Clarification: Not all Fast Food Employees are Stupid Fucking Idiots, but all of the Fast Food Employees that are staging protests, strikes, and walkouts over wages are Stupid Fucking Idiots.
I fail to understand why YOU, a person who takes words spoken by the customer and then, by either pressing buttons or following explicit instructions to create simple foods, turn that into relatively cheap and quick "food", believe that what you do is worth $15 an hour. You have a position that requires the intelligence and skill that life forms that barely register as "human" can master. Your job requires no education past post-Sesame Street level Elementary School mathematics and language (most often in the language of the country where your store is located). It requires no special knowledge of anything beyond button pressing and basic social interaction. It requires no exemplary or substantial education or employment history. Basically, if you can manage to get to the building and say, "Job Application?", you are probably qualified.
So, when you piss and moan about how little you get paid, it makes me want to shove your head in the hot oil reservoir.
"But we deserve a living wage!" you scream.
"Then learn a fucking skill that sets you apart from chimpanzees and Jersey Shore residents," I retort.
I have a fucking master's degree, nearly 20 years in customer service, and an IQ in the top 2%. I make $10 an hour. Why? Because of fairly simple economic concepts. I have a degree in a field that is currently over saturated. That means that thanks to several different reasons, there are more people looking for the same jobs than there are available jobs.
Your situation is similar but not identical. Whereas my field requires a certain level of education and experience, which currently, there is an overabundance of supply, your field requires nothing. So, while there are jobs available that are not quickly filled (unlike my field), the supply of potential workers is vastly larger than in my field. Additionally, since your positions are easy to replace (i.e. replacing a worker with a new worker results in little prolonged service quality decrease), there is less of a downside to filtering through multiple employees until one that is willing to do an adequate job at the wage offered can be found.
Additionally, your wage is one of many factors that determine the profit margin of the company for which you work. That company is there to make money for the individuals that own and operate the company. They are not there solely to provide you with employment. You are a means to an end, a resource used by the owners to achieve their goal of making money. Their job is to maintain a company that is profitable so that they earn money with which to buy shit. Your job is whatever they need you to do in order for the company to make money and be profitable so that the owners can then give you some of their money in return. If at some point, the business is no longer profitable enough to keep the owner interested in continuing the operation, then in all likelihood, your job goes away. That's how this works. There is no altruistic goal by the people giving you money to press buttons in the same way that you aren't handing people poorly constructed sandwiches in an effort to bring peace and harmony to the people of Earth. You do it to make money to buy shit.
The fact that you don't seem to grasp basic economic principles only further highlights that you are not worth the exorbitant wage level of which you deem yourself deserving.
Now... let's just say that you got your wish and your position started earning $15 an hour? What makes you think that you wouldn't be replaced by somebody similar to me... a skilled, experienced laborer that makes less than $15? Why would your employer, if they had the choice between somebody with maybe a high school diploma and no experience outside of low wage unskilled labor jobs and someone with years of experience and education and more perceived potential to become a valuable asset to the company instead of just somebody that might make shift manager, choose basic over deluxe?
And make no mistake... if I could make 50% more than I make now to do your job, a job that requires almost no significant responsibility, why wouldn't I? And be honest... which one of us is going to be more attractive to your boss?
See, when they pay you $8 an hour, they don't expect much. They are generally pretty satisfied if you show up and not steal from the till. But if you ratchet that up to almost twice the pay, shit is gonna get real. And do you know why? Because if I'm paying you $15 an hour, I'm expecting you do do a fabulous job. And if you aren't impressing me, there is damn sure gonna be somebody out there that can put your "skills" to shame and I'd bet they would do your job better for, say, $14 an hour. Don't believe me? Yeah, see, that's why you are stupid.
Nobody OWES you a "living wage." It's not a human right (as I've already discussed) and you are not entitled to it. Regardless of what your bleeding heart liberal hippie heroes have led you to believe, a classless utopia is impossible. There will always be rich people and poor people (and all those in between). You can try and create a classless society, but it won't last because there will always be some people that either want more than you (and are more inclined to exert the level of effort to obtain it) or just naturally acquire more than you (example: only one farmer grows corn in your society and he has a bad crop and so there isn't enough for everybody. Even if there is a lottery system and no goods/services are exchanged for corn, there will be some people with corn (haves) and some without corn (have nots))
So, here's what I have to say in summary: It's a cruel world, not everybody gets a trophy. Fuck off.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Dallas Fort Worth Sports Media needs to get off the Dallas Cowboys' dick
Since I live in a part of Texas that isn't part of the Houston sports media coverage, I have to listen to bullshit about the Dallas Cowboys. All the time. Even when there isn't any actual news... they sports media still devotes a ridiculous amount of time to covering the Cowboys.
I understand football is a religion in this state. I get that. There's a lot of stupid in this state so really, what's one more stupid obsession. But c'mon people... this is absurd. The Cowboys are just not worthy of this kind of attention. Maybe if they won something every now and then, but they have been a mediocre (at best) franchise for more than 15 years now. Seriously...
A few nights ago, when there was no pre-season game playing and no major news, the local CBS affiliate still led their sports with the Cowboys. Never mind that the Texas Rangers, who currently have the best record in the American League, are playing some damn fine baseball and have been a pretty dominating presence in the MLB for the past few years.
In fact, I did a quick review of pro sports teams in the Dallas Fort Worth area and how they stacked up against the Cowboys since 1995 (the last time the Cowboys won a championship). I looked at the records of pretty much all the significant teams in the five major sports (Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, and Soccer) based in the DFW area. The teams looked at are as follows:
Here's what I found:
The Cowboys have appeared in the postseason 7 times since their last championship. That's good for 7th place. Now keep in mind that of the three teams the Cowboys beat out (AirHogs, Fire, Rangers), the AirHogs haven't even existed for 7 seasons and the Fire lasted for 7 total.
The Cowboys have won 2 games/series in the postseason. That's dead last. Every other team has had at least one more successful postseason than the Cowboys.
The Cowboys are the only team in this list to NOT MAKE THEIR SPORT'S CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. That's right, since the 1995 Super Bowl (yeah, I used the term "Super Bowl"... fuck you NFL and your trademark copyright bullshit), every other notable team in the DFW area has made the final game or series for their respective league EXCEPT "America's Team."
And of those other 9 teams, FC Dallas and the Rangers are the only teams to not bring home the trophy. But hey, at least they had a real shot, which is more than we can say for the Cowdopes.
Hell, earlier this year, whatever idiot runs the Dallas Cowboys' Twitter page shoved his cleat firmly in his mouth which the Dallas Stars' Twitter page removed and shoved in the Cowboys' ass:
"At least our #9 got the job done..... RT:" @DallasCowboys Similarly in the category of nobody-cares…the NHL is back!" pic.twitter.com/06y0e6iG"
Burn. Served. Nicely done, hockey dudes.
And we COULD even mention local college and high school teams that have been more relevant on a national level than the Cowboys, but I just don't give enough of a fuck to do that kind of research (although TCU did win the fucking Rose Bowl... I'm not sure the Cowboys could win the Rose Bowl at this point).
I don't know which is more pathetic... that the local media can't stop talking about every minute detail of a mediocre football team instead of giving more coverage to teams that are currently not sucking or that there is apparently enough local interest by sports enthusiasts for trivial Cowboys related bullshit that the ratings for said bullshit support the media gangbang.
My toddler really likes "Wheel of Fortune." He couldn't watch it last night because that station had to air AN HOUR OF PRE-GAME BULLSHIT BEFORE THE COWBOYS PRE-SEASON GAME. That is just fucking asinine. People actually watch that shit? How sad is your life that an hour long Pre-Pre-Season Game program is worth watching? I've been a literal fanatic about teams before (like TCU before they pissed me off once too many times), but Christ... I can think of hundreds of things I'd rather do than watch an hour long program about the meaningless 3 hour program that follows it. What could POSSIBLY be so important that it needs its own program instead of using it as time filler during the game when there is plenty of "players standing around looking at each others sweat stained uniforms" time.
In a related note, I really want to slap that shit-eating grin off Tony Romo's face. He's done nothing to warrant that cocky fucking look he flashes around.
Also related, I can't wait until Dale Hansen dies because that jackass is the ultimate Cowboys ball licker (although Babe Laufenberg is giving him a real run for the money, but at least Babe PLAYED for the Cowboys at one point). And to make matters worse, if Dale can't find some asinine crap about the Cowboys to report, he'll just talk about golf. Once, he talked about Tony Romo playing golf and I nearly went nuclear. Dale Hansen is an egotistical douchebag. That isn't necessarily relevant to anything right now, but I enjoy taking every opportunity to point that out.
I understand football is a religion in this state. I get that. There's a lot of stupid in this state so really, what's one more stupid obsession. But c'mon people... this is absurd. The Cowboys are just not worthy of this kind of attention. Maybe if they won something every now and then, but they have been a mediocre (at best) franchise for more than 15 years now. Seriously...
A few nights ago, when there was no pre-season game playing and no major news, the local CBS affiliate still led their sports with the Cowboys. Never mind that the Texas Rangers, who currently have the best record in the American League, are playing some damn fine baseball and have been a pretty dominating presence in the MLB for the past few years.
In fact, I did a quick review of pro sports teams in the Dallas Fort Worth area and how they stacked up against the Cowboys since 1995 (the last time the Cowboys won a championship). I looked at the records of pretty much all the significant teams in the five major sports (Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, and Soccer) based in the DFW area. The teams looked at are as follows:
| Dallas Cowboys |
| Dallas Mavericks |
| Dallas Stars |
| FC Dallas |
| Texas Rangers |
| Dallas Sidekicks |
| Fort Worth Fire |
| Fort Worth/Texas Brahmas |
| Fort Worth Cats |
| Grand Prairie AirHogs |
The Cowboys have appeared in the postseason 7 times since their last championship. That's good for 7th place. Now keep in mind that of the three teams the Cowboys beat out (AirHogs, Fire, Rangers), the AirHogs haven't even existed for 7 seasons and the Fire lasted for 7 total.
The Cowboys have won 2 games/series in the postseason. That's dead last. Every other team has had at least one more successful postseason than the Cowboys.
The Cowboys are the only team in this list to NOT MAKE THEIR SPORT'S CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. That's right, since the 1995 Super Bowl (yeah, I used the term "Super Bowl"... fuck you NFL and your trademark copyright bullshit), every other notable team in the DFW area has made the final game or series for their respective league EXCEPT "America's Team."
And of those other 9 teams, FC Dallas and the Rangers are the only teams to not bring home the trophy. But hey, at least they had a real shot, which is more than we can say for the Cowdopes.
Hell, earlier this year, whatever idiot runs the Dallas Cowboys' Twitter page shoved his cleat firmly in his mouth which the Dallas Stars' Twitter page removed and shoved in the Cowboys' ass:
"At least our #9 got the job done..... RT:" @DallasCowboys Similarly in the category of nobody-cares…the NHL is back!" pic.twitter.com/06y0e6iG"
Burn. Served. Nicely done, hockey dudes.
And we COULD even mention local college and high school teams that have been more relevant on a national level than the Cowboys, but I just don't give enough of a fuck to do that kind of research (although TCU did win the fucking Rose Bowl... I'm not sure the Cowboys could win the Rose Bowl at this point).
I don't know which is more pathetic... that the local media can't stop talking about every minute detail of a mediocre football team instead of giving more coverage to teams that are currently not sucking or that there is apparently enough local interest by sports enthusiasts for trivial Cowboys related bullshit that the ratings for said bullshit support the media gangbang.
My toddler really likes "Wheel of Fortune." He couldn't watch it last night because that station had to air AN HOUR OF PRE-GAME BULLSHIT BEFORE THE COWBOYS PRE-SEASON GAME. That is just fucking asinine. People actually watch that shit? How sad is your life that an hour long Pre-Pre-Season Game program is worth watching? I've been a literal fanatic about teams before (like TCU before they pissed me off once too many times), but Christ... I can think of hundreds of things I'd rather do than watch an hour long program about the meaningless 3 hour program that follows it. What could POSSIBLY be so important that it needs its own program instead of using it as time filler during the game when there is plenty of "players standing around looking at each others sweat stained uniforms" time.
In a related note, I really want to slap that shit-eating grin off Tony Romo's face. He's done nothing to warrant that cocky fucking look he flashes around.
Also related, I can't wait until Dale Hansen dies because that jackass is the ultimate Cowboys ball licker (although Babe Laufenberg is giving him a real run for the money, but at least Babe PLAYED for the Cowboys at one point). And to make matters worse, if Dale can't find some asinine crap about the Cowboys to report, he'll just talk about golf. Once, he talked about Tony Romo playing golf and I nearly went nuclear. Dale Hansen is an egotistical douchebag. That isn't necessarily relevant to anything right now, but I enjoy taking every opportunity to point that out.
I'm all famous and shit (not really)
A random comment I made on a news story about the whole Time Warner Cable/CBS fight was used in another column about the same thing. Woo woo.
Monday, August 26, 2013
Your understanding of human "rights" is FAIL!
I really don't know which group of fools I despise more... right wing uber conservative Jesus fucks or left wing progressive naive idiots.
Today, it's the idiots.
I've starting staying away from Facebook more and more because I'm tired of blocking content from Fucknut Tea Party Panic sites and Fucknut Progressive Liberal Whine sites. Most recently, it's the Mother-of-all dumbass left wing FB pages, "Being Liberal." If there was ever a more naive, head-in-the-clouds group of morons, I haven't run across it. These fucktards are your one stop shopping source for pro-government-give-us-shit-because-we-deserve-it-for-simply-existing ideology. Rich people are scum, unskilled morons should make buttloads of money, and everybody has a right to a happy ending.
The latest affront to intelligence by these Pollyanna Kool-Aid drinkers is that Healthcare is a "Human Right." This is tied to Obamacare, of course, because Obamacare is the most awesome piece of legislation ever passed by the US Government and it was done by Liberal Democrats who are way more awesome humans that Republicans because they believe that everybody is entitled to a long healthy life with plenty of money and a fucking unicorn to ride to Candyland.
Here's the thing about "rights"... if something relies on another human being to make it happen, then it isn't a "right." Rights can be taken away, but they cannot be given (otherwise, how is it a right?)
Healthcare is provided by other people. If you get sick, there isn't a magic cure that just pops into existence and makes you better. You, at best, have to go to the store to get some medicine that required many different people, some highly skilled with lots of education, to get that into your hands. And these people were not forced to provide this medication for you. These people were paid or compensated each step of the way.
Had these people not worked together, the medicine you needed would (presumably) not been available to you. Now expand on that idea. If there were no doctors and no hospitals and no pharmacies not even a witch doctor... who would provide your healthcare? Oh, wait... someone has to give that to you? Yeahhhhhh.... see... that's not a "right."
The Declaration of Independence lists "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as unalienable rights... things that cannot be given and should not be taken away. Granted, "life" is technically given to you by your parents, but in this case, it refers to "somebody else killing you." And liberty... you are either free to do something or somebody takes that away, same with the whole "pursuit of happiness" thing.
Do you understand? DO YOU!?!??!?
Life isn't fair and you can't get everything you want, even if it's something that you think should be a basic requirement of life.
And just for the record, here are some other things that aren't human rights:
Fuck off.
Today, it's the idiots.
I've starting staying away from Facebook more and more because I'm tired of blocking content from Fucknut Tea Party Panic sites and Fucknut Progressive Liberal Whine sites. Most recently, it's the Mother-of-all dumbass left wing FB pages, "Being Liberal." If there was ever a more naive, head-in-the-clouds group of morons, I haven't run across it. These fucktards are your one stop shopping source for pro-government-give-us-shit-because-we-deserve-it-for-simply-existing ideology. Rich people are scum, unskilled morons should make buttloads of money, and everybody has a right to a happy ending.
The latest affront to intelligence by these Pollyanna Kool-Aid drinkers is that Healthcare is a "Human Right." This is tied to Obamacare, of course, because Obamacare is the most awesome piece of legislation ever passed by the US Government and it was done by Liberal Democrats who are way more awesome humans that Republicans because they believe that everybody is entitled to a long healthy life with plenty of money and a fucking unicorn to ride to Candyland.
Here's the thing about "rights"... if something relies on another human being to make it happen, then it isn't a "right." Rights can be taken away, but they cannot be given (otherwise, how is it a right?)
Healthcare is provided by other people. If you get sick, there isn't a magic cure that just pops into existence and makes you better. You, at best, have to go to the store to get some medicine that required many different people, some highly skilled with lots of education, to get that into your hands. And these people were not forced to provide this medication for you. These people were paid or compensated each step of the way.
Had these people not worked together, the medicine you needed would (presumably) not been available to you. Now expand on that idea. If there were no doctors and no hospitals and no pharmacies not even a witch doctor... who would provide your healthcare? Oh, wait... someone has to give that to you? Yeahhhhhh.... see... that's not a "right."
The Declaration of Independence lists "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as unalienable rights... things that cannot be given and should not be taken away. Granted, "life" is technically given to you by your parents, but in this case, it refers to "somebody else killing you." And liberty... you are either free to do something or somebody takes that away, same with the whole "pursuit of happiness" thing.
Do you understand? DO YOU!?!??!?
Life isn't fair and you can't get everything you want, even if it's something that you think should be a basic requirement of life.
And just for the record, here are some other things that aren't human rights:
- a high paying job
- a house
- a vacation
- education
- a full stomach
- a pension
- unemployment benefits
- to be a dick to other people by telling them they can't do something because your religion says it's bad
Fuck off.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Why Black People need to shut the fuck up and stop defending Michael Vick
I'm gonna make this real simple.
Every time an American of dark skin pigmentation with ancestral ties to the African continent defends Michael Vick using the argument that "It was just dogs, not people. They aren't more important than people. They were his property he can do what he wants with 'em" they should be reminded of the history.
It wasn't that long ago that Americans of light skin pigmentation with ancestral ties to Europe argued in defense of slavery that "They're just negroes, not white folk. They aren't even fully human... more like animals. They are property and we can do with them as we wish."
Am I comparing slaves to dogs? No, dumbass. I'm comparing sentient creatures that can feel pain that were brutalized, tortured, and killed because some other asshole believed these creatures to be little more than property, like a table or a frying pan. Slaves felt physical and psychological pain due to their treatment by their "owners". Dogs feel physical and psychological pain due to their treatment by their "owners."
So, you pieces of shit, shut the fuck up. Or don't expect me to feel sorry for you because (maybe) some of your ancestors were slaves. Pain is pain and it doesn't matter if you have 2 legs or 4.
Every time an American of dark skin pigmentation with ancestral ties to the African continent defends Michael Vick using the argument that "It was just dogs, not people. They aren't more important than people. They were his property he can do what he wants with 'em" they should be reminded of the history.
It wasn't that long ago that Americans of light skin pigmentation with ancestral ties to Europe argued in defense of slavery that "They're just negroes, not white folk. They aren't even fully human... more like animals. They are property and we can do with them as we wish."
Am I comparing slaves to dogs? No, dumbass. I'm comparing sentient creatures that can feel pain that were brutalized, tortured, and killed because some other asshole believed these creatures to be little more than property, like a table or a frying pan. Slaves felt physical and psychological pain due to their treatment by their "owners". Dogs feel physical and psychological pain due to their treatment by their "owners."
So, you pieces of shit, shut the fuck up. Or don't expect me to feel sorry for you because (maybe) some of your ancestors were slaves. Pain is pain and it doesn't matter if you have 2 legs or 4.
Greg Abbott - Candidate for Governor of Texas
I don't really care much about Greg Abbott. I mean, he's a dipshit Republican in a state full of dipshit Republicans and we'll probably end up with a dipshit Republican governor because the Democrats are also dipshits in this state but outnumbered.
Anyway, all I want to say about Greg Abbott is that it is incorrect to say "Greg Abbott is running for governor of Texas." That's wrong.
See, Greg Abbott can't run. He's in a wheelchair.
So, the correct way to refer to Greg Abbott's candidacy is to say, "Greg Abbott is rolling for Governor of Texas." Let's get that straight. It's not polite to remind him of the things he can't do because his legs are just as useless as the logic and reasoning center in his brain.
Anyway, all I want to say about Greg Abbott is that it is incorrect to say "Greg Abbott is running for governor of Texas." That's wrong.
See, Greg Abbott can't run. He's in a wheelchair.
So, the correct way to refer to Greg Abbott's candidacy is to say, "Greg Abbott is rolling for Governor of Texas." Let's get that straight. It's not polite to remind him of the things he can't do because his legs are just as useless as the logic and reasoning center in his brain.
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