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Home Depot in LA installs noise machines that ‘penetrate bones’ to deter day laborers
(www.theguardian.com)
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Found the rich kid
Why do you think I'm a rich kid? I work construction myself. And not the lucrative work either
You work construction and you don’t know what a day laborer is? My ass.
This is not a thing in my country you asshat
Which country is that?
Finland. I've never ever in my life heard about people picking up workers for anything from a damn parking lot.
Sorry for jumping down your throat, I guess shit works different in Finland
Not everyone lives in the US
This is shocking news to some, it seems. Some of these loons thought I was some government spy for not knowing about hiring work from hardware store parking lot.
Not the rich kid. More like the government/republikidfucker plant. Notice how every post he made has some mentioning of under the table or off the books or without a permit? He's trying to get ideas planted about how these workers are shoddy and doing illegal things and undercutting real, licensed, above board workers.
Funny how some of you think it's more likely I'm some government spy instead of not being an American. Get your head out of your ass, the rest of the world exists too.
I think we are just surprised you know so little about the rest of the world.
Yes how dare I not know about the home depot workers in the Los Angeles. Fucking hell. Get over yourself and realize the rest of the world might work differently to you
It’s about how you can’t comprehend undocumented immigrants finding cash work as day labor. Just shows you live in an isolated bubble.
I could comprehend it just fine when someone explained it. I've just never heard of this hanging around in parking lot to get work thing before so I was asking what the deal was. What a bubble to live in, not knowing about some Yank thing.
Like fuck off dude, stop assuming everyone is American and knows everything about the US. Rest of the world exists too. And you are saying I live in isolated bubble lol
I never made an assumption of your location.
Day laborers exist in every country, even Finland, the method of hiring them and the popular industries vary from place to place. In the US, day laborers that work construction and landscape usually hang out at stores that sell those things.
This type of work is popular among undocumented people, because it usually pays cash and no one asks many questions. Curiously, the number of undocumented people in the United States is estimated to be almost 150% of the entire population of your tiny little backwater country.
It is very clear that your bubble does not extend beyond Finland… And I would suspect even more likely not to the end of your block.
You just assumed I had to be rich for not knowing in the US people hire random people in the parking lot of some store. Very reasonable, especially if you didn't assume I was already somehow familiar with this custom.
Yeah I assumed you had no experience with the working human… I was very wrong. You have no understanding outside of Finland. Which btw is 0.20% on the land surface on earth. I’m not sure which is worse.
And how common do you think this hiring people on the hardware store parking lot practise is, globally speaking? Can you name some countries where you know this is a thing, or where you've seen people hang around the parking lot, waiting to be hired?
Hardware store specifically? Which is not what your original comment said: parking lot.
Yeah: China. India. From basic web searches those appear to be parking lots and transit stations. They gather in mass to be picked up for day labor. Construction, warehouse work, etc.
BASIC INTERNET SEARCHING
Just admit you don’t know anything outside of Finland.
I mean I've only visited 15 countries and worked in 4. What would I know. You've what, searched this thing so I assume this is new knowledgw to you too that it happens elsewhere. And here you are shitting on me for not knowing this is a thing. That's funny.
You visited 15 countries and worked in four yet you didn’t pay attention to anything while you were there outside of your own little bubble. That’s funny. Then when you are presented with the idea of day laborers, it’s something you can’t possibly fucking understand, and you dismiss the wealth of information online, falling back to your experience must be the only experience.
That’s not just funny, that’s hilarious.
I'm sure you know those countries hire people from the parking lots better than someone who lived and worked there, despite not knowing even which countries I'm talking about. I think that says it all, really.
Right. Your experience is limited, as you said. I’m glad we agree. Goodbye
I mean I hadn't heard of the practice of hiring people from parking lots, yeah. That was sorta the whole reason I asked the comment section about it. But you are assuming everywhere must have the practice and people not knowing about it must be rich, not realizing not everywhere has that practice. (I mean tbh pretty sure you just assumed I was American, because of course)
I had limited experience and asked about it, you came in hot calling me names because you didn't know better.