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Tubi is the underrated goat of streaming.

WDYM I can watch the Teen Titans cartoon (not the kiddie one), My Littlest Pet Shop, All of the MLP works, EQUESTROIA GIRLS, Legally Blond, The Bring it On Movies, Hells Kitchen, Sailor Moon, and so many more various things. FOR FREE.

I'm not kidding all you need is an email. No credit card is asked for, no money is taken. It is entirely free. FREEE FREE FREE FREE.

#tubi #streaming #college student #cause I know you'll want this #teen titans #my little pony #my littlest pet shop #equestria girls #legally blonde #bring it on #hells kitchen #sailor moon #Guys I'm hyping up Tubi pleasse buy into the hype it's worth it

Christian I love you 😭

#survivor 50 #survivor cbs

I’ve been delving into Christopaganism lately, and it’s been so interesting.

#christopaganism

animentality

weaselle

Whenever I think about the value of something being done by a person who really understands the job from a lifetime of experience, I think of my first restaurant job. My goal was to work every position, and I started with a year and a half in the dish pit at 16yo.

When i started as a dishwasher, i was trained by an old career dish pit man named Claudio. He'd spent his whole life washing dishes. It allowed him to move to just about any city in the world that he wanted to and get a job without having to deal with complex hiring processes or strict resumé requirements. Which was the main thing he wanted out of a career. I still think about him.

He'd seen a lot of people come through that station who either didn't consider it a real job or thought it was beneath them, on their way to "better" or "more important" things. And, in retrospect, those first two days he was sort of doing the minimum with me that he could do and still respect himself when he told the manager he'd trained me.

But, maybe it was because i was really interested in learning all the positions there were in a restaurant because i knew they were ALL important, or because i was a hard worker, or maybe it was because i tried to have real conversations with him in my broken spanish and did my best to not make him speak any english unless he wanted to, but after a couple days there was a big shift in the way he and i worked together, and he started to really teach me.

That place ran the dish pit with one dishwasher, so when he was done training me I was going to be doing the job on my own.

The thing that stuck with me the most, for the rest of my restaurant career, was this... and it wasn't just the actual things he was saying, but a completely new way of looking at what i was doing within the context of how the restaurant ran. I came in for my 3rd day and he said

"When you work alone, you want to go home by midnight?"

we clocked on at 3:30 and took a half hour lunch break and usually skipped our tens, so, yeah i absolutely did want to get off work by midnight

Then, even tho i already knew where most of everything was by that time, he took me around and showed me all the dishes, cups, pots and pans, spatulas, silverware, had me look at all of it. Then he told me to remember that almost every one of the dishes I was looking at would be used more than once by the end of our shift- we were clocking on to wash the entire building full of dishes multiple times.

Then he led me back over to the industrial dishwasher most restaurants have, which looks like this:

and then this 60 year old career dishwasher from Mexico City said the thing that changed how I looked at restaurant jobs forever

"This machine takes two full minutes to run a cycle. We are on the clock for 8 hours. That means we have a maximum of 240 times we can run this machine. If you want to wash all those dishes, clean your station, mop, and clock off by midnight? This machine has to be on and running every second of the shift.

If you don't have a full load of dishes collected, scraped, rinsed, stacked, and ready to go into the dishwasher the second it's done every single time? You can't do it. If, over the course of 8 hours, you let this machine lay idle for just one minute in between finishing each load and being turned on again? Instead of 240 loads, you'll do 160 loads.

[like, literally, he had done this math, he had these exact figures]

160 loads instead of 240 loads means you are doing 20 loads in an hour instead of 30 loads. That means the dishes are going to pile up. The cooks will run out of pots and pans and will have to stop and wait for you, the servers will run out of plates and cups and have to stop and wait for you, and your night is going to SUCK. Every part of how this restaurant works can grind to a halt because of that idle minute between dish loads, and if it does you'll have an entire building of people in a hurry and all waiting on you.

And it means you're going to be here until 2 am doing the 200+ loads of dishes this restaurant goes through every night.

For this to work, you MUST have this dishwasher on and running every minute of the shift. As soon as you turn it on you have two minutes to have the next load ready. See these large items i put to the side down here? One or two of them takes up all the space in the machine. I keep them here so that if the machine finishes and shuts off before i'm ready for it i can stick one of these in there and turn it on again immediately. You have to think like that to do this job without stress."

The way he was looking at how the whole restaurant ran, the way he was looking at how he'd spend each minute of the entire shift, the way he broke down what the physical limits were and how to max them out so he could do his job and go home on time without stressing out... The way this 60 year old guy, who had never had professional ambitions beyond being a dishwasher, was still such a competent and brilliant expert in his field.

It was all such an important lesson, and one that stayed with me through every position i went on to work in restaurants, dish pit, busser, server, cook, all the way up through manager before I finally got out of my restaurant career

Claudio never wanted to be anything but a dishwasher who didn't stay any later than he had to.

But he knew how that restaurant ran better than most of the other people in it. I never had a chance to truly thank him for the specific lesson he taught me, because while it had an immediate impact, I didn't really understand how valuable a lesson it was until much later.

But I've thought about Claudio and what i learned from him many MANY times in my life.

hailianation

LIA!!!!!I LOVE YOU GIRL!!!!!

Would it be wrong to say that Drake gives me Catradora vibes??

#like I’m gonna need yall to walk with me #drew tmf #jake tmf #tmf drake #tmf #the music freaks #the music freaks rosyclozy

When someone says the same thing over and over in slightly different wording in the same sentence I can sometimes feel the irritation in my calves.

#this is no hate #my wisdom teeth just hurt

jagged-dust-jacket

I'm bored

Are Hailey's eyes Dark Grey or Black?

Dark Grey

Black

Some secret third option??? (Explain yourself???)

Voting ended onFeb 18

jagged-dust-jacket

I’m gonna need the 7.4% to explain…

#tmf #the music freaks #hailey tmf

I had to write an "I Am" poem for one of my classes, and I really like it. So I wanted to share it on here:

I am what I am and what I am is unsure of what that is. I am a person made up of the traits of other persons. I am the culmination of everyone I’ve ever met. I have her laugh, and his smile.

I am shifting, changing. I am him on that day, and her on this one. I am kind when they’re kind, and I judge when they judge. I am a mood-ring that changes colors to the temperatures of other people.

I am what I am and what I am is no longer content with being a mirror.

I wish I was a flamingo in a flock of chickens. What I am is another chicken trying to find their inner flamingo.

I am what I am and what I am is what every twenty-something college kid is. I am uncertain. I am just a little lost. I am still untangling myself from the web of the people that have so far defined me. I am looking for a long neck or a pop of pink.

I am slowly growing taller. My neck is longer, my legs more lanky.

I am what I am and what I am is unsure of what that is. But I am excited to find out.

#guys I think I cooked #just a bit #poetry #writing #creative writing #writeblr #jdj-writing #should've been a tag AGES ago

amuletx

one sided drake kills me in the best way

jagged-dust-jacket

I'd argue drake is at it's best when it's one-sided.

#tmf #the music freaks #drake tmf #drew tmf #jake tmf #freakblr

I'm bored

Are Hailey's eyes Dark Grey or Black?

Dark Grey

Black

Some secret third option??? (Explain yourself???)

Voting ended onFeb 18

#tmf #the music freaks #rosyblr #freakblr #because I keep switching between the two #IDKKKK #HELP ME #hailey tmf

freakblr-confessions

did anyone find out who the underground freakblr agent was or was it revealed sometime ago and I just missed it

Freakblr confession #006

NOBODY GAMF !!!!!

#No I don't think so #Honestly I miss them #sameeee #come home pookie

If you think you can have a quick cry/break down in a bathroom stall during your 2.5 hour break between classes, quickly and swiftly think again. You cannot.

#in wider world news I didn’t do the homework because I couldn’t remember what it was #and my professor didn’t email me back until an hour before class #it would have taken more time than that.

Dude the eighth shoe just dropped and I am TIRED.

“Put me in coach!” No take me out EXPEDITIOUSLY.

#I don’t even know what’s happening #in wider world news at least I’ll be able to go home and get my anxiety meds #this is so not my usual style #but sometimes you just need to go into the ether #stare at the sky with your hands thrown out #and just scream a good ‘ol #fiddlesticks #I’m much less funny than I think I am #how does one tag this #how does one tag their just absolute tiredness dawg #can we stop with shoes #no more shoes please

strawberry-sweet-vampire

The thing about the Drew-Jake and Hailey-Lia parallels is that Drew and Jake's friendship started breaking because Jake didn't want to be cruel anymore, and Hailey and Lia's friendship broke up because Lia became cruel.

jagged-dust-jacket

The fact that I've never considered this before...

This is ouch, just ouch.

#they hurt me #the music freaks #tmf