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?

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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        4 years ago

        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%.

        • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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          4 years ago

          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:

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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            4 years ago

            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.

            • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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              4 years ago

              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.

              • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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                4 years ago

                Yeah, there are all sorts of weird state laws that are just meant to keep peasants and proles destitute.