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Study: About one construction worker dies a day in Texas
April 8, 2013Wage theft, it’s a problem that is not only occurring in El Paso, it’s an epidemic. All this according to a local group who is working with employes who are not at least minimum wage.
Juan Carlos Casteneda was a construction worker in El Paso, but says he was fired after asking his employer a simple question.
“I talked to him and I asked him why he didn’t pay me. And then I was fired,” Casteneda said.
Elena Arrevalo also says she was fired from her job at a dry cleaners after asking why she wasn’t paid.
“I was threatened. They said they were going to call the police, or they would call immigration,” Arrevalo told us.
Casteneda’s and Arrevalo’s stories are unfortunately very familiar here in Texas and both are seeking help with the Labor Justice Committee.
“The Labor Justice Committee was started to try and fight this epidemic of unpaid wages. Wage theft we call it,” Shalini Thomas, a member of the Labor Justice Committee said.
The group is working with Arrevalo and Castenda. But so far, they say, neither of their former employers are working with them.
“We worked hard for him. Monday through Friday, sometimes Saturday. And you paid us half,” Casteneda claimed.
Casteneda says he worked for a construction company here in El Paso, a sector which is riddled with many problems here in Texas.
“Texas is the most deadly state for construction workers,” according to Thomas.
Thomas cited a recent study out of the University of Texas, at Austin. The study claims more than 40 percent of construction workers were found to be victims of payroll fraud and were misclassified as independent contractors.
“Texas is the only state that does not mandate workers compensation and because of that we have almost an average of one worker death a day,” Thomas told us.
To beat these statistics the group is working with all workers who feel they are not getting paid fairly.
“The only way to stop that situation is you come forward, you talk to us about what’s going on, and we do everything we can to make sure you’re getting a fair wage,” Thomas said.
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NO ONE WOULD EVER SAY THIS
Did you know we’re always open? Meaning you can eat these right now.
Is being friends with a woman really that awful?
If men REALLY took rejection this well, women wouldn’t have to hesitate to be blunt. But I’ve ignored enough cat callers to know that often isn’t the case. And it just isn’t worth it to me to suss out which type of reaction any given dude is gonna have at my own risk.
Ummmm guys, if you’re “friend-zoned” doesn’t that mean you realize that she’s not into you??? And wants to be your friend??? At that point if you waste time trying to seduce her it’s your own damn fault for being a douche who can’t take no for an answer (an implied no is still a no).
Alright ladies, listen up, because this is important.
Oh, good. We’re about to get some fucking wisdom in here. Thank god a man is here to explain everything.
When a man is interested in you romantically, he is not interested in you as a friend. He is interested in you romantically. They are two very different kinds of relationship.
Whaaaaaat?
Men are conditioned (either by evolution or by cultural norms) to pursue that which they desire.
Whoa, that’s too much for my little ladybrain to handle right now! You mean guys… when they want things… they try to get them?
Women never do that. Ever.If he desires you, he’s not going to stop desiring you if he’s still in constant contact with you. That will just make him more and more frustrated that he is not engaging you on a romantic level. It is not good for his mental health.
I didn’t know that I was responsible for every man’s mental health! =O
Don’t try and make this about you and your hurt feelings that he doesn’t want to be your friend, because that is small potatoes to his biological frustration.
I can’t even be sarcastic at this. That’s how fucking stupid it is.
“BIOLOGICAL FRUSTRATION”.
Dude, there’s this thing called masturbation. If you’re suffering “biological frustration” just being in the presence of a woman you need to go home and have a nice wank and chill the fuck out.
You can’t always get what you fucking want.
While some men don’t take rejection well, neither do some women.
I’ve yet to see a woman react to rejection the same way that a lot of men do.
Probably because I’ve never seen a woman make the kind of inappropriate advances I’ve seen some men do.
But it’s better for everyone because even if the guy or girl makes an ass of themselves, it is clearly communicated that nothing is going to be happening on the romantic level, and he or she can move on with their lives and look elsewhere. Wanting to be just friends with someone who is romantically interested in you is just dangling before them the small, false hope of a possible future relationship. You are wasting not just their time, but your own.
It’s like finding a golden kernel of truth in a big steaming pile of shit.
Two key points:
1) No man is entitled to your body, ladies.
Butbutbut BIOLOGICAL FRUSTRATION.
MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY HURT FEELINGS.
2) You are not entitled to a man’s friendship.
Deal with it.
Dude, we just established that a lot of the reason why women don’t make it clear enough that they’re not interested is because THEY’RE FUCKING SCARED OF THEM. Not that they’re trying to be besties 5ever with the guy while he secretly pines and cries. We just don’t want to be called bitches or stalked or treated like shit!
If a guy who had such a shitty attitude about me that he couldn’t even talk to me unless we were fucking disappeared from my life forever I’d be relieved!
(Assuming, you know, he didn’t literally disappear from everyone’s life. If somebody goes missing I’m gonna freak out even if I hate that person.Maybe it’s my vagina but I’m interested in being friends with everyone I have a crush on.
I don’t care if they’re attached, uninterested, or whatever. If I can’t have them romantically I still want them in my life.…And see? Then you have a lot of people like this. You know, decent people.
(I’m not like that either though. I need to be flat-out rejected and then leave the dude alone when I get crushes. …Well, maybe not. That’s how I was the last time I had a real crush but that was like 8 years ago. If I’m ever stupid enough to get a crush as an adult I’m gonna suppress that shit down into the center of the fucking earth.)
What just happened here?
That’s not icing. It’s actually all cake. It’s done by using the joconde method.
They always are.
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