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#69 | POSTED BY CENSORED AT 2024-03-16 01:16 PM | REPLY | FLAG PFFFTTTTTTTT!!!

Sounds a lot like the USA... which hasn't won a war in 8 decades... Oh we started a bunch then pulled out when we figured out we were getting our arrogant @$$e$ kicked and pulled out after a few years of futile fighting against those you're all uppity about... followed by all that boohooing about veterans... or how those bad people whom they were gratuitously sent there to attack attacked them back... and hurt them... or gee wiz how the hypocrisy of war drives them insane.

First, we were going to save them... then they aren't worth saving...

First the commies...
N. Korea (stalemate inspiration for an antiwar sitcom)
Vietnam (the stalemate war they were talking about)
Then the Muslims...
Iraq I (stalemate we left rather than do "the quagmire" thingie)
Afghanistan (the stalemate where we chased the Taliban when they were ready to surrender to us until THEY caught us and we left)
Iraq II (left when we figured out what "a quagmire" when used as a metaphor means)
We fought the last three for an entire generation!

We spend more on the military than any other nation all you do is whine about how it's not enough!

This doesn't count the privatized part of our military that uses people from third-world countries to do all the little things our trimmed-down military no longer does for itself... like food service, medical, warehousing, clean up etc. etc... all the things a conscripted military provided.

Those doing the grub work are also subject to PTSD and all the things that happen in war zones only they are sent home to the Philippines or wherever as long as it is out of sight... to live out their physical injuries and mental trauma... while we pretend they don't exist.

Palistine is just another rag-tag nation under attack and a real war zone... they have justification to complain.

www.theatlantic.com

They don't want to hire staff because it cuts into profits and unlike theft, they can't write it off. Those losses are a tax break.

I was a store manager of a Dollar Tree for a little over two years during the pandemic. I resigned about 8 months ago. I took the job when my freelance business dried up. I applied for a cashier job just to fill the financial void being out of work caused but they looked at my resume called me up and asked me if I would consider being a manager. The money wasn't great but enough for me to stack some savings. So I said sure I had managed a store when I was in my 20's I thought it would be fun.

Boy was I wrong.

It was the first time I have worked for someone else in three decades, and the first time ever for a corporation. The experience made me more of a socialist than ever. I was confronted with unmitigated greed and a don't give a $#!t for the worker bees attitude coming from the higher-ups. It's hateful.

When I hear people going on and on about kids being lazy and not wanting to work all I can say is the way people are allowed to be treated and the assumptions made about people working retail all I can say is GFY. I don't blame them and I am on their side 100% I didn't mind the job and I loved my staff. We all worked hard at that thankless job. They were the best thing about it. The company sucked!

The Dollar Store model is needed in some communities not only for people on a budget but also for a lot of small businesses in town. The company just doesn't want to staff the stores even when they were making record profits. They raise the prices and rather than give raises with the profits they want to give us stock shares instead.

I am an older worker so I have additional income but the younger ones didn't have that and stock shares meant little to them because they had immediate needs, not some future promise that may or may not pan out.

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