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I won't lie I forgot this board exists for stuff like this.
Hi landlord problems guy here again.
They threatened to take us to court again, not in a "Do this or else" way but in a "We will soon." way. They did at first but now they said they'll do it.
We've been gradually paying off debts as agreed as a additional fee on top of regular rent, we paid rent on time, as far as we're concerned we've done nothing illegal, if anything they might be like someone else said.
Only question left now is do we ask for why they're taking this to court or do we just wait for a legal summons to court. Some of us are confident they won't as they have no ground to stand on, I less so, the bourgeoisie and especially property management are the exact type to drag things to court over the smallest things.
NY State law by the way, last I checked they can't evict over unpaid debts especially if they're already being paid in a constant stream as objectively the debt is gradually being paid. They're literally just mad they aren't getting money back fast enough.

>>469
>I won't lie I forgot this board exists for stuff like this.
They just added /labor like a few days ago.

>We've been gradually paying off debts as agreed as a additional fee on top of regular rent, we paid rent on time, as far as we're concerned we've done nothing illegal, if anything they might be like someone else said.
What fees or debts are u paying the leeches? If its some made up shit on their end, do not pay, fuck them. Theyll never be able to prove it in court.

Are you living there still or moved out?

>>477
There. Unpaid rent.

>>480
Unpaid rent from months ago to be exact

Specifically to New york : the landlord needs to send you a notice via mail that you didn't pay rent in the 5 day after you were supposed to pay,they need to do it EVERY TIME and if they don't,you can use it against them in court
They need to send you a WRITTEN notice 14 day in advance asking for the rest of the debt (and writing every month and the exact amount you owe them) before sending you to court,they need to write a paper explicitely for everybody involved in the case (this can give you some time if they didn't do it correctly)
you can argue to have the eviction delayed for at most a year during the court if you say you can't find another housing close to you.
if you pay the debt during that year,the case gets dismissed automatically
IANAL,you should check lawhelp and consult with someone there,and you should also check if you can get help to repay your debt via 211
I'm not a USAnian btw,I just followed this paper : https://nycourts.gov/courthelp/pdfs/TenantsGuide_nonpayment.pdf

>>482
Thanks for the help anon. We have for the record, been regularly paying this off so again I'm not even sure if they have ground to stand, but I have no doubt they can be stupid enough to try anyway.
There's also the problem that they might just not renew the contract but at least then we'll have months to plan where to go instead of only 14 days. That housing delay tip will come in handy.


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fellow burgers I need some toptier tax dodge tips. I dont want to pay the american empire, how can I dodge taxes like bezos on a small scale.

So far I see theres some roth ira credit which im going to take, i can deduct selfemployment part of taxes, going to max education credits. I donno how far I can go without being audited, but id rather pay a lawyer 10k to deal with it than give us empire money

Youll need to request under-the-table pay, but thats not happening anytime soon.

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money printer go brr, the empire will make and sell weapons whether or not you pay taxes. the real purpose of taxes are simply to create domestic demand for the fiat currency because it is no longer backed by a precious metal


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What makes you motivated to wake up each week day and begin another days work? Am personally not particularly motivated by things, so am looking for something of another form. Am currently a student more or less dreading and finding it difficult to imagine enjoying most of my life. Am looking for a perspective to stop dreading the future working so much.

Know statistically that most American workers are "very satisfied" with their occupation, but find this confusing. Who would want to work? Suppose someone who rationalized, or someone who earns money by coincidence (their interests and aspirations by happenstance being economically viable). Is there some way out of this?
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>>465
>Bruh, most college students have to work while attending classes. IMO, attending college is a bigger hell
It's apparently 40% in the US, so you're mostly right. Anyway, was even considering taking classes towards some purely recreational goal, like philosophy, once get a job (this costing at least three times more than it should is definitely a factor however.).

There is some big leap from psychopathically studying for one's own stake and personal interests and working towards the advancement of the means of production as some cog towards the collective interest and theoretical hopes of socialism. Pain.

>>464
>What makes you motivated to wake up each week day and begin another days work?
What about paying for rent and my shit? You know, food?
What kind of fucking question is that bro

>>464
Nothing, if you work full time in office its hell. If you can get a job or gig where you can control your own hours or location its much better, its the only way I was able to do it. Working part time is also better. You will take a big pay hit for this privilege though as porky needs something in return. If your skills are valuable enough you can negotiate with your boss about it.

If you have to work fulltime, then do not discount the work environment- working in a factory is hell compared to having your own private office room in an upscale corporate office. Then you can just browse leftypol or watch youtube all day which makes it better.

>>471
Also this. College is way worse than working. I returned to school and these fuckers give like 10 assignments every week. In my job Id get one thing to do which I could stretch out to 2-3 weeks out.

College is just buckbreaking for wageslaves. Since professors are usually losers in academia who never held a real job, they never had a realistic idea of workloads so they work students to death thinking they are 'preparing' them for the 'real' world which they never experienced

>>473
The brain seems to be wired where rewards like this just don't motivate. Being motivated solely by necessity seems like it be just a dreadful, slavish, existence, but it doesn't work for me anyway.

>>475
Might be able to pull something like this off. Just chill listen to books on tape all day and fiddle with excel spreadsheets kinda thing. This is unironically my greatest hope at the moment. Really if it's this than probably shouldn't complain, just be unmotivated and relax. Pretend like you're not employed.

This whole question is probably stupid; who needs motivation.

>>476
Think a lot of profs don't see education about preparing for the real world. But that probably just makes your experience even worse if that's your orientation. Probably get into idealist territory if you agree (coming from a dreadful idealist).


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I slam the door. I take these drugs! I go to the mental hospital! I am in the garage. The boat in texas. Getting jumpin in by a bunch of black people. MS gay teen. I slam my head on the table. 4/5/2025

Ok

Schizo


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Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.
Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant.
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>>373
Ok so the other week I was doing volunteering at the local town festival, serving drinks.
Together with me, there was this woman in her 50's, who works at a industrial laundry. I shit you not, among the perks she listed was that their boss would offer everyone pizza instead of leaving them home on some holidays.
What the fuck.

>>381
I thought the original was something along the lines of
>if you study well you won't be as dumb as this bitch

I miss my job where I would inspect telephone cables underground (and sometimes in the bucket truck), lots of getting muddy and lifting heavy shit but honestly so much better than call center hell
(or now unemployment)
just turn your brain off, work your ass off, out of work by 2 bc you came in at 4am to beat the heat

I dont know how ppl are affording rents rn. Everything is 2k min and I def do not have enough wages for this shit. Death to all landleeches

>>461
This. And unfortunatley, Gen Z are now accused of being lazy leeches because they refuse to move out of their parents house with all the high rent prices and working zero prospect jobs


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Why is it socially acceptable if not encouraged in all political axes to hate work but it's considered blasphemous to hate school?

Why is it that whenever I ask most people what they learn in school, all they tell is the dumb shenanigans they committed, even to the point of wanting to officiate "rites of passage" based on dumb reckless childish stunts, but they cannot remember one intellectual thing?


Whenever adults are asked to help with schoolwork, their minds are blank. Whenever it comes to bullying, they have no backbone except for punishing victims for self defense.

I notice that the people who miss school the most usually are those with no work ethic or people who kinda have some unfulfilled teenage quests.

I'm not against schooling, but we need to revamp it entirely. Trying to segregate worldly factors from the classroom for the sake of "protecting the younguns" usually results in an immature society.

I believe a lot of our problems with labor and education is due to how modern society views them as parallel worlds with differing rules.

School should reflect the workforce in social treatment, type of tasks, and infrastructural design

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It's probably just a lot of grass is greener stuff. People are getting up and working every day now, they haven't been to school for a decade so probably don't remember the shit bits and think of it as a simple time with less worries.

>>412
And unfortunately, Gen X, Y, and Z with their normalisation of awkwardness and anti-worldliness wants to bar the youth from any single worldly affair as vicarious reaction towards hatred of working.

It really depends, some people like their work just as some people like their field of study, I suppose people hate work more universally because it's not optional for the vast majority and therefore you get more incongruity due to alienation.


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Are master's programs really just cash cows like everyone keeps telling me?

Tldr all the arguments I hear against doing one:
>costs too much
>easier admissions process
>bad quality of education
>more debt
>can get a job without one anyways
>mainly used by internationals to game visas
>most jobs dont require it

But, I cant help but feel a lot of this is cope from people that dont have one. It has to help get more interviews easier and the wages are probably higher.

I got an admit into UCLA and feel like I should take it. My undergrad was in a shittier state school and the rep would help me out. But its going to be 40grand and dont know if Im just about to get scammed
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>>351
Only good reason I can think of to have a Master's is if there is a specific job you want to do that requires you to be educated to Master's level. Otherwise, most people I know did it because they were interested in the subject or they just didn't know what the fuck to do after they left uni so they decided to stay on another year or two.

It depends.
Some degrees are absolutely useless unless you at least have a masters. Honestly, just do trades if you don't care about doing anything in particular. I don't really hate the "PMC", but there is a lot of bullshit that comes with the territory. If you just want money without spending years in academia find and don't mind working with your hands that's the route I would go. Even better if you can become a millwright.

I have yet to find a professional Master's degree that is actually useful. MBA? Trash. MPH? Double trash.
The only reason to get a master's is if you want to work towards a PhD and live in academia. The only graduate degrees worth a damn otherwise are medicine, law, dentistry and perhaps engineering.

>>351
OP I am going to be frank with you: Discussions about college degrees on the internet are 99.99% vibes-based and people who have no understanding of the subject think they're qualified to talk out of their ass about it. In particular people who fellate "the trades". It's become a cultural signifier, there's basically no facts involved and even the anecdotes are unreliable at best.
I would speak with an actual counselor and figure out what exactly your future career prospects would look like, and then with that baseline you can do further research from there. Obviously the counselor is part of the university so they wouldn't give an absolutely objective viewpoint, but they would still give you a general idea of what exactly it is you're looking at career-wise.
Is it actually true that you could get a job with the degree you already have? Have you tried to figure that out? You would know better than us. It's your money/debt, your desires, your time.

>>441
>99.99% vibes-based and people who have no understanding of the subject think they're qualified to talk out of their ass about it. In particular people who fellate "the trades". It's become a cultural signifier, there's basically no facts involved and even the anecdotes are unreliable at best.


Bruh, I hear more people fellating college degrees and treating trades as fascist breeding grounds


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A thread for resources on organizing.
>Guides
>Practical Tips for irl
>Old classics & newer stuff
Personal experience also very cool
</edu/?
Yeah, but this thread is ideally more specific and focused.

Anyway, add 'em if you got them.


the body was too short or empty the body was too short or empty the body was too short or empty
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>>293
>its a white collar workplace (IT).
LOL good luck

>>327
Just how much work goes into being a union representative? I've thought about forming a union where I work for some time now.

>>447
Where do you work? I'm part of a national union so I have a lot of support, but there's still quite a bit of work. I assume there's a lot more if you start your own local union without a national org. I also have quite cooperative management, it would be way harder if they opposed unionization.

I started recently so of my time has been learning the relevant laws and regulations, once that's settled in it'll mostly be supporting my coworkers with whatever they need and regular meetings with management. Thanks to strong collective agreements I get paid for any union work I do, I don't have to do it for free.

If you happen to live in Norway I can write in more detail how the system works, I'm phoneposting now so I don't want to effortpost too much.

Being a union rep is work but it's very rewarding when you get a win. I see it as a responsibility, it's very important work and our society would be far worse if no one would do it.

>>322
Thanks for update

>>447
Depends, on average not as much as an organiser, but kiss being able to cruise at work goodbye.

>>448
I'm American. I'd say as far as unions go I have 4 options:
>CWA (affiliated with AFL-CIO)
>UE
>IWW
>Forming my own
I'm not entirely sure which path I would take at the moment. It's an IT job in a call center and the area's fairly conservative unfortunately.
>>450
>Depends, on average not as much as an organiser, but kiss being able to cruise at work goodbye.
Damn, that's one of the reasons I've kept this job. Hell, that's probably only why I can stand it. I perform very well though so maybe things wouldn't get too bad.
The thing is, I'm working full-time while I take classes online. I don't know how much time I'd actually be able to commit to this. I'm already struggling to manage what I have on my plate already.


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Career - job/career advice and other related stuff from a leftist perspective. EX: How to get a job, promotion, skill, switch companies, resume, life hacks, etc.
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>>379
>Anime is fascist

I remember when anime was considered "commie"

>>379
Please go outside

>>64
How did that go?
>>76
> IT support 1st level here for a company
> Am i being turned into a labor aristocrat?
Anon please, the labour aristrocracy is an abused classification. You're just a prole who was lucky enough to get a decent boss
>>77
>>80
Why do all morons think that proletarian, bourgeois and labour aristocrat categories are descriptors of one's side in the class war, instead of being the various factions of society than already exist?
You can have class traitors all over the place, from police to Engels

>>446
>Engels
???

>>451
Famous class traitor


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Seeking good contract language protecting political activity and speech to reduce the risk of getting fired over being a communist or anti-zionist. My workplace is majority anti-zionist Jewish people with a plurality of reds. A handful of zionist and rightoid pricks really hate that fact and keep trying to wield management against us and call in outside zionist orgs for backup because our existence fucks with their messaging that all Jewish people support Israel.
We're in the US and I expect the attempts at purging leftists to get worse in the future. Any good examples of protections we could copy? Also, general suggestions on things to definitely fight to have in our contract are welcome.

To make it more clear: we're unionized and almost done forming the bargaining committee and starting negotiations. There's strong buy-in from members for political protections because even the resist lib types are scared of getting retaliated against these days.

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