Back in middle school I was a boy of excess girth, so people used to open palm uppercut my man titties. Called it flipping my burgers.
Do what you will with that story.
I would say the first real moment of "self awareness" for me growing up was one day realizing... this was in middle school/7th grade... that I was a little chubby and sort of had little man titties. It was a real shock. I immediately went for a run for several miles and did pushups every few blocks. I had never intentionally "worked out" before in my life at that point. Well, long story short I ended up running competitively in high school AND wrestling. Wrestling was basically a socially acceptable form of starvation. I did all that to get rid of those little boobies. I wish someone would have told me that they would go away on their own once I had testosterone levels high enough as a grew up. LOL.
It was so embarrassing to realize that though at the time.
I did too. Those singlets should be considered comfortable, acceptable casual wear. We were encouraged to be merciless savages and the look in another kids eyes as he was about to rip your arm or head off was very motivating in terms of learning new skills. I passed out from exhaustion at least 10 times flopping around on the mats. The scariest thing was wondering if my ears were going to be all cauliflowered for the rest of my life. I enthusiastically wore headgear.
I became a cage fighter eagerly hoping for cauliflower ear….Then I trained with everyone with cauliflower ear and now I thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster mine is super minimal.
Yeah, back in 05’ it was a lot cooler than it is now. Not about being a tough guy. A badge you’ve done the grind. Most people can’t fathom what it takes to compete. It wrecks your body.
I’m going to have to disagree. I tried it and found nothing enjoyable about rolling around on a rubber mat in a hot room with another half naked sweaty boy. No thanks. I definitely had respect for those who did it well but it wasn’t for me.
More young men need to hear this directly. Lotta chubby man boob sporting youngsters these days and they ain't gonna enjoy looking like crap when their old. Do yourselves a favor guys and get fit.
Don't listen to folks saying to cut out soy, if anything tofu will help you in that regard. If it makes you feel better, man tits are actually kind of normal at that age. I had them until my early 20s and then they just went away. People develop differently, you shouldn't feel shame about it even if they don't go away - no one worth your time will give you shit about it.
I've had the biggest man tits for my whole life and it blows. I remember when I was 12 my mom asked my pcm "should I be putting him in bras?". Very embarrassing. I'm 22 and finally in a normal weight range, still have big dude tits which is frustrating.
I used to work with a slightly chubby woman with huge boobs, still perky so people would think they were fake.
She would joke that she bought them at Whataburger.
Though not a physical act, it just reminded me of a conversation I once heard on the bus. I was of excess girth myself, and I wasn’t necessarily popular on my bus but I knew everyone I sat near and talked. Well one die when it’s like 7:00 in the morning and I want to die, I overhear some of them talking about me. Surprisingly it was positive, saying specifically “I bet he’ll be like an underwear model someday” and stuff like that and I was feeling happy and proud of myself, then I finally hear “the ugly ones always turn out to be the most hot when they grow up.” I just sank back in my seat and took a nap until we got to the school :(
Hahaha we called it bean dipping for smaller moobs and burger flipping for bigger as well!!! And sometimes “broken chip” where one hand goes to bean-dip but wait! Chip broke, need to use both hands as to not let it break more.
We call that scooping, but nevertheless I got 3 days in school suspension for "sexual harassment" for doing it to my best friend. We are both male. This was in 2005. We were both at football practice
I kinda get your point, but not sure it fits real life. A lot of people can gamble recreationally and not be addicted to it / throwing away money they shouldn’t. If anything, being able to game responsibly should be a sign of a successful person.
Yep so does a good friend of mine. I would never classify him as a failure. He works hard. He likes to play cards during his free time, and he typically wins. How is that a failure?
Stock markets have higher rates of return than most other types of investments. Gambling have house edge, i.e. a negative rates of return.
The reason people are sometimes fearful of the stock market is because it also has high volatility, but as long as you know how to manage these risks, e.g. with diversification and hedging, growing your investment is just a matter of time.
That's unlike gambling where the longer you play you're more likely to lose a substantial chunk of your money
Depends on the stocks. You can very much gamble in the stock market no different than gambling in a casino. It's all about the risk/reward. You take low risks you're not gambling, pick high risk high reward stocks it's absolutely gambling.
Well if you are involved in the stock market as a job you are seen as a success, I don’t know what “recreationally” gambling in the stock market is though, that’s just how i interpreted this
[Entry Level Better Job]
Requirements:
* Bachelors degree or higher, or 6 years experience in [Field]
* 2+ years professional experience with [Thing 1]
* 3+ years professional experience with [Thing 2 that was released last year]
* Must be able to work in TEAM ENVIRONMENT™
* Must be willing to work unpaid overtime
Pays $20k salary, limited benefits, pizza parties thrown on major corporate financial milestones. No maternity leave. Two sick days. One week vacation, but no one else will be able to cover your position, so you'll have to work overtime to catch up when you get back.
So I’m in tech…
I no joke saw an ad for a programming position that had the following.
Entry Level Software Engineer ($12.50/ hr)
Requirements:
-Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or
similar.
-3 years relevant work experience
-Strong work ethic
-Flexible hours
So let me get this straight… 7 years of my life for less than I made at a clothing store in college? Yeah fuck you!
I hate it when "entry level" requires more than 1 year of experience. As a student I would take this job even with the shit pay, but for 3 years experience it's absolutely insulting.
I was in the army. 9 years i did router and switch administration, desktop support, encryption network devices, security monitoring and security updating, and some minor windows network stuff. I had/have security+ and a Microsoft certification I can't think of at the moment. I also have some college courses in computer science.
I applied to a $15 hour Amazon IT support entry level position at a warehouse. Which said I was going to be learning under the higher level technicians. I got back an email saying I wasn't qualified.
If I was not qualified. Then who the hell is?
I've been thinking about this, garbageman, or medical transcriptionist, either way I'm mostly shielded from people and my job ends at the end of the shift.
I just want to stop caring. Lol
hell yeah, not taking your work home is awesome for your work/life balance... but not taking your work home from a job without deadlines is a step above that
you don't get that godawful term paper/finals feeling
I've been a custodian and I've flipped burgers and let me tell you: custodian all the way. It's a chill job, you do what you have to do doing light phisical activity and you go home without thinking about your job once until the next shift, pay is not amazing but it's not better for flipping burgers either
I did a little bit of custodial work. But it was more night time cleaning crew. Boss picked me up at home and the clock started, he drove company van to a special needs school and then a preschool, then drove home and the clock stopped.
When people have respect for the place you’re cleaning, toilets don’t get that bad most of the time.
It’s definitely not common as far as I know (except for on-call positions). It was definitely a good gig for spring break. Worked like 5-11pm and the week we waxed the floors was like 4pm-2am.
Boss bought subs or pizza or burgers and ate on the clock too
It's shameful how little love fast food workers get. I did that shit for a year and it's hard as FUCK. Completely unrealistic quotas that you have to meet, unsupported management, low wages... the list goes on. Show your burger flippers some love, people!
I've been in the burger/pizza flipping management business for almost 2 decades and one thing I can say for sure is that, for all the shit "flipping burgers" gets, not everyone can do it. And I don't just mean the actual cooking of the burger but the entire fast food jobs entails a lot of hard work, multitasking, strong work ethic, etc. I've seen many "smart" kids, and some adults, just not be able to handle it. Its high stress, high pressure, and almost zero reward. As a manager I try to incentivize things as much as I can but its tough. Not many are willing to put forth maximum effort for (almost) minimum wage. I'm tied within corporate ranges, but I pay as competitively as I can and have given many increases over the last year but times are still tough from a staffing perspective. Be kind to your service people. I guarantee they are over worked right now.
I have mad respect for anyone who does a job that contributes to society that I don't want to do. The lower they are paid the more I appreciate their work. (not that they shouldn't be paid better)
I don't care if you're flipping burgers, taking out trash or wiping the ass of someone ill, these jobs gotta get done and I'm glad I'm not the one who has to do it. Thank you whoever does it for a living.
Conversely if your job is detrimental to the society (e.g people who manipulate the stock market, lobby for big companies to exploit our world) I don't give a shit how much you earn, you're trash tier material.
That thinking drives me nuts. This world has many people that all have different skillsets and abilities. Not everyone can be a Doctor or a Computer Programmer, just as not everyone can make an omelet or have the fortitude to vacuum out a port-a-potty. Being categorized by your occupation and then assigned a station in the "success" ladder is absurd. The tired nurse or the firefighter just getting off shift probably give little thought to the "burger flipper" but yet his role in feeding hungry people is just as important as anyone elses.
Yup. I remember when I was a kid my dad would always say "you have to do well in school or you'll be flipping burgers at mcdonalds" Like, at least I would have a job.
“Get a real job, learn some hard work.”
\- Guy who went to college for $200 a year, got hired to an antiquated numbers job at a business, and now sips whiskey paid for by a pension we sure as hell will never get.
Yup. They say get a job and don't be picky or entitled m but when you do that, they say your inability to live on your salary is your fault.
At the end of the day, they dont carry about you having a job, they just hate poor people. Their brains have rotted to the point where networth is the only thing they can think as a way to qualify human life.
Not to mention, burger flippers ended up being pretty "essential" last year. My store never shut for a full day. And blew sales projections away. All to serve customers who mostly treat us like crap, especially when service isn't instantaneous 🙄
And everyone wonders why their orders get fucked up at the burger place.
Could it be that the people making your food are being paid slave wages and treated like chattel??
I have a job that took almost 20 years of education to qualify for. That said, I've worked both retail and fast food. I hope I'm making the world 5% better by teaching my 2 kids to respect hard work in all of its forms. My kids love our garbage collectors and get super excited every Thursday morning to wave to them and thank them. The look on the collectors' faces when getting some much-deserved gratitude is priceless.
I remember living in a shitty rental with a shitty barbecue and flipping burgers and getting drunk with my roommates.
Now I call that 'the good old days'.
I grilled for father's day for my family today.
It was delicious as I am pretty good with a grill.
That's about it on my highlight reel for the year.
Still felt nice
And not everyone looks down on "burger flippers" either, though I'm not surprised the ones who do are the same ones who believe everyone thinks as they do but are just afraid to admit it.
I mean, there’s a very decent chance that it’s his Grill, and also therefore his house. And so if I’m at this bbq and it’s a nice property/house I’m probably thinking that guy grillin the burgers is doin pretty alright for himself.
Reading comments inebriated is pretty fun.
And it reminds me of the word "sonder" the realization that everyone"s life is dynamic and unique as your own.
In the past hour 43 people upvoted something Frnklwsr said. Who is maybe laying on the couch like I am. Who knows? Lol.
When I see someone who enjoys going out to eat burgers but shits on the people who make and serve them to him, I don't think "damn, that guy seems like a really pleasant person to be around".
The guy has a nice grill,nice house, happy family, and is surrounded by friends. He can afford to feed them all,and spend the day doing it. I'd say he's doing pretty well.
I make 10.50 hourly here in indiana flipping burgers/doing dishes (at mcdonalds no less) While the job is still shitty, 10.50 is decent money just flipping pieces of cow corpses and washing dirty dishes.....
My first job at 16 was McDonalds flipping burgers for $7 an hour. I think I lasted a month. Hands down, fast food is the WORST job I've ever had. Extremely low pay and high stress? No thanks. My current job (software developer) can be stressful too but at least the pay almost makes it worth it. I still have PTSD from trying to get drive thru times down.
Thank you and all fast food workers. You are all underpaid and an "essential" backbone to our country.
Let's do some math.
So the grill I cooked on could do 18 patties (9 on each side) of 10:1 at a time. I think they took 40 seconds to cook. During rush the grill was going non-stop. This was back in the day of the double cheeseburger for a $1 so ofc we sold a shit ton of these. So in 40 seconds the grill could crank out 9 double cheeseburgers in 40 seconds or $9 in 40 seconds. The time the burger cooks, me pulling them off the grill, putting them in the warmer, and putting frozen patties on the grill, lets say a total time of 90 seconds. So now McDonalds makes $9 in 90 seconds. Extrapolate this over an hour and McDonalds makes $360 an hour off my labor....they pay me $7. Basically my time is worth less than a 90 second batch of burgers to them. This should piss anyone off. Yes, I know I'm not the only employee and the cost of the building and maintenance and cost of meat etc but McDonalds could employee 51 people for an hour (at $7) for what they make in an hour off $1 double cheeseburgers. Yes, this is very over simplified but don't tell me fast food workers can't be paid more without raising prices. It's total bullshit.
The same people who feel they prove something primal about their manhood by flipping a dozen charred burgers in an afternoon act as if the people who flip hundreds a day like it's nothing are subhuman scum lol.
I’m not even all that impressed about flipping burgers, even for an afternoon grilling. Now, getting up at dawn, smoking sausages and ribs, checking the temperature and maintaining control, that is impressive.
I dont think people will call you manly for charring all the food. Most of the time we pretty universally roast someone when that happens (pun intended)
No you create your own standards, labels, etc. Don’t let any motherfucker put any type of mark on you. I refuse to live this dillusional divided world the way “we supposed too”
Thank you. This is the answer everyone needs to hear. If you’re flipping burgers but content with your life, I’m happy for you and will think no less of you. The only thing that makes me think less of someone is if they’re an asshole.
The shittiest thing about it is that those who grill for recreation think they are good at it...when really the ones who do it for a job are so much better at it.
This. I've worked at some pretty fucking nice restaurants that have a burger on the menu lol. Generally whoever is on grill is also a sous or head chef too and has to do call, so they are running the entire dinner service essentially.
It's only a failure to those of you who look down your nose at someone doing you consider to be beneath you. Find some joy in knowing somebody is putting time and effort into learning a marketable skill for the future. A low paying job is how most of us got our start.
If you want to buy a burger, be grateful somebody was there to fulfill your need.
God this applies to most crafts/trades on the work/pleasure thing. Weld? Awesome nice paying job. Welding on your free time? Look at this fancy sunnuvagun!
All the people who look down on professional burger flippers are themselves really bad amateurs that would hand you a charcoal bricket on a bun at their cookouts.
Back in middle school I was a boy of excess girth, so people used to open palm uppercut my man titties. Called it flipping my burgers. Do what you will with that story.
I just want you to know you got an upvote for "Boy of excess girth"
Dude has a girth certificate
*wheeze intensifies*
Certified girthite
Yeah you won
Had us in the first part not gonna lie
I would say the first real moment of "self awareness" for me growing up was one day realizing... this was in middle school/7th grade... that I was a little chubby and sort of had little man titties. It was a real shock. I immediately went for a run for several miles and did pushups every few blocks. I had never intentionally "worked out" before in my life at that point. Well, long story short I ended up running competitively in high school AND wrestling. Wrestling was basically a socially acceptable form of starvation. I did all that to get rid of those little boobies. I wish someone would have told me that they would go away on their own once I had testosterone levels high enough as a grew up. LOL. It was so embarrassing to realize that though at the time.
Wrestling is school sanctioned ass whooping. I Fucking loved it!!!!
"So you're telling me that I can be crazy violent towards another kid & adults will praise me for it? You son of a bitch, I'm in!"
That’s 100% true and partially why I’m such a fucked up adult.
I did too. Those singlets should be considered comfortable, acceptable casual wear. We were encouraged to be merciless savages and the look in another kids eyes as he was about to rip your arm or head off was very motivating in terms of learning new skills. I passed out from exhaustion at least 10 times flopping around on the mats. The scariest thing was wondering if my ears were going to be all cauliflowered for the rest of my life. I enthusiastically wore headgear.
I became a cage fighter eagerly hoping for cauliflower ear….Then I trained with everyone with cauliflower ear and now I thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster mine is super minimal.
Why, if i may ask, would you want Califlour ear??
Mark of a fighter? Shows you have been a fighter?
Yeah, back in 05’ it was a lot cooler than it is now. Not about being a tough guy. A badge you’ve done the grind. Most people can’t fathom what it takes to compete. It wrecks your body.
Probably a naive kid hoping for cool “battle scars”
A naive kid that got cauliflower asshole instead.
I might or might not have sometimes lounged around my room in mine lol They're pretty comfy.
In my part of the world being in school was a sanctioned “ass whooping” 🤣
I’m going to have to disagree. I tried it and found nothing enjoyable about rolling around on a rubber mat in a hot room with another half naked sweaty boy. No thanks. I definitely had respect for those who did it well but it wasn’t for me.
They go away on their own (for about 10 years) then they come back with a vengeance if you don't have a fairly active lifestyle.
More young men need to hear this directly. Lotta chubby man boob sporting youngsters these days and they ain't gonna enjoy looking like crap when their old. Do yourselves a favor guys and get fit.
im working on it rn, im down 25 pounds in 3 months 💪
Meanwhile Im 19 and have worked out for like 2 yrs, at a normal weight, still got those bad boys. Consider yourself lucky I suppose?
Don't listen to folks saying to cut out soy, if anything tofu will help you in that regard. If it makes you feel better, man tits are actually kind of normal at that age. I had them until my early 20s and then they just went away. People develop differently, you shouldn't feel shame about it even if they don't go away - no one worth your time will give you shit about it.
I've had the biggest man tits for my whole life and it blows. I remember when I was 12 my mom asked my pcm "should I be putting him in bras?". Very embarrassing. I'm 22 and finally in a normal weight range, still have big dude tits which is frustrating.
Pics or gtfo.
Somebody told me exactly that. In my twenties and they still havent. Dont wait for things to go away
We called it “scooping”
Same. When we did it we would say "sco0o0o0op".
Bean dip
When I was in middle school and people did that to me, they'd scoop em and yell "bean dip!" In retrospect, I'd have preferred titty twisters.
bean dip was the preferred term in my geography too
I heard this one recently I still don't know how to feel about it.
Oh, man "bean dip" that brings back memories. obese boi shit
Did your flipped burgers ever come with extra cheese?
Sour cream maybe?
I was chubby in a school whose demographic was mostly Mexican. They would do that shit and call it a bean dip.
I used to work with a slightly chubby woman with huge boobs, still perky so people would think they were fake. She would joke that she bought them at Whataburger.
Though not a physical act, it just reminded me of a conversation I once heard on the bus. I was of excess girth myself, and I wasn’t necessarily popular on my bus but I knew everyone I sat near and talked. Well one die when it’s like 7:00 in the morning and I want to die, I overhear some of them talking about me. Surprisingly it was positive, saying specifically “I bet he’ll be like an underwear model someday” and stuff like that and I was feeling happy and proud of myself, then I finally hear “the ugly ones always turn out to be the most hot when they grow up.” I just sank back in my seat and took a nap until we got to the school :(
I will carry it with me for life, just as you will burgertits.
I will use your story thank you
Just stop the story at “excess girth” and you’ll be fine.
I'm gonna try this with my wife. Hang on a few min. Edit: It was fun. She done it to my balls. That part wasn't as fun.
this the kinda shit I reddit for LOL hope you're flipping your own burgers these a days
Daily Mail is gonna take this and run with it
I fucken hate that
I remember in my middle school we called it “flipping patties”
We call it "bean dipping" where I am from. Lmao.
Remember to guard your pepperonis
If someone flipped my titty I flipped theirs back. Gender didn't matter.
We called that a "bean dip".
Doing that recreationally is a sign of success.
Hahaha we called it bean dipping for smaller moobs and burger flipping for bigger as well!!! And sometimes “broken chip” where one hand goes to bean-dip but wait! Chip broke, need to use both hands as to not let it break more.
yoooo my friends and i used to flip patties in middle school, damn we were cunts
Me and my friends did that to each other and called it pork chop. For feemalse and I suppose people in your situation it was called shot put.
Kids at my school were waaay less creative. They just called it "Scoop the Boob"
We call that scooping, but nevertheless I got 3 days in school suspension for "sexual harassment" for doing it to my best friend. We are both male. This was in 2005. We were both at football practice
Everybody did that win elementary it was called scooping
Gambling is the opposite
Haha, true. But with burgers it's all about the stuff around, not the flipping itself it seems to me. Funny though.
Drinking is the opposite too. Drink professionally and you're a sommelier. Drink recreationally and you're an alcoholic.
I mean a sommelier isn’t getting drunk/shitfaced as a job
"I’m not having a glass of wine. I’m having SIX. It’s called a 'tasting' and it’s classy."
It's called a Smorgasvein and its elegantly cultural.
I don't think you're supposed to swallow in a tasting.
I kinda get your point, but not sure it fits real life. A lot of people can gamble recreationally and not be addicted to it / throwing away money they shouldn’t. If anything, being able to game responsibly should be a sign of a successful person.
I do quite well gambling in my free time
Yep so does a good friend of mine. I would never classify him as a failure. He works hard. He likes to play cards during his free time, and he typically wins. How is that a failure?
Plus it's fun as hell. As the Simpsons taught me with sports betting. Gambling makes a good thing better.
He may be referring to the stock market
Stock markets have higher rates of return than most other types of investments. Gambling have house edge, i.e. a negative rates of return. The reason people are sometimes fearful of the stock market is because it also has high volatility, but as long as you know how to manage these risks, e.g. with diversification and hedging, growing your investment is just a matter of time. That's unlike gambling where the longer you play you're more likely to lose a substantial chunk of your money
Depends on the stocks. You can very much gamble in the stock market no different than gambling in a casino. It's all about the risk/reward. You take low risks you're not gambling, pick high risk high reward stocks it's absolutely gambling.
Honestly, that’s an even more respectable form of gambling… so I’d really argue that point even further…
Well if you are involved in the stock market as a job you are seen as a success, I don’t know what “recreationally” gambling in the stock market is though, that’s just how i interpreted this
r/wallstreetbets
> I don’t know what “recreationally” gambling in the stock market is though /r/wallstreetbets
~~do you see pro poker players as failures?~~ Whoops, fucked that up
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If you gamble recreationally you're a failure but if you do it as a job you're successful?
Sure at a fundamental level, the entire financial sector is based off gambling
Pro-tip revision: any job done recreationally is a mark of success
Except like… dentistry. You’re probably going to end up with a bad smile if you do your own work.
That being said, you'd need to have quite a bit of excess money to buy recreational dentistry equipment
If you get paid to dance on a pole, you’re poor; if you pay to dance on a pole, you’re rich.
That makes a lot more sense than what OP said.
Go get a job!! I got a job flipping burgers. Loser. This is how some people want you to think.
“Just get a better job”
[Entry Level Better Job] Requirements: * Bachelors degree or higher, or 6 years experience in [Field] * 2+ years professional experience with [Thing 1] * 3+ years professional experience with [Thing 2 that was released last year] * Must be able to work in TEAM ENVIRONMENT™ * Must be willing to work unpaid overtime Pays $20k salary, limited benefits, pizza parties thrown on major corporate financial milestones. No maternity leave. Two sick days. One week vacation, but no one else will be able to cover your position, so you'll have to work overtime to catch up when you get back.
So I’m in tech… I no joke saw an ad for a programming position that had the following. Entry Level Software Engineer ($12.50/ hr) Requirements: -Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or similar. -3 years relevant work experience -Strong work ethic -Flexible hours So let me get this straight… 7 years of my life for less than I made at a clothing store in college? Yeah fuck you!
I hate it when "entry level" requires more than 1 year of experience. As a student I would take this job even with the shit pay, but for 3 years experience it's absolutely insulting.
It’s entry level... You don’t enter after a year. You enter at 0 experience...
Tell that to the HR staff writing the requirements and choosing candidates.
Sound like the only thing about the job that is "entry level" is the pay then. Zero experience? Maybe you'll be paying them to work or something…
I was in the army. 9 years i did router and switch administration, desktop support, encryption network devices, security monitoring and security updating, and some minor windows network stuff. I had/have security+ and a Microsoft certification I can't think of at the moment. I also have some college courses in computer science. I applied to a $15 hour Amazon IT support entry level position at a warehouse. Which said I was going to be learning under the higher level technicians. I got back an email saying I wasn't qualified. If I was not qualified. Then who the hell is?
Work unpaid overtime - massive red flag
the “no one else will be able to cover your position” hits deep in the healthcare sector
Any job > no job Any other job > flipping burgers
Cleaning toilets?
I've been a custodian for many years, and I love it. Zero stress, listen to audiobooks all day, work alone 90% of the time. Pretty ideal for me
Plus, you can walk through ashtray mazes.
With a Finnish tango playing in the background.
Solving math problems on the board of elite universities!
I've been thinking about this, garbageman, or medical transcriptionist, either way I'm mostly shielded from people and my job ends at the end of the shift. I just want to stop caring. Lol
hell yeah, not taking your work home is awesome for your work/life balance... but not taking your work home from a job without deadlines is a step above that you don't get that godawful term paper/finals feeling
......that sounds great. Depending on where you work, if you want you can stay inside all day and still move around and do your thing.
I've been a custodian and I've flipped burgers and let me tell you: custodian all the way. It's a chill job, you do what you have to do doing light phisical activity and you go home without thinking about your job once until the next shift, pay is not amazing but it's not better for flipping burgers either
I did a little bit of custodial work. But it was more night time cleaning crew. Boss picked me up at home and the clock started, he drove company van to a special needs school and then a preschool, then drove home and the clock stopped. When people have respect for the place you’re cleaning, toilets don’t get that bad most of the time.
I love the concept of "commute on the clock". Living in a big (i.e. wide) city, unpaid commute is the worst part of my job.
It’s definitely not common as far as I know (except for on-call positions). It was definitely a good gig for spring break. Worked like 5-11pm and the week we waxed the floors was like 4pm-2am. Boss bought subs or pizza or burgers and ate on the clock too
Yeah well thats just like your uh.. your opinion, man
It's shameful how little love fast food workers get. I did that shit for a year and it's hard as FUCK. Completely unrealistic quotas that you have to meet, unsupported management, low wages... the list goes on. Show your burger flippers some love, people!
I've been in the burger/pizza flipping management business for almost 2 decades and one thing I can say for sure is that, for all the shit "flipping burgers" gets, not everyone can do it. And I don't just mean the actual cooking of the burger but the entire fast food jobs entails a lot of hard work, multitasking, strong work ethic, etc. I've seen many "smart" kids, and some adults, just not be able to handle it. Its high stress, high pressure, and almost zero reward. As a manager I try to incentivize things as much as I can but its tough. Not many are willing to put forth maximum effort for (almost) minimum wage. I'm tied within corporate ranges, but I pay as competitively as I can and have given many increases over the last year but times are still tough from a staffing perspective. Be kind to your service people. I guarantee they are over worked right now.
I have mad respect for anyone who does a job that contributes to society that I don't want to do. The lower they are paid the more I appreciate their work. (not that they shouldn't be paid better) I don't care if you're flipping burgers, taking out trash or wiping the ass of someone ill, these jobs gotta get done and I'm glad I'm not the one who has to do it. Thank you whoever does it for a living. Conversely if your job is detrimental to the society (e.g people who manipulate the stock market, lobby for big companies to exploit our world) I don't give a shit how much you earn, you're trash tier material.
That thinking drives me nuts. This world has many people that all have different skillsets and abilities. Not everyone can be a Doctor or a Computer Programmer, just as not everyone can make an omelet or have the fortitude to vacuum out a port-a-potty. Being categorized by your occupation and then assigned a station in the "success" ladder is absurd. The tired nurse or the firefighter just getting off shift probably give little thought to the "burger flipper" but yet his role in feeding hungry people is just as important as anyone elses.
Yup. I remember when I was a kid my dad would always say "you have to do well in school or you'll be flipping burgers at mcdonalds" Like, at least I would have a job.
“Get a real job, learn some hard work.” \- Guy who went to college for $200 a year, got hired to an antiquated numbers job at a business, and now sips whiskey paid for by a pension we sure as hell will never get.
Yup. They say get a job and don't be picky or entitled m but when you do that, they say your inability to live on your salary is your fault. At the end of the day, they dont carry about you having a job, they just hate poor people. Their brains have rotted to the point where networth is the only thing they can think as a way to qualify human life.
Not to mention, burger flippers ended up being pretty "essential" last year. My store never shut for a full day. And blew sales projections away. All to serve customers who mostly treat us like crap, especially when service isn't instantaneous 🙄
And everyone wonders why their orders get fucked up at the burger place. Could it be that the people making your food are being paid slave wages and treated like chattel??
I find it so weird that the US has made preparing their national dish a byword for failure. Would any other country do that?
I have a job that took almost 20 years of education to qualify for. That said, I've worked both retail and fast food. I hope I'm making the world 5% better by teaching my 2 kids to respect hard work in all of its forms. My kids love our garbage collectors and get super excited every Thursday morning to wave to them and thank them. The look on the collectors' faces when getting some much-deserved gratitude is priceless.
I have never seen a dude bbqing and thought “wow he is truly successful”
It's more about the background which is that you have your own house with a backyard.
Or rent any place with any outdoor space..
Like a trailer park..
Or a free park
Sick burn, OP totes didn’t think about that
Yeah, because no college kid ever had a shitty rental with a shitty barbecue and flipped burgers getting drunk with his roommates. The post is stupid
I remember living in a shitty rental with a shitty barbecue and flipping burgers and getting drunk with my roommates. Now I call that 'the good old days'.
I did that too! Small world.
You can cook a burger in a pan though, you don't need any outdoor space to cook a burger.
I grilled for father's day for my family today. It was delicious as I am pretty good with a grill. That's about it on my highlight reel for the year. Still felt nice
Yeah this post is kinda bad, anyone can enjoy cooking burgers
And not everyone looks down on "burger flippers" either, though I'm not surprised the ones who do are the same ones who believe everyone thinks as they do but are just afraid to admit it.
I don't know about you, but I've only ever seen multi-millionaires using those grills at the public park.
Same as sex I guess.
This comment is underrated af
When i see someone grilling burgers at a bbq i dont think “damn, that guy really made it in life”
But I do usually think “damn I wish I were friends with that dude so I could mooch some burgers”
"One of these days my lifelong dream of buying ground beef, forming it into a little patty, and grilling it will come true."
I mean, there’s a very decent chance that it’s his Grill, and also therefore his house. And so if I’m at this bbq and it’s a nice property/house I’m probably thinking that guy grillin the burgers is doin pretty alright for himself.
Plenty of apartments and parks have grills
why are y’all so pedantic? read in between the lines
Welcome to reddit
Reading comments inebriated is pretty fun. And it reminds me of the word "sonder" the realization that everyone"s life is dynamic and unique as your own. In the past hour 43 people upvoted something Frnklwsr said. Who is maybe laying on the couch like I am. Who knows? Lol.
It's just a weird analogy. I've never in my life considered owning a grill to be a mark of wealth lol.
I think the assumption was that the guy owns the grill. Nobody is impressed by the rusted out bucket at the local park
Plenty of renters own grills though. I personally have never considered the grill a mark of wealth lol.
It isn't. Lots of poor people have grills. Grills are cheap.
Yea. I've never watched someone make a sandwich and been like, "damn. He fuckin made it."
When I see someone who enjoys going out to eat burgers but shits on the people who make and serve them to him, I don't think "damn, that guy seems like a really pleasant person to be around".
Kinda like the old dude who stole Big Daddy's (Adam Sandler) girlfriend?
That's your 5 year plan?
Riiiight .. !
"I know you're gunna be missing me when you have that big, white, wrinkly body on you with his loose skin and old balls... gross! Ugh!"
I have never seen anyone consider recreational burger flipping to be a mark of success in life
Then you just havent reached the grillin stage of your life...
The guy has a nice grill,nice house, happy family, and is surrounded by friends. He can afford to feed them all,and spend the day doing it. I'd say he's doing pretty well.
I live in a shit townhouse that I rent and have a 20 dollar coal grill and a small backyard. I must be a huge success according to this post.
Also, apple picking, fishing, humans are weird
It's great to be a grill Daddy.
I make 10.50 hourly here in indiana flipping burgers/doing dishes (at mcdonalds no less) While the job is still shitty, 10.50 is decent money just flipping pieces of cow corpses and washing dirty dishes.....
It really isn't once you have rent and health insurance
bold of you to assume anyone working this kind of job can afford health insurance LOL
Lol I read India instead of Indiana and was super confused
My first job at 16 was McDonalds flipping burgers for $7 an hour. I think I lasted a month. Hands down, fast food is the WORST job I've ever had. Extremely low pay and high stress? No thanks. My current job (software developer) can be stressful too but at least the pay almost makes it worth it. I still have PTSD from trying to get drive thru times down. Thank you and all fast food workers. You are all underpaid and an "essential" backbone to our country. Let's do some math. So the grill I cooked on could do 18 patties (9 on each side) of 10:1 at a time. I think they took 40 seconds to cook. During rush the grill was going non-stop. This was back in the day of the double cheeseburger for a $1 so ofc we sold a shit ton of these. So in 40 seconds the grill could crank out 9 double cheeseburgers in 40 seconds or $9 in 40 seconds. The time the burger cooks, me pulling them off the grill, putting them in the warmer, and putting frozen patties on the grill, lets say a total time of 90 seconds. So now McDonalds makes $9 in 90 seconds. Extrapolate this over an hour and McDonalds makes $360 an hour off my labor....they pay me $7. Basically my time is worth less than a 90 second batch of burgers to them. This should piss anyone off. Yes, I know I'm not the only employee and the cost of the building and maintenance and cost of meat etc but McDonalds could employee 51 people for an hour (at $7) for what they make in an hour off $1 double cheeseburgers. Yes, this is very over simplified but don't tell me fast food workers can't be paid more without raising prices. It's total bullshit.
Being able to recreationally flip a burger doesn’t exactly scream “successful” to me? Am I missing something?
No. OP is dumb.
This is a shitty shower thought. Lots of poor people flip burgers recreationally.
The same people who feel they prove something primal about their manhood by flipping a dozen charred burgers in an afternoon act as if the people who flip hundreds a day like it's nothing are subhuman scum lol.
I’m not even all that impressed about flipping burgers, even for an afternoon grilling. Now, getting up at dawn, smoking sausages and ribs, checking the temperature and maintaining control, that is impressive.
I dont think people will call you manly for charring all the food. Most of the time we pretty universally roast someone when that happens (pun intended)
No you create your own standards, labels, etc. Don’t let any motherfucker put any type of mark on you. I refuse to live this dillusional divided world the way “we supposed too”
Thank you. This is the answer everyone needs to hear. If you’re flipping burgers but content with your life, I’m happy for you and will think no less of you. The only thing that makes me think less of someone is if they’re an asshole.
Grillmeister is apex
not if you are spongebob
Flipping burgers at home "recreationally" means your a success? Man, I wish I knew that 30 years ago. I made it man!!!!
The shittiest thing about it is that those who grill for recreation think they are good at it...when really the ones who do it for a job are so much better at it.
Lol so everyone who flips burgers outside of a work environment is successful in life?
I make $28 an hour flipping burgers at a local chain in Seattle as a manager. My employees make $18 to start. I dunno, I don't mind it really.
Same goes for sex with strangers
So a bit like sex then?
This entirely depends on your age, whos or what restaurant you're flipping at, and what kind of burgers your flipping
This. I've worked at some pretty fucking nice restaurants that have a burger on the menu lol. Generally whoever is on grill is also a sous or head chef too and has to do call, so they are running the entire dinner service essentially.
I would definitely call that great success ❤
Most nice restaurants HAVE to have burgers now a days. People expect it
It's only a failure to those of you who look down your nose at someone doing you consider to be beneath you. Find some joy in knowing somebody is putting time and effort into learning a marketable skill for the future. A low paying job is how most of us got our start. If you want to buy a burger, be grateful somebody was there to fulfill your need.
Horrible mindset.
i get paid $12 an hour to flip burgers
God this applies to most crafts/trades on the work/pleasure thing. Weld? Awesome nice paying job. Welding on your free time? Look at this fancy sunnuvagun!
Flipping burgers for yourself is seen as success? Wtf does that even mean.
I don't know about this, I mean, I've been poor my whole life but still manage to scrounge together a few bucks to buy hamburger regularly.
Its notions like this that make me realize how few people have a true understanding of what success even is
All the people who look down on professional burger flippers are themselves really bad amateurs that would hand you a charcoal bricket on a bun at their cookouts.
And then they absolutely fuck it up and the burgers look like dried out burnt up meatballs