never give up

ok im taking my post back then.

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Why Are Poor People Poor and Rich People Rich?

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The Latte Factor, Poor Shaming, and Economic Compassion

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The Subjectivity of Wealth, Or: Don’t Tell Me What’s Expensive

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Are Unions Good or Bad?

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Blood Money: Menstrual Products for Surviving Your Period While Poor

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Gender equality

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Sexual Harassment: How to Identify and Fight It in the Workplace 

Queer issues

Queer Finance 101: Ten Ways That Sexual and Gender Identity Affect Finances

Leaving Home before 18: A Practical Guide for Cast-Offs, Runaways, and Everybody in Between

Racial justice

The Financial Advantages of Being White

Woke at Work: How to Inject Your Values into Your Boring, Lame-Ass Job

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The Biggest Threat to Black Wealth Is White Terrorism

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The Ugly Truth About Unpaid Internships

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Identifying and combatting abuse

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i’m dying that robert downey jr posted this on his official facebook 😂😂😂 

My boss, putting on white grease paint and a red wig: Oh, of course! Let’s do it quickly so that you’ll want to keep working with us since you’re going to be making business decisions!

Me: I would sell you to satan for one corn chip and I’m allergic to corn but before you do this maybe you should call someone who is actually on our contact list for our customer and see if they’ve ever heard of this stranger.

My boss, looking through a selection of shoes that honk when you walk: Oh, but she said that it was very important that none of the employees know what was happening because they’re making staffing changes.

Me: As your lawyer I recommend that you just call a single one of our contacts and see if they’ve ever heard of her name.

My boss, shoving all of our technicians into a VW beetle: You’re not my lawyer.

Boss: On the bright side, it’s only the last five

“Hello I am [name] from [security firm] we’ve been hired to verify the security of the facility I need to see your computers.”

“Erm…I’ll have to verify that with my managers.”

“Congratulations, you have just passed the security verification.” [Scribbles on clipboard] “But in all seriousness I do need to verify your security so I need to see your computers.”

Lady: Oh hello sweetheart how are you :D

Me: I'm doing great, thank you. Hey would you mind kindly taking that waffle iron out of your purse

Lady: How dare you. What the hell are you on about. I've never stolen a damn thing in my whole entire life

Me:

Me: Na'am my buddy two towns over called me about you an hour ago and texted me your license plate. We're in direct view of six live feed CCTV cameras and the box is sticking out under your armpit

Me: I'm not gonna do anything if you walk out but the owner saw you nab it while he was stocking shelves and if he calls the cops I won't be allowed to go home until I write a three page detailed report about it

Me: I'm fifteen minutes from shift change

Teenager (like 14-15): I don't have anything

Me: I know you do. YOU know you do. This is not my first day on the job and you are not the best liar I've met. PLEASE put our toilet paper dispenser back

Teenager: Or what? You'll call the cops?

Me:

Guy: I needed food!

Me:

Me: I understand, things are tight for me too. But if you're short on groceries we actually have a lot of great free meal programs around town- my friend actually goes to this one on main street every day before work and she says it's helped a lot.

Me: Would you like a resource guide? It'll tell you what time the food pantry is open and how to access other free and reduced things you might need. Have you applied at the food bank?

Guy: Jesus Christ no, I'm not some freeloading bum

Me:

Reporting on theft is actually a very small part of my job, and mostly I like being someone who keeps people safe from violent and aggressive customers, guests, and family members- it's very rewarding work and I like looking out for people.

There is so much more nuance behind the ethics of stealing than most people understand, even from billion dollar megacorportations, and very few of yall actually see where the impact is shunted off to, cause you know for fuckin' sure it's not the fuckass billionaires on top who feel the hurt first

If the owner didn't hire me to prevent crimes then he'd just call the police and I like to think "yo dude my boss wants to have the cops drag you out so so bad please just go for a walk or smthn come back tomorrow" is better than officer big dick pulling up outta nowhere

but like. you're already on camera doing it. oftentimes poorly. do you think your sheer conviction in the morality of stashing that frozen dinner in your hoodie pouch will conceal how blatantly obvious it is there?

the corporate machine would grind people into mulch for the most minor indiscretion if they could and the security officer that says "hey, that was extremely visible, you should really put it back before someone gets a real cop involved" is NOT the bad guy here.