Video: Noodles revolutionary worker dude resents being told how and when to cook the noodles
This is simultaneously sad and hilarious. Some dude who works for a Noodles, Inc. restaurant wants to unionize he and his fellow workers so they can overthrow the “dictatorship.” The fun part is at about 3:34, when he describes the “dictatorship”: Workers are told what to cook, and how to cook it, and they’re told when to show up for work.
That “dictatorship” is otherwise known as a JOB, which is something this idiot isn’t likely to have for very long.
The irony that the socialism he longs for pretty much always ends in real dictatorship, of either a soft or hard variety, totally escapes this fella.
(Hat tip Glenn Beck)
Man, what an absolute “doofus”. So if someone at Noodles ordered soup he would, because he is master of his own density, er destiny, give them macaroni and cheese? What a numb nuts. There is a man who has no future, who will be destined to have nothing in life (or he could become a community organizer and run for president).
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it was Lenin who said, “A Revolution led by total weenies will fail.”
I spent a few minutes transcribing this idiot’s words, because they’re so juvenile.
Rob Lewis, socialist moron: Racism has been a really important tool in America for supressing workers because it divides the workers against each other. Um… and so it’s also sexism and homophobia is another way to confuse people and think there’s someone else that there’s enemy who’s actually just on their same side, in their exact same position of being exploited.
Interviewer: What would you say about those who would say classism works in the same way?
Rob, the moron: Well, like I described earlier, there are two fundamental classes that are just a plain fact in society. You either work for someone else, or you work for yourself. Most people work for someone else, in a way they aren’t free. Um… you don’t really get to decide your work. For example, I work at Noodles, a restaurant, and basically it’s a dictatorship there. Uh… we’re told exactly what we’re gonna cook, how we’re gonna cook it, what time we’re gonna get there, and basically if they don’t like what they’re (sic) doing, they try to tell us what to do. If we don’t listen, then they get rid of us. And so we’re not able to actually cooperate in a way that we make decisions together I try to convince my fellow employees that we should have a union at Noodles so it’s a source of power to start with. And then I think in terms of the bigger picture that when you look at revolutions, the way that you actually get rid of any sort of dictatorship, um, is by having workers take control of the place where they work.
Interviewer: Would your plan, your vision for Noodles, would it include the owner? What capacity would he be granted?
Rob, the moron: If the owner wanted to cooperate with us as an equal, and provide his skills that he had, we would definitely cooperate with him. He’d have to abdicate his position as being an owner and controller of us and he would have to recognize that we run Noodles together, and, basically, if he doesn’t want to cooperate with us, he’s against us.
Can you imagine what his version of Noodles would look like? The workers would come in whenever they like, so nobody would show up to do the early prep work. Maybe nobody feels like cleaning out the grease trap, or mopping the floors, or washing up the utensils. Maybe Rob and his pals decide Noodles’ menu is too limiting, so they decide to do bagels today.
Nobody wants to work Friday or Saturday night, since they want to go out partying with their friends. And forget about Saturday and Sunday mornings, since they like to party really hard…
And who among this group would make sure they had all the supplies necessary, delivered in a timely manner? Who would see to it that the bills were paid, the books kept up to date, and the paychecks written?
The sad fact is, you’d never get idiots like this to cooperate for the common good; there’s always at least one guy who wants to do less than everyone else, who won’t take his turn at doing the unpleasant tasks, or who simply doesn’t have the necessary skills (like basic arithmetic skills) to do the job at hand.
So as nice as it sounds to all be equal and cooperate and junk, it just doesn’t work out in real life. And people like Rob would know this if they ever tried to do what a boss does for a day.
But, yeah… they’re willing to cooperate with the owner, if he stops acting like he owns them. *rolls eyes*
Somebody call this idiot the Waaaambulance…
The creepy thing is, they hand out those same fliers at my university in the Bay Area, but they say “From CAIRO to MADISON to SACRAMENTO”
But, I mean like, EXACTLY THE SAME. The fonts and everything.
Socialist revolutionary astroturfing!!!
Even on left-leaning YouTube, the comments are castigating Noodles Dude as a taotal clueless idiot.
Gee, you know that if the teachers at this bonehead’s (public) schools ever mentioned the Cold War, it was to say how terrible and evil Reagan was for talking tough to the poor Soviets. Actually, I doubt Noodlehead would be able find the old Soviet Union on a map.
You know, I can understand why some poor devil working in a sweatshop on the Lower East Side of Manhattan or in some meat processing plant in Chicago in, say, 1910, turned socialist. That poor guy was working like a dog and had no way of foreseeing the mountains of corpses and rivers of blood that Stalin and Lenin and all their ideological kin would produce during the 20th century – the only things that communism produces in abundance. Of course, his children and grandchildren did better than he did and realized the promise of the American Dream, but in 1910, it might not have been apparent that that would happen.
I don’t think any of those early working class socialists ever dreamt of a world where they got to show up at the job or stay in bed if they felt like it and do whatever the hell they pleased while at work. They were preoccupied with things like “Gee, it would be great to have a Saturday off every now and then. It would also be nice to not get fired if I fall off a ladder at work and break my arm.”
The stupid – it burns.
HOW DARE NOODLES HAVE A MENU!!!
Observations:
1. The noodles guy is a perfect combination of usefulness and idiot. Maybe he’ll grow out of it. That he performs a black-market transaction in full view of the camera (for such are all such sales in socialist paradises) is beyond him. The idea that once he kills the goose that laid the golden noodle shop, there are no more geese to be killed, also escapes him. Drug addled is my bet.
2. Note the door lock behind the girl in red. That is an expensive, commercial grade door lock that was not produced by any of those people, I’ll bet. It is part of a complex access system for that building. And that lock was opened up for this display of knowledge by someone who had trusted, privileged access to wealth. The light, warmth, quiet and safety they enjoyed in this meeting were gifts of the society they hate. She is as clueless as noodle guy.
3. The argyle sweater, black leather jacket and luggage handle behind professor man–he didn’t make any of those. He bought them from capitalist roaders who oppressed people in Asia and India, workers who made them. That he could effortlessly wheel that little carry-on suitcase with a tiny portion of his possessions from an airplane to an airport to a taxi to an elevator to a clean classroom is due only to the overflowing wealth of the capitalist system.
4. Revolution man with the black cotton tee and black cap shows a tremendous amount of conformity–in his dress to his friends (such as they are) and in his ideas to people who are indolent takers. Sad that he styles himself the revolutionary.
Someday these people will probably end up in a (national) socialist paradise with an iron arch above the gate, with the words “work makes free” across it, and they’ll wonder what’s happening they’re herded into that tile room for their first and last “shower.”
Let’s hope not.
If the Noodle Guy thinks he has mad management skillz, let him go out and try to start and run his own business by his own self-stated policies.
I also kinda wonder how much longer he’s gonna have his job after this, and what his prospects for getting another one are. I can see it on his application: “Got fired for appearing in a YouTube video about wanting to end the dictatorship of management in the restaurant.” The HR person looks up the video, and decides precisely where to file the application… and it ain’t in the “call for interview” pile.
Can i just point out the irony of the end of the video when he accepts the money for the magazine. He just participated in capitalism and was ecstatic about it, lol. If that transaction was done under his ideology he would have to had given it for free otherwise he would have been dictator over the one wanting the magazine and the magazine wanter could start a revolution against the magazine owner and take it from him by force. Anyway just thought it was funny..
Is there anyone appearing in this video who is actually intelligent and doesn’t sound like a whiney, pathetic, inept idiot? As ignorant as he sounds he sounds like the most intelligent one of them all.
It is amazing that ignorance of this magnitude exists in this age.
I actually feel a bit sorry for this kid. He’s going to have a really tough time succeeding in life, but I’m sure he’ll always think it’s someone else’s fault. Didn’t his parents ever fill him in on some of the basics of life? For example, how the world works and having a little respect for your boss? I’m guessing he never learned (or maybe just never understood) basic business skills, economic principles, or history in school.
What’s really sad is that this mentality is not so unusual in Madison. My entire family moved out of town to escape it.
He’s a youth and not representative of Wisconsin’s current issues with union busting. He also does have a kernel of truth in the “how” of jobs in general. Having been a manager, there are often multiple ways to perform a job, and managers are often far removed from the technical skills of their employees and the details of the operation. They are often better off having the employee figure out the how if not the what, or at least, the smart ones work together with them on this Managers often over manage schedules when a smaller group of employees can be given leeway to determine schedules. This makes for a more satisfied, involved, and longer term employee, which in our modern days of pension pinching and cutting costs of long-term employees is no longer valued. this kind of involvement and cooperation can often circumvent the need for much union bargaining because the worker is involved, feels ownership and pride in making the company successful, knows the balance sheets of the company and how much blood can or can not be squeezed out of turnips for their wages and benefits. The techniques of worker involvement and more say in the company has often employeed by very successful companies in Japan and even by some of the best companies in this country. Also, socialism means many things throughout the world. For many it simply means that everyone counts and we help and support everyone (not unlike many of our religious teachings if we were to walk the talk). It does not automatically imply dictatorship or state ownership. Also, is it my imagination, or do a vast majority of right wingers need to use words like idiot and moron to gain a sense of position power or to win arguments? My child is cognitively impaired and I object to those slurs on that level as well.