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This pretty much exactly sums up my current situation and my feelings.

 

We pretty much never had landlord issues throughout my life.

Apartment building (we left when a woman was found strangled to death in the sewer pipe under the road across the street from our building)
House that a nice old lady up the street rented to us, never raised the rent above $400 for the entire 10 years we were there. We would have stayed there forever but she died and her kids sold the house.
Apartment building
House that was was either owned or being operated by a realtor. Other than dropping off the rent check it basically seemed like not having a landlord at all.
Moved in with now wife with the landlord experience i already described. The owner was a young couple just a few years ahead of us in life who were super nice and took care of any issues we had and only raised rent $15 in the 2nd year so.

 

My one landlord charged us $2000 the first year for damages. Never paid him and he seemingly forgot because the next year they gave us our deposits back

 

Land lord? More like shit lord

 

my landlord is a nice guy. really cool. was able to negotiate my rent down by 25% with a handshake deal that it would be increased by $100 every year until market rate.

of course my qualms with landlords is not one of morality.

 

hmm did the landlord strangle that lady though?

 

One of my best friends landlord is a cop and I’ve never even met him but I hate him so fuckin much

 

No matter what you think of your landlord the idea that you pay a huge chunk of your earnings to live in places and never get any long term equity absolutely sucks and is a continued source of generational inequality

 

my landlord is a nyfd fire fighter and has a very new york accent. he sounds exactly like michael rappaport in this monologue:

 

My landlord is a scumbag and pretty much every review for the complex says they find some way to steal your whole security deposit.

They actually just asked me to give them $375 so my original security deposit matches my current rent instead of my original rent. Had to fill out a damn W9 tax form for them.

 

Everyone saying this is normal is making me the joker

 

nobody wants to work, except for the kids

 

A Culver’s by me was just fined for overworking 14-15 year olds

 

Nah it's a big issue with kids that age that want to work, a lot of places won't hire them usually do to the combo of them being seen as too unreliable and labor laws limiting their hours and schedule flexibility

 

David are you going to defend landlords and child labor on the same day

 

I remember in high school there was a certain time we were allowed to work until, and the owner of the Subway where I was employed as a Sandwich Artist (still on my resumé) wanted to be able to stay open until that time, but you still had to breakdown the food, put it all away, clean, close the store and closeout the register, all things that take time to do. She would also stop paying us at the time that the store closed, not when we were done. Other kids would just try to do it all fast. I did it a few times and then told her she had to pay us until we were done working and she said she couldn't do that, so the next night I worked we closed the store at the time and just hung up our green aprons and locked the doors and went home and didn't do a single other thing to close down the store. When people showed up in the morning the store was a disaster, all the old food had to get tossed, the register was all fucked up, the bread wasn't ready.

I think she had to start closing a half hour earlier because there was a reason she didn't want any of us on the books after that set time.

 

My first job was at McDonald's and I quit after 3 shifts because a closing shift there meant you weren't off work until after midnight

 

not defending it just pointing out why they’d put that sign up. A lot of kids that want to work will not apply at a lot of places because they just assume they won’t get hired because of their age, so some businesses will put it out there that they will. I probably see the same post every 2-3 months in the local dads group about their 14/15 year old looking for a job but places keep telling them the youngest they hire is 16 does anybody know a place that will hire younger etc. Some of my freshmen will complain to me about it too haha

 

i knew quite a few kids at my high school working at the local grocery store as baggers or cart pushers at like 15. i didn't have that work ethic at that age, i just wanted to play yugioh with my friends lol

 

I remember being that age and wanting to work because my mom was raising 3 of us on her own working retail, but I couldn't find anything. I finally did the summer after I turned 15 because the city had a summer jobs program for kids that age and I worked cleaning up my high school for minimum wage 20 hours a week.

 

I came in here to say landlords are cops. Fuck the system and fuck them all.

 

A rare W among US foreign efforts

 

Have never seen the clip, only ever heard it in the Great Romances TBS demo haha