• fannin [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    So it’s our fault we can’t make ends meet because we buy too much takeout and also it’s our fault the economy sucks because we’re not buying takeout?

    I get that ideological inconsistency is kind of the point of late stage capitalism but can’t literally everyone see through this?

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    I’m surprised they haven’t already invented a trendy new buzzword for this incredibly common and decades old practice so they can pretend bringing sandwiches to work is some previously unheard of phenomenon.

    “BrokeBagging Latest Threat to Hospitality Sector”

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      Someone came up with ‘micro-retirement’ to refer to people going on a week’s leave, so I posit: ‘micro-sanctions’, or ‘micro-embargo’, or ‘micro-communism’/‘personal communism’

      Actually micro-communism or personal communism works great for another reason: they can claim you’re behaving un-American and arrest you.

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    Genuine curiosity here, what is the point of these guilt tripping headlines? Am I supposed to give any ounce of a fuck what impact I as an individual have on the greater economy? And the WSJ thinks they can leverage that guilt into making Americans buy takeout lunch every day instead of bringing in leftovers, most likely something they’re doing out of necessity? Truly, whose opinions are they trying to manipulate with this nonsense?

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    Genuinely, who is buying lunch out every day at work? That shit is expensive! Eating out is more of a once a week treat type thing, no?

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      I have coworkers who get to-go coffee for breakfast and gas station food for lunch every day. This shit is expensive, unhealthy, often requires a lot of waiting, and tastes like ass.

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      In vic australia, a lot of enterprise bargaining agreements (in hospotality at least) guarantee a meal if a shift is over 6 hours, i think back in 2020 it was only $14 tho

      i eat two peanut butter sandwiches at work lol

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    Wow right when the dining director “realized” (he fucking knew, he’s just a weaselly liar) we were taking home food every day and shut it down

    It’s buffet style serving at a dining hall at a school that pretends to pride itself on sustainable hippie bullshit but we’re forced to watch the literal product of our labor be thrown away in endless quantities just because one piece of shit wants to go “well it’s always been corporate policy” instead of do the reasonable thing and look the other way at no cost to the company

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      we’re forced to watch the literal product of our labor be thrown away in endless quantities

      There are people literally starving to death around the world, desperate for a bite to eat, and the best economic system in the world has deigned it better to toss food than to feed people; in a just world, people destroying edible food should be…actually I’m not putting myself on any list today.

      Not only should the director be looking the other way, it shouldn’t be corporate policy in the first place; all the people creating this policy should be fash-bash

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        my good friend and predecessor as vegan chef informed me they USED TO DONATE FOOD but then STOPPED and the reasoning to her was “they don’t want to be liable for food poisoning” but that hasn’t been mentioned once as a reasoning for not allowing workers to take food home

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    They should make coffee at home and give up avocado toast…so they can eat lunch out?

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      Don’t forget skipping breakfast too. It’s not as if your morning cereal was contributing anything to the economy. Better to put that towards lunch instead.

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      The same people who cried about people eating out ‘all the time’ invented the phrase “eat out to help out”

      The same people who cried about everyone buying iphones then told people to go out and buy the new iphone

      The same people who said the less fortunate should be investing then got upset when everyone began investing (in gamestop)

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    clearly we need to streamline something here. how about outsourcing jobs, restaurants, fewer, lunch, work, selling and 2020 to china! we also need to privatize habits.

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    “You don’t have savings? LMAO just buy less starbucks.”

    junco “Ok”

    “NOOOO!!! YOU’RE HURTING THE ECONOMY!!! BUY MORE STARBUCKS!!! BUY MORE STARBUCKS!!!”

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    I almost always bring my lunch. It sucks that I can’t heat it up though since I usually make crock pot dishes for the whole week. (Sandwich fixings are more expensive 😔).