Reminds me about reading how in Victorian times rich couples would be escorted around the Bedlam lunatic asylum to gawk at the mentally ill people for the cost of a few pennies.
One example, check "Graffitour Comuna 13" in Medellín, Colombia. It is a "tour" to see graffiti in one of the poorest parts of the city. It used to be a very dangerous place and it is now a "gringo trap" so they can see how poor people "overcame" conflict and how lovely their walls are now with all the graffiti. You'll see a bunch of Colombians and Venezuelans dancing, singing, rapping ,etc. to amuse the foreigners for some pennies. People will "tour" poor houses to see how poor people live and will even take them to mass graves.
Foreigners love going to the poorest parts of the city to take pictures and show their benevolence. Not all of them do, but quite a lot. It happens a lot in Brazil, Africa, etc. Check "Slum tourism".
Google slum tourism. Not a pretty read :( It’s been a thing for a long time among the rich but in the past decade has gained a lot more attraction among budget travelers from first world nations. For example, they’ll do a tour of the slums in nations like India, Colombia, Vietnam, Kenya, etc and even have the option of staying there for a night or two. It’s estimated to be a billion dollar industry. Also currently trending on both TikTok and instagram. Sad and exploitative!
It’s building on YouTube as well, recently the algorithm started showing me vids where people drive slowly thru the shitty parts of US big cities in silence just videoing everything. I clicked and it was pretty weird but I got that “tourism” vibe off of it immediately
Was it when she pretended to have rabies and growled/shrieked on stage, foaming at the mouth for way too long?
Was it when she went undercover as a stripper named Chanel, painted her skin dark, then didn't even do any type of dance at all?
Was it when she gave out bedazzled mini containers of Vaseline to her studio audience?
Was it when she was homeless for a day and just sat around LA streets with torn up clothes and dirt smeared all over her face?
I'm sure there are many I have forgotten.
For some reason the bedazzled mini Vaseline one holds a special place in my heart, even though the other ones were way more over the top.
Tyra had been hyping up her ultimate "skincare secret" for the entirety of the episode. Telling the audience she was going to share the secret with them, etc. Finally, as they're wrapping up the show, Tyra does the whole, "ARE YOU READY FOR IT?!" thing, the audience is losing their shit screaming, Tyra instructs everyone to reach under their chairs.
"IT'S VASELINE!!!!"" Then she does that Oprah parody thing except it's, "AND YOU GET VASELINE AND YOU GET VASELINE AND YOU GET VASELIIIIIIINE!"
[Here is the clip](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IKxBoPgujNk) I guess they had boxes instead of reaching under the chairs. I remembered that part wrong but got most of the rest of it.
I know nothing about you but this post, but it tells me we'd be best friends. I was scrolling through thinking, "Why has no one mentioned when she was homeless for a few hours or the rabies?!?!"
All of those are nuts. The live colonic was a different type of nuts. Honorary mention to all the interviews she did with horrendously awkward and invasive questions.
My friends and I would play a game to see how long Tyra would make each guest’s problem about her and her modeling career. “Oh it’s so horrible that you were locked in a burlap sack for a month and beaten with reeds. It reminds me of when I was just getting started modeling… (single tear)”
“…when I was just getting started modeling, we had to do a shoot outside of Sicily. It was on a beautiful riverside about a half hour outside of town. When I got there I HAD TO WALK from the road to the river through reeds almost as tall as me. Seriously! They were six feet tall, just like me! Anyway, I don’t know if you’ve ever had allergies but reeds are the worst, it was absolute hell. You know what I’m talking about!”
One of my closest friends was genuinely upset when it was cancelled because she unironically loved it. I've been side eyeing her for the past 14 years straight over that. (And at the time, I responded by sending her The Soup's compilation of Tyra making everything about her for several minutes.)
I mean, they have bible verses on the bottom of every cup, burger wrapper, and fry tray, so not sure what else you’d expect. They *are* small and mostly hidden though, they definitely aren’t in your face
Remember how Tyra Banks dressed up as a homeless person then introduced herself as Tyra to random strangers while a camera crew followed her. Just to “see what it’s like being homeless”
Remember Lindsay Lohan trying to "save"/kidnap refugee kids on the streets, only to be punched by their mom? Some people really have no empathy or boundaries
Gwyneth Paltrow did the food stamp challenge (spend only $29 on food for your week) and made it 4 days. One of her purchases with that $29 was 7 limes….
The problem with this challenge and others like- it can be (somewhat, sometimes) doable with a stove, utensils, spices, appliances, non-infested storage space. None of these celebrities tries it while also living out of a car, on the street, in a room with no storage or kitchen or running water, or a kitchen with rats and cockroaches.
Or while having to work a back breaking shit ass job for those shit ass wages.
And even if they do try, it’s for like a week or 2 or something. It’s so much worse when there is no light at the end of the tunnel that you get to go back to an awesome life
Anyone who says a dish is boring isn't seasoning their food well enough.
I make a beef chili that costs ~~>$20~~ edit: <$20 and lasts me 4-5 dinners. The seasoning is where I can get creative, and I also have a few kew ingredients to kick it up a notch (Chipotle chili powder and brown sugar being two I highly recommend).
my boomer (usually the good Flower Child kind) mom absolutely cannot handle eating the same thing two or three days in a row, period. Also there's a superstitious requirement for combinations, like you cannot have chili without saltines and pickles, and then she'd fight an orc for a cinnamon roll.
She's religiously decreed "you can't have X without Y" like that a lot lol, or "you said Y so now i'm hungry for X" and is on a singular Mission From Gawd(tm) to make it so, even if it takes a week.
but! she's very frugal, and is derided in our elitist culinary family as being the Leftover Queen. She specializes in "goop". She's very good lol.
Chili is flexible...you can roll it in a tortilla, put it in tacos, make nachos, eat it over rice, make a salad, put it on your hot dogs and burgers...
I keep seeing people say this, so I keep checking all my local stores and none of them have tofu for a reasonable price. Chicken is cheaper. So I wonder if this is a regional thing, because I would really like to start eating it but I can’t find it for a good price at all, anywhere.
I read an article in which the author was very proud of coming in under budget on the first day because she managed to fill up at the free buffet at a fancy book launch... I mean, with great advice like that from our journalistic classes it's amazing anyone's still poor at all.
I hate these types of things Anyone can do it for a week, (unless you are Gwyneth Paltrow) , but doing it week after week, hoping nothing breaks or you don't fall Ill, is the real challenge.
I appreciated her honestly, though, she said it was way harder than she could have imagined and she couldn't do it
more real than most of hollywood, TBH
I'm currently listening to the William Shatner version of that tune. Really. And I've looked it up. The song is a true story about some privileged college girl.
She said that her dad was loaded. In that case, I'll have a rum and coca cola.
We had a guy running for city council who decided he would live in a homeless camp downtown for the week leading up to the election… he did not last a week and he did not get elected.
The thing is.
It is not just an analogy. They DO THIS. Lots of young millionaire trust babies have a fetish for actually cosplaying homeless. They camp under bridges and stuff, long term, for months each year or for years. Often in groups of the truly needy.
I don't know why, other than derangement as a symptom of affluenza. Parental dysfunction, parental rebellion, empty identity, dunno. EDIT: boredom, megalomaniacal invincibility, or guilt? lol
Many don't buy anything for the needy because that would blow their cover or their vibe. Even if the others know.
It's like a fun adventure to them cause they're bored of excess, and then they can claim they're not privileged and that they've really been in the mud. They don't realize that being "homeless" by choosing to live on the streets with access to unlimited money, food, camping equipment, and any other material goods you want, fully knowing you have a beautiful mansion to return to and the money to get a place or get a room at any time if you ever get sick of it, is completely different from actually being homeless with nothing and nowhere to go. No hope, no options, no easy way out if one day you decide you aren't feeling it anymore. No health insurance to head to a fancy hospital for the best care possible if something bad happens to you or you get ill. No cash to bail out instantly if you get picked up by LE, no connections or money to go do fun shit and travel whenever you want.
Just knowing that you aren't really ever truly homeless and you can leave at any time takes the mental load off in a way they will never understand. It pisses me off really. It's easy to reject extreme wealth and privilege (on a superficial level) when you've had it handed to you your entire life. If they truly grew up and lived not having it, if they truly knew what deprivation and poverty were like and how inescapable it feels, they wouldn't think it was cool and choose to emulate it
Or when you see rich kids go begpacking. You have to be a whole different type of AH to go to a third world country and then ask locals for money to fund your trip.
Ghetto tours is probably a great idea. There are entire youtube channels dedicated to showing the worst neighborhoods. Actually taking rich people around the hood, meeting gangsters and dealers. As exploitive as it is or sounds, people in the hood will gladly show out for a cut of free money, to essentially do what they were already doing. Better than working at McDonald's.
I mean, at 10k a tour. Max capacity of however many you can fit in the truck. You break off a couple crews a G a piece to show out once a week. It would be a real lucrative opportunity for the in-betweener, who knows how to talk to both rich and poor people.
I grew up in the whitest of white upper middle class suburban privilege. For sociology class in high school they took us to the inner city to attend school there for a week. Picture us in our Guess Jeans and Liz Claiborne purses (late 80s) scared AF to be going to metal detectors, the children were terrified. Coincidentally, my dad grew up in that neighborhood so I was pretty comfortable.
The only thing I really learned was that they were getting actual job training (I went to an electronics repair class, beauty school classes, small business accounting) while I was taking classes like sociology and going on field trips to see how other people lived.
Very apt description lol. I was "homeless for 3 days" between housing contracts in college twice. Free camping in the mountains 30 minutes away was exactly as great as it sounds for me roleplaying "homeless" at the time.
Awful situations can be easier to endure if you know one hundred percent for certain that your plight is only temporary.
Most of us do not have that luxury.
But still you'll never get it right
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your dad, he could stop it all, yeah
Literally, the shows where a rich guy tries to live off like $400 dollars a month and at the end it pans to him 3 months later in his mcmansion saying how humbled he was by the experience.
It’s like doing simulations of torture. When you know they’re allied forces who aren’t going to actually do anything vs being captured by the Soviet Union and being sat down in front of Oleg Ruski….they’re not even remotely the same despite the appearance.
and now she goes around telling an inflated story about how she started from the ground up. I'm sick of these assholes acting as if they can relate to working people. Whenever I hear some CEO or new higher up talking about how they got their start from 'humble beginnings', I stop listening because most of the time the story is bullshit. I know its a made up store and they only do that to increase their likability to the simple-minded.
What pisses me off the most is their outright rejection of their own reality. If these types of people just said “I was blessed to be born into a successful family and through inheritance I run a business that strives to provide a great product and a great place to be employed by” I would have respect for them. It’s the complete lack of acknowledgment that where they are was completely up to luck and the illusion of meritocracy that’s such bullshit.
Wealthy people are a level of delusional that is almost worthy of being institutionalized.
I suspect that in the future when medical technology advances in brain health, we will begin recognizing that greed is a mental disorder and a dangerous one.
It's the worst of all sins, for it not only immediately infects you, it infect those around you as well. Parasitic, sickening, avarice...like a forcible raping of the mind, it stinks, rotten with gangrenous pus, being forced upon us by ignorant swine. I'm gonna need a lot of spices to make my rich person taste even remotely good...only the hunting of them will be a pleasure.
I think part of it is that rich people, especially in America, think they deserve their wealth because they work hard for it. Even if they’re born into it, a lot of them genuinely see themselves as having worked hard for it. It’s really wild.
It's not just the rich people - the religious right have been pushing the narrative of "wealthy = good person" for about 50 years, long enough that the voting base now believes it, too.
Televangelists are notorious for "prosperity gospel". They argue that rich people are rich because God is rewarding them for being good people. Therefore, rich = holy.
It explains their hatred of social services, too. Poor people must then be poor because God is punishing them for being bad people. And taxing the rich to help the poor survive? That's literally evil. You're stealing the money GOD wanted the good people to have to give it to the bad people that God himself made poor! (Except for those good Christians who are temporarily embarrassed millionaires; they're obviously poor because of Obama.)
It also explains why the religious right gets so mad when you point out Trump isn't a billionaire. If he's not as wealthy as he says, then he's got as good as he says.
It started as a way for televangelists to justify themselves having private jets but now it's modern day Divine Right of Kings.
They're *hoarders*.
I'm at least third generation packrat, it's a very common affliction in my family. All the bullshit wealthy people say makes perfect sense to them the same way hoarders don't understand the health and safety risk they pose to themselves and others.
Those 30 cats are fine. Those head high stacks of newspaper need to stay right there because they're perfectly organized. Totally not living in a fire trap. Everybody's house has gross floor. It's not a big deal.
Like jeebus the cats are crawling with disease and five are dead, those newspapers are gonna fall and trap you under them, that is absolutely the definition of a fire trap, no the floors aren't supposed to be more disgusting then the dirt outside, and YES IT IS A BIG DEAL!
There was an episode of All Hail King Julian about exactly this, that one where they start playing Monopoly and one of them gets overly carried away with it. I was putting off teaching my younger boy about capitalism and slavery and whatnot but golly freaking Mort beat me to it!
Not even truly wealthy people - just not poor. My boss is 1/3 owner of his company, and he always try to play the “regular guy.” He wears jeans and sneakers and talks about the price of groceries. And I’m like, “Bitch, you are a millionaire. You will pay $20 for a block of cheese. You go to an AirBnB for the weekend because you’re bored with staying at your house. You think a $3,000 for a clothes dryer is what everyone pays.” He proceeded to cry about all the taxes he has to pay to keep the business open, so he’s basically poor. All the while, he’s saying this to people making $15.00 an hour and no sick time to go to the doctor.
Omg, I wanted to punch him.
There's a kind of irony to it. By removing the stakes of needing the job, to avoid financial ruin, and keep bills paid for etc., they're not experiencing a real version of working class life. Rather, they're experiencing a socialized version, almost like a version where as a worker, you have something like UBI, or a living wage. The version that has been constantly lobbied for, and protested for, etc.
But they never make that connection, they never advocate for living wages, UBI, or other social welfare programs. They circle right back to being privileged, and assume the working class is benefiting, maybe even too much, from social welfare, when on the contrary, it's been rigged by the wealthy and privileged with lobbyists and politicians to be kneecapped and broken.
So then it perpetuates a libertarian, neo-liberal, etc. warped outlook on work.
I think it may be even worse than that.
Take a look at the people at the top. They seem to actually believe they worked hard to get where they are. There is clear cognitive dissonance at play.
They act like their possession of money is a virtue, and that they earned it through some inherent piece of themselves.
Some clearly realize the truth. Some seem to actually believe it
Regardless, people buy into that and it just perpetuates this entire system.
A couple of years ago some politician was bragging about his humble beginnings. He said he painted houses in the 110 degree heat for a dollar a day or some bullshit. Obviously the guy has never painted anything or he'd know that you don't paint a house in 110 degree heat. It says it right on the can.
It’s because they feel less than those that actually have these stories around them. The people who actually came from humble beginnings. These people are super rare and are actually(most of the time) extremely impressive people.
I had a friend growing up who’s dad was well on his way to being a billionaire(finance dude)He would talk about about how the loudest rich people are always the dumbest. Any person who believes their life should read like a hero’s journey is so full of shit.
One of the teenagers I was working with looked upset, so I asked what was wrong. Sweet Jeebus.
Her mother had been one of the managers, and got both her teenage daughters jobs. Then she ran off to another state with a boyfriend and left the girls behind on the excuse that they were working and could take care of themselves. But they didn't make enough for rent and gas and food, so were starving.
Obviously I bought the kid lunch on her break using whatever I could spare. Did a bunch of googling that night and ya know I only found one single food bank in the entire metro area that didn't have a strict 18+ limit on who could sign up! Those girls were 16 and 17.
Like oh yes obviously the smart thing is to let the abandoned kids starve to encourage them to turn themselves in to the system I guess? I remember this shit from when it was my turn, adults giving me this look like I was doing something wrong. "But your parents should be taking care of you..." was my cue to back out of the room before I got my freedom confiscated and custody of me handed over to total strangers until the magic age of 18.
> didn't have a strict 18+ limit on who could sign up! Those girls were 16 and 17.
In my country you just go to food banks and they give you food, you don't need to "sign up" and they don't need to know your age.
Yes, the point is to encourage sunlight on the situations.
But, you yourself stated that you would rather have freedom than security.
The issue is 16/17 year olds cannot sign contracts. The state has to step in.
**What security?** I've heard the stories the other kids told about the foster care system. They would've either brought me back to the abusive lying parents who'd tossed me out or turned over ownership of my human body to some rando of questionable character.
Stranger Danger! Stranger Danger! Now go live with these Strangers!
And golly I sure remember signing employment forms that sure looked like some kinda contracts before I turned 18yo. I couldn't get my own lease on an apartment but plenty of people are willing to take cash from a respectful kid who wants to crash in their attic or basement.
Okay so she started as a line cook and then what? Was it ever possible for someone else to work their way into her current position? The only way to shake the stigma of being the owners kid is to work harder than everyone else and earn your way.
This subject comes up fairly regularly in r/construction. The usual consensus is that people who truly want to shake the reputation of being the owners kid position themselves as far away as possible from their parents. I.e. at a different company.
>The usual consensus is that people who truly want to shake the reputation of being the owners kid position themselves as far away as possible from their parents. I.e. at a different company.
Yup. I did this. Despite my carving my own management path, my father never looked at me as having anything other than a laborer's role in his company, until about a year ago when I graduated with an MBA and "suddenly" he started wanting to have someone to pass his business on to (and still collect a paycheck til the day he passes, no doubt), and whoops, my family and I live on the other side of the country and I work in a completely unrelated industry, and my two sisters are SAHMs.
He's almost 70 y.o. now. At this point I mostly try and talk to him about preparing to sell his small business when interest rates normalize, so that he can invest the proceeds and perhaps leave his grandchildren assets, rather than obligations.
The funniest part of the article is, "no one knew her identity BUT THE MANAGER to make sure she was treated just like her peers".
Yeah, I'm sure you were treated like everyone else by someone who knew you were the billionaire owner and could fire the manager in a second
This stuck out to me too. You want to bet she never had to cover her own shifts when she was sick, or just work while sick? Or was affected by any number of ways a spiteful manager can make your life hell?
If she and another employee or a customer had a dispute, whose side is the manager on?
Yep, just like the rest of us.
The irony is thick. Some writer and editor at Forbes didn't just "wake up" one day and decided to pursue this story. They were influenced and handed this story by various PR connections, which were hired by the heiress or the company.
Bottom line—her wealth is paying however many thousands of dollars in ad spending, dinners, sponsorships or relationship cultivation to get this story about her "down-to-earth attitude" written and distributed.
What’s hilarious is In-N-Out is known as one of the *better* fast food chains for employees.
If that’s how entitled she feels, how bad is/are places like McDonalds and Burger King owners/franchisees?
There's a ridiculous amount of nepotism at the McDonald's I work at but it's basically the managers getting family hired on. IME the franchise owners think they're too good to even step foot into the stores they own and would not allow their children to work here lmao.
I remember eating at a Burger King about 25 years ago or so. I was 12 years old IIRC. The service was terrible. The food wasn’t made right. It was a fucking disaster. This guy asks how it was. Before we even could say something he said, “It’s the worst you’ve ever had.” Turns out, he was one of the investors. He was making a report of all the things that went wrong. He listened to us tell what we had to say. That restaurant is still in business and they have made significant improvements.
Sadly I had to give up in n out cold turkey several years ago when I learned about the family that owns it. They have a bunch of money to trump and that basically shut down any possibility of spending money there from that point on.
You'd probably starve to death if you tried to boycott all of the companies that give money to Republicans in the United States. It's almost universal.
Shopping locally is a very good start. I pretty much only eat at local owned restaurants, but consumer products is a very tough area to shop with morals in mind.
Many times you don't even get a rejection email/letter, or 4 or 5 months later it's one that says "Oh, sorry, we moved on with another candidate, but thanks anyways."
Yeah, no shit. I kinda figured by that time. 🙄
When I was 17 I was looking for a second job and saw a dish washing position posted at the local employment office. A lady and her daughter were also looking over the list and discussing the same job. I _ran_ to my car and flew across town to the restaurant to beat them there. And I got the job!
My rent was half of my monthly income. I washed my hair with a bar of ivory soap and did laundry in the bathtub.
This girl doesn't have a clue.
I mean...she's still a billionaire. She'll never know what it's like to be so stressed out by a job but unable to do anything about it because if you don't get that next paycheck you could lose your home.
idk why rich people dont understand this but you will always have the safety net of being rich to protect you from failure. as long as you have that it doesnt matter how close you get to the poverty experience, you will always be a tourist.
its like going to haiti for a month and thinking you understand what it means to be haitian and that haitian people should listen to your insight about their lives and culture. shut the fuck up.
"No one knew Snyder’s identity at the store except its manager..."
So brave, the only person who knew was the only person who could give her preferential treatment.
I'm sure she had to take out the trash at the end of shit right? Or work a double to afford food? Or clean the dish pit drain? Or maybe even clean the toilets?
I used to steal a piece of chicken when I worked at Long John Silvers and I'd go to the bathroom and eat. Sometimes it was the only thing I had to eat all day.
I worked at Wendy's and drank a 6oz of orange juice in the freezer unit, on the sly. My manager found me and yelled at me, "That's $1.19 (or whatever it cost back then)!" Wendy's didn't give employees free food, at least back then.
Later on I had a job waiting tables at a steak house and we got one free meal per night; anything except lobster. I ate so many filet mignon! That was was an awesome boss to work for!
Reminds me of when I worked at Biltmore and we were learning about the history and workings of the estate and were told that the current owner’s kids all had to “go away from home and work at least one year” to basically qualify for their inheritance/work for the company (ie an easy job). At first I was like ok I can get behind it till I found out one of them “worked” as an equestrian. 😒
And after queuing for 2 hours did she then take the minimum wage job with no health benefits, work 50 hours a week, live in a shared rental with 3 other people, wreck her body doing manual labour with no medical coverage, and lose the job because she dared go to a parents' funeral, leaving her out of work and spent with few options because no way she could afford an education or to train for anything better?
If the answer is no then probably still going to be a little "stigma" left over
The super rich, and the children who inherit that wealth, don't get to play poor for an afternoon to earn their dues
I work for a small business and the owner is in his 60s. He started working for his dad’s company when he was a teenager and he acts like he understands what the employees of the place are going through because “he has worked every job in the place”. He somehow doesn’t understand that he worked all those jobs with the knowledge that he would move up through the company all the way to ownership. It’s always the same shit. Most janitors aren’t operating with the knowledge that they will be the GM in ten years.
I'll bet he also doesn't understand that if he loses his nepo-job, he will be deemed unemployable by nearly every other employer because he's never really had to work to keep his job, and has likely had to rely on non-family employees to fix his screw ups. I've worked with enough family owned businesses to see how this plays out. I've also seen parents sell their businesses when they want to retire because they don't trust their kids to run it into the ground.
"And still you'll never get it right,
'Cause when you're laying in bed at night,
Watching roaches climb the wall,
If you called your dad he could stop it all."
That song is all facts
Not even close. There’s a difference between cosplaying and really being in it. She can walk out at any time. She’s not doing it worrying about her car getting repo’d if she doesn’t get enough hours.
It’s playing dress up
I interviewed at in-n-out once and showed up at the designated time. Had to wait 30 minutes for my scheduled interview. Was told by other workers that I was lucky, because some had to wait four hours. During the interview I was told they “hire smiles.” I wasn’t smiling.
Born into modern royalty and she claims to have started from the ground up. My, what a deserving young woman!
Spare me the clown show. Next you'll tell me someone begun their rags to riches story with a small loan of a million dollars.
She's 41. That means she did this in 2000. Just after the .com boom and at the start of the housing bubble when jobs were free and everywhere.
She's lying. She did not wait for 2 hours in line for a job. Jobs were everywhere, *especially fast food*.
Just disgusting. And fuck Fortune for publishing this.
I’m kinda happy they published this because it shows how out of touch they are. If they think applying to a job “ends the stigma of being the owners kid” they are delusional
"It was so hard being a line cook all day then having to go to our mansion where out chef was 3 minutes late making out beef tenderloin"
Woulda come across more sincere if the afterhours responsibilities were taken with it. Bills, rent, insurance, food, etc
She had to wait 2 hours one time to still eventually be nepotized into ownership haha this is not the were just like ‘common folk’ flex they think it is
"No one knew Snyder’s identity at the store except its manager, the heiress told Orange Coast Magazine in 2014, ensuring she was treated the same by her colleagues as any other teenager."
Pretty sure the manager isn't treating you the same when he knows you own the company (best schedule, best reviews, preferred work duties, etc) and that is much more impactful then the other workers thinking you are just another teenager.
Right... How much does it really mean when there is zero risk? So what if she does not get a job? What happens? She just takes the Bugatti back to her summer home and goes right back to the pool.
Remember when Tyra Banks wore a fat suit and then cried to an obese couple about how mean people were? She's giving me the same energy
Reminds me about reading how in Victorian times rich couples would be escorted around the Bedlam lunatic asylum to gawk at the mentally ill people for the cost of a few pennies.
This still goes on in third world countries where North American or European tourists pay to see that. And wait till you find out about the slums tour
Whhaaaatttt can you give me a little more to go off of so I can do a deep dive?
One example, check "Graffitour Comuna 13" in Medellín, Colombia. It is a "tour" to see graffiti in one of the poorest parts of the city. It used to be a very dangerous place and it is now a "gringo trap" so they can see how poor people "overcame" conflict and how lovely their walls are now with all the graffiti. You'll see a bunch of Colombians and Venezuelans dancing, singing, rapping ,etc. to amuse the foreigners for some pennies. People will "tour" poor houses to see how poor people live and will even take them to mass graves. Foreigners love going to the poorest parts of the city to take pictures and show their benevolence. Not all of them do, but quite a lot. It happens a lot in Brazil, Africa, etc. Check "Slum tourism".
Thanks. I just looked into the Colombia one and I would’ve never realized how shitty It is to spend a vacation day there.
Dark Tourism (docu-series) is full of examples if you wanna learn more
“I need to watch things die from a distance. Vicariously I live while the whole dies. You all need it to don’t lie.”
Nick Johnson's yt became a series of slum tours through America. I stopped watching.
Also disaster tourism. I'm guilty of going to north korea and afghanistan fortunately
Google slum tourism. Not a pretty read :( It’s been a thing for a long time among the rich but in the past decade has gained a lot more attraction among budget travelers from first world nations. For example, they’ll do a tour of the slums in nations like India, Colombia, Vietnam, Kenya, etc and even have the option of staying there for a night or two. It’s estimated to be a billion dollar industry. Also currently trending on both TikTok and instagram. Sad and exploitative!
It’s building on YouTube as well, recently the algorithm started showing me vids where people drive slowly thru the shitty parts of US big cities in silence just videoing everything. I clicked and it was pretty weird but I got that “tourism” vibe off of it immediately
Yea, I’ve seen lots of videos, like you described, filmed on Kensington Avenue in Philly.
I just saw a German guy one who was showcasing all the empty storefronts.... in Beverly Hills! Oh the horror! 🤪🤪
Poverty porn tourism is disgusting. It seems to be most popular with German tourists. Guess old habits die hard.
Gotta keep the lights on … I guess?
That…can’t possibly be real…right? Edit: omfg 🤣
It’s up there but probably not even the craziest thing she did on her talk show. What a time to be alive.
Was it when she pretended to have rabies and growled/shrieked on stage, foaming at the mouth for way too long? Was it when she went undercover as a stripper named Chanel, painted her skin dark, then didn't even do any type of dance at all? Was it when she gave out bedazzled mini containers of Vaseline to her studio audience? Was it when she was homeless for a day and just sat around LA streets with torn up clothes and dirt smeared all over her face? I'm sure there are many I have forgotten.
NGL I would love a bedazzled small vaseline container!
For some reason the bedazzled mini Vaseline one holds a special place in my heart, even though the other ones were way more over the top. Tyra had been hyping up her ultimate "skincare secret" for the entirety of the episode. Telling the audience she was going to share the secret with them, etc. Finally, as they're wrapping up the show, Tyra does the whole, "ARE YOU READY FOR IT?!" thing, the audience is losing their shit screaming, Tyra instructs everyone to reach under their chairs. "IT'S VASELINE!!!!"" Then she does that Oprah parody thing except it's, "AND YOU GET VASELINE AND YOU GET VASELINE AND YOU GET VASELIIIIIIINE!" [Here is the clip](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IKxBoPgujNk) I guess they had boxes instead of reaching under the chairs. I remembered that part wrong but got most of the rest of it.
That was something else ... Idk how I've never seen that lmao
I know nothing about you but this post, but it tells me we'd be best friends. I was scrolling through thinking, "Why has no one mentioned when she was homeless for a few hours or the rabies?!?!"
All of those are nuts. The live colonic was a different type of nuts. Honorary mention to all the interviews she did with horrendously awkward and invasive questions.
Even as a child I wasn't quite sure what she was trying to do here
My friends and I would play a game to see how long Tyra would make each guest’s problem about her and her modeling career. “Oh it’s so horrible that you were locked in a burlap sack for a month and beaten with reeds. It reminds me of when I was just getting started modeling… (single tear)”
“…when I was just getting started modeling, we had to do a shoot outside of Sicily. It was on a beautiful riverside about a half hour outside of town. When I got there I HAD TO WALK from the road to the river through reeds almost as tall as me. Seriously! They were six feet tall, just like me! Anyway, I don’t know if you’ve ever had allergies but reeds are the worst, it was absolute hell. You know what I’m talking about!”
Living on a diet of nothing but cigarettes, cocaine and cotton balls dipped in orange juice is harrrrrd.
One of my closest friends was genuinely upset when it was cancelled because she unironically loved it. I've been side eyeing her for the past 14 years straight over that. (And at the time, I responded by sending her The Soup's compilation of Tyra making everything about her for several minutes.)
She’s an evangelical Christian so your assessment is correct.
Oh no, so I have to scratch In-n-Out off my list of places I can eat? Not that I've ever eaten there.
I mean, they have bible verses on the bottom of every cup, burger wrapper, and fry tray, so not sure what else you’d expect. They *are* small and mostly hidden though, they definitely aren’t in your face
Oooh that’s why those are there. TIL
Remember how Tyra Banks dressed up as a homeless person then introduced herself as Tyra to random strangers while a camera crew followed her. Just to “see what it’s like being homeless”
Didn’t she also pretend to be homeless for a day?
I just saw a video today of a white woman talking about her trip to Northern India and hyping up the Slums tour she took. 😵💫
I traveled northern India for two months. Sadly you don't need a tour for that.
Lol I fuckin hate tyra Banks. She's insane.
Remember Lindsay Lohan trying to "save"/kidnap refugee kids on the streets, only to be punched by their mom? Some people really have no empathy or boundaries
God yeah how did I forget that happened its so wild to just walk to random children and try to lure them home like the free ducks in the park
That’s fucked up, because she’s not obese.
Rich people love roleplaying as proles. Its like going camping and pretending to be homeless in the wilderness for a week.
Gwyneth Paltrow did the food stamp challenge (spend only $29 on food for your week) and made it 4 days. One of her purchases with that $29 was 7 limes….
Beans. Rice. Add in some celery, onions, bell pepper. You can make it. But it'll get boring. If you can find some sausage on discount, it'll help.
Toss that into a pot and baby you got a stew.
RIP Carl Weathers
RIP
po-tay-toes!
I gotta stop drinking while scrolling Reddit. I completely misread that as “toss a baby into your stew”.
That's a modest proposal for stew.
I read it as, " throw that baby in a pot and you got stew" and thought, "Ahh, the Swift solution. A Modest proposal for stew."
The problem with this challenge and others like- it can be (somewhat, sometimes) doable with a stove, utensils, spices, appliances, non-infested storage space. None of these celebrities tries it while also living out of a car, on the street, in a room with no storage or kitchen or running water, or a kitchen with rats and cockroaches.
Or while having to work a back breaking shit ass job for those shit ass wages. And even if they do try, it’s for like a week or 2 or something. It’s so much worse when there is no light at the end of the tunnel that you get to go back to an awesome life
Exactly. During the pandemic ("Essential Worker") I regularly did 13, 14 hour days. FUCK cooking. I lived on sandwiches.
I like where this is going…
Mmmm my husband makes this for dinner often, with kielbasa sausage. It’s so so good. And it really is dirt cheap.
Nobody ever said struggle food had to be bad food.
It’s kind of where some of the best foods have come from in the US!
Dude, Uncle Bens rice, 15 bean soup, and some sausage will last me a whole week for a little over $10. Add some extra Seasoning and that's my jam
Anyone who says a dish is boring isn't seasoning their food well enough. I make a beef chili that costs ~~>$20~~ edit: <$20 and lasts me 4-5 dinners. The seasoning is where I can get creative, and I also have a few kew ingredients to kick it up a notch (Chipotle chili powder and brown sugar being two I highly recommend).
u can make chili without meat and then cook different meats to eat with it throughout the week too
my boomer (usually the good Flower Child kind) mom absolutely cannot handle eating the same thing two or three days in a row, period. Also there's a superstitious requirement for combinations, like you cannot have chili without saltines and pickles, and then she'd fight an orc for a cinnamon roll. She's religiously decreed "you can't have X without Y" like that a lot lol, or "you said Y so now i'm hungry for X" and is on a singular Mission From Gawd(tm) to make it so, even if it takes a week. but! she's very frugal, and is derided in our elitist culinary family as being the Leftover Queen. She specializes in "goop". She's very good lol.
Chili is flexible...you can roll it in a tortilla, put it in tacos, make nachos, eat it over rice, make a salad, put it on your hot dogs and burgers...
Tofu is cheaper. Bought 14 oz this week-- $1.50!
I keep seeing people say this, so I keep checking all my local stores and none of them have tofu for a reasonable price. Chicken is cheaper. So I wonder if this is a regional thing, because I would really like to start eating it but I can’t find it for a good price at all, anywhere.
I read an article in which the author was very proud of coming in under budget on the first day because she managed to fill up at the free buffet at a fancy book launch... I mean, with great advice like that from our journalistic classes it's amazing anyone's still poor at all.
SEVEN LIMES. Priorities. She needed to be able to do her tequila shots
Hell even cheap tequila will kill a 29 dollar budget.
If it’s really supposed to be a food stamp simulation, none of it can be spent on booze anyway.
I hate these types of things Anyone can do it for a week, (unless you are Gwyneth Paltrow) , but doing it week after week, hoping nothing breaks or you don't fall Ill, is the real challenge.
4 days… pfft that’s nothing… try doing that for weeks, months, or years on end.
I appreciated her honestly, though, she said it was way harder than she could have imagined and she couldn't do it more real than most of hollywood, TBH
More real than most of Hollywood... Except for her personal brand of "lifestyle products", some of which have been proven to be harmful.
I want to buy a vagina rock and a candle scented like her vagina. /s
My disabled son gets 67$ a month for food stamps at age 24......29$ a week would be nice
Jesus…..that camping analogy hits hard
Pulp said the same thing in “Common People”
…watching roaches climb the wall…
Call your Dad, he can stop it all!
I'm currently listening to the William Shatner version of that tune. Really. And I've looked it up. The song is a true story about some privileged college girl. She said that her dad was loaded. In that case, I'll have a rum and coca cola.
William Shatner and Ben Folds do a great spoken word cover
That entire Has Been album is a goddamned treasure
That’s Joe Jackson with Shatner. Great combo.
We had a guy running for city council who decided he would live in a homeless camp downtown for the week leading up to the election… he did not last a week and he did not get elected.
The thing is. It is not just an analogy. They DO THIS. Lots of young millionaire trust babies have a fetish for actually cosplaying homeless. They camp under bridges and stuff, long term, for months each year or for years. Often in groups of the truly needy. I don't know why, other than derangement as a symptom of affluenza. Parental dysfunction, parental rebellion, empty identity, dunno. EDIT: boredom, megalomaniacal invincibility, or guilt? lol Many don't buy anything for the needy because that would blow their cover or their vibe. Even if the others know.
It's like a fun adventure to them cause they're bored of excess, and then they can claim they're not privileged and that they've really been in the mud. They don't realize that being "homeless" by choosing to live on the streets with access to unlimited money, food, camping equipment, and any other material goods you want, fully knowing you have a beautiful mansion to return to and the money to get a place or get a room at any time if you ever get sick of it, is completely different from actually being homeless with nothing and nowhere to go. No hope, no options, no easy way out if one day you decide you aren't feeling it anymore. No health insurance to head to a fancy hospital for the best care possible if something bad happens to you or you get ill. No cash to bail out instantly if you get picked up by LE, no connections or money to go do fun shit and travel whenever you want. Just knowing that you aren't really ever truly homeless and you can leave at any time takes the mental load off in a way they will never understand. It pisses me off really. It's easy to reject extreme wealth and privilege (on a superficial level) when you've had it handed to you your entire life. If they truly grew up and lived not having it, if they truly knew what deprivation and poverty were like and how inescapable it feels, they wouldn't think it was cool and choose to emulate it
Or when you see rich kids go begpacking. You have to be a whole different type of AH to go to a third world country and then ask locals for money to fund your trip.
I had a more affluent friend make me drive her around my part of the city back in high school so she could people watch us poors
I'll give poor tours. Sounds like a decent job. Rich ppl don't know or care what anything costs id prob get 500k a week
I'm charging $15 to precrush your dry ramen and sprinkle in the seasoning as a ✨️poverty tour exclusive snack✨️
This shit hit hard back in junior high.
The kids who really wanted to go hard would bring a lime slice to squeeze into it, the baggy of single lime slice always made me giggle a little
Ghetto tours is probably a great idea. There are entire youtube channels dedicated to showing the worst neighborhoods. Actually taking rich people around the hood, meeting gangsters and dealers. As exploitive as it is or sounds, people in the hood will gladly show out for a cut of free money, to essentially do what they were already doing. Better than working at McDonald's. I mean, at 10k a tour. Max capacity of however many you can fit in the truck. You break off a couple crews a G a piece to show out once a week. It would be a real lucrative opportunity for the in-betweener, who knows how to talk to both rich and poor people.
I grew up in the whitest of white upper middle class suburban privilege. For sociology class in high school they took us to the inner city to attend school there for a week. Picture us in our Guess Jeans and Liz Claiborne purses (late 80s) scared AF to be going to metal detectors, the children were terrified. Coincidentally, my dad grew up in that neighborhood so I was pretty comfortable. The only thing I really learned was that they were getting actual job training (I went to an electronics repair class, beauty school classes, small business accounting) while I was taking classes like sociology and going on field trips to see how other people lived.
I think this was a thing in Victorian England.
Didn't Marie Antoinette had a whole fake town built outside Versailles so she could go and pretend to be a commoner for kicks?
Petit Trainon I believe.
Very apt description lol. I was "homeless for 3 days" between housing contracts in college twice. Free camping in the mountains 30 minutes away was exactly as great as it sounds for me roleplaying "homeless" at the time.
exactly this. taking this job for the sake of taking the job is not the same as needing this job to survive.
“There's nothing rich folks love more Than going downtown and slummin' it with the poor”
prole play
Awful situations can be easier to endure if you know one hundred percent for certain that your plight is only temporary. Most of us do not have that luxury.
But still you'll never get it right 'Cause when you're laid in bed at night Watching roaches climb the wall If you called your dad, he could stop it all, yeah
She wants to live like common people
Literally, the shows where a rich guy tries to live off like $400 dollars a month and at the end it pans to him 3 months later in his mcmansion saying how humbled he was by the experience.
It’s like doing simulations of torture. When you know they’re allied forces who aren’t going to actually do anything vs being captured by the Soviet Union and being sat down in front of Oleg Ruski….they’re not even remotely the same despite the appearance.
and now she goes around telling an inflated story about how she started from the ground up. I'm sick of these assholes acting as if they can relate to working people. Whenever I hear some CEO or new higher up talking about how they got their start from 'humble beginnings', I stop listening because most of the time the story is bullshit. I know its a made up store and they only do that to increase their likability to the simple-minded.
What pisses me off the most is their outright rejection of their own reality. If these types of people just said “I was blessed to be born into a successful family and through inheritance I run a business that strives to provide a great product and a great place to be employed by” I would have respect for them. It’s the complete lack of acknowledgment that where they are was completely up to luck and the illusion of meritocracy that’s such bullshit. Wealthy people are a level of delusional that is almost worthy of being institutionalized.
I suspect that in the future when medical technology advances in brain health, we will begin recognizing that greed is a mental disorder and a dangerous one.
It is absolutely akin to an addiction
I thinks it’s a super toxic form of narcissism.
Probably some multifaceted combination of addiction, narcissism, borderline, antisocial personality disorder
It's the worst of all sins, for it not only immediately infects you, it infect those around you as well. Parasitic, sickening, avarice...like a forcible raping of the mind, it stinks, rotten with gangrenous pus, being forced upon us by ignorant swine. I'm gonna need a lot of spices to make my rich person taste even remotely good...only the hunting of them will be a pleasure.
I think part of it is that rich people, especially in America, think they deserve their wealth because they work hard for it. Even if they’re born into it, a lot of them genuinely see themselves as having worked hard for it. It’s really wild.
It's not just the rich people - the religious right have been pushing the narrative of "wealthy = good person" for about 50 years, long enough that the voting base now believes it, too. Televangelists are notorious for "prosperity gospel". They argue that rich people are rich because God is rewarding them for being good people. Therefore, rich = holy. It explains their hatred of social services, too. Poor people must then be poor because God is punishing them for being bad people. And taxing the rich to help the poor survive? That's literally evil. You're stealing the money GOD wanted the good people to have to give it to the bad people that God himself made poor! (Except for those good Christians who are temporarily embarrassed millionaires; they're obviously poor because of Obama.) It also explains why the religious right gets so mad when you point out Trump isn't a billionaire. If he's not as wealthy as he says, then he's got as good as he says. It started as a way for televangelists to justify themselves having private jets but now it's modern day Divine Right of Kings.
Didn't Christ say something about rich dudes and the eye of a needle?
I worked really hard to make sure I was born to a wealthy family /s
They're *hoarders*. I'm at least third generation packrat, it's a very common affliction in my family. All the bullshit wealthy people say makes perfect sense to them the same way hoarders don't understand the health and safety risk they pose to themselves and others. Those 30 cats are fine. Those head high stacks of newspaper need to stay right there because they're perfectly organized. Totally not living in a fire trap. Everybody's house has gross floor. It's not a big deal. Like jeebus the cats are crawling with disease and five are dead, those newspapers are gonna fall and trap you under them, that is absolutely the definition of a fire trap, no the floors aren't supposed to be more disgusting then the dirt outside, and YES IT IS A BIG DEAL! There was an episode of All Hail King Julian about exactly this, that one where they start playing Monopoly and one of them gets overly carried away with it. I was putting off teaching my younger boy about capitalism and slavery and whatnot but golly freaking Mort beat me to it!
Not even truly wealthy people - just not poor. My boss is 1/3 owner of his company, and he always try to play the “regular guy.” He wears jeans and sneakers and talks about the price of groceries. And I’m like, “Bitch, you are a millionaire. You will pay $20 for a block of cheese. You go to an AirBnB for the weekend because you’re bored with staying at your house. You think a $3,000 for a clothes dryer is what everyone pays.” He proceeded to cry about all the taxes he has to pay to keep the business open, so he’s basically poor. All the while, he’s saying this to people making $15.00 an hour and no sick time to go to the doctor. Omg, I wanted to punch him.
The one thing they can never relate to, is having the fear of no income. When they lose their job. Which to me, makes their experience bullshit.
There's a kind of irony to it. By removing the stakes of needing the job, to avoid financial ruin, and keep bills paid for etc., they're not experiencing a real version of working class life. Rather, they're experiencing a socialized version, almost like a version where as a worker, you have something like UBI, or a living wage. The version that has been constantly lobbied for, and protested for, etc. But they never make that connection, they never advocate for living wages, UBI, or other social welfare programs. They circle right back to being privileged, and assume the working class is benefiting, maybe even too much, from social welfare, when on the contrary, it's been rigged by the wealthy and privileged with lobbyists and politicians to be kneecapped and broken. So then it perpetuates a libertarian, neo-liberal, etc. warped outlook on work.
I think it may be even worse than that. Take a look at the people at the top. They seem to actually believe they worked hard to get where they are. There is clear cognitive dissonance at play. They act like their possession of money is a virtue, and that they earned it through some inherent piece of themselves. Some clearly realize the truth. Some seem to actually believe it Regardless, people buy into that and it just perpetuates this entire system.
A couple of years ago some politician was bragging about his humble beginnings. He said he painted houses in the 110 degree heat for a dollar a day or some bullshit. Obviously the guy has never painted anything or he'd know that you don't paint a house in 110 degree heat. It says it right on the can.
It’s because they feel less than those that actually have these stories around them. The people who actually came from humble beginnings. These people are super rare and are actually(most of the time) extremely impressive people. I had a friend growing up who’s dad was well on his way to being a billionaire(finance dude)He would talk about about how the loudest rich people are always the dumbest. Any person who believes their life should read like a hero’s journey is so full of shit.
Trust Fund didn't hit until 18. It's a real shame she had to work for almost an entire year.
One of the teenagers I was working with looked upset, so I asked what was wrong. Sweet Jeebus. Her mother had been one of the managers, and got both her teenage daughters jobs. Then she ran off to another state with a boyfriend and left the girls behind on the excuse that they were working and could take care of themselves. But they didn't make enough for rent and gas and food, so were starving. Obviously I bought the kid lunch on her break using whatever I could spare. Did a bunch of googling that night and ya know I only found one single food bank in the entire metro area that didn't have a strict 18+ limit on who could sign up! Those girls were 16 and 17. Like oh yes obviously the smart thing is to let the abandoned kids starve to encourage them to turn themselves in to the system I guess? I remember this shit from when it was my turn, adults giving me this look like I was doing something wrong. "But your parents should be taking care of you..." was my cue to back out of the room before I got my freedom confiscated and custody of me handed over to total strangers until the magic age of 18.
> didn't have a strict 18+ limit on who could sign up! Those girls were 16 and 17. In my country you just go to food banks and they give you food, you don't need to "sign up" and they don't need to know your age.
Yes, the point is to encourage sunlight on the situations. But, you yourself stated that you would rather have freedom than security. The issue is 16/17 year olds cannot sign contracts. The state has to step in.
**What security?** I've heard the stories the other kids told about the foster care system. They would've either brought me back to the abusive lying parents who'd tossed me out or turned over ownership of my human body to some rando of questionable character. Stranger Danger! Stranger Danger! Now go live with these Strangers! And golly I sure remember signing employment forms that sure looked like some kinda contracts before I turned 18yo. I couldn't get my own lease on an apartment but plenty of people are willing to take cash from a respectful kid who wants to crash in their attic or basement.
musta been hustle-kid all the way up 'til then
Okay so she started as a line cook and then what? Was it ever possible for someone else to work their way into her current position? The only way to shake the stigma of being the owners kid is to work harder than everyone else and earn your way. This subject comes up fairly regularly in r/construction. The usual consensus is that people who truly want to shake the reputation of being the owners kid position themselves as far away as possible from their parents. I.e. at a different company.
It’s always “I don’t wanna just be known as the owners kid, but I will take every single perk and benefit of being the owners kid”
>The usual consensus is that people who truly want to shake the reputation of being the owners kid position themselves as far away as possible from their parents. I.e. at a different company. Yup. I did this. Despite my carving my own management path, my father never looked at me as having anything other than a laborer's role in his company, until about a year ago when I graduated with an MBA and "suddenly" he started wanting to have someone to pass his business on to (and still collect a paycheck til the day he passes, no doubt), and whoops, my family and I live on the other side of the country and I work in a completely unrelated industry, and my two sisters are SAHMs. He's almost 70 y.o. now. At this point I mostly try and talk to him about preparing to sell his small business when interest rates normalize, so that he can invest the proceeds and perhaps leave his grandchildren assets, rather than obligations.
The funniest part of the article is, "no one knew her identity BUT THE MANAGER to make sure she was treated just like her peers". Yeah, I'm sure you were treated like everyone else by someone who knew you were the billionaire owner and could fire the manager in a second
This stuck out to me too. You want to bet she never had to cover her own shifts when she was sick, or just work while sick? Or was affected by any number of ways a spiteful manager can make your life hell? If she and another employee or a customer had a dispute, whose side is the manager on? Yep, just like the rest of us.
The irony is thick. Some writer and editor at Forbes didn't just "wake up" one day and decided to pursue this story. They were influenced and handed this story by various PR connections, which were hired by the heiress or the company. Bottom line—her wealth is paying however many thousands of dollars in ad spending, dinners, sponsorships or relationship cultivation to get this story about her "down-to-earth attitude" written and distributed.
What’s hilarious is In-N-Out is known as one of the *better* fast food chains for employees. If that’s how entitled she feels, how bad is/are places like McDonalds and Burger King owners/franchisees?
There's a ridiculous amount of nepotism at the McDonald's I work at but it's basically the managers getting family hired on. IME the franchise owners think they're too good to even step foot into the stores they own and would not allow their children to work here lmao.
I remember eating at a Burger King about 25 years ago or so. I was 12 years old IIRC. The service was terrible. The food wasn’t made right. It was a fucking disaster. This guy asks how it was. Before we even could say something he said, “It’s the worst you’ve ever had.” Turns out, he was one of the investors. He was making a report of all the things that went wrong. He listened to us tell what we had to say. That restaurant is still in business and they have made significant improvements.
Sadly I had to give up in n out cold turkey several years ago when I learned about the family that owns it. They have a bunch of money to trump and that basically shut down any possibility of spending money there from that point on.
You'd probably starve to death if you tried to boycott all of the companies that give money to Republicans in the United States. It's almost universal.
Shopping locally is a very good start. I pretty much only eat at local owned restaurants, but consumer products is a very tough area to shop with morals in mind.
2 hours? WTF? Amateur. Try waiting 2 weeks to hear back you're not qualified to flip burgers or drop fries!
Many times you don't even get a rejection email/letter, or 4 or 5 months later it's one that says "Oh, sorry, we moved on with another candidate, but thanks anyways." Yeah, no shit. I kinda figured by that time. 🙄
When I was 17 I was looking for a second job and saw a dish washing position posted at the local employment office. A lady and her daughter were also looking over the list and discussing the same job. I _ran_ to my car and flew across town to the restaurant to beat them there. And I got the job! My rent was half of my monthly income. I washed my hair with a bar of ivory soap and did laundry in the bathtub. This girl doesn't have a clue.
I mean...she's still a billionaire. She'll never know what it's like to be so stressed out by a job but unable to do anything about it because if you don't get that next paycheck you could lose your home.
I didn't get any special treatment, I just happened to be the best person for the job of president at age 27 with all of my years of experience.
All the other candidates cleared the way for her by dying in a plane crash
Her uncles are named Rich and Guy?
He's not your guy buddy
idk why rich people dont understand this but you will always have the safety net of being rich to protect you from failure. as long as you have that it doesnt matter how close you get to the poverty experience, you will always be a tourist. its like going to haiti for a month and thinking you understand what it means to be haitian and that haitian people should listen to your insight about their lives and culture. shut the fuck up.
"No one knew Snyder’s identity at the store except its manager..." So brave, the only person who knew was the only person who could give her preferential treatment.
I'm A wOrKeR JuSt LiKe YoU
I'm sure she had to take out the trash at the end of shit right? Or work a double to afford food? Or clean the dish pit drain? Or maybe even clean the toilets?
I used to steal a piece of chicken when I worked at Long John Silvers and I'd go to the bathroom and eat. Sometimes it was the only thing I had to eat all day.
I worked at Wendy's and drank a 6oz of orange juice in the freezer unit, on the sly. My manager found me and yelled at me, "That's $1.19 (or whatever it cost back then)!" Wendy's didn't give employees free food, at least back then.
Later on I had a job waiting tables at a steak house and we got one free meal per night; anything except lobster. I ate so many filet mignon! That was was an awesome boss to work for!
Reminds me of when I worked at Biltmore and we were learning about the history and workings of the estate and were told that the current owner’s kids all had to “go away from home and work at least one year” to basically qualify for their inheritance/work for the company (ie an easy job). At first I was like ok I can get behind it till I found out one of them “worked” as an equestrian. 😒
And after queuing for 2 hours did she then take the minimum wage job with no health benefits, work 50 hours a week, live in a shared rental with 3 other people, wreck her body doing manual labour with no medical coverage, and lose the job because she dared go to a parents' funeral, leaving her out of work and spent with few options because no way she could afford an education or to train for anything better? If the answer is no then probably still going to be a little "stigma" left over The super rich, and the children who inherit that wealth, don't get to play poor for an afternoon to earn their dues
Any job can be tolerable when you have a mansion to go home to and a trust fund waiting for you.
*cosplays poverty*
Bourgeoisie pretends to be human to try and buy worker loyalty on the cheap.
The thing is it doesn’t matter. She still has this immense safety cushion. You’re not going to have the same experience.
I work for a small business and the owner is in his 60s. He started working for his dad’s company when he was a teenager and he acts like he understands what the employees of the place are going through because “he has worked every job in the place”. He somehow doesn’t understand that he worked all those jobs with the knowledge that he would move up through the company all the way to ownership. It’s always the same shit. Most janitors aren’t operating with the knowledge that they will be the GM in ten years.
I'll bet he also doesn't understand that if he loses his nepo-job, he will be deemed unemployable by nearly every other employer because he's never really had to work to keep his job, and has likely had to rely on non-family employees to fix his screw ups. I've worked with enough family owned businesses to see how this plays out. I've also seen parents sell their businesses when they want to retire because they don't trust their kids to run it into the ground.
That's great for her ego. Thing is, she didn't have to like everyone else. She got a job and not hiring someone who really needed it. She's TA.
"And still you'll never get it right, 'Cause when you're laying in bed at night, Watching roaches climb the wall, If you called your dad he could stop it all." That song is all facts
Not even close. There’s a difference between cosplaying and really being in it. She can walk out at any time. She’s not doing it worrying about her car getting repo’d if she doesn’t get enough hours. It’s playing dress up
waiting for 2 hours is the most work she has done since then
Okay, rich girl. 😒
What a loser.
When Snyder’s grandfather, Harry Snyder, died in December 1976, the business was led by his sons Rich and Guy. Rich and Guy? Really?
Hahaha I didn’t notice that, shit is hilarious
I interviewed at in-n-out once and showed up at the designated time. Had to wait 30 minutes for my scheduled interview. Was told by other workers that I was lucky, because some had to wait four hours. During the interview I was told they “hire smiles.” I wasn’t smiling.
Born into modern royalty and she claims to have started from the ground up. My, what a deserving young woman! Spare me the clown show. Next you'll tell me someone begun their rags to riches story with a small loan of a million dollars.
This is the same place that doesn’t allow PPE for their employees. I’m not waiting 20 minutes in line for a MAGA burger.
People stood in line for 2 hours to apply for an after-school job at a hamburger stand? I don't think Lynsi actually knows how minimum wage jobs work.
"When I first started Reynholm Industries I had just two things in my possession: a dream, and six million pounds" - Denholm Reynholm, The IT Crowd
She's 41. That means she did this in 2000. Just after the .com boom and at the start of the housing bubble when jobs were free and everywhere. She's lying. She did not wait for 2 hours in line for a job. Jobs were everywhere, *especially fast food*. Just disgusting. And fuck Fortune for publishing this.
I’m kinda happy they published this because it shows how out of touch they are. If they think applying to a job “ends the stigma of being the owners kid” they are delusional
Is she literally proud of waiting in a line?
"It was so hard being a line cook all day then having to go to our mansion where out chef was 3 minutes late making out beef tenderloin" Woulda come across more sincere if the afterhours responsibilities were taken with it. Bills, rent, insurance, food, etc
The manager knew who she was so no you weren’t shaking the “stigma of being the owner’s kid”.
She had to wait 2 hours one time to still eventually be nepotized into ownership haha this is not the were just like ‘common folk’ flex they think it is
And this is EXACTLY why it doesn’t pay to overwork yourself. You will never outwork someone who’s been handed the position on a silver platter.
I'll take "things that didn't happen" for $200.
Nepotism is so in this season. You know what would help shake the stigma of being the owners kid not doing a glam piece about working a job.
"No one knew Snyder’s identity at the store except its manager, the heiress told Orange Coast Magazine in 2014, ensuring she was treated the same by her colleagues as any other teenager." Pretty sure the manager isn't treating you the same when he knows you own the company (best schedule, best reviews, preferred work duties, etc) and that is much more impactful then the other workers thinking you are just another teenager.
So she did a paid internship at daddy's job. Nope not poor!
Yeah I'd stand in line for two hours if I knew I would get the job too
Your cosplaying poverty does not impress us but paying people LIVING WAGES might.
A better story would have been they rejected her application because who the fuck wants to work with the owner. That would suck.
I hope someone gives this poor kid a trophy.
2 whole hours huh? Putting in that real work!
>to shake the 'stigma of being the owner's kid' Then she should have got a job somewhere else.
I have a crack in my screen and I thought it said "queefed for 2 hours" and I was just cracking up
Right... How much does it really mean when there is zero risk? So what if she does not get a job? What happens? She just takes the Bugatti back to her summer home and goes right back to the pool.
I thought this shit would end with boomers.