chasing-the-daleks

Yesterday Chuck Schumer posted an ad for an UNPAID intern even though he has a $65,000 stipend to pay interns and his first job in Congress in 1969 was as a PAID intern making $1800 a month (in today’s money). This is common in DC. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was just on Twitter the other day talmbout getting dinner and drinks after work/orientation each day and finding so many waiters and bartenders who work on the Hill and have to work a second job to make ends meet.  They work for the government of the richest country on the planet and have to wait tables at night because people like Chuck Schumer — who could afford to pay interns OUT OF POCKET mind you, because most of our Congresspeople are filthy rich — take their intern stipends and spend it on god knows what.

Maybe this is their way of making sure government continues to be accessible to the rich. Poor people typically cannot afford to work full time jobs without being paid  — those are for people who have family supporting them, and families who can afford to support grown adults have money.

Gather round kids while I explain this manipulation tactic that men perpetually try to use and why it’s bullshit.

If someone is openly showing interest in you by making disparaging or disappointed comments about your age, they’re trying to put you on the defensive. This guy wants me to try to quell his discomfort, to bring up that I’m only a month shy of 20, etc. - he wants me to try to prove myself to him, that I’m mature and adult enough for a man like him.

His goal is to establish a power imbalance right off the bat. If we were to date, I would constantly be on the defensive, constantly striving to be an equal, constantly trying to prove my “adult” credentials. Anything he says or does or wants from this point on that I object to would just be seen as a strike against my age, proof that he was right and that I’m not mature enough for him. This is how SO MANY men pressure younger individuals (primarily women and girls) into situations and relationships they aren’t comfortable with. If he truly thought I was too young for him, he wouldn’t have messaged me. This is a very calculated move, and it’s fucking gross.

This whole bankruptcy thing was a money making scam by the suits who bought out the company back in the 2000s and ran it into the ground. 

Not only is the toy store brand not dead, but 30,000 people are now angry as this scheme blocked them out of severance pay and they are now unemployed and unable to return to work when they start up again.

Many toy companies including Hasbro are raising eyebrows at this, as the initial bankruptcy cost them millions of dollars in sales revenue and their stocks took a nasty hit (Mattel being the worst off from it, as Toys R Us closing compounded with steadily falling sales of their products). Advocates are calling this a “bad PR stunt” since the suits want the company to make sales for the holidays. 

For instance, you can say you were a Personal Assistant – typing, data entry, responding to emails, taking phone calls. 

Or you were an entry level cashier/customer service worker. Retraining is simple at that point.

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Obviously I’m not counting professions that became utterly obsolete in the wake of progress because this ain’t what the post it about. It’s about the myth that unions kill jobs and industries.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html