Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). These people do the grunt work at nursing homes. They change bed pans and wipe butts, they fetch things, help people stand and sit, and generally get talked down to by the lower level nurses. When I did ambulance transfer, they were the ones that actually knew the patient’s normal mental state, and how they’d been changing over time. All for minimum wage.
My wife was a CNA until a few months ago. The pay rate has gone up to $12-15ish per hour at least but still terrible benefits on top of getting verbally beaten down by the nurses while getting physically beat up by the residents. Could make the same money with less risk of bodily harm working fast food
One of my old roommates did it. I work in patient transportation at the hospital, and two of my coworkers did it. All of them have talked about terrible the job was. And not even because of the things people think would be terrible. Like bed pans aren’t fun. But its part of the job.
But they’re understaffed, the managers suck because they’re all only interested in money, so they get mentally abused by the higher ups, they have to work over time to get things done so people don’t die but then get yelled at for working over time, etc. And all you said, it’s for shit pay. I don’t blame anyone for leaving those jobs. And it’s sad, because ultimately it’s the elderly who suffer from all of this.
dirty diapers that someone couldn’t walk 7 feet through the Walmart parking lot to throw in an actual trash can
empty boxes for: flat-screen TVs, Car seats, memory foam mattresses, or Amazon purchases
disposable vapes
trash bags that someone decided needed to be left in a parking lot instead of in a dumpster
So. Many. Plastic. Hangers.
receipts
grocery bags
candy wrappers
Edit shattered glass, but it makes that gravel in a vacuum sound when the truck sucks it up, so that’s nice.
And the only time I get thanked is when my employer asks me to do extra work because there was a storm, another driver was out sick, another driver needed help on a site, or there was a big event that needed to be cleaned for/after.
The ones in the town I live in check receipts of anyone who looks not like a white middle class family. It’s such blatant discrimination it’s not even funny
Software engineers/developers. They come up with software that everyone uses daily. But they work in shitty conditions, get kinda low pay, and because they’re not as visible as writers and actors, are not able to hold a strike for kickbacks when their software is used or is still in use.
They basically built the modern world, but are exploited so that the ones who own the company get rich off their backs.
What? Developers are definitely not underpaid, I earn more than twice what a social worker gets after taxes.
Invisible is also very dubious, if I tell people I’m a developer, everyone assumes I’m a rich genius who’s building cool stuff.
The true heroes of our industry are the admins. If they’re doing everything right, nobody notices they exist, but if they do only a single thing wrong or some software has a bug they aren’t even responsible for, they’ll get the blame first.
In the US developers, especially those that move into management can make a small fortune. Starting salaries are around where many careers peak with a comfortable living salary and the sky is the limit on how much a dev can make
They are usually not responsible for the bad decisions but are responsible for taking the heat for them. They are also powerless to actually influence most decision making.
But people will just flame them for being “bad at their jobs” or something like that.
Poor persons credit card interest pays for the points rich people can easily gain and spend.
I’d imagine the margins on many cheaper products are better than the luxury version. Disney+ comes to mind where they want people to take the cheaper ad version because it earns disney more money.
Hell, the whole point of a credit score is so that poor people pay higher interest rates, allowing for interest rates for the rich to become more competitive.
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