I feel like i've been seeing a torrent of photos depicting signs announcing a stores entire staff quitting in protest of their shitty working conditions. Nobody seems to be talking about it but are Americans starting to experience class consciousness?
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almost 10 years ago when you could get a 2br apartment for less than 1800 dollars in my area my gf and I lived in an apt in the center west part of town that was about ... i think 11-1200 dollars.
Several times I'd be chillin and hear water pouring in... it basically pooled in our ceiling and eventually broke and poured into the bathrooms, this happened at least 10-15 times over the year that I lived there. I tried to go upstairs and tell the dipshits living there to stop using their water if they could bc it was pouring into my apt but they were dumbass 22 year old stoners and didn't give a shit, what can you do lol.
But yea it was a nightmare I had to stay up all night several times changing pots and stuff over.
ALSO they hoodwinked us and showed us an apt with a washer and dryer which is why we were moving there in the first place and then at the last moment changed us over and put us in one without any so we had to deal with that for a year.
Fuck rent seeking
The HVAC unit in my 2br (no amenities, $1k/month, Appalachia about 20 minutes from the nearest metro area) just leaked. It would freeze over and overflow with water. Like gallons of rusty water just flooding my apartment occasionally. It also rarely worked. I was overheating (almost 95°F) and felt the carpet slosh like a waterbed. Literally 8 sqft of space was just straight up flooded and pouring into by downstairs neighbor's apartment.
Lived there for 4 years and it happened about 6 times per summer.
80% of my income for that shithole.
that shit is inexcusable. There's so much shit we have to eat dealing with landlords bc the only alternative is being homeless which they go out of their way to make hell as well. all the fees and bullshit and demeaning processes just to live in a place you can't even feel safe in or that your belongings won't get fucked up in bc of some bullshit like that.
Long over due for some serious mass tenant union shit or something.
I tried to organize one at the beginning of the pandemic, but my pamphleting campaign was intercepted by the class traitor super who got $8/hr and rent discounted 50%.
minor handouts and double crossing your fellow proles, the dead end of many a class struggle in america.
good on you for trying tho comrade :kim-salute:
That's not even a handout, that's indentured servitude.
Also it's apparently illegal to try and organize a tenant union here lol. They were threatening legal action if someone tried again.
well i mean the 1/2 off rent but fair point 8 buck is nothing.
also jesus christ what an absurd law. if i ever wanted to point out how capital controls the system thatd be a good place to start.
Yeah, there are all sorts of weird state laws that are just meant to keep peasants and proles destitute.
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