Occupy Wallstreet

[Vovchandr]

@streetsweeper1098

I understand that its bad when a union has too much power, but on the other end of the spectrum its really hard when you don't have any pull at all. Where I work, I do several different jobs. Some of those jobs have a lot of prevailing wage work and others don't. At the end of my season I had two different people trying to get me on a "money" crew, if you will, and my bosses didn't want to send me. Keep in mind, the people vouching for me were running the crew. I would have made more money in those six weeks with that crew than I would have all season.

On top of that, I come back for my fourth year and get a dollar raise, brings me up to 11 dollars an hour. Then I have to work with some fat tub of lard who is brand new and makes the same amount of money as me but mommy owns a company and knows the owner of my company. Kid couldn't find his way out of a paper bag.

Meanwhile, the business is having a banner year. The managers, vp, and president will all pull in over 100k… much more for the vp and president actually. I will be lucky to pull in 30k this year including unemployment and I was working my dick off. I've been sent out of town on a thursday with little to no notice to work through the weekend. I've worked with second degree burns on my arm and a chemical pneumonia. I recently just pulled a 21 and a half hour day of physical labor, which is illegal. The whole summer I didn't work less than 60 hours and less than 6 days a week.

Everyone will keep telling me to get a better job and I am sincerely working on that, but what about the guys behind me at my old job? Its going to be the same shit for them. How do you break that cycle?

+rep.

For all of those who say “get a better job” you do realize that he won’t likely be working harder for more money if he does, right?

Some of the hardest working people and some of the worst jobs are some of the least paying jobs.

Typically the more you make the less work you do.

I’ve worked my ass off since I was 16 working all sorts of jobs through the time, fast food, paintball fields, gas station attendant, constructions and right now I have a job which pays me a healthy amount more than any of those but is by no means harder physically or even mentally. Right now some of my coworkers who complain about this job have been in it for so long they forgot what honest hard labor fills like and they would never survive in the real world, which is why many commute from an hour+ away to keep working the same job in the same industry.

Don’t ever mistake a low paying job with an easy job.

Typically you break the cycle by knowing somebody who will get you in somewhere. Or kissing enough ass to the management for them to like you more than the rest. Hanging out with them in personal time, drinking with them etc.