Cheap Labor, The Home Depot, and other Businesses


There's something to the whole homeless guy working for food. I am thinking of expanding on it; maybe go down and buy twenty bags of those forty-nine cent tacos from Del Taco and then head over to The Home Depot and get the Mexican's hanging around out front to paint my house.

Mexicans are always hanging around the parking lot of The Home Depot looking for work. And good for them. I just wished some Asians would hang out in front of Best Buy. I could get them to come back to my place, set up my big screen and show me how to Tivo my shows. I'd even pay cash for that, but if they preferred,  I could take them to the all you can eat Chinese Buffet and Sushi Bar.

I wonder how prevalent the whole racial stereo type of associating at race with those of particular job skills looking for work really is? Maybe somewhere theres a group of Jewish guys hanging out in in the parking lot of H and R Block.

East Indians wouldn't be in the parking lot of the 7-11, 'cause well, they are already working inside. Though I bet in India there are a lot American's hanging out in the parking lot of  tech support centers.

And who knows, maybe there are some middle eastern guys hanging out in the parking lot of a demolitions company. That old building need to come down? Not a problem, the middle eastern guys can just walk inside and -- boom! 

Nobody ever hangs out in the parking lot of Pep Boys looking for work. You would think they would. After all there are already eighteen people in the parking lot working on their own damn cars. You can't go to a Pep Boys, or an Auto Zone, or a Checker Auto Parts without seeing people underneath the hood of their cars.  It's annoying. I mean, you don't pull up to a Walgreens Pharmacy and find people in the parking lot giving their kids a treatment for head lice.

I had no idea how competitive this whole looking for menial work really is. I saw a fight break out between a homeless guy and some illegals in front of a Home Depot because the illegals were upset that the homeless guy charging food was undercutting their price. It started a whole gang war. The homeless dudes got together and did a push by. Which is basically a drive by with a shopping cart.

Of course,  in the end, people complain that we are contributing to the aid of illegals buy giving them work no matter what business they hanging out in front of. A lot of people want to see something done about illegal immigration. Many suggest building a wall from the east coast of Texas all the way to California. Others complain that would be too expensive. I say there's an easy solutions. We just head down to the Home Depot and pick up some cheap labor.

 

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  • 4/23/2006 12:34 AM evelyn wrote:
    that was HILARIOUS! oh my gosh, i have tears running down my face from that and i'm pretty sure i woke my neighbors. i'll go tell them to read though b/c i LOVED it! keep them coming, i need something to do when i'm not in school!
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