Be a bus boy for 54 years on minimum wage

[Clark Griswold]

Dude is like the blue collar version of this nikka..

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I couldn't put up with that job for an entire summer, let alone 54 yes. I lasted maybe 2 months as a busser back in 96.

 

[Originalman]

Why we defend Elvin but look down on this?

Better question. Why shame either of these kats. Ain't like either one asked for pitty or a got damn hand out.

 

[Koba St]

Dude is like the blue collar version of this nikka..

Probably won an Oscar for this too.

 

[ManBearPig]

A lot of security jobs are like that.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

If you're Black and been a bus boy at a restaurant for 54 years, you're probably often referred to as "one of the good ones, who know their place in society."

 

[Gold]

I won't waste my pity on those who dont pity themselves. He is fine with this, so good for him.

I could never live that life

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Christ...and I thought I was doing bad in my dead end job slump. It's like this dude feels comfortable to be the 4K version of Mammy . Such a shame

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Not exposure, it’s people get so comfortable in their daily habits and routines that they never do anything else. I’ve found myself in that trap as well, nothing like this shyt though.

I mean, if you enjoy your gig for what its worth, so be it. However, if you are getting fukked by the higher ups and just stuck in a rut, abandoned ship[. I'm part time so it's what it is, but when opportunity knocks and there's some support for my son (older age to hold his own, afterschool care, etc). I'm opening the door.

 

[Jhoon]

Unfortunately at his age, he is unemploayble elsewhere, so this is it for him if he gets sick or has a major illness. You think his cac boss gonna help him out?

My Grandmother who is still alive cleaned white folks homes to put herself through school and when my Grandpop was nearly crippled from a work accident.

I respect he was loyal, but he is allowing his descendants to be wage-slaves, something I cannot condone...(it is a dysfunctional behavior)

I do have a problem with the Cac boss in 2018 being gleeful of not paying his most loyal worker peanuts for time of service(not enough as he doesn't have a car). Also, the vibe I get is cacs enjoy OGs serving them food and being docile to being the "Good Old Days" aka pre-Civil Rights era.

He survived Jim Crow, that alone should garner automatic respect...however, it is puzzling for a man to survive all of that and not have ambition to move up.

Either way, I think we can all agree that he at least is earning money and doing something he loves rather than wasting away in an old folks home waiting to die....He is 72, not 22....

he shouldn't be working at that age.

 

[badtguy]

I mean. ....... if he likes it hey. Ok.

I be at a job 2 years thinking like should I leave or not...

 

[Goat poster]

Why we defend Elvin but look down on this?

Every situation is different breh.

And honestly with me it ain’t as much about this man and his job as it is about how his employers were talking about him.

“He’s one of the good ones”


“He was never one of those Black panther types”

“ He never wanted to go out and buy a Cadillac”


Those comments let you know that they still have the same mindset as they did when he started there 50 years ago.

And to add insult to injury, now he has his grandchild in their slaving for those same people.

He can’t even say he did it so his children/ grandchildren could live a better life.

This is different from working part time at trader joes.

 

[Karb]

If this guy is not mentally ill or has some type of impairment, then there's no reason to be making excuses for him. shyt is extremely pathetic. The way that they view him. The fact that they haven't even rewarded him for his loyalty. And to top it off, his friggin grandson works there too

This is a massive fail on all levels.

Might as well adopt his boss's last name at this point and make sure his lineage remains as servants

 

[EBK String]

And just for the record, damn near the whole southwestern portion of Evanston is black. There have been blacks in Evanston since the early 1900s.

Wilmette has a number of black families as well. Most are in the areas west of Green Bay.

Glencoe has black families.
Highland Park has black families (where Jordan use to live).
And Lake Forest has black families. In fact, downtown Lake Forest used to have an entire street full of black businesses. And they’ve been there since the early 1900s.

This guy name James Casselberry’s family, whose wife was in a black organization with my grandmother, had been in Lake Forest for over a hundred years.

James Casselberry

There were black people all over Chicago. Don’t let them tell you all black people were only regulated to live on the South and West sides during the Great Migration because that’s not true. There were professional black families in Morgan Park and as far out as Chicago Heights. There were blacks not just on the West Side but out in Oak Park and blacks on both the North Side and North Shore. We were everywhere.

so bougie negros been hiding up there while the masses been catching hell in the city?

 

[Laidbackman]

His son says he can retire anytime. But working all those years at minimum wage, maybe he can't afford to retire, even with everything paid off.