r/AskReddit • u/AuthorConfident9386 • 13h ago

Men, what’s one small, seemingly insignificant thing you’ve noticed that can be a telltale sign of the difference between a genuinely good man and a bad one?

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u/masterventris 10h ago

The whole lesser jobs thing is always bullshit.

If I am in a restaurant then the most valuable job anyone can perform right now is to serve me and cook my food. I don't give a shit about rocket science or cancer research while I'm waiting for my dinner!

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u/RandomMandarin 9h ago

If you think the people picking up your garbage aren't important, let them go on strike for a month. You'll change your mind soon enough.

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u/radlanrex 6h ago

Anyone who disrespects garbage workers is an idiot. First, those guys make good money, second they take away your garbage. WTF.

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u/RJ815 8h ago

Doesn't even take that long. Whenever a holiday coincides with (or sometimes even is one day adjacent) to a trash pick up day, waste management in my area skips until the next pickup about half a week later. Even just THAT is enough to cause logistics issues with overflowing trashcans or even issues with food rotting / flies if it's sitting in heat, rain, etc. I live in an area that got hit by a horrible hurricane some years back and debris pickup was like 3 months behind, and it was a nightmare for residents and businesses. There was money lost to damage but then a lot more towards not even being able to have normalcy for months.

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u/RollingMeteors 6h ago

people picking up your garbage aren't important,

u/pengweather is THE MOST fucking recognized username in the ENTIRE r/bayarea subreddit, by far, bar none.

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u/tvtb 3h ago

Society would break down if the tubes (sewer) and trucks carrying away your crap/trash stopped functioning. It would just build up around people's homes. People will try to bury some of it with mixed success. It'll attract animals. It will cause disease.

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u/Eminem_quotes 10h ago

Oh I agree 100% my friend.

I was just meaning how many people will act that way in some need to feel superior to others.

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u/Bladelink 9h ago

Agreed. The whole world can't be made of 100% doctors and lawyers and astronauts and shit. The brain surgeon on his commute to the hospital still needs a breakfast burrito on the way, and that person deserves to be treated like a human still.

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u/RJ815 8h ago

60-80% of people would crumble in a dinner rush in a busy restaurant. Yes tipping culture I understand the frustrations there, but I can tell you restaurants can have servers making $25-30+/hr (effectively) and still not keep staff all that long. It's very mentally demanding and that's IF management/coworker drama isn't bullshit and IF bad customers are relatively few. (I've worked as both a line cook and server and while server pays better, line cook is WAY less stress just knocking out expo orders and not dealing with troublesome or impatient customers.) Whenever I worked dinners even though I made good money I couldn't just "go to sleep" after, I'd be wound up even if it was a relatively smooth shift and I'd have to unwind from the fast pace and mentally demanding job. If understaffed a lot of times some tables would have to wait for me just because the process of bringing drinks, taking orders, and bussing food meant I was constantly on my feet moving from table to table trying to juggle it so that no one is waiting more than like 10 - 15 minutes at worst.

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u/MrMan9001 10h ago

Yeah Ive never understood people who treat service workers like crap. If they all suddenly stopped working those same people would be bitching and moaning that nobody is making/serving them food. Guaranteed these are the same kinds of people who are all in on AI bullshit.

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u/algy888 7h ago

And the dishes, I am so glad there is someone willing to do what is a very important job.

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u/SuperFLEB 8h ago edited 8h ago

It's about power, I suppose. While they do have what you need right now, they typically have very little power to arbitrarily withhold it. The customer can't arbitrarily withhold their side of the deal, but they don't have the sort of behavior expectations and can withhold things like respect and politeness. Meanwhile, in any job, being "on the clock" typically means being a bit more formal and taking more shit. What's more, a customer-service position requires a person to interact with many people for a short time, meaning the person on the other end doesn't have a reputation to uphold either.

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u/Hartastic 3h ago

I generally have a lot of respect for people who jobs that I think are important and/or want done, but that I don't personally want to do.