I, Anonymous
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You Don’t Deserve a Tip!
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From now on, no tip for you. Any Uber/Lyft/GrubHub driver that cannot “find” my house, I will no longer tip you. Yes, I rely on these services. For food, I’m home, I’m not cooking, I don’t drive, I’m not spending two hours just to get food, so I use Grubhub. Sometimes I wake up late, hungover, or not feeling like the adventure, I’ll use Rideshare.
You idiots rely on your GPS, and you are dumb. Virtually 10 out of 10 drivers will speed past my house, have to U-Turn, or end up on the wrong street because that’s where the GPS takes you. It is quite simple. Say the address is 503808 Jeff street, and you’re already on Jeff street, YOU ARE IN THE CORRECT STREET! Pay attention to where you are at with the house numbers. And in Portland, it truly is not fucking hard. If you’re 60th street, that’s one clue. Numbers increase or decrease depending if you’re going East or West. There’s also a North or South, where if you’re dumb brain can memorize the major streets, you’ll learn which directions take you further north or south. And because we live in the NW, all odd number addresses are on the NW side of the street. I haven’t driven a car in 20 years, and I have been navigation than anyone driving for these services following the GPS. You idiots really shouldn’t be allowed a license.—Anonymous
DRO and all the rest
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Is it me or does this story about Disability Rights Oregon sound all to familiar. An Organization that is supposed to serve the most vulnerable in our community, a non profit organization that is led by a CEO making 5+ times the amount of the boots on the ground workers who don’t make a living wage but the CEO pay keeps increasing. This I just like many of these organizations that “support” adults with disabilities. You have low paid workers doing difficult and necessary work for our community but there is a few people at the top taking credit, being paid insane amounts (funded through medicaid) while doing very little to actually support this community. Don’t get me wrong, I support people getting these service but like many of these industries and systems we need to cut the CEO fat in favor of workers! Pay workers! Make better guidelines for these industries that won’t allow for one CEO to funnel public money into their pockets while the people it was meant to serve lose, workers lose and our community suffers. Shame on the CEOs.—Anonymous
You Don’t Belong Here
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It’s petty of you to punish employees for doing their job correctly and asking that you do as well. We work in human services and develope human connections and build community here! Your petty selfish shitty attitude is ruining the space that your employees built and you financially benefit from. You are pushing away great staff by being greedy and honestly the way you run this company is criminal (because you are clearly shady as fuck!) Stop underpaying workers and isolating staff while you take another vacation on the dime of the people you are supposed to support! You should try tech instead of human services if you are going to be a greedy cunt without an ethical bone in your body. The only good thing about how often you vacation is not seeing your shitty fake bullshit lying face. When people say eat the rich they mean people that take advantage of the vulnerable for their own selfish gain! When we say eat the rich we’re talking about YOU!—Anonymous
So Much Bus Talk
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Because of all the upcoming budget cuts with Trimet, and recent postings, I’m chiming in.
I’ve been told that I wanted to become a bus driver when I was growing up because they knew where everyone lived. I no longer have that ambition and never had it while growing up.
I remember a family member saying they loved the familiarity and consistency of seeing the same people everyday. When they didn’t see them, they thought something was wrong.
I, on the other hand get aggravated by seeing the same people. And I’ll say it’s a general “vibe” feeling. You know, just some things about the way a person will look at me, or a certain demeanor, or character trait that I pick up on. All the while I try to read and keep my head down the whole time, but you know how that goes.
There’s, Mr. Frankenhead who sits in the same spot. Mr. Masked up, fast and hyper walking Engineer man. Mr LookieLou, round construction man. On and on.
And why oh so MF help me why, everytime I sit in a corner at the back of the bus, or the first seats up front, someone will no doubt sit opposite me in the side seats. ALL THE MF TIME. It’s creepy. It’s weird, and not good kinda Portland weird. Then I look up, and they’re just staring at me. Or I look up, and there heads turned 90 degrees to look towards the front of the bus. Why don’t you just sit facing forward!!!? And yes, there was many other seats available for them to sit before they chose to sit where they could just stare at me.—Anonymous
Depositing Anger
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I am angry over drivers turning when pedestrians are crossing the streets including BUSES both school and transit.
I am angry about the hyper -individualism that is happening and my fellow humans are leaning into with their earbuds boundaries, and zombie looking down at their phones even in nature. Scary movies often try and teach viewers the problems of going it alone but sadly are not penetrated once viewers are in the real world again. Ignorance is growing as is knowledge but I fear ignorance feels too good to many people.
I am angry that a racist or more classist woman in the NW by the street car who sells ice cream charged a sharing fee and my loved one with me did not exit from the shop when I put that out there. So I felt trapped. I am angry I did not just throw the ice cream on the floor or at the woman after she fleeced us.
I am about the very high prices on locally sourced food items that are not always organic that no one is boycotting or outwardly displaying anger over allowing more producers to engage in dubious prices where they claim they produce it with love. But what does give me hope about this subject is that a local worker co-op vegan bakery is not engaging in this phukery and their items are delicious. We need more of the cooperative movement in Portland and in the surrounding areas.
I am angry that there are still many politicians representing the public and those who have jobs to protect us are most protective of businesses and thus buildings rather than people or nature
I hope people join me in my anger over these things and that collective action is adopted and co-op growing does indeed happen. I would like to smile again and not just by force.—Anonymous