Paying more? Nah, I am just going to ask God to send me some slaves.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    My cousin owns a burger place in my small podunk hometown and he's exactly like this too, although he's somehow also big into Any Rand. He's fired employees for speaking Spanish. He complains about paying anyone above minimum wage.

    One time he cornered a worker and tried to bully her into joining his weird evangelical church. She said she would, probably just to get her boss off her back, but apparently never showed up on Sunday so he fired her too. He keeps firing teenagers, who are the only people willing to work for him, in a town of less than 1000 people. He's literally run out of teenagers in the town to fire.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      He’s fired employees for speaking Spanish.

      amazing. around restaurant kitchens here even the white people are speaking Spanish

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I have literally never gone into a fast food place anywhere in this country without hearing Spanish spoken in the back

        Just annihilating his own pool of prospective employees

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        2 years ago

        If the kitchen only speaks plain midwestern english the food will just be okay. If they have any other mayo accent it's gonna suck, and if it's french I'm going to throw up.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        The people in my hometown are one of three things: evangelical snake handlers, klan members, or trying to leave asap. They either think my cousin is a good upstanding racist or they hate living there so much they leave as soon as they turn 18.

          • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Standard greasy frozen American slop you could get anywhere. He regularly gets complaints from the county health inspector. My cousin has a monopoly though because there are only three restaurants in the whole town and neither of the other two are burgers.

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          • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            this was basically my home town except imagine the cop is also a klansman and there's more meth

            also going out into the woods would get you killed because it was one of the few remaining impenetrable untouched forests in America and it's full of bears and bobcats and eagles

    • Blottergrass [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I want to work there so I can get a four digit settlement via OSHA.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.

  • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Me 10 seconds ago: "Use our unused housing to house everyone."

    Me now: "Use this person's house + our unused housing to house everyone but this person."

  • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Ironically, the Bible has a lot to say about paying people fairly!

  • Asa_the_Red [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Christians when their god gives their workers free will :NOOOOO: :powercry-2:

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Fucking protestants. "God's plan is for my personal small business to bring in enough wealth for me to buy a bunch of rental properties and retire to Miami. This is the sum of all religious possibility"

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    I once saw a "No one wants to work anymore" sign on a diner owned and operated by two people with no other employees. I'm not sure I want to know the story behind that one.

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  • Commander_Data [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Quickly converting to whatever religion has the god(s) who will answer my prayer that this person's restaurant burns down after they lapse in their insurance premiums.