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Mike Lindell Selling Off MyPillow Equipment: They ‘Did Cancel Culture On Us’
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Lol, shitty business man does shitty at business, blames it on his not-customers. Sell me a product bitch. I ain't fuckin sold on an overpriced pillow. Let alone his overpriced pillow. How many competitors this mother fucker have? It's a goddamn saturated ass market of fucking pricy pillows. Where's his marketing? Where's his diversification? How often are people buying pillows?
This asshole made a fucking niche ass product for a niche ass market and then went on a fucking midlife crisis rant bender about some conspiracy bullshit.
Maybe that was his hair brained idea of marketing. He wanted to sell his pillow to crazy tinfoil hat fuckers. Mother fucker made his niche market even nicher. Maybe he mistook niche for Nietzsche.
any. fucking. questions?
I feel pretty bad for his employees. I can't imagine the stress of being financially dependent on this guy making good business decisions.
Much like the Death Star contractors discussion in Clerks, I can't feel sorry for anyone who stuck around after it became clear who they were working for.
Yeah, maybe. I also see it somewhat like "Your state is stripping away your rights? Just move.", in that it's not always an option for some people. Though it would be nice to imagine everyone working there was likeminded with Lindell, instead of just a wage-slave without many options.
Fast food restaurants are begging for applicants all around the country, and a lot of them are starting between $15-20/hour. Don't give me that shit lol. Finding a new job is a hell of a lot easier than packing up and moving across the country.
Find me a place where you can live on that wage.
Do you think Mr. Pillow Pants is paying better than that?
Could be. Or maybe your numbers aren't reasonable for the area. (more likely) But even setting aside that, there are plenty of reasons "hurr durr get a new jerb" may not be realistic advice: maybe the hours for a fast food job don't work because they're already working two jobs, or they have kids, or whatever. I didn't say no one can get a new job, I engaged my empathy (try it) and pointed out that it's not a universally available option.
I have empathy. I've had shitty bosses. Do you think I'm saying to go quit on the spot and then start job hunting? Because that would be really dumb. You apply for new jobs on the clock at your shitty job.
You may not understand this right now, but you are speaking from a place of privilege.
You don't know a damn thing about me. I've been borderline homeless in the past. At least I'm presenting a potential solution, rather than wringing my hands and saying "welp, can't do anything about working for this monster. Guess I'll just stay here forever."
I stand by my statement. That, or your empathy is broken.
You just don't understand how the world works lol. Do you not understand we're in the middle of a massive labor shortage right now, and have been since the pandemic hit? No one is saying walk out on the spot. Job hunt and continue working, then just stop showing up. Jobs don't give you 2 weeks notice when they fire you or lay you off, so they don't deserve it either.
There's a labor shortage because people are fed up with shit jobs. Something about being labeled "essential" and making shit money. You're wrong about this. You sound like a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps, poor person" republican. If that's not your intent, reevaluate your stance.
Yes, people are fed up with shit jobs. That has nothing to do with this topic, though. The topic is people working for a fascist. You are pretending they can't find another job and just have to accept defeat and work for a fascist. I stated that there's plenty of jobs out there, so that's not a valid excuse. We've known who this guy is and what he represents for at least 3 years now. Anyone still working for him at this point is either cool with the fascism or outright support it themselves. Stop making excuses for shitty people.
Still broken, I see.
Still a contrarian fascist apologist, I see.
Wait, you really believe anyone working there is a fascist???
Dude just stop talking. Clearly we don't agree. Go back to Twitter.
Twitter? We're on a replacement for reddit, not Twitter. lol