Thoughts on Mike Rowe and his hit television series Dirty Jobs?

>>83465722
I love Mike Rowe the Corporate Hoe and as an assistant manager at McDonald's I have encouraged my employees to sign this pledge multiple times.

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Most punch-able face on TV.

Will taking the SWEAT pledge get me my foreskin back?

>>83465722

good show, comfy host, great look at blue collar America that everyone else forgot.

>>83465722

>11 and 12 instantly contradict each other

>>83465722
Thr show isnt bad but IRL Mike Rowe is a ridiculously dishonest faggot. And I'll be damned if I let a radio personality who """"roughs it"""" for a few days a week before colllecting his millions, try and school me about actual work ethic amd how awesome it is to lap up your bosses cum.

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Why can crack whore single mothers in their 40s get entry level retail jobs but I can't?

>>83465722
What are you trying to accomplish?
http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/image/3_KDK2N7k-GUeW0nzYMajw/

You have had all the discussion you need. Go live your life.

>>83465929
meme?

>>83465844
this what a retard
I wonder if he actually made that or if mr. Opera singer TV show host got one of his unpaid interns to write it.

>>83465722
comfy show, wish they didnt run out of material and made more seasons

>>83465844
>11 and 12 instantly contradict each other
and many of the points are completely in violation of several workplace safety or workers rights.

he's basically a corporate shill.

I'm no commie but he sounds like a cuck for the fatcats

>>83465929
>BLOMPFFFFF thread x9001

Naw, fuck off cuck.

>>83465722
Overrated show and it's laughable how Faux News keeps putting him on because he's the only """""""celebrity"""""" who will parrot their right-wing garbage.

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>>83465722
>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

what is it with americans and slave labour? its just now americans are the jews' slaves lol.

truly their greatest ally. they didn't just take their foreskin they also took your balls

>>83465722
>DUDE BE A GOOD WORKER BEE LMAO

>>83465722
I like his show and the way he legitimizes people that do thankless work, but this reads like some dystopian capitalist cult shit. You have no right to be happy, just to work a shitty job for the sake of your own pride so someone else can make money off of it.

>>83466074
I heard that Europeans get 2 months of vacation per year, is that right? We get 2 weeks lmao.

>>83465722
I didn't like the show.

But I've enjoyed every interview with him I've listened to. I wish his message was more popular.

>>83466163
this basically

>>83466186
Did you sign the pledge yet?

>>83465844
No they aren't. People are equal under the eyes of the law, but the world isn't fair.

>>83465722
He doesn't really seem to practice what he preaches.

>>83465722
>Hey guys, time to throw on a suit, get a job, grab those bootstraps and MAN UP *DonDraper.jpg*

I hate this faggot shit, and I have a good career and everything.

>>83465722
>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.

>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

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>>83465722

>>83465722
Yes yes very good goy come in early, stay late, and make me some more money

>>83466333
>wait did I hear this right goyim? you want to take a 2 day vacation leave to celebrate your son's graduation? we can't have that goy, not when the company's at its all time lowest profit when i just bought a new house in Los Angeles. Do you even feel any passion for this company goy? Seems not, looks like that promotion will have to go to my nephew Moshe who's loves our company more.

>>83466271
>It’s popular these days, to see employers as the enemy. I reject that out of hand

Spoken like someone who doesn't really work. I haven't seen his show but I assume he does these "Dirty Jobs" for like a week before moving on?

>How many layers of ideology are you under, my man?

Literally diving naked in it, it appears.

>>83465820
>Will taking the SWEAT pledge get me my foreskin back?
Why the fuck is this still making me laugh?

>>83465722
>Americucks WILL defend this

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>>83466419
But I worked really hard for that promotion Mr. Shlomo!

>>83465844
People being equal wouldn't make the world fair.

>>83465834
>great look at blue collar America that everyone else forgot.
Go to bed Drumpfkin. Impeachment is coming soon and Mother Russia will be purged. Hillary is already making her case to be appointed as president by UN mandate.

>>83465861
>Why can crack whore single mothers in their 40s get entry level retail jobs but I can't?
Because you're a scary, unwashed creep that scares mothers, single women and young girls. Back to the popcorn mines, Quasimodo.

>>83466169

Can't speak for the Europeans, but here in England I get 28 days paid holiday (that's not including bank holidays).

>>83466693
But I shower every day. I have a gf too. Its not fair.

>>83465844
I would agree with you on that, though I will concede that it is debateable.

What cannot be debated is the fact that 1 and 10 directly contradict one another.

>>83465722
>the cuck manifesto

>>83466741
>But I shower every day. I have a gf too. Its not fair.
>unemployed, even in low paying wagecuck job
>gf
nice try

Isn't #7 just pretty much saying "Live to work, not work to live?" I mean that's a pretty crappy life view to have.

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Why can't he just do porn

>>83465722
>#6: Fuck OSHA and employer's responsibility to maintain a safe working environment and standards

Fuck this guy.

>>83465722
Dirty Jobs was a pretty fun show.

What the fuck has Mike Rowe actually done in life, though, besides be on TV?

>>83465722
Is this what a good goy looks like?

>>83466839
I think he's talking about complying with police and private security

That you have to actually behave

>>83466419
>Passion for the company
It's frightening to have a manager so utterly cucked he actually starts to worship the company

Reminder that you need to hold at least one, awful shitty job. Otherwise you're a sheltered worthless cuck

>>83466836
He's too busy spending money he made being a television actor and not a blue collar worker to do porn.

>>83466839
>he's never been written up for having his safety glasses 0.045 degrees off horizontal, thus creating a SAFETY HAZARD

Why does everyone pretend to be 'blue collar' when discussing Mike Rowe when y'all obviously menial labour retailcucks? Nobody cares about your 'abloo bloo muh employer mean' garbage, you're expendable labour and you've never spent an moment of your life learning a job skill besides jerking off in the changerooms at H&M.

>>83466839
It doesn't say that at all. It means that even if your place of work is "safe" and is maintained by your employer you shouldn't be lured into a false sense of security. If your job is dangerous or has hazards you have to look out for yourself.

>>83466941
>he's so fucking sheltered that he never heard these words from the company or the boss about passsion, loving your work , treat your company as your family etc.

Kike Rowe is trying to create a new generation of shabbos goyim

>>83466989
Anon the fucking problem is that the stupid bullshit in the OP is encouraging you to accept being expendable labour and to eat up whatever shit is put in front of you.

>>83467006

this

people, especially millennials, forget that when you are employed YOU are a part of the company and YOU must be safe. responsibility sucks, just like blink 182

>>83466941
It used to make sense when their was a sense of a social contract between labor and management. That hasn't been the case for the last 40 years or so.

>>83467031
>reading comprehension

>>83466949
I have absolutely zero respect for people who never had to work a shitty job

t. paid for a degree by emptying shit and piss out of passenger planes

>>83465722
>I believe the best way to distinguish myself at work is to show up early, stay late, and cheerfully volunteer for every crappy task there is.

Why? Why is your employer entitled to any of your time outside of what you are contractually obligated to spend at work?

most people in these threads would do well to read up on existential responsibility and how that ties into accountability

looks like Rowe has accepted his Sisyphean role in the cosmic order of things

>>83467142
Because they are giving you the privilege of working for them, don't you want to reward their generosity? It's fine if you don't feel like doing it (but you have to do it).

>>83467187
Any recommended readings?

>>83465722
mike rowe is a big fan of the protestant work ethic and taking it in the ass

>>83467081
It isn't. It straight up tells you that you don't have to do any of this and can choose an easier life. The idea that someone actually has agency and chooses to do some hard/menial work for a chance at a better life is foreign to you because you've been fooled into thinking you don't have a chance.

>>83467081
the only people who wind up in expendable labour jobs are
>useless libarts grads
>complete retards
>people who have worked for a long time in an industry that got gutted.

and the last group NEVER accept or eat up what's put in front of them, because they know they can do better, and they're the ones that get shit on with trite 'well you're going to have to go back to college then Billy Bob, the world is changing and Huang Long can do your job for cheaper!"

I mean, I like Dirty Jobs, it's a fun watch.

Why do I care about what he does outside of his work?

>>83467139
Elon Musk shoveled coal for 14 an hour in the 80s. I have a lot of respect for him. His workers don't though.

>>83467228
existentialism and responsibility is specifically Sartre, an introductory primer of what's meant here can probably be glossed in his 'Existentialism and Humanism'

>>83467431
What about Camus?

>>83465722
He's a think lipped faggot.

>>83467716
Not an argument. Wtf is a think lip anyway?

>>83467734
*thin

>>83466234
>People are equal under the eyes of the law
But that clearly isn't true either.

>>83466793
In every job I've had there was at least one person who said he couldn't imagine living without work, and half of these people were above retirement age that stayed on. Pretty fucking sad that someone's life is so shallow you can only find fulfillment by doing menial labor.

>>83466749
Not at all. The tenth tenent is meant to be taken within the context of the first one. This wasn't written for starving, war-torn Africans.

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What's going on here?

>>83465722
He came to the town i live in and bit off sheep testicles. He is a pretty cool guy.

>>83467943
All me :^)

>>83467006
Exactly this. At the end of the day, you have the final say when it comes to your safety, because your life means a hell of a lot more to you than it does to anybody else.

That being said, don't be a fucking pussy either

I can tell that most of the responders are here are either very young, or have never made more than a few bucks over minimum wage.

>>83467716
yeah I remember the days he sold his throat for bucko five

>>83467248
Finally somebody here with some fucking sense.

If there is any thread on /tv/ that truly attracts the Redditors, it's this one. These threads feel like some Bernie subreddit with all the entitled whiners here

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>tfw NEET patrician who watches Kino all day and makes art when i please


kek get fucked you dumb wagies

there's nothing admirable or honorable about being too fucking stupid to do something better with your life than some retarded job

>>83467248
How can you "choose an easier life" but also "choose to work menial labor for a chance at a better life"?

>>83467248
>>83468248
So have you signed the pledge?

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>>83465820
Of course not Goy!

>>83468422
because an easier life isn't necessarily a better life you stupid fucking NEET. while you live in your mother's basement exerting no effort whatsoever in playing on your computer and microwaving your hot pockets actual men are working hard in order to provide for their wife and children. I don't think it's something you would understand.

>>83466850
How about do every job on Earth once? Thats a little bit cool. Also fuck all you virgin faggots, how is working as a marketer or in IT any better than what anyone else does? Stop looking down on people.

>>83466693
> Back to the popcorn mines, Quasimodo.

This made me laugh for some reason.

>>83468911
>actual cucks are working hard in order to provide for their wife's and bull's children

ftfy

>>83468911
>actual men are working hard in order to provide for their wife and children
Better life? Doesn't sound like it.

>>83468911
Projecting much?

>>83465722
I pledge to be poor forever and provide cheap labor for my masters.

>>83466074
I'm a 21 year old burger and only realized all this a year ago

How do I uncuck myself? I dropped out of college and only have $4,000 in loans left to pay off, and am currently a NEET. There's no way I'm wageslaving for my whole life, FUCK that.

>>83468911
>having a child when you're working class

Kek, fucking retard.

>>83465722
If this man is married, his wife is definitely sleeping with black men while he works his 22 hours a day.

>>83470853
You dropped out of college but still have to pay off loans with no degree to show for it? SAD!

>>83470878
He doesn't work 22 hours a day, he lives in a mansion in San Francisco. Also he doesn't have a wife, might be gay.

>>83465722
>working class people in the USA actually believe this
Americans are a sick "people"

>>83469094
he is a job tourist, he swoops in takes a sniff makes a quip and then runs off.

Then he became a self righteous "herd werk" lobbyist, work smart not hard, but he is obviously shilling for the Walmarts of the world.

I unironically like his show and found him to be rather fun to watch until he decided to bring his "politics" into it and suckle on the sweet teat of paid endorsements.

and frankly he never practised what he preached and only highlit people who started independant enterprises. He never follows a garbage man who just was a garbage man, he follows Jimmy the waste resource guy who started a plant when he was twelve but still isn't afraid of getting his gold watch a little dirty from time to time, good for you Jimmy, wassat you pay your guys minimum wage and supervise from your air-conditioned Cadillac Escalade Platinum include EcoTec3 6.2L V-8 420hp engine, 8-speed automatic transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), integrated navigation system, side seat mounted airbags, curtain 1st, 2nd and 3rd row overhead airbag, airbag occupancy sensor, automatic air conditioning, 22" aluminum wheels, cruise control, distance pacing, ABS and driveline traction control. Good for you Jimmy herd werk.

>>83466941
I've unironically meet middle managers who get worked up about shit like that. It's comically depressing from an outside looking in pov and just depressing when you actually work there. Clothing retail stores are the absolute worse for this.

>>83470908
Are you saying he doesn't practice what he preaches?

>>83471010
>he doesn't practice what he preaches
Like pretty much everyone in 'management' these days

>>83470882
Yeah, I fell for the meme and took out loans for my first year

>>83467431
Sisyphus would be happy too if he made as much a Rowe did.

>>83467139
>Thinking you're important enough for people to care whether you respect them or not
adorable

Dirty Jobs is just culture appropriation of blue collar work. Please do not be a classcuck and watch this garbage

>>83467139
Damn, because the respect of "the guy who smells like the contents of an airplane toilet" was exactly what has been missing from my life all these years

>>83465767
>an honest job for an honest wage
>wahh i don't like it
get fucked.

>>83471261
Not an argument, fuckboy.

>>83471261
>>an honest job for an honest wage
Two bad the two don't exist together anymore.

>>83471359
>anon will you do all this unromantic work shit for x wage?
>yes i will
>welcome aboard.

that's how it works newfriend.

Who do leftshits get so triggered by Mike Rowe?

Does anyone sincerely believe that if a communist revolution was victorious tomorrow no-one would have to empty the toilets if there was a blockage?

>>83471865
You don't have to be an advocate of socialism/communism to think that the current corporate capitalism we are living in is cancerous and a degenerate deviation from the situation that existed even 50 years ago. You also don't have to be a commie to recognize wagecuck good goy propaganda when you see it, especially when the spokesman for said SLAVE pledge doesn't practice what he preaches.

>>83472322
Checked and confirmed, it's easy to spout "hurr durr I'd live in a tent instead of beyond my means, look how cool and down to earth I am doing this low paid jobs for a couple of days" bull shit when you get to go home to your mansion on the hill every night, eat a big dinner and sleep in a comfy bed.

I guarantee this guy would be a snivelling wreck if he had to work at one of these jobs for a year and actually live by his 'pledge'

>>83472322
>corporate capitalism
let's not mince roads here. "corporate" is not the boogeyman. it's something leftists should celebrate. individuals banding together for an economic cause guided by a philosophy.

"wagecuck" is occupy speak for "i hate working". providing labor is not evil. it's not romantic either, and maybe that's a problem with lib arts dropouts. but stop demonizing it.

all jobs are a happy coincidence of people needing labor and a convenient method of compensating people for it. sure beats providing a house, food etc. for the same fucking thing.

>>83472572
Have you signed the pledge?

>>83472572
>"corporate" is not the boogeyman.
No, Nixon is. He's the one who moved us away from the Bretton-Woods dollar and decoupled real wages from productivity.

>>83472624
what?

>>83472633
the Treasury is going to fuck with dollar values. it's basically why the exist. If they aren't manipulating currency what exactly do we need them for?

>>83471865
more so like the person fixing the toilet deserves a comfortable wage because they're essential

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People should strive for self employment. Suffering ultimately happens because people are afraid of actual independence.

>>83472698
Plumbers do make pretty good money, what are you talking about?

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>>83465722

>an actor for a tv show that's heavily edited to make it look like he works really hard while every possible safety precaution is taken to make sure he doesn't get so much as a papercut

>>83473188
He did follow his own code, know how much cock he had to suck for his gig?

>>83466323
THERE'S NO WORDS ON IT!

>>83465810
That is just.. Not accurate.

>>83465722
>DUDE JUST BE A SLAVE LMAO

>>83466169
30 days paid plus bank holdays plus a flexi-leave system so basically unlimited leave.

God it's great to be British.

>>83474513
Don't forget being able to legally reclaim holiday if you're sick during it

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>>83474513
>God it's great to be British.

>>83465722
I like him and his show its really puts a spotlight on how much it takes to keep a modern country running and how thankless the work is but seriously that pledge is almost literally the good goy pledge when life shits on you smile and take it cause you dont want to cause mr shekelstine any problems

>>83465722
WE CARE A LOT

>FOLLOW THESE RULES AND BE A GOOD GOY

>>83474975
people who've had everything work out for them literally cannot fathom thst sometimes hard work doesn't pay off
they dont want to admit that part of their success was down to luck or other factors outside their control. They want to believe everything is because they worked hard for it

>>83475119
If you have all the luck in the world but don't exploit the opportunity it brings then it doesn't matter. You can fall ass backwards into a fantastic, do nothing, high paying job, but if you neglect your shit, show up late or generally fuck up all the time, you'll eventually pay for it.
There's nothing remotely good goy tier about this. Except kind of #6, but even then it's true. Your workplace doesn't wrap you in foam, you have to watch your own ass, safety regulations or not.

You know, I'm a lazy person. I take no enjoyment in working and I do it because I need the money. And I certainly wouldn't fuck my life over a long period of time to show my boss how much of a good cuck I am.
And I certainly don't really understand people that enjoy taking it in the ass like I've seen so many at workplaces, or internet communists that seems to romantize their inadequation with this sort of mentality, as if capitalism was responsible for the social contract that make people accountable to one another even if they wont enjoy the full benefit of their work.

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>>83475406
Good goy, don't forget to sign the pledge

>>83475674
I thought the conspiracy was that they wanted everyone dependent on a global welfare state, not an independent capitalist one? You guys seem more confused by your theories than the rest of us

>>83471069
welcome to being a dumbass and wageslaving just to pay off your stupid loans. you better hope you have some undiscovered talent because otherwise your best option is cold calls or construction with no college degree. also you could try trade school but since you consider regular college a meme you might be astounded to learn trade school is the same way.

>>83468911
Somebody fell for the Republican meme. Working hard may put food on the table but it won't pay for your kids' college and if you get hurt you're fucked. Stop shitting on those you deem beneath you and understand how thoroughly the system is rigged against your and your family's interests.

>>83472572
corporate interests are only a problem because we have no real means to regulate them. private entities that control the means of production should be beholden to things like providing livable wages for their workers and ensuring their economic profit isn't a net negative on the rest of society. one only needs to walk into a wal-mart to see that those principles aren't enforced in america.

>>83472710
Not everyone can be the boss. This is trivially true.

Have any of you cucks ever worked in sales?

>capitalism has made it that you have to be an engineer, lawyer, accountant or a doctor
Otherwise enjoy teaching or working a shitty job

>>83476667
Everyone CAN unite and tell the boss to go fuck themselves. We just don't because the world is full of sycophants.