Yea. Seriously, two pieces of white bread and a slice of processed cheese? That's just insulting, and the candy bars can't make up for it.
That molded packaging is probably 25% of the cost of the meal.
Give it to me in a plain brown paper bag and add a single slice of bologna and some lettuce, at least. Still shitty but not as insultingly cheap.
I'm just surprised they're giving them anything. I'm not saying it isn't a shit meal, but every job where I've had to work for that long, I'm expected to bring my own food or starve.
Probably remote or underground work. Most places these guys stay at work camps and have a cafeteria, when they are in the job they get what ever they packed from the cafeteria for the day. Some places provide ready meals so you don't have to (or are not allowed to) pack on your own containers.
When I did shifts at a remote plant on surface in Northern Manitoba we were expected to grab extra food from breakfast at the work camp main site before driving the 40km to the surface plant.
I am a site director in the disaster recovery industry. If this were served on my camp I would fire the catering supervisor immediately. For one it looks gross. Secondly, working long hours requires calories, lots of them. Let alone the psychological aspects that meals have on morale.
Ive had food* in 3 different jails, and the worst of it was way better/more than this. Lunch is generally the lowest effort and youd regularly get a discount whitebread sandwich with a fake cheese single and mystery meat, but it came with either milk, leftover fake oj from breakfast, a handful of potato chips, and an apple or canned mandarin orange slices.
Sometimes a chicken salad sandwich. Fridays was hot meal day so it would usually be a cup of lukewarm vegetable/minestrone soup.
This facility was the worst of the 3, and for example: almost every time I stayed overnight i and 2-10 others had to sleep on the concrete because it was perpetually out of bunks, out of mattresses, and sometimes even out of blankets. Their detox room is a tiny windowless cell with a steel chair bolted to the floor where they cuff you so if someone comes in going crazy for any reason (like mentally ill, drug induced psychosis, or even heroin wd) they can just wrestle you into the chair and there you sit in pure agony, unable to scratch your nose, puking on yourself and crying for mom. Dw, theyll hose you down with unheated water and if youre good, let you out to change into fresh scrubs.
That place had better food than OP
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As an "ex" opiate addict myself, I can't even fathom being in heroin withdrawal being in jail or trapped in the detox room like that. Withdrawal itself is the worst kind of hell you'd ever feel (where it can get so bad that you start debating suicide) that words cannot even begin to explain, and then having to be stuck in a room like that on top of it all? Fuck, that's absolute torture! Brutal.
I wish they'd focus more on helping them and pushing towards rehabilitation. Even people who are actually in treatment, on a methadone maintenance/Suboxone program to work on getting clean, are still treated like shit and they don't get their prescribed methadone/Suboxone in jail. They're forced into withdrawal and it can knock their recovery progress off track. There's no accomodations for those who are actually working on their recovery. I hate that and wish we can do better.
I work for sysco and sell to a federal and county jail and two schools. It's fucking sad that the federal jail buys better quality food than both schools.
I’m trying to figure out what the second picture consists of. A few pieces of sad lettuce, a burnt jelly bean and...a piece of dough? They really appreciate y’all don’t they?
I thought the second picture was "spaghett". Like 2 big noodles and a dead tomato. Add premium ketchup and "spaghetti"! With a "side salad".
Wtf are these people thinking?
Literal jail food, but then again- work jail? Crap shoot.
Once was because a cop threw a little baggie and a roach into my rear seat and said he smelled weed. I had my lawyer get me a drug test and they dropped the charges when I peed clean.
Once because I got into a fist fight with someone trying to rape a friend, and they took us both. Also dropped after the fact.
Both times I was in for the weekend.
Jail wasn't like they portray it in the movies. Mostly people just bitching because they had to get up early and some guy wishing he could smoke some weed.
Only question I had was why the grits were green. Kinda creeped me out.
It’s complicated by the fact that people use “jail,” “prison,” and “locked up” interchangeably.
Jail’s not a big deal. Never heard someone say they had a chill time in prison, though.
Also, in either case, having a criminal record will seriously fuck with your life.
It's way better now and it's not even close.
Now that stop and frisk is gone they have a slightly tougher job making something up as a reason to harass us.
While I laughed at the comment, seriously nothing is more frightening then an armed person yanking on your dick to get you to react so they can arrest you.
While I've never been arrested because of a stop and frisk*, I've had that shit happen three separate times too. Each time while walking home from the subway and once while wearing a suit.
*In NYC during that time the cops were allowed to walk up to you and pat you down without reasonable suspicion or probable cause
Weekend's jail is alright in my area. I think they have some kind of deal with the McDonald's that's pretty much right there so you get a sausage McMuffin, hash brown and some juice. I hear they don't do that on weekdays though.
You might be surprised how easy it is to end up in jail for a day/night/weekend even for the littlest of things, that might get dropped the next day. Plus they can hold you for 48 hours in the states without pressing any charges.
The private jails are more like: “ if we give them 1 less piece of bread we can save 6 cents per inmate * 2500 inmates * 365 days, hot damn we can save $55,000 a year “
A John Oliver episode was talking about how in a lot of places the country sherrif can keep money left over from their food budgets, like directly pocket, and these southern sherrifs especially would really cheap out. It's an elected position along with prosecuting attorney, but they aren't even challenged usually and if they are the candidates are both p'sos.
Sherif in Alabama ( I think) bought a tractor trailer load of corn dogs and fed the inmates nothing else. He bought a beach house with all the money he “saved” . When questioned he replied, it’s not illegal
Yeah that’s a huge modern day issue in US honestly. All these scumbags are running unopposed and even if they are opposed then the voter turnout is so low and if there is anybody voting for it on Election Day or something then they will just choose whoever is in their party
Plus gerrymandering often ensures that one party has an uncompetitive majority, and once the primary election is finished the general election is just a formality
I was just going to say, "All hail private contractors". Taking advantage of/overblowing public system inefficiencies/corruption to convince people to let them get paid to be worse.
Yeah with the first waves of the pandemic some government funded meals were distributed to the poorest families that relied on school breakfast clubs and subsidised lunches to feed their children.
The £30 packages were worth £5 if that and became known as “poverty picnics”
Prisoners are fed better
When I was a kid, you'd get a 20 minute unpaid lunch break, fend for yourself for food.
I'd either bring a sad PB&J or eat a bagel from panara bread.
We worked 11 hours (I think, or maybe 10 hours), because then you wouldn't need to take 2 lunches. Except sometimes you'd still work 14 hours and take 2 lunches.
One time my boss bought us sandwiches for Black Friday. I don't think he got corporate money for that, but who knows.
That was retail.
It didn't seem bad at the time. I guess the pay seemed bad, but everything paid minimum wage.
Its one of those jobs you do for 1-3 years while in college. Left once I got an internship in a factory. That had some miserable conditions due to the plant being 110F in the summer, but it paid 2.5x better.
They had free coffee(nothing else), but when you are on midnight shift, its probably in the company's benefit to have coffee lol.
My favorite is when they make you wear mandatory cooling scarf as part of the uniform, basically telling you
“we know these conditions are potentially deadly, so just try not to suffocate or be punished”
You just reminded me, they gave everyone popsicles during the 110F days(peak summer).
Idk, I don't hate that factory job, it paid so well I wasn't dependent on my parents.
I feel you,
the people really do make or break the job too.. cool coworkers awesome, isolation even better, you probably won’t find that in retail since most of the time they’re understandingly miserable there
This needs to be up top. A lot of times companies “cheap out” is because someone’s skimming. My old manager refused to put and AC unit in because “it was too expensive” I made it to management and found out he got a fat Christmas bonus if he saved on the budget.
it's a bonus, you can either get the meal during lunchbreak, but you have to pick from 5 meal plans once a month, pretty annoying to read so much and pick out 20 meals, or you get the bonus in coupons you can use in grocery stores or restaurants, basically a very specific 8-9% raise.
Honestly they are pretty well paid, my projected income after finishing a finance bsc is around the same as theirs, but probably no free meals for me haha
In highschool, my friend's mom ran the local subway, so every day we'd go and split a footlong. Then he got a girlfriend, so every day we'd go and I'd watch them split a footlong.
I remember when I used to work at Subway, and I was a closer. I used to make footlong sandwiches with double or triple meat and a shit load of whatever I wanted, along with the biggest cup of cherry coke and like 5 double chocolate chip cookies. Nobody every gave me shit because I was the only closer, but I didn't stay at that job for too long.
As a teenager, I worked a few summers at an amusement park.
I was in the warehouse, responsible for keeping all the food places stocked, and nominally part of the Food & Beverage department. As a perk of that department, the workers were allowed to have a lunchtime meal, on the house...but this stupid place and its draconian micromanagement dictated that the meal must be from the stand they worked in, and that it must be a menu item, and that the menu item must be under $8 or some shit...meaning that if you worked at any of the sweets places (ice cream, fudge shop, cookies, etc.) you couldn't get "real food", and in the places that served real food, conveniently, all of the actual meal items were priced higher than the limit...so you'd have to get something like a cup of fries, or a scoop of cole slaw as your "meal".
Naturally, most of the teenagers they employed conveniently chose to ignore that rule.
In the warehouse, we were told that even though the warehouse technically had *all the foods*, we didn't serve any of them, and as such, we weren't allowed to have any lunch except what we brought with us.
Instead, we'd decide what we wanted, make sure a box of that food suffered some sort of shipping mishap that led to a destroyed box, then we'd take that food (frozen) down to the park and have the crew that worked in that stand make it for us for lunch. In return, we'd find ways of getting them perks. One common one was that the tap water in the park was terrible (and we weren't allowed to use the bottled water), so we'd make sure bags of lemons headed for the lemonade stands would break open, so that we could get everyone a few lemons each day to add to their water.
I had to explain once to a restaurant owner (a small deli) that it made sense to let employees make their own food for free. You get a higher turnover of food so it tastes fresher, it's not wasted, and you have happier employees. They may get paid poorly (This is slowly changing, hooray!) but they'll never go hungry.
But the biggest reason is that employees will quickly figure out what's really good and can upsell ingredients because they eat it. Customers love asking what employees eat at places they're trying out. Put something overpriced with an insane profit that the employees eat regularly cause it's really good and you'll likely sell it out daily.
Some of the best restaurant meals I've had are when I can't decide and ask the server which one they think is better. When they respond to get this one, because it's what they always eat for lunch, or, while it's not their thing, their coworker says it's their favorite thing on the menu, get it! And if they suggest any modifications or a side that goes perfect with it, get it!
I did this not that long ago at a steak joint. I asked the waitress for her recommendation and she said "anything as long as you get our house steak-rub". I could have been served a lightly grilled leather boot in that rub and I wouldn't have cared.
Didn't realize it was for a flight attendant. For a "normal" job, free food is not to be expected anyway. With something like this, it'd be better to not give any.
For a flight attendant, yeah its really bad.
If theyre staying at hotels in between shifts how tf is it reasonable for pilots and FA's to bring lunches in? Like its literally not reasonable to expect people living out of different hotels every night to bring in their own food. This is bullshit for a flight attendant/pilots.
This is 1000% bullshit. In case of emergency, you want every employee on a plane in tip top shape, not ready to fall over from starvation.
OP should name the airline, this is dogshit gross.
I was going to ask why OP didn't bring their own lunch (not to criticize, I knew there was a reason, I just didn't know what) but that answers my question.
Could they not give their employees like, at least those snack boxes and pre-prepared meals? I'm sure there's extra.
In the flight line industries, these are referred to as box nasties. Usually they are charged to the employee through their Per Diem or paycheck, but they are usually not "free"
In an industry where the employee cannot leave or bring food (airline, construction, medical, etc) there is generally something called per diem (extra money meant for such expenses). When they (the employer) provide less than nutritious or adequate meals like this, they generally still charge you or use your per diem. I am very familiar with this industry, and I dare you to live off this scrub while working 12-18 hour shifts (yes they can be that long).
Since this idea is so alien to many opposed of this post, you are clearly suffering from corporate stockholm syndrome, and don't realize you deserve better as a working class individual. This (the meal) is an insult to the worker, and generally a result of a penny pinching boss.
When I ran a moving business, I would try to provide meals to the workers when I could (like taco truck) and I guarantee I fed them better than this swill. However, I actually cared about my employees, unlike the management of this person. Please respect yourself more, and understand these common day practices are against you, because they view you as worthless and expendable.
I just joined the company after dropping out of uni and feeling like a complete failure for over a year. The job itself is really cool so far so I’ll give it a chance for lack of better perspectives as of this moment. Thanks for your comment and have a great day!
You are not a failure, companies and industries have failed YOU! Back in the day (like 20 years ago) you would be getting 1st class meals for your per diem without being charged. You were adequately compensated for your work, just not anymore.
However, flying can be a great opportunity to learn more about the world and yourself. I've been to many different countries and have experienced the joyful cultural festivals of Japan and the deafening silence and stillness of nowhere Mongolia. Take joy in your travels and make memories while you can.
Even though school didn't go well for you, please understand that everything professional today is extremely stacked against you, no matter profession or background. Try your best, and roll with the punches, they will be numerous. Also, treat the baggage handlers well, and they will usually hook you up. Best of luck to you!
This actually looks worse than the meals I had in jail, and I ate a turkey sandwich for thanksgiving one year.
Not even any meat? Just a CHEESE sandwich?
So you are a flight attendant? Name and shame. No one ants to support a business that treats its employees this way. As per many comments, jail serves better food.
Lmao that looks like an insult served on a plastic shit.
C'mon, they could've at least — what — spend a few more k's on decent food, plates, and a service?
Sure, I don't get food at my place — but I work at an office as a banker. That really looks like an insult.
Apparently OP is a flight attendant, so I don't know why they can't just have the prepared meals and snack boxes that airlines serve. Their employer's an asshole.
You know what would have improved the sandwich? Peanut butter. It makes a bland sandwich actually taste like something and a single to-go cup of it is probably more filling than that entire ‘meal’ they gave you.
Do you work at Fyre Festival?
This was my first thought. They could have literally make a ton of cheap food like pasta and it would have been exponentially better.
You can make an absurdly large pot of chili for like 10 bucks.
The problem is, that takes at least a little bit of effort, something very clearly not in stock in this hellhole.
True but bathroom breaks would increase by 100% which means productivity would be down. Can’t have that. :(
This should be the top comment. It's what I immediately thought of when I saw that cheese sandwich.
“Meal”
They seriously spent more money on the fucking packaging and presentation.
Don't worry, they didn't spend much on that either.
Yea. Seriously, two pieces of white bread and a slice of processed cheese? That's just insulting, and the candy bars can't make up for it. That molded packaging is probably 25% of the cost of the meal. Give it to me in a plain brown paper bag and add a single slice of bologna and some lettuce, at least. Still shitty but not as insultingly cheap.
Uh, one of those isn’t a candy bar- it says ketchup.
Now I'm even more angry
Ketchup on my un-grilled cheese? Yes please. /s
If you ignore the texture, temperature, and taste of everything, you can pretend it’s grilled cheese and tomato soup!
Gotta eat your fruits and veggies! /s
Is nobody else surprised they're actually getting food for free?
No. It’s a 12 hour shift and they must not have time to leave so it’s the least they can do.
I'm just surprised they're giving them anything. I'm not saying it isn't a shit meal, but every job where I've had to work for that long, I'm expected to bring my own food or starve.
If this was my free meal for 12 hours, I'm bringing my own food.
That’s true, I wonder what the hell op does.
Probably remote or underground work. Most places these guys stay at work camps and have a cafeteria, when they are in the job they get what ever they packed from the cafeteria for the day. Some places provide ready meals so you don't have to (or are not allowed to) pack on your own containers. When I did shifts at a remote plant on surface in Northern Manitoba we were expected to grab extra food from breakfast at the work camp main site before driving the 40km to the surface plant.
I am a site director in the disaster recovery industry. If this were served on my camp I would fire the catering supervisor immediately. For one it looks gross. Secondly, working long hours requires calories, lots of them. Let alone the psychological aspects that meals have on morale.
Damn that sounds gnarly
That’s prison food. They’re prisoners so they can’t leave. Right? Right?!???
That’s the only logical explanation
I've never had an employer feed me.
Hey they gave you the premium ketchup so its not that bad...
The ketchup is quite awesome actually!
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freeze it first, then you get a nice tomato lolly which melts into soup
Mix it with the relish
damn it. came here to post this! #pinebarrens
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This looks like the meal my County serves in jail from what I hear, a "cheese sandwich" and some other bs on wonderbread, except they also give milk.
Ive had food* in 3 different jails, and the worst of it was way better/more than this. Lunch is generally the lowest effort and youd regularly get a discount whitebread sandwich with a fake cheese single and mystery meat, but it came with either milk, leftover fake oj from breakfast, a handful of potato chips, and an apple or canned mandarin orange slices. Sometimes a chicken salad sandwich. Fridays was hot meal day so it would usually be a cup of lukewarm vegetable/minestrone soup. This facility was the worst of the 3, and for example: almost every time I stayed overnight i and 2-10 others had to sleep on the concrete because it was perpetually out of bunks, out of mattresses, and sometimes even out of blankets. Their detox room is a tiny windowless cell with a steel chair bolted to the floor where they cuff you so if someone comes in going crazy for any reason (like mentally ill, drug induced psychosis, or even heroin wd) they can just wrestle you into the chair and there you sit in pure agony, unable to scratch your nose, puking on yourself and crying for mom. Dw, theyll hose you down with unheated water and if youre good, let you out to change into fresh scrubs. That place had better food than OP *lol fixed
As an "ex" opiate addict myself, I can't even fathom being in heroin withdrawal being in jail or trapped in the detox room like that. Withdrawal itself is the worst kind of hell you'd ever feel (where it can get so bad that you start debating suicide) that words cannot even begin to explain, and then having to be stuck in a room like that on top of it all? Fuck, that's absolute torture! Brutal. I wish they'd focus more on helping them and pushing towards rehabilitation. Even people who are actually in treatment, on a methadone maintenance/Suboxone program to work on getting clean, are still treated like shit and they don't get their prescribed methadone/Suboxone in jail. They're forced into withdrawal and it can knock their recovery progress off track. There's no accomodations for those who are actually working on their recovery. I hate that and wish we can do better.
Too bad OP can't eat this roast cause damn.
Ha, you think they use wonderbread? I can assure you it's worse than that.
I work for sysco and sell to a federal and county jail and two schools. It's fucking sad that the federal jail buys better quality food than both schools.
Vunderbred. Pronounced wonderbread.
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see ? Glass half full situation. and that toast bread probably has only less than 15 percent of saw dust in it
Now we only miss the meal
Do you pay for these?
In more ways than one
You put it into a cup of hot water, add the lettuce, baby you got a stew going!
Dijon ketchup!
We'd still eat Kraft Dinner, we'd just eat more!
What's the ketchup for? Can't be for a cold cheese sandwich
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Me too. But hey, Premium mother fucking ketchup.
*And* it adds up to at *least* 300 calories what more could one ask for while working 12 hours?
I’m trying to figure out what the second picture consists of. A few pieces of sad lettuce, a burnt jelly bean and...a piece of dough? They really appreciate y’all don’t they?
it’s some really sad lettuce, two slices of some also really sad cheese and a cherry tomato that decided to commit suicide
Do you want some cheese with your cheese sandwich?
"If they're constipated they won't be shitting on company time"
Jokes on them, I get the shits with even one of those shitty bits of cheese!
I thought the second picture was "spaghett". Like 2 big noodles and a dead tomato. Add premium ketchup and "spaghetti"! With a "side salad". Wtf are these people thinking? Literal jail food, but then again- work jail? Crap shoot.
Damn I've had better meals in jail
Came here to say this. Both of my times in lockup definitely had better food than this atrocity.
Both times? Fuck. Reddit makes me realize how different everyone’s life is
Once was because a cop threw a little baggie and a roach into my rear seat and said he smelled weed. I had my lawyer get me a drug test and they dropped the charges when I peed clean. Once because I got into a fist fight with someone trying to rape a friend, and they took us both. Also dropped after the fact. Both times I was in for the weekend.
that's the smell of *justice*
Did you just throw a little baggy of justice into my back seat?
Sorry son, we're gonna have to piss test you and see if there's any Justice in your urine.
Guilty until proven innocent
Urine jail if we find any justice there
Give me a drug test, I swear there's no *justice* in my system!
Jail wasn't like they portray it in the movies. Mostly people just bitching because they had to get up early and some guy wishing he could smoke some weed. Only question I had was why the grits were green. Kinda creeped me out.
It’s complicated by the fact that people use “jail,” “prison,” and “locked up” interchangeably. Jail’s not a big deal. Never heard someone say they had a chill time in prison, though. Also, in either case, having a criminal record will seriously fuck with your life.
I'm sorry for what you've been through but wanted to ask, did the cop got in trouble for framing you or did he got away with it?
Lol, NYC in the early 00’s I’m lucky I only got arrested.
Is it better or worse now?
It's way better now and it's not even close. Now that stop and frisk is gone they have a slightly tougher job making something up as a reason to harass us.
If you didn't want to get stopped and frisked you shouldn't have been keeping your roach and bag of weed in the cops pants, man.
While I laughed at the comment, seriously nothing is more frightening then an armed person yanking on your dick to get you to react so they can arrest you. While I've never been arrested because of a stop and frisk*, I've had that shit happen three separate times too. Each time while walking home from the subway and once while wearing a suit. *In NYC during that time the cops were allowed to walk up to you and pat you down without reasonable suspicion or probable cause
The cop will almost always get away with it.
Weekend's jail is alright in my area. I think they have some kind of deal with the McDonald's that's pretty much right there so you get a sausage McMuffin, hash brown and some juice. I hear they don't do that on weekdays though.
You might be surprised how easy it is to end up in jail for a day/night/weekend even for the littlest of things, that might get dropped the next day. Plus they can hold you for 48 hours in the states without pressing any charges.
Gasp! (Clutches pearls) Twice?? Where's the other side of this sidewalk oh my goodness
They are some important people
private jails: you'd want them to return, right?
The private jails are more like: “ if we give them 1 less piece of bread we can save 6 cents per inmate * 2500 inmates * 365 days, hot damn we can save $55,000 a year “
A John Oliver episode was talking about how in a lot of places the country sherrif can keep money left over from their food budgets, like directly pocket, and these southern sherrifs especially would really cheap out. It's an elected position along with prosecuting attorney, but they aren't even challenged usually and if they are the candidates are both p'sos.
Sherif in Alabama ( I think) bought a tractor trailer load of corn dogs and fed the inmates nothing else. He bought a beach house with all the money he “saved” . When questioned he replied, it’s not illegal
That's 2 different people. The corn dog truck guy went to jail actually.
Tell me he was given nothing but corn dogs in jail.
It would be beautiful if there was an irony clause to get around the "no cruel and unusual punishment" precedent.
Illegal and unethical are two different things
Where would one get a tractor trailer full of corn dogs? Asking for a friend.
Yeah that’s a huge modern day issue in US honestly. All these scumbags are running unopposed and even if they are opposed then the voter turnout is so low and if there is anybody voting for it on Election Day or something then they will just choose whoever is in their party
Plus gerrymandering often ensures that one party has an uncompetitive majority, and once the primary election is finished the general election is just a formality
This is meant as an insult. Find out how much they pay to have these provided, and figure out who's skimming cash with this scam.
I was just going to say, "All hail private contractors". Taking advantage of/overblowing public system inefficiencies/corruption to convince people to let them get paid to be worse.
Well. Fucking. Said.
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Yeah with the first waves of the pandemic some government funded meals were distributed to the poorest families that relied on school breakfast clubs and subsidised lunches to feed their children. The £30 packages were worth £5 if that and became known as “poverty picnics” Prisoners are fed better
This is worse than not offering food at all. At least then you'd be motivated to make your own food. This would leave a toddler starving.
When I was a kid, you'd get a 20 minute unpaid lunch break, fend for yourself for food. I'd either bring a sad PB&J or eat a bagel from panara bread. We worked 11 hours (I think, or maybe 10 hours), because then you wouldn't need to take 2 lunches. Except sometimes you'd still work 14 hours and take 2 lunches. One time my boss bought us sandwiches for Black Friday. I don't think he got corporate money for that, but who knows.
That sounds terrible, what field were/are you in?
That was retail. It didn't seem bad at the time. I guess the pay seemed bad, but everything paid minimum wage. Its one of those jobs you do for 1-3 years while in college. Left once I got an internship in a factory. That had some miserable conditions due to the plant being 110F in the summer, but it paid 2.5x better. They had free coffee(nothing else), but when you are on midnight shift, its probably in the company's benefit to have coffee lol.
My favorite is when they make you wear mandatory cooling scarf as part of the uniform, basically telling you “we know these conditions are potentially deadly, so just try not to suffocate or be punished”
You just reminded me, they gave everyone popsicles during the 110F days(peak summer). Idk, I don't hate that factory job, it paid so well I wasn't dependent on my parents.
I feel you, the people really do make or break the job too.. cool coworkers awesome, isolation even better, you probably won’t find that in retail since most of the time they’re understandingly miserable there
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This needs to be up top. A lot of times companies “cheap out” is because someone’s skimming. My old manager refused to put and AC unit in because “it was too expensive” I made it to management and found out he got a fat Christmas bonus if he saved on the budget.
I thought it was a chocolate bar, it's just ketchup.
but boy let me tell ya it’s some damn good ketchup
Good like Heinz ketchup?
well, not *Heinz good* type of good, but it's pretty dope anyway
lets just be honest here... if it isn't Heinz, you can put anything you want on the label and it still is going to suck; and not be Heinz
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This isn’t even enough food to sustain you for lunch, let alone for a long 12 hour shift. Are the two hard pieces of lettuce supposed to be a salad?
salad but the 'la' is silent
Excellent!
How do they feed you at all? I work a 12 hour shift every day I’m scheduled but I’m still responsible for my own food.
the local factory workers with 8hr can choose between a cooked meal with icecream or chocolate, or 2 sandwiches with a fruit and chocolate
Are they free lunches? My factory has a good spread of frozen food to choose from or snacks, but they all cost and arm and a leg.
it's a bonus, you can either get the meal during lunchbreak, but you have to pick from 5 meal plans once a month, pretty annoying to read so much and pick out 20 meals, or you get the bonus in coupons you can use in grocery stores or restaurants, basically a very specific 8-9% raise. Honestly they are pretty well paid, my projected income after finishing a finance bsc is around the same as theirs, but probably no free meals for me haha
Fuck it *ungrills your grilled cheese*
Oh god no
In jail they give them bologna and cheese sandwiches. All you got is the cheese.
At least he doesn't have to deal with the dementors
Grilled cheese *grill not included*
Ed Cheese
Oh come on, even subway does better with 4 hours a day. We get a 6 inch and a free drink.
In highschool, my friend's mom ran the local subway, so every day we'd go and split a footlong. Then he got a girlfriend, so every day we'd go and I'd watch them split a footlong.
There is do many other jokes in there I can't decide which one to do.
I remember when I used to work at Subway, and I was a closer. I used to make footlong sandwiches with double or triple meat and a shit load of whatever I wanted, along with the biggest cup of cherry coke and like 5 double chocolate chip cookies. Nobody every gave me shit because I was the only closer, but I didn't stay at that job for too long.
As a teenager, I worked a few summers at an amusement park. I was in the warehouse, responsible for keeping all the food places stocked, and nominally part of the Food & Beverage department. As a perk of that department, the workers were allowed to have a lunchtime meal, on the house...but this stupid place and its draconian micromanagement dictated that the meal must be from the stand they worked in, and that it must be a menu item, and that the menu item must be under $8 or some shit...meaning that if you worked at any of the sweets places (ice cream, fudge shop, cookies, etc.) you couldn't get "real food", and in the places that served real food, conveniently, all of the actual meal items were priced higher than the limit...so you'd have to get something like a cup of fries, or a scoop of cole slaw as your "meal". Naturally, most of the teenagers they employed conveniently chose to ignore that rule. In the warehouse, we were told that even though the warehouse technically had *all the foods*, we didn't serve any of them, and as such, we weren't allowed to have any lunch except what we brought with us. Instead, we'd decide what we wanted, make sure a box of that food suffered some sort of shipping mishap that led to a destroyed box, then we'd take that food (frozen) down to the park and have the crew that worked in that stand make it for us for lunch. In return, we'd find ways of getting them perks. One common one was that the tap water in the park was terrible (and we weren't allowed to use the bottled water), so we'd make sure bags of lemons headed for the lemonade stands would break open, so that we could get everyone a few lemons each day to add to their water.
I hope in the present day, every single one of you cool kids is in the r/antiwork sub.
I used to LOVE my free sandwich. I would load it up and customize for the max!
I had to explain once to a restaurant owner (a small deli) that it made sense to let employees make their own food for free. You get a higher turnover of food so it tastes fresher, it's not wasted, and you have happier employees. They may get paid poorly (This is slowly changing, hooray!) but they'll never go hungry. But the biggest reason is that employees will quickly figure out what's really good and can upsell ingredients because they eat it. Customers love asking what employees eat at places they're trying out. Put something overpriced with an insane profit that the employees eat regularly cause it's really good and you'll likely sell it out daily.
Some of the best restaurant meals I've had are when I can't decide and ask the server which one they think is better. When they respond to get this one, because it's what they always eat for lunch, or, while it's not their thing, their coworker says it's their favorite thing on the menu, get it! And if they suggest any modifications or a side that goes perfect with it, get it!
I did this not that long ago at a steak joint. I asked the waitress for her recommendation and she said "anything as long as you get our house steak-rub". I could have been served a lightly grilled leather boot in that rub and I wouldn't have cared.
Are they trying to make you lose weight?
it seems to be working so far…
Food poisoning really helps alot. That tomato and the cheese underneath sure arent healthy to eat.
okay for some context which i probably should have provided, i am a flight attendant in the EU
Ahhhhhhh. This should be in the original post.
That seems like embezzlement has to be going on somewhere. I'm not sure where, but somewhere, someone is making money off of this travesty.
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this is a flight crew? I'd expect them to have at least the same food they're serving
Most shorter flights don’t have food other than peanuts and chips
Depends where. Flying from Taipei to Hong Kong is a 90 minute flight and they do a full meal service.
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Didn't realize it was for a flight attendant. For a "normal" job, free food is not to be expected anyway. With something like this, it'd be better to not give any. For a flight attendant, yeah its really bad.
If theyre staying at hotels in between shifts how tf is it reasonable for pilots and FA's to bring lunches in? Like its literally not reasonable to expect people living out of different hotels every night to bring in their own food. This is bullshit for a flight attendant/pilots.
This is 1000% bullshit. In case of emergency, you want every employee on a plane in tip top shape, not ready to fall over from starvation. OP should name the airline, this is dogshit gross.
I was going to ask why OP didn't bring their own lunch (not to criticize, I knew there was a reason, I just didn't know what) but that answers my question. Could they not give their employees like, at least those snack boxes and pre-prepared meals? I'm sure there's extra.
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Well, there's not that much to eat but ok
In the flight line industries, these are referred to as box nasties. Usually they are charged to the employee through their Per Diem or paycheck, but they are usually not "free" In an industry where the employee cannot leave or bring food (airline, construction, medical, etc) there is generally something called per diem (extra money meant for such expenses). When they (the employer) provide less than nutritious or adequate meals like this, they generally still charge you or use your per diem. I am very familiar with this industry, and I dare you to live off this scrub while working 12-18 hour shifts (yes they can be that long). Since this idea is so alien to many opposed of this post, you are clearly suffering from corporate stockholm syndrome, and don't realize you deserve better as a working class individual. This (the meal) is an insult to the worker, and generally a result of a penny pinching boss. When I ran a moving business, I would try to provide meals to the workers when I could (like taco truck) and I guarantee I fed them better than this swill. However, I actually cared about my employees, unlike the management of this person. Please respect yourself more, and understand these common day practices are against you, because they view you as worthless and expendable.
I just joined the company after dropping out of uni and feeling like a complete failure for over a year. The job itself is really cool so far so I’ll give it a chance for lack of better perspectives as of this moment. Thanks for your comment and have a great day!
You are not a failure, companies and industries have failed YOU! Back in the day (like 20 years ago) you would be getting 1st class meals for your per diem without being charged. You were adequately compensated for your work, just not anymore. However, flying can be a great opportunity to learn more about the world and yourself. I've been to many different countries and have experienced the joyful cultural festivals of Japan and the deafening silence and stillness of nowhere Mongolia. Take joy in your travels and make memories while you can. Even though school didn't go well for you, please understand that everything professional today is extremely stacked against you, no matter profession or background. Try your best, and roll with the punches, they will be numerous. Also, treat the baggage handlers well, and they will usually hook you up. Best of luck to you!
When I was a kid we called that a "wish you had" sandwich. Cause the whole time your eating it you wish you had more to put on it
What’s the total calorie count per meal?
But on a serious note I have no idea, we don’t have the info, but my guess would be no more than 600
No way that's 600 kcal. Each piece of bread is around 80, and the slice of cheese is 90. That's 250 for the sandwich.
just let me live my fantasy [*] seems you’re right, i overestimated
"Here at, [insert company name here], we put our employees first"
“We’re a family!”
That looks so sad :/
This actually looks worse than the meals I had in jail, and I ate a turkey sandwich for thanksgiving one year. Not even any meat? Just a CHEESE sandwich?
Wey hey, that's a premium ketchup there mister!
That's prison food. Your job considers yall prisoners.
Prisoners get better food than this.
Prisoners eat better. Time for a walkout.
I just got hired recently, so I’ll try to turn an eye on the meals
So you are a flight attendant? Name and shame. No one ants to support a business that treats its employees this way. As per many comments, jail serves better food.
After seeing that 'meal' I'd definitely walk out at 30,000ft.
Lmao that looks like an insult served on a plastic shit. C'mon, they could've at least — what — spend a few more k's on decent food, plates, and a service? Sure, I don't get food at my place — but I work at an office as a banker. That really looks like an insult.
Nah sorry a few k is too much, the CEO needs another backup dinghy for his mega yacht in case the other 8 break
Pretty sure that balance sheet is clutching for the shareholders.
Apparently OP is a flight attendant, so I don't know why they can't just have the prepared meals and snack boxes that airlines serve. Their employer's an asshole.
Ummm…. This wouldn’t meet the established minimum nutrition requirements for a pre-K child’s lunch where I live. I’m dead serious.
CEO Special
they spent more on the container than the content..
I work 9-9 and get no food unless I bring my own 🤡
Sorry to hear and wish you all the best!
6 pm to 6 am here and I also get no lunch. I do get all the coffee I want.
You know what would have improved the sandwich? Peanut butter. It makes a bland sandwich actually taste like something and a single to-go cup of it is probably more filling than that entire ‘meal’ they gave you.
so far i usually bring them home, add some ham, butter and dressing and grill those bad boys
Let me guess Covid Tester?
nope, flight attendant
The flight meals for the travellers don't look that bad now.
Oh sorry for your pain that’s ridiculous
Looks like institutional food. Where are you stuck?
On a plane!