Saturday, December 3, 2016

Subway presents: Your tax dollars at work.



Can we agree that Subway really knows construction workers?

For the past two weeks, the street outside my apartment is being torn up.  This is the second time in eight years there is major work being done on the same section of street.  I wonder if the same company is doing the work, and if anyone asked them why it wasn't done right the first time (or is it just par for the course for streets to need major work every eight years?)

Just like 90 percent of the "workers" out on my street, the guys in this ad are doing nothing resembling actual work.  The people on my street are wearing hard hats and yellow and orange jackets and heavy boots and safety glasses because I guess that makes standing around watching one guy operate a piece of heavy machinery slightly less dangerous.  The jokers in this Subway ad aren't even going through the motions of pretending to earn their $30 an hour- they've got their backs to the site, blathering away about Subway's jingle.

I guess I should be glad they just acting like lazy morons and not making lewd comments at women as they pass by.  If they did that, I'd be convinced that Subway went out and found actual construction workers to star in their ad.

(Oh and BTW, in the outtakes one of the guys in the ad offers to "sign my sandwich" if I happen to bump into him at my neighborhood Subway.  Um, seriously, buddy.  Get over yourself.  No one knows who you are and that's not going to change because you were a total tool in a Subway ad.)

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  1. Yeah, and when these assholes DO go on break they'll hog the space at whatever local eatery is near the construction site and practically "take over" the restaurant, crowding out other customers.
    They must think they're a "special breed" of humanity.

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    1. They'll be incredibly loud, rude and demanding of the staff while taking calls on their enormous, loudly-beeping radio/phones all the while as well. Every time I have been seated near such a group I have quickly changed tables because I don't want to eat my lunch while being buried with ignorant shouts and blasts of laughter.

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