as an extreme wagie i would destroy this man with my fart. he would not even eat the pizza
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
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This has the same energy as Lonely Island's song "I threw it on the ground". The male Karen.
I'm an ADULT!
My dad's not a cellphone!
DUH!
as someone who's worked in food service (fuck this guy for "wagies") I don't care if papa domino loses 50 cents but I do care about losing my job bc my manager saw me give it away to some asshole who thinks he's above the workers that make his food.
my job isn't worth you saving 50 cents
The problem here is that the relationship is alienated from the person actually being an asshole. Under wage labor the customer and the employee are both a part of the same class. They both work wage jobs and both have to deal with the frustrations of those jobs.
The one sense of "freedom" that the wage laborers feel is how they spend their money. They are alienated from the actual material impacts of their work. They are offered only a wage and given no incentive to form a relationship with their place of work beyond the paycheck.
So their entire expression of their labor is based upon their consumption and how they spend their earned wages. This is why we have a disconnect between two wage owners. They are both frustrated with the "laws" that govern their consumption and their labor.
The Domino's employee is frustrated because the customer is making his labor more difficult. He just wants to do the least amount of labor for his pay and ensure his employment is secure.
The Domino's customer is frustrated because the employee has no control over the means of production. He cannot verbally tell the "owner" of the business his frustrations.
They are both alienated from the beneficiary of the labor and the consumption. It frustrates both of them.
I would say it is one of the most "human" feelings we can have. It is one of the most conflicting parts of capitalism that contridicts human nature.
We want to share the products of our labor, see the beneficiaries of it, and gain praise for it. Our current economic systems are in direct contradiction of this.
Which is why you'll find people in this thread siding with both the employee and the customer. When the real asshole is the dude deciding garlic sauce should be 50 cents because it makes a line go up on a graph. The same asshole that hasn't set foot in a Domino's pizza in their entire life.
Edit: One assumption here is that both these people are wage laborers. The nonwage laborer often has a different reason for being an asshole to employees. I have never heard "wagie" as a negative thing until now. I kinda assumed it was almost a "solidarity" term and less so derogatory. But I assumed wrong.
But even so. The wage laborer can see themselves in a different position as a "consumer" and ignore their own class position when they spend their wage. It is their only time to "be the boss".
This ia such a fantastic summary of this post. Encapsulates everything I felt but couldn't put into words. Thank you, fellow wagie.
No problem. But I basically just used Marx's explanation of Alienation (and commodity fetishism) and applied it to the post.
“The cost of your entitlement is my job”
Whenever anyone says "wagie" I know they're a soft little suburban boy who has never worked a day in their life. I feel like being that much of an idiot is its own punishment
I've stopped adding sauce to my McDonald's and KFC orders after my friend showed me a bottled sauce brand that is literally made by the same manufacturer, tastes the same and can be bought in any supermarket in Ukraine for much lower price per serving.
Surely if you want to save up on sauce, you can do some research and find the brand that fits the taste.
Mind sharing the brand?
and seriously, you can do better, sauces tend to keep for a while, especially the quality youd get there, and YOU CAN MAKE BETTER OMG. a five dollar (fuck) bottle and two dollars of ingredients makes a years worth of most of these kinds of sauces in bulk.
Anything a store gives you "free" (as Anon says Papa John's garlic) has already been priced in.
I worked in a gift shop, we did "free" gift wrapping and it was beautiful. But the cost of boxes, rolls of ribbon and reams of tissue paper were factored into our markup throughout the store. We had really nice things, so a lot of our customers would come in for a gift and spend as much or more on items for themselves, which just needed to be bagged. Maybe bubble wrap for the trip home, but that was reused from things shipped to us. So we made extra profit, while also giving them and their friends ideas for their next gift. Wealthy people, so they didn't care.
Yeah, this is how businesses work. They provide what you are looking for at that moment. But to get you to come back, they “provide” other items and services for free to get that future business. This is a way businesses can be “long term” greedy. They’ll still make a profit because those additional costs are in the price of your original purchase.
However, you aren’t guaranteed that future business. So, businesses have moved to “short term” greedy by charging for everything else while keeping the original purchase price “competitive” or just as pricey.
Or you pursue weirder spaces to get profit ie I had a boss who hated her cousin but flew to India for his wedding because the bride’s brother ran a paper factory. She came back having spent $10k on gift wrap and bags that would have cost $100k+ here. We sold bags for $7 that cost $0.13. Our highest profit item in awine shop was a paper bag. We of course would give these out for “free” when we needed to.
Don't forget that many foods have been designed to be too dry without the premium sauce. A local burger bar by me charges $2 for mustard on a burger that would otherwise be completely dry.
If i got to a burger place that doesn't have condiments on the table I'm out of there.
damn, i live close to a place with one of the best burgers i've ever eaten, and as long as you're in the restaurant, they give you as much of their homemade mayonaise as you want (and it's probably the best mayo i've eaten)
Garlic sauce is kinda premium, but asking you to pay an extra 50¢ seems petty. But $2 for mustard is fucking insane.
That seems like sacrilege. I don't think I would ever go somewhere that charges extra for mustard on a burger
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