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Social Entropy++: AWESOME POST in "Webcomic Saturday Market", by Gaslight
RoyceSraphim
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Post: Webcomic Saturday Markethttp://imgur.com/a/mTWpc
tl;dr
Artistic guy is asked to get job by girlfriend, applies to be a walrus, bus documenter, crazy old man, and foghorn. Girlfriend leaves
Get Job at Wendy's
Lays in bed and says Goddammit
Forum: Social Entropy++
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Posted by: Gaslight
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but gaslight, Wendy's is THE CORPORATIONS
Yeah, but the funny thing is that Wendy's is a multimillion dollar corporation built up from nothing by an adopted kid born to a young unmarried mother he never knew who started working when he was 12, and who after achieving success became a well-known philanthropist supporting and promoting adoption and educational opportunities for disadvantaged kids. So, basically, a guy with the determination and work ethic that depressed comic protagonist dude seems to lack.
Seen in that light, the use of Wendy's as the symbolic scapegoat on which comic book guy blames his failed and empty life, rather than addressing his own laziness and lack of vision or purpose, becomes (unintentionally?) hilarious.
Seriously, I get the idea of the disillusioned 20-something struggling to find a meaningful place in the world and still pay the rent, I know all about that. But the comic, though amusing in part, is so ridiculous that it makes it impossible to sympathize with the protagonist and does all those disillusioned 20-somethings it's obviously trying to represent a huge disservice...unless the whole thing is a subtle parody and the joke is actually on 3000 oblivious Reddit up-voters, which is a possibility I can't rule out.
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I worked at Applebee's for six months. I absolutely hated it. It's the worst job I've ever done. I refuse to eat there because I found the experience so terrible. I hated the attitudes I got from both the customers, and the lack of support from the managers. My supervisor made me empty out the woman's tampon/pad trashbin in the restroom when someone else forgot to put a trash liner in it. I had to clean up vomit, blood and broken glass after a bar fight, and dirty toilets. I was a host the majority of the time, and cleaned dishes at times. I'd go home with everything from my knees to my feet drenched in stinking dirty dish water. I worked double shifts that ended around midnight when I had homework to finish and my boss knew about it. I did this all for minimum wage with a "tip share" which the servers would skimp on by lying about their tips. I absolutely hated it, so much in fact, that I quit to go to my previous job at Baskin Robbins that paid less.
When I got my current job at a hospital ambulatory pharmacy, I was still working at the icecream store. I got it soon after finding out I was going to be a father (I was already looking for a better job before I found out). My pregnant girlfriend was getting a bad mixture of morning sickness and allergies that made it difficult for her to work every day, so I told her she could quit and I'd just work both jobs. I would work from 9-5:30 (mon-fri.. full time) at the hospital, then get to Baskin Robbins by 6 and work until they closed (10 weekdays, 11 on fridays and saturdays). I averaged about seventy hours a week. Sometimes I'd go weeks without a single day off, because I often worked at the icecream shop on weekends, my longest stretch being thirty-two days. I picked up overtime shifts at the hospital when I could on weekends as well.
I was still working both jobs when my son was born by a planned c-section (he was breach) on January 4th, 2006. I took the day of his birth off, and that was it. I worked on both the 3rd, and the 5th. Friends and family helped keep his mother company at the hospital while I wasn't there. I slept at the hospital with her. I'd leave early in the morning to drive a couple miles home to shower, dress, and make myself a lunch and a dinner. Then I'd go to work at the hospital, then go to work at the icecream shop if I had a shift and eat dinner there, then go back to the hospital where my son was. I worked at a different hospital than the one my son was born at.
Not only did his mother have a c-section, but she ended up having to have her gall-bladder removed just a couple months later. I'd often get up in the middle of the night to feed and change my son, since his mother was in pain for several weeks because of her surgeries, and because I wasn't home most of the time. I usually got between 3-6 hours of sleep a night until I quit working at Baskin Robbins. I had worked both jobs for a little over a year.
I'd rather work two full time jobs then ever work at Applebee's again. That's how much I hated it... But I'd rather work at Applebee's than be without a job.
tl;dr
That guy in the comic strip can go fuck himself.
The comic was kinda funny, but I definitely agree with the reported post.
You would think.
And there's the reason why
that poor fellow
I think this is heading in the right direction. Given the absurdity of the failed job attempts, the over-dramatic representation of Wendy's, and the assignation of the character's existential malaise from the very start, I'd say this was written with more than a hint of tragic irony. If the comic really is about a heroic struggle against the world and not a losing struggle against the self, then the author has to be functionally delusional.
what kind of cold hearted person takes a lamp?
I can understand the phone and book.... but a lamp?
then again, there is evidence that she broke up with him because he was actively trying not to find a job while stealing her possesions and selling them for money to buy booze... and that he didn't really love her as much as need her to support him.... so he probably had it coming.
It's... really not. O.o
If you need a job, and you go apply to fast food places, you could probably have a job the very next day. Those places are literally always looking for reliable people to fill shifts. They're understaffed almost every day. The real joke here is that people think they are above jobs like that. I am working a good job right now, but if I needed money I'd be back to ringing up people's #6 with no pickles in a f'ing heartbeat.
I want you to understand that your preconceptions are not universally applicable and may not even accord with the trend. But even if you don't, I hope you can judge flesh-and-blood individuals, real people, in your daily life appropriately and not out of complete fucking ignorance.
It is significantly easier to get a job, at least a casual minimum wage job, if you actually go out and apply for one, rather than writing stupid (albeit funny) applications to jobs that don't exist.
What you could do is realize I was trying to place my point of view into an argument on the internet and not make base and aggressive assumptions about my preconceptions. Of course I know that what happens to me doesn't happen to everybody. I am fortunate, but I am not an entitled suburban white boy who doesn't realize that there are just simply not enough jobs for as many people as there are.
But instead of continuing to tell you how your aggression was completely unnecessary, I'll drop it and basically just voice my general agreement with AnteCantelope
Oh. Well in that case, I wholeheartedly agree.
I merely bristled at the assertion that anyone can get a casual, minimum wage job and it's really not that hard. In today's job market one just can't make those broad generalizations.
This isn't the place for anecdotes but as someone who IS white, upper-middle class, and hasn't experienced financial strife (though I was never, ever spoiled), I have intimate experience with people whose circumstances have forced them into living situations or places of residency where a minimum wage job is a goddamned luxury - and what's more, nearly impossible to find.
But I'm not here to threadshit or unload my baggage, merely making an observation. And I agree with both you and Rend.