Imagine working in an actual environmental impact assessment agency and get a call of some dipshit who wants to dump some berrys in a forest, and then trying to hold your laughter you charge them for the question AND THEY FUCKING PAY YOU.

  • cawsby [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    My first roommate in college dropped out and became a caterer pastry chef for about 10 years before quitting over shit like this. The stories he can tell about rich asshole clients could last all day.

    One rich dude was marrying off his idle rich adult daughter to a geologist and he wanted the shop to do topological mountainscapes on 1000's of cupcakes for a huge wedding. So the shop had three or four molds made out of silicon to speed up the process and showed the finished cupcakes to him, but he insisted they do them all by hand for the same price. The owner accepted and he ended up working for a day straight and in the end like maybe 25% were eaten, the rest were thrown away.

    Rich people do this all the time at parties. They have lavish spreads that end up mostly in the garbage.

    • steve5487 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      it's insane how they exploit people who can barely eat only to throw away what they don't use

      • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Imagine having enough money to feed and clothe and house everyone and solve the climate crisis, but instead using that money to make people peel your raspberries so they won’t rise up against you

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Don't. I work as a cook and the amount of food waste is insane and we're at the end of the supply chain, the really big waste is the suppliers and their suppliers all the way up. Anything you ever personally need to throw out really amounts to nothing.

        • cawsby [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Apple orchards during good seasons can throw away nearly half of the apples because even juicers run out of demand.

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                3 years ago

                I thought you could make cider out of just about anything as long as it had sugar in it?

                • cawsby [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  You can but you won't get the dry bite of cider. It'll be like drinking normal sweetened apple juice - think concord wine.