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saying he’s “never felt so free and fulfilled.”
From another article, his role at the IRS is in writing tax law regulations for pension funds. I mean...it's gotta be done, but I kinda suspect that sometimes, it's not very exciting.
Honestly, I'm kinda impressed that he took his furlough and decided to knock something off his bucket list. I mean, if life gives you lemons, make lemonade and all that.
EDIT: Oh, they apparently also mentioned it in this article as well.
As a cable guy I visited several thousand homes, all ages and incomes, got pretty good at judging people's lifestyle at an inside glance.
Went to install internet at this guy's new apartment, IRS agent. My god the room was sterile, also, "Shit. New place. This poor guy is going through a divorce." And he was.
He was utterly boring, middle-aged white guy, button down shirt, didn't have jack to say until his modem came online.
"Really? It's good to go?"
"Yep. All good."
"Hang on, hang on..."
Dude fired up Unreal Tournament, hopped in a quick game to test ping, "YES! YES! Thank you thank you thank you!"
Now that I wrote all that out, I have a guess what the divorce was about.
didn't have jack to say until his modem came online.
So you want people to talk to you when you are on the job? I never talk to repair man etc. when they come to my house. I just let them do their work and leave them alone. Doesn’t mean I’m boring or antisocial.
Same, I feel like if I talk to them it may break their focus, and they are usually paid by the job, not the hours, so less time in my house more money in their pockets.
I being an introvert technician appreciate you both, I just wanna get as much done as I possibly can
my impression is that the customer didn't even greet the technician when they arrived
How about we say unusually withdrawn? Anyway, visit a couple of thousand homes, you get a feel.
"Dude fired up Unreal Tournament" Holy shit. That was an unexpected intense wave of nostalgia. Are people still playing UT?
In 2002 or so they were! :)
I miss 2002 so much right now. Goes back to doom scrolling politics and the economy
Y'know what? Fuck yeah good for him.
He's never once had so many people to talk about them Mets with
He's working more than Congress.
“One hotdog, please!”
“Fill out these forms where I put the fun stickers and get a witness to sign.”
“What if I don’t want this much commitment for a hotdog?”
“Jail >:-(“
I dunno if hot dogs are for him. Maybe he should work at like a pants factory or something.
IRS: Your work is worth doing because it indirectly helps people pay taxes to government which indirectly increases the United States's gross domestic product compared to other nations by helping corporations consolidate into monopolies which indirectly allows corporations to [directly control government via regulatory capture to] indirectly lower prices via consumer welfare doctrine which (allegedly) indirectly lowers living costs of consumers to buy food to feed themselves.
Hot Dog Stand: You feed people, making them happy.
Are SNAP benefits are a corporate conspiracy in this world you describe?
Kind of yea.
Within snap are some programs (like food stamps) that are another way to funnel government money to private business while using the very real needs people have to excuse the tremendous graft inherent in having the government pay retail price for store goods that it already subsidized the production and transportation of.
There are much more efficient ways to get people food and we used to actually do it but alas there is more money to be captured this way so no more government cheese or federally organized food transportation logistics. ...and don't you dare talk about strategic reserves, stock rotation or paying farmers to dispose of "excess" production..
so no more government cheese
LOL. I was talking about govt cheese with a co-worker this week. My grandmother, who lived through both world wars and the great depression, would collect anything the govt was giving away. She and grandpa lived in a large home and had more than enough money to survive. She literally had a room where she stored excess food.
I've seen food stamps used at farmer's markets, SNAP doesn't dictate who or how people grow food, that's a different issue. But hey I guess the situation will improve now that SNAP is being halted, right? /s
It doesn't dictate how they grow the food but the number one recipient of those dollars are the owners of retail food sellers and the biggest of these are companies like Walmart.
Walmart and many other companies underpay workers enough that they have to rely on food stamps. They use food stamps to subsidize their labor costs to avoid paying their workers enough to buy food.
Yes. We are subsidizing the wealthiest corporations in the world to underpay their workers and then we're subsidizing those workers to pay full retail price for the food that we are subsidizing farmers to produce. Yet no one who works for a living is making any money.
Farmers aren't making any money, retail workers aren't making any money, train workers aren't making any money, truck drivers aren't making any money, but Walmart, Monsanto and Union Pacific are doing fantastic.
Which should be solved by passing a living wage not by cutting food stamps....
I wish when Democrats brought up how silly purity tests are they would use your comment as an example. People eating is more important than starving a corporation.
nobody's saying that SNAP is worse than nothing
A lawyer named Stein, started a food business called Shysters? o.o
It's okay, he's allowed to say it.
I happened across this video yesterday about this entrepreneur. Seems like a good hearted person.
Shyster menu options include:
Some choice text from the display boards:
If I were local, I'd be buying some dogs.
Never heard of that website, looks like a bunch of gaming related stuff without proper sourcing outside of twitch and tiktok. Are they in any way reliable?
The source is the guy himself talking in a video. That's almost as good as it gets these days
This is the plan of the elites: ONLY ELITES or PEASANTS… and the peasants have to say they’ve never felt better in their lives.
Flood him with business. Make his stand more profitable than working for the IRS. He quits. One less IRS lawyer.
Not allowed to sell food along the beach here sadly, a hotdog stand could be fun to run occasionally. Get one of those bike trailer food stands, usually see them for ice cream but I am sure hotdogs work too.
Suppose it's very seasonal work though, nothing most of the year and loads in summer. But I can't do it so there is that problem.
It reminds me of the IRS guy from the Happy Gilmore sequel. "I became a lawyer because I was tired of people hating me and throwing me through glass doors" (flashback to when Happy Gilmore threw him through a door in the first film).
He should try it while wearing normal clothes, that'll take his freedom to another level 😉
hes wearing gloves too.
scheißters
Fulfilled with free hot dogs he means.
Uh huh until the local food cart gang remind him of certain things.
that's sick. i wanna run a hotdog stand.
