The American Dream???

[True Dough]

[True Dough]

1. *Applies to women too!

Forgive Mr. Bukowski's 1970s sexism.

[XanaDUer2]

2. I used to get up at 530 am

I was in a non-profit, so we technically weren't making money for anyone, but it was stressful and unpleasant a lot of the time in a toxic work environment

[walkingman]

4. Non-profits are merely a tool to avoid taxes and pay high salaries to the "executives".

[XanaDUer2]

5. I've worked in libraries

FT since 87. The non-public ones were good, but the public ones had terrible morale, and weren't so liberal towards staff. That was always a big shock to new librarians.

I made an okay salary at my last one, but, overall, morale was low and management pretty awful. Awful schedules where you had to work 7 days in a row sometimes. The last job was the worst. Open too many hours without enough staff and too many services. Burnout and turnover and staff-on-staff aggression incidents. Lots of scary scenes with the public

I went out on disability. The administrators were making 6 figures.

[DBoon]

7. I was going to say 6:30 AM would be sleeping in for me

Gotta get up at 5AM for that conference call with the folks in Bangalore.

[XanaDUer2]

8. Ugh nt

[walkingman]

3. It's always been a scam - but who really has a choice other than the wealthy.

[Mr. Ected]

6. Pretty damned cynical if you ask me

Not that he's not right...but not all business owners take without giving; not all business owners demand a fake gratitude for the jobs they offer.

I'm speaking for myself, tbh. I own a small business, treat my employees right, and they in turn treat me right, which is not lost on our clients, who then bring more business, and the cycle continues. I make great money, but I share it with the people without whom I wouldn't have a business. Being an employee only sucks if the company or person you work for sucks.

[lame54]

9. That quote is 46 years old...

And the current national minimum wage is $7.25 an hour

More relevant than cynical

[pecosbob]

10. Reading Charles Bukowski is like listening to Tom Waits sing