Comments by "roachtoasties" (@roachtoasties) on "The New York Times" channel.

You think it's bad now, I remember visiting New York in 1980. The subway cars were scribbled on from head to toe with graffiti, they chugged along slowly, with the lights inside constantly flickering, they smelled awful, and of course, no air conditioning in the middle of summer. It was a horror. The last time I visited New York, things have improved. Newer cars, although the stations are still old. Anyway, it could be worse. I've seen it.
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If Disneyland was raising employees salaries in proportion that they raise ticket prices (now about $170 for a one day pass) they would be making a good living. That said, Disney has the upper hand with the city. Disney knows they can't just pack-up and move Disneyland, and Anaheim knows they can't force all their will on Disney. I guess they could block all the streets to Disneyland, so nobody can visit, but it hasn't come to that. That said, there has to be some initiative on the employees' part. Saying Disney is a great place to work and saying at the same time they've been a victim for decades as they only pay them peanuts, just isn't logical. If Disney is only paying poverty wages, then it isn't a great place to work. Plain and simple. Maybe, at 58, there isn't much to move on to, but if you're young, just think of Disney as a stepping-stone, unless your goal is upper management and you're actively pursing that. This is true with many service employers, such as hotels, retail, or McDonald's. Unfortunately, they are not going to make the rank-and-file employees upper class, or upper-middle class, or even middle-class. I've moved on from garbage jobs myself. You just aren't going to make it in a job greeting customers or slinging hamburgers. That will never change.
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When the coronavirus outbreak ends, unless your goal is being a store manager or higher, jobs at McDonald's are stepping stones, not careers. I'm not saying McDonald's food is healthy, but out of all the restaurants I've eaten at, I've never got food poisoning a McD's. I can't say that for a bunch of other places. Their food handling policies, and how much of this pre-made, so there's not much handling at the restaurant, is why you won't be sitting on the toilet after having your burger.
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A horrible paradox. First, it was distributed like candy, and we see what happens. Decades later, it's distributed for purposes that exclude anyone who's pregnant, but there are still birth defects. What can you do if something happens, like someone who is pregnant accidentally takes someone else's prescription, there's a pharmacy mix-up where they put the wrong pill in the bottle (that has happened to me, but with no major consequences) and so on? Taking the wrong medication happens a lot, but do we then ban all pills?
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Bridges, and other stuff, gets old and falls apart, just like the politicians that come out to blame everyone but themselves when something happens.
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If things were bad in 2018, it must be really bad now. The park has been closed for over a year, and is scheduled to reopen on April 30, 2021 with limited capacity. What have the employees been doing?
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Yes. The first time I went to that Macy's was when I was 21 years old visiting from California. I remember those wooden escalators. The next time was fairly recently but decades later. I went up the escalators again just to see if some of them were still wooden. They were. :)
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Either incompetent doctors, or prescription mistakes. The pharmacy could put the wrong pills in someone prescription, the pregnant mother accidentally takes someone else's prescription in their household, and so on.
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