This sounds like he had a job asking alumni for donations, and he’s getting fired because he stole one of the company credit cards to buy an alumni lunch to like bribe them to donate to this place. He claims that he borrowed it but the manager clarifies that no, they had to send security to get it from him and that he ran from them. The guy getting fired claims it was because the fire alarm was ringing but it turns out that he was the one who pulled the fire alarm when they found out he had the card and he had already written a note saying “You’ll never catch me, daddy’s gotta tinkle” (he wrote that line in italics, which the manager was laughing in disbelief about). Then he is offered a severance package of a pack of trail mix, and has the balls to ask if there is any other ones without raisins, because he fucking hates raisins. And the manager still sits there in his unbottoned shirt and tells him either he takes it or he doesn’t get a severance because it was already unorthodox to give a part time student employee a severance. And then the guy getting fired asks him to hang out later and this manager is just like “yeah I mean after 5, sure”.
“Ok I guess I’ll pick out the raisins”
“Yeah you’ll have time”
😂😭 wtf like this place is totally run by college students and recent grads who couldn’t give less of a fuck because they’re still out there begging for money. So why they heck not? Yeah let’s hang out after 5 you little felon lmfao
It’s so significant too that this narrative was collected by Zora Neale Hurston, one of the greatest authors and anthropologists of her time. She was shunned by the “gatekeepers” of both of these professions, largely because of her Blackness, her womanhood, and her uncompromising commitment to honoring and showcasing both in her works. She died penniless and alone in a state-run institution in 1960. All of her works had gone out of publication by then. It took more than a decade before she was rediscovered. A young author by the name of Alice Walker had come across her work and was deeply inspired by it. “In 1973, after an exhaustive search, Walker came across Hurston’s unmarked grave in Ft. Pierce, Fla. She purchased a headstone for Hurston’s tomb and had it inscribed “A Genius of the South.“”
It is through Zora Neale Hurston’s pioneering sacrifice, and the acceptance of that inheritance by Alice Walker that we have found this missing piece of our history. Without the courageous and unfailing work of Black women, we wouldn’t have Cudjo Lewis’s story. We are slowly regaining a narrative that’s been hidden from us, one that continues to be lied about. Trust Black women to lead the way.
I respect fashion as an art form, but despise it as a consumer culture. That hypebeast mentality of “as long as it costs a lot, it’s fashionable” makes people like shit they would think is dumb as hell if there was no social value to liking it.
maybe i’m overthinking things but the idea of some carol singers showing up at your door, telling you to bring out some pudding and insisting they won’t leave until they get it like in the classic “we wish you a merry christmas” is honestly terrifying
me: *opening the door* merry chr-
carol singer, pointing a glock at my head: your figgy pudding or your life
Oh I know this one!
It’s about an old English practice called Wassailing.
“In the middle ages, the wassail was an exchange between the feudal lords and their peasants… The lord of the manor would give food and drink to the peasants in exchange for their blessing and goodwill… Wassailing was associated with rowdy bands of young men who would enter the homes of wealthy neighbours and demand free food and drink… the householder refused, he was usually cursed, and occasionally his house was vandalized.”
Oh and the name comes from the mulled wine like alcohol they drunk while doing it. It mostly fell out of practice but they still do it in some places in Scotland.
so you’re telling me that on christmas day it was tradition that people would show up at the houses of the wealthy and powerful and demand to be provided for or else trash their house??? why did we stop doing that and how do we bring it back
