Remember. Lots of people in this country look at this and say he doesn’t deserve a house because his job isn’t good enough.
But they are happy to eat at Burger King. The food is good enough for them, but the people making the food aren’t.
-Work 27 years without a day off, following every advice to “stop being lazy and work”
-Still not being able to afford housing without generous donations
You to can work all your life and almost buy a house.
Worst part is he’s probably better off than most people working at Burger King since his restaurant is unionized.
If you behave like a mule, you will be treated as one. 27 years of work is way over the line of “he didnt have any chance to move on or get promoted”.
“He originally began working at this job as a single father when he gained custody of me and my older sister 27 years ago," his daughter Seryna wrote in a message on the fundraising page. “Then as our family grew and he remarried, he continued to work there because of the amazing health insurance that was provided through this employer because it was unionized. This got all four of his daughters through high school and college with full healthcare coverage.”
“My dad continues to work there, because though he does look young, he is coming up on retirement age and leaving would cost him his retirement," she added.
Absolutely shameful behavior to call someone supporting their children a mule.
Just as others have pointed out, some people will look at this and get angry because his job isn’t “good enough” to earn him a house.
That guy is one of those people.
Man we as a society should all pool our resources together so that things like this can be done on a much larger scale wouldn’t that be cool
Instead of “gofundme” we should call it “taxes”
Ah, but what about
the economyrich peoples yacht money
“Guy who works in food service admits that he went to work sick and likely spread it to hundreds of people because it’s the only way he could make ends meet, and now he can afford a house but not because of his hard work, but because it went viral on the internet.”
What a heart warming story.
I don’t know if I like this interpretation, I mean it’s true and i don’t like it, but it puts blame on him for the fucked up system… With the shitty pay and hours of fast food we don’t know if missing even one day of work means he couldn’t pay bills.
Even in an ideal fully automated luxury gay space communist society, nothing is ever truly completely automated, you’ll need some people you can count on to be there to push the buttons every day. This is one of those people, our society just wastes him.
I never missed a healthy day of work in the past 22 years, i have called in sick a handful of times to prevent others from getting sick.
I worked 84h weeks, but mainly 40/45h weeks.
If i hadn’t had my savings taken away at 17 i could have bought a house at 18, nowadays my labour isn’t valuable enough to afford me a house.
So if anyone has a spare 500k laying around so i can buy a small house…i’d gladly receive it.
We could wait the extra 5 years but i’m afraid a small home will cost closer to a million then.
Gotta love this economy and all these fancy modern things we get to enjoy…if we can afford them.
