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2021-07-10 Economy

'I had to take off my $800 sneakers and cut my own grass': Mass labor shortage in the exclusive Hamptons leaves the rich to cut their own lawns, do their own laundry and even paint their own nails

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-10 00:46|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Bee? Not Bee.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-10 03:16|| 2021-07-10 03:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Just and an example for the Rich...

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
or do real work against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? Yes, of course,
To launder, to clean, to wash a Bentley, to sweep
and more; and by a sweep to say we work our backend off. Oh, the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that my flesh is heir to, 'tis a revelation
about the washers of the dish. To cook, to clean, and remain serene. Oh my bed, to sleep, perchance to dream, Oy, where's the rub ?

Its in the former gardener's medicine cabinet.

Posted by Jomp Ebbinemble8193 2021-07-10 04:22|| 2021-07-10 04:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Down $1

Posted by Big Tojo4371 2021-07-10 07:03|| 2021-07-10 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 And so the start, by the usual suspects, to repeal the 13th Amendment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-10 07:48|| 2021-07-10 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 the horror

Posted by 746 2021-07-10 10:26|| 2021-07-10 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Just wait until the woke people in the Hamptons discover that laundry involves separating white things from colored. The racism! The horror!

Posted by Tom 2021-07-10 11:16|| 2021-07-10 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Lost a dollar.

Didn't even think they knew how to turn the machine on.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-10 11:17|| 2021-07-10 11:17|| Front Page Top

#8 ...they have internet access for how-to vids.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-10 11:35|| 2021-07-10 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 "I woke up in the morning,
Both cars were gone.
I felt so low-down,
I threw my drink across the lawn."
-- poorly remembered snippet from a Martin Mull concert

Posted by SteveS 2021-07-10 12:42|| 2021-07-10 12:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Good. Don't need yard slaves then.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-10 13:26|| 2021-07-10 13:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Been mowing lawns since I was a kid. First my dad's and then my own. Scooping the poop and raking the leaves too. Raking the leaves is tedious but I still do it. Actually pulling weeds by the roots. Now that's hard work and tough on the butt muscles.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-07-10 14:26|| 2021-07-10 14:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Our church had a volunteer work day once. The minister showed up wearing blue jeans with polished leather loafers instead of work boots or running shoes or just about anything less casual. That, I thought, was a serious fashion faux pas. In fact, it gave me the impression that the man is unaccustomed to sweating or getting his hands dirty.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-07-10 14:33|| 2021-07-10 14:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Hamptons Lawnmower

Posted by Blinky Shith9357 2021-07-10 17:19|| 2021-07-10 17:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Not Bee™ -- oh, well, down 1$

Posted by magpie 2021-07-10 23:29|| 2021-07-10 23:29|| Front Page Top

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