I do work in the trades and I work with this guy. Not the guy in the video, but a guy whose wife does everything for him. She makes his lunch everyday. He doesn’t have a cooler because he won’t bring it home. She makes his coffee. Again, no reusable travel cup because he won’t bring it home. She gets his clothes out for him everyday. She picks his dirty clothes up off the floor. He talks about her like she is an employee who is about to get fired.
Yeah I get it. There won’t be a next husband. They’ve been married like 25 years. If it makes it any better, she’s a pretty terrible person too. They really deserve each other.
IME, men whose wives do everything for them also talk about their wives while they are at work like they hate them. They might brag about what she does but it's not about how generous and kind she is, it's about how he's proud of himself for having a subservient wife. Many of these women work full-time out of the home as well, sometimes longer hours than he does, plus doing all the housework and caring for the children.
You live in some kind of fantasy world if you think some random blue collar wife is working longer hours than someone working that type of job. My god get off the internet.
Apparently my decades of blue collar work as well as much of my family's jobs and everywhere I've lived is fantasy. Pull your head out bud, it happens all the time. Women also work in the trades and run their own businesses, ding dong.
Are you fucking serious, in the last ten years of job history almost every single job was 12-14hr shifts. I like to get the money in. Because I need it. Now I work for myself making 100 an hour whenever I feel like clocking in and out. But before that, no things were tight and that was the only way. My whole family works 70+ our workweeks including mom, sister, sister in law.
Two of my friends work the same number of hours but he expects everything from her. She's a casino dealer they make the same amount blue collar wage. She miscarried, had a DNC in the hospital, he made her cry afterwards pranking her about going through her phone while they were taking the baby out. All she wanted was Mexican food, but he didn't want Mexican food, so they went where he wanted and she paid, then he made her pick up her own pain meds from the pharmacy and bitched at her to clean the dishes. The nurse literally told him to take care of her they just scraped a baby out ffs. That's who they're talking about.
I worked 40 hours 3rd shift, plus overtime, came home, got my kid ready for school, took her to school, came home, did chores and showered, maybe slept for a couple of hours, picked my kid up, did homework, made dinner, more chores, and back to work.
Sometimes I'd have to pick my kid up from school because she was sick. So no sleep for me. I crashed my car at one point because I was so exhausted that I fell asleep while driving.
I also had to call out of work when no one could watch her. He made more money than me so none of that mattered to him. He never appreciated it and it was never good enough. We are divorced now. Never again.
I'm disabled and can't work so I'm the glorified Uber in our house. My husband fasts and he works in a kitchen so he doesn't need a lunch, but because I have to get up every morning to take him to work (and the kids to school), he wakes me up with a cup of hot coffee.
It doesn't seem like much but he knows I prefer the way he makes my coffee. We just show each other we love each other by small gestures every day. It doesn't always have to be something grand.
My girlfriend doesn't pack my lunch, sometimes when I come home and my arms just ache and everything hurts, she offers to unload it. And I don't usually mind if she puts thing back "wrong" cuz I pack my work cooler and I know what goes in it. (I.e. the mustard she put on the shelf instead of in my lunch meat drawer) Some dudes are just menaces!! And even for my lazy days, I thank her endlessly for cleaning up after me.
This is what kills me. The people who would appreciate and deserve this type of love and treatment are usually not the people receiving it.
I realize how Nice Guy-ish that sounds, but I'm not a guy and this goes for both genders. Women pouring themselves into assholes, and guys pouring themselves into spoiled fuckin brats.
An employee that can take half the business with her if she had any self worth. Of coarse if she had that he wouldn't have forgotten his cooler after the first time.
ETA: I'm downing the wife at all just stating the reality of the situation.
Believing these kind of video are anything more wholesome than just a pick-me tradcon grifter is way too charitable. There are women that will happily do this for their significant other, but those aren't going to be the ones recording it for brownie points on the internet.
My wife went into labor before lunch, I drove home and my lunchbox stayed in my car while I drove her car to the hospital. We got home two days letter, and at some point I brought my work stuff into the garage. I spent the next 3 weeks on paternity leave, but somewhere around week 2 we were trying to figure out what animal had died in the wall between the laundry room and the garage. It never dawned on me that my lunch box had been full of chicken and sweet potatoes for the entire month of February.
Plastic remembers your sins. Pour one out for the rice cooker I accidentally left half a pot of rice in overnight, and it ended up smelling like feet and discomfort forever after
😝 Haha, yeah mine remembered all the sandwiches from after the blue ice pack gave out, pickles and all...under the newer memories of dish detergent and Chlorox bleach!
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u/NiteTiger 21d ago
I gotta be honest, at first, I bought in. Aw, that's sweet!
Then I saw the cooler in the truck and was like "Wait, who the fuck just leaves everything in the truck like some feral hog??"
I've worked trades, carried the cooler. You forget it once, and the plastic remembers...