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[-] Umechan@hexbear.net 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm surprised they haven't already invented a trendy new buzzword for this incredibly common and decades old practice so they can pretend bringing sandwiches to work is some previously unheard of phenomenon.

"BrokeBagging Latest Threat to Hospitality Sector"

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago

More and more kids are "lunch box maxxing" is your tween "cafeteria pilled"? Fox 5 reports:

[-] Umechan@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

It's the dangerous new trend that's costing the economy hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Someone came up with 'micro-retirement' to refer to people going on a week's leave, so I posit: 'micro-sanctions', or 'micro-embargo', or 'micro-communism'/'personal communism'

Actually micro-communism or personal communism works great for another reason: they can claim you're behaving un-American and arrest you.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago

more and more people microwave their fish at work

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago

Don't just microwave your fish at work. Turn it on the highest setting and duration.

[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

Add eggs for maximum effect.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

You are already getting the building evacuated.

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

What do you mean hot tinned mackerel on a bed of smoked kippers isn’t a “normal lunch”?!

[-] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago

Meanwhile if you eat out you're told to stop doing that so you can pay for Nintendo Online price hike.

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

Genuinely, who is buying lunch out every day at work? That shit is expensive! Eating out is more of a once a week treat type thing, no?

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

I have coworkers who get to-go coffee for breakfast and gas station food for lunch every day. This shit is expensive, unhealthy, often requires a lot of waiting, and tastes like ass.

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

in defense of waiting, it's passive and requires far less executive function

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

In vic australia, a lot of enterprise bargaining agreements (in hospotality at least) guarantee a meal if a shift is over 6 hours, i think back in 2020 it was only $14 tho

i eat two peanut butter sandwiches at work lol

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 26 points 5 months ago

They should make coffee at home and give up avocado toast...so they can eat lunch out?

[-] Umechan@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Don't forget skipping breakfast too. It's not as if your morning cereal was contributing anything to the economy. Better to put that towards lunch instead.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

The same people who cried about people eating out 'all the time' invented the phrase "eat out to help out"

The same people who cried about everyone buying iphones then told people to go out and buy the new iphone

The same people who said the less fortunate should be investing then got upset when everyone began investing (in gamestop)

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Step 1) Skip Breakfast Step 2) Don't pack a lunch Where does that lead you?

Back to me

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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

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[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Wow right when the dining director "realized" (he fucking knew, he's just a weaselly liar) we were taking home food every day and shut it down

It's buffet style serving at a dining hall at a school that pretends to pride itself on sustainable hippie bullshit but we're forced to watch the literal product of our labor be thrown away in endless quantities just because one piece of shit wants to go "well it's always been corporate policy" instead of do the reasonable thing and look the other way at no cost to the company

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

we're forced to watch the literal product of our labor be thrown away in endless quantities

There are people literally starving to death around the world, desperate for a bite to eat, and the best economic system in the world has deigned it better to toss food than to feed people; in a just world, people destroying edible food should be.....actually I'm not putting myself on any list today.

Not only should the director be looking the other way, it shouldn't be corporate policy in the first place; all the people creating this policy should be fash-bash

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

my good friend and predecessor as vegan chef informed me they USED TO DONATE FOOD but then STOPPED and the reasoning to her was "they don't want to be liable for food poisoning" but that hasn't been mentioned once as a reasoning for not allowing workers to take food home

[-] huf@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

clearly we need to streamline something here. how about outsourcing jobs, restaurants, fewer, lunch, work, selling and 2020 to china! we also need to privatize habits.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 5 months ago

"You don't have savings? LMAO just buy less starbucks."

junco "Ok"

"NOOOO!!!! YOU'RE HURTING THE ECONOMY!!! BUY MORE STARBUCKS!!!! BUY MORE STARBUCKS!!!!"

[-] CancelledKirk@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

I almost always bring my lunch. It sucks that I can't heat it up though since I usually make crock pot dishes for the whole week. (Sandwich fixings are more expensive 😔).

[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Same, for as long as I can remember. When I was younger my mum said to me “why would you want to go to work to spend money?”

There was a nightmare day where i mixed my sandwiches up with my sisters cheese sandwiches.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Doesn't China have like cafeterias set up for their workers and I'd imagine the food is free if not extremely cheap?

[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I wouldnt know. Ive never been.

Some UK companies subsidise their canteens, or did anyway.

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

I think my job is the only thing keeping the Taco Bell down the street afloat

[-] sammer510@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"You're hurting the economy" well the economy is giving me the motherfucking People's Elbow the economy can go fuck itself

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

Yeah. Why would I give 1/3 of a fuck about the economy? What do I have to gain from the economy?

Just kidding. I didn't ask that. Don't know. Don't care. Don't want to learn.

[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

The last one

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

The brown bag lunch index.

[-] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

i am once again calling for open season on all "journalists" who write for rags like the wsj, the nyt, and the bezos post. these people should fear for their lives every time they leave their homes

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago
[-] graymess@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

Genuine curiosity here, what is the point of these guilt tripping headlines? Am I supposed to give any ounce of a fuck what impact I as an individual have on the greater economy? And the WSJ thinks they can leverage that guilt into making Americans buy takeout lunch every day instead of bringing in leftovers, most likely something they're doing out of necessity? Truly, whose opinions are they trying to manipulate with this nonsense?

[-] fannin@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

So it’s our fault we can’t make ends meet because we buy too much takeout and also it’s our fault the economy sucks because we’re not buying takeout?

I get that ideological inconsistency is kind of the point of late stage capitalism but can’t literally everyone see through this?

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

I have never once bought lunch at work, death to the bourgeois in control of the restaurant industry.

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