Pod Insights Stavvy's World Bonus #118 - Dan Carney [PATREON PREVIEW] About this episode Patreon preview. Unlock full episodes at https://www.patreon.com/c/stavvysworld
Dan Carney joins the pod to discuss his bootstrapping days as a janitor at a Chick-fil-A in Times Square, coming from the infamous town of Brandon, FL, exploiting himself for Uber rides and low-level opportunities, and much more. Stav and Dan help callers including an overeducated woman who loves her hometown but is unimpressed by her dating prospects, and a stay-at-home mom who feels judged by her friend for not circumcising her son.
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0:00 Speaker 00 My first job here, I was pretty much like a janitor at Chick-fil-A at Times Square.
0:05 Speaker 00 Like, literally, I was mopping floors, cleaning up. We had a guy overdose in our bathroom. My cleanup is vomit. And the first half of the day, like, white windows.
0:14 Stavros Halkias? Yeah, yeah.
0:15 Speaker 00 It was like an insane, forty hours a week I was doing this.
0:18 Stavros Halkias? You're like, "Do you think maybe I could, uh, maybe I could fry the chicken?" They're like, "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, let's take it easy."
0:24 Speaker 00 You're like, "With that pretty smile?" You're a front-of-house type guy.
0:29 Stavros Halkias? Wow, how much do you have to say? Did you say "my pleasure" a lot?
0:31 Speaker 00 Dude, oh, yeah, yeah. So like, I like, when I first moved here, I like, uh, I like hooked up with this girl who like worked at Chick-fil-A corporate. And she's like...
0:42 Stavros Halkias? Literally, the fucking for every hookup. You fuck, my son is fucking for a janitorial job. He's prostituting himself for Ubers and the fucking privilege to wipe down bum diarrhea from fucking Chick-fil-A.
1:02 Speaker 00 My son is a whore with no concept of the market value of his own asshole.
1:09 Stavros Halkias? Holy shit.
1:10 Speaker 00 Yeah, man, I was throwing it back for anybody, dude.
1:13 Stavros Halkias? You fucked this girl at Chick-fil-A corporate?
1:15 Speaker 00 Like, one time, the craziest thing I saw was like, after the lunch rush, you know, everyone's just kinda trying to catch their breath. You know, there's a big, huge window. You can see like the street on Thirty-seventh Street, um, in Manhattan. And like, I was like, at the front of the door, we'd have like little iPads to kinda catch peoples that come in to like, be more efficient.
1:34 Stavros Halkias? Yes.
1:35 Speaker 00 So I'm taking this guy's order, right? It's like just me and him in the store. It's like after lunch rush. And then as I'm taking his order, this like fire, a truck associated with the fire department comes and like, a few guys get out. Not a fire truck, but like, you know, whatever.
1:48 Stavros Halkias? Yeah, like a SUV.
1:49 Speaker 00 Yeah, like a truck with the emblem on it. Yes, and it says like, "Fire Department in New York." And these guys get out, they, they, they lift up this manhole, and one of the guys climbs in, and within seconds, fire exploded from this manhole. The circumference of the manhole, like, twenty feet in the air.
2:08 Stavros Halkias? Oh, my god, dude.
2:10 Speaker 00 And I'm watching it happen with the guy whose order I'm taking, and he is like, like he just saw ghosts.
2:15 Stavros Halkias? Right.
2:15 Speaker 00 I'm like exhausted, you know, like, I have more work, and so, and dude, this guy's like... You should do something.
2:22 Stavros Halkias? I can't believe it, nine eleven two is happening.
2:23 Speaker 00 He was like, you should call nine one one. And I'm like, would you like to make that a meal?
2:29 Speaker 00 I'm like, why'd you call nine one one?
2:31 Stavros Halkias? I'm on the clock. What do you think? I'm a public servant?
2:34 Speaker 00 Yes, now I do everything. Oh, I'm sorry. And I just jumped through the window and saved this guy. And like, so this guy was horrified. He told like, I remember like talking to uh, the people like at the front desk. He's like pointing and they don't give a fuck.
2:50 Stavros Halkias? Of course.
2:50 Speaker 00 Everyone there was on food stamps.
2:51 Stavros Halkias? Yeah.
2:52 Speaker 00 And like, they're like, fuck you.
2:54 Stavros Halkias? Yeah, what are you getting paid at Chick-fil-A?
2:55 Speaker 00 A minimum wage. Yeah, it was fifteen an hour. Um, and then he's-
2:58 Stavros Halkias? And that's only because you're in New York.
3:00 Speaker 00 Yes.
3:00 Stavros Halkias? Anywhere else, it would have been so much less.
3:02 Speaker 00 Pennies. And like, so we got one free meal.
3:04 Stavros Halkias? Look up Florida minimum wage, let's compare.
3:06 Speaker 00 It's just, you know, I was, I was rich compared to where I came from. And uh, so we get one free meal and then like one meal is fifty percent off that we couldn't take home with us. We had to eat it there. Um, but yeah, and then so the, the explosion thing happened. The two other guys like peered into the manhole and then got back in the truck and left.
3:23 Stavros Halkias? The guy?
3:24 Speaker 00 Yeah, that was, that was, that was what I saw. I don't know what happened. But like, that was the full arc of the story. They put the manhole cover back on and just fucking drove off, dude.
3:36 Stavros Halkias? I mean, hopefully that guy got out somewhere else.
3:38 Speaker 00 You would hope, you would hope. Maybe they looked down like, okay, we're all good.
3:41 Stavros Halkias? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
3:41 Speaker 00 But it was like, you know, it was weird. It was like cartoonish, you know?
3:45 Stavros Halkias? Yeah, those guys didn't seem troubled, did they? Or did they?
3:47 Speaker 00 They were like, huh, what was that? Yeah, curious. Curious would be, would be the um, would be the expression uh, that they had on their face. So that was like, obviously the craziest day. And then like the, like the, the way, you know, I ended up quitting that job. The last thing that I ever-
4:04 Stavros Halkias? Quickly or how long? Two months you said or no?
4:05 Speaker 00 I did have like two months. And then like, I remember like uh, a month after I quit, uh, there was like this dude that I was like, became like friendly with or whatever at Chick-fil-A. He was like one of the cooks and you know, he'd hook it up for me sometimes like. And uh, he um, he like DM'd me on Instagram. He was like, hey, bro, how's it going? Whatever. And we're just kind of chopping it up. And he's like, hey, look, man, uh, I gotta bail my boy out. Can I get twenty dollars from you?
4:29 Stavros Halkias? Oh my god, dude.
4:30 Speaker 00 Like get 20 bucks.
4:32 Stavros Halkias? For 20 dollars?
4:33 Speaker 00 Yeah.
4:33 Stavros Halkias? And you hadn't talked to?
4:34 Speaker 00 I hadn't talked to him like over a month, yeah.
4:36 Stavros Halkias? Damn dude.
4:36 Speaker 00 So that was the last I heard from that Chick-fil-A.
4:38 Stavros Halkias? Yeah.
4:38 Speaker 00 Yeah.
4:39 Stavros Halkias? Damn, I've been, it's a good Chick-fil-A, you know?
4:42 Speaker 00 It's great, it's great. I still eat Chick-fil-A. That's how good Chick-fil-A is.
4:44 Stavros Halkias? Yeah, yeah.
4:45 Speaker 00 So I did all that and I still enjoy their, their dishes.
4:48 Stavros Halkias? 20, 2 months though is like, that's, that's so, it's such a funny menial labor ass job to get.
4:54 Speaker 00 It was definitely, I think, the most menial labor job that I had.
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