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20 Aug 2014, 9:55 pm
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At the coffee shop I worked at we wore uniforms - sometimes the one assistant manger would go around pointing out who hadn't washed their uniform and the one time she got me, I guess I had gotten some small amount of mud on the cuffs of my pants from walking home in the rain the day before... I hadn't noticed. (And behind a counter no customer would see it anyway!) The kicker is that I was only given one pair of pants and one shirt! Well at the time I lived in an apartment with no laundry facilities, and when I would wash my shirt by hand sometimes the next day it wasn't even dry! So I thought eff it - if she thinks I'm walking all the way to a laundromat just to wash & dry one pair of pants she's dreaming! People 
middle class people [bosses] don't understand working class people [worker bees], they have totally different frames of reference.
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20 Aug 2014, 10:01 pm
auntblabby wrote:
little_blue_jay wrote:
At the coffee shop I worked at we wore uniforms - sometimes the one assistant manger would go around pointing out who hadn't washed their uniform and the one time she got me, I guess I had gotten some small amount of mud on the cuffs of my pants from walking home in the rain the day before... I hadn't noticed. (And behind a counter no customer would see it anyway!) The kicker is that I was only given one pair of pants and one shirt! Well at the time I lived in an apartment with no laundry facilities, and when I would wash my shirt by hand sometimes the next day it wasn't even dry! So I thought eff it - if she thinks I'm walking all the way to a laundromat just to wash & dry one pair of pants she's dreaming! People
middle class people [bosses] don't understand working class people [worker bees], they have totally different frames of reference.
Yeah. I mean, if they want me to come in with my uniform sparkling clean every single day, well give me enough pairs of pants and shirts to last 2 weeks. (that would be the day!) It took me 2 weeks to get enough dirty laundry gathered up to make walking 25 minutes each way to the laundromat worthwhile.
And even then - it was a donut shop, sometimes 2 minutes after starting my shift I'd pack a box of donuts and the powdered ones would shed their powder and somehow I'd have white powdered sugar on my nice clean shirt anyway
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20 Aug 2014, 10:06 pm
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Yeah. I mean, if they want me to come in with my uniform sparkling clean every single day, well give me enough pairs of pants and shirts to last 2 weeks. (that would be the day!) It took me 2 weeks to get enough dirty laundry gathered up to make walking 25 minutes each way to the laundromat worthwhile.
And even then - it was a donut shop, sometimes 2 minutes after starting my shift I'd pack a box of donuts and the powdered ones would shed their powder and somehow
I'd have white powdered sugar on my nice clean shirt anyway
And even then - it was a donut shop, sometimes 2 minutes after starting my shift I'd pack a box of donuts and the powdered ones would shed their powder and somehow
I'd have white powdered sugar on my nice clean shirt anyway
it is the "let them eat cake" mentality, IOW your boss probably doesn't understand why you would not have laundry facilities in your place, IOW she does and that means everybody else must have also, IOW a fail at theory of mind. your boss probably thinks that you ought to just have enough money [no matter how poorly he or she is paying you] to live someplace fancier. there is no dealing with that rightist mindset.
20 Aug 2014, 11:14 pm
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20 Aug 2014, 11:24 pm
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20 Aug 2014, 11:31 pm
auntblabby wrote:
little_blue_jay wrote:
Yeah. I mean, if they want me to come in with my uniform sparkling clean every single day, well give me enough pairs of pants and shirts to last 2 weeks. (that would be the day!) It took me 2 weeks to get enough dirty laundry gathered up to make walking 25 minutes each way to the laundromat worthwhile.
And even then - it was a donut shop, sometimes 2 minutes after starting my shift I'd pack a box of donuts and the powdered ones would shed their powder and somehow
I'd have white powdered sugar on my nice clean shirt anyway
And even then - it was a donut shop, sometimes 2 minutes after starting my shift I'd pack a box of donuts and the powdered ones would shed their powder and somehow
I'd have white powdered sugar on my nice clean shirt anyway
it is the "let them eat cake" mentality, IOW your boss probably doesn't understand why you would not have laundry facilities in your place, IOW she does and that means everybody else must have also, IOW a fail at theory of mind. your boss probably thinks that you ought to just have enough money [no matter how poorly he or she is paying you] to live someplace fancier. there is no dealing with that rightist mindset.
Sorry what's IOW?
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20 Aug 2014, 11:33 pm
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20 Aug 2014, 11:34 pm
dianthus wrote:
I work from home.
Sorry me again, I don't know how to multi-quote
If you don't mind me asking, what type of work do you do from home?
I guess one of these days I need to start a thread on this in the work forum - as I can't do standing jobs anymore I need ideas of kinds of work people do from home that I can start investigating...
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20 Aug 2014, 11:35 pm
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Did not think of that! Sorry the humidity here is making me short of breath and my brain very sluggish!
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20 Aug 2014, 11:39 pm
little_blue_jay wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
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Did not think of that! Sorry the humidity here is making me short of breath and my brain very sluggish!
I feel your discomfort, it is humid here also
but it doesn't take humidity to make my brain sluggish, just living does that
20 Aug 2014, 11:44 pm
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21 Aug 2014, 2:40 am
auntblabby wrote:
little_blue_jay wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
little_blue_jay wrote:
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Did not think of that! Sorry the humidity here is making me short of breath and my brain very sluggish!
I feel your discomfort, it is humid here also
but it doesn't take humidity to make my brain sluggish, just living does that Haha love your sweaty emoticon, funny!
Yeah just living does that to me too, but with humidity it's 10X worse
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