A Boring Dystopia

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“Donated” plasma today (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The staff were pretty kind all around, facility was clean.

The dystopian aspect was how many people I saw denied, because they had donated yesterday. You can give twice a week, but have to wait a day in between. I saw at least four or five people get turned away, and they were all pretty upset. The line was extremely long - there are tons of people desperate enough to wait in line for hours to go through the painful process of having their blood sapped out.

I also got a preloaded card as my payment, which has a ton of fees associated with it - I’ll get charged if I use it at an atm or check the balance. I know these cash cards are often also used to pay people who work at like McDonald’s - it just seems like so much of the US is designed to nickel and dime the shit out of the poor.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Shitty gas station job I worked at in my late teens tried to switch to those ratfucking cash cards and end paper checks. They claimed that the first withdrawal or use on the card from any location wouldn't charge us any fees.

I proved that wrong by trying to get my full paycheck out of the ATM we had in the store and got slapped with a 10 dollar fee. When my boss shrugged and said "Oh, well" I went home and looked up the state labor laws about these fucking cards. Turns out they weren't allowed to charge fees in my state at all and any use of such fees would be treated as wage theft.

Company changed their tune real quick when I threatened HR about going to our local daily and the labor department about it. Paper paychecks were suddenly an option again and everyone got a $25 bonus for whatever fees they lost. Fuckers. I quit three months later.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

hats fucking off to you for doing your legal homework and putting those fucking bastards in their place. you did your coworkers a solid. a lot of people desperate enough to work at a shithole that bad don't have any spare time or energy to do stuff like that.