Thoughts on Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs show? I hope they make

>>82385096
Is he still doing Dirty Jobs?

>>82385096
As a proud cuck, I have signed the pledge.

>>82385502
No, I'm pretty sure now he's just collecting annual $10 million royalty checks from the show while relaxing in his San Francisco mansion.

>trying to deflect from Shill Nye's failures by projecting onto Mike Rowe

Nope.

>>82385096
*signs pledge*

Cool, now I'm ready for a dirty job!

>>82387305
I'm ready to get dirty with Mike Rowe...

Threadly reminder, Mike Rowe has a net worth of $35 million dollars, every job he has ever had has been in entertainment, and he's not grateful for anything in life or had to struggle.

But take that shitty blue collar job and be happy in it, never aspire to be something better.

>>82385096
I'm proud to be a slave for Jewish overlords and I pledge never to go against them. *inserts Jewish penis into ass*

>>82387785
Yeah, and Bill Nye isn't an actual scientist either.

>>82385096
I was thrilled that this thread was still up from yesterday, then I realized it is just a repost.

OP-bot, check your diagnostics

>>82387904
This is the first time I've seen this thread, is Mike Rowe a meme on this board now?

Dirty Jobs hasn't even been on in like 5 years.

>>82385096
I'm always in for more Dirty Jobs.

>>82387785
>But take that shitty blue collar job and be happy in it, never aspire to be something better.

Where is it even implied in the pledge that you shouldn't aspire for something better?

>>82387785
Is he really worth $35 Million?

>>82385096
Can some give me a summary of the pledge?

/tv/'s fascination with reality TV has always disgusted me.

>>82388294
Read #7, that's all you need to know.

>>82388301
Dirty Jobs isn't reality TV.

>>82389437
It won 3 Emmys for Outstanding Reality Program.

>>82385579
THE PLEDGE is basically cuckservatism.txt. It's great to work in school and at your jobs, but it's a small part of what actually leads to material prosperity. Being a good citizen and deserving good things does not magically make them happen to you. Moreover, employment is a business transaction, and you own your employer nothing outside the terms of the deal.

Americans are legit fucked in head. They do not know compassion. You wouldn't see shit like this coming from an european country where people manage to coexist and understand each other.

>>82389793
>says Sven as another one of his women gets raped and murdered by a sandnigger

>>82389793
It's called personal responsibility.

This kind of mindless positive "thinking" has always made me angry very quickly. I think I resent the fact that someone fucking dumb enough to believe any of that shit benefits from their stupidity, which is supposed to be a negative trait.

>>82385096
>I understand the world is not fair and I'm OK with that
Why? Why are you OK with that, Mike? Really makes you think...

>>82385096
>>says the guy who earns $10 mil a year doing blue collar jobs that pay minimum wage for a few days at a time
What a fucking joker.

>>82387785

You forgot to add the fact Mike Rowe is a former operatic singer.

A literal namby pamby lilly plucking faggot squealing and prancing around on stage that found out he can get paid to pretend to be blue collar.

Shameful.

>>82385096
What the fuck is wrong with America??

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>>82385096
>dressing a literal millionaire as a blue-collar worker to tell the actual workers to keep quiet and accept what they're given

>>82388246
I can buy Mike Rowe for 35 million dollars, suhweet

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>>82385096

>1. B-but I wasnt born in America....

>3. You have to be delusional to believe that there are no bad jobs you smug fuckwit. There are plenty of horrible jobs. Not all jobs are opportunities you cock holster.

7. No lol being friends with the boss is about 3rice as important in getting a promotion then "cheerfully volunteer for every crappy task"

> 11. I understand that the world is not fair
> 12. All people are created equal.
> Lol fucking what those are direct contradictions you cock gobbler.

>>82388239
The whole thing is basically 'If you're not a millionaire living in a state of bliss, you only have yourself to blame'.

Anyone who claims there's no such thing as a shit job clearly hasn't got much real world experience. The command of 'Hurr just get a better one!' can be ruined by any number of environmental factors outside the individual's control or consequences of decisions the individual made years or even decades before, the outcome of which they had no realistic capability of predicting.

There's also the implication that the reason people are poor is because 'they slept in' and that wealthy people became wealthy by working harder than everyone poorer than them, neither of which are supportable statements if you examine them even casually.

Not to say that people have zero control over their potential prosperity but the list is taking it to the other extreme from 'Durr poor people is just victims of circumstance' by implying becoming wealthy is simply a matter of mindset.

>>82385096
Pretty certain living in a tent and eating beans will both limit your employment opportunities and leave you unable to work like a dog...er sorry, adhere to pledge #7, since you'll be malnourished and sleep deprived.

>I will never stop learning, and I understand library cards are free.

Yeah that'll go over well at a job interview.

>So do you have a relevant qualification in this field?
>Durrr I go to library a lot

http://richkidsofinstagram.com

Just accept what you're given, everyone starts off with an equal chance at success ;-)

>>82385096
>8. I believe the most annoying sounds in the world are whining and complaining

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WN7D-iTOvTQ

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>>82390312
>hating opera
Plebs like you deserve to work in the dirt

>6. I believe my safety is my responsibility

So if you job only provides you with substandard safety equipment what should you do? Pay for better equipment yourself? Good luck getting work to pay for anything you need to do your job after that. Now you're even worse off. How about asserting your rights as an employee and demanding they provide the necessary tools to do your job?

>>82385096
Americans are so brainwashed they think a reality tv star is a hero of the working class.

>>82390381
I want /leftypol/ fags to leave

>>82390757
He did that all the time, too. The network fired him 3 separate times because all his did was complain and talk about how much he hated his job, and how beneath him it was, on air.

>>82385096
>6
>7
Now I understand what people mean when they say a race to the bottom.

This guy expects people to live in fucking Hoovervilles sooner than go into debt.

>>82390823
This, what the fuck is he saying here? There's a reason why we have fucking OSHA and safety regulations in the workplace. Because the working-class fought to assert their rights in their workplaces and organized unions and advocated legislation to improve their lives. Something Mike Rowe would disapprove of as "whining and complaining." Fuck him.

>>82389793
>using other people's money to pay for your pipe dreams is being compassionate
Why are yuropoors such sheep?

>>82390823
>How about asserting your rights as an employee

That would be complaining and/or whining anon! Direct violation of pledge #8!

Also, you'd be inconveniencing your employer, the charitable man who so kindly gave you a job out of the goodness of his heart. You'll never get ahead with an attitude like that!

>>82390976
Well said, brother! I see you have also signed the pledge. Fuck these sheeple who don't believe that our employers have a right to treat us like shit.

>>82390823
Yeah this one is pretty fucking stupid and I say that as someone who likes Mike Rowe.

>>82390956
>Because the working-class fought to assert their rights in their workplaces and organized unions and advocated legislation to improve their lives. Something Mike Rowe would disapprove of as "whining and complaining." Fuck him.

Yeah. 8. Clearly just means "Never Unionize"

>>82385096
>I believe that my safety is my responsibility. I understand that being in "compliance" does not necessarily mean I'm out of danger

Guy has clearly never been on a fucking building site in his life if he thinks all injuries are self-inflicted.

>>82390956
>unions
You're about to trigger a ton of perma-NEET /pol/tards

>>82385096
What's that facial expression called? Looks like a Dr. Suess character.

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>>82391017
Tell me more about your peaceful co-existing society.

>>82391082
>Bringing up mass shootings
>Something that happens every other Tuesday in USA

glass houses.....

>>82390839
/pol/ first

>>82391076
*Smugly superior*

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>>82391065
Good. I know this image will trigger them as well.

>>82385096
>I believe there is no such thing as a "bad job"

Well there are jobs now like Uber driver where the worker is forced to take on so many of the operating costs while the employer slashes fares that you actually lose money in the long run. In fact the Uber has lost billions of dollars as a company, the only way it's able to stay operating and undercut taxis is because they have a huge fund of venture capitalist cash to fall back on until they drive the competition out of business, then they'll jack up the price to a profitable level. Odds are they'll go under by then though.

>>82388239
The part that clearest about it is number 5. Debt is pretty much a necessity to get anywhere in the modern world, unless your parents are rich as fuck. College beyond an associate's degree pretty much requires it; even for blue collar jobs, many certification programs are expensive, too. Unless you live an area with good public transportation (which isn't most the US), in most circumstances you need to go into debt to get a reliable car to go to work. Buying a house requires debt, too. If you want to start a business, typically, you need to take out a loan to do so.

But according to Mike, you're better off being homeless than doing anything the incurs debt.

>>82391113
Those shootings take place in states and cities with heavy gun control provisions in place so your point is pretty moot

>>82391148
Don't forget airbnb beginning to destroy the housing market for tenants and mid size landlords alike.

>>82385096
i like mike rowe, how can anyone dislike mike rowe? mike rowe is a likable guy

>>82391141
>if your jealous
>your
Are all union cardholders just retarded or something?

>>82385096
I ain't signing that shit

>Rowe is currently looking for an alternative channel to air a new season of the show that would avoid preemption and interruption from political and news events

>>82391189
No it doesn't, noone said anything about gun control.
The point is you cannot make fun of another country for having an occasional mass shooting when it is not even a news-worthy event in your country.

>>82391065
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>>82391233
Like clockwork.

>>82391189
>Those shootings take place in states and cities with heavy gun control

But these states and cities are still in the USA presumably?

Is France allowed to claim the pic you posted doesn't count then because terrorist's haven't attacked in quiet rural villages where everyone owns a shotgun and make your point 'pretty moot' too then?

>>82391194
well no plz go fuck self with rustly pipe with this comment. There is nothing wrong with lending out your free room or apartment to people for money. Most hotels need to die.

>>82385096
BASED
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MIKE ROWE

>>82391082
I'm American, dumbfuck.

What the fuck does gun control have to do with the topic of this thread anyway?

>>82391233
>Posts a pic saying he hopes it triggers people
>Can't even muster enough self control to restrain yourself from posting a feeble 'w..well there grammar is shit!'

>>82391272
t. blue collar retard

>>82391398
t. cuck who actually believes he'll be a """job creator""" some day if he eats enough of his boss' shit

>>82391384
>can't even get "their" right
>I-I'm not retarded guise! Why doesn't my boss give me 4 months of paid vacation and let me retire at 35 with a salary for life for working at a factory REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>82391359
It's turning housing complexes into hotels you dunce.

>>82391474
Except they don't have to abide by the regulations that govern hotels because it's a disrupt or whatever.

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>>82391464
>can't even get "their" right

>>82391530
Yes uniontard, the statement 'w..well there grammar is shit!' requires a "their" instead of a "there".
I know the factory fumes are getting to your head but you should have at least learned some basic grammar before dropping out of high school and accepting your lowly existence.

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>>82391594
Is this post cringekino?

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>>82389793
I think circumcision changes their brains. If my parents tied me down and mutilated my dick I don't think I could have any compassion for other humans

>>82391642
Yes, your post is pretty cringe-worthy.

>>82391398
>>82391594
Well at least you admit that like Mike Rowe you don't give a fuck about the working class, unionized or otherwise. Really made me think.

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>>82391527
Less regulations means cheaper services. How is it bad again? What hotel regulations are so necessary for our society to function? Or are you concerned that housing prices going even higher up? Nobody promised you affordable houses in every city, its called free market economy, please move to Cuba or Venezuela if that is a problem for you.

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What are some essential /AllUnionsShouldBeDisbandedAndUnionMembersBeImprisonedForLife/ kinos?

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>>82385096
>I would rather live in a tent

Does the tent have wi-fi?

>>82391594
Well sorry for triggering you mr. college education, but maybe if you left your bubble occassionally and went were theirs things more important than grammar, you'd be able to cope with a 4chins discussion with less that perfect english.

>>82387899
Nye is a mechanical engineer who designed shit for airplanes (plus his title is 'Science Guy' not scientist). Rowe is a far bigger fraud.

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>>82391754
>basic grammar
>college education

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>>82387899
I'm completely against Bill Nye but this criticism is bullshit. you don't need a degree to be a scientist. were there no scientists prior to universities?

>>82391744
Triumph of the Will.

>>82391754
>college education
It'd be pretty embarrassing if he still gave a shit about grammar on an Uzbek bread kneading forum. I bet he hasn't even graduated high school yet

>>82391860
Weren't the nazis in favor of unions though?

>>82391916
>american education

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>>82391955
Is the Marshall Plan taught in yuropoor schools or do they just ignore that so they can cry about us all day?

>>82391141
>the rich

>look up union president salary
>lololololololol

>>82391916
Nah, unions are a gommunist invention. They ordered the disbanding of all existing unions and created a single centralised government """union""" which worked exactly how you'd imagine, particularly given how corporatism (the proper kind, not the kind Occupy bitch about) is a key part of fascism and a lot of influencial party members were major employers.

>>82392030
https://www.unionfacts.com/employees/AFL-CIO

>RICHARD TRUMKA PRESIDENT $304,121

Okay?

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>>82392030
DELET THIS

>>82388246
He lives in a mansion in SAN FRANCISCO. He also gets paid royalties so literally just gets money from pretending to do a job a decade ago

>>82385096
Wow... I fucking hate this guy now.

>>82392024
He's making fun of you for not knowing that the Nazis were pretty anti-union

>>82392177
They weren't anti-union when running for office ad wanted the state to become the equivalent of a giant union though, hence why I asked the question.

>>82392106
Let me clarify, I'm not knocking him for making money. I'm knocking him for being a millionaire actor who gets paid to play pretend yet still has the audacity to pretend to be the champion of blue collar workers

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>>82392224
>Nazis promised one thing then did the opposite, what gives?

>>82392298
>I'm knocking him for being a millionaire actor who gets paid to play pretend yet still has the audacity to pretend to be the champion of blue collar workers

That and he puts out "how to be a wagecuck 101" propaganda like that "pledge."

>>82392338
What's this show called again?
I see a lot of screencaps from it here all the time but don't know if I should check it out.

>>82392412
Doctor Who

>>82392412
Peep Show

do NOT watch this >>82392441

>>82392412
Peep Show. It's good.

>>82388239
You'll honestly not get very far in life without debt of some type one way or the other. Unless you're already stupid rich, you're going to need capital to buy things like: House, Car, Business, etc.

Idk about you but #5 really pissed me off
>I'll avoid debt and live a lifestyle I can afford
Um sorry, Mike. But I don't want to live in a literal tent in the middle of the woods eating canned beans. I know this is hard for you to understand because you live in a million dollar mansion you got from playing pretend.

>>82392451
>>82392471
Much appreciated, I'll probably pick it up once I'm done with Danger 5.

>>82392475
>he took the words literally

you stupid fuck. if you can avoid debt avoid it, don't go buying things you DON'T NEED and if you can don't be a slave to your credit card. ffs wtf is wrong with you?

>>82390582
I see nothing about the pledge that implies any of the things you've said. Reread it. Calm down, then reread it again.

>>82390823
>>82390956
>>82391021
I you read the whole of #6, it simply means just because something is deemed "safe" doesn't necessarily make it so. If you don't feel safe, don't do it, is what he means

>>82392559
>If you don't feel safe, don't do it, is what he means

Doubtful, since that would directly contradict #3 and #7.

>>82392559
Sounds like a clear violation of pledge #8.

>>82392533
>No no you read the words wrong. Let me tell you what I think it means
Mike Rowe is advocating for shantytowns.

Also 11 and 12 contradict each other.
10 is asinine and completely doesn't take real world people into account.
9 is stupid because if an interviewer asks you for certificates, degree, etc and you just say "hurr I go to the library" you'll get laughed out of there.
8. Whining and complaining is the reason why we all aren't getting paid 5 cents/hour for 16 hour days with no benefits or time off
7 will make you the work bitch nobody respects. The best way to distinguish yourself is to suck the boss' dick
3 is delusional - There are such things as shit dead end jobs - something an actor would never understand

>>82392538
t. butthurt wagecuck

>>82392628
>>82392641
Not being a whiner/complainer does not equal being a pushover

>>82392538
>Calm down

Where the fuck do you think you are?!

>>82392686
It depends on perspective, and Mr Shecklestein's mouthpiece Mike Rowe will certainly see you as a whiner.

>>82392451
Both are great you Yank pleb

>>82385096
What the ACTUAL fuck is that?! Why do I constantly hear this guy being promoted as a pro-labor blue collar activist if he goes around doing this shit? America is so fucked. This is one of the most prominent faces of the American labor movement and he evidently supports a 16 hour work day. I don't even know what to say. Thanks for letting me know what a piece of shit this asshole is, I guess.

>>82392686
What the fuck are you smoking you little retard? Fucking kill yourself.

>>82392755
>rich actor gets paid by (((hollywood))) to say things
>Dumb idiots will believe him and be complaint and obedient
Only a fool takes anything coming out of Mike's mouth seriously.

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>>82385096

>SLAVE pledge
>go to work early stay late
>world is not fair AND I'M OK WITH THAT

JFC wtf is wrong with you americans? WHY CAN'T YOU REMOVE YOUR SLAVE MENTALITY? WHY DO YOU PROSTRATE YOURSELVES TO JEWIISH LORDS?

AHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK JEWS REALLY DID A NUMBER ON YOU GOYS

>>82392559
>defending this retardation

I actually hope you die, and painfully too.

>>82385096
I remember seeing this years ago when I was younger and thinking this was a great pledge that made sense. Just bite down, work hard, and good things happen to you.

In reality, which is a place Mike Rowe doesn't live with his millions made by pretending to be blue collar, none of this applies. Showing up early, staying late, and pretending your shit job is an opportunity while being grateful for the chance to labor away at all is a great path to being an underpay, underprivileged sheeple. We don't live in a world where you magically get rewarded. Your boss will happily pay you minimum wage for your skills until you become even the slightest liability, in which case you're immediately fired.

>>82385096
Look at this smug bourgie cunt

>>82392717
I doubt it. A whiner is a guy constantly making noise about the job, complaining that he does more work than the supervisor, etc. Just being a negative person in general.

Standing up for your rights and safety is not whining

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>>82392799
To be fair, the original pledge was called "SWEAT," some clever anon edited it to say slave. Either way "slave" is more accurate to describe the pledge.

>>82392884
>Standing up for your rights and safety is not whining

Sure it isn't, retard. Get back to work and eat your beans.

>tfw show up to work every day 5 minutes early just because I was told to make it a habit
>stay late literally every time I'm asked unless I have too much school work that night
>get all the work I'm asked to finish done and try to put in a little extra effort
>Still make minimum wage, been doing this for almost 2 years

Dude has no idea what he's talking about, nowadays if you put in the extra effort they just take advantage of you. Raises for most blue collar jobs are just a carrot on a stick, and they'll never even give you a bite of the carrot.

I'm going to school so I can get out someday, and I pretty much just keep these habits so when/if I have a career someday i'll still have them, but fuck those "Hurr you just arent trying hard enough" people and fuck the "POOR PEOPLE CANT HELP THAT THEY'RE WELFARE WHALES"

it's a middle ground, man.

>>82385096
More like the C.U.C.K. Pledge desu.

>>82392884
>Standing up for your rights and safety is not whining
That's not how a lot of employers see it.

>>82392884
Did you read past the first sentence of #8. It says to never whine or complain, and that if you're unhappy about your job to either find a new one or find a way to be happy anyways

>>82392791
>>82392815
>>82392915
Lol calm down internet tough-talker. Just because life dealt you a bad hand doesn't mean I had anything to do with it

>>82392939
>minimum wage for two years

Where the fuck do you work? You're just getting fucked in the ass and letting it happen dude

>>82393006
I don't know where you came from, but you clearly don't belong on this site

>>82392755
He doesn't even support unions.

http://mikerowe.com/2009/06/united-we-stand-are-unions-still-relevant-today/

>The role of unions, and their relevance, has changed over the years. Personally, I’m of the mind that certain industries still justify their existence, while other do not. But one thing is certain – once a union is formed, it will not go gently into that good night. Like any other group, they are loath to disband, ever.

>I have mixed feelings. As a believer in the individual, I will always support a persons right to make the best deal he can in his/her industry of choice. If acceptable terms cannot be reached, my first inclination is not to unionize or strike, but to simply seek out another industry. Let the larger law of supply and demand sort it out. Easier said than done, I know, but joining organizations of any kind is not my first choice, personally.

>We are now competing in a world market, and the standards most unions attempt to uphold are making it difficult to compete globally. So we’re forced to choose between the workers standard of living, and the competitive strength of his employer. Tough call, and one that I’d never try to make in a vacuum. (Is the striking union providing service to a public company? How will the shareholders be affected? Am I a shareholder? Are we talking about air traffic controllers, cops, textile workers, or teachers, or in my case, actors? Will a strike bring riot, or simply more reruns and reality shows? The stakes are different.)

>>82393006
>life dealt you a hard hand
That directly contradicts #12. You violated the SWEAT pledge. Off to the mines for re-education for you

>>82393057
>Jay Leno invited me back onto The Tonight Show before the writer’s strike had been resolved. Tricky business. I’m not a member of WGA, and Discovery is not a signatory, but I am in their sister unions – SAG and AFTRA, and sympathetic to their cause. I also had friends in those picket lines, and had to decide whether or not to cross. In the end, I did, for the simple reason that getting more people to watch Dirty Jobs is more important to me than any other professional issue. (I also have friends in coal mines and crab boats, I decided their stories were more important to promote than any show of solidarity I might have offered.) Now, if I depended on writers to tell me what to say on Dirty Jobs, I would have likely gone the other way, but that’s not the case, and the decision came down to one of personal choice.

>Ultimately, a personal choice is what most Unions ask us to forego, in favor of a united stand. I think there are times in life when such decisions make sense. And there are times when they are counter-productive. But in this day and age, there are very few black and white truths regarding organized labor. Times have changed, and there’s little to be done about that.

>is a member of a union
>crossed his own picket line

Yeah, he's a piece of shit.

>>82392939
You're in the wrong job clearly. These are guidelines (and good ones IMO) but you'll have to adjust accordingly based on the situation. This is what separates smart people from the stupid

>>82393048
I guess you're going to show me the door, huh?

>>82393067
Popcorn mines? I'll make the best of it

>>82393091
>getting more people to watch Dirty Jobs is more important to me than any other professional issue.
>I also have friends in coal mines and crab boats, I decided their stories were more important to promote than any show of solidarity

Sure, sure...nothing to do with wanting dat fat paycheque....

>>82393057
>joining organizations of any kind is not my first choice
Then why the fuck are you applying for a job. Be a fucking hermit if you're so dedicated to being an """""individual"""""

>>82385096
http://mikerowe.com/2017/05/otwappalledbythesweatpledge/

>I came up with this nonsense several years ago while drinking beer at my kitchen table and searching for a way to sum up the kind of belief system I’d like to encourage in the work force. What I settled on was the S.W.E.A.T Pledge – a 12-point statement of belief that espoused my personal feelings toward work. It stands for “Skill and Work Ethic Aren’t Taboo,” and its format was inspired by the Boy Scout Law and AA’s Twelve Step Recovery Plan. Mostly though, it’s a collection of lessons learned from Dirty Jobs that I believe every worker would benefit from embracing, regardless of their job or skill set.

>Now, you didn’t tell me Karyn, what specific parts of the pledge you found most objectionable, but I’d be curious to know. Typically, people like to complain about the patriotic undertones of points 1 and 2, the parsimonious vibe of #5, and the paternalistic feel of #8. Many have accused me writing a conservative manifesto, but I don’t see anything in this pledge that’s inherently political. In fact, most of these statements are in line with classic liberal thought.

>I’ve also been told my Pledge is “weighted heavily in favor of employers,” who are really just looking for “more and more ways to abuse their workers.” I don’t see it that way, but I can understand why others do. It’s popular these days, to see employers as the enemy. I reject that out of hand, just as I reject the idea that the merits of an individual worker have anything to do with their race or gender.

>IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THIS PLEDGE YOU ARE A COMMIE THAT HATES ALL EMPLOYERS AND HAS NO BELIEF IN PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

>>82393226
>I believe every worker would benefit from embracing

Kill this motherfucker. I want him dead.

>>82393142
>wrong job
There's no such thing as the "wrong" job. All jobs are necessary because there's demand for them. And this is Pledge is for all kinds of jobs, especially the low-skilled ones since that's who he markets his shit show to, you backtracking fag

>>82393226
Former "Dirty Jobs" host Mike Rowe does still flex his musical muscles now and then, but just for the love of it. It's not a job or anything.

Indeed, he was never looking for a career in opera. The truth is, he says, he was in it for the girls.

"I joined the opera to get my union card and meet girls," he told the "Tampa Bay Times." "I figured I'd do one show and quit. But the girls were everywhere, and the truth is, the music was really decent."

His musical training doesn't stop at opera -- again, that was a practical decision on his part (the union card got him into show business). He started in his high school choir, and then fell in love with barbershop -- he formed a quartet called Semi-Fourmal ("because there were four of us and we were terribly clever," he said in an interview on the Barbershop Harmony Society's official website).

It is this kind of singing he still likes to dabble in. He talks in the interview about winning an impromptu competition in 2007 among his old singing-group colleagues in his native Baltimore.

His vocal training has clearly served him well. Apart from his long run on Discovery's "Dirty Jobs," (which was canceled last year after eight seasons and hundreds of messy career profiles) most of Rowe's work has been as a narrator. His most recent gig is doing voiceovers on "Airplane Repo," also on Discovery.

He also keeps himself busy running mikeroweWORKS, a foundation dedicated to promoting work in the trades.

>>82385096
>no bad jobs
Coal miner

>>82393310
Triggered much? lmao

>>82393197
Pretty good point, what's the difference between joining the corporate organization that employs you versus joining the union organization that represents your interests in relation to your employment?

>>82393226
>It’s popular these days, to see employers as the enemy. I reject that out of hand, just as I reject the idea that the merits of an individual worker have anything to do with their race or gender.

Won't someone think of the poor (figuratively), persecuted employers! What they suffer is as bad as racism and sexism! ;__;

>>82393438
Unions are supposed to ensure you're not getting taken advantage of illegally. Most people who work trades are cucks and usually very dumb so they don't know the law and just go along with whatever their employer says.

Notice how a lot of jobs requiring a college education don't even bother having unions.

>tfw support private unions but against forced union membership
>tfw no one ever supports a mix of the two

>>82393537
Explain how you see this working.

>>82393537
Because what's the point of a union - whose ONLY real power is striking - if their coworkers still go to work?

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>>82392939
>tfw make $15 an hour and get to drive around and pick what I do during the day
courier work is fun, you should check it out if you've got a car and can get reimbursed on mileage

>>82393569
>>82393579
By letting the people who want the benefits of union membership actually join the union and those that don't not be forced to join the union?

>>82393666
And then the union dies for the aforementioned reason. What are you having trouble understanding?

>>82393666
In the long run, it's gonna either be no one gets the benefits or everyone does anon.

>>82393740
They don't seem to be dead in right to work states.

>>82393226
>It’s popular these days, to see employers as the enemy.

What did he mean by this?

>>82385096
>I deplore debt, and do all I can to avoid it

This is what poor people actually believe

>>82394533
Even poor people go into debt to buy houses and cars - otherwise they'd be living under bridges in tents (like Rowe advocates).

That's just pure slave mentality

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>>82385096
>be an american goy
>get circumcised at birth
>take out loans for college
>work like a dog for minimum wage
>only have 12 vacation leaves and sick leaves
>get sick get huge debt again for medical expenses
>get hated for being white

americans are really the Jews greatest ally LOL. they didn't just take your foreskin they also took your balls

>>82385096
the show was entertaining but a lot of the featured workers seemed annoyed at mike and behaved as if their time was being wasted.

>>82394267
He meant how dare you resent your employer for giving you longer hours, less pay and no benefits. You should feel privileged to slave away so someone else can get rich. Its okay for employers to view you as a commodity but the opposite would be like communism and sheeit man

>>82390839
He's right though. Commie or not, that "Pledge" is straight Corporatist brainwashing.

>>82394694
Because it was. It's like being saddled with a new person only you're being filmed.

>>82395446
It's worse than that because unlike being saddled with a new person who is going to eventually get proficient enough to help you out as a coworker, Rowe is just there for a day or two then he splits

>>82393794

They're pathetic in comparison to what they were in the 80s. Additionally, as a result, wages have stagnated.

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>*clears throat*
Hey Anon, I've got some advice for you
>*lights cuban cigar*
You need to get off your butt and work as a welder
>*hops in Mercedes*
Work hard. Take a job. Take any job, and give it your all. Don't complain
>*receives check for $8 million for a commercial narration*
Take the S.W.E.A.T. pledge today, and promise me you'll work 60-hour weeks
>*eats lobster dinner*
You need to be more grateful. You need to get your hands dirty
>*wipes mouth with fine cloth made of Egyptian silk*
still need help? Just watch my show, Anon. Hard work is actually really fun and stress-free.

>>82394683
>they didn't just take your foreskin they also took your balls

heh

>>82397322
americans have this mindset of FREEDOM!!! BEST COUNTRY EVER!!! were they're practically doormats for the jews

>>82397442
The Constitution (particularly the 1st and 2nd Amendments) gives Americans the illusion of freedom and puts them in a state of complacency. As long as they think they're free they will be unwitting and obedient slaves for their masters.

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>>82387899
>upset

>>82397682
Not an argument.

>>82397800
>Not an argument
Not an argument

Is that still going? Last few episodes I saw he was just a complete bitter, cynical asshole, like past the point of his "character" in the show.

>>82397800
Yes it is. Also

>not an argument

is not an argument, faggot.

>>82392298
He never proclaimed himself to be some blue collar god, he just thinks that basic blue collar work that most people wouldn't even be willing to attempt due to its difficulty or disgusting nature is done everyday and that the people who do it should thus be more respected and appreciated, which I have no problems with and don't see how it makes him hypocritical. Hell the entire point of the show is others teaching him how to do the job, he's clearly presented as an outsider everytime who just has respect for the people who do it.

>>82398001
Not an argument.

>>82398039
>the people who do it should thus be more respected and appreciated

Unless they join unions or "whine and complain" for better working conditions, hours, wages, etc.

>>82385096
Mike Rowe seems like a huge faggot.

>>82398082
When did Mike Rowe say that blue collar workers should stop whining and complain for better working conditions?

>>82398039
Nah he just likes to make money doing TV shows. If he had to do one of those jobs he wouldn't last passed his first paycheck.

>>82398129
Nice source.

>>82398158
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbd2DucRe1M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN7D-iTOvTQ

Yeah he's definitely got the kind of temperament necessary for daily manual labor.

>>82398076
This is the 4chan equivalent of saying "I know you are but what am I?"

Well done, dumbass. Didn't think you'd have any comebacks for that image and I was right.

>>82385096
>proud to be a wageslave

Oh, vey! :O)

>>82396585
He's also a communications major. He's ever worked manual labor

>>82398215
Once again, he's never said he represented blue collar workers, merely that he respects them. The entire point of Dirty Jobs was just him seeing what things were like working the job for a day to present it to a wider audience. There is nothing hypocritical in that

>>82392755
Typical lazy millenial

>>82398111
See>>82385096

>>82398351
i wonder who is behind this post????

>>82398339
Please read OPs image before you say anything again.

>>82398479
>you should work hard
>REEE MIKE ROWE HATES BLUE COLLAR WORKERS

??

>>82398339
Do you ever stop sucking this guy's dick?
Believe it or not, we like making a decent wage for our efforts. He's just a tool and he does nothing but fight the legislature that can help us.

>>82397682
Nice false equivalency there. Mike Rowe and Bill Nye are both hacks for completely different reasons. Mike's just a poser, but Bill Nye, who really should know better given his credentials, has chosen to dilute and eschew science in favor of liberal talking points.

>>82398339
>he's never said he represented blue collar workers
He constantly says in interviews that he presents viewpoints and ways of life that the media doesn't represent otherwise. He's started several political campaigns focused on worker education and resources. He invented that stupid pledge to give blue collar workers a code to live by.

He might not directly say "I'm Mike Rowe, and I'm the voice of blue collar America," but he sure as hell acts (or tries to act like) its voice.

>>82392939
Honestly if you're making minimum wage for 2 years at anything you really have to be doing something wrong. Either you've never asked for a raise, have caused your boss to hate you somehow, or just found a really really shitty place to work. You should just look for a better job with 2 years of experience you didn't have when you were hired for your current one.

>>82398679
I don't think that's what the picture's meant to illustrate, and I happen to agree with you.

Bill Nye's fuck-white-people, gender-is-a-social-construct horse shit he's pushing now has made me dislike someone I once respected, and only makes people less-likely to believe anything legitimate he might say or has said before.

>>82398515
It's just millenials who want everything handed to them. Pay them no mind.

>>82385096
12 contradicts EVERYTHING

>>82399127
Wages are generally determined by how scarce your labour is. You're not likely to get a raise in a low skill job unless you're literally best friends with your boss, and even then, your boss is more likely to abuse your friendship than the other way around. And someone is gonna have to fill that job, so even if the anon leaves it, some other sucker is gonna fill that spot and so on and so on. Telling everyone who has a shit job that they should just get a better one isn't a long-term solution, because someone has to do that job. We should honestly just lower the working week to the point where there's no unemployment, so there isn't an army of unemployed people waiting to fill shit jobs, and people stuck being overworked in the same shit jobs unable to do much of anything because they don't want to fuck themselves being unemployed.

>>82399490
K you do that I'm gonna go get paid. Try and keep up.

>>82399640
Hey man, whilst I'm trying to figure out solutions at a societal scale, you're telling workers to let themselves get cucked by their bosses

>>82397972
That's how he always was, though.

>>82392827
>minimum wage
Skilled tradesmen can make a killing if they're decent at their jobs.

>>82385096
>hur dur any job is good job
stopped reading there.
He has romanticized some of the worst jobs in the US so much that he ignores the fact that the overwhelming majority of those people are getting screwed out of what they deserve. The corporations and business men all want you to think exactly these things so you don't pay attention to how they are fucking you and every working class person you know.

>>82385096
If the world is not fair than how can everybody be created equal?

>/tv/ has a shitload of easily triggered wagecucks
that is a amazing, shit, i have never seen that much butthurt in a single thread
not even on a colbertposting thread

>>82392827
Well there is some truth in that being the hardest working guy around can be a thing you could leverage to improve your income, or be the guy who gets promoted or whatever, but without context that "SWEAT Pledge" mostly just comes off as race to the bottom jackassorry

>>82401401
Mike Rowe genuinely bothers me far more than Bill Nye or Colbert or any of that shit

Mike Rowe the Corporate Hoe

>>82401259
Everyone is intrinsically equal, but not everyone has the same circumstances.

>>82401259
everyone has equal opportunity to succeed, however some people are simply born into wealth which is "unfair"

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>>82385617
>guy gives advice that upsets some loser bernie voter
>makes mike rowe out like he's a gifted GLOBAL UHLEET

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bringing back guillotines when?

>>82401734
Equal in what respect?

In talents or intelligence, in strength or height or appearance?

In what respect are people equal?

>>82401774
nobody asked to be born. it's messed up to punish people for being in situations that aren't their choosing, so everyone who is alive should be cut a little slack.

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>>82401741
But that's literally what he's doing.

>>82401803
I could agree with you without saying that people are equal.

>>82401740
How does a person with no legs or born with a mental defect have the same opportunity to succeed

>>82394533
It's what people who've never had to build something from the ground up believe.

If businesses didn't embrace the concept of debt, nothing would ever get done because they wouldn't have enough money to invest in improving themselves.

>>82401910
I'm pretty sure the majority of people went into debt to buy their first car, and if not that, certainly did/will for their first house.

Mike Rowe is advocating for living in a tent because "debt is bad"

>>82401902
Because American delusion demands it.

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>>82385096
Just a reminder that most of the people who do thankless shit jobs are illegal aliens, I think we ALL KNOW how much respect they get for their hard work

>>82388294
The good goy pledge

>>82396585
>You need to get off your butt and work as a welder
W-whats wrong with being a welder?

>>82403217
nothing. my dad was a welder and iknow how to weld as well, although i'm not certified

>>82403293
>although i'm not certified
heh me neither, I hope to have my first 2 certificates by the end of this year though.

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I don't know what the fucking pledge is but I miss him...

>>82392673
>wagecuck

there it is. go get a job son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRHCp9Wblro&t

WAKEY WAKEY WAGIIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUQXZL8h-XI

>>82385617
Doesn't he live in an apartment?

>>82403514
>>82403463
4chan shit should just stay in 4chan it's fucking cringe everywhere

>>82403855
Wagecuck detected lmao

>>82401741
>>guy gives advice that upsets some loser bernie voter
????

bernie voters overwhelmingly blue collar. that's why he beat hillary because pretty much every single union working blue collar worker in the midwest voted for him.

>>82385096
>Thoughts on Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs show

literal shit

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*yawns and stretches*

Ahhh. How relaxing...oh, hello there little wagie, I didn't see you there! Have you enjoyed your little one-day holiday free from labor? Well, I sure hope you did. Your free days are over now. Better get to bed soon! You know what they say: another day, another dollar.

And me? Oh, I'm just collecting my neetbux. My savings is over 55k now, I sleep in most of the day, and I don't have to worry about traffic, overtime, or wait for Friday to enjoy myself :^)

Work reaaaaally hard for me this week, okay? I've got checks to collect! Tick tock, wagecuck!

DUDE JUST BE A SLAVE LMAO

Wait this fat retard has a podcast?

>>82402673
Idk why Democrats choose to like illegals. Seems like one of those childish "well Tommy said this so I HAVE to be different and think the opposite!"

Did Mike ever do a ditry job in his youth? Cause fuck him if he didn't

>>82387785
How's that 20k desk jockey job doing for ya?
>inb4 6 figures
It's Thursday night budy

>>82391831
>were there no doctors before med school

>>82385096
Imagine being the kind of cuck who indulges in the "every crappy task" mindset and ideal.
In reality work as little for as much money as possible. Ignore all spooks.

>>82401401
>triggered wagecucks
Are you some kind of NEET? Because you know as soon as the politicians can get the chance they're gonna try to cut your welfare and you'll be amongst those looking to become a wagecucks. Try to show some solidarity with your fellow people and stop wage workers from being cucked by their bosses
>>82401741
I don't know about Global elite, but he's definitely at least in the National Elite
>>82401753
Soon

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>>82404444
>bernie voters overwhelmingly blue collar
this is only acceptable because you didn't put the word "worker" on it.
>every single union working blue collar worker in the midwest WAS TOLD to vote for him
ftfy