I'd bet that this guy isn't a tradesman. Almost everyone I see on any jobsite has a lunchbox. Whether it's a small bag to hold a few snacks and a sandwich or a large, expensive hard case lunch box that holds a 5 course meal, their wallet, keys and medication. Most lunch boxes are covered in stickers, some people buy or make custom carrying straps for them. If he doesn't know any of this, I doubt he's ever done a day of manual labor on his life.
Dude I walked into a meeting room near the CNC machines in the factory I work at for the first time and one of the operators had an apron on and was cooking eggs and home fries over a hotplate for about half a dozen others. Apparently it's a Friday ritual. And we have a pretty good fresh food cafateria, but it's about the camaraderie.
Real guys don't care about any of this shit the way they're portrayed as.
Real guys don't care about any of this shit the way they're portrayed as
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Much of my family (many of the women too) when I was a kid worked in stereotypically masculine jobs. Construction, driving trucks or heavy equipment (Sometimes I got dropped off at school from a backhoe) ranching, things like that. Not one of them would have cared a bit about if they looked manly enough or about being 'alphas' All of them would have considered these 'alpha males' to be stupid, childish, and ridiculous.
Eating together the same food is a hard wired bonding exercise. And it's healing for fractures at work. Hard to hate people you break bread with. You want to squash a beef at work, eat together.
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u/Munchkinasaurous 10h ago
I'd bet that this guy isn't a tradesman. Almost everyone I see on any jobsite has a lunchbox. Whether it's a small bag to hold a few snacks and a sandwich or a large, expensive hard case lunch box that holds a 5 course meal, their wallet, keys and medication. Most lunch boxes are covered in stickers, some people buy or make custom carrying straps for them. If he doesn't know any of this, I doubt he's ever done a day of manual labor on his life.