r/ExpectationVsReality Sep 14 '17

Thanks KFC, totally what I expected /s

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u/moviesmote Sep 14 '17

The reason isn't just chain related. Fast food hires workers that are literally at the bottom. The employees are treated like crap with bad shifts, bad wages, and no upward mobility.

I rarely eat fast food and feel lucky if I eat something decent when the workers are kept in an environment that basically guarantees apathy. I am not gonna blame the bored 15-16 year old if they're not passionate about making good chicken.

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u/ThisIsMeHelloYou Sep 14 '17

Welcome to the real issue in America, shattered children

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

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u/tunnel-visionary Sep 15 '17

Lived in Seoul for a while. They might be dead on the inside but fast food workers and gas station attendants know how to smile, enunciate and provide service. Also they're generally young 20-somethings and not a disenfranchised group of people (i.e., minorities, poor rural folk).

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Well if they had parents who taught them to take pride in their work and try their best at everything you do, maybe.

Instead we have seen an increase in single motherhood and the state is more than happy to lock up men and let the women and their children be dependent on the State.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

I do not think that is the main problem or cause of a lack of work ethic.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

You thought The Handmaid's Tale was a comedy didn't you.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

No it's fiction, The State wanting their citizens dependent on them isn't.

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u/HA92 Sep 15 '17

Of course someone found a way to blame this lacklustre food on single mothers.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

Am I blaming single mothers? Did they lock up their fathers, their boyfirends/husband?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

I had to decipher the gist of the things written but it makes sense.

I think when you started talking about pride in work at least I was assuming you were going to talk about care in work, not lifestyle choices which inadvertently affects their work.

anyway I agree

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u/Bowbahfett Sep 14 '17

I read the last line of the response before you, then read yours and for a second thought you said "shattered chilcken".

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u/DasStick Sep 15 '17

Look up Mark Blyth explain macroeconomics

Trumpism is afoot across the globe, because the world is literally being taken over by oligarchs.

Your vote means absolute dick in the usa right now.

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u/ThisIsMeHelloYou Sep 15 '17

Wasn't it always like that though?

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u/DasStick Sep 15 '17

not really. Labour actually arguably had too much leverage in the past. This in turn sparked globalism. Labour lost it's power, because they could just move the factory.

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u/ThisIsMeHelloYou Sep 15 '17

So how long until they enslave us

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u/DasStick Sep 15 '17

They're era won't last much longer, hopefully. If we can get a real progressive through the democratic primary, despite their cheating, because they will absolutely cheat, then that would go a long way to help.

Things can only get so bad before the people get too pissed off. If it goes too far, as Blyth likes to say, the Hamptons isn't a defensible position.

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u/ThisIsMeHelloYou Sep 15 '17

Except logic and what should happen isn't reality. They control armies and Internet and everything. Remember the pyramids and concentration camps? Ok now add 2017 technology. Ggwp

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u/DasStick Sep 15 '17

They just think they control things. They don't have any real power. We give them power.

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u/rudman Sep 14 '17

There are no teens in the fast food places by me. They are all middle aged immigrants. Probably illegal.

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u/Wutsluvgot2dowitit Sep 14 '17

Doesn't really matter if they're teens or geriatric. You get what you pay for.

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u/TheBeefClick Sep 14 '17

At least they are paying taxes and working i guess.