Bamanec t1_j9zxsxo wrote on February 25, 2023 at 8:22 PM

Reply to comment by SoraUsagi in Texas students raise $250,000 for 80-year-old school janitor forced out of retirement by fgfgfgg

Asking for more money and instead of giving them a raise you decide to make them work more hours.

Our lives shouldn’t be about working 90% of our lifetime.

And using your experience to compare many millions of others who don’t have those outcomes is gross.

You sound like a young boomer or an older GenX who were both raised saying that hard work leads to so and so l. Overall it is simply not true, or else the most hard working people wouldn’t be struggling in life

SoraUsagi t1_ja0cj66 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:05 PM

I would love to give people a raise. I'm not allowed to. People have abused "merit raises" in the past, so now no one gets one. I'm not asking people to work 90% of their life. How about just 20hrs/wk?

I'm a millennial, not that it should really matter. While my personal experience is absolutely anecdotal, we did nothing special. I didn't have family get me a job/car/house. I applied for and secured a part time job, and showed up every day.

There are absolutely struggles out there. But they aren't insurmountable.