One of the things I hated the most about working as a dishwasher was throwing out perfectly good food at the end of the night
I worked for Dominos for a bit, mostly driving, but a bit in the kitchen too. Minimum wage, and not enough hours, but I was living at my mum’s house, she didn’t demand much money from me and my needs were few, so it was a nice gig. Driving around in the evening, listening to the radio. Not bad.
When I started there, if an order got fucked up it’d get put out the back so everyone could grab a slice if they wanted. Not a bad perk in a min-wage job.
Then the boss decided that we were fucking them up on purpose to get free pizza, so demanded they get thrown in the bin.
I found another job because of that. Almost never go to Dominos for pizza now. Too fucking pricey, and nowhere near good enough to justify it.
So much waste in kitchens.
“We can’t give it away because it’s stealing”
“We can’t give it away because of liability”
Hated it too. Feels wrong.
Whenever I’d take out the trash I just needed the manager to disable the fire alarm on the back door. They’d wait inside while I hauled bags back to the dumpster.
Except when we were cleaning out the hot box. Then the manager came out with me and watched me dump all the food. So he could make sure it all was wasted.
Luckily most of the managers also let any staff there after closing fix up a plate of the food that was still good but wouldn’t survive the night. Except one asshole who insisted it was stealing.
Stealing food they were going to throw away. What a clown world.
Sounds like something that should be made illegal
I totally agree, but the logistics of collecting all that food and keeping it temperature controlled long enough to get to people who need it are gonna be hard. Often the stuff in the hot rack would be unsafe after a couple hours.
Once something has been thrown out as trash in a public space, it’s legal for someone else to take and isn’t a liability. A place that actually gave a shit would have a separate trash container for things that are still safe to eat.
In San Francisco, there are receptacles you can leave food in for homeless people. I always thought that was a good way to do it.
Might not be illegal to take trash but they put the trash bins in locked private property with do not trespass signs making it illegal to go in and take it. Fuck those places.
Yeah, that falls under a place not giving a shit and intentionally making it difficult to take thrown out food.
Those two conflict with one another
Not giving a shit about being compassionate towards homeless people specifically. They give a shit about being an asshole towards them.
I lived on the street briefly and I ate like a king out of an Au Bon Pain dumpster. It was filled with fresh caesar salads and pastries every night.
Eventually they started putting a lock on the dumpster though.
That’s cruel locking the dumpster. They already dumped it out. They didn’t have to lock it too.
Places pour bleach on tossed food to prevent people from taking it. They are literally paying extra money to ruin food they can’t make money off of.
all through your shift, too
so much waste
what -maxxing?!
Hobo
I was more confused about “a neet” tbh. Looked it up on Urban Dictionary and wow. LOTS of ableism and reinforcement of toxic Calvinism 😬
What? UD does get sidetracked a bit l, but NEET is actually an acronym for “Not in Education, Employment, or Training” and it is not just some made-up internet term.
NEET is 100% a made-up internet term.
It was part of the curriculum in my Geography lessons in primary school 15 years ago, in a non-English speaking country, even though it’s an English acronym.
Yep. Well known term in the UK and not derogatory.
BBC News - Supporting NEETs: Schemes help those Not in Education, Employment or Training https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66290926
every term ever used is a made up term my fellow internet user
Yeah, with big derogative connotations from most of the ones using the term. Basically another way to say “bum”, which is explicitly spelled out in some of the other UD entries.
urban dictionary
derogatory connotations
I never would have thought
Good point 😄
Neet has a “failure a launch” implication - a NEET has a home, a bum might be crashing on a couch
Damn. I must be getting old, I didn’t understand half the internet slang used in this topic.
There’s a fucking ism for everything now. We used to just say it was someone being an asshole.
Men of science like to categories the different types of asshole.
What about women and others of science?
Eh we have better things to categorize
they’re busy doing the real science, shit like figuring out how the periodic table works or whatever
Neet is just an acronym and it comes from japan iirc
You’re thinking of hikikomori, the pathological, taken to 11 version of NEET.
I’m not, I know that’s a different thing, but I could also just be wrong about neet coming from japan
Yeah… This is one of the least toxic definitions…
UrbanDictionary is generally offensive in all their definitions, but even so, you skipped past the first definition with 19x as many upvotes (at 16% downvotes) to show the one with 67% downvotes
I didn’t look at the votes, just went with a concise one that was a bit more neutral than most of the others 🤷
hobomaxxing
For me, this conjures a completely different mental image: people in the park chest pressing cinderblocks and using milk-crates full of bricks as improvised kettle-bells.
PSA: Seriously though, the calorie demands on the human body are too high to stay healthy when that impoverished, let alone do useless exercise. OP may or may not be homeless, but do consider helping folks where you can so people don’t have to dumpster-dive to keep going. Thank you.
“Hobomaxxing” made me think about some pictures I saw of an abandoned caboose or boxcars somewhere. The guy that took them said he lived in it for a few weeks. We were surprised, then he said that he actually makes decent money, but for a few weeks each year he likes to go live like a hobo.
That sounds like a great way to appreciate what you have
Did he steal his hat?
Nah he yoinked that from
Papa John’ssomewhere else earlier in the night(Search engines suck now)
Dumpster diving and accepting handouts with grace are both skills anyone can have. They allow many to survive around the world and share such wisdoms.
The problem with dumpster diving is if the person isn’t skilled enough at determining what’s safe to eat or not. Or if they’re inconsiderate and leave a mess after doing it.
Or if there’s broken glass or needles
Yes, that too.
Strife teaches humility. :)
when I worked at a grocery store (massive chain, who were horrible to their workers) I’d steal a lot of the food they would throw out at the end of the night. even if I myself couldn’t use it I always knew someone who could.
Can barely call that stealing. There should be a milder term for it.
Repurposing!
Reducing waste?
Edit: or if you mean a word that still means stealing maybe “pilfering”?
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Like eating all that delicious dumpster food large chains throw away daily.
Nah, under proper communism, disabled people are allowed to live. It’s not everyone works.
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*pedant
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As opposed to food chains throwing away perfectly good food?
