Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, kiddo

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• TaterTot@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So uhhh, the oldest Boomers would have been 14 at the end of the 50’s. This would have been a Greatest and Silent generation thing.

  And given what they lived through… well I get wanting a whiskey dispenser at work…

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  • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The cigarette vending machine is not pictured, just to the right

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    • lyrial@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those were a thing well into the 2000’s. I paid that 90% markup many times in bars in my 20s.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    so where’s my joint dispenser at work?

    oh right. self employed. i’ll get right on that, boss.

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  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People have no idea about boomers and do not know what they even are, but have the wildest opinions about them

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Boomers is 1945 to 1965.

      Plenty of them out there walking around.

      It’s legal to speak to them.

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• solidheron@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Heck yeah. Time to go drive a fork lift

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ha, I had a bunch of family who worked at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Newark, NJ, many, many years back, and beer on breaks was obviously a thing. What a time to be alive.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      they just closed our AB brewery :(

      i coulda been stapelfahrer klaus…

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• MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This was their mental health care.

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  • GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Still better than what I get

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• terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been to startups where the liquor cabinet is open, and everyone was young and party happy.

  They pay accordingly. It’s the young persons pizza party

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  • elvith@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

    xkcd.com/323/

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The royal navy had a similar method to maintain morale and keep sailors happy.

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  • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Until Black Tot Day

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_ration

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You may have gotten the lash, but hey, you did get rum and sodomy too

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We had it in the RCN as well, until they stopped the tot. Pretty sure we just followed the brits on that.

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    rum, sodomy, and the lash

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No. They were loyal because there was a pension.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And they weren’t getting paid less than dirt after 10 years.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  boozestraps

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I heard my cities’ shipyard used to get a truckload of beer delivered twice a day

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the 1980s, drinking on the job at the brewery I worked at was normal.

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    JUST LIKE YOUR MOM

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      She’s a class Y lady

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• qualia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They had a beer tap but accounting told them they were losing money from all the bathroom breaks.

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• bloogoose@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lead is a hell of a drug.

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