***raises hand***

I’m 51 and I still find it fucking awesome when my friends take me out for my birthday - and yes, that includes having waiters sing Happy Birthday

Why would anybody not like that?

You’re marking another year on the planet, and you have people in your life who love you enough to celebrate that fact -…

Or....require every store to accept cash money (which, if you’ll recall, is “LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE”)

I prefer to use cash instead of cards - and I’m not the only person that feels that way

I avoid the kiosks on principle, for the same reason that I refuse to use self-checkout in the supermarket - those machines eliminate jobs

Also, I really prefer dealing with a real person than a machine

I drive for work in NYC every day, 8 hours a day - and yeah....it’s not fun 

Ever driven in NYC

That “right lane driving, left lane passing” rule DOES NOT APPLY HERE

It’s “right lane double parking, left lane driving”

Also, our speed limit is 25 mph, to make it less likely that pedestrians get fatally run over

If you’re in a hurry here, take the subway - if you’re driving, slow down, calm down and…

Nothing “dumb” about this route at all

Apparently they have riders who get off the bus at Port Authority and need to connect with the Greyhound Bus stop at Hoyt and Schermerhorn in Brooklyn

If you are lugging a bunch of baggage, or you’re not from here and don’t know how to ride a subway, it’s a lot easier to transfer…

You’re assuming men who were in the service in WW II eat the local cuisine?

That’s a big assumption

Most of them eat army issue food product - stuff like C rations or “shit on a shingle” - they weren’t eating in five star restaurants in the ruins of liberated Europe (the Europeans weren’t either - it was wartime)

So.... basically a rival product to Jell-O is saying that “Jell-O is GHEY!” (because sugar is for homosexuals) and that the real man (No Homo!) food is nasty unsweetened Knox Gelatine?

Got it!

Yeah, when I read these articles about this weird Jell-O shit.... I just shake my head

When I was a kid and my mom made Jell-O for us....it was just the damned Jell-O! She didn’t bury any random stuff in it - it was just the damned Jell-O!

Maybe this is something Midwestern White people did?

My mom was a Black  woman…

I had TV dinners as a kid and actually liked them! Too bad they don’t make them anymore

Until I started reading food blogs like this, I never heard of “Jell-O salad” (nobody on either the Black or Irish sides of my family has ever served me anything like that)

It sounds absolutely disgusting  - who the hell would eat that, and why would anybody want to prepare that for family members they supposedly loved 

Having a strong union is a very good thing - I know my work life has been as good as it’s been because almost all of my jobs have been union jobs

Precisely because I’m a labor guy I know that there’s a fundamental conflict between workers and bosses - an US and THEM - and their problems are not our problems.

the…

So, if they stay there for 4 hours, you’d stay there for four hours?

That’s asinine

What if you had to pick up your kid from the afterschool at 4, and they charge you extra for being late?

What if you had a doctor’s appointment at 5?

What if you have another job that you have to go to?

Workers are human and have a life…

If they’ve worked their entire shift, they aren’t “going home early”

As it happens, your meal was still in progress when their shift ended - that means they have to cash out

I guess you’re unfamiliar with the concept that when a worker’s work day is done, they get to leave. 

Or.... they should get paid for the work they performed, and not have to do unpaid overtime

Nobody should, actually (that’s literally why we have labor laws - and labor unions) 

Hey, MRA - if a man gets sexually assaulted when he’s drunk, he’s not responsible either

Yes, I always left at 4:30

If a machine went down....that was management’s problem, not mine

I still got my hourly wage for the hours I worked - because I was paid by the hour, not by the piece, so I got paid for all hours worked

Former factory worker here

What the hell is “working will call in a door factory”

I worked in a door factory once - I worked an 8 hour day, 40 hour week - I came in at 8, left at 4:30

Do you get paid by the job and if there’s no work you just hang around unpaid?

Unionizing one store at a time in a large chain operation is an example of bad tactics - you have to take on the whole chain

Historically, the way retailers were organized was that unions (usually the Teamsters) would organize the warehouse workers and delivery drivers, and then they would refuse to deliver to the…

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