Indentured Servant Puns

So apparently Elon Musk is planning to have indentured servants on Mars and now all I can think about is Elon V and Nef Bezos

Born to middle class family who was “house poor”.

Lived in daycare like most of you till I was 5.

Elementary school was bullshit. Same with middle school. “Sit in your chair! No talking!!”

Parents divorced and lost the house. “We still love you”

High school was bullshit. Only upside was girls and sports. College was more bullshit. Upside here is girls and parties. I racked up 120,000 in student loans and got out when I was 23.

Life after college is better. I have a wife and kids now, but I feel like I’m in the same place my parents were. I’m trying my hardest to do things differently. My wife is staying home to take care of the kids. I don’t want them to deal with the same brainwashing and conditioning that takes place in the public school system. I want them to be able to express themselves and learn about shut that excites them. More and more I think the system simply won’t allow this.

It feels more and more like indentured servitude. I can’t leave my job because of all the debt. I can’t teach my own children because one of us has to work. We can barely afford the mortgage, car payments, medical bills, and student loans.

Is it too much to want your kids to be raised by one of their own parents? Does anyone else feel trapped in a situation like this?

Some years back I was working for a small boutique IT shop with horrible managers.

I was told I'd be attending an out-of-town software conference for the software they sold and configured. Cool! I'm excited to learn more about the product and gain more competencies in it. It's a niche product, sold only by a small group of Value-Added-Reseller, so of little to no value if I am not working for them.

The bosses went to the conference a couple of days before I did, for the business management portions. Just before the close of business on the night, I am supposed to be driving down to the conference (about 90 minutes away), my bags are packed and in the car, I get an email with a "training and education policy". I am told I'm required to sign this in order to attend.

So I read this document. The gist of it is that in order to attend I have to agree the reimburse them fully for the costs of this "education" if my employment terminates for any reason in the next year (might have been 2 actually, my memory is a bit fuzzy after all this time). This includes travel costs, hotel, meals, and the not insubstantial cost of the conference itself. The figure given was something around 25% of my gross annual salary. I was stunned. I mean this would basically turn me into an indentured servant of the business, if they fired me, I'd have to pay them for the privilege.

What they didn't expect was that after reading it I simply replied to the email stating that I would not sign this, and if those were the conditions of my attendance, I would not be attending. It didn't take long for the panicked phone call from my boss to come in, particularly since they had had to pre-pay the hotel and conference fees.

I was asked to come down and "discuss" the matter. Short of it I never did sign the policy, but attended to conference. A bit under a year later when I left due to ridiculous salaried overtime expectations, one of the owners tried to tell me I owed them all that money. I pointed out that I never signed that policy but if she believed I had she could show me a copy of the signed document. Unsurprisingly she was unable to find a signed copy.

Now that this subreddit is blowing up I am really hoping this post reaches a lot of Reddit . In fact i am going to write this now and probably delete this later because of any potential consequences that will affect my career.

For those of you who don’t know the path to becoming a doctor, first you do undergrad 4 years, medschool 4 years, and then residency + fellowship 3-7 years. The part that everyone hates the most, with good reason, is the medical residency.

Let me preface all that I’m about to say by saying that I believe the intensity of residency is necessary to make good physicians, and that shouldn’t change. What should change is the fact that a resident will be working 4+ years for a hospital, make LESS then Registered nurses, and net hospitals MILLIONS of dollars a year that go directly into the pockets of the “admins”. The kicker? The hospitals don’t even pay the residents doctors. It’s all subsidized by the government in 95% of cases, so the hospitals don’t even pay a single dollar to the residents. Want to hear another kicker? The way the system is rigged there’s nothing a resident can do to fight back. If you do something that upsets the hospital they will kick you out, no other program will take you in, and you NEVER become a doctor. Those laws from the ACGME that are supposed to protect residents from being overworked (capping them at 80-100hrs a week)? They’re pretty much for show, you either lie about your hours or you don’t become a doctor 🤷🏻‍♂️

There’s so much more I could write about. About how PAs and NPs with less than half the training of a physician (https://thriveap.com/blog/md-vs-np-vs-pa-heres-how-number-clinical-hours-compare) make double what a resident does in the hospital and free to practice independently right after without any residency.

But at the end of the day it feels like a hopeless cause to make any changes. Residents are literally indentured servants and put up with so much abuse that they have pretty much the highest suicide rate among professionals.

And I know other healthcare workers have it really bad (looking at bedside nursing) in terms of not having enough nurses and being over worked, but they can always leave to go somewhere else, they have some semblance of power, residents have nothing other than the hope of finally becoming a doctor. Sorry for the long rant, just wanted to vent about the shitty four years I have coming soon.

I know this wouldn't explain Squid games run worldwide, but in the Korean Squid game do you think this may be how they procured their "workers"? I am interested to hear all theories regarding the workers herein, as well as why my theory might be bogus. Let's discuss!

So a few years ago I stayed with a host family in Indonesia learning the language, and noticed the family (batak) had a guy who did random all around help for them. He served as the driver, and also helped clean and cook (though these were not his main tasks) and fixed random stuff.

I never saw him get paid and didn’t want to pry, but the one time it came up they mentioned he is Batak, I think, and maybe a very distant cousin of the family, and his parents “owed” the family he was working for something…and so that’s why he does all the help around the house/driving. He could not have been too close family, tho as the family was quick to suspect him of stealing when money went missing.

At first I didnt think much of it, I know maids are common there among affluent people. But it dawned on me that the relationship might be slightly different. There was no expectation for me to tip this guy, as there was in situations where I was benefitting from a maid/paid domestic servant.

He was not treated badly or anything, often ate at the table with us in fact. However, I observed he had a clearly deferential role. Even at the table for example he only spoke when spoken to.

Anyone know what this guy could have been?

Is there a name for this sort of relationship in Indonesia?

all of these events have happened within the 5 fucking months I’ve worked at mcds. a lady beat up my manager bad. she got a black eye and quit shortly after. before you ask, no its usually not because of shit service. i forgot to put sweet and sour in a ladys bag and she threatened to fight me. make your own food. grill your own motherfucking burger. customers have threatened me with sexual and physical assault. at the window. where i hand off their food. ihad literally nothing to do with their order and some very special people are still verbally abusive dogs who do everything in their power to make workers feel guilty. im only staying in this job for another year or 2 because community college and im probably too mentally ill to work anywhere else. i cry sometimes cuz the sweet regulars who come in every day are so nice.

I'm not kidding in the slightest. I (21F) live with my mother several states away from my ndad and have been NC since 2018. He texts me constantly but I never reply, let alone look at them. He's still in contact with my brother and milks him for information about me.

My dad recently visited my brother and found out that I lost my job a couple months ago and I'm looking for a new one. I got a text from him that mentioned it in the 'preview' of my notifications and out of curiosity I opened it. The nerve of what he proposed was geniunely laughable. He and my stepmother run an Airbnb and they would "love for me to spend some time with them" and I "can run the airbnb if (I'm) interested". This would mean I would clean, do hospitality, run the listing, and more. All while living with him and him controlling my finances. Not to mention moving several states over, getting new doctors (I have bipolar and PTSD(from guess who)), reestablishing myself, and more. Not to be dramatic, but I would geniunely rather kill myself.

He doesn't quite seem to grasp that the whole reason I'm living with my mother (who was abused by him as well) is to recover from my childhood and to gain financial independence. I never, ever want any of my money connected to him. He stole thousands of dollars in student loans from me, is years behind on his child support payments, never helped with my healthcare and once emailed me an itemized list of every extracurricular expense he paid for me during high school (debate trips and the such).

Running his Airbnb (for which he uses my furniture that a family member gave to me) would be nothing short of indentured servitude. Its so outrageously presumptuous. I'm just glad I'm far enough in my recovery to be able to see through it and know I can ignore him.

Hey guys! Quick question: I'm playing authoritarean fanatic spiritualist slaver empire (basically slaving space mormons). I recently conquered Sol III and turned the natives to indentured servants. The planet has had an open enforcer job for ages and the humans won't fill it. They are growing and seem to be emigrating via slave processing without filling that position.

Is this supposed to happen? I mean it makes sense in a way. Why would you work for alien overlords as enforcers...

I'm wondering if Pest has been handed over as an indentured servant to the Rebers to pay for his stay. I think JB is too cheap to pay actual dollars, but that's also not allowed. It's kinda fun to imagine him out in the fields in a nice trim servants uniform plowing with an old school horse and everything, only to get more work heaped upon him if he gets dirt on the uniform.

Help I have to write a 650-word essay about indentured servants and slaves in colonial America. And it’s due Friday. 😭😭😭

Recovered from the Epic Place Wiki, author unknown

Escape

Leia was shoved roughly from behind and she tumbled into the soft cushions of the confined space of her diminutive slave quarters. She looked up haughtily at the human guard that had been her escort from Jabba's audience chambers. The guard just smiled down at the scantily clad princess, and as his eyes slid up and down her fine figure Leia could see the wild look that was beginning to move across his young features.

Seeing this Leia squelched her protest and spread herself languishly across the colorful pillows on the floor. She stretched and smiled seductively, batting her eyelashes, and trying to make herself appear as inviting as possible.

Spreading her legs suggestively the thin lasha silk was the only thing obstructing the youthful guards hungry gaze. "It's such a long walk back to the barracks. Why don't you join me tonight" She purred, patting the cushion beside her. Leia could tell the guard was new, inexperienced, and unable to resist the tempting offer from the lovely slave girl.

He entered the room beginning to play with the buckle of his belt, slowly beginning to lower himself to the pillows next to Leia. As he was distracted trying to free himself from his pants, Leia took her chance. Taking up her chain she threw it over the guards neck, looping it around his throat and pulling tight. He had barely time to gasp, the hard metal links cutting off his air supply and silencing his cries for help. He reached for the gun in his holster but his pants had slipped and his belt and weapon had fallen to his ankles.

Unable to breath, his face turning a hideous blue, he fell to the ground clawing at the chain. Leia kicked the gun away and continued her desperate pulling until the helpless guard stopped moving. She finally released her grip, gasping and breathing exhausted from her exertion. She checked the man’s pulse and felt a little easier as she felt the beat of his heart continue to pump blood through his veins. If she had killed him it would have been necessary, because Leia wasn't going back to Jabba again. She would be the slug's play thing no more.

Taking the blaster as a precaution she searched the man's unconscious body and let out a sigh of relief as her hand closed around a cold steel ring. Bringing the ring out the many keys attached to it jingled as they were freed from the guards pocket, Leia looking and finding the exact piece she had seen the guard use to open the

Did free blacks ever become indentured servants? Were they treated like slaves? Did it matter where in the colonies or America they lived? We're white indentured servants treated dramatically different than black indentured servants, relative to the general racism of the day?

I was taught at university (not in the US) that in the early Colonial stages of slavery in North America, some African slaves were treated like indentured servants, as this had been the commonly applied system of forced labour before the Slave Codes established chattel slavery. Does this mean that they would've been set free and received compensation after a certain amount of time, just like the European indentured servants who had signed their servitude contract before coming to North America?

And if so, do we know of any of these African "indentured servants" who managed to survive the ordeal of forced labour until their "contract" ran out and were then compensated accordingly with freedom, a piece of land, and some money to get started? What happened to these free African-American landowners and their offspring after chattel slavery became institutionalized and Black people were formally regarded as property rather than humans?