PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

No, I didn't get it...

What's the joke?

 

Currently?

 

08 prerunner. V6. Manual trans. Manual windows. Manual locks. 2 speed wipers. No cruise.

 

Now I think I get it...

 

Yep!

 

Along with my safe full of krugerrands...

 

Yea that's not really an applicable comparison...

 

Maybe thirty years ago...

 

@LocoLocal

Remember the episode where Hank got molested by a dolphin? I'm watching it now!

 

@El Duderino
@Running Man
@Taco critter

To start the day, I would like to talk about my past difficulty finding a job. From about September 2006 to June 2009, I was employed through school district. I worked at CVS, the public library, and a retirement community. I was paid by the school district and not by these employers. Most of the time, I feel I was treated like a retard. This is a story for another day...

From 2009 to 2015, I was in community college. The reason it took so long is because I changed majors in 2011; I had to drop my second algebra class because I almost failed on account of my very first real job draining me both emotionally and physically. The lowest grade I ever got in any class was a D, in photography ironically. Why? The professor was a liberal snob who thought he was better than everyone else!

So, my first real job was at a Dunkin Donuts in Doylestown. I lasted maybe three weeks. I applied for two jobs at the same time; First at the Dunkin Donuts and then at a place called Gross's Gourmet practically next door. I had no idea what the fuck I was in for when I took that Dunkin Donuts job...

 

The fact that I was hired on the spot when I went in for my first interview should have told me something. The manager who did the interview also wanted me to come in at 6am. I said that was too early and we agreed on 7.

These were the biggest problems with Dunkin Donuts:

• My shift started too fucking early.
• Hourly wage of less than $9 an hour.
• All of the coworkers on my shift were Indian and not one of them spoke very good English.
• The regional manager was a millennial douchebag who thought he was hot shit, but was really just a cold fart waiting to heat up.

It became apparent pretty early on that my coworkers did not really want or need me. It was a 50-something Indian guy, his same-age wife, and another Indian woman. They ran that place just fine without me. My training consisted of an interactive computer game, a brief crash course in operating the various machines (coffee, coolata, etc), and being told to stare up at the menus behind the counter and memorize them.

The owner was your stereotypical rich foreigner. He was an Indian guy, along with the regional manager and most of the staff. He owned numerous Dunkin Donuts franchises and drove a Mercedes. He was also almost never around, leaving day-to-day operations to the Camry-driving millennial regional manager, was also almost never around. To be continued...

 

Yeah, I'm actually at work right now, but it's fucking slow, and there's no rule saying I can't use the company computer to go on TW!

 

So, I eventually had to drop out of a math class at college due to this job taking so much out of me. Also, as I said above, all three of the people on my shift were Indian and their English was not very good. This turned out to be such a problem that in addition to working the shitty early morning shift, I had to come in once or twice a week about an hour or two after my regular shift ended to train with the only English-speaking American (or as the manager referred to her, The White Girl) employed there. Much of my shift was just spent standing around while the other people did actual work, and I quickly grew bored.

 

Then, there was the one time on a particularly slow day when a customized lifted Silverado pulled into the parking lot of the small shopping center. It was almost near the end of my shift, so I retrieved my trusty Nikon D5100 (I miss that camera) from the truck and went to take pictures. Unfortunately, the manager happened to pull into the parking lot while I was doing this. He had a late model Camry, which had Bluetooth. Even from outside the car, I could tell that my boss was having a less-than-pleasant phone conversation, so he was in a bad mood long before he showed up and saw me photographing the Silverado. He saw me taking pictures of that truck and went just shy of batshit crazy.

He started screaming at me about slacking off on my shift or something like, then made me follow him inside. There, he ordered me to show him what I'd learned and make him a so-and-so coffee. I don't do good under pressure, and I do even worse when being screamed at, so I promptly froze. He calmed down, but told me that I didn't shape up I'd have to start working Saturdays. I quit via text message days later, without giving two weeks notice.

 

Days after leaving Dunkin, I got a call from the owner of Gross's Gourmet (where I'd also applied the same day I'd interviewed at Dunkin). He said he wanted to "give me a try". The first few hours working there were just fine, but it was towards the end of the shift that the owner showed his true colors. Closing down the restaurant consisted of the owner standing around barking orders at us, and flipping the fuck out if something wasn't done to his exacting standards. One employee, a guy of maybe 18, warned me that I'd better clean the salad display properly the first time or the drill sergeant...I mean owner, would make me do it over from scratch.

I eventually ended up on dish duty, which consisted of everyone else dumping dirty dishes into the sink while I was left to clean them by myself. I froze (much like I did when my boss at Dunkin was yelling at me). The owner told me it wasn't going to work, and I gladly took off my apron and left. I buried the accelerator pulling out of the gravel parking lot, and sent a rooster tail of rocks flying up behind me. Rather awkwardly, I found out the next morning that I'd left my hoodie and had to go back for it...

 

Karma’s a bitch...

My one day of employment at Gross’s was November 8th, 2013. By December 2014, I’d gotten a new job at Puck. One day in December, my friend (who also happened to be my boss) went to Gross’s along with her boss (the owner of Puck) to work for free. The owner of Gross’s was not doing so hot financially, and the owner of Puck was friends with him. She and my friend/boss were going over there as free labor purely out of the kindness of their hearts since it was two days before Christmas.

I spent a few hours at my boss’s house, hanging out at my boss’s house, cuddled up on the couch with her dog watching COPS on her new 63-inch TV.

When my boss came back, the first words out of her mouth were something like “You weren’t kidding Charlie, that guy is a dick!” She worked under him for roughly the same amount of time I did...

 

Like I said, karma is a bitch!

The owner of Gross’s ended up going out of business, after he’d put obscene amounts of money into renovating a place he didn’t even own (He was renting; the building was an old house that had been a veterinary clinic for years, and then they’d torn down walls and turned it into a deli). The landlord changed the locks overnight when the owner still had several hundred dollars in the cash register. He lost his house to foreclosure, he declared bankruptcy, and his wife left him.

As of 2019, he is the general manager of a Chickie’s & Pete’s around the corner from my house. When I finally became fed up with the car detailing gig and left, my parents thought I should try barbacking at Chickie’s. I found out who the manager was when I was picking up for DoorDash one night, and needless to say I told my parents I refused to work there.

Gross’s Gourmet became Goodnoe’s Dairy Bar, but they didn’t last long. A huge local family-run chain called Lee’s Hoagie House rented the place and has been there for a few years.

 

No I don't think so

 

Okay okay, fine...

I get the joke but I made a bad one.

 

Classic!

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