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Re: I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

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Post by lostlogin »

swozey wrote: post #65
marcuskane2 wrote: post #47

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> the world has collectively lost it's mind since 2020 Covid causes brain damage. The common symptom of "loss of smell" was found to actually be due to covid infection of the neurons in brain & cranial nerves. Obviously "brain fog" (or memory issues, fatigue, lack of focus, however people articulated it) is due to damage to brain. I wonder how society moves forward. We didn't get the movie-horror-story virus that tur…

> I wonder how society moves forward. I'm nervous about this generation of kids who had to grow up locked in a house.

The Kids Aren’t Alright.

Re: I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

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Post by lostlogin »

krapp wrote: post #156
lostlogin wrote: post #154

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> you burn basically the same number of calories per day sitting on your butt as you do being quite physically active. I think I’m missing your point. How do you explain weight loss from exercising?

People tend to lose weight from dieting, not exercise. Unless you're training for a marathon or something, even vigorous exercise tends to burn so few calories that an hour at the gym can be erased with a single trip to McDonald's.

Probably accurate. The amount of exercise needed for effect is less than a hour per day (less than 30 minutes if intensive) but this is a not done by most.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5556592/

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/exercise.htm

Re: I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

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Post by swozey »

reaperman wrote: post #77
swozey wrote: post #41

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This isn't a $XCityBad thing. It's happened to drunk crowds everywhere and is completely irrelevant to location or whether you're even downtown. I guarantee the two step bars in the burbs are filled with drunk drama too nowadays. I was in Austin, Tampa, Dallas, Houston and Denver over the last decade and go to a few of them yearly. Denver is far away the safest out of those and I'm glad to be here. I live in 5 points…

I live in one of the cities you mentioned. I think part of the problem is that many of the “fun” areas have become expensive and bring a different crowd, or people feel entitled to a certain experience because of the prices they’re paying. The bars that still have $2-3 drinks (yes, these exist!) still have a wonderful, self-policing crowd. I also used to bartend in the same time range as you, at the equivalent of a 6…

The people who aren't from my neighborhood are absolutely the problem. Half of my neighbors are industry or just cool young people who go out all the time. I live in a gritty neighborhood that used to be the "Harlem of the West", not sure which city you're in but it'd be like Ybor (tampa), Deep Ellum (Dallas), I guess east6th austin but graffitti/hiphop not honkytonk vibes. Austin doesn't have a blues/jazz/hiphop neighborhood really and its unfortunate White Elephant or whatever is all they've got. Like you said, we get a lot of suburban tourists, groups of people who come in for their friday/sat night to the "cool" part of town and don't know how to handle their liquor or nowadays are just looking for drama, hate being asked for their drivers license (a law here to check for expireds) get in arguments with their partners, other people, try to fight the door guys.

Post 2020 is wild, I all but guarantee my local dive next door deals with a fight almost every fri-saturday. They definitely have to kick someone out every fri/sat at a minimum. Never used to be that bad. I can't explain how many people have tried to start something with me since 2021 (once bars opened) just going out and seeing shows and dancing and what not. If I go out to the busier areas after midnight it's almost a definite thing some dude(s) will go alpha bro mode over nothing or just stare people down. Last saturday a group a randoms at a table was enunciating loudly hoping I'd hear it that I don't belong at my own home bar. That I looked stupid and had stupid tattoos. Dudes had probably never walked into it before and were definitely not from my neighborhood. I just ignored them because who cares. Weird stuff like that. People are just weird now. I've seen so many people 86d.

We had a dollar beer night up till at least 2016-2018 in Austin off Guad at The Local but it looks like that closed down. I can't imagine dollar beers today. The $1 Coors Banquets they sold sell for I think $6.50ish here today. I'm paying $6-8 for single well (Concierge) vodka talls nowadays..

Re: I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

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Post by al_borland »

ilamont wrote: post #87
karaterobot wrote: post #5

If his timeline and application are true, he was technically still the chairman of his company while working at McDonald's, if in name only. > 10/99-10/01: chairman, i-traffic (an agency.com company) > 10/00-10/00: counterperson, mcdonald's (4th & broadway, nyc) I sometimes think about going back to work at food service jobs after I retire, just to keep busy. I enjoyed those jobs as a high school and college student,…

There was a movie subplot that featured something like this as part of the main character's midlife crisis. Something with Kevin Spacey. American Beauty? People who retire from professional jobs often do pick up part time work that would be classified as "menial" because they want to keep engaged and/or make a little extra money. I've had older Lyft drivers who retired from professional backgrounds including one guy…

>American Beauty?

Correct

Re: I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

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Post by bumby »

bluGill wrote: post #113
bumby wrote: post #99

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> I think that the top manager at each store is making $200k, and the top 4 are over $150k Curious what this range is based on? According to ~3.8k self-reported salaries from Glassdoor, the McD manager salary ranges from $37k-$64k with a median of $48k.

The top manager. The shift managers make about that, but the top managers who mostly do paperwork and are rarely seen on the floor do better.

Does each store have multiple managers like that or is this equivalent to someone who manages a region of stores? I've worked fast-food in the past as a run-of-the-mill front line worker and wasn't aware of such a position (although that doesn't mean it doesn't exist). Particularly for the franchisees who own a single store, I'm not sure that is economically viable.

Re: I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

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Post by celdon25 »

lostlogin wrote: post #169
celdon25 wrote: post #91

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Is that a word now?

It dates back hundreds of years. You might of heard of people like Marx and Engles and the concept predates them.

Yeah Marx definitely came to mind. Kidding aside, there’s a time and a place for the word, but it seemed a bit wacky to respond with just “such a classist comment” and leaving it at that.

The food service industry doesn’t look through LinkedIn profiles to find recruits for those jobs. The parent comment phrased a legitimate question and it was met with a sarcastic remark that wasn’t insightful or well-placed.

But it was par for the course from people that jump on any opportunity to use that word. There’s no future in taking those people seriously and you shouldn’t give them a platform.

Re: I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

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Post by vaxman »

Just threw up in my mouth. Yes, our capital markets developed FOMO on the next Apple or Microsoft and so they devolved into throwing caution to the wind and funding people like This. There were trillions lost, millions of workers permanently removed from industry (I think IBM laid off almost a quarter of them alone), plus the damage to the private equity companies that were robbed of investment (by ALL available capital going into "companies" like PETS.COM during the dot-com bubble) and then the catastrophic losses we all sustained as the public equity markets popped followed by the tech nuclear winter that lasted SIX YEARS (when few university students graduated with CS degrees) causing untold additional losses for decades thereafter. I'm glad there are companies like YCombinator to experiment in a controlled way with exploiting high-level technologies (like Web 2.0...) to make our economy run more efficiently, but execs back then were not experienced enough to put people like this guy under a proper manager or simply cut him a check to buy a Corvette or something and send him on his way. Some of those execs did have big wins that have allowed them to move on from their "stabilizing role" in the economy to a now very "destabilizing role" (by inflating another stock market bubble and "artificial" energy crisis). Let's hope the capital markets shut them down before it repeats --because next time, China and Russia won't be on their knees as we screw around with investments in those finding their way at McDonalds.

Re: I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

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Post by Alupis »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #128
Alupis wrote: post #118

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> Herman Pontzer, an anthropology professor > you burn basically the same number of calories per day sitting on your butt as you do being quite physically active Can you provide more evidence for this, because it sounds entirely bogus. Perhaps you mean one's base metabolic rate? If you are physically active, you will consume more calories than sitting all day - because, you know, you are exerting yourself. Also, an a…

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientist-busts-myth...

Your citation is to another piece by the same guy?

Re: I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

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Post by miles »

I_am_uncreative wrote: post #126
nh2 wrote: post #125

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No, that's wrong. Somebody else burns the same number of calories being active as you do sitting. The article does not compare the the same individuals performing sitting vs. being active. It says that members of hunter-gatherer tribes such as the Hadza on average consume as much energy per day as US-Americans sitting on their butt at home. It says the Hadza's bodies have adapted to perform a more exhausting task wit…

You can call us just "Americans". The US is unnecessary, thank you.

Cannot hear "US-Americans" without remembering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

Re: I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

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Post by sobelius »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #93
gwbas1c wrote: post #60

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I don't understand why this was "dead". It's not a statement I fully agree with; but the insight isn't something I'd want to keep off of HN.

I believe that flagged+dead indicates people reported the comment to death, whereas just "dead" indicates the poster is shadowbanned.

Well I appear to not be shadowbanned if this comment shows up so I must of been reported to death. I can see why, and it was a silly thing to say, but after a long day of nothing but solving deep bugs in a terrible tech stack I have little control of, while getting virtually no praise by the organization for my work, mindlessly flipping burgers seemed pretty nice.
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