So let’s pretend that IQ is a reasonable measure of intelligence. Do you think that it may be related to undesirable traits?

I don’t own a home but if I ever do I would love to put in a heat pump and solar panels. Great detailed response.

I wish we had European style water heaters at the tap. But that’s not safe. You should see what I find in hospital infrastructure.

And so we come to the eventual argument. An electric water heater is going to keep a jug of water in your house hot by running off and on all day forever. Where did that electricity come from?

Electric ain’t better if you have to replace it constantly. Think of the emissions to produce these parts.

As a former long time service industry wage slave I’ll have it known that you’ve crossed a line. Take it back.

They can purge you in certain states if you skipped an election. Show up to vote and surprise! You’re not registered.

Yeah that’s the point. They know it’s already illegal, they put it on the ballot to drive turnout. Conservative voters are convinced that non citizens are voting in droves.

Except cis hetero christian white men.

I would be yelling out every 15 minutes or so when it got really bad- “carryout times are now 40 minutes. Delivery times are now an hour and a half.” And the people we had on phones because they were incapable of making food properly are telling customers yeah it’ll be ready in ten minutes. It’ll be there in 30 minutes. I trained them and emphasized in crew meetings that the absolute minimum time if we are completely dead will be 15 minutes for carryout and 45 minutes for delivery. They didn’t care. They worked their 4 hour shift and went home. Can’t blame them for not caring but damn have some empathy for your comrades.

Nurses would regularly call and immediately ask for me. Because they want to place fifteen different orders all for cash. This would fuck everything up and be late at night when I’m half of the kitchen staff. I’m on the phone with them for 10 minutes. 10 minutes at 30% production actually will fuck a restaurant. Not to mention it screwed our ticket average which meant I’d never get a bonus. The driver would get there and they’d hand them a wad of cash. It could have been done in two minutes as one order but they wanted each person’s food to have their name on the box.

I began to dislike nurses at that job. Now I work with them regularly as a hospital installation contractor. Now I hate them. Sorry to the nurses out there who aren’t burned out and care about their patients.

I actually heard this interaction between two nurses the other day that restored some faith-

Nurse A- I can’t find an iPhone charger do you have one?

Nurse B- No I don’t have one and no I don’t know where one is

A- How do you charge your phone then?

B- I don’t have to because I work instead of staring at it all day.

You got me! One time I berated a service worker into making me an off menu item! Yesterday I kicked a kitten for looking at me funny!

Like I said, I will never forget. When I realized I tried to take back our stuff but it was too late.

It’s literally PTSD. No it’s not as bad as being in a war but damn it sure feels like it sometimes.

My go-to was the ovens have already entered shutdown mode and cannot be restarted. There was no such thing of course.

They did it for me last time is the bane of all service jobs. I managed a pizza place for years that would sometimes get up to over 200 food products per hour. You could see about the first 20 of them at a time on the screens. There was no way to indicate modifications that weren’t available in the POS. I personally trained every new employee on phones and till.

I would tell them you’re going to talk to a lot of assholes. There will be the person that wants extra cheese on their cheesesticks. You have to tell that person no. You cannot sell anything that can’t be entered into the computer.

Every day during the insane dinner rush I’d either get employees coming over to say hey extra cheese on the cheesesticks on order 215. We’re on order 175. There is no way those cheesesticks are going to get extra cheese.

No time to correct the employee, no time to call the customer back. Or the other which was worse. The customer would escalate the call to me. “They did it for me last time!”

I’m stuck on the phone with this piece of shit and I can’t be firefighting. The fires grow. Sometimes they get so bad we have to stop production to get back on track. This means we get so far behind that I’ll have to stay an extra hour or two to right the ship. For no extra pay. The customers get pissed as the wait and delivery times increase. Escalations to management increase. The whole place is engulfed in flame. Next thing I know I’ve been there for 12 hours for no extra pay.

Wasted my fucking mid 20s to early 30s there. It permanently ruined my mental health. It turned me into an alcoholic.

I could rant endlessly and I have so many stories.

I’ll never forget when my wife and I accidentally entered the 15 items or less line at the grocery with a full cart. Why didn’t they say no?

I’ve found that a lot of cashiers don’t know what some vegetables even are. Or there was a sale for large avocados 50 cents each. But they put them in as medium avocados and they cost way more. Just a real life example. So I use the self checkout.

I worked for a company that trained me that “right to work” meant I could fire someone and tell them it was because I didn’t like the color of their shoes. I suppose that’s an excuse or reason but at that point is there really any difference?

A proper white Russian is half and half or cream. Don’t worry I drank plenty of milk ones after I watched the Big Lebowski when I was 20 but it’s just not the same.

Mind your own business and you’ll have a happier life, less hateful.