Yeah. At will is how I got fired for getting injured at the school I worked for.
Nice - thatās some real compassion there. You canāt get a home without a job and you canāt get a job without a home. Great way to start a positive feedback loop.
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It is truly terrible. Thatās also why so many Americans here advise people not to disclose their illness to employers.
I cutoff communications with the truck driver sleeping in a storage unit. Too much stress on me. If he doesnāt have common sense not to do that, willingly sleeps there instead of seeking an apartment which he does have the money to do, rent an apartment.
One friend of mine noted that storage unit businesses typically lock their parking lots at night, which would prevent him from using a garage as a living space.
This one doesnāt. The Sherriff patrols at night and wakes him up. The owner now knows he sleeps there, but heās not stealing or hurting anything, so the police have been unable to get him out of there.
His employer is unhappy with him, he works for a name brand dairy, picks up raw milk and delivers it to the bottler and cheese processing plant. He almost brags that heās living in this garage, his employer thinks heās making them and the milk producers look bad. Heās paid $20/hour yet complaining heās not paid well enough. I think he needs a pdoc quite frankly.
$20 an hour is a good income from the current economic standards, but there are apartments in the city that are smaller than that and cost $1,000 or more a month. Iāve stayed in hostels in NYC that were claustrophobic and spent $100 or more for one night there. I found one hostel that was wonderful though in Brooklyn that had a lot of space and the payment was less or the same and worth it. I honestly think everyone should have a house if they canāt afford one. I donāt see it as welfare or bigger government to make sure the community and public welfare is taken care of. I donāt think there should be caps on income to be provided a home and food either. I hate the SNAP program for food stamps. Because I got a small allowance I was unable to use the benefits. I got $40 a month and had to do volunteer work. I was denied disability three times and told I didnāt have the āexpressionā of a muscle disorder or a psychiatric disorder. Then got a bill in the mail from the IRS for like $180 and I went there to check on it, they said I didnāt owe any taxes because I didnāt have taxable income. That was after the snap benefits were canceled because I missed the second able bodied adults meeting. I tend to work super hard and do more than everyone else and not get credit. People like to not help me or use me for themselves. I am tired of the way things are run in America. People who are starving need food. No single person under any circumstances should be denied food whether they are a child an infant an adult or older. I canāt stand to see people in this system anymore. Iām tired of driving by seeing the same honeless veterans with signs. The police criminalize anyone and discriminate. Issues of economic poverty are ignored, gangs and drugs pour into cities and towns and then people start selling drugs because there is no other option for them. Think about it.
Heās not selling drugs and they know heās there it shouldnāt be an issue. But the solution would be for the company to offer him an apartment or grant because that would solve their image problem.
Thanks for the urban viewpoint, but this is obviously a rural area and a small apartment is $500-$600 a month.
So whatās the issue? Are you implying heās too lazy or selfish to rent an apartment?
He wants to hang out in my house. Poor decision making, I wouldnāt trust him here.
Do you think he would agree to get some help?
No, I donāt think heād get help. I think heās depressed , not thinking straight, and admits heās not the smartest guy.
Iām sure he will be ok.
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In Miami I learned that it was better sometimes not to pay attention to what others doing. I often parked my auto in one library parking lot and then I observed what one person did in every morning and evening. Every morning he arrived with his pick-up truck and changed clothes to the business suit and took a business car parked in the parking lot and left to somewhere in Miami and then in the evening he arrived back, changed his clothes to ordinary clothes and took his pick-up truck and left again, leaving his business clothes in the business car in the parking lot. I thought he was an undercover cop. It seemed like that. Then I stopped observing him.
Well, this homeless man with a job driving a truck, would take me out for dinner and pay. He told me stories of when he moved in with other women during his life. Iāve learned that he was investing in wining and dining me as I have a spare room. Iām freaked out that I could innocently meet such a scam artist .
I bumped into this guy and heās rented an apartment to move in next week he says
Big news of the week I ran into this guy and then he said he found an apartment upstairs from his ex wife. Yay.
Interesting topic. One guy here is a homeless driver/garage boy. He was always drunk until he met a lady that changed his way of life.Last time he brought a truck to the shop for new tires and wheels installation they ordered from 4WheelOnline, he mentioned he is purchasing an old but decent RV for them to live together. We havenāt seen him like for 6 months now.