The homeless: "Go get a job!"

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:11 am

I bow my head in shame for my overtly left wing idealism toward this subject.

This thread sure showed me!

Damn, maybe i really should listen to my dad more.

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:28 pm

There's no shame, Adam. You have a good heart. Don't lose it to cynicism.

There's an old saying... Any young person who isn't a communist has no heart. Any older person who still is a communist has no mind.

- Bill

-Metablade- · Post by **-Metablade-** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:22 pm

AAAhmed46 wrote:

BE HONEST: If you had to hire someone who walked into your store/business, and asked for a job who was obviously homeless, would you hire them?

When I had just gotten out of the Military, (Many, Many moons ago)
I was, in fact, "homeless" for a time.
You'd never know it of course, so the question you are asking has a facet to it that perhaps you didn't intend.

In any event, being "Homeless" at the time, this of course did not stop me from seeking work.
I was hired "on the spot" for a Knife shop in the local mall, simply by walking in, asking for a job (not an application.)
Of course, nowadays this tactic may not work as well.

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:36 pm

My dad told me this when i talked to him about it:

"In this country, no body goes starving. This is canada, not pakistan''

-Metablade- · Post by **-Metablade-** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:07 pm

Doesn't Canada border on Pakistan?

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:12 pm

Nah dude, thats America.

Jake Steinmann · Post by **Jake Steinmann** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:54 pm

America doesn't border on Pakistan!

What do they teach y'all in geography up there?

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:14 pm

Jake Steinmann wrote:America doesn't border on Pakistan!

What do they teach y'all in geography up there?

The locations of all NHL teams.

-Metablade- · Post by **-Metablade-** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:46 pm

What's the NHL?

f.Channell · Post by **f.Channell** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:16 pm

The lousiest paying professional sport.

F.

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:23 pm

f.Channell wrote:The lousiest paying professional sport.

F.

That would be MMA.

One thing the UFC has been paying for is losing good fighters to PRIDE due to more pay.

Besides, Bullshido has an entiree article on how even pro-MMA fighters are paid bad.

f.Channell · Post by **f.Channell** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:50 am

Historically speaking fighters can't hold onto a buck or sign bad contracts anyway.

If they take after boxers anyway.

Look at Leon Spinks who's a janitor at a YMCA with no cash.
Or Mike Tyson of course.

My friend had an ex Montreal Canadian player roof his house around 1985 or so. He wasn't doing so great.

F.

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