• TIEPilot@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Report them to corporate, they listen. The 7/11 around the corner used to let the homeless sit out front and harass everyone. Few emails to corporate and the loiters are now gone.

    Now before anyone cries like a wimp, they were super aggressive. I’m a big scary guy and they would fuck with me. Forget it if your a woman, it was so bad almost no one would go there and hit the other mart that was more expensive.

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      3 hours ago

      I’m surprised this has a positive score. Lemmy hates when you point out the fact that not all homeless people are just normal folks having financial difficulties.

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        2 hours ago

        I used to be a lot more sympathetic towards homeless people until I had to work and live in a shitty neighbourhood in an increasingly shitty city.

        My sympathy has mostly dwindled away at this point. I wasn’t paid enough to have deal with the unstable crackheads trying to break into my store’s stock room. A friend of mine has been attacked on transit twice in the last couple years while just trying to mind her own business. The train stations are fucking overrun with homeless people. The city couldn’t be assed to even wipe blood off the wall for weeks after someone got stabbed in a train station.

        I wish I had the power to do something about the massive systemic problems that creates this mess, but I’m outvoted by the huge amount of conservative dipshits in my province. I’d settle for being able to walk around my neighbourhood without the risk of getting stabbed at this point, but I don’t get that either.

        So I stew in quiet resentment.

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          1 hour ago

          It helps to realize that there are two distinct groups of homeless. One is just people who experienced financial hardship because capitalism and just need some help to get back on their feet.

          The other is a group that is chronically homeless because they are severely mentally ill and don’t want to take their meds (which fair, the side effects of antipsychotics blow), addicts who have no desire to get sober yet, or a combo of the two (self medicating their mental illness). Some of these people are literally feral (skid row in LA is a good example).

          Even though they are a minority of homeless, those people are what makes homelessness such a difficult issue to tackle. At some point you’d have to involuntarily commit them and force them to get help and stay compliant. It’s not just an issue of lack of affordable housing.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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    7 hours ago

    Are you sure that they didn’t just naturally run out of large cups, and then had a bunch of people complain about the deal, so they added the “No deal” thing? Like this isn’t enough evidence to conclude that it’s malicious yet.

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      7 hours ago

      When I worked at a convenience store that is now owned by 7-Eleven, we always honored deals on the next size up if we ran out. So yeah, it does appear malicious to me.

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      6 hours ago

      7-11 leadership probably would too. They are owned by a japanese firm now that takes this business seriously. Send an email or letter to their CEO.

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        5 hours ago

        Wait, so the Japanese 7-11 (7 & i holdings, or whatever) is now the «real» 7-11? Man, I hope they bring their concept across to other countries! 7-11 in Japan is fucking great!