this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
233 points (93.6% liked)

Funny: Home of the Haha

7125 readers
1451 users here now

Welcome to /c/funny, a place for all your humorous and amusing content.

Looking for mods! Send an application to Stamets!

Our Rules:

  1. Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.

  2. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.

  3. Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.


Other Communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Alk 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Since people in New Jersey aren't allowed to pump their own gas, they should also have to call someone to drive to their house and plug in their electric vehicle for them every time they have to charge.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It would make a similar amount of sense.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Refusing to let people pump their own gas meant that many people who otherwise could not find meaningful work could find a job pumping gas.

[–] Kecessa 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So they could have just been paid to do anything else instead and they would have been happier and probably more productive to society.

Get them stuck in a shitty job instead of giving them the opportunity to go to school to find a better job

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, this is for guys like my buddy's brother who can't do anything else because they lack the mental capacity. There's a bunch of people who could not work anything more complicated than a pump and squeegee.

By letting Russ work he feels like he's contributing to his community because he is. It also lets him see more people than he would at his group home.

If Russ didn't have this job he would just be at the group home.

[–] Kecessa 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's plenty of jobs like that that are actually useful though, I would much rather see more people sorting through what people send to be recycled than seeing people get paid to pump gas in a V8 SUV.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are more people that can use these jobs than there are jobs for them

[–] Kecessa 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm talking about jobs that they already have a hard time finding enough people to do it, so no, pumping gas isn't a necessary job.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And Im saying guys like Russ can't do those jobs.

[–] Kecessa 1 points 6 days ago

Right, because for some reason the only thing Russ is able to do is to take a nozzle, put it in a car and pump gas, ALL and I mean ALL other jobs in existence are impossible for him to do.

EVERY

SINGLE

ONE

OF

THEM

[–] Alk 6 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I'm sure electric pluggers would also create lots of jobs.