This takes me back to when I was 18 years old and got my very first job: stock clerk at liquor store located just a ten-minute walk from home. I was hired exactly six months after I graduated high school, and then celebrated by treating myself to two movies (“Home Alone 3” and “Scream 2”) in an effort to milk my remaining two days of freedom before entering the work force. Although, unlike Calvin, I hated my job from the get-go and quit nearly five months later. It was boring, I couldn't remember where each brand of liquor was located on the shelves, and the owner (Indian dude in his late 30s) was a tyrant who always yelled to the point of making me cry, especially if I broke a bottle. He would threaten to take it out of my pay if it happens again. Looking back, I wish he had meant what he said (but in a respectful tone) rather than yell at me and not doc my pay. I mean, what's better -- a berating boss who gives bonuses, or a soft-spoken boss who doesn't give bonuses? Something to think about. Anyway, I'll never forget my very first pay day. $355 dollars (off the books). That Saturday night, my boss's mother (a sweet little old lady who always stood post for shoplifters) told me to put my money safely in my pocket, since it was around 1 a.m. and I would be walking home by myself. Bless her heart! Sadly, my boss died about a year after I quit that job. From what my mom told me prior to his death, she noticed he looked very thin and frail. Supposedly, he was HIV positive. So I went to the liquor store to give his mom a hug and offer my condolences. Despite his lack of people skills, his generosity was unmatched -- he treated me to breakfast every morning when he arrived at the store where I waited for him to open up shop. On top of that, despite working there just three days, he not only gave me a bonus, but told me to pick out my mom's favorite wine for him to gift wrap for me to give to her. When I proceeded to grab a smaller bottle, in an effort to not look tacky/greedy, he said, "No, grab the bigger size." I still have the Christmas card that my bonus was enclosed in, for memories of this milestone. You never forget your first job, and I would gladly go back in a heartbeat, just so I can be young, vibrant and stress-free again. Incidentally, at my next job (front desk clerk at bowling alley), my boss was a customer at the liquor store, as he would purchase inventory for the bowling alley's saloon. Small world. One day when he arrived, he said, “I just saw your former boss. He looks like THIS” while sticking up his index finger. R.I.P., Krishna. 🙏❤ 🙏 ❤ 🙏 ❤️ 🙏 ❤️ 🙏 ❤️
He does not end Black people's poverty, but it is great that his community supports him and congratulates him on getting a job, even if that job is not the best. Are we supposed to congratulate him only when he gets a white-collar job? People do what they can with what they have.
I graduated from the college of the jacket he’s wearing. Clarkson University. Still can’t find ANYTHING as to why he’s wearing it after all these years lol
When a particular community stigmatizes legitimate work and instead celebrates a culture of criminality and laziness, it's no wonder they have so many problems.
No we are putting a light on a corporation that expects a grown man to feed his family on minimum wage, fast food, labour and acting like its a profession to be encouraged and to be aimed for in the community rather than for aiming higher. McD wouldn't dare to aim this advertisement for a grown man named Harrison in the gated community and have his neighbours be so proud of him and call it legitimate work or a career. They wouldn't even call it a respectable dinner.
This was the best version of Chappelle before he became grumpy and started lecturing everybody as this contrived wise old Sage who complains about being cancelled.
Actually, I would love to see a re-vamped, current Mickey D’s Calvin type commercial! It could have Calvin owning a few franchises (looking like he’s making Major paper) and giving other young people jobs!
I remember a lyric from either Ice-T or Maestro Fresh Wes, was something like this: "It's time to change your ways, expand your range, I said f--k that bullshit job, that was chump change."
In the original commercial people are acting like this Nigga is gonna raise the property value of the neighborhood or somethin. This must be the Black Christian community because they act like a bunch of Mormans lol. Gospel Choir must hit different around here bruh. The Soul Food knockoff WacArnolds was closed down recently but damn Mr Chapelle I miss those days.
Wtf!!?? This isn't the entire skit!!! What about where him and his lady fight and the line "WacArnold's is tearing this family apart!!!" That scene is best scene of the entire skit. Finds glove* "Who you fkn? OJ!!?"
@@TheDarrlelennis Your math doesn't take into account the purchase of the goods, the business being less regular, and such minor hindrances to work such as arrests, prison and death by rival gangs.
@@TheDarrlelennis Are you really pretending the arrest, incarceration and mortality rates for McD workers and crack sellers are comparable? Then look up the study and inform those who made it, I'm sure they never envisioned that angle 🤣
@@CyberChrist Dumbazz it was a simple fcking question Grown men don't make excuses, you keep adding on 2 your original post Selling bags of crack an hour makes you more than $15 an hour Just because you can't comprehend what I said doesn't make you right, because if it did, you wouldn't have 2 keep responding with something that has nothing 2 do with my response
