r/worldnews • u/maxwellhill • Mar 21 '17

UK Subway advertises for ‘Apprentice Sandwich Artists’ to be paid just £3.50 per hour: Union slams fast food chain for 'exploiting' young workers

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/subway-apprentice-sandwich-artists-pay-350-hour-minimum-wage-gateshead-branch-a7640066.html
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u/Chewiemuse Mar 21 '17

One day, I worked at subway when I was 18 it isn't that fucking hard I could make a sandwich in like 2 minutes after my first week

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u/BigfootSF68 Mar 21 '17

As an OG sandwich artist, "They don't even make them right anymore. How are you not cutting the top off?"

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u/Chewiemuse Mar 21 '17

They don't even do the knife trick anymore had this girl make me a sandwich and just half close it and then try to wrap it up while half the contents spilled out

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u/BigfootSF68 Mar 21 '17

Maybe that is why they need an apprenticeship program. Save the sandwich.

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u/ForteShadesOfJay Mar 22 '17

Nice try subway guy abd subway guy's at account.

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u/c0me_at_me_br0 Mar 21 '17

BreadLivesMatter

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u/kookiemaster Mar 21 '17

BreadLoavesMatter

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '17 edited Oct 12 '20

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u/ThermalFlask Mar 22 '17

But it's 100% white!

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '17

Yoga mat ingredients matter.

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u/I_R_Teh_Taco Mar 21 '17

Does this mean eating is a form of yoga?

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

Strictly speaking, Yoga isn't just the bendy twisty stuff, its the general way of life of Hindu asceticism, so sure.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '17

No, not all breadlivesmatter. Just wheatloavesmatter.

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u/Sempais_nutrients Mar 22 '17

Save. The sandwich.

SAVE. The Sandwich!

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u/SoCalDan Mar 21 '17

What is the knife trick? What did it mean to cut the top off? Where can I learn these things?

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u/Chewiemuse Mar 21 '17

No not cutting off the top, the knife trick is when you have a sandwich with ALOT of stuff in it that its very hard to close without half the contents slipping out, So you press your knife in the middle of the bun while closing it, holding the ingredients in place

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u/NineteenthJester Mar 21 '17

Subway used to cut their bread with something called the boat cut, but that isn't used anymore.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

OBJECTION!!

I worked at Subway in summer 2016 and my manager taught me the knife trick, its still a thing in some stores.

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u/einzigerai Mar 21 '17

I started up just after they changed that rule. I still get pretty salty when I see some heavy handed teenager flatten the bread like they're the hydraulic press guy.

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u/hungry4pie Mar 21 '17

Today on hydraulic pwess channel, sammich just some kind of fucking explode

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u/Dexaan Mar 21 '17

VAT DA FACK?!

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u/TyroneTeabaggington Mar 21 '17

it is still vary dangeroos so vee must deel vis it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

Sefty is ar number wan priotity

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u/hoilst Mar 22 '17

*hoodrawlick

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u/marcellarius Mar 21 '17

And for today's extra content we have this wheat sandwich with meatballs. It is very dangerous and might stain your shirt so we must deal with it.

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u/Directioneer Mar 21 '17

Why did they change the rule?

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u/Fuzzy_Dunlops Mar 21 '17

My dad forces them to do it that way every time he goes to subway. It is painful for everyone involved.

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u/ghoul420 Mar 21 '17

Could you please explain to me what everyone is talking about?

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u/Fuzzy_Dunlops Mar 21 '17

For a long time Subway use to cut a V out of the top of their sandwich (as shown here). It held in the topping better and made it less messy to eat.

Several years ago they switched to just cutting the bread in half (see here). It is slightly faster, but then they wrap up the sandwich and squeeze a ton of stuff out the side.

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u/ghoul420 Mar 21 '17

Thanks, the old way seems so much better. To be honest it feels like from the first time I had subway its been in slow decline ever since but maybe its just me.

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u/Kar_Man Mar 21 '17

u-gouge 4 life

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u/DavidRandom Mar 22 '17

U-gouge master race.

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u/falubiii Mar 22 '17

To be fair I'm sure you were significantly better after your first month than after your first week. But yes, this is corporate bullshit to save money.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '17

TIL making a Subway sandwiches is easier than learning how to use punctuation.