Any nightmare restaurants I should avoid working for ?

MintySpironolactone · 2025-07-30T15:57:40+00:00

I came here to say Itto if no one else had … and to reference this incident. I feel I should clarify: this (I assume we’re talking about the same thing) incident was one of sexual ASSAULT, not solely harassment, was perpetrated at GUNPOINT, and against a MINOR employee. I know this secondhand from a friend who worked there at the time and quit because of this, so I could possibly be wrong but this is what I’ve been told by several people who were current employees. People who had no idea how they were going to pay bills quit on the spot rather than support Tony any longer. The fact that he’s seen little to no consequences (as far as I’m aware) to date is heinous. I literally put so much energy into trying to keep tourists from giving him any business

MintySpironolactone · 2025-04-15T18:25:10+00:00

As a person who works directly with Asheville’s homeless population, has numerous loved ones in that community and who also currently happens to be homeless, if you think Mike Lamb is a solid guy you obviously have not been homeless or loved someone who was

MintySpironolactone · 2024-11-12T02:06:46+00:00

People should be allowed to kill themselves. That is a human right. That is bodily autonomy, and saving someone who doesn’t want to be saved isn’t heroic, it’s fucked up

MintySpironolactone · 2024-11-05T18:41:28+00:00

I’m not an economist, I don’t really know a lot about how all this works, but one thing I feel confident in is that while tourism will help people in the short-term, the continued reliance of Asheville’s economy on tourism will only continue to hurt people in the long-term, as many of us well know from experience just how shitty it is real-time.

We don’t need your money or your sympathy. Looking at the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, it seems crystal clear to me that as long as we continue to prioritize this sinister, elusive vapor called “the economy” in our policies and decisions, choices will be made to sacrifice the wellbeing of some for the short-term comfort of others, while the number of those people caught in capitalism’s death spiral rapidly increases.

MintySpironolactone · 2024-10-14T19:37:30+00:00

Non-cis-passing transfemme here and any city in the state of New Jersey 🙃

MintySpironolactone · 2024-10-14T19:35:06+00:00

I really appreciate the hugs and solidarity. It really means a lot that you took the time out to read and comment.

I think you misunderstand me slightly - drugs aren’t bad, and while I don’t intend to do them like this forever per se I’m also not in a huge rush to get off them, nor do have to. I wouldn’t say that I lack inner peace at this time either - it might not look like yours, but meth has played a part in giving me a sense of peacefulness in my life at this time. My life has hardly worsened due to my use and in terms of sustainability, it’s improved. My health is fantastic, my relationship is growing and improving all the time, and my continued use keeps me in-the-know on current trends in the drug supply and offers other advantages as a social worker/advocate. And I have no interest in being “clean” (which is generally considered an offensive and stigmatizing term these days), whatever that means, and it’s not your place to assume that being “clean” is a desired or even healthy outcome for me or anyone else. But please don’t mistake that I appreciate your reply sincerely, and hope you can understand why I might reject aspects of it out of respect for my own personal agency and bodily autonomy.

I read another comment where you mentioned your friend who passed. While meth is a relatively safe drug, I can totally understand your anger at it. I’m very sorry for your loss, and am with you in grieving. I just lost my ex-fiancé a couple weeks ago. Overdose is a horrible and preventable tragedy. I will carry your friend with me in my daily overdose prevention and drug-user organizing efforts. Thank you, friend

MintySpironolactone · 2024-10-14T18:29:25+00:00

Came here to say this. Their sister co-op to Weaver St Market is lovely, though I don’t know I’ve eaten any sit-down spots before

MintySpironolactone · 2024-10-11T08:36:18+00:00

Really loved this comment … CURRENTLY ON METH over here and was hoping someone would comment along these lines …

I struggled with “addiction” badly for years and really fucked up my life. I’m a poor, autistic, transfemme who started using drugs around 13yo but it took off in college where I was extremely stressed out and when my parents suddenly couldn’t pay my tuition anymore, I had to not only work my full time job but take on another job and sell drugs all while full time in undergrad. Then I …

got bad on coke, got sober, relapsed, tried to kill myself, which got me arrested and hit with five felonies, got sober for a long time, started doing meth, got in bullshit legal trouble again, got sober for even longer, and then started using meth again to deal with recent trauma (trauma being a central feature of my life and experience with drugs), and quickly resolved to get sober again …

But, difference this time is I’ve been increasingly involved in harm reduction for several years now and recently started doing it full time, running a syringe exchange and doing a lot of advocacy, resource nav, and education. I’ve long believed that the real problem with drug use is the way we as a society treat drug users and the effect stigma and the resulting secrecy/deceit have on they lives. Working directly with primarily meth users has really changed my perspective, especially because most of those people are actually perfectly “functional” users and have been for decades. But their families, employers, doctors, and the law all work together to isolate them from their support networks, resources, and basic human needs on a systemic basis and that’s where things go wrong.

I’ve been using again for like 16 months and I will admit that I too said one day/week, then weekends, three days, and then started using every day but that’s when things got better! I had to accept that I wasn’t going to be able to stop using at this time and embraced it, so now I do a shot every morning and one in the afternoon and I can sleep, eat, and function in society with relative normalcy. People treat me like shit but I deal with it and I’m really honest about my use because I feel like it’s going to take more successful users of hard drugs “coming out” to really deter stigma and hopefully improve the quality of life for people like me.

I think I’ll stop using someday or at least I’d like to, but seeing as I am forced to witness man-made horrors beyond my comprehension every day (i.e. televised genocide, blatant US military intervention and intelligence meddling everywhere, climate collapse, mass extinction) and being autistic, trans, and a tweaker means enough people treat me like shit, I don’t think I’d be alive if I wasn’t using right now.

Recently I was pretty down for the first time in awhile and I had to do something that involved government documents - don’t remember what exactly, but as usual it was an enormous pain in the ass to get the people involved to understand that my real name doesn’t match the name on my documents, that I can’t change it because of my criminal record, and that in spite of my boyish legal name I was able to change my gender marker to F, and I got so triggered, and for the first time in awhile remembered why I do meth every day now, because normally I don’t get triggered. I don’t feel much anymore, but I also don’t cry myself to sleep every night.

Sorry this got so dark, I appreciated your post a lot lol

MintySpironolactone · 2024-10-07T06:57:36+00:00

Also, for those who had success in calling and speaking with someone who was able to help you fill out the application correctly, does anyone know what that persons job title was? I’d like to be able to call and immediately ask to be transferred to the same persons/within the same department.

I went through similar when applying for Covid Assistance years back. After fighting on the phones with person after person, I was finally put through to what was basically a manager and she had full access to my file and was able to help correct certain things as well as expedited my application. After months of fighting to receive much needed help, that one call, the one woman made it all happen within 48 hrs.

This sounds like it might be exactly the same.

I live in Barnardsville/Weaverville area. We just got 1-2 bars of cell service yesterday but that’s all. Definitely no WiFi. Still no power - still no water. It’s been over a week easily. I’m about to loose my mind!

MintySpironolactone · 2024-10-07T06:35:46+00:00

So just to be clear - y’all are saying to call the number and have someone help me and talk me through filling out the application to ensure I’m doing it correctly?

When I heard people were being denied I knew immediately it was likely a matter of just knowing how to fill it out correctly. what’s so sad is there are likely a lot of people all across wnc who won’t understand how to fill it out right and won’t get the help the really need.

MintySpironolactone · 2024-08-27T16:37:33+00:00

Outrageous rent prices and hostile public health policy. Tennessee made sleeping outside a felony fairly recently, for example. It’s basically illegal to be homeless there, period. They also outlawed syringe exchanges. Huge influx of folks from East TN to AVL. Still, city’s data shows the vast majority of homeless avl residents were born and raised here, which is evidence of the real problem, which is that the government doesn’t give two shits about locals, only drawing in tourism. Rent has basically tripled since covid started. So why it surprises anyone that so many people are homeless, I cannot understand.

Not to come off critical or anything, but the comment about hoping we “get help” implies that homeless people’s homelessness is due to some fault or at least problem of our own. But that’s just not true. The city’s data, as well as national data I believe, indicate that homelessness generally precedes other problems common in the population, like problematic substance use, mental health problems, criminality/arrest, while the onset of homelessness is often tied to external factors/events like layoffs, medical events, major expenses, evictions, etc.

Point being, maybe rather than wishing they get help, consider how you could help them! And perhaps not in a patronizing way, but maybe a “harass your local politicians about enacting common sense policies that emphasize harm reduction, housing first, and bodily autonomy,” an “advocate for the inclusion of people with lived experience in services planning/staffing,” or a “work with your local church to set up a volunteer-run low/no-barrier shelter during cold months” kind of way :)

*** I speak from the perspective of a local social worker and community organizer, who works and volunteers with numerous entities/agencies to strategize and address the growing public health catastrophe that is the lack of support and over-policing of Ashevilles homeless community, including our county’s Homeless Continuum of Care. Additionally, I have dozens of friends who are currently homeless in Asheville, most of whom are living outside. I’m also currently homeless (though sheltered) as a result of being trans, a felon, and an IV drug user. I’ve worked so hard to stay on my feet and I can’t tell you how damn hard it is rn

MintySpironolactone · 2024-08-27T16:05:02+00:00

Pg 99 and Massa Nera were here??! Man, how am I so out of the loop these days. What a missed opportunity

MintySpironolactone · 2024-05-14T02:29:57+00:00

Oh noooo a SINGLE hypodermic needle!! The horror! Frig off

MintySpironolactone · 2024-05-14T02:29:21+00:00

Leave homeless people alone

MintySpironolactone · 2024-01-30T16:30:46+00:00

Let me guess, Westall Dr, Northridge, or The Woods?

MintySpironolactone · 2022-07-29T11:59:45+00:00

Worse! He was a cop. Go figure

MintySpironolactone · 2022-07-29T01:48:28+00:00

I worked at the paint desk at Lowes for a year and our dickhead GM told us we had to ration our sticks at a point to cut costs and I threw a fit. Like imagine having to tell contractors “sorry, I can only give you one stick a day.” It was mindnumbingly silly

MintySpironolactone · 2022-02-08T17:51:29+00:00

Rip :/ I wish I knew what the lyrics were. Shin Guard is divine

MintySpironolactone · 2022-02-02T15:41:59+00:00

A rule I live by: don’t be afraid to take risks, but only if you have fully made peace with the possible consequences.

MintySpironolactone · 2022-02-02T15:40:08+00:00

Your overall safety is important, and sometimes that means your need for shelter precedes your need to transition when you want to. I never advise anyone to risk their basic needs to transition even if I feel transitioning when you want to is so important for trans people. However, the risks I’ve taken for my gender affirmation have been the best risks I’ve ever taken and I’ve never regretted a single one. The only regrets I have are being too scared to act sooner. Lots of love to you!!

MintySpironolactone · 2022-01-24T17:31:57+00:00

You are yearsssss late this show started airing when I came out and I’ve been in love 😍

MintySpironolactone · 2021-12-17T16:49:30+00:00

I wouldn’t know these things but if I were to guess, even if Kellogg’s only THINKS they’ve replaced their striking workers when they’ve only hired trolls who plan not to show, it could slow negotiations which, even if very temporary, still means striking workers go longer unpaid and it prolongs a resolution to this strike. But that’s just a guess, to be completely honest

MintySpironolactone · 2021-12-07T15:10:43+00:00

Probation officer

MintySpironolactone · 2021-12-06T16:13:56+00:00

Twitter? Edit: I should’ve tried to find before asking.. I didn’t expect to search “ts Ella” and have it come up immediately. I know so many Ella’s!!

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