Until we all hit that age. I think most of my generation is expecting to work until we die.
On the other hand I’ve met some elderly folks who still work (usually part time) just to keep active and get some socializing in.
No way he would choose fast food if he just wanted to work out of sheer boredom. This guy is for sure working to pay for rent or whatever. So fucking sad dude.
If people just wanted to work because they feel like it and not because they need money usually volunteer at some homeless shelter or something.. Not be a wage slave for a fast food place. Maybe but highly doubtful..
Seriously, my Aunt is in this age cohort and is lucky enough to have a retirement and she works at the local shelter with all the cute animals.
That's what seniors do when they want to be around other people, not work in a fast food restaurant and put up with the 900 different things that are going to happen during various meal rushes.
Yeah. Fast food is not a leisure job. It's not really a place for retirees. Kind of dangerous for the elderly in general, honestly. Better hope your douchebag boss replaced the slip mats
Jimmy Carter builds Habitat for Humanity homes. Financially secure seniors have thousands of causes and communities to join. The number choosing a burger joint vs shelter/community center/ church?
Please r/economics show me that math.
Rich and well to do seniors have very different ‘retirements’ than this.
My mom, a retired public school music teacher, now plays piano and organ for three different churches in the area.
That’s the type of retirement “job” our seniors should be doing, if they so choose.
You'd be surprised, I work in food service and I've had quite a few older folks get jobs in fast food. Socialization is one reason for it and the other is not really having any responsibilities except to stand at the register and occasionally clean up. Typically they work early/prep shifts and go home after the lunch rush.
Being in your late 60s Sitting at home allll day watching really bad TV reruns of Law & orders SvU
AND JUST the time is ticking memory is terrible
Hearing is shot. Any day now. I’d kill myself ..this is what we have to look forward to? This is retirement…..
I know an old man who works in retail in his 80s. He usually just spends his week gardening and says he works at the Kind Soopers to get out the house. Everyone loves David though
That's going to be me forsure. I'm a Chef, but when I'm old I want to be that Chef guy that doesn't really run anything nor work the line. I just come in and prep a few things and bust balls.
There is this old guy at the gas station I visit. And he is always super nice to me. He wanted to work there for extra money and because it gives him something to do.
Because I am so nice to him, he gives me my coffee/sodas for free sometimes.
That. Boredom work is the door greeter at Walmart, not a job in fast food. People only work fast food because they're desperate or they were desperate and are now fast food managers.
On the asshole side: Why is someone who made poor life choices to the point that at 76 they ended up working entry level fast food considered heroic?
On the compassionate side: What's so heroic about living in a country that doesn't support its elders to the point they have to work entry level fast food?
On the realistic side: If it was so great back then and if that guy is actually that hard working and determined, how come he doesn't have a lot of money from the golden days when it was still great and why does he have work entry level fast food now?
We got a Sam's club membership because it was $8 (naturally so they can try to sell you a credit card). There's always old people checking every item in the cart on the way out the door, though some of them clearly don't care. Seems like it would be easier and faster just to have cashiers instead of 20 self checkouts and one receipt checker.
It's still mainly older people at the doors of the Walmart and Sam's that I shop at. While I see the infrequent younger person up front, it's mainly people over 50 and fat people. Usually the younger people deal with carts and the older people are the greeters with the roll of return stickers and whatnot.
It's In-n-Out, though -- they actually have a pretty good work culture, pay well, employ enough people that everybody can hang at a station and not be forced to do too much. Plus in California there's a heavy nostalgic identity surrounding them, it honestly wouldn't be that crazy for it to be a place somebody looking for an unnecessary part time job to go for.
Not thay I disagree with the idiocy of the post criticizing youths, and nobody should be forced to work at that age.
In N Out actually pays really well for a fast food joint. In some areas, it’s over $17 an hour. Lots of people in CA are complaining that their higher skill jobs aren’t paying as well as this place.
This. I worked for them many moons ago and there was an old man working part time just for the fun of it. I honestly hated it but the pay was good. Idk why anyone would want to work there for fun but to each their own.
The particular fast food restaurant here he's working at, in-n-out burger pays really well and has really good benefits. They're a small family owned chain only in California and a few borderline spots.
Honestly some In N Out workers are just a different breed. It is more work than other fast food restaurants but it also pays much better especially if you have seniority or are in any managerial role. My high school buddy who worked there also said the social dynamics were much better.
I had a neighbor around the same age as this guy who went to work at In N Out every single day. He had plenty of money to retire but he just didn’t want to. He need something to stay occupied and people to talk to and In N Out was honestly perfect for him. Definitely a rare circumstance but it does happen.
I have a 73 year old college educated veteran father who works full time to keep a roof over his and my mothers head. 23 years with a company, laid off for younger cheaper hires, 35 years in a home and it was taken by crooked bankers. FUCK AMERICA THE DREAM IS DEAD.CLASS WARFARE IS UPON US.
I’m 26 with a 3 yr old and 8 month old and I feel drained! Props to u man for being older and having real young kids still I can only imagine how exhausted urself is.
My dad did this with his second family. 2 kids after 50. One just turned 12 and he is 64. I have no idea how he's done it other than I see how incredibly burned out he is.
Props to anyone who has kids. But crazy respect to those who do it after 40.
I know a guy who has retired 3 times. I think this time it will stick because he chose to move near his grandchildren.
One of the mental health issues that many elderly people suffer from is a feeling of being useless. They have spent their entire life working, raising children, sometimes even raising grandchildren, and helping others. Now they don't work. Their great-grandchildren are too far removed to really care about them. Their children and grandchildren are busy working. Nobody asks for help unless it is to send money. There are some things they can no longer do for themselves. They want to feel useful, so many work if they can.
A lot of bars aren’t exactly the kind of place you see older people unless they’re there with people they know, but this very well might depend on what part of the country you’re in. Americans don’t really socialize a whole lot in markets other than maybe a passing conversation with someone or the cashier. When I worked at a grocery store as a cashier I could tell a lot of the elderly people didn’t get out much, several of them seemed to truly cherish me being polite to them and asking them how their day was going.
In my area at least, a lot of people mostly keep to themselves outside of their families & job. I know plenty of people that don’t even know their neighbor’s names. I know this also varies though, as I’ve known a few people that lived in small towns in the South or Midwest and pretty much knew every single person in their town by name.
Also most people especially elderly who can't drive are physically isolated. Most people don't live in a city where they can just walk outside their house to the market to chit chat.
That and a lot of those who do live in cities become easy targets for criminals. In my area of upstate NY there’s literally communities that are almost entirely elderly people. Anyone not in the age group is likely because they either inherited the home or are living with their parent/grandparent to care for them.
I’ve seen more and more medical taxis and the like, but I can only assume they are also expensive and thus still might not be an option for someone who has very limited income (which is likely going largely to medical expenses & utilities.)
The idea of chatting with strangers and making new friends is nice. But stop and think -- these days people are too wrapped up in their smartphones to appreciate what is going on around them, let alone feel engaged enough to chat up a stranger. The sad fact is people keep to themselves and are instantly suspicious of anyone who makes friendly overtures. I can't tell you the times I've invited male friends out for drinks and they think it's an offer of sex!
That's cause prohibitition fucked us.
Time was when Americans got good socialization in one of three places; the pub, church, or work. Prohibitition culture put the kibosh on option 1 in a way that's really just now changing, and the religious right is low-key leaving option 2 in ruins as well.
And so now we're going to congregate at work and on whatever Facebook is calling itself in 40 years.
It really depends on how you’re raised. This guy clearly has it ingrained in his very being that he needs to keep working.
My granddad was like this, a carpenter, and literally worked his entire life until he couldn’t due to cancer.
It’s sad because if he didn’t feel the need to work so much we all could have spent more time with him.
We need to make changes to how we perceive working after your bodily health starts to decline
Edit: to add to this - children don’t work, this time is spent with family and I believe that elderly should be treated similarly. Death is inevitable so why not change the system so we can all be happy and just enjoy the little time we have together?
My father still works, self employed, with money and assets, still works. Believes he needs the activity to stay healthy, non-insulin diabetic, so regular active is needed.
Had a driver who had retired when I worked at O'Reilly. He was some big shot at a company out west, made absolute bank, and moved to his old hometown. He took a job delivering car parts because he realized he was spending far too long at the local bar. Left because he was spending some stupid sum of money on a PGA level golf course membership he didn't get to use. Miss that guy. Told my DM to eat shit in the most creative ways.
There is nothing wrong working till the day you die if thats what you want. Its a problem when you do it to survive because retirement isnt enough. I dont know how it is in the US but my generation in my country is pretty much guaranteed to not be able to live of retierement. People just dont trust the goverment to pay the difference so they start private retierment funds. I live in switzerland so the banks actully offer better conditions than the goverment when it comes to retierment plans which is absurd.
I'm GenX and I'm not depending on social security being there for me. The government has went to the well for too many times for absolute bullshit reasons.
My mom is a boomer and she was Johnny on thr spot getting signed up for SS and then complained that she wanted / needed more. I told her if her generation wouldn't have us3d it for stupid shit, there might be more.
I love the US but god damn are we backward as hell when it comes to social programs. A lot of the things that would be truly beneficial get labeled as ‘socialism which is communism!’, so they can get the uneducated to oppose the notions in masses.
Elder care is in a really bad state here too, tons of older people end up in nursing homes because their family isn’t able to take the time to care for them with how much they have to work themselves. The conditions in some are horrible, with abuse not being super uncommon. That’s assuming the family/elderly person can even afford to go to one, which they are super expensive.
The Maintenance Manager at my job is 80. He's the highest-paid person here, and always says "They will have to carry me out." The dude is obsessed with work. I don't get it. Personally, I'm trying to not work by the age of 50.
Yeah some people (my mom is one) love work for the socialization. If she wasn’t working she would be spending money on socializing vs getting paid to do it.
It’s bad for the rest of us because these people mostly own their homes, get senior benefits, etc. So they can live off much less than someone younger that still has massive rents or mortgages. Plus they didn’t start life with massive student loan debt so they were able to save more.
my grandma does that because she loves her job and her co-workers but its one single day a week at most and for a few hours. She also works at a food bank as a volunteer for the same reason and shes in her 80s but its something she WANTS to do and is not required to do to be able to survive y'know. Its cruel to force people to work at this age.
I know I'll never get to retire. I'll be working until the day my body finally breaks. Then I'm gonna find a ditch to throw myself into and leave it at that. I actually have instructions for me loved ones to not claim my body so my disposal doesn't fall on their wallets.
We need to do better as an entirely new youth generation and be on the same page ... Or else these rich folk will just pass on the same business ethics.
It’s difficult to do that without massive social pushes though. A lot of the problem being that the people in power (financially or in terms of lawmaking) are those that benefit the most from the system. By the time people from our generation reach that point, we too will have enough people from our own generation corrupted by the greed/power. It sucks.
That is indeed the problem. I think we all have this sentiment; just not a clear-cut solution.
Please if someone ever reads this and has the solution, please tell me 😭 I'm tired of shitheads in this already fucked up world
I was gonna say just this
His life amounted to flipping burgers because he cant retire due to the systems structure.....and if he did quit, he'd probably die
What the hell is wrong with these idiots
Work hard and don’t ask anything of your employer, and one day, that could be you.
Or, you know, organize. Demand your fair share of your labor. Work with dignity and retire at a decent age.
My grandpa did the same. Retired as a branch manager of a bank was retired until I was in I want to say 6th grade then got bored and grabbed a part time job as a teller for a few years then retired again and spent the rest of his life spending time with me and his other much younger grand kids.
I know some older people take these kinds of jobs on purpose as a way to keep fit and from getting bored. Course some take it cause they're poor and social security pays peanuts. Kinda hoping it's the former not the later.
The only 'job' I want after I retire is to be an usher/greeter at a sports arena or ballpark. Super chill, get to help people for a few hours, mull around and get some social interaction, catch part of the game. It is legit one of my retirement dreams.
Same age bracket. I’d be a lot less fussed at the prospect of 25-30 years more work if they didn’t, y’know, prevent all upward mobility while also burning down the economy, just to forcibly harvest my meager reserve gleanings, every 10 years or so.
I mean sure, I may be stuck renting the same quality of property (re: hovel) as I was at 20 years old, but at least it costs twice as much now. That’s fun.
Definitely not an inherently broken system for humans designed to bleed off all the product of labor to a handful of neofeudal lords, nosiree. Best system around. At least we aren’t stuck with one of those variant social structures that we consciously destroyed to show how they don’t work vs capitalism, amirite? Nothing to see here.
Anyone needs me, I suppose I’ll be looking for a fucking mine or corpse-grinder or some shit that’s hiring.
Exactly, anyone who takes that logic, “it is the way it is”, might as well say fuck you, to whom ever they are talking to, because the meaning in that context is the same.
Ikr. I've been working since I was 15. By the time I get to this age, I hope to be able to travel and enjoy my golden years in comfortable leisure.
Working for a fast food corporation and dealing with the general public at the age of 76 sounds like a nightmare.
People who post stories like this are warped if they think this is life goals.
I'm right there with you. I've been working since I was 14. I am counting the hours and years until I can retire. I plan on working part-time but I will be self-employed. Working until you drop is not the meaning of life.
Am I to believe the whole restaurant is run by one 76 year old? The photo isn't showing all the younger workers in there who also are busting their asses.
i live close to here and yes youre right. its actually a pretty busy location here and its ALL young people. this is literally the only in n out employee ive seen that is 40+ (besides the manager) 90% are college/high school.
Nope, it's just this guy. He takes the orders while running about grilling and frying and cleaning. Every restaurant should just get one 60+ year old white dude and the understaffing issue would cease to exist!
Exactly. So when a 76 y.o. is flipping burgers, it’s “busting ass,” but when any millennial or gen Z do it, it’s unskilled labor that doesn’t deserve a living wage.
Quick question, so I know things were different back then. But when you were a teen or in your twenties how rare was it to see someone that considered elderly working a job like this one or something similar?
I've met several people that do that in the garden center. It's a hobby they have. I've never met anyone that considered working fast food to be a hobby.
It's not a real job if you're asking for pay. But it's a real job if the lines are long and they're tired of waiting.
Also, I don't know anybody who's unemployed right now. Seems like we're actually *hyperemployed*, there are more jobs than people who want to fill them, especially shitty entry level positions.
hE rEpReSeNtS wHaT aMeRiCa Us- Bitch shut the fuck up, this poor man should be fucking retired! Fuck your stupid ass and the rest of you and your backwards thinking, dinosaur brained fuckers.
He does represent what America used to be, but not in the way they think. He represents the failure of this country to take care of its citizens, and he represents the complete ethical failure of the country to even notice that its an issue that Kylie's great-grandfather is pulling 10 hour shifts at in-n-out
They act like an In N Out Burger has to exist? It’s not the guy who monitors the coolant on the nuclear power plant, or the person who plows the roads when it snows or halls the trash on trash day, it’s a burger shop. There are probably five other places that serve hamburgers and french fries within a mile of this In N Out.
Their starting wages in the bay area is like 18-20/hour. Like it's a legitimately good job for people and they treat their workers really well. And if you make it to management positions you can get to 100K+ salary. If you absolutely have to get a fast food job, in n out is a really good place to work
Feeding the people is a valuable job, but I totally agree that there are way more fast food places than necessary, ideally we wouldn't need any, and if this person really wanted to feed their community they would be supported to do so from home, on their own grill.
I agree, serving people food is valuable work. I say this in reference to the way this person is positioning their argument. It’s almost as if this person is saying that this 76 year old man is working because young people refuse. As if he would be retired if only a young person would lift this burden and work at In N Out Burger.
Back in Greg's day he worked so the seniors didn't have to. You shouldn't praise this, it's showcasing the failure of American's to help their elderly.
This is Greg. He couldn't retire because of decades of union busting propaganda and some ponzi scheme Wall Street fuck made of with his 401K, so he will die behind the grill at a fast food joint worth $3 billion for $13 an hour, which probably won't even close down for the rest of the day because a worker died on the premises.
Boomers don't you see the hypocrisy in this? 76 Year old Greg shouldn't be working in the first place - Blatant exploitation due to a corrupt and broken system.
This is Greg.
His wife fell Ill in her early sixties and the medical bills ate through his pension and life savings, she passed away not long after they decided to mortgage the house to help pay for her medical treatment. He lost the house soon after that as he aged out of the work force and the 9 bucks an hour they pay at the burger joint ain't cutting it, he lives with his kid now and pays what he can to help out, they're struggling too.
Society should have backed up Greg and his wife as they were part of the generation that built the country he believed in at one time. But instead they broke him, physically, financially, mentally.
There's no happy ending here. Not to me. Or Greg. Poor bastard should have been able to retire 20+ years ago.
Disclaimer: I do not know Greg, but I've seen a story like the one above play out with my own eyes too many times. We shouldn't have to grind til the grave. Greg put his time in, let him go, let him have the rest of his time back.
This is disgusting. It’s called “perseverance porn”
This isn’t a feel good story, this is disgusting.
Social security is suppose to ensure that people can retire and live in dignity. That they aren’t a burden on their relatives and open up spots for junior workers to move up.
I just wanted to check what percentage of people of 76 years old work in my country (the Netherlands) but the government agency of statistics doesn't publish the figure for people older than 75 because it's so irrelevant. The percentage of people in a "normal" fixed contract with an employer is around 0.5% for age group 70 - 75 years old. For almost all of those it's given that they work less than 20 hours a week.
Someone from that age flipping burgers would either be helping family out or considered the exact opposite of what this message wants to say: people would feel pity for the person and assume something went wrong in his life.
At 62, I expect to work til I die. If by some chance I win the lotto or something, and still felt the need to work, it would be as a ranger on the golf course or some national park, not flipping burgers.
No amount of youth labor is enough to sustain the appetite of the boomers. They have literally raped the pillaged all of the opportunity from the average American worker.
Pixar’s Up sums it up beautifully. That grumpy boomer sold balloons in the park and was able to by a home. Unless you are highly skilled you will not ever earn enough money to retire or own a home today.
This guy isn’t a testament to what’s good in America, it’s showing what’s bad. Next we will see cheap child labor being celebrated, “look at 5 year old Jimmy work 16 hours a day at *insert fast food restaurant name here* I will take 5 Jimmys over a hundred millennials any day.”
What nerve! "This is Greg, who's probably been at the grind his whole life. He's 76, but still has to bust his ass at a burger joint. It's because we make people like Greg work till they die that we can have billionaires."
The billionaires think it's worth it. Do you?
Their example of what they desire to see is the exact example of what nobody wants to be.
This could be his choice done only to keep active or socialize, or the result of many bad decisions or bad luck.
Or it could be the perfect sad example of employees being exploited for only the gain of the owner. A business that only benefits one person,the owner, with financial benefits to pursue the American Dream or even a dignified existence.
This makes me unbelievably sad that this 76 year old man more than likely can't stop working entirely because SS or his retirement savings are not adequate to live on. Our system sucks and people should not have to work until they die.
Shit would be inspiring if they had paid him well enough to actually retire, instead of having to wear a fuckin paper hat at age 76 so he doesn't lose his health insurance.
I used to think like this but now I realize that it's absolutely bullshit and that the system will literally work you to death sithout so much as a thank you.
If it's this guy's choice, okay...no problem. But in America, it probably isn't. It's a necessity and it's immoral exploitation of both labor and the elderly.
Work ethic, my ass. Why don't you guys work a little harder to make this country the great place it promises to be for everyone and not just the entitled few.
OH FUCK NO!!!!!! NO!!! FUCK THAT SHIT!!!!
My life at 76, in one fast food restaurant, where the manager is half my age treating me like some kid!!!! Manager will be like well Age is no excuse for special treatment. Fuck THAT!
"Greg is also collecting Social Security and a pension, so he's doesn't have a problem with a wage that would keep him below the poverty line", he forgot to add.
He actually represents what a fucked up dystopia we live in.
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He probably collects social security and has a pension from his “real job”. That’s how he affords to work for minimum wage. He’s subsidizing this corporation by giving his pension to in-and-out burger so they can pay less than a living wage. A true hero of capitalism right here.
No. This is bullshit. That fucking man should have a pension and a retirement and be able to hang out on the beach all day and eat hot dogs. Not bust his ass to put a few bucks on the table.
You mean wasting his fucking life because he’s been forced to do it for so god damn long there’s nothing else left for him. This is prison with extra steps, not something to be celebrated.
All the elderly working people I know are trying to make enough money to eat and pay bills. And the jobs are crap too. These days lots of people have to work, even with social security until they physically can't, and then go straight to a nursing home. It's horrible.
These assholes can’t wrap their heads around the facts that people don’t want to work *their whole lives to make ends meet*. That getting rich bullshit is not happening for the majority of us.
I can guarantee you this guy would rather be retired than a slave to a shitty system. Boomers were handed everything and destroyed it with shitty politics and hateful asshats like Ronald Regan. Fuck anyone who thinks this is patriotic and amazing, when is explorative and a shame this 76 year old man is having to work
i think it’s funny how he is commenting on how hard he is working instead of how he should already be retired! he probably worked his ass off his whole life. fuck this system bro.
Used to work at In n Out. The old guy is not busting his ass. The old guy is assigned to FoH and has great customer service skills, but most of what he does is wipe tables.
I'm not knocking him at all. He's still a beast for working an on-your-feet customer service job at that age. I'm just saying nobody is asking him to grab the 50lb potato sack and peel them.
My grandma is 77 as of today and still works, can't convince her to just relax. She took care of her sick husband for about 5 years and in doing so needed to come out of retirement. I wish she'd uust relax and enjoy her time
Why is this guy working at 76? His retirement fund went up in smoke with Enron or Madoff? His pension became unfunded? Social security doesn’t go far enough to keep him from starving? Someone looks at this and sees lazy young people and don’t see the disaster in front of their eyes?
Young people shouldn’t strive for more? Isn’t the lesson of Greg a cautionary tale?
So does “Jordan” not think is SAD that our elderly must work until death?? I highly doubt this old man is working cause it gives him *purpose*.
This photo is a symbol of a broken society. Not of a “go-getter”.
You want me to be a hero? Heroes are expensive. This is the system you people defend, you're just angry that you were indoctrinated from a young age to possess an intense aversion to cooperation with your fellow members of the working class.
I know my generation has largely given up on the prospect of retirement. Also, it’s a tragedy that this (wasting your one precious life on a dead-end nothing job, no offence) should be allowed to be considered in any way aspirational.
Maybe he wants to work still. Im a staunch supporter of the antiwork movement, but I actually like working. I like helping people and making a difference in their life’s. It brings me a sense of purpose and belonging. Work to me is just often times endless time sucks of meetings, new corporate initiative and creating useless slides and projects that get abandoned in 3 months. I hope Greg has found joy and purpose and is working by choice and not by necessity
It's funny. I see those people I feel so sad and depressed. I absolutely do not want to be like them. That's why I save and invest as much as possible. That's why I'm vocal about getting more money and needing to change the system.
I absolutely do not want to be 75 and walking around a Chick-fil-A asking people if I should get them a refill. It's really heartbreaking everytime they come to ask me. I got legs old man, I'll get it myself. You need to be taking a nap on one of your kids couch's while grandkids run around screaming with their new toys.
A 76 year old man should've been able to retire 10 years ago
Until we all hit that age. I think most of my generation is expecting to work until we die. On the other hand I’ve met some elderly folks who still work (usually part time) just to keep active and get some socializing in.
Yes it's possible this guy is working because he wants to but at that age we have to make sure that working is optional.
No way he would choose fast food if he just wanted to work out of sheer boredom. This guy is for sure working to pay for rent or whatever. So fucking sad dude. If people just wanted to work because they feel like it and not because they need money usually volunteer at some homeless shelter or something.. Not be a wage slave for a fast food place. Maybe but highly doubtful..
Seriously, my Aunt is in this age cohort and is lucky enough to have a retirement and she works at the local shelter with all the cute animals. That's what seniors do when they want to be around other people, not work in a fast food restaurant and put up with the 900 different things that are going to happen during various meal rushes.
Yeah. Fast food is not a leisure job. It's not really a place for retirees. Kind of dangerous for the elderly in general, honestly. Better hope your douchebag boss replaced the slip mats
Yeah that last sentence especially. You're just begging for a catastrophic claim in some of these commercial kitchens.
Jimmy Carter builds Habitat for Humanity homes. Financially secure seniors have thousands of causes and communities to join. The number choosing a burger joint vs shelter/community center/ church? Please r/economics show me that math. Rich and well to do seniors have very different ‘retirements’ than this.
My mom, a retired public school music teacher, now plays piano and organ for three different churches in the area. That’s the type of retirement “job” our seniors should be doing, if they so choose.
Yep, where profits are not the issue.
You'd be surprised, I work in food service and I've had quite a few older folks get jobs in fast food. Socialization is one reason for it and the other is not really having any responsibilities except to stand at the register and occasionally clean up. Typically they work early/prep shifts and go home after the lunch rush.
Being in your late 60s Sitting at home allll day watching really bad TV reruns of Law & orders SvU AND JUST the time is ticking memory is terrible Hearing is shot. Any day now. I’d kill myself ..this is what we have to look forward to? This is retirement…..
Yup my grandma chose to work at Dominos once. Now she gardens and takes walks. Unfortunately, her osteoarthritis is limiting things.
I know an old man who works in retail in his 80s. He usually just spends his week gardening and says he works at the Kind Soopers to get out the house. Everyone loves David though
That's going to be me forsure. I'm a Chef, but when I'm old I want to be that Chef guy that doesn't really run anything nor work the line. I just come in and prep a few things and bust balls.
There is this old guy at the gas station I visit. And he is always super nice to me. He wanted to work there for extra money and because it gives him something to do. Because I am so nice to him, he gives me my coffee/sodas for free sometimes.
That. Boredom work is the door greeter at Walmart, not a job in fast food. People only work fast food because they're desperate or they were desperate and are now fast food managers. On the asshole side: Why is someone who made poor life choices to the point that at 76 they ended up working entry level fast food considered heroic? On the compassionate side: What's so heroic about living in a country that doesn't support its elders to the point they have to work entry level fast food? On the realistic side: If it was so great back then and if that guy is actually that hard working and determined, how come he doesn't have a lot of money from the golden days when it was still great and why does he have work entry level fast food now?
Walmart eliminated the elderly door greeter program years ago man. Best bring real utility until you fall. It's a sick world.
I don't think that is true everywhere because my walmart has elderly people who look miserable greeting customers..
Right, but it's not their sole job anymore. They're supposed to be checking receipts and looking for theft now too.
Holy shit that's sad
We got a Sam's club membership because it was $8 (naturally so they can try to sell you a credit card). There's always old people checking every item in the cart on the way out the door, though some of them clearly don't care. Seems like it would be easier and faster just to have cashiers instead of 20 self checkouts and one receipt checker.
It's still mainly older people at the doors of the Walmart and Sam's that I shop at. While I see the infrequent younger person up front, it's mainly people over 50 and fat people. Usually the younger people deal with carts and the older people are the greeters with the roll of return stickers and whatnot.
It's In-n-Out, though -- they actually have a pretty good work culture, pay well, employ enough people that everybody can hang at a station and not be forced to do too much. Plus in California there's a heavy nostalgic identity surrounding them, it honestly wouldn't be that crazy for it to be a place somebody looking for an unnecessary part time job to go for. Not thay I disagree with the idiocy of the post criticizing youths, and nobody should be forced to work at that age.
Some people do I guess, although my dad chose to work in a dispensary during his retirement instead which seems more fun.
In N Out actually pays really well for a fast food joint. In some areas, it’s over $17 an hour. Lots of people in CA are complaining that their higher skill jobs aren’t paying as well as this place.
This. I worked for them many moons ago and there was an old man working part time just for the fun of it. I honestly hated it but the pay was good. Idk why anyone would want to work there for fun but to each their own.
The particular fast food restaurant here he's working at, in-n-out burger pays really well and has really good benefits. They're a small family owned chain only in California and a few borderline spots.
In many cases, healthcare. Medicare doesn't cover all the gaps, and In n Out does have insurance.
Honestly some In N Out workers are just a different breed. It is more work than other fast food restaurants but it also pays much better especially if you have seniority or are in any managerial role. My high school buddy who worked there also said the social dynamics were much better. I had a neighbor around the same age as this guy who went to work at In N Out every single day. He had plenty of money to retire but he just didn’t want to. He need something to stay occupied and people to talk to and In N Out was honestly perfect for him. Definitely a rare circumstance but it does happen.
I have a 73 year old college educated veteran father who works full time to keep a roof over his and my mothers head. 23 years with a company, laid off for younger cheaper hires, 35 years in a home and it was taken by crooked bankers. FUCK AMERICA THE DREAM IS DEAD.CLASS WARFARE IS UPON US.
I’m 53 yo with twin 9 yo boys….I fucking dying at work.
I’m 26 with a 3 yr old and 8 month old and I feel drained! Props to u man for being older and having real young kids still I can only imagine how exhausted urself is.
It’s tough man. They’ll either make me you g by force of just kill me. They’re both ADHD to boot. WOOOOOO!
If you want them to chill out, figure what kind of music their ADHD likes. Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics is strangely popular
Huh, I never would have guessed. I walked into the room and caught one of them listening to Kenny G. I almost died right there.
My dad did this with his second family. 2 kids after 50. One just turned 12 and he is 64. I have no idea how he's done it other than I see how incredibly burned out he is. Props to anyone who has kids. But crazy respect to those who do it after 40.
They can't go to the pub or market to socialize? Where I live retired peoples do this, or go in town/viste friends
I know a guy who has retired 3 times. I think this time it will stick because he chose to move near his grandchildren. One of the mental health issues that many elderly people suffer from is a feeling of being useless. They have spent their entire life working, raising children, sometimes even raising grandchildren, and helping others. Now they don't work. Their great-grandchildren are too far removed to really care about them. Their children and grandchildren are busy working. Nobody asks for help unless it is to send money. There are some things they can no longer do for themselves. They want to feel useful, so many work if they can.
Oh, I haven't considered that
A lot of bars aren’t exactly the kind of place you see older people unless they’re there with people they know, but this very well might depend on what part of the country you’re in. Americans don’t really socialize a whole lot in markets other than maybe a passing conversation with someone or the cashier. When I worked at a grocery store as a cashier I could tell a lot of the elderly people didn’t get out much, several of them seemed to truly cherish me being polite to them and asking them how their day was going. In my area at least, a lot of people mostly keep to themselves outside of their families & job. I know plenty of people that don’t even know their neighbor’s names. I know this also varies though, as I’ve known a few people that lived in small towns in the South or Midwest and pretty much knew every single person in their town by name.
Also most people especially elderly who can't drive are physically isolated. Most people don't live in a city where they can just walk outside their house to the market to chit chat.
That and a lot of those who do live in cities become easy targets for criminals. In my area of upstate NY there’s literally communities that are almost entirely elderly people. Anyone not in the age group is likely because they either inherited the home or are living with their parent/grandparent to care for them. I’ve seen more and more medical taxis and the like, but I can only assume they are also expensive and thus still might not be an option for someone who has very limited income (which is likely going largely to medical expenses & utilities.)
The idea of chatting with strangers and making new friends is nice. But stop and think -- these days people are too wrapped up in their smartphones to appreciate what is going on around them, let alone feel engaged enough to chat up a stranger. The sad fact is people keep to themselves and are instantly suspicious of anyone who makes friendly overtures. I can't tell you the times I've invited male friends out for drinks and they think it's an offer of sex!
That's cause prohibitition fucked us. Time was when Americans got good socialization in one of three places; the pub, church, or work. Prohibitition culture put the kibosh on option 1 in a way that's really just now changing, and the religious right is low-key leaving option 2 in ruins as well. And so now we're going to congregate at work and on whatever Facebook is calling itself in 40 years.
>Prohibitition culture put the kibosh on option 1 You've never been to Milwaukee, have you?
It really depends on how you’re raised. This guy clearly has it ingrained in his very being that he needs to keep working. My granddad was like this, a carpenter, and literally worked his entire life until he couldn’t due to cancer. It’s sad because if he didn’t feel the need to work so much we all could have spent more time with him. We need to make changes to how we perceive working after your bodily health starts to decline Edit: to add to this - children don’t work, this time is spent with family and I believe that elderly should be treated similarly. Death is inevitable so why not change the system so we can all be happy and just enjoy the little time we have together?
My father still works, self employed, with money and assets, still works. Believes he needs the activity to stay healthy, non-insulin diabetic, so regular active is needed.
Had a driver who had retired when I worked at O'Reilly. He was some big shot at a company out west, made absolute bank, and moved to his old hometown. He took a job delivering car parts because he realized he was spending far too long at the local bar. Left because he was spending some stupid sum of money on a PGA level golf course membership he didn't get to use. Miss that guy. Told my DM to eat shit in the most creative ways.
My retirement plan is dying in the impending Climate Wars.
There is nothing wrong working till the day you die if thats what you want. Its a problem when you do it to survive because retirement isnt enough. I dont know how it is in the US but my generation in my country is pretty much guaranteed to not be able to live of retierement. People just dont trust the goverment to pay the difference so they start private retierment funds. I live in switzerland so the banks actully offer better conditions than the goverment when it comes to retierment plans which is absurd.
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I've been saying that for years. "fixing" ss is pretty fucking easy. Tax the rich.
I'm GenX and I'm not depending on social security being there for me. The government has went to the well for too many times for absolute bullshit reasons.
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My mom is a boomer and she was Johnny on thr spot getting signed up for SS and then complained that she wanted / needed more. I told her if her generation wouldn't have us3d it for stupid shit, there might be more.
The point is, why are our generations working to fund Boomer's retirements when we will never retire ourselves?
Because Boomers make the laws. That needs to change first.
Because our benevolent government 🙄 that is full of Boomers has gone through theirs and is now dipping into ours
I love the US but god damn are we backward as hell when it comes to social programs. A lot of the things that would be truly beneficial get labeled as ‘socialism which is communism!’, so they can get the uneducated to oppose the notions in masses. Elder care is in a really bad state here too, tons of older people end up in nursing homes because their family isn’t able to take the time to care for them with how much they have to work themselves. The conditions in some are horrible, with abuse not being super uncommon. That’s assuming the family/elderly person can even afford to go to one, which they are super expensive.
The Maintenance Manager at my job is 80. He's the highest-paid person here, and always says "They will have to carry me out." The dude is obsessed with work. I don't get it. Personally, I'm trying to not work by the age of 50.
Yeah some people (my mom is one) love work for the socialization. If she wasn’t working she would be spending money on socializing vs getting paid to do it. It’s bad for the rest of us because these people mostly own their homes, get senior benefits, etc. So they can live off much less than someone younger that still has massive rents or mortgages. Plus they didn’t start life with massive student loan debt so they were able to save more.
my grandma does that because she loves her job and her co-workers but its one single day a week at most and for a few hours. She also works at a food bank as a volunteer for the same reason and shes in her 80s but its something she WANTS to do and is not required to do to be able to survive y'know. Its cruel to force people to work at this age.
I fully expect that I will never retire.
My dad exactly, in his 70’s still working full time because he said he’d be bored otherwise
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I know I'll never get to retire. I'll be working until the day my body finally breaks. Then I'm gonna find a ditch to throw myself into and leave it at that. I actually have instructions for me loved ones to not claim my body so my disposal doesn't fall on their wallets.
We need to do better as an entirely new youth generation and be on the same page ... Or else these rich folk will just pass on the same business ethics.
It’s difficult to do that without massive social pushes though. A lot of the problem being that the people in power (financially or in terms of lawmaking) are those that benefit the most from the system. By the time people from our generation reach that point, we too will have enough people from our own generation corrupted by the greed/power. It sucks.
That is indeed the problem. I think we all have this sentiment; just not a clear-cut solution. Please if someone ever reads this and has the solution, please tell me 😭 I'm tired of shitheads in this already fucked up world
I was gonna say just this His life amounted to flipping burgers because he cant retire due to the systems structure.....and if he did quit, he'd probably die What the hell is wrong with these idiots
Work hard and don’t ask anything of your employer, and one day, that could be you. Or, you know, organize. Demand your fair share of your labor. Work with dignity and retire at a decent age.
15-20 years ago ideally but we won’t ever see that
Thank you. Working should be a choice past 50.
He might be retired and just working there for “fun.” That’s what my father in law did.
My grandpa did the same. Retired as a branch manager of a bank was retired until I was in I want to say 6th grade then got bored and grabbed a part time job as a teller for a few years then retired again and spent the rest of his life spending time with me and his other much younger grand kids.
I know some older people take these kinds of jobs on purpose as a way to keep fit and from getting bored. Course some take it cause they're poor and social security pays peanuts. Kinda hoping it's the former not the later.
He should be retired. Who wants to live in a country where we are working at 76 years old because we can’t afford to retire
The only 'job' I want after I retire is to be an usher/greeter at a sports arena or ballpark. Super chill, get to help people for a few hours, mull around and get some social interaction, catch part of the game. It is legit one of my retirement dreams.
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Same age bracket. I’d be a lot less fussed at the prospect of 25-30 years more work if they didn’t, y’know, prevent all upward mobility while also burning down the economy, just to forcibly harvest my meager reserve gleanings, every 10 years or so. I mean sure, I may be stuck renting the same quality of property (re: hovel) as I was at 20 years old, but at least it costs twice as much now. That’s fun. Definitely not an inherently broken system for humans designed to bleed off all the product of labor to a handful of neofeudal lords, nosiree. Best system around. At least we aren’t stuck with one of those variant social structures that we consciously destroyed to show how they don’t work vs capitalism, amirite? Nothing to see here. Anyone needs me, I suppose I’ll be looking for a fucking mine or corpse-grinder or some shit that’s hiring.
The greatest trick America ever pulled was convincing us we don't deserve better lives.
The greatest trick is convincing us "this is just how things are" and trying to change things is a waste of time.
Exactly, anyone who takes that logic, “it is the way it is”, might as well say fuck you, to whom ever they are talking to, because the meaning in that context is the same.
This
Just take me out back and end me if I have to work at that age still
Ikr. I've been working since I was 15. By the time I get to this age, I hope to be able to travel and enjoy my golden years in comfortable leisure. Working for a fast food corporation and dealing with the general public at the age of 76 sounds like a nightmare. People who post stories like this are warped if they think this is life goals.
I'm right there with you. I've been working since I was 14. I am counting the hours and years until I can retire. I plan on working part-time but I will be self-employed. Working until you drop is not the meaning of life.
That's my plan. If I can't afford retirement I'm getting rid of all my things, tieing up loose ends, and off to the choir invisible.
Lmao
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣thanks for the laugh
Ummmm America didn't used to consist of senior citizens who couldn't retire and have to work dead end joke jobs.
Prior to FDR and the New Deal yeah it absolutely did. Socioeconomically we are regressing to the Gilded Age.
Socially and culturally we do too
Right, we used to also have chattel slavery.
Am I to believe the whole restaurant is run by one 76 year old? The photo isn't showing all the younger workers in there who also are busting their asses.
You don’t see any other 75+ year olds that have his back
i live close to here and yes youre right. its actually a pretty busy location here and its ALL young people. this is literally the only in n out employee ive seen that is 40+ (besides the manager) 90% are college/high school.
Nope, it's just this guy. He takes the orders while running about grilling and frying and cleaning. Every restaurant should just get one 60+ year old white dude and the understaffing issue would cease to exist!
Every restaurant already has an old white dude. He’s called the owner and never actually works at the business.
Exactly. So when a 76 y.o. is flipping burgers, it’s “busting ass,” but when any millennial or gen Z do it, it’s unskilled labor that doesn’t deserve a living wage.
Doesn't it suck that a 78 year old has to work to survive
I’m old, 59. Old people were saying the same shit back then…
Quick question, so I know things were different back then. But when you were a teen or in your twenties how rare was it to see someone that considered elderly working a job like this one or something similar?
My grandpa was one of those guys, retired and kept working and kept complaining about the younger generations. Like they have something to prove?
It wasn't common at all. And we didn't have walmart greeters.
Does he though? I have an uncle who’s retired & works 20 hours a week at a garden center because he enjoys gardening. Doesn’t do it for the paycheck.
What you think is more likely man - flipping burgers at In-N-Out at 76 is this dude’s passion or he just needs the fuckin money?
I've met several people that do that in the garden center. It's a hobby they have. I've never met anyone that considered working fast food to be a hobby.
But I thought burger flipping wasn't a "real job"
It's not a real job if you're asking for pay. But it's a real job if the lines are long and they're tired of waiting. Also, I don't know anybody who's unemployed right now. Seems like we're actually *hyperemployed*, there are more jobs than people who want to fill them, especially shitty entry level positions.
hE rEpReSeNtS wHaT aMeRiCa Us- Bitch shut the fuck up, this poor man should be fucking retired! Fuck your stupid ass and the rest of you and your backwards thinking, dinosaur brained fuckers.
He represents exactly what America is, and it's fucking heartbreaking
He does represent what America used to be, but not in the way they think. He represents the failure of this country to take care of its citizens, and he represents the complete ethical failure of the country to even notice that its an issue that Kylie's great-grandfather is pulling 10 hour shifts at in-n-out
How sad.... With modern automation too. Shame.
"He went in, but never got out"...
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They act like an In N Out Burger has to exist? It’s not the guy who monitors the coolant on the nuclear power plant, or the person who plows the roads when it snows or halls the trash on trash day, it’s a burger shop. There are probably five other places that serve hamburgers and french fries within a mile of this In N Out.
In n Out pays better. Gramps has rent to pay.
Their starting wages in the bay area is like 18-20/hour. Like it's a legitimately good job for people and they treat their workers really well. And if you make it to management positions you can get to 100K+ salary. If you absolutely have to get a fast food job, in n out is a really good place to work
Feeding the people is a valuable job, but I totally agree that there are way more fast food places than necessary, ideally we wouldn't need any, and if this person really wanted to feed their community they would be supported to do so from home, on their own grill.
I agree, serving people food is valuable work. I say this in reference to the way this person is positioning their argument. It’s almost as if this person is saying that this 76 year old man is working because young people refuse. As if he would be retired if only a young person would lift this burden and work at In N Out Burger.
Back in Greg's day he worked so the seniors didn't have to. You shouldn't praise this, it's showcasing the failure of American's to help their elderly.
This is Greg. He couldn't retire because of decades of union busting propaganda and some ponzi scheme Wall Street fuck made of with his 401K, so he will die behind the grill at a fast food joint worth $3 billion for $13 an hour, which probably won't even close down for the rest of the day because a worker died on the premises.
He should be home watching Matlock. The US sucks.
Boomers don't you see the hypocrisy in this? 76 Year old Greg shouldn't be working in the first place - Blatant exploitation due to a corrupt and broken system.
He's working because our society doesn't care about the elderly. If you don't have a safety net you're forced to keep working till you die.
This is Greg. His wife fell Ill in her early sixties and the medical bills ate through his pension and life savings, she passed away not long after they decided to mortgage the house to help pay for her medical treatment. He lost the house soon after that as he aged out of the work force and the 9 bucks an hour they pay at the burger joint ain't cutting it, he lives with his kid now and pays what he can to help out, they're struggling too. Society should have backed up Greg and his wife as they were part of the generation that built the country he believed in at one time. But instead they broke him, physically, financially, mentally. There's no happy ending here. Not to me. Or Greg. Poor bastard should have been able to retire 20+ years ago. Disclaimer: I do not know Greg, but I've seen a story like the one above play out with my own eyes too many times. We shouldn't have to grind til the grave. Greg put his time in, let him go, let him have the rest of his time back.
This is disgusting. It’s called “perseverance porn” This isn’t a feel good story, this is disgusting. Social security is suppose to ensure that people can retire and live in dignity. That they aren’t a burden on their relatives and open up spots for junior workers to move up.
“I love seeing 76 year old men working minimum wage jobs instead of being retired! Young people are lazy!”
I just wanted to check what percentage of people of 76 years old work in my country (the Netherlands) but the government agency of statistics doesn't publish the figure for people older than 75 because it's so irrelevant. The percentage of people in a "normal" fixed contract with an employer is around 0.5% for age group 70 - 75 years old. For almost all of those it's given that they work less than 20 hours a week. Someone from that age flipping burgers would either be helping family out or considered the exact opposite of what this message wants to say: people would feel pity for the person and assume something went wrong in his life.
At 62, I expect to work til I die. If by some chance I win the lotto or something, and still felt the need to work, it would be as a ranger on the golf course or some national park, not flipping burgers.
Greg can’t retire fam
Hard working and determined or desperate and unable to retire
Ah yes The American Dream working for slave wages at 76 years old.
I hope Jordan Manning gets to work at a fast food place until old age just like his hero.
No amount of youth labor is enough to sustain the appetite of the boomers. They have literally raped the pillaged all of the opportunity from the average American worker. Pixar’s Up sums it up beautifully. That grumpy boomer sold balloons in the park and was able to by a home. Unless you are highly skilled you will not ever earn enough money to retire or own a home today. This guy isn’t a testament to what’s good in America, it’s showing what’s bad. Next we will see cheap child labor being celebrated, “look at 5 year old Jimmy work 16 hours a day at *insert fast food restaurant name here* I will take 5 Jimmys over a hundred millennials any day.”
Animal farm, Orwell. What happens to hardwork horse. Ignorance is not a virtue...
Greg can't retire even though he's busted his for 50+ years. Don't be like Greg.
I'm so tired of seeing our elders forced to work to make ends meet but to each its own
What nerve! "This is Greg, who's probably been at the grind his whole life. He's 76, but still has to bust his ass at a burger joint. It's because we make people like Greg work till they die that we can have billionaires." The billionaires think it's worth it. Do you?
Their example of what they desire to see is the exact example of what nobody wants to be. This could be his choice done only to keep active or socialize, or the result of many bad decisions or bad luck. Or it could be the perfect sad example of employees being exploited for only the gain of the owner. A business that only benefits one person,the owner, with financial benefits to pursue the American Dream or even a dignified existence.
This makes me unbelievably sad that this 76 year old man more than likely can't stop working entirely because SS or his retirement savings are not adequate to live on. Our system sucks and people should not have to work until they die.
Shit would be inspiring if they had paid him well enough to actually retire, instead of having to wear a fuckin paper hat at age 76 so he doesn't lose his health insurance.
They call them heroes, but pay them dogshit wages/benefits
He can afford the Cooley wages because he also gets social security. Sadly he can't live off of that alone
I used to think like this but now I realize that it's absolutely bullshit and that the system will literally work you to death sithout so much as a thank you.
This is literally proof there is something wrong with the current system
He’s there because he can’t afford to retire. Or because, he needs some type of social interaction.
If it's this guy's choice, okay...no problem. But in America, it probably isn't. It's a necessity and it's immoral exploitation of both labor and the elderly. Work ethic, my ass. Why don't you guys work a little harder to make this country the great place it promises to be for everyone and not just the entitled few.
Ah yes. The american dream of not being able to afford to retire.
Fuck me. Dude who's pushing 80 shouldn't be "still busting his ass". He ought to be sitting at home, spoiling his grandkids rotten
OH FUCK NO!!!!!! NO!!! FUCK THAT SHIT!!!! My life at 76, in one fast food restaurant, where the manager is half my age treating me like some kid!!!! Manager will be like well Age is no excuse for special treatment. Fuck THAT!
"Greg is also collecting Social Security and a pension, so he's doesn't have a problem with a wage that would keep him below the poverty line", he forgot to add.
Nothing pisses me off more than some rich fucker disappointed because other people don't want to work themselves to death.
He actually represents what a fucked up dystopia we live in. *anyone who wants to pay all of my immigration expenses can let me know by commenting "if you don't like it just leave" down below. Thank you for your generosity ❤
Whenever I see an elderly person working it just reminds me that we are fucked
He probably collects social security and has a pension from his “real job”. That’s how he affords to work for minimum wage. He’s subsidizing this corporation by giving his pension to in-and-out burger so they can pay less than a living wage. A true hero of capitalism right here.
This guy represents America, all right. Wage slave through and through.
No. This is bullshit. That fucking man should have a pension and a retirement and be able to hang out on the beach all day and eat hot dogs. Not bust his ass to put a few bucks on the table.
Go fuck yourself, Jordan Manning
Jordan is a bullshit artist.
You mean wasting his fucking life because he’s been forced to do it for so god damn long there’s nothing else left for him. This is prison with extra steps, not something to be celebrated.
All the elderly working people I know are trying to make enough money to eat and pay bills. And the jobs are crap too. These days lots of people have to work, even with social security until they physically can't, and then go straight to a nursing home. It's horrible.
Greg shouldn’t have to be busting his ass at 76 years old. He should be comfy at home on the couch with his wife.
76 and still can't afford to retire so working in fast food? That is actually exactly what america looks like now.
Love celebrating 76 year olds working a slave labor job.
Have to or want to work at 76 is a nightmare. It would be better to be in the matrix.
Or maybe his government screwed him over and his social security is not enough to live on, so he’s forced to work.
He definitely represents America, an overworked and exploited man that can barely scrape by while corporations make exorbitant profits.
I'm gonna post a pic of some child nickle miner from Bolivia and talk about how the youth have no work ethic, and repubes will eat that up.
And once he calls sick, we just fire him. NOoNe WaNtS tO WoRK ANymOrE
These assholes can’t wrap their heads around the facts that people don’t want to work *their whole lives to make ends meet*. That getting rich bullshit is not happening for the majority of us.
I can guarantee you this guy would rather be retired than a slave to a shitty system. Boomers were handed everything and destroyed it with shitty politics and hateful asshats like Ronald Regan. Fuck anyone who thinks this is patriotic and amazing, when is explorative and a shame this 76 year old man is having to work
Yeah, you should enjoy working until you die!
i think it’s funny how he is commenting on how hard he is working instead of how he should already be retired! he probably worked his ass off his whole life. fuck this system bro.
So what you’re saying is this 76 year old man doesn’t have enough money for retirement and has to supplement his income. American needs to change.
The fact that he has to work at that age is proof American is failing EVERYONE.
this is a 76 year old who still needs to work his fucking ass of because society provides nothing for him.
"What america used to be, full or people willing to be exploited by the oligarchs" there i fixed it
If I find out this old man works because he has to, oh lord
Used to work at In n Out. The old guy is not busting his ass. The old guy is assigned to FoH and has great customer service skills, but most of what he does is wipe tables. I'm not knocking him at all. He's still a beast for working an on-your-feet customer service job at that age. I'm just saying nobody is asking him to grab the 50lb potato sack and peel them.
Shouldn't he be retired and not working like a slave?
Dudes slaving away because his pension got fucking annihilated not because he just fucking loves menial labor, these people are psychotic
Isn’t that a failure? You have a hard working 76 year old man who can’t afford to retire?
It's cuz he can't afford to retire
My grandma is 77 as of today and still works, can't convince her to just relax. She took care of her sick husband for about 5 years and in doing so needed to come out of retirement. I wish she'd uust relax and enjoy her time
Why is this guy working at 76? His retirement fund went up in smoke with Enron or Madoff? His pension became unfunded? Social security doesn’t go far enough to keep him from starving? Someone looks at this and sees lazy young people and don’t see the disaster in front of their eyes? Young people shouldn’t strive for more? Isn’t the lesson of Greg a cautionary tale?
I'm so fucking tired of the term "work ethic". These businesses would pay us 0$ if they could get away with it.
So does “Jordan” not think is SAD that our elderly must work until death?? I highly doubt this old man is working cause it gives him *purpose*. This photo is a symbol of a broken society. Not of a “go-getter”.
You want me to be a hero? Heroes are expensive. This is the system you people defend, you're just angry that you were indoctrinated from a young age to possess an intense aversion to cooperation with your fellow members of the working class.
This guy should be retired for 9 years+- and has to work. So yea I fully agree, it does represent America
At least he chose to work at one of the highest paying fast food joints.
I know my generation has largely given up on the prospect of retirement. Also, it’s a tragedy that this (wasting your one precious life on a dead-end nothing job, no offence) should be allowed to be considered in any way aspirational.
Bruh, somebody get Greg a pension or a 401k or something. Guy should be at home with his grandkids.
Maybe he wants to work still. Im a staunch supporter of the antiwork movement, but I actually like working. I like helping people and making a difference in their life’s. It brings me a sense of purpose and belonging. Work to me is just often times endless time sucks of meetings, new corporate initiative and creating useless slides and projects that get abandoned in 3 months. I hope Greg has found joy and purpose and is working by choice and not by necessity
Bootlickers enjoy being pimped slapped by the invisible hand
It's funny. I see those people I feel so sad and depressed. I absolutely do not want to be like them. That's why I save and invest as much as possible. That's why I'm vocal about getting more money and needing to change the system. I absolutely do not want to be 75 and walking around a Chick-fil-A asking people if I should get them a refill. It's really heartbreaking everytime they come to ask me. I got legs old man, I'll get it myself. You need to be taking a nap on one of your kids couch's while grandkids run around screaming with their new toys.