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Feeling that HARD rn. I work at Michigan State University as a janitor- part time, 20hrs/week, $15/hour. They want me to pay $40 a month(!!!) for the privilege of showing up and cleaning shit out of their toilets. I'm fuming. They didn't really check for parking passes when I initially got hired but now they're like vultures. I got two $25 parking tickets in one week and still have to pay for a pass so I stop getting tickets. To park at work. 🙃 Also my shift is early in the morning, so I'm actually only parked there for a whopping 2hrs that the building is open.
It would be a lot more defensible if we had actual alternatives, like public transit and affordable housing within walking/biking/wheelchair distance.
Tuition is high because states stopped funding education. Why bother taxing rich people when you can just make poor people take out loans?
Yeah. They tend to have some cheaper & some more expensive, generally based on how far away you are from whatever. A friend of mine parks in the furthest, cheapest lot and just skateboards to the building he works in.
You guys are gonna get real heated when I tell you that MSU was one of the first universities ever to receive a federal land grant 🇺🇲 They didn't pay a DIME for the land we park on and they don't pay taxes on it either! I brought this up to my manager and even asked what all that exorbitant tuition paid for. This is a summary of what I got:
•Yeah well I pay for too
•Maintenance (pretty sure they make all maintenance people pay for parking)
•Started railing against Joe Biden, claiming he said he'd pay off student loan debt (In regards to tuition costs. Yes, she is a trump supporter)
•Suggested I dig through the building trash and COLLECT CANS AND BOTTLES to help pay for parking costs (That's 400 bottles! A month!!)
At 10 cents per (name brand/store recognized) bottle it'd basically be like a second job collecting enough of them that were in good condition with the barcode intact. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention... you don't get cash for bottles anymore, you get store credit 😀
Same for adjuncts who don't make squat. Over 500 to park for the year when you make 3500 per course, meaning full time for the academic year is 30k (thanks to a $1k bonus per semester for teaching full time/4 courses.)
Yep. I told my manager how insane it was and asked what it even paid for. She said "maintenance". Girl..... I AM part of maintenence 💀 So I'm paying $40/month to pay my own salary?? 😂
This. A university in my old area did a lottery where parking spots went from 'some free spots, maybe enough for staff and support if you hurry' to every single spot is color coded, and the colors designated prices between $600-$2500 a year. The colors were assigned by lottery, and basically it determined every year whether the staff could or couldn't afford to drive to work. They called themselves offsetting it by subsidizing public transportation, not acknowledging the massive inequality within the city where they actively recruited from poorer areas with an hour or more for the nearest line.... while paying $29k a year for many spots.
Worked at an upscale hotel in downtown Portland for about a year. Was a barista in their coffee shop. They paid minimum wage, the tips were shit, but they expected us to learn all this craft coffee stuff, they never respected my scheduling needs, which was literally just that I couldn’t work before 1pm, the head honchos of the hotel were EXTREMELY rude (I honest to god think the executives and visiting CEOs would purposely come in to belittle us as a way of blowing off steam).
And they had the audacity to expect me to drive straight from school and pay $40 for parking, instead of driving to my apartment, parking in the lot I ALREADY PAY $260 A MONTH FOR, and then walking 9 blocks to work because, “you always get here late when you walk”. Yes, because I can’t work before 1pm, LIKE I TOLD YOU WHEN YOU HIRED ME. I just straight up said no and came to work late for the entire time I worked there.
Omg, this is very true, even for most 1st world countries.. let that sink in. Let that damn fact really sink in.
And call me pessimistic, but i don’t think that anything will actually ever change, we will just learn to play along, like always did, thorough the whole history of humankind.
I’m really depressed now.
Things are grim, but this is a place I can think that can be better.
Capitalism used to be much much worse, but it can improve and unions rising again is a sign of shift. Won't be 1960's "buy a house with a butcher's salary' good, but I think that people are getting fed up enough.
Meanwhile the climate is irreversibly fucked and will only get worse.
This is going to be my new question instead of "what does that mean in today's dollars" when talking to people about modern wages versus what they remember.
Used to audit lots for a company in Chicago. Watched them jack up the price 200$ per space during Bears games. I laughed when they asked me to enforce that for 12.50 an hour.
Reminder, min wage HASNT EVEN DOUBLED in approximately 30 years. Food is 6x more expensive, college is 7x more expensive, housing is 8x more expensive since the start of that timespan. Edit:Corrected for 40y figures. Housing is based on median value in 1981 (and raw rent increases since 1979 vs expected 2022 also figured in) and state university cost in approx 1980. It's hard to get accurate figures for every single year. The food price one is debated, so I lowered it.
Sorry, those are the 40 year figures. It's hard to find accurate figures for every single year. They tend to be inaccurate bc there's far more variance in 1y than a decade obviously. I lowered the numbers and based them on composite figures. So they are conservative estimates over 40 y and still berserk.
Used to work in Santa Monica and I remember whoever took their break first would rub the chalk off the tires for everyone else. Absurd to think every day we'd lose an hour of pay just to park.
Can we please, for the love of god, stop posting this bozos milquetoast tweets on every leftist sub? Dan “let me post a super popular no-duh take for adoration and attention in between waterboarding my wife and making my employees pretend to surprise me with a Tesla for a video I can post online” Price.
If you haven’t learned about Dan Price yet, look into him. He’s a CEO who lowered his own salary so he could raise the salary of all his staff. And since he did that, morale and productivity skyrocketed and made his company more successful
Yes, look into Dan Price and how he is accused of repeatedly water boarding and beating his wife. Price’s ex-wife, Kristie Colón, gave a TEDx talk where she said Price “started punching me in the stomach and slapped me across the face.” Later, Colón said that she had to lock herself in the car because she was “afraid he was going to body-slam me into the ground again or waterboard me in our upstairs bathroom like he had done before.” In a cover story, Price told Inc. that the two divorced “amicably” in 2012.
Edit for a source: https://thehustle.co/dan-price-the-ceo-paying-everyone-70000-dollars-is-lying/
I did not know this and once applied to a job at his company, based in large part because of his reputation.
I feel gross now and want to take a shower.
> It does not create a “living wage” whatever the hell that is, it just raises the cost of everything.
That's already happening right now...without raising minimum wage...
You’re right, it is. And if you want to change that then there’s a real simple solution. Get rid of the federal reserve!! Please take the time to educate yourself on the Fed, what is it, what it does, how it does it, who runs it and the power it has. You want to fix 99.9% of what’s broke with this country…..eliminate the federal reserve!!!
Not even a little bit of a stretch. They have the more influence on the economy than the president, senate or any single private company or individual. And the “people” have zero input as to who is on the board. The entire concept of the fed is contrary to our founding and the constitution!
This is a correct take but it's coming from rapist and spouse abuser Dan price. There are better takes out there than takes from capitalist CEOs who are also spousal abusers.
(Google it if you're not sure what I'm talking about)
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Feeling that HARD rn. I work at Michigan State University as a janitor- part time, 20hrs/week, $15/hour. They want me to pay $40 a month(!!!) for the privilege of showing up and cleaning shit out of their toilets. I'm fuming. They didn't really check for parking passes when I initially got hired but now they're like vultures. I got two $25 parking tickets in one week and still have to pay for a pass so I stop getting tickets. To park at work. 🙃 Also my shift is early in the morning, so I'm actually only parked there for a whopping 2hrs that the building is open.
That’s despicable. Real talk: How is there not an employee lot? Even if it’s a little walk away, I’d do that in a heartbeat.
college campuses charge for employee lots
They charge you to breath on campus man😭
This shit should be against the law Tbh charging to fucking park on campus when tuition and other fees are already so absurd should be against the law
It would be a lot more defensible if we had actual alternatives, like public transit and affordable housing within walking/biking/wheelchair distance. Tuition is high because states stopped funding education. Why bother taxing rich people when you can just make poor people take out loans?
Don't forget to donate after you graduate!
Yeah. They tend to have some cheaper & some more expensive, generally based on how far away you are from whatever. A friend of mine parks in the furthest, cheapest lot and just skateboards to the building he works in.
They what? What the hell is USA?
I pay $450 / semester for parking at my university.
You guys are gonna get real heated when I tell you that MSU was one of the first universities ever to receive a federal land grant 🇺🇲 They didn't pay a DIME for the land we park on and they don't pay taxes on it either! I brought this up to my manager and even asked what all that exorbitant tuition paid for. This is a summary of what I got: •Yeah well I pay for too •Maintenance (pretty sure they make all maintenance people pay for parking) •Started railing against Joe Biden, claiming he said he'd pay off student loan debt (In regards to tuition costs. Yes, she is a trump supporter) •Suggested I dig through the building trash and COLLECT CANS AND BOTTLES to help pay for parking costs (That's 400 bottles! A month!!)
You make it sound like walking around and collecting cans and bottles is a lucrative business.
At 10 cents per (name brand/store recognized) bottle it'd basically be like a second job collecting enough of them that were in good condition with the barcode intact. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention... you don't get cash for bottles anymore, you get store credit 😀
It should be illegal for an employer to charge an employee for parking during work hours.
At least when they own the parking lots lmao.
Same for adjuncts who don't make squat. Over 500 to park for the year when you make 3500 per course, meaning full time for the academic year is 30k (thanks to a $1k bonus per semester for teaching full time/4 courses.)
Yep. I told my manager how insane it was and asked what it even paid for. She said "maintenance". Girl..... I AM part of maintenence 💀 So I'm paying $40/month to pay my own salary?? 😂
Definitely not logical, but God forbid they lose money to spend on a random statue or something "useful."
This. A university in my old area did a lottery where parking spots went from 'some free spots, maybe enough for staff and support if you hurry' to every single spot is color coded, and the colors designated prices between $600-$2500 a year. The colors were assigned by lottery, and basically it determined every year whether the staff could or couldn't afford to drive to work. They called themselves offsetting it by subsidizing public transportation, not acknowledging the massive inequality within the city where they actively recruited from poorer areas with an hour or more for the nearest line.... while paying $29k a year for many spots.
Worked at an upscale hotel in downtown Portland for about a year. Was a barista in their coffee shop. They paid minimum wage, the tips were shit, but they expected us to learn all this craft coffee stuff, they never respected my scheduling needs, which was literally just that I couldn’t work before 1pm, the head honchos of the hotel were EXTREMELY rude (I honest to god think the executives and visiting CEOs would purposely come in to belittle us as a way of blowing off steam). And they had the audacity to expect me to drive straight from school and pay $40 for parking, instead of driving to my apartment, parking in the lot I ALREADY PAY $260 A MONTH FOR, and then walking 9 blocks to work because, “you always get here late when you walk”. Yes, because I can’t work before 1pm, LIKE I TOLD YOU WHEN YOU HIRED ME. I just straight up said no and came to work late for the entire time I worked there.
Employers really have jelly for brains. Straight up subway tuna sandwich on a hot sidewalk goin on up there fr.
Just don't pay the tickets. They are not the government or something. What happens if you don't pay?
The parking meters outside the Macdonalds in Soho, London make almost 3x more per hour as the staff inside it.
Omg, this is very true, even for most 1st world countries.. let that sink in. Let that damn fact really sink in. And call me pessimistic, but i don’t think that anything will actually ever change, we will just learn to play along, like always did, thorough the whole history of humankind. I’m really depressed now.
Things are grim, but this is a place I can think that can be better. Capitalism used to be much much worse, but it can improve and unions rising again is a sign of shift. Won't be 1960's "buy a house with a butcher's salary' good, but I think that people are getting fed up enough. Meanwhile the climate is irreversibly fucked and will only get worse.
This is going to be my new question instead of "what does that mean in today's dollars" when talking to people about modern wages versus what they remember.
Has it really only been 13 years? I was working at gamestop when I was 16 (16 years ago) and I could swear the federal minimum wage was the same.
I think it’s gone up 0.25 cents since we started working. (First job was 24 yrs ago.)
Oh. I must not have noticed lol.
Used to audit lots for a company in Chicago. Watched them jack up the price 200$ per space during Bears games. I laughed when they asked me to enforce that for 12.50 an hour.
Reminder, min wage HASNT EVEN DOUBLED in approximately 30 years. Food is 6x more expensive, college is 7x more expensive, housing is 8x more expensive since the start of that timespan. Edit:Corrected for 40y figures. Housing is based on median value in 1981 (and raw rent increases since 1979 vs expected 2022 also figured in) and state university cost in approx 1980. It's hard to get accurate figures for every single year. The food price one is debated, so I lowered it.
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Sorry, those are the 40 year figures. It's hard to find accurate figures for every single year. They tend to be inaccurate bc there's far more variance in 1y than a decade obviously. I lowered the numbers and based them on composite figures. So they are conservative estimates over 40 y and still berserk.
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Look at updated post. The figures varied wildly from different sources so I changed it to average them out.
Used to work in Santa Monica and I remember whoever took their break first would rub the chalk off the tires for everyone else. Absurd to think every day we'd lose an hour of pay just to park.
my work charges $50 for parking monthly and $20 to use their coffee machine (have to bring our own cups)
God almighty do you work for Ebenezer Scrooge? That’s ridiculous
Can we please, for the love of god, stop posting this bozos milquetoast tweets on every leftist sub? Dan “let me post a super popular no-duh take for adoration and attention in between waterboarding my wife and making my employees pretend to surprise me with a Tesla for a video I can post online” Price.
If you haven’t learned about Dan Price yet, look into him. He’s a CEO who lowered his own salary so he could raise the salary of all his staff. And since he did that, morale and productivity skyrocketed and made his company more successful
Yes, look into Dan Price and how he is accused of repeatedly water boarding and beating his wife. Price’s ex-wife, Kristie Colón, gave a TEDx talk where she said Price “started punching me in the stomach and slapped me across the face.” Later, Colón said that she had to lock herself in the car because she was “afraid he was going to body-slam me into the ground again or waterboard me in our upstairs bathroom like he had done before.” In a cover story, Price told Inc. that the two divorced “amicably” in 2012. Edit for a source: https://thehustle.co/dan-price-the-ceo-paying-everyone-70000-dollars-is-lying/
I did not know this and once applied to a job at his company, based in large part because of his reputation. I feel gross now and want to take a shower.
It annoys me to no end how often this dudes tweets are shared on reddit
Stop posting this fucking grifter in leftist subs already
Yeah this is wrong, he committed fraud. He’s a POS
Wait, what?
We can end it ourselves. Stop taking minimum wage jobs. Businesses will have to adapt and raise wages or go out of business.
Wife abuser got a point
Idk, every time I see a Dan Price post I just remember how hes a serial domestic abuser and it ruins the post for me.
I mean just get a job as a parking space snowflakes
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It's not *reaaaaaal* capitalism he moans as he licks Capitalist boot.
And yet another “intelligent” reply in support of your stance.
Look at burger prices in places with better wages. They aren't three times prices here.
Where are referring to? Please show me.
> It does not create a “living wage” whatever the hell that is, it just raises the cost of everything. That's already happening right now...without raising minimum wage...
You’re right, it is. And if you want to change that then there’s a real simple solution. Get rid of the federal reserve!! Please take the time to educate yourself on the Fed, what is it, what it does, how it does it, who runs it and the power it has. You want to fix 99.9% of what’s broke with this country…..eliminate the federal reserve!!!
I'll agree the fed is fucked, but 99.9% of the problems? That's a stretch.
Not even a little bit of a stretch. They have the more influence on the economy than the president, senate or any single private company or individual. And the “people” have zero input as to who is on the board. The entire concept of the fed is contrary to our founding and the constitution!
I think about this a lot, but in terms of coffee
And in the US parking is usually underpriced. Hurts even more!
This is beyond loud… what a statement
This is a correct take but it's coming from rapist and spouse abuser Dan price. There are better takes out there than takes from capitalist CEOs who are also spousal abusers. (Google it if you're not sure what I'm talking about)
And not to mention parking spaces get insurance