I’ll do it later.
:party-sicko: Minifeatures :party-sicko:
Fuck it (ruthlessly criticizes all that exists)
Yet another don’t take your phone to protests
Theory/history books for someone with a fried brain?
whats the worst thing from your pre-radicalization days thats a guilty pleasure?
look at this dope red hex-bear art
This website claims to predict the future – how accurate do you think it is?
Yeah being opposed to US imperialism is cool but check out these sick communes
Creepy warning
Am I in the wrong here?
My girlfriend and I live together. I’m in grad school and barely make any money with a GA position. Also, I’m terrible with money and have nothing in savings. My girlfriend has about 4k in savings and gets paid about the same as me for her work.
I landscape on the side for my landlord–$20 per hour. They offered to pay me in cash but I just have them take it off rent. Not so much now, but in the summer months I work roughly 10-15 hours in a month, taking $200-$300 off my portion of rent. I consider this kind-of a part-time job. I thought this was fair since it’s my labor and not easy work–$20 per hour is a bargain (I built a patio, redid two large overgrown beds, etc.)
My girlfriend and multiple friends of hers think we should split the pay evenly since it’s taken off of rent. She said in the context of a relationship, it’s fair this way. In a perfect world, sure, I get that it’s a partnership; however, she’s ignoring the context of me being perpetually broke, having to work unpaid labor through my internship/practicum, and her being better off financially.
Should I split this pay? That would mean I’d only get paid $10 per hour for my labor. Maybe I’m thinking to individually and I am an asshole here but fuck I barely get by as is, I kind-of relied upon this side-gig to pay my portion of things.
Take the cash (if it’s the same), split the rent in half. I think it’s lizard brain thinking in play: the bill is not split equally -> not fair
It might be cuz I’m off my addy that it’s taking me a bit to figure out the conflict here. If it’s all going to rent anyways and if someone’s in a Partnership then that’s still less $ taken out of the collective pool of your income.
i might be misreading but
if it were any other freelance job wouldn’t it just be treated like your money? Why should she get part of if if she makes as much at her regular job and you’re not otherwise supporting her?
putting it toward shared rents seems more than fair, i’d do the same
Yeah, girlfriend wouldn’t expect any $ from the other side jobs I did. It just seems that because I work for my landlord, and because I chose to have the landlord take my earnings out of our rent for convenience, it sounds unfair because she’s “paying more for rent.” Someone else said it’s just our lizard brain logic lol.
No I just meant if I split this earnings w/ girlfriend I would only make $10 per hour, GF would take the other $10.
Rent is $985. 10 hours landscaping at $20 per hour = $200 The check I write for rent, therefore, is $785 Girlfriend pays $492.5 I pay $292.5 because I’ve been counting that $200 off rent as my income. In this scenario, she thinks we should each pay $392.5
Lol if it makes 0 difference to just take the $200 in cash and immediately put it back in rent then you might as well. It’s still a weird issue for her friends to raise in the context of a Fair Equitable Partnership where paying rent is going towards your common good anyway.
