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Originally Posted by Racerbvd
Well, when we quit paying them NOT to work & they start getting hungry & cold, they won't have a choice but to work..
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Yesterday, while my wife and I were laying laminate flooring in an apartment building, I had a conversation with a tenant who gave me $500 cash and explained that he wouldn't have the other $350 until his "student aid" started to "come in." Seems that he had given up trying to find a job, and instead has applied for and is going to receive student aid to "go to school."
He is on unemployment (I'm guessing $400 to $450 every two weeks) and he says that he can't find a job. His girlfriend (the original tenant in the apartment) was laid off from her Dealer Auto Auction job and decided to attend a "for profit college" instead of accepting another, lower paying, job offer from a competing dealer auto auction (Manheim).
She also receives child support for a 3 year old daughter. (I know that she gets child support because the father of the child used to be a tenant and I know that he is a manager at Best Buy).
Oh, and she is pregnant with her second kid (by the guy who gave me the $500 along with the sob story).
She has no job, because she is "going to school" and she is 7 months pregnant.
So I continue to pound laminate (on my day off from my real job) and start to laugh at myself. I ask my wife, "So let me get this straight... I have a regular job, I've been up here laying laminate for the last two days on my "days off", and the people who live in my building, don't have jobs, and are late with the rent."
They are both in their late 20's, able bodied and of sound mind. Nice people if you met them on the street.
California is doomed.