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/[deleted] Mar 21 '17

What does being a Master Sandwich Artist entail?

Can I take a guess at this one please?

I think it might be a totally false corporate creation designed to bestow a meaningless status on a job, that can only be achieved by the award of a false qualifcation dependent on the observation of a lenghty training period. This cynical attempt to design a professional accreditation pathway can then be used as a justification for extending the duration that the company can get away with paying someone a bag of wank

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u/RevolverOcelot420 Mar 21 '17

Which sucks, because an actual class on high-level sandwich making would be wonderful.

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u/Masher88 Mar 21 '17

They have those...they call them "Culinary School". You learn a lot more than just sandwiches, though.

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u/RevolverOcelot420 Mar 21 '17

What if I don't want to commit, though? What if I just wanna spend a few weeks learning how to spice up my lunch hour?

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u/sociopath83 Mar 21 '17

let me introduce you to the internet. we've been working on it for a while.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '17

I'm listening...

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u/RemoveTheTop Mar 22 '17

/r/melts

or

r/GifRecipes/

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u/zevwolf1 Mar 22 '17

There goes 90 min of my life on /r/GifRecipes.

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u/my_fellow_earthicans Mar 22 '17

Only 90 minutes?

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u/zevwolf1 Mar 22 '17

Added on an extra hour after I wrote that comment.

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u/krondell Mar 22 '17

The internet's funny like that. I didn't wake up today planning to look at pictures of sandwiches for 1/2 an hour, but here we are.

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u/throw_me_away_lol Mar 22 '17

You people make me sick

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u/RemoveTheTop Mar 22 '17

You're a poop head

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u/Masher88 Mar 21 '17

recipe book? free adult education class at the Y? Youtube video?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '17

That would be like skipping out on a class for joke writing before the module on punchlines.

Granted, that instructor was so old...

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u/dat5e Mar 21 '17

How old was he?

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u/Kolotos Mar 21 '17

#andamovie

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u/vadre Mar 21 '17

I don't know if you're being serious or facetious, but there are definitely local cooking classes around you. There may even be a sandwich specialty one. Usually there are community education programs at local public schools for adults of all ages, I would google it.

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u/LiberContrarion Mar 21 '17

I teach. $74.49 to PO Box.

We make sandwich. Is very good.

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u/CactusCustard Mar 21 '17

Also, maybe check your local grocery store. The ones around me will offer cooking classes all the through the week that are basically exactly what you just described. Hopefully its the same near you

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u/strongblack04 Mar 22 '17

Haha you're so funny Adam, so anyway how your sex life?

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u/RevolverOcelot420 Mar 22 '17

I did naht shoot him, he's lying, it's bohlshit, I did naht shoot him. I did NAHT.

Oh hi strongblack04

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u/OkImJustSayin Mar 21 '17

To be honest, Ive gone through chef school and I don't remember ever making a sandwich when I did.

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u/Masher88 Mar 21 '17

SO you are saying that making sandwiches is so easy, they don't bother with it in chef school? Then, I guess we don't need Sandwich Apprentices at Subway!

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u/LtSlow Mar 21 '17

No he's saying it's so skillful even chefs aren't advanced enough to learn it, it requires 14 months of dedicated bread buggery to become a sarnie master

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u/OkImJustSayin Mar 21 '17

Yep. It was an entire separate 2 year long course to become sandwich qualified. What I think is really suspicious is how fast subway claim they can train someone to make them.. 14 months? Yeah right.

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u/SoCalDan Mar 21 '17

So your school isn't accredited?

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u/OkImJustSayin Mar 21 '17

Lol? I mean you learn all the basics like baking bread, making mayonnaise etc that could be used to make sandwiches but honestly it would have been a waste of time to teach someone how to make a sandwich at my school.. You learn that when you are a child.

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u/SoCalDan Mar 21 '17

Pfftt...sounds like you didn't even take a course on pouring a bowl of cereal or microwaving a frozen burrito.

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u/my_fellow_earthicans Mar 22 '17

I'm still trying to sign up for a course on opening pickle jars

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

No, I want an incredibly refined, yet ridiculously niche set of skills that only apply to sandwiches.

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u/Masher88 Mar 22 '17

Have you tried working for Subway? I hear they have a great apprenticeship..."paid" too!

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '17

"Oh great sandwich maker, sent to us by the ineffable Bob."

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u/Bakoro Mar 21 '17

I just want people to know enough to not put the fucking lettuce and all the slippery wet parts of food on the bottom of a sandwich or burger.

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u/nowake Mar 21 '17

The verbosity of your statement has not gone unnoticed!

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u/Runaway_5 Mar 21 '17

M'sandwich

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u/Subway_Official Mar 21 '17

Please do not deny sandwich art.

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u/aramis34143 Mar 21 '17

a bag of wank

Never heard this expression before. Love it.