r/mildlyinteresting • u/Oracle_of_Ages • Nov 19 '22

Olive Garden gave me a daily sales report instead of a receipt Quality Post

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u/StochasticCatsick Nov 19 '22

Am in the UK and highly tickled by this.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

I'm in the US and didn't get the memo either. The three martini lunch didn't go away, it just comes in a salt rimmed glass as part of a three margarita lunch now – but that's a white collar thing. Construction guys? Drinking on the job, especially if they're painters lol.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Roofers have entered the chat.

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u/yanks8190 Nov 19 '22

They always have to be higher than everyone else.

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u/jasapper Nov 19 '22

Drywallers have entered the chat... and they always have a place to stash their emptys.

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u/seamus_mc Nov 19 '22

And piss buckets

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u/SamRaimisOldsDelta88 Nov 19 '22

Can confirm. I was a painter and the joke was that the fumes got to the heads of the guys who did it for a long time and drinking was barely even a thing to them. Just made them feel normal. Now that I think about it it probably wasn’t even a joke.

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u/WyK23 Nov 19 '22

Definitely the painters. When I was painting with a huge construction company...we went out for lunch often, and there were always people getting just a "few" beers at lunch. The head painter would bring a cooler with beer in it for when we didn't go out to eat. I've also had my hand in a lot of other construction, mainly roofing and siding. We NEVER drank...which was fine..cuz ya know..heights and alcohol, terrible mix.

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u/sportstersrfun Nov 19 '22

I’m a nurse and I’ve taken care of more than one roofer who has fallen off the roof while drunk. I have also taken care of a roofer who had a seizure and fell off a roof because he was not “drunk enough”. The dudes mom brought him balloons and I caught him inhaling the helium lol. Some people…

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u/WyK23 Nov 19 '22

Lol oh geeze, I believe it! I know some roofers that worked in a different company that definitely had the shakes come mid-day! Such a recipe for disaster. Man, when people have it bad enough, they'll get their fix anywhere they can get it!

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u/PapiGoneGamer Nov 19 '22

The amount of crushed beer cans you’ll find in a roofer’s van on a Friday is unreal

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u/Selectfirepronghorn Nov 19 '22

That’s why I only do espresso martinis for lunch lol.

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u/BannyDodger Nov 19 '22

You're working smarter!

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u/Gisbornite Nov 19 '22

Considering Bankers come into my restaurant and pound back multiple £100+ bottles of wine at a business lunch on a Tuesday.

This is fuckin hilarious

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

I thought that had died out a lot in the last few years?

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u/probablywrongbutmeh Nov 19 '22

Thats bc the UK has beers that are like 2% alochol lol

I loved it in the UK but I felt like I had to drink 15 beers just to get buzzed

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u/cortanakya Nov 19 '22

Wtf u talkin about? 2 percent beers is an American thing. They're 4-6 in the UK.

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u/probablywrongbutmeh Nov 19 '22

IPAs have entered the chat

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u/StochasticCatsick Nov 19 '22

Ah, hilarious. Also, no.

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u/probablywrongbutmeh Nov 19 '22

I know you guys love your beers, and I was obviously exaggerating by saying 2%, but the ABV on every beer I could find in London was between 3-5%.

The average IPA in the US is like 5-7%.

Even Budweiser is 5%. Shit, Bud Light is 4.2%.

I didnt say the beer was bad, in fact I found the flavors to be nice. Just that they have less alcohol than American beers.