Gotta love a good pig roast.
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Stop insulting pigs please, they didn't do anything unlike cops
Ok, sorry
Both will straight up murder a person.
the ratio of humans murdering pigs vs pigs murdering humans is vastly unbalanced
Yet its not enough. Look at USA, completely surrounded by amphibious hogs.
They’re also policing the borders of each state too apparently
They said high paying career
Cops make an insanely high salary. It's disgusting.
Insanely high?
I guess this definitely varies wildly depending on who you ask.
Where I live, cops are paid very well.
For the amount of education needed or risk of the job, I doubt there's another more profitable career out there.
It is much safer than it is percieved
For you, sure. But something like half of law enforcement spouses are victims of DV, so maybe not so great for your SO.
Shout out to delivery drivers. You're the real tough people.
Much safer than it should be
It's a six-figure salary in my part of Texas.
Yeah, it starts at almost $80k for first year here with a senior officer that hasn't made Sergeant getting up to $140k. A captain makes between ~$150k and just under $210k.
As a cadet it's $50k. Which will never make you rich but if you're stuck in a minimum wage position or as a gig driver that can be attractive, especially knowing you'll soon bump over $25k.
That's not counting incentives for higher education, having places like communities and shopping centers hire you to patrol off hours, more than 50 days of time off (PTO, personal days, "physical agility days" that can be traded in for $1000 a pop, and holidays, plus compensatory time at 1.5 hours), paid parental leave, retirement, halfway decent insurance, tuition assistance, continued training leave, student loan forgiveness, free public transportation......They have the benefits most of us should be getting.
They have the benefits most of us should be getting.
We all should have those benefits but that would require us to give a fuck about labor. In my opinion, cops get those benefits for two reasons.
One: they protect the capital investments of the borgeousie so they're a privileged class to keep them happy.
Two: police have unions that actually fight for them.
It's amazing that their unions can do all that and still have the energy to ensure they get away with literal murder
They have the benefits most of us should be getting.
If someone ever needed a big sign of what the system actually rewards...
Yea that’s what i thought when i first saw this, but seems to be changing. Police are now getting bonuses in the US for each immigration related arrest
You don't know about the police unions hijacking town budgets? They regularly make high five figures with options for unlimited overtime. They also get to decide what counts as work and when it starts so they frequently cheat the system and steal your money to easily double their normal salary.
With overtime many US cops are the highest paid public employees in a given county.
The amount of overtime police here in Massachusetts get is ridiculous. The police union here is so powerful that we don’t have regular flag people at construction/work sites. It’s always paid police details. It’s not uncommon for some cops to pull in decent 6 figure salaries with all the overtime they pull in.
Oh man...you come on Lemmy dissing cops but also dissing a strong union that's bringing fair pay and good benefits to its members. I feel so conflicted right now.
Listen, I'm a fucking syndicalist, but there's a reason we don't think cops should have strong unions. A strong union at a business making too high demands just tanks the business, especially if it's union owned. Because of this union owned businesses tend to prioritize stability over benefits and discourage taking too much for not enough benefit to the whole.
Police are an arm of the municipality. When their union is strong enough to demand whatever it wants the city has to find the money from somewhere else, often through rent seeking applications of civil offenses and misdemeanors. You wind up in a situation where laws are enforced based on how profitable or easy they are to enforce to the cops. What does that look like? Decades of unexamined rape kits sitting in a back room, a 50% murder solve rate, and nobody bothering to investigate your home invasion if you don't have a surveillance camera, but traffic and parking tickets galore with lots and lots of whatever the cops want. But the library is broke and there's no money for infrastructure.
And that's before we get into the fact that this is the people who use violence on behalf of the state. Police and prison guard unions both are incentivised to fight for less restrictions on use of violence by the state. Less consequences for police misconduct or unjustified killing, longer prison sentences, less enforcement those pesky rights that get in their way.
After training and everything I believe your salary is 6 figures
Oof
My reaction verbatim.
Probably anything has wriggle room to file your own stuff by colour but when I think about sorting things by colour the #1 thing that comes to mind is teachers. Not high paying though 🥀🥀
There's some money to be made in selling refurbished Lego sets, but that won't make you rich either.
Retail clothing, also not high paying.
Maybe some kind of construction sales, like tile and counter slabs…
Maybe some kind of construction sales, like tile and counter slabs…
Oh yeah! I remember going to a showroom of different tiles with my parents when they needed to renovate the kitchen and it was super cool how everything was categorised. And it seemed to be a thriving business.
Yeah I don’t know what those people make, but that shit ain’t cheap.
We were looking into remodeling our kitchen soon. Most places start at 70k-80k, and it just goes up from there. It's insane, we're no longer planning to remodel.
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That would have me binge watching DIY tiktoks and trying my hand at it myself
I'm definitely not skilled enough in that area.
Accountants sorting the columns by value (negative values are red)