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New Subway Job Goes Stale (liberal whiny punk alert)
Fredericksburg Free Lance Star ^ | July 17, 2008 | Addison Herron-Wheeler

Posted on 07/18/2008 8:29:48 AM PDT by Choose Ye This Day

IT NEVER FAILS: Murphy's Law. When applying for jobs, the one place you do not want to call you back inevitably will. I encountered this annoying fact applying for jobs in Richmond, when I landed one at the local Subway.

Of all the interesting, vibrant-looking places in my area that I could have worked, this was definitely my last choice. But the only other places I had wanted to work told me it would be a few weeks or months, and I had to have something ASAP so that I could pay the rent.

At first glance, the job didn't seem as horrible as it could have been. I have plenty of experience making sandwiches and working in food service, so it wasn't hard at all. The man who hired me seemed nice enough, and I liked a few of my co-workers. I even got all subs at an employee discount, which made the delicious veggie sub I love cost mere chump change. I failed to take into account, however, my inability to function in this kind of a situation for very long and my disdain for the restrictions that come with employment at any fast-food restaurant.

First of all, some of my co-workers whom I met later are not exactly savory. They are much older than me and don't seem to respect me at all, even though I am doing my best to comply with their every wish and to be the best employee I can be. The management also demands that I remove my lip rings while working--which is ridiculous considering how many people with piercings I serve every day. This makes things a bit difficult due to the fact that I don't have the extra money right now to go out and buy spacers to put in the holes while I'm at work.

The one fellow employee that I really liked has crumpled under the awful pressure and quit, and I am being paid minimum wage--a fact I did not learn until the first paycheck came out.

But what makes the situation really unbearable is not the employees at Subway or even the stupid rules and pay, but the fact that I am barely getting any hours at this terrible job. At places like this, a worker is just a commodity, serving the functions of the business--not a person with needs that should be met. Six hours a week is not exactly going to cut it for someone who asked for more than 40 hours and has rent and bills to pay. I worked more hours than that a week as an intern at The Free Lance-Star, a job that was supposed to be educational and never a means to earn a living.

To top it all off, the fast-food industry is wasteful and goes against even the most basic environmentalist practices. Mishandled food or food that can't be served is thrown away, not saved to be taken home by the workers. Each sub is wrapped in paper and then placed into a small plastic bag--basically the equivalent of a grocery store giving customers one bag for each grocery. Even the apples we sell come sliced and packaged in plastic, although they would be perfectly sellable without any of that. In short, it is all about the profit and not about the overall good of society.

So what can I do about all of this? Well, apart from complaining in my column and trying to get another job as soon as possible, not much. I just have to keep going to work and hoping for the best. And maybe, some day, I will start my own restaurant, just to combat all the evil that I see in the fast-food industry. But until then, I will have to try to content myself with the fact that at least I am getting paid.

Addison Herron-Wheeler is a rising freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University.


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ingrate; lippiercings; subway; whiner
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To: Choose Ye This Day

I suppose that since the heads of major corporations aren’t looking for replacements his job with Subway is the best he can get. But who knows, maybe Bill Gates will need a dept. head and move the lip ringed boy up the ladder. Maybe.


21 posted on 07/18/2008 8:45:04 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
Addison Herron-Wheeler

Male or female?

22 posted on 07/18/2008 8:46:51 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Even in a system where it was from each according to has ability to each according to his need the state would require a refund from this idiot.


23 posted on 07/18/2008 8:46:57 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: PGR88
Kid - I really encourage you start your own restaurant or other business. It will answer EVERY question you just asked

Great minds think alike. Reading this was like looking at an accident on the shoulder of the road. This kid is a disaster. I am surprised they are even letting him work for 6 hours a week.

The kid's thinking is so screwed up it almost reads like an article from The Onion. I am also going to take a wild guess here and say this kid came from a single parent household.

24 posted on 07/18/2008 8:49:28 AM PDT by Zevonismymuse
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To: KarlInOhio
Has anyone ever accepted a job where the pay wasn't known until he got his first paycheck?

My dear departed Pop told me he took a job without any idea what it paid. His explanation: "I had nothing, so whatever he decided to pay me would be better than what I had."

MM (in TX)

25 posted on 07/18/2008 8:49:49 AM PDT by MississippiMan
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Google this moron... he’s a serial whiner on the op-ed page.

I guess we’ll be reading his stuff someday in the SF Chronicle or Village Voice.


26 posted on 07/18/2008 8:50:31 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Perdogg

He is probably the only employee with a hyphenated last name as well. What crap is running through this guy’s brains.. and he is only a “rising freshman....” Makes one rethink opinions about Virginia Commonwealth U! Takes a shot at everybody, and, as always, blast the EVIL CORPORATION that hired him. Lip rings are a banner of stupidity and he wonders why Subway won’t let him work with them decorating his (most likely) sappy face. How many days would he last in the Army?


27 posted on 07/18/2008 8:50:49 AM PDT by BatGuano
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To: Choose Ye This Day
The management also demands that I remove my lip rings while working...

Boy, reality is going to be a bitch when he tries to land a white-collar job with a junkyard haning off his libs.

28 posted on 07/18/2008 8:51:03 AM PDT by Doohickey (SSN: One ship, one crew, one screw.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

As a proud 1987 grad of James Madison University, after reading this column, my sense of moral superiority over those who have attended Virginia Convict University has risen yet another notch.

(OK, we have idiots in Harrisonburg too, I’m sure. But morons like this guy couldn’t stand it there for long...too small, and the smell downwind from the Rocco/Wampler turkey processing plants would run ‘em right off.)

}:-)4


29 posted on 07/18/2008 8:51:50 AM PDT by Moose4 (http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
In short, it is all about the profit and not about the overall good of society.

It's a business, not a charity, Addison.

30 posted on 07/18/2008 8:53:23 AM PDT by radiohead (Donate to the flooded libraries in Iowa.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
"Addison Herron-Wheeler is a rising freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University."

Whoever paid the tuition for Addison's freshman year really ought to consider a malpractice suit against the institution.

31 posted on 07/18/2008 8:53:34 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I was thinking he must be a journalism major.


32 posted on 07/18/2008 8:53:46 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior
Male or female?

Yes.

33 posted on 07/18/2008 8:54:06 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: GSWarrior

That was my thought too...

He sure is on the cutting edge of conformity.


34 posted on 07/18/2008 8:54:24 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Choose Ye This Day

I’d like to read his manager’s blog.


35 posted on 07/18/2008 8:54:42 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

This is hilarious.


36 posted on 07/18/2008 9:03:07 AM PDT by Interesting Times (Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: KarlInOhio

I wonder if he is talking net versus gross.


37 posted on 07/18/2008 9:04:38 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: stevio

Yet another socialist art student, wanting a government handout and relief from his oppressive victimhood.


38 posted on 07/18/2008 9:05:58 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

i am going to find this kid on facebook later and see if it’s a dude or chick. can’t do it while i am at work. does anyone else here have a facebook profile who can check?


39 posted on 07/18/2008 9:08:08 AM PDT by thefactor (the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

More evidence that Phil Gramm was right.


40 posted on 07/18/2008 9:08:43 AM PDT by jtal
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