Anon likes hobomaxxing

2 years ago by 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 to c/greentext

Semi_Hemi_Demigod 164 points 2 years ago

One of the things I hated the most about working as a dishwasher was throwing out perfectly good food at the end of the night

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DJDarren 52 points 2 years ago

I worked for Dominos for a bit, mostly driving, but a bit in the kitchen too. Minimum wage, and not enough hours, but I was living at my mum’s house, she didn’t demand much money from me and my needs were few, so it was a nice gig. Driving around in the evening, listening to the radio. Not bad.

When I started there, if an order got fucked up it’d get put out the back so everyone could grab a slice if they wanted. Not a bad perk in a min-wage job.

Then the boss decided that we were fucking them up on purpose to get free pizza, so demanded they get thrown in the bin.

I found another job because of that. Almost never go to Dominos for pizza now. Too fucking pricey, and nowhere near good enough to justify it.

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TwoBeeSan 43 points 2 years ago

So much waste in kitchens.

"We can't give it away because it's stealing"

"We can't give it away because of liability"

Hated it too. Feels wrong.

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 29 points 2 years ago

Whenever I'd take out the trash I just needed the manager to disable the fire alarm on the back door. They'd wait inside while I hauled bags back to the dumpster.

Except when we were cleaning out the hot box. Then the manager came out with me and watched me dump all the food. So he could make sure it all was wasted.

Luckily most of the managers also let any staff there after closing fix up a plate of the food that was still good but wouldn't survive the night. Except one asshole who insisted it was stealing.

Stealing food they were going to throw away. What a clown world.

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Jax 5 points 2 years ago

Sounds like something that should be made illegal

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 5 points 2 years ago

I totally agree, but the logistics of collecting all that food and keeping it temperature controlled long enough to get to people who need it are gonna be hard. Often the stuff in the hot rack would be unsafe after a couple hours.

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samus12345 2 points 2 years ago

Once something has been thrown out as trash in a public space, it's legal for someone else to take and isn't a liability. A place that actually gave a shit would have a separate trash container for things that are still safe to eat.

In San Francisco, there are receptacles you can leave food in for homeless people. I always thought that was a good way to do it.

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Riven 4 points 2 years ago

Might not be illegal to take trash but they put the trash bins in locked private property with do not trespass signs making it illegal to go in and take it. Fuck those places.

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samus12345 1 point 2 years ago

Yeah, that falls under a place not giving a shit and intentionally making it difficult to take thrown out food.

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intensely_human 8 points 2 years ago

I lived on the street briefly and I ate like a king out of an Au Bon Pain dumpster. It was filled with fresh caesar salads and pastries every night.

Eventually they started putting a lock on the dumpster though.

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Dark_Dragon 7 points 2 years ago

That's cruel locking the dumpster. They already dumped it out. They didn't have to lock it too.

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smokin_shinobi 6 points 2 years ago

Places pour bleach on tossed food to prevent people from taking it. They are literally paying extra money to ruin food they can’t make money off of.

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stringere 5 points 2 years ago

all through your shift, too

so much waste

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StopJoiningWars 84 points 2 years ago

what -maxxing?!

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13esq 43 points 2 years ago

Hobo

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acockworkorange 2 points a year ago

Is this a thing?

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Viking_Hippie -26 points 2 years ago

I was more confused about "a neet" tbh. Looked it up on Urban Dictionary and wow. LOTS of ableism and reinforcement of toxic Calvinism 😬

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spookex 64 points 2 years ago

What? UD does get sidetracked a bit l, but NEET is actually an acronym for "Not in Education, Employment, or Training" and it is not just some made-up internet term.

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Plastic_Ramses -18 points 2 years ago

NEET is 100% a made-up internet term.

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Viking_Hippie -25 points 2 years ago

Yeah, with big derogative connotations from most of the ones using the term. Basically another way to say "bum", which is explicitly spelled out in some of the other UD entries.

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RustyShackleford 12 points 2 years ago

Damn. I must be getting old, I didn’t understand half the internet slang used in this topic.

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Poppa_Mo 9 points 2 years ago

There's a fucking ism for everything now. We used to just say it was someone being an asshole.

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Soulg 3 points 2 years ago

Neet is just an acronym and it comes from japan iirc

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fibojoly 14 points 2 years ago

You're thinking of hikikomori, the pathological, taken to 11 version of NEET.

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Viking_Hippie 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah.. This is one of the least toxic definitions..

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dejected_warp_core 47 points 2 years ago

hobomaxxing

For me, this conjures a completely different mental image: people in the park chest pressing cinderblocks and using milk-crates full of bricks as improvised kettle-bells.

PSA: Seriously though, the calorie demands on the human body are too high to stay healthy when that impoverished, let alone do useless exercise. OP may or may not be homeless, but do consider helping folks where you can so people don't have to dumpster-dive to keep going. Thank you.

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limelight79 5 points 2 years ago

"Hobomaxxing" made me think about some pictures I saw of an abandoned caboose or boxcars somewhere. The guy that took them said he lived in it for a few weeks. We were surprised, then he said that he actually makes decent money, but for a few weeks each year he likes to go live like a hobo.

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Zoboomafoo 3 points 2 years ago

That sounds like a great way to appreciate what you have

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can 40 points 2 years ago

Did he steal his hat?

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bobs_monkey 3 points 2 years ago

Nah he yoinked that from Papa John's somewhere else earlier in the night

(Search engines suck now)

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ZarkleFarkle 38 points 2 years ago

Dumpster diving and accepting handouts with grace are both skills anyone can have. They allow many to survive around the world and share such wisdoms.

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samus12345 19 points 2 years ago

The problem with dumpster diving is if the person isn't skilled enough at determining what's safe to eat or not. Or if they're inconsiderate and leave a mess after doing it.

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can 6 points 2 years ago

Or if there's broken glass or needles

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samus12345 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, that too.

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fossilesque 3 points 2 years ago

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AllHailTheSheep 23 points 2 years ago

when I worked at a grocery store (massive chain, who were horrible to their workers) I'd steal a lot of the food they would throw out at the end of the night. even if I myself couldn't use it I always knew someone who could.

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watersnipje 18 points 2 years ago

Can barely call that stealing. There should be a milder term for it.

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randombullet 12 points 2 years ago

Repurposing!

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can 4 points 2 years ago

Reducing waste?

Edit: or if you mean a word that still means stealing maybe "pilfering"?

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chemical_cutthroat -14 points 2 years ago

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NuWuX 30 points 2 years ago

Like eating all that delicious dumpster food large chains throw away daily.

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MindTraveller 12 points 2 years ago

Nah, under proper communism, disabled people are allowed to live. It's not everyone works.

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chemical_cutthroat -2 points 2 years ago

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MindTraveller 3 points 2 years ago

*pedant

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chemical_cutthroat -2 points 2 years ago

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MadhuGururajan 10 points 2 years ago

As opposed to food chains throwing away perfectly good food?

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