#a “decent’ wage
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CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT BUCK I LOVE LUCKY BUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pronouns personality fun facts etc I love buck…
Kingyoto uses he/him pronouns, but is a girl.
^ to Salmonids, pronouns are indicative of statues and act more like honorifics. Due to Inklish not having terms in their language that properly suit this idea, the translation leaves “he/him” to most blue collar class working common folk, and “she/her” to running salmonids and Salmonids who are probably destined to Run later in life…
Kingyoto is probably the only salmonid in Hazard Relief, Inkopolis isn’t a super diverse area, being primarily inklings, and he didn’t speak much if at all ANY Inklish. He could understand the language (to an extent), but has trouble mimicking the vocal notes used in the language.
Started working in Hazard Relief when he was 13, it was near a not-fully developed AC TOKYO, and it wasn’t under the name “Hazard Relief,” he would sift and pull Salmonid remains from up the river, where Salmonids die or get killed in the Homerun. Eventually Senshin Corp. got formed, and provided a more “elegant” approach to these jobs.
When more jobs in this position opened up— Kingyoto decided to move to Inkopolis solely because he’s a die hard Squid Sisters fan.
Kingyoto lives pretty far from the Grizzco office where he works, this is because most houses near Inkopolis don’t follow the housing standard in Salmonid communities (needing a certain humidity content, needing a certain type of bed, etc etc.)
Fido taught Kingyoto most of the Inklish he knows, Kingyoto’s job was initially heavy lifting since Inklings couldn’t go in the water, but he somehow managed to climb the ranks slightly.
Kingyoto is certified to manage a few heavy machines. Likes to make sure they’re in tip top condition.
Kingyoto has a shitty truck that he’s been driving before he was even legally allowed to. It has about 4 different radios inside of it because he keeps forgetting to get rid of the ones that break.
Likes to attend after work get togethers, but doesn’t drink. He’s subjected to way too many Drunk Comments (tm) at a time, tends to be very patient despite it.
He likes honey flavored foods and drinks, which seems to be a popular beverage in Salmonid cities (and tastes very different from Honey teas), it is NOT so popular in Inkopolis. He manages with honey - vanilla teas though.
#many inklings were a little threatened by Kingyoto when he was first hired… but salmonid immigrants who are willing#to fish remains out of a river for#a “decent’ wage#make incredibly reliable employees when you hand them dental care to go along with a hazardous work environment#asks#homerun au#salmonids#fido (oc)#first lucky buck of one thousand kingyotoyaki (oc)#this fish has boobs!! for god knows why!!! oh well.
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irt poverty/homelessness + alcohol use (esp with @butchfeygela‘s tags on my post)- people really underestimate the function that substance use/alcohol use can have for someone who is unhoused. being unhoused is boring, cold, painful, + lonely. substances can allow the 8 hours panhandling to get the $45 you need for a motel to fly by. alcohol reduces your perception of the cold + can knock you out whben you can’t sleep. substances can help you cope with the physical deterioration from malnutrition, constant stress, + sleeping outside. substances can provide social connection with others who you would otherwise not enjoy or help you cope with being alone.
not only that but- many unhoused people are stuck in a seemingly inescapable position. the pathway to financial stability or even housing is difficult or even impossible. in the wake of that hopelessness, the downsides of substance use start to seem insignificant. arrest? you’re getting arrested anyway for sleeping outside, peeing outside, standing in the wrong place, etc. physical danger? you’re already beat the fuck up, anyway, right? loss of relationships? you’ve lost most people already. inability to keep a job? nobody will hire you + you can’t stay employed, anyway, because you have no car + no shower.
perhaps for you or me, the cons of heroin use or binge drinking nightly greatly outweigh the pros. that isn’t the case for everyone. if we are really serious about ending overdose/addiction, we need to start looking at giving people lives worth recovering into instead of shaming them for their own hopelessness.
#i had a long talk with my dad once about how#my brother sank into so much financial despair#that he was never going to be able to find#a livable job or housing (eviction record#plus bad credit plus#arrest record ofc#he was going to be forced into poverty for the rest of his life#the only job prospects he had were menial shit jobs#he once worked at one of those chicken butchering places#it was the only place that paid him a living wage but he got fired for relapsing#his only options were to go to school part time + try to pass with his dyslexia which made him essentially unable to read#then work a horrible shitty job the rest of the time#while paying atlanta's outrageous rent prices#plus who is he gonna room with?? all his friends are opioid users!#while he paid back all the debt he accrued from going to rehab#then MAYBE after like 6 years of school he could get a decent job#but his credit would be in flames for years his eviction record there for years#his arrest record + lack of driver's license limiting his employment..#sorry but i would have probably given up at that point too#not to mention his interpersonal + familial relationships up in flames + the shame#of the things he did while using hanging over his head#the only family member who didn't think he was an irredeemable fuckup (me) living a thousand miles away + about as broke as him#substance use#harm reduction
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its so silly but i just keep thinking abt being in norway and seeing for the first time kinda ever that like governments can do things to make peoples life better. for no other reason but just to improve things. like im sure norway has lots of problems i didnt see on a trip but i cannot stress how insane it was that the government had done things because it would be nice. to take care of people. ?????
#tour guide like yeah the minimum wage is decent here its 220 NOK (roughly ovr $22) but its not perfect and literally evryone in our group#being like $22??!?!?!???!?!!? MINIMUM!??!??!!?#i keep thinking about taking the bus and trams in oslo :( and abt walking IN THE STREET in bergen wjthout getting run over#or the restaurant on top of the bergen funiculr mountain getting state owned this year bc it was mismanaged ans going under but#everyone would like there to be a restaurant there so the government just decided to make sure there would be one????#instead ofbjust letting it die???#or ALL THE OIL AND POWER BEING STATE OWNED. HELLO?#its just insane idk. that things can for real be different. where i am theres a revolutionary amt of public teansport for a not huge city#but its still basically one bus and then the slowest most fucked up train in the whole world (40min drive = 2.5 hours by train)#assuming uh thw train doesnt get stuck again lol#it mostly exists to take mormon missionaries to the airport i think lol.#the 'walkable' old town section still has 4 and 6 lane roads you have to cross every block.#i dont know its just... its. augh!!!!!!!!#birdenest#we told one guy the minimum wage for waitstaff was about 21 NOK and he didnt believe us and got upset that we were lying
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Same anon again and I just wanted to say that YES I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT LIKE THAT!!! Let the second movie be a bros bonding movie (and I would also like to see other characters and relationships to be more fleshed out) and the third movie be a LM movie.
That would be really great.
I know, right?! There's just... so much material in the Mario universe. There's such an insane amount of characters and lore to touch upon that the idea of jumping right into "Luigi's Mansion" as the immediate sequel feels like the wrong move. Especially if they do so without properly introducing boos first? Just having King Boo as a blip in the background? The whole reason King Boo targeted Mario in the first place was because he'd had a long history of messing with his subjects at that point.
We definitely need at least 1-2 more movies to properly explore the universe before we begin adapting Luigi's Mansion.
#I don't want Mario serialized at the same speed that Disney serialized Marvel/Star Wars...#But... ohhh I want it serialized#give me a dozen more movies + a comic series + a new 2d animated tv show#pump them straight into my eyeballs#(while giving writers and artists time to work + a decent wage of course)#askbox#anon
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I want to live in a world where the legacy of Robert Reich, US Labor Secretary under the Clinton administration influential liberal thinker, is overshadowed by that of his son, Sam Reich Dropout, who went into comedy and created the only good streaming platform
#fun fact robert reich /dated hillary clinton/#and he was too short to fight in the vietnam war due to a medical condition#he also like genuinely seems to have been a pretty decent politician#what with the trust busting and raising minimum wage and going toe to toe with Alan Greenspan about deficit spending#sam reich#dropout#dimension 20#this has been : tonights wikipedia odyssey
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so i threw a fairly substantial amount of money at a gorgeous tv stand that is the first really nice, non-ikea, solid wooden furniture i have ever owned and i can't wait for it to get here, but i know my sister is going to judge me for it because i could've gotten a cheap lightweight ikea stand for less than half the price and it's decadent
#it's going to make me so happy#it fits the space exactly and yes i know I'll only live here for a year or two and that's 50kg of solid wood and steel#but it's GORGEOUS and the only thing I'm buying that truly feels like ME. except my bookcases but those are a graduation gift#and they are from ikea lmao#bookcases? bookshelves? whatever. brimnes fucks#anyway my sister is lovely but extremely frugal and i'm... not#to be fair to be i'm being paid a decent wage and I'll go up 10% in november and also i had the money
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I think I may be close to getting a job! They said I was basically their finalist and it hinges on references (who will give glowing reviews, especially my last boss, who is still gutted that she has to let me go *shakes fist at stupid economy*).
It’s at a nonprofit, which is my jam, but in an industry that I haven’t really worked in before, so there will be a learning curve.
But I miss having more structure to my day and I am ready to not sigh when I see my slowly dwindling bank account.
#plz send good vibes#it’s not as much money as I could get elsewhere#but the work interests me#the people seem nice and decent to work with#and the commute won’t make me cry#sometimes there are more important things than money#(would still love to make a comfortably living wage tho)#personal
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I will be forever grateful i can be on this new med. it's one a lot of folks also need and can struggle to have access to! It's important i be on it, especially if i start doing any vid collabs
(some of which, really, all of which, i unfortunately actually need to cancel that were in the preplanning stages, bc the election results have me wanting to wait and see how the general atmosphere of the country is before i agree to meet up with anyone. I feel bad for cancelling, but also i just can't know for sure how safe things are/might be going forward and I'd rather avoid the potential of. ya know. various not great things that could happen at a meet up, tho i would certainly hope they wouldn't. i don't feel like actually addressing them rn, u guys know what i mean)
That said, if the truvada initial side effects could fuck off asap would be so lovely. three weeks at worst, then they should be gone/much better or so i am told. really hope that's true bc losing my mornings to being dizzy and nauseous is Not Working for me lmao. im on week two, and now understand why my new doc said to call if i needed any 'cheerleading' and support to get thru the side effects, bc apparently she's done that for several ppl to make sure they actually make it thru the three weeks and keep on it (lovely of her!!)
#text post#not going to get into the other painful smack of this morning#suffice to say that medicaid does not in fact fully cover vocal therapy/training for trans ppl#even if ur docs feel incredibly certain it is#if i was making a decent bit over minimum wage at consistent hours and already had my current debts paid off mostly#then I'd happily consider paying the chunk Medicaid won't cover but as of now#it would literally be basically two paychecks if not three to cover the estimate for this first visit#and that's only if the poll would have us polling every week like we did before the election#otherwise we're guesstimating it would be upwards of 4 paychecks to cover it#I'm actually gonna get into in here bc nobody reads all my tag essays (fair valid and correct)#im really sad abt this. my voice gets me clocked a lot and while i can mostly handle like. visually being clocked#my voice giving me away genuinely makes me feel a pain in my chest. i can't get my customer service voice to go lower yet#and even if it's my usual voice I've made minimal progress on my own self done vocal study stuff#so like. no one knows how high it was compared to how it is now tho so no one actually hears it as anything near deep#which it isn't but like. there's been a slightly barely there drop of it per at least a couple ppl in my life#i was probably going to be able to learn how to sing again and find my new range. I'd fix my customer service voice#even if it would only ever be a teeny bit lower than how it is now. it would be lovely#im not gonna get too down tho bc someday hopefully I'll be able to make it happen/afford it#and for now...im doing the bad thing of not cancelling the appt yet#i will bc they're booking out for months and it isn't right of me to take a spot i know i can't keep#but. let me pretend i can for another day or two. maybe until monday. then I'll call or msg them on mychart#and let them know i just don't have the funds rn tho i do deeply appreciate that Medicaid at least pays part of it#im just not at a point where i can cover the rest but that I'll reschedule/have a new referral sent whenever that changes#...and hopefully things in this country will be of such a state that such care is still available to ppl like me.#but that's all we're saying on that bc im already having a pathetic little cry over this#(im fine the med side effects have me crying over everything lol i see a sad commercial and Instant Tears like someone died lmaooo)
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@wearewatcher
yall do realize you could've just leaned into patreon more, right? Jenny Nicholson has moved pretty much all her content to patreon and far as I can tell she's been successful. You could've kept the youtube and used patreon for the "advertiser unfriendly" stuff, even more risque and longer versions of the same videos. Plus bonus content, bts, etc etc. Hell, you could've made the watcher site and used it as a patreon-esc thing to avoid patreon fees if you needed to. Moving *everything* to a paywall is just a slap in the face...and stupid.
And to expect people to pay that much so you can have a 30 person team in a huge office building in LA (which is wholly unnecessary for the content you make) to only put out one video a week?....come on. There are youtube channels with vastly smaller teams, heck youtube channels run mostly by ONE person that put out good content once a week. I'm not saying crank out content just cause, but with 30 staff (literally why), and now you expect people to throw money at you? Htf can you justify that? How can you justify claiming you need to make more money when a channel with your numbers should be doing fantasic if managed properly? How the hell can you justify throwing a bill at your fans and then saying you wanna make "content" that is effectively paying for your CEO and his buddies' expensive tastes?
Let alone that the videos you have been making haven't been any better for all the bells and whistles you're so concerned about putting on them. They don't feel fun, they feel overproduced and bloated. If you're so strapped for cash maybe dial that shit back.
#cranky#i miss unsolved#the vibes were just better#and this whole thing is annoying#artist should make a decent wage#obviously#but when youre pulling millions of views and apparently still struggling?#no#nope#thats on your management#yall had SO many subscribers out the gate#and you fumbled#watcher
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sitting in a job interview having to nod along sympathetically as my would-be boss explains that she intends to pay me minimum wage as though it’s compulsory
#‘and of course you have to pay people according to their age’ — fun fact! if we’re all doing the same job no you actually dont!#you could pay me a decent wage <3 it’s possible <3 in fact truly it’s up to you <3#(ridi's) bigmouth strikes again
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feeling like a failure this morning
#all my classmates are like. creating and im stuck at my minimum wage job barely able to pay my rent and bills 👍#granted they all live off of their parents money and can afford to be freelance and whatever i cant because#if i want to make any decent amount of money i have to be at work. all the time.#increased my hours and im so tired my skin has gotten so bad since they've increased but what can i do?#I'll make smth soon like I'll find the time but im just feeling silly rn
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I'm always conflicted about creating a PayPal or whatever for this blog, because 1) My situation isn't dire like a lot of boosting posts are, 2) trans and intersex people are pretty much 100% of this blog's following, and we all don't seem doing that well, 3) I feel like if people give me money they are more likely to expect something from me and feel justified in lashing out if I ever make a mistake while navigating these conversations
#it would be nice tho#my employment situation is always unstable and I never make a decent wage#I penny pinch and sweat when even having to spend $100#I haven't visited the dentist in a few years partially because I'm concerned about name discrepancies on my records#but also I can't pay for any actual work to be done lmao#like it WOULD be nice to have some support but I'm not starving or anything#*I meant $10#I DEFINITELY sweat with $100 lol
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#I'm applying for seasonal shitty retail jobs and wow I want to DIE looking at the salaries#calculating how much money I could possibly make in a day#really um. idk really putting into light how privileged I have been the last few years#it sucks absolute ass to feel that slipping through my fingers#and I live in NYC with a halfway decent minimum wage#jesus#I don't know how people fucking live in this country#I lived COMFORTABLY in a beautiful house going out to eat 2x a week just making people coffee in a rural town in Australia#like I obviously knew this was bad but what the FUCKCKKKKK#I would make in a day in America what I made in TWO HOURS in Australia
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u know what i've been thinking about. how the economy expects you to be, right now, at a job you've been at and consistently getting raises in for like, ten years. it's almost like the implication is "well yeah, you'll be able to live off this job in three, five, ten years if you stick with it and grow in the company" which is all fine and dandy, but i kind of need to live right now
#the queen of trash has spoken#rewrote this post six times and it turned into an essay both times and i don't really need it to lol#also thinking about the graphic i saw this morning that said the average spending power of $100 here is $41 compared to the national averag#which i guess? min wage is just over $16 here. but uhhhhhhhh i think my city is one of the most expensive in the state as far as cost of#living goes (not hard since we're the second largest city in a state of three decent sized cities and mostly large towns)#and its just crazy bc i look at my coworkers some of whom haven't been there much longer than me#who have kids and a house and stuff#and i realize oh. their husbands are engineers or lawyers. plus they're probably making more than me because they're team leads or managers#or have been there longer. meanwhile my 25 year old ass is making $20 an hour and my boyfriend is making $18 an hour#both doing highly-specialized work#and like. the idea that in ten years if i last that long both in the company and in this mortal coil#THEN i'll be making a living wage (in today's money)#is like. so wack! considering the fact that people really aren't staying in jobs for very long for various reasons#and for some positions the only way to get a raise is to move to a whole new company#it's just crazy! the fact that a 25 year old with a bachelor's degree can't even afford a fucking APARTMENT.#like everyone should be able to have housing obvs and the obvious solution to this is a universal basic income#but the fact that my experiencce in the economy is so different from my brothers (who is seven years older than me) and COMPLETELY#unrecognizable to that of my parents when they were my age. like i know billionaires are totally disconnected from reality#but in what universe is this a successful economy? /rq i know the answer i promise
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The need to get a better job that pays a livable wage
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The instant tailspin into cataclysmic despair into which I’m thrown upon merely opening job listing sites
#my self-esteem not only disappears#it gets brutally murdered#I’m talking overkill here#I am unqualified for any position I could fathom tolerating for 35+ hours a week#let alone something with DECENT wages#……I know that’s not technically true but the executive function ramps#up at the thought of the application:rejection ratio#I mean godDAMN#I want to make more money because that would solve a few depression related problems#but said depression + adhd makes the process impossible#ugh UGH!!!!!!#personal for ts#depression cw
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back to thinking about quitting
#but for like. slightly more legitimate reasons this time#on one hand its like. sometimes my coworkers act like five year olds and fuck around and yell at each othet#customers csn see and hear us also just knock it the fuck off please just do your job if you’re going to be in the job area#other hand? fucking hate my new manager. why are you. as someone NEW TO THIS STORE AND ITS EMPLOYEES#why are you being passive aggressive when nothing is fucking wrong#rancid vibes like hes a decent dude but as a manager i am blowing you up with my mind#my first shift FIRST SHIFT working with him was the first time i nearly cried at work because of a coworker#ive heard he thinks people need to ‘earn their hours’ as in earn being scheduled and????? you’re the newest guy here number 1#number 2 what the FUCK are you on about genuinely that is DERANGED. we’re a fucking food store why do you think the fuckin#majority high schoolers i work with need to earn the right to work at a store that is usually busy. are you stupid#i need to look into other jobs at this rate bc if he’s as bad as he makes me feel i need to jump ship#earn hours the fuck are you talking abt. ive been here a year tf you mean i need to earn my hours.#no one should have to EARN being scheduled to work esp in this fuckin us economy. fuck off man i work for min wage#if you start giving me less hours for dumbass arbitrary reasons im out. i dont like work but i don’t mind it i want to work#is that weird???? a manager saying people will earn their hours??? that he halfway threatened a guy with less hours bc he was sitting
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