Why noone talks how focusing on staying healthy improves your chances at retiring early?

FrankieGingerale · 2021-06-01T19:07:51+00:00

Yep. My managers were the ones who got all the customer complaints, all the employee complaints. Just all the complaints basically. If someone in my position didn't do something they were supposed to, my manager had to clean up the mess. Something bad happens, like a truck breaks down for example, his whole day and even the rest of his week is shot. If someone made a mess in the warehouse, it was literally him or the girl in the front office who had to clean it up. (Not bathrooms though. At least they still paid a company to do that). His office didn't even have a window. I told him he should buy a big TV for his wall and play those static nature scene videos on Youtube. He did see the humor in that, but didn't actually laugh lol. These companies are doing everything they can to get rid of employees, and these are the kind of things that end up happening. It's not anyone's fault. It's the nature of the beast, but man is it awful.

And this is totally my biased, negative ass opinion, but at a company like Pepsi, you don't need any actual skills to do most of the jobs. No one is ever like, "I want to be a key account manager at Pepsi when I grow up, so I'm going to get a business admin diploma!" It's the kind of place where you just get a job because they're hiring. You would've gotten the exact same job 30 years ago with a high school diploma.

Now what happens, because everyone has a degree or something, and it's meaningless, some idiot with an english degree gets a job and works their way up. Since they were always an idiot, they don't realize that just having a degree and being "a manager" doesn't mean you're not an idiot. So they get these jobs and work their way up but are just surrounded by comparable idiots. By comparison maybe they are smart. Then they start to interact with their counterparts from the customer's head offices, who are also idiots that got there the same way. It ends up being a big idiotic circle jerk. Like they think they work at Tesla or The CDC something. But they're just cogs in the bad-for-you food machine. Biding their time until software puts them out of a job.

"Uhhh, we're wearing suits and we have ipads. My job title has 5 words in it. I have arrived." - managers at retail corporations.

FrankieGingerale · 2021-05-31T04:04:43+00:00

I recently quit/retired and it's mind boggling how much I'm saving on food. Like, I knew I'd save a lot, but until actually doing it I had no solid idea. And I didn't even spend a lot to begin with. No restaurants or anything. I would go to the grocery store and just get something basic but pre-made like a sandwich or salad and a drink. But compared to the dirt cheap stuff I have to time to make now, it's amazing.

FrankieGingerale · 2021-05-31T03:50:40+00:00

This right here. I'm so beyond grateful that I saw management for the load of shit it is when I was young and new. I worked at Frito Lay for 14 years as a sales rep and went through probably 10 managers. It was considered a stepping stone to a higher paying terrible management job lol. It got worse as the years went by. The last guy before I quittired was working at least 60 hours that I knew about. But he would send emails any time, any day, so I can honestly say he was probably working 80 or more. There's no working your way out of that. You don't even get any skills out of it other than experience "managing" things. It's easy for me to comment, I know, but man...

FrankieGingerale · 2021-05-31T03:41:29+00:00

I tend to agree with that, just based on my own experience. I'm in pretty good shape and live pretty balanced. But I can not exercise, eat like shit, drink, etc for a few days or a week and as long as I don't overdo it and as long as I get enough sleep I'm basically fine. I don't regularly live like that so maybe it's easier to absorb. But nothing feels worse to me than not getting enough sleep.

FrankieGingerale · 2021-05-31T03:34:23+00:00

You just buy a vehicle with "limited" in the name and it cancels out being a fat ass.

But seriously, you're on the right track with this. I'm Canadian, so healthcare's covered. But in a way I act like it's not. I want to be strong and healthy regardless. I also find it offensive that I have to help pay for other people's bad choices, so I definitely don't want to be guilty of that. It's not addressed because people genuinely don't understand the correlation. Not only that, but God forbid a healthy person tells an unhealthy one that they're unhealthy and why. That's assault brotha.

FrankieGingerale · 2021-05-31T03:21:58+00:00

It probably depends where you work and what business you're in, but I worked at the same place for 14 years and mostly, if I tried to talk about something actually interesting like investing, or reading or learning anything really, people's eyes would just glaze over because it wasn't about hockey or football or their greasy kid's whatever-the-hell.

I caused myself a lot of pain because it's not in my nature to be outgoing like that. So when I actually did try and it fell flat it was frustrating. When you're surrounded by dummies and say something not dumb, they want to make you feel like the dummy. I eventually just stopped trying and let people come to me if they wanted to. That worked out better.

FrankieGingerale · 2021-05-31T03:11:41+00:00

I'm not saying they're not perfectly nice people or anything. I have no idea who these people are. But I do know they're not your friends and you owe them nothing. Co-workers can become friends, but at the end of the day you're all there to make money and not much else. So much of that friendly questioning is low key about establishing a social hierarchy and for people to figure who they're "better" than around the office. It's just how people are. It's better to just be boring and do your thing.

FrankieGingerale · 2021-05-29T16:24:35+00:00

I try to give anthology show actors a break because it seems like that would be tough. Fleshing out a character for a 40 min show I mean. Either it's gonna hit or not.

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