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In reply to the discussion: McDonald’s Advice To Underpaid Employees: Sell Your Christmas Presents For Cash [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)first: this is an excellent post that should be its own op.
second: if I'm in a bad frame of mind, it's easy to suppose that the help I really need to hear is not necessarily the help I want to hear.
Getting health care to poor people is vitally important to their long term success, even if their state of mind places the value of the next "shitty cigarette" as a better short term investment. Obamacare, even if your income makes it something other than free, is still a good value and a good choice.
I don't want to "be a self-righteous prick", but sometimes friends tell friends what they don't want to hear. I'm happy to help, but I want to actually help.
In my day job at a small nonprofit, I hired a woman from a welfare to work program a couple of months ago. She's working hard to improve her family's standard of living, but it's become apparent that she needs to improve her standard of thinking. I sat down with her last week to coach her on what "professional office attire" in our employee manual means, and it was (unsurprisingly) a really difficult conversation. I'm sure what she heard was "gtfo, pov" but aside from the importance of the organization's image as a professional place, I'm hoping that the act of investing in herself will change her state of mind.