Mommy, why are poor people poor?Follow

No it wasn't, not if the other option was government cheese.

I worked at Dunkin Donuts. I can assure you that there isn't a single happy DD employee in the world. They all universally abhor their jobs.

There's nothing like a job where your average customer hasn't had their morning coffee yet...

In my experience, nearly all your customers in a service job are dumb and ripe for well-placed snarky remarks, regardless of whether or not they're caffeinated.

What, exactly, is good or pure about anything to do with fast food?

It really depends on where you set your limit at what you're considering fast food, nowadays. Chipotle is WAY better than Taco Bell. As good as an authentic Mexican restaurant? No. But when I leave Chipotle, it's not generally to find the nearest bathroom.

And most fast food places, at least with the chains they have around me, have done a decent job at making the scale of their offerings pretty huge. Sure, you could easily end up at over 1k calories at Mcdonalds. But if you are actually looking to eat more healthy, you can limit that down to 4-500 calories by eliminating the stuff that's producing most of the calories from fat.

That's not to say they're healthy options, to be fair. 500 calories at Panera is going to get you a lot more food, and food rich in vitamins/minerals/proteins, etc. But it's also going to cost you 3x the price.

To be fair, I still avoid McDonalds, Burger King, etc. I refuse to eat at Taco Bell or White Castle.

But the more reasonable fast food chains I'll go to. At Chipotle, I'll generally get a burrito bowl (meaning, a burrito without the tortilla). The only thing I feel meh about is the amount of sodium (though it isn't nearly as bad for you as most people think). To be fair, I don't get sour cream or cheese, which add a lot of fat. Panera's "hidden" menu is great, as are many of their salads and sandwiches (though avoiding the soups is a good idea in general). Muscle Maker Grill is really quite reasonable - generally no empty ingredients, and they do a decent job grilling chicken in my experience. Jamba Juice is dangerous if you go for the regular smoothies, but pretty reasonable if you go the "light" route.

And to be 100% fair, all of these are going to cost you a fair bit more than you'll pay at Taco Bell.

WTF are you talking about Willis? The golf courses are still open here.

It's apparently not uncommon for Chipotle to cause a run for the bathroom.Very Mildly NSFW. I just wish they'd stop putting cilantro in gorram everything.

For the exception of the furloughs, I'm sure that you have no idea what you're referring to.

Lucky all the ones near me shut down at the end of September.

Due to chronic depression and pain, I can't work, but what really dropped me below the poverty line was my divorce, from a guy who quits his job due to panic attacks over being transgender. I got a decent telemarketing job for 10 months, but the stress my ex was causing me, made me too sick to hold on a job. I had a few periods, where he actually paid child support or a large chunk of his retirement money that I lived off for awhile, before I started getting SSI.

I make a little on the side making jewelry, but I'm still needing to invest in supplies more then I can make selling the jewelry. I'm trying to work more in silver too, which is hard to finance up front. once I sell a few of my better pieces I should be making enough
to maybe get off the SSI, but don't count on ever making enough to be more then just a starving artist. Then that's was what I figure I be growing up anyway.

At the moment I'm not poor, as I got money coming in from inheritance. Just enough to live off comfortably for awhile, but not enough to be able to invest and live off the income, though part of my inheritance will be in P&G stock. I brought the one important item I needed for polishing most of the jewelry I make now days, that I couldn't do with tools I already own, and then it's time to work on selling the 3 finished sterling silver pieces recently made, so I can get more silver. I need to see about doing lost wax casting again too, as I loved working with it in high school.

It does! And not tasty soap either. It's apperently a genetic condition.

I've literally never had just 1 job, but one of my pair of the first two jobs was working at Pretzel Time. Neon pink shirts, 500 degree ovens on constantly, but it was kind of like working in a bakery rather than fast food. In the mall Heirarchy of after hours food trades, we were usually considered the desired comodity, second only to the cookie store and cinnabon. But yeah, those neon pink shirts sucked. The funny thing is I don't even really like Pretzels. I can make one from a ball of douch to a fully rolled and formed pretzil in about 10 seconds though!