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Almost all casual retail at least pays more than the minimum lol.


Look it gets the gist across

Casual data entry is about 21 private, 25 govt

But rent here is a result of laws limiting rent increases so rent was lagging behind if later property values for some time and now there's way under supply to they stay high

Zod wrote:

zhaktronz wrote:Lol 17/hour

I make more than that at a super market

you'd have to give me six figures to get me to work retail again

I enjoyed worknig Black Friday a few years ago. It was quite fun actually being busy and not having to deal with taking $200 from someone to remove viruses.

Knubfuck wrote:

Zod wrote:

zhaktronz wrote:Lol 17/hour

I make more than that at a super market

you'd have to give me six figures to get me to work retail again

I enjoyed worknig Black Friday a few years ago. It was quite fun actually being busy and not having to deal with taking $200 from someone to remove viruses.

i worked retail for 9 months

between customers trying to pull a fast one and customers accusing me of racism to the simply outright idiotic customers it's simply not worth the stress

waaaaahhhhh waahhhh wahhhh
pooor widdle zod

zhaktronz wrote:waaaaahhhhh waahhhh wahhhh
pooor widdle zod

i see you haven't taken your ritalin today

Maybe one day you will grow up and stop externalizing your own failures in life.

my only problem with retail was getting time off for final exams

they coincided with christmas shopping season

i enjoyed meeting new people and helping them solve their problems, or learning about how they solved their problems

i guess what i'm saying is, work in a less shitty retail environment, or develop people skills

i think he worked in a technical field

which is pretty much the worst shit ever

i worked tech support for small business for a few years and that was bad enough, i can't imagine dealing with people on th efloor of a store

Phantasee wrote:my only problem with retail was getting time off for final exams

they coincided with christmas shopping season

i enjoyed meeting new people and helping them solve their problems, or learning about how they solved their problems

i guess what i'm saying is, work in a less shitty retail environment, or develop people skills

or i could just stick with my current plan of, y'know, not working in retail ever again which has worked out pretty well so far

retail jobs don't pay for shit

then we're right back to Only In America (tm) :V

honestly i can't wait for all the apartment buildings in the city to finish because it'll finally push down prices

you guys in america are lucky with your century+ of apartment buildings

even the collapsing ones owned by scary gypsies rented by the square meter

Phantasee wrote:my only problem with retail was getting time off for final exams

they coincided with christmas shopping season

i enjoyed meeting new people and helping them solve their problems, or learning about how they solved their problems

i guess what i'm saying is, work in a less shitty retail environment, or develop people skills

In Australia employers are legally obligated to give you time off for exams.

yeah it needs to be pointed out there remains an enormous gap between what employers are legally obligated to do and what they actually will do

thejester wrote:yeah it needs to be pointed out there remains an enormous gap between what employers are legally obligated to do and what they actually will do

I will admit my experience is skewed by only working at large companies.

thejester wrote:yeah it needs to be pointed out there remains an enormous gap between what employers are legally obligated to do and what they actually will do

especially in casual

especially in the placement space where recruiters are generally more interested in relationship with the hiring party than the temp

zhaktronz wrote:

Phantasee wrote:my only problem with retail was getting time off for final exams

they coincided with christmas shopping season

i enjoyed meeting new people and helping them solve their problems, or learning about how they solved their problems

i guess what i'm saying is, work in a less shitty retail environment, or develop people skills

In Australia employers are legally obligated to give you time off for exams.

Oh I got time off for my actual exams! Just no time off to actually study for them. I think I had a closing shift the night before a morning exam. I skipped it of course, it's why I left. They were probably going to fire me for missing so much work.

Four years in retail(same company as Zak)

Two six month stints in pizza delivery

Seven years in hospitality and counting



I will probably never get out of customer service and yet I'm not too bothered by that.

Found some zombie targets! Yay!

timmy wrote:Four years in retail(same company as Zak)

Two six month stints in pizza delivery

Seven years in hospitality and counting



I will probably never get out of customer service and yet I'm not too bothered by that.

i've been at my current job for 5 years

one of these days i'll move on to something less monotonous

you know, i got disillusioned with academic english education a couple months back

in part to do with all the nonsense and outright sophistry involved

but i considered today that there might be a simpler motive behind my problems with it

i've had to read a lot of victorian literature in university

and i was reading a henry james story today

and i realized i fucking hate victorian literature

and i don't use the word 'hate' seriously very often.

i just can't stand everything about it. the ponderous, turgid, expository paragraphs, the affected, artificial, starchy style, the fucked up morals, the ingrained prejudices and biases, the tedious setting, how it's all so fucking normative and constrained and i can't connect with it at all

it actively irritates on me to read this shit

and i have to consume in en masse

welp

how did you get to the university elvel without realising this

i mean i realised it in 1986

ps i don't mind the short stories but the novel-length stuff is stupid and dull

Sherlock Holmes count?

i have no idea how this didn't click for me consciously until now

that these were works where, rather than being able to get into a flow and read the whole thing in two days, i had to put it down for a while after every 5 pages

like, all the material for me realizing this was there

i knew the style was aggravating me, made fun of the descriptive phrases, etcetera

but it took until turn of the screw, the perfect encapsulation of everything wrong with them, that i realized that they really are all awful and primitive and i actively dislike every single aspect of them

i feel like the dude who's realized that he's in a bad relationship 2 years after everyone else did

holmes is short and late victorian

that henry james guy is like mid-19th century literary figure

NUA is it henry james' thing as like 'realistic' in fingerquotes literature that did it

starku wrote:holmes is short and late victorian

that henry james guy is like mid-19th century literary figure

NUA is it henry james' thing as like 'realistic' in fingerquotes literature that did it

i wouldn't put it so specifically

but this book specifically is supposedly one of those great leaps forward in literature that has an unreliable narrator and such which were all important i guess*

but all i noticed was that it is terrible and i will burn it after i finish power-writing a term paper on it

but it is worth noting that the 'realists' like thomas hardy and henry james are if anything even more starchy, lifeless and completely fucking boring all the time than even previous victorian writers

like, dickens isn't that bad really

EDIT: this is the problem with reading important historical books versus other mediums. ancient art is still beautiful and interesting and even if it isn't, it isn't at all taxing either. big landmark films like citizen kane or battleship potemkin are still enjoyable movies to watch to this day. whereas early novels pretty much universally blow