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Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, kiddo
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No. They were loyal because there was a pension.
And they weren't getting paid less than dirt after 10 years.
They had a beer tap but accounting told them they were losing money from all the bathroom breaks.
Heck yeah. Time to go drive a fork lift
Ha, I had a bunch of family who worked at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Newark, NJ, many, many years back, and beer on breaks was obviously a thing. What a time to be alive.
they just closed our AB brewery :(
i coulda been stapelfahrer klaus... or more likely stapelfahrer klaused
I'm not sure if you're referring to the Newark one, which just closed, or if you're somewhere else that also has one close. Strange thing, but that is time, I guess.
Fairfield, CA just closed one too
So uhhh, the oldest Boomers would have been 14 at the end of the 50's. This would have been a Greatest and Silent generation thing.
And given what they lived through... well I get wanting a whiskey dispenser at work...
so where's my joint dispenser at work?
oh right. self employed. i'll get right on that, boss.
The cigarette vending machine is not pictured, just to the right
Those were a thing well into the 2000's. I paid that 90% markup many times in bars in my 20s.
Still a thing in Italy, many bars and tobacco shops have them
and yet selling loose singles is somehow a felony here
There's a vending machine in the bar where I work that sells chips and cigarettes.
I remember seeing one in a bar in Ohio in 2015 lmao
Still a thing in Germany. Without such a steep markup too
Found just randomly on the street
People have no idea about boomers and do not know what they even are, but have the wildest opinions about them
Boomers is 1945 to 1965.
Plenty of them out there walking around.
It's legal to speak to them.
Yeah, some of them are pretty cool too. I have now met two of the folk who worked on UNIX (one of the men with articles on wikipedia and one of the women who did the heavy lifting. men didn't really do a lot of coding in the punchcard days, they stayed in the C-suite, according to my friend who did the punchcards at bell labs. when i see [name redacted] next, i'm going to have to tease him and ask him what he thinks about that. knowing him, he'll say it's all true)
they're both boomers, btw. fun folk
Thanks for the info, I will not follow. I skip that generation and talk to the silent gen and gen x.
Got it.
You think you're too cool to talk to Cher or Dolly Parton.
Other way around. One day I'll be cool enough to shine Dolly's spurs
Nice save, kid.
Oh that wasn't me. Any time is a good time for Dolly worship tho
Take the upvote. You came up with a good one!
My wife was very grumpy about it until I explained it was Dolly
Isn't the speed limit 65?
Littering and?
creating a nuisance
This was their mental health care.
Still better than what I get
I've been to startups where the liquor cabinet is open, and everyone was young and party happy.
They pay accordingly. It's the young persons pizza party
The royal navy had a similar method to maintain morale and keep sailors happy.
rum, sodomy, and the lash
You may have gotten the lash, but hey, you did get rum and sodomy too
We had it in the RCN as well, until they stopped the tot. Pretty sure we just followed the brits on that.
Until Black Tot Day
I heard my cities' shipyard used to get a truckload of beer delivered twice a day
In the 1980s, drinking on the job at the brewery I worked at was normal.
JUST LIKE YOUR MOM
She's a class Y lady
boozestraps
Lead is a hell of a drug.
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