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Who in their right mind would work this type of job? I suppose if you were going to get kicked out of your apartment, you might do this. Evicting people can be

Who in their right mind would work this type of job? I suppose if you were going to get kicked out of your apartment, you might do this. Evicting people can be very dangerous, not to mention depressing.

blodkorv 6y ago
people who wants to earn money and dont have capacity to compete in other job markets.
scarface74 6y ago
When I was a landlord and had to evict people, I hired a guy who got a crew of day laborers to actually move everything out. If you evict people legally - at least in my state - you have to schedule a 2 hour window with the police and they are present supervising during the entire process. Also, the eviction process required at least 5 people to be present to actual clean the unit out depending on the size of the house/apartment.
- sparrish 6y ago
  I don't understand why folks are downvoting this comment. It's valid and important information about the legal process of eviction.
  - scarface74 6y ago
    I don’t either. No one is commenting that any thing I’ve posted is factually incorrect. The company is doing nothing differently except putting hiring day laborers online. Home Depot wasn’t liable when the guy I hired picked up a crew from the parking lot. We waited for someone from the police department to show up - as legally required - and started the cleanup process. It is up to the landlord to follow the law.
CPLX 6y ago
There is a long and storied tradition of members of lower classes being employed in jobs enforcing the will of the powerful against members of other lower classes.
- wegs 6y ago
  Hey, it puts food on the table, and my kids are hungry. And it keeps the debt collector at bay. The implied expectation of class / race / ethnic / ... loyalty is fundamentally flawed, though. I'm friends with people of many groups who are unlike me, and conversely, there are many people in my demographic whom I dislike. Not all [insert race][insert socioeconomic class][insert religion][insert ethnicity][insert career] people are the same, and we don't want segregation. This is a particularly nasty cross-class alliance, but at the core, we WANT cross-class alliances.
  - soVeryTired 6y ago
    But so often it happens that the working class and the owning class ally to reduce the power of the working class. They rarely seem to ally against members of the owning class.
    - ChuckNorris89 6y ago
      Because the owning class have really good PR(you can also be like us if you just work hard enough) and can afford better physical segregation and legal protection against the working class.
    - rgblambda 6y ago
      At the battle of Plataea during the Second Greco-Persian War, a number of Greek city-states fought on the Persian side. Why? Because the Persians were so big and powerful they were surely going to win.
    - Normille 6y ago
      The biggest trick the ruling classes pull is convincing those on the bottom rungs of society to always kick downwards.
  - Normille 6y ago
    > Hey, it puts food on the table, and my kids are hungry. And it keeps the debt collector at bay. So does shovelling Jews into gas ovens and pulling out people's fingernails. I guess it just depends on where your internal "Do Not Cross" moral line lies.
barnabask 6y ago
Leading to the ironic scenario where your final gig is to evict yourself.
slfnflctd 6y ago
Having regularly perused the uber drivers subreddit for a couple years back when I used to do that, the percentage of misanthropes commenting there seemed high. Of course, it's a big leap from being willing to screw over strangers for a few bucks to being willing to throw them out of their homes on to the street, but I've got a feeling some would sadistically enjoy the transition. As long as it paid enough. Honestly it seems to me like something out of a crappy, dystopian sci-fi B movie from the 90s. With everything else we've seen this year, though, I'm not even that surprised. People being horrible is normalized, and most of my outrage has been depleted. It's just expected now.
loopz 6y ago
People who enjoy belitteling other people and employing some power over them. People do enjoy such sick stuff.

blodkorv 6y ago

people who wants to earn money and dont have capacity to compete in other job markets.

scarface74 6y ago

When I was a landlord and had to evict people, I hired a guy who got a crew of day laborers to actually move everything out. If you evict people legally - at least in my state - you have to schedule a 2 hour window with the police and they are present supervising during the entire process. Also, the eviction process required at least 5 people to be present to actual clean the unit out depending on the size of the house/apartment.

sparrish 6y ago
I don't understand why folks are downvoting this comment. It's valid and important information about the legal process of eviction.
- scarface74 6y ago
  I don’t either. No one is commenting that any thing I’ve posted is factually incorrect. The company is doing nothing differently except putting hiring day laborers online. Home Depot wasn’t liable when the guy I hired picked up a crew from the parking lot. We waited for someone from the police department to show up - as legally required - and started the cleanup process. It is up to the landlord to follow the law.

CPLX 6y ago

There is a long and storied tradition of members of lower classes being employed in jobs enforcing the will of the powerful against members of other lower classes.

wegs 6y ago
Hey, it puts food on the table, and my kids are hungry. And it keeps the debt collector at bay. The implied expectation of class / race / ethnic / ... loyalty is fundamentally flawed, though. I'm friends with people of many groups who are unlike me, and conversely, there are many people in my demographic whom I dislike. Not all [insert race][insert socioeconomic class][insert religion][insert ethnicity][insert career] people are the same, and we don't want segregation. This is a particularly nasty cross-class alliance, but at the core, we WANT cross-class alliances.
- soVeryTired 6y ago
  But so often it happens that the working class and the owning class ally to reduce the power of the working class. They rarely seem to ally against members of the owning class.
  - ChuckNorris89 6y ago
    Because the owning class have really good PR(you can also be like us if you just work hard enough) and can afford better physical segregation and legal protection against the working class.
  - rgblambda 6y ago
    At the battle of Plataea during the Second Greco-Persian War, a number of Greek city-states fought on the Persian side. Why? Because the Persians were so big and powerful they were surely going to win.
  - Normille 6y ago
    The biggest trick the ruling classes pull is convincing those on the bottom rungs of society to always kick downwards.
- Normille 6y ago
  > Hey, it puts food on the table, and my kids are hungry. And it keeps the debt collector at bay. So does shovelling Jews into gas ovens and pulling out people's fingernails. I guess it just depends on where your internal "Do Not Cross" moral line lies.

barnabask 6y ago

Leading to the ironic scenario where your final gig is to evict yourself.

slfnflctd 6y ago

Having regularly perused the uber drivers subreddit for a couple years back when I used to do that, the percentage of misanthropes commenting there seemed high. Of course, it's a big leap from being willing to screw over strangers for a few bucks to being willing to throw them out of their homes on to the street, but I've got a feeling some would sadistically enjoy the transition. As long as it paid enough. Honestly it seems to me like something out of a crappy, dystopian sci-fi B movie from the 90s. With everything else we've seen this year, though, I'm not even that surprised. People being horrible is normalized, and most of my outrage has been depleted. It's just expected now.

loopz 6y ago

People who enjoy belitteling other people and employing some power over them. People do enjoy such sick stuff.