It's a fucking madhouse

I work in a building with about 600 other people. 95% of these people are Asian/Pacific Islander and probably over half are overweight. They're constantly using the building lobby as if it was the middle of Chinatown to hock nasty food. They all scurry over and cut each other off and make it pretty much impossible to walk to the stairs, so I can go to my cubicle. I don't even want to talk about lunch time. I really don't mesh well with the Asian culture here. Being the minority in another culture really sucks or maybe it's just this particular culture. Ok, I haven't ranted in awhile, so there it is. Tis all.

 

"Twelve dollas" "Six dollas"

 

do they eat chicken feet?

 

I used to work in a laptop repair centre in Holland with Chinese and Vietnamese people. There was no canteen so at lunchtime, just a table and a microwave. When the bell went there was always a mad dash to get in first to use it to heat our food, which was cause for a lot of bickering and lolzy moments. Imagine me there with my plastic tub of food trying to get it heat up and it's taking too long, and I have to put it back in the over for another minute. I just ate it luke warm, circled by asian women all wanting to give me the chop suey if i even dared to take up any more of their precious lunch time, this might result in them losing their 5 minute fag break before the bell went again and we all had to go back to go work.

 

You just described my lunch time exactly. I now bring salads for lunch, to avoid the microwave fiasco and eat at my desk, because the cafeteria smells horrid!

 

for whatever reason, i've found that asians tend to have a smaller "personal bubble" or a smaller amount of space that they allow between their body and others. i bet you'll miss if you go back to your old life though. sounds like fun to me. something different.

 

I used to work in this carpentry factory. At lunch time there was only one microwave (for around 100 people), so everyone would make a mad dash to go outside and smoke a joint before lunch while other people used the microwave first.

Others would just sit on the assembly belt and eat their lunch cold.

There was one asian guy there, he was the only minority. His name was Chan. Every single day he would be the first guy to the microwave. Every single day he ate plain white rice with some kind of brown meat in it and peas, nothing more. Once a month his wife would pack him spring rolls.

He was a sander there, good worker.

 

Duh, that's because they're actually smaller...

 

I remember in junior high, I took leftovers for lunch all the time. But I ate them cold because it was better than having to fight over the one nasty microwave they had in the cafeteria.

 

We didn't have anything like that at our high school, we had one toaster and it was retardedddd how many people fought over it.

However, there was a microwave at the walgreens I worked at when I was 16. I wouldn't touch that shit with a 10 foor pole, and when it was my turn to clean it, I just lied and said that I did and said that the morning shifters (I worked nights cuz of school) fucked it up.

 

back before I was self employed I would just bring jerky for lunch...no heat required

and I wasnt a coffee addict back then either

on another job I worked in a restaurant so cooking wasnt an issue

 

it was a chinese restaurant btw,,,and they would buy cans of chicken feet and nibble on them...thats why I asked that in the first post I always thought that was disgusting

 

Our microwaves as work at meticulously clean. Everybody wipes it after they use it, everybody. It's way cleaner than the one at my place

 

Well I went to school with about 2k kids + staff, and with only 4 lunch periods and one cafeteria there were like 500+ people in there at a time, and it's like at least 200 of them wanted the toaster for something, most of them never learned, only the kids with the classroms near the cafeteria ever got to use it

 

really, i have a hard time believing it's even legal to have cooking appliances available for unsupervised student use in school cafeterias. i've never heard of such a thing.

also, i've never been a minority at any of my jobs. i actually had one job where every single employee was a white male for several months.

 

It's not 'unsupervised', it's right outside of the line entrance and there are like 20+ staff in the cafeteria, so I guess if someone really wanted to kill someone with the toaster they could, but someone would definitely see!

 

for fucking fuck, i think there were about 20 total employees at my school.

 

lol there were over 2k kids at my school, we have atleast 100 hall monitors/security guards/entrance guards + those people that guard the bathrooms + the disciplinatians and principals

 

just working in a cubicle sucks-

 

Yeah, it sucks even more when it's not even your own. Hate this place....