• Dyskolos
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    7 hours ago

    You let someone clean your whole place for that shitty pay? What are you? A crack junkie too? Have some dignity and pay a human in a shitty situation a decent compensation. Jeez. Our cleaning-lady makes that in an hour after taxes and I even feel like I cheat her.

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      5 hours ago

      $20 was worth more 20 years ago, and I had a 1-room apartment. She was making ~$10/hr. Fair pay for cleaning work in 2003, with my supplies.

      tl:dr; Get off your fucking high horse.

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        4 hours ago

        In that case disregard my comment. “Top to bottom” made it sound like you made her clean a whole fucking house.

        BTW, not abusing power over people isn’t high-horse in my book. Just basic human decency.

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      5 hours ago

      I stand with you, I’m glad you have the money to pay her well. Would you suggest that fella should clean his apartment himself and then the woman next door is also not making those 20 bucks?

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        4 hours ago

        No. But maybe not abuse someone in such dire need for a Lil cash and pay fair. Junkie or not. Anyhow. My comment was invalid anyway and I took it back.

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          9 minutes ago

          I know what you mean, you are right, but that guy is probably paying max he can and they found an arrangement. She’s also probably not 1000% dependent on the money so she could also refuse and take a different gig or negotiate.

          As I said, I’m totally with you, the work should get paid what it’s worth and people should not be cheap about it, I’m just saying consider taking in more contextual information before you call out those enslaving junky exploiting fellas.