This, from the last restaurant I worked at. The owner, you remember, her son, JR, who didn't want to work, still isn't working, is collecting EI while he thinks about his next big move. I heard a rumour that The Liberal Party had asked him to run for their Federal Cabinet ??? This is beyond stupid. This is the state of the world. No surer way to lose an election than to run the most self-interested, least experienced and invested person you can find.
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The owner, she was a smart one. You didn't have to ask, she'd tell you. I got along well enough with her, as donkey's do with the people that give them carrots, and then it was not the time to argue.
She recently posted on Facebook that everyone was misinterpreting Elon Musk's Nazi Salute as a Nazi Salute. That we all needed context. This, not because she believed it, but because her son (candidate for the Liberal Party) is a goose-stepping Musk enthusiast. And if JR is a fan it can't be bad.
I'm presuming you've seen Musk's Sieg Heil, which was followed by a running series of "jokes" on X -
Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!
Some people will Goebbels anything down!
Stop Gőring your enemies!
His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!
Bet you did nazi that coming
followed by his speaking to the right wing party of Germany telling them they should not be ashamed of their fascist roots.
This, coupled with his South African heritage, well...Yeah, sorry R****, that was a Nazi Salute, and he's not ashamed and not even trying to hide it. And that your son is bootlicking Nazi toad, well, you should know, and it's making me think it might be time for you to go for your early Alzheimer's screening.
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The children of restaurateurs, almost invariably and without exception, are fucked up. When I worked in Calgary, at the fine Italian place, his children were the half-witted scions of privilege and entitlement, but he knew it, and cut them off from his life. He knew they were idiots, probably suspected his own involvement, but in no way defended them. And in Vancouver, the owner, he knew, but out of respect to Chef (and considerations, no doubt, given to your own employ) nobody mentioned. There was no speaking the quiet part out loud, everybody knew.
But R****, R****, my god, is it Denial? That you are completely unable to see what is perpetually right in front of your face? I mean, I've never met anyone more deluded, less self-aware then yourself, and yet you consistently try and signal that "You're the smart one?" The only good thing that comes out of it all is that if even a quarter of the Nazi Party were as competent/determined/hard working as your son they never would have gotten out of Munich, would have passed out in their cups and been carried home by their mommies and nursed back to health.
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She's since taken down the post, damned shame, I was so looking forward to commenting on it...