Night Shift + Food

[Anonymous No.20544426]

Recently got a gig as a school custodian on the night shift (3:30-midnight) and while I otherwise like the schedule, I discovered that NOTHING is open after midnight nowadays. Meijers closes at midnight so I need to get up earlier in the day to go grocery shopping, none of the diners/coney joints are open, the kitchens at a bar will be closed even if the bar is still open (and most close at midnight during the week) and the only fast food joint hereabouts that's open at that time, is a McDonalds with like two guys working there and it takes 20mins to get a Felatio Fish.

[Anonymous No.20544428]

>>20544426
It's insane how it's incomprehensible for Americans to bring their own packed lunch to work.
You don't HAVE to eat fast food. You can make something delicious and nutritious from home, you fat gimp

[Anonymous No.20544436]

Just make bulk lunches for like an hour on the weekend, freeze them and defrost the day before. Surely they have a fridge you can use?

[Anonymous No.20544452]

>>20544428
>>20544436

I'm not a lunch (or breakfast) guy, I only eat once a day after work and while I don't do fast food very often, sometimes you just want some quick junk food but everything is closed by midnight nowadays, a hold-over from covid I suspect? I might try 7-11 tonight and see if I can get a pizza, which aren't that bad.

[Anonymous No.20544453]

>>20544426
You got an evening shift.
If you ain't stumbling home at 6am you ain't working nights.

[Anonymous No.20544464]

>>20544426
Sounds like it’s time to actually learn to cook, anon
I work nights, 7p-7a, and make and bring my own lunch every shift. Just pick something healthy and easy to make in bulk, separate into however many containers you need
You are right though, Covid absolutely killed the 24 hr business

[Anonymous No.20544468]

>>20544453
^ this
I skimmed OP and thought "3:30 isn't too bad" and then saw he got off at midnight. Should still be some places open if you're not in a nowhere town

[Anonymous No.20544475]

>>20544452
take better care of yourself

[Anonymous No.20544484]

>>20544464
>Sounds like it’s time to actually learn to cook, anon

Well, that's never going to happen.

>I work nights, 7p-7a, and make and bring my own lunch every shift. Just pick something healthy and easy to make in bulk, separate into however many containers you need

Like I said, I don't eat lunch at work.

>You are right though, Covid absolutely killed the 24 hr business

Yeah, that seems to be the case.

>>20544453
>You got an evening shift.

It's the night shirt, those starting around midnight (pretty rare) work the graveyard shift

>>20544468
>Should still be some places open if you're not in a nowhere town

I'm in Warren MI, the third largest city in the state but EVERYTHING shuts down at midnight nowadays.

>>20544475
>take better care of yourself

No.

[Anonymous No.20544496]

>>20544484
So why did you make this thread on /ck/, again?

[Anonymous No.20544508]

>>20544426
>3:30-midnight
not nightshift

[Anonymous No.20544512]

>>20544496
> /ck/ - FOOD & Cooking

[Anonymous No.20544516]

>>20544512
not sure why I expected intelligence from a school janitor.

[Anonymous No.20544530]

>>20544516

Ex-machinist and ex-warehouse worker, who got tired of endless 50-60 hour weeks. Now I'm doing 40hrs per week and get my weekends off and when the football season starts in September I'l actually be able to watch late games, instead of going to bed at 8:00pm like a toddler.

[Anonymous No.20544561]

>>20544484
>>20544496
Yeah I've gotta agree with this anon...
>I don't want to learn how to cook for myself!
>Literally everything is closed by the time I get off!
Ok then. I'm not sure what you expect us to tell you.

[Anonymous No.20544570]

>>20544561

I _do_ cook for myself most of the time and I only get fast food a couple of times per month (Taco Belle or Little Squeezers pizza, the best cost-to-weight ratio) but the fact it, prior to covid, lots of places were open after midnight or even 24 hours a day.

[Anonymous No.20544581]

>>20544426
Make friends withe the cafeteria staff before you work. They will leave you a shit ton of leftovers. Not even joking, they toss it all anyway. Did the same job in a ny public school for 10 years. The cafeteria staff will keep you well fed if you are nice to them

[Anonymous No.20544586]

>>20544570
Yeah everyone knows this, it's not some new revelation. Either learn to cook or shut the fuck up and starve.

[Anonymous No.20544589]

>>20544570
yeah, and the pandemic made those people reevaluate their lives, find better places to work.
wait until the machines take over, for your precious midnight pizza rolls

[Anonymous No.20546409]

>>20544581
>Make friends withe the cafeteria staff before you work.

Now that's an idea! I'm already shooting the breeze with the... senior lunch lady (they're called something different nowadays) who used to be a school custodian herself. I was going to ask her if I could occasionally but a mini-carton of milk out of the chest type fridges (leaving a dollar in her office).

(also, when will 4chan start accepting webp pictures, seeing as they're becoming more and more common?)

[Anonymous No.20546415]

>>20544589
>wait until the machines take over,

Jokes on you, AI will eliminate _white collar_ jobs while hit tech C3PO type robots are still ways off in the future, so Manuel labor meatbags like me will still be needed.

>for your precious midnight pizza rolls

What fast food joint sells pizza rolls?

[Anonymous No.20546448]

>>20544426

OP here and on a directly related note, I checked the Internet and there's a Taco Belle about a mile from my house that's open till 1:00am so I stopped by there tonight after work and ordered five soft tacos and two cheesy bean & rice burritos for $14.50.

There were a lot of cars in line but then, it's literally the ONLY place that's still open for miles around and when I finally got to the pick-up window, a black dude gets out of a Dodge Charger that is blasting rap and parked in the fucking-wait-because-you-stupidily-ordered-special-snowflake-food spot and says, "Yo muthafugga where my food be at?! I saw two car drive out!" The cashier kid (who looked Ed Sheeran) looks back into the kitchen and yells, "they gotta fry your food, the other people's food was already done." And the black guy mumbles "muthafugga" and gets back in his car, while I pull out around him (because I ordered normal shit when the joint is obviously busy and the line is a mile long) while he sits there and seethes.

[Anonymous No.20546741]

1 month at new job working as night auditor at a hotel
>they provide food for all employees
>graveyard shift employees can order from a special menu for dinner and breakfast when closer to 6 am
pic related, bacon cheeseburger that costs about $25 at the hotel's restaurant

[Anonymous No.20548837]

>>20546448
Kek pretty based

[Anonymous No.20548841]

>>20544530
What did you dislike more? Machinist or warehouse? Isn’t machinist something that pays good money now?

[Anonymous No.20548992]

Haha, yeah, it's almost like you may have to cook your own food....haha

[Anonymous No.20550241]

>>20544426
>NOTHING is open after midnight
then take a packed lunch with you
assuming you have access to the school's staff room you'll also have a fridge, microwave and kettle or hot water dispenser to use too if you wanted to make ramen or something.

this guy's advice is pretty good >>20544436 but get a slow cooker instead. 5min of prep, let it simmer all day while you smash beers playing vidya or whatever.
when its done it only takes 5min to box it all up and wash the slow cooker out.
food for a week right there for under $10

[Anonymous No.20550247]

>>20544496
retards like OP make a "gimme advice" thread with a shitty premise and false information, then spend the whole thread farming replies by just refusing to take anyone's advice
easy way to farm (You)s without making it look like you're farming (You)s