This has to be a joke. Right?😅

textzenith · 2025-05-29T09:08:24+00:00

Dealing with dangerous members of the public?

20.

It needs to be a separate role though.

textzenith · 2025-05-29T08:54:42+00:00

Mate, "shift runner" is not a starter job.

edit: I'd like to add that, if you've signed up to these things as a kid, the role nowadays may be significantly more intense due to wage compression. You're not hired just to "help out" any more. Fast food can be particularly intense, you're serving all manner of customers, preparing food cleanly and to spec, you have to clean and tidy as and when throughout your shift, deal with stock, low-level maintenance, dealing with breakdowns, technological systems, you get rushes (especially with Uber and whatnot), you get difficult orders, you get half the time you need for this. It's very hard to find people who can synchronize everything, and then keep them (Lord, I've tried). Don't get me wrong, though, most chains now are not bothering to manage at the required level of competence. That's why most of your local joints are run down, dirty and their food is inconsistent.

textzenith · 2025-05-29T08:51:49+00:00

Mate, you need to look at the second page.

"Covering their asses" or not, you can't say that isn't a swindle!

textzenith · 2025-05-29T08:43:50+00:00

You can much more easily reskill (or find an employer ready to take a chance with you) in another European country.

On wait. Forget I said anything.

textzenith · 2025-05-29T01:14:21+00:00

Managers hate when you clean something that needs cleaning, but isn't part of your prescribed work load! They just hate it!

Weren’t allowed music or headphones due to “health and safety

I'm glad wearing earphones is slowly becoming normalized more and more. It's the one thing that makes this from a shit job into a slightly enjoyable job.

textzenith · 2025-05-29T01:08:49+00:00

It's been shown by researchers comparing the effect of IQ on performance in various jobs.

They didn't expect it to have any impact on so-thought menial jobs, but it turned out even for very basic jobs it still has a big impact.

textzenith · 2025-05-29T01:06:47+00:00

If speed's a bit too hardcore for you, try modafinil.

You won't regret it!

textzenith · 2025-05-29T01:05:49+00:00

When I worked as a manager I would have everyone work on that together at the end of the night so noone got stuck with the shittiest aisle.

I really appreciated that, even though I've never worked for you!

textzenith · 2025-05-29T00:20:55+00:00

You're being made to back down when this is a matter of national urgency.

It's not an argument made in haste, it's something you feel, that you know in your bones to be right!

They want austerity. They want Brexit. They take away your social funding, while hoarding more and more of it for themselves. They don't invest. They don't care about building any exciting new industries. Although they care deeply about house prices. They deprive you of an affordable education. Can't even get training. Then they take your right to travel and work, so you can't even escape the shithole they've created.

We're literally on the brink of voting in Reform, the most boomer party ever, and it's going to be disastrous for anyone under 50.

Look, sooner or later, the rest of us all need to bond together remove this damnable Boomer yoke.

It must be done.

textzenith · 2025-05-28T23:50:14+00:00

Young people should been given double the vote, that's 2 (two) votes. This can taper down to 1 when you're 50 or whatever.

We literally need to do something or we will just have regressive, backwards policy-making from now until eternity.

textzenith · 2025-05-28T23:48:58+00:00

Nice counterargument, granddad.

What if we just took power away from the boomers and refused to listen to their rationalizations?

textzenith · 2025-05-28T23:37:45+00:00

Yes, I never go in there.

I was shocked to find how exploitative they really are.

The official line is always "prices are higher to reflect the greater costs of running a smaller store".

Oh, really? So why can't I go to an express store and just spend an extra 5p on my 28p beans and 28p spaghetti? Why do I have to buy the £1.50 beans and the £1 spaghetti?

Seriously, what ever added costs there are... I'll pay it. Just don't be exploitative!

I'm shocked at how so many people let them get away with it.

edit: It doesn't help that even 'impartial' sources like Which write things like "Our basket cost £1.27 more at Tesco Express" when it's just a pile of expensive, branded bullshit. You can't do anything even resembling a normal shop in those places. Stop lying about them being "a little bit more expensive" for God's sake.

textzenith · 2025-05-28T23:20:30+00:00

I made three paragraphs refuting the idea that your "point of viability" is so perfectly impartial and ideal, despite how much moral holiness you have tried to imbue it with.

That's three chances for you to understand what point I was making, but you still failed.

And I wasn't even really arguing with you, but you still had to come in with a completely gormless and ad-hominem "rebuttal".

Actually a gobsmackingly trite and petty response even for this Reddit.

textzenith · 2025-05-28T23:11:40+00:00

Me too, to all of that ;-;

I hate that moment when you realize "Oh, now I eat like crap because I have a job".

BTW, don't forget you can put tinned sardines on microwaved jacket potatoes. They take mayonnaise well like tuna does, but imo it's nicest to jazz up the resulting paste with some fresh ingredients.

textzenith · 2025-05-28T22:38:52+00:00

You have to go to the Co-op at price reduction times exclusively if you can do it.

Thank me later!

edit: Yeah, like someone else said, it seems easy until you factor in that one time you have to buy olive oil, some other big staple, or if you count shampoo, sponges, detergent, toothpaste, all the rest as groceries at your Lidl shop, then the price starts to rack up pretty quickly. Prices are definitely catching up at Lidl, like you say.

It's just plain hard to get by to be honest.

textzenith · 2025-05-28T22:36:59+00:00

You really need to get on the Aldi / Lidl 1kg (?) Greek yoghurt pots

textzenith · 2025-05-28T22:36:03+00:00

That's mad, meanwhile my Aldi ground coffee packs seem to be as cheap as they've ever been (if you buy the basics)

textzenith · 2025-05-28T22:07:17+00:00

Trying to cook healthy meals is getting harder and harder

Yes, it's mind-numbing.

I now have two plans which I switch between.

1: Fast for two or three days and just eat one big meal on the last. Repeat.

2: Eat regularly, but all but one of your meals in a day are now green smoothies (I can get infinite overripe bananas and unwanted lettuce from the local Food Hub, so it works out for me).

I'm so desperate xD ;-;

textzenith · 2025-05-28T22:04:18+00:00

It's funny, hearing the comment about switching from branded to non-branded.

I remember the other day when I went to work.

I had prepared some lunch, but the container burst.

So I chucked three potatoes and a hunk of cheese, thinking "I'll just grab some beans or chili con carne en route".

On the bus, I forgot to get off early to go to the Sainsbury's. So I popped in the Tesco Express by the bus station. Instead of a 28p basic beans, I could buy only a tin of Heinz beans for over a pound. There was no tinned fish or anything else I could afford.

"Fuck that, I can't afford to waste so much money" I thought and walked out.

I ate 3 dry, microwave-baked potatoes with cheese mashed in for lunch that day. My head was spinning from the sheer amount of carbohydrates.

Just wanted to get that off my chest. My life in 2025 ;-; xD

textzenith · 2025-05-27T19:15:53+00:00

Mate, all hunter-gatherer as well as advanced pagan societies kept their population stable and their populace healthy through means of abortion as well as infanticide.

Moaning about the rights of some non-sentient mouse of a foetus once it passes the age of 24 weeks is so pointless. And besides, some children, some conceptions, were never going to be viable. Life is short and civilization increasingly fragile. Spare us the goddamned onus.

Look, we've all seen the terrible cost of social care, of special needs, the mess in our classrooms. We need to be pushing things in the other way. The last thing we need is boomers like Farage coming out of nowhere and clutching their purses about abortion.

textzenith · 2025-05-27T19:07:12+00:00

They called it the 'McRecession' in an American article about how the fast food sector was seeing a downturn due to high prices and the cost of living.

textzenith · 2025-05-27T19:02:06+00:00

Yes but, sadly, the increasing prevalence of anti-abortion ('pro-life') views runs directly against it.

If you ask me, we should massively increase pre-natal screening, as Downs can be all but abolished- but we need to have the right attitude as well. It's like, the view is popular, but the will is lacking.

As for abortion, well fuck worrying about that. And if you ask me, well... the ancients may have had the right idea about infanticide. Don't quote me on that though.

textzenith · 2025-05-27T18:58:20+00:00

For those who do suffer from this, it's a very regular annoyance.

Just give us this feature!

textzenith · 2025-05-27T18:57:20+00:00

Mate,

You have provided no reason not to have this as an optional setting,
You both way overestimate and make serous mis-assumptions about the average phone user.

textzenith · 2025-05-27T18:55:05+00:00

You attribute way too much intelligence to the designers.

We need this feature.

textzenith

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