I work as a head chef at a family-owned, casual dining restaurant that is open only for dinner (and staffed with good, hard-working kids with parents who do the same), and am feeding people who are on the government dole. You always know it's them- they show up in their pajamas; whether to dine in or take out their call-in orders, massively overweight, dirty and smelly with greasy hair, and dragging 3-4 kids with them, and always on the first and third week of every month. This is no exaggeration. We also get a large crowd of SSI recipients on the 3rd of the month, but they usually only get one chance per month to gather and eat out, and although I'm not a fan of socialist SSI, they don't piss me off like the system-suckers do. Others that come in, especially during the third week, are on disability, and bring their entire family so dad in his wheelchair/using a walker/massively overweight with back issues can buy dinner. The other two weeks see a much different crowd than the free money weeks- what I remember the crowds being way back when I started my career. The free money folks; and I mean those who are generationally on welfare and handouts; have turned, or attempted to turn, every restaurant into a McDonalds. I have colleagues who are chefs at expensive, fine dining restaurants (we're talking $50 plates, ice carvings, etc.), and during these weeks, they get calls for take-out and "do you deliver?", when they don't even HAVE takeout!

They're getting money from somewhere, whether they've quit working and just resigned themselves to a life of Call of Duty, Netflix, take-out food, and free Biden Bucks, or their entire family have sucked off the system for 4-5 generations. Yeah... I'm bitter that not only do I have to cook for these people, but I have to PAY for it as well.

As for my own personal financial situation- I'm in a fairly recently-new (less than 3 years) relationship with a normie who bought herself into debt, and I'm able to help her out (at my insistence; pride and all on her part) and still stay afloat. My savings per month has dropped a bit, though, but I live a simple life without the manipulations of mainstream marketing, and have always done so. My other half, not so much, and she's now paying the price. Our area still seems fairly normal; in a blue state, no less. Not too many shortages.... yet.

I work as a head chef at a family-owned, casual dining restaurant that is open only for dinner (and staffed with good, hard-working kids with parents who do the same), and am feeding people who are on the government dole. You always know it's them- they show up in their pajamas; whether to dine in or take out their call-in orders, massively overweight, dirty and smelly with greasy hair, and dragging 3-4 kids with them, and always on the first and third week of every month. This is no exaggeration. We also get a large crowd of SSI recipients on the 3rd of the month, but they usually only get one chance per month to gather and eat out, and although I'm not a fan of socialist SSI, they don't piss me off like the system-suckers do. Others that come in, especially during the third week, are on disability, and bring their entire family so dad in his wheelchair/using a walker/massively overweight with back issues can buy dinner. The other two weeks see a much different crowd than the free money weeks- what I remember the crowds being way back when I started my career. The free money folks; and I mean those who are generationally on welfare and handouts; have turned, or attempted to turn, every restaurant into a McDonalds. I have colleagues who are chefs at expensive, fine dining restaurants (we're talking $50 plates, ice carvings, etc.), and during these weeks, they get calls for take-out and "do you deliver?", when they don't even HAVE takeout!

They're getting money from somewhere, whether they've quit working and just resigned themselves to a life of Call of Duty, Netflix, take-out food, and free Biden Bucks, or their entire family have sucked off the system for 4-5 generations. Yeah... I'm bitter that not only do I have to cook for these people, but I have to PAY for it as well.

As for my own personal financial situation- I'm in a fairly recently-new (less than 3 years) relationship with a normie who bought herself into debt, and I'm able to help her out (at my insistence; pride and all on her part) and still stay afloat. My savings per month has dropped a bit, though, but I live a simple life without the manipulations of mainstream marketing, and have always done so. My other half, not so much, and she's now paying the price. Our area still seems fairly normal- not too many shortages.... yet.

I work as a head chef at a family-owned, casual dining restaurant that is open only for dinner (and staffed with good, hard-working kids with parents who do the same), and am feeding people who are on the government dole. You always know it's them- they show up in their pajamas; whether to dine in or take out their call-in orders, massively overweight, dirty and smelly with greasy hair, and dragging 3-4 kids with them, and always on the first and third week of every month. This is no exaggeration. We also get a large crowd of SSI recipients on the 3rd of the month, but they usually only get one chance per month to gather and eat out, and although I'm not a fan of socialist SSI, they don't piss me off like the system-suckers do. Others that come in, especially during the third week, are on disability, and bring their entire family so dad in his wheelchair/using a walker/massively overweight with back issues can buy dinner. The other two weeks see a much different crowd than the free money weeks- what I remember the crowds being way back when I started my career. The free money folks; and I mean those who are generationally on welfare and handouts; have turned, or attempted to turn, every restaurant into a McDonalds. I have colleagues who are chefs at expensive, fine dining restaurants (we're talking $50 plates, ice carvings, etc.), and during these weeks, they get calls for take-out and "do you deliver?", when they don't even HAVE takeout!

They're getting money from somewhere, whether they've quit working and just resigned themselves to a life of Call of Duty, Netflix, take-out food, and free Biden Bucks, or their entire family have sucked off the system for 4-5 generations. Yeah... I'm bitter that not only do I have to cook for these people, but I have to PAY for it as well.

As for my own personal financial situation- I'm in a fairly recently-new (less than 3 years) relationship with a normie who bought herself into debt, and I'm able to help her out (at my insistence; pride and all on her part) and still stay afloat. My savings per month has dropped a bit, though, but I live a simple life without the manipulations of mainstream marketing, and have always done so. My other half, not so much, and she's now paying the price.

I work as a head chef at a family-owned, casual dining restaurant that is open only for dinner (and staffed with good, hard-working kids with parents who do the same), and am feeding people who are on the government dole. You always know it's them- they show up in their pajamas; whether to dine in or take out their call-in orders, massively overweight, dirty and smelly with greasy hair, and dragging 3-4 kids with them, and always on the first and third week of every month. This is no exaggeration. We also get a large crowd of SSI recipients on the 3rd of the month, but they usually only get one chance per month to gather and eat out, and although I'm not a fan of socialist SSI, they don't piss me off like the system-suckers do. Others that come in, especially during the third week, are on disability, and bring their entire family so dad in his wheelchair/using a walker/massively overweight with back issues can buy dinner. The other two weeks see a much different crowd than the free money weeks- what I remember the crowds being way back when I started my career. The free money folks; and I mean those who are generationally on welfare and handouts; have turned, or attempted to turn, every restaurant into a McDonalds. I have colleagues who are chefs at expensive, fine dining restaurants (we're talking $50 plates, ice carvings, etc.), and during these weeks, they get calls for take-out and "do you deliver?", when they don't even HAVE takeout!

They're getting money from somewhere, whether they've quit working and just resigned themselves to a life of Call of Duty, Netflix, take-out food, and free Biden Bucks, or their entire family have sucked off the system for 4-5 generations. Yeah... I'm bitter that not only do I have to cook for these people, but I have to PAY for it as well.

I work as a head chef at a family-owned, casual dining restaurant that is open only for dinner (and staffed with good, hard-working kids with parents who do the same), and am feeding people who are on the government dole. You always know it's them- they show up in their pajamas; whether to dine in or take out their call-in orders, massively overweight, dirty and smelly with greasy hair, and dragging 3-4 kids with them, and always on the first and third week of every month. This is no exaggeration. Others that come in, especially during the third week, are on disability, and bring their entire family so dad in his wheelchair/using a walker/massively overweight with back issues can buy dinner. The other two weeks see a much different crowd than the free money weeks- what I remember the crowds being way back when I started my career. The free money folks; and I mean those who are generationally on welfare and handouts; have turned, or attempted to turn, every restaurant into a McDonalds. I have colleagues who are chefs at expensive, fine dining restaurants (we're talking $50 plates, ice carvings, etc.), and during these weeks, they get calls for take-out and "do you deliver?", when they don't even HAVE takeout!

They're getting money from somewhere, whether they've quit working and just resigned themselves to a life of Call of Duty, Netflix, take-out food, and free Biden Bucks, or their entire family have sucked off the system for 4-5 generations. Yeah... I'm bitter that not only do I have to cook for these people, but I have to PAY for it as well.