay.
A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression
The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading early this year.
www.pewresearch.org
Honestly man this scares me as a VA resident. I know rent is out of control, but 15 dollars an hour is plenty to get a roommate where I live, but man it's rising like crazy in Richmond
The area I live in a 1 bedroom apartment is at least $2500 a month and most places want you to have an income that's at least 2.5 times the monthly rent. Making $15 as a starting wage is fine but it's not enough to live on here. if you work full time at $15 per hour you will bring home $25,701 after fed and state taxes but that isn't counting whatever is taken out of your checks for healthcare which is pretty much a sure thing these days.
You'll notice that wage doesn't even cover 12 months rent for a single bedroom apartment, it wouldn't even cover a $2300 studio here which again is the cheapest you can find them. On top of all that rents are being raised more significantly now once your lease is up, my nephew and his wife have had their rent raised 10% two years in a row, they want to just buy a house but every house they put an offer on has a bidding war, people go in above asking and waive inspections etc, it's a terrible time to be a buyer right now.
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The people not wanting to work started during covid that's for sure but the fact that so many people are living at home longer and longer has been going on for a while, you've got a ton of people spending thousands on college who end up having to take entry level minimum wage jobs when they get out because there aren't enough higher paying jobs for them, that or they picked a useless major that was never going to lead to anything for them in the first place.A lot of young people are still at home, or moved home during the pandemic, so they can just "peace, out" anytime they want. When you've got no rent and Mom cooks, you can do whatever you want.
With housing costs exploding, a lot of these 20-somethings just can't get a job that pays enough to live on their own, so they play video games all day at home.
Lots of parents don't want their kids working customer facing jobs where you're constantly exposed to getting covid. So, Mom and Dad let them stay.
A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression
The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading early this year.
This may sound dark but a big part of me is glad I'm in the second half of my life and not the first, I just don't see how things are going to be better in 20-30 years, yeah technology will advance but people will continue to devolve. Young people don't take anything seriously these days unless it helps them to play the victim online, old people won't let go of their grip on power and continue to destroy the planet, income inequality will just get worse etc.
I rent a two bedroom apartment right in the heart of the city for $1150 (50 a month for cat rent, bitch hasn't paid me back a dollar), and am actually moving to a comparable sized place for $850 a month starting in Mid-March. I found a steal of a deal and will be using this to my advantage over the next year or two while I finish up my master's. This is definitely not the norm and I'm still sitting here wondering how the hell I found such a steal. Gotta be something wrong with the apartment but I checked EVERYTHING lol.
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This IDK about. Yeah the future generations are a bit more vocal online right now, but it's just like every other generation before it. Sure there's some lazy people, but working at a university you see dedicated students hard at work on their STEM degrees. The complainers complain because they won't put in the work to get there and then yell online because they found a segment of dumbasses that fall in line with them. Real world sucks, and I'm thankful to have the position I'm in to my advantage (free school whoop whoop)
Had a dream last night that aliens invaded. They first disabled major infrastructure (phone networks, water, electricity), then used our phones to track where we were hiding since they were tapped into the network. They started "infecting" peoples' minds to act as their muscle and hunt down survivors. I was able to get away from one infected by riding a little razor scooter as fast as I could, but was still barely able to get away.
Then I made it to a parking lot where a bunch of people were hiding in the cars at night, and then those survivors chased me out saying there was no room for me. Finally, I climbed over a bunch of fences (while being chased by wild racoons) to a rooftop and discovered a bunch of moldy containers of water and other supplies.
It was then that I realized this invasion was not the first time they invaded. The "survivors" were those previously infected but snapped out of it - and we had lost all memory of the initial invasion.
Then I woke up.
Then I made it to a parking lot where a bunch of people were hiding in the cars at night, and then those survivors chased me out saying there was no room for me. Finally, I climbed over a bunch of fences (while being chased by wild racoons) to a rooftop and discovered a bunch of moldy containers of water and other supplies.
It was then that I realized this invasion was not the first time they invaded. The "survivors" were those previously infected but snapped out of it - and we had lost all memory of the initial invasion.
Then I woke up.
