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getfiscal posted:

at goodwill they stopwatch severely disabled employees to see how long they take to perform tasks and then compare it to what a healthy real human being takes and then pay them a proportionally lower amount.



lol

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littlegreenpills posted:

i thought that was only in the states (due to some loophole in some federal labor law about disabled workers which is fucked up enough)



i dont know anything about in canada but in the us its sheltered work and not competitive employment. most of the people in question have severe mental disabilities and cant do actual work and need constant supervision. its not exactly a huge money maker or anything and its helpful treatment-wise for them to have something productive to do

#124
i hate car alarms so i throw rocks at cars

THIS FUCKIN' XUY
#125

DildoMalone posted:

littlegreenpills posted:

i thought that was only in the states (due to some loophole in some federal labor law about disabled workers which is fucked up enough)

i dont know anything about in canada but in the us its sheltered work and not competitive employment. most of the people in question have severe mental disabilities and cant do actual work and need constant supervision. its not exactly a huge money maker or anything and its helpful treatment-wise for them to have something productive to do



lol local goodwill CEOs make between $300,000 and $1.1 million a year

#126
you see if you're working it's not real work
#127
i.e. competitive
#128

getfiscal posted:

i'm getting an apartment in the same town as my parents as part
of a thing of trying to return to work.



family is cool

#129

littlegreenpills posted:

lol local goodwill CEOs make between $300,000 and $1.1 million a year



and? im not sticking up for goodwill. they make a lot more off of exploiting volunteer labor than they do employing a person with a 58 iq that needs constant supervision for 6 hours a week.

#130
*shrugs* clearly their margins aren't so tight that their whole business model would fall apart if they had to pay everyone who is employed, for money, by them at at least federal minimum wage. it isn't even pragmatically justifiable
#131
most things in society i don't like have a half-logical reason for being like that which actually frustrates me more because it'd be nice if it were black-and-white sometimes.
#132

innsmouthful posted:

the only thing i dislike about rural living in america is the utter lack of any chinese food of decent quality



theres a Chinese place down the street from me that i always make friends from out of town eat at (one of them even a New York Jew™) and all of them say its some of the best theyve ever had and that it has no business even existing here

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littlegreenpills posted:

*shrugs* clearly their margins aren't so tight that their whole business model would fall apart if they had to pay everyone who is employed, for money, by them at at least federal minimum wage. it isn't even pragmatically justifiable



i agree that goodwill is a very bad company that does bad things and is generally shady

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getfiscal posted:

most things in society i don't like have a half-logical reason for being like that which actually frustrates me more because it'd be nice if it were black-and-white sometimes.



i agree

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#136
the only thing more insufferable than a new yorker talking about new york:

someone who thinks they're too cool for new york talking about how they don't want to hear about new york

(proof: this thread)
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roseweird posted:

Superabound posted:

innsmouthful posted:

the only thing i dislike about rural living in america is the utter lack of any chinese food of decent quality

theres a Chinese place down the street from me that i always make friends from out of town eat at (one of them even a New York Jew™) and all of them say its some of the best theyve ever had and that it has no business even existing here



there are 3 chinese food places on my block and they are all terrible fyi


#138
the worst chinese restaurant in my neighborhood finally ran out the appeals process and had to put up the C of death. i've lived here for about a year now and it's the first time i've seen an actual inspection grade on the place. it's always just been shut down or GRADE PENDING
#139
yall ruined a perfectly good car derail by talking about

#140

slumlord posted:

http://parmenides.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/Grade%20Card_GradePending_v2.jpg



as someone familiar with the restaurantin' industry i know that its actually the high priced and "local landmark" places, not the hole-in-the-wall foreign-run upstarts, that have kitchens full of rat traps and dead bugs since theyre the ones that can afford to pay off the inspectors and have usually been grandfathered into the previous decades-old inspection standards

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innsmouthful posted:

i drive a chevy silverado with a crew cab and tailgate aggressively. occasionally i drive upwards of 40mph over the speed limit. the other day i raced a cop.

yeah buddy

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