hardly anyone here makes over $20 an hour and it shows that people are unable to afford to go to work due to subpar pay
know a plumbing business in our area that pays its employees less than $15 an hour and that is considered good pay in this area with housing and food as high as the rest of the country
and the US has not had a proworker president ever
Biden threatened the last workers to protest for better with the threat of losing their livelihoods
cost of vehicle ownership is astronomical these days how could anyone in the US afford both housing and a vehicle with average US pay
know people skipping insurance and registration fees due to low pay and high cost
all this has to come to a head at some point
going to a grocery store that is not fully stocked and only the self-checkouts are open because the pay is so low no one can afford to work is more than normal now in the US
thanks Trump and Biden for making the US a better place for the elites
Yes, this is about Trump and Biden and not the Walt Disney Company. We can’t possibly use this thread to talk about how awful the Walt Disney Company is and how they are to blame for this because they could afford to pay their workers more if they wanted to. That might be too relevant.
The Walt Disney Company is awful, true, but do not make the mistake of thinking they are uniquely awful. This is every company. This is the world we live in. The whole damn system is rotten to the core, and the people with the power to fix it either do nothing to do so or deliberately make it worse for their own benefit.
This is a story uniquely about them. Biden and Trump do not need to be brought into it. The person I replied to tries to make everything about this election and especially Biden.
This is not a story uniquely about them, is my point. This story could be about any employer in Anaheim, or in many parts of the country. This particular one just happens to be about Disney.
You would have us ignore the context this story exists in, which is perilous. Even if Disney doubled everybody’s salary overnight, that wouldn’t fix any of the issues that brought us to this point; there would still be millions of workers who can’t afford to live, just a few less. But that’s the mistake everybody makes - “Look at these awful people! Aren’t they awful?!” without looking at the broader issues that enrich awful people and encourage people to be awful.
If you truly want things to change, you should welcome this talk, not push back against it.
We absolutely should be talking about this story in the broader context of our society, including, yes, the election. I don’t know what conversations you’ve had with that user in the past, but the election and our leaders should absolutely be brought up here. They are the people with the power to fix things, after all.
What, specifically, could a president do to fix this? They aren’t a dictator (unless Trump gets in). The president can’t raise minimum wage. He can’t force a corporation to pay people more. It has nothing to do with Trump and Biden.
Now if you want to talk about congress, fine. They’re the ones who have to fix this.
I know for a fact that if he did, you would complain that he hasn’t done enough because I remember what you were saying when he spoke to the UAW while they were on strike.
No one in the presidency will ever pass your purity test.
all ask out of a president is to try to stand behind the people and make speeches in times such as this like he cares maybe even go to where the issue is and talk to people
I think you’re understating the power of the Presidency here. For one thing, they have veto power over Congress.
For another, many laws are broad and give a lot of leeway for interpretation, which is why presidents can accomplish a lot by executive order. As long as the Supreme Court doesn’t step in anyway.
And third, don’t underestimate the power of the bully pulpit. Presidents are looked at as the leaders of their party, and often set the legislative agenda. If a president says they want something done, their party members in Congress will find a way to get it done.
Squid is right. VB is a bOtH siDeS account trying to get people to not vote. You should check out their post history. Have had them tagged as a troll for a couple months.
Biden sucks, but he can at least be convinced to do the right thing sometimes (and even if he can’t, another election is four years away). Trump is a straight up fascist autocrat.
going to a grocery store that is not fully stocked and only the self-checkouts are open because the pay is so low no one can afford to work is more than normal now in the US
Look at the upside - easier to shoplift.
On a more serious note though, this is all a feature, not a bug. As the meme goes - everything they threatened would eventually happen under communism is already happening under capitalism. At it will never get better until capitalism is abolished and a hierarchy free, horizontal society is built on its ashes.
She probably had the dogs before she ended up in the car. And yes, expecting her to give them up is asking way too much of her before anyone suggests it.
In other words you think it’s reasonable to criticise homeless people for not giving up and abandoning their companions and dependants, who provide comfort and love in the bleakest of times, as soon as times got hard… Classy.
I would criticize anyone wasting money on an animal while living so close to their means that homelessness could conceivably be in their near future. Sometimes you have to make choices you don’t want to; she probably never had the means to support those animals. The argument isn’t that she should get rid of them, it’s that she never should have had them in the first place. Animals are expensive, and I also wonder what she could do now if she had all the money she spent on them over the years of ownership.
To be clear, I’m not advocating for $20/hr being considered a livable wage. Disney should be ashamed. Anyone working a full time job should be able to afford a pet if they want one. I just also believe in personal accountability.
You could have saved yourself a little typing and just said you’re a wilfully ignorant classist bootlicker… 🙄
Careful though, just like the majority of the population, you’re barely a missed pay check or two, or one big accident/disaster, away from being homeless yourself… That despicable attitude of yours may very well come back to bite you in your self cantered unempathetic ass sooner than you think…
she probably never had the means to support those animals
Speculation, and baseless at that.
she never should have had them in the first place
Things change, bud. I have a stable job now, have had it for over five years, but I might not in a month or a year. Dogs live for longer than that.
I think a pretty good rule of thumb is that if you find yourself speculating about someone else’s life or the future, there’s probably a lot you don’t know, so dial down the judgement.
And I wonder if, during the military trial, the point will be raised that his marine forebears - many of whom we lost during intense combat - had a very different view of Nazism.
You know, it seems like a lot of plans have been coming out of the White House lately, that sound absolutely amazing. But given the timing, I have to wonder how much of this is them throwing anything they can at the wall to see what sticks.
Don’t get me wrong, at this point, I’d vote Biden over Trump even if the man was literally comatose. But I’m just wondering if this is an attempt by the Biden admin to get any allies they can get in preparation for a convention fight and a difficult election when the candidate himself has proven to be unable to motivate people.
To show how bad $20/hour is (some people might think that is a lot due to local situation) someone paying $2000/month rent should have $6666/month gross income (using 30% rule). That equates to just under $40/hour at 40hours/week.
They are literally making half what they need to live.
There are so many seasonal tourist businesses in the US. Many of these places are either very remote or extremely popular. These businesses need seasonal workers for 3-8 months. The vast majority require housing.
Many of these businesses provide. The smaller ones may have a room or cabin. Larger ones may have salvage travel trailers and shanty apartments. In remote places the only store nearby is the company store. If a worker’s vehicle breaks they’re effectively trapped.
So we should have five different cyber security solutions at any given site? That wheezing is the sound of every it person on the planet queuing to swing a sock full of nickles at you.
Crowdstrike was near ubiquitous because it was the best tool out there. And plenty of threats were prevented because of it.
The answer isn’t to force every single site to manage everything themselves. It is to increase oversight on ci/CD models
Crowdstrike has clients that run on MacOS and Linux. Only the Windows version requires kernel level access. I believe it has something to do with the absolute shitshow that is Windows security model but it might also be because it runs a 31-year-old filesystem that still doesn’t allow one process to read another process’s files while they’re open.
Crowdstrike was near ubiquitous because it was the best tool out there.
I understand the reason for it, but that ubiquity comes with potential dangers, as we saw on Friday. But, no, I don’t think the solution is “five different cyber security solutions” at every site. However, different cyber security solutions for different industries might not be such a bad idea. Or, I suppose the root of the problem might be the ubiquity of the OS. Should every PC be running the same jack of all trades but master of none OS?
Again, all you are doing is increasing complexity and punting it to a support staff who are likely unqualified to even know what crowdstrike did.
This was one of those rare cases of capitalism working. There are many options. There was one that was miles ahead of all the others and that dominated.
I mean, Microsoft themselves regularly shits the bed with updates, even with Defender updates. It’s the nature of security, they have to have that kind of access to stop legit malware. That’s why these kind of outages happen every few years. This one just got to much coverage from the banking and airline issues. And I’m sure future outages will continue to get similar coverage.
But the Crowdstrike CEO was also at McAfee in 2010 when they shit the bed and shut down millions of XP machines so it seems like he needs a different career…
The problem is the monoculture. We are fucking addicted to convenience and efficiency at all costs.
A diverse ecosystem, if a bit more work to manage, is much more resilient, and wouldn’t have been this catastrophe.
Our technology is great, but our processes suck. Standardization. Just in time. These ideas create incredibly fragile organizations. Humanity is so short sighted. We are screwed.
As a former Disney cast member, I wholly support this protest and I truly hope they strike.
In worked from 2008-2016 and started at $9.05/hr. We got 2% a year in raises, but in that time new hires would start at higher wages and they wouldn’t match the employees who had been there to the new employees wage. Brand new employees would make more than those that had been there years.
When Anaheim had a ballet measure to raise the minimum wage they raised a ton of cast members wages to $3 less than the measure in hopes they could discourage people to vote for it. Fortunately, the measure passed. However, during this period they didn’t retain the yearly raises, everyone was raised to the exact same wage. Those who had been there 30 years (no exaggeration) made exactly the same as new hires.
They’ve gotten hostile to their employees and the “perks” that employees for have been slowly stripped away. Each year getting slightly worse. Which is a problem because new hires don’t know how much better it used to be so they don’t know what to demand anymore.
I knew cast members that used to live 6 or 8 people to a two bedroom apartment. Most worked multiple jobs. Many of the entertainers who play as the characters ended up injured from wearing the Mickey and other character costumes. Multiple who had to have surgery to treat those injuries.
They have let standards fall, hard. The parks aren’t what they used to be and literally the only thing keeping them together is the cast. They try so fucking hard to bring the magic to guests each and every day. They have been kneecapped by management though. IMO, of all “attractions” at the parks, the cast are the best. And the one that management should be investing in the most. They are the differentiator between Disney and Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios, and Six Flags. However leadership has constantly worked to move interactions from Cast Members to their half baked app.
Understand that all these cast members do it because they love bringing the magic to the guests. They endure shitty pay, shitty management, and injury for the guests. They care so much about making the public and tourists happy. They deserve so much more.
The right loves to talk about this global pedo ring they claim to hate so much, but they don’t realize its all their leaders and members who are the ones involved.
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