Culture Woke Twitter mob gets Midwest college graduate, 24, fired from first job in NYC after he was branded 'racist' for complaining that it's hard to shop f - Live in the pod, eat the bugs, shop in the Bodega

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  • Griffin Green, 24, was canceled and lost his job after posting videos on TikTok complaining about bodega culture in New York City
  • The he recent Midwestern college grad had just moved from Michigan to the Bronx for his first New York City job in tech
  • In his videos, Green lamented about the lack of big grocery stores near his apartment in the Bronx, like Kroger or Whole Foods
  • The videos received backlash which led to social media sleuths digging up older videos, resulting in a Twitter mob calling for his cancellation and firing
  • Tech company Outreach confirmed that Green was no longer their employee
  • Green's TikTok has since been switched to private

A college graduate was fired from his first job in NYC after a Twitter mob descended on him for complaining it was hard to shop for dinner at his local bodegas.

Griffin Green, 24, moved to the Bronx from Michigan last week for a new opportunity as a sales development rep with the software company Outreach, Reason reported.

He took to TikTok to complain that bodegas - corner stores - in his Bronx neighborhood only stocked unhealthy instant foods, and that it was hard to shop properly there, compared to a larger supermarket like Kroger back home.

But busybody Twitter hall monitors soon seized on the clips, claiming they demonstrated white privilege, with Green's cowardly employer bowing to pressure from the niche accounts to terminate their staffer.

Outreach told Reason that Green was fired for sharing an offer of employment letter on social media, not because of the controversial bodega videos which earned him the moniker 'Bodega Bro.'

But the publication suggested Outreach was using that as a fig leaf to justify its decision to fire him over the innocuous bodega clips

The series of videos that sparked the online outrage shows Green walking around his Bronx neighborhood, where he had moved for his new job, while he blasts the local bodegas and asked his viewers how he was supposed to make dinner and where he could find a 'big grocery store.'

'OK, so I just moved to New York and I'm going to go grocery shopping, and so I type in like, 'grocery stores,' on my Apple Maps, and every f–king one I go to … they're like this s–t,' he told the camera in one video.
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Midwest college grad, Griffin Green, 24, who recently moved to the Bronx for a job, posted TikTok videos complaining about shopping at bodegas, earning him the moniker 'Bodega Bro'

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Outreach told Reason that Green was fired for sharing the offer letter on social media, not because of the controversial bodega videos which earned him the moniker 'Bodega Bro'

'Like bro, that's not a grocery store,' he said as he turned the camera to show one of the small stores. 'I'm trying to get, like eggs, yogurt, cheese, s–t like that. Like, look at this place.'

Green continues to walk through his Bronx neighborhood and states he's been to several and doesn't know what to do about dinner.

'Like I've literally been to like five of those now, and like, I don't know what the f–k I'm about to do for dinner. Like where are the Krogers and the Whole Foods at? Like I'm about to eat f–king like cereal and ramen for dinner, like what the f–k?'

The clip went viral after a Twitter user posted it with some saying Green was exuding white privilege for blasting bodegas, which are a staple in New York communities.

Blogger Perez Hilton - best-known for bullying female stars including Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan on his website - circled the wagons further, by tweeting that the video seemed 'racist.'

'I'm sure this 'bro' thought he was being funny, but… did anyone else view this as racist? Or just me?'

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Blogger Perez Hilton tweeted that the video seemed 'racist'

TikTok star Dutch De Carvalho chimed in on the video: 'I mean, what, he's been here like two days? And he's found a way to make fun of the stores that many people in the community rely on.'

More videos surfaced which prompted further backlash on social media.

In one clip, which seemed to have surfaced during Pride, Green commented on how many gay people are in New York, and asked whether 'being gay is just a thing now.'

In another one, he pointed out that he was wearing an NAACP shirt to the gym in the Bronx so 'these people' vibe with him more.

'I'm in the Bronx for a few weeks so I'm like the only white dude in this whole gym, so I got this NAACP shirt so these people vibe with me more,' he purportedly said in one video, the New York Post reported.
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The series of videos that sparked the online outrage shows Green walking around his Bronx neighborhood, where he had moved for his new job, while he blasts the local bodegas and asked his viewers how he was supposed to make dinner
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'OK, so I just moved to New York and I'm going to go grocery shopping, and so I type in like, 'grocery stores,' on my Apple Maps, and every f–king one I go to … they're like this s–t,' he told the camera in one video

Video that Green posted of his offer letter and announcement of moving to New York resurfaced and a Twitter user alerted the company.

'I don't think it's very flattering to have this type of person representing your company,' the user wrote. 'I would revalue his employment if I were you.'

Outreach responded, 'Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Upon investigation, we took swift internal action in accordance with our company policies and in alignment with our core values. He is no longer an employee of Outreach.'

The firm said Green was fired for sharing the offer letter on social media, even though it was only visible for a few seconds.

'It is against company policy for employees to leak private and confidential information, and grounds for termination,' Outreach's vice president of communications told Reason. 'We remain committed to building our culture that finds strength in our diversity, equity and inclusion — and a company where all can succeed.'

Green, who had just signed a 1-year lease with an apartment in the Bronx, told Reason he was fired on his second day of work. He asked for a chance to explain, but said he was denied.

'People can be painted as these mean awful people when really they're just trying to explore new things,' Green told Reason. 'I was exploring New York for the first time … I didn't know that people do grocery shopping at these corner stores.'

'It was more of an intent to almost like make fun of myself for being a new person in the city,' he said.

Green set his TikTok account to private but on Saturday night posted a new video that addressed the backlash and included a compilation of the grad ordering food at a local bodega.
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Green posted a new video to TikTok Saturday night of buying food at a local bodega and distributing it to various homeless men in the area

'If you came here from Twitter, you probably know me as "Bodega Bro,"' Green said. 'So I came off private to show you guys what Bodega Bro is really all about.'

Green then bags up the bacon, egg and cheese rolls and chopped cheese rolls that he bought, along with gatorade and fruit, and films himself distributing them to various homeless men in the area.

In the video, Green adds that 'if anyone is hiring in tech sales or needs a workout partner in New York,' to let him know.


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I know of towns with populations of less than 450 with better grocery stores than almost anywhere in NYC and with prices in line with big cities. If they can do it NYC can do it, there's no excuse.
In high density urban centers, real-estate and renting prices are fucking INSANE. Its more common to have a small korean grocer and a fish store and go to ten different places rather than one big one. Unless the neighborhood is primarily one ethnicity. Like you'll be around a halal supermarket, a Koreans one, a Spanish one, etc. But these are in neighborhoods that actually resembled suburbs. Not the inner city like the Bronx.
I have lived in one of the biggest cities in the country, with a population in the millions, and it was extremely well supplied with high-quality grocery stores. fresh meat and produce, sourced locally as much as possible, and priced reasonably, not some Trader Joe's or Whole Foods bullshit. there, what you would call "bodegas" are more like... cultural special supply stores? like if the regular grocery store doesn't have it, you can go down to a special market to get shit actually imported from another country. it's really all about city culture, and in that respect, NYC is so soul-crushingly miserable that the people who live there have to stay on a 24/7 supply of copium to keep from blowing their fucking brains out. that's why so many idiots seem rabidly obsessed with the idea that NYC is the best city in the country
Uh, no. Those are called specialty stores. Halal butchers and the like or Italian markets. Bodegas are basically delis with a small amount of supermarket items. You go to a bodega when you're on your lunch break and can't find a food cart. Or you forgot to pick up milk. It is generally not meant for primary shopping and does not have a selection of anything healthy. Candy, sandwiches, cereals, snacks, sodas/water, staples like milk, MAYBE eggs. No produce.
Imagine not being able to find a supermarket in a city. NY is a shit hole, but there has to be a supermarket someplace.

Right?
There are, but in the inner city there's a lack of space, and real estate costs money. There's also the fact even in good neighborhoods you have to surround your supermarket with a large fence and razor wire and have a security guard. Oft not talked about, but crime is one reason you don't see regular supermarkets in poorer areas.
Being so self-absorbed and insufferable that you wander around filming yourself complaining about shit and then put it on the internet deserves to get you fired tbh.
Honestly, white boy walking around the bronx bitching about Bodegas I'm surprised he didn't get punched.
A lot of people, especially midwesterners, have this idea that NYC is a boss fight along the hero's journey. It's something they need to conquer in order to "make it", just like in da moovies! You move there, an Italian guy waves a piece of pizza at you and says something hilarious about your mother, then over time you learn how to be a Real New Yorker during a montage set to Morning Train, and now the Italian guy is your best friend and you live in a 6000th floor suite because you've Made It. Everyone respects you and nothing bad ever happens, ever. That's New York, baby!

This guy basically got Paris Syndrome. His Hollywood vision of NYC was completely and instantly shattered the moment he set foot in that putrid hellhole and he basically went slightly crazy. He probably spent every last penny moving there and realized there was nothing he could do to escape, so the only way he could retain a bit of his sanity was asking the world at large if NYC being a complete shithole is normal or is it just him. And, being NYC, they responded by instantly ruining his life, just because they could.

My advice for anyone who wants to move to a big city? Don't. The $300k salary isn't worth it. You will spend $200k on basic necessities and then lose your job because you were the first person to stop clapping after your tranny boss said "black lives matter".
This is also true.

The Sinatra song, "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere" is functionally true. However, that's because NYC is a nasty, cold place where everyone minds their own fucking business. Where no one cares about you and there are thousands more waiting in the wings to take your spot. NYC has never gotten any warmer. If you don't adapt to the way the city is and fucking quick, you're picked as a mark. Its bad enough you look like a well-off white guy, even worse if you're someone from the midwest who doesn't know how the place operates.

And you can fall in NY fast. Really, really fast. Like him giving out food to the homeless was a huge risk because one of them might have been a crack addict or a schizo and shanked him. I've also seen the saddest shit in the city. Dude in a wheel-chair with elephantis, bare feet, clearly homeless, changing his blanket when you are hit with the smell of sepsis. Like, the guy has open sores on his body and I've seen him dragging his swollen feet on the concrete with their head down. Nobody, including me, calls an ambulance or a cop or anyone. Why, you may ask? Because there's no fucking point. He's homeless, has no family, no money and is probably barely cogent. I've seen him patrol up and down the street, with his head down, dragging his feet, making his injuries worse, if he can even feel anything in his feet anymore. Probably severely mentally ill or disabled. Too much work for anyone, and charities are overcrowded. They'd probably hand him a bottle of pills and be on their way. Or you call a bus and then the guy gets pissed because he doesn't want to go to the hospital. And everyone gets pissed at you, because why are you bothering this guy that doesn't want help?

So you just become callous to these things. Guy with torn off pants, ranting about Jesus? Par for the course. Crackhead trying to take money out of your hands? Yup.

The city only isolates you from humanity, because to live and survive there, you have to make sacrifices on who to help. And you really don't know who that is. That friendly neighborhood homeless man might be one day away from pushing you onto the subway. Or you're the victim of a conman because you're an easy mark. You have to isolate yourself. Seen giving money to homeless? Now you've been marked as a potential sucker. Good luck.

This is also true for employers. Everyone is cut-throat here. Shit, politics is everywhere, even if you work in a fast food joint. Its dog eat dog, no fucking loyalty.

Like I said, prison rules. Kindness is weakness. If you make it in NYC you can make it anywhere, because there's nothing fucking worse and colder than that.
 
it's a problem with American cities and it's mysterious. in asian megalopolises supermarkets are in high rises. sometimes you live in the same building as a supermarket so you can send your kids down to get stuff in the elevator.
One of those reasons is because Asians are very hive-minded and some of those countries are big on law and order. Back in the early 90's, an American got busted for tagging in Singapore, and there was an outcry because Singapore dared to enforce their law and punish the idiot according to their laws (he got caned).

While in America, namely Philidelphia... or Pittsburgh, I don't remember which, one of those. Stores that operate in the ghetto and use security glass to stop the clerks from getting robbed or beaten; they get told security glass is racist and harms the community and I think it was the City DA working to make security glass illegal for shops (spoiler warning: was a female jogger).

Some places can have nice things because one way or another, the community allows it to. If you have violent retards stealing and smashing shit all the time; you're not gonna survive. And even when you implement solutions, you can be told to remove them, because it hurts the assholes feelings... and weren't not allowed to put up "No niggers" signs anymore either.

If you don't adapt to the way the city is and fucking quick, you're picked as a mark. Its bad enough you look like a well-off white guy, even worse if you're someone from the midwest who doesn't know how the place operates.
Ah yes, the Joe from Iowa special.
 
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He could have legit gotten a job hauling garbage in his hometown and get more money. And he would have union protection. And a pension. And he could have stayed with mom and dad to save for a house. And he could keep banging out all the local mid thots.

Stay out of the cities white boi.
I was with you up til you mentioned pensions. Anyone in their 20s now who is taking a pension seriously is fucking delusional and needs to be sent back to the 1950s when that actually made sense.

There's a grocery store chain here called Trader Joe's that I once read tries to emulate the look and feel of a small neighborhood store.

If that's what they were trying for, they're not fooling anyone, because only hipster yuppie scum shop there.
A lot of hipster yuppie scum shop at Trader Joe's, but you can't beat their prices. I can stock two or three weeks work of lunch items in my desk for about $35 where I live.
 
Bro, I know you work in tech and probably don't know this, but they have these apps where you can order groceries and they bring them to your apartment. Eggs, yogurt, cheese, that kind of shit.

Also, this took me all of one second to search.
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This guy is dumb for putting his info out there and all, but let's take a closer look at the places on your map.

Hughes Food Market:

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Alauddin Supermarket:

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Bravo Supermarkets:
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Foodtown almost looks like an actual grocery store, but it looks like the Bronx location may have closed.
 
This guy is dumb for putting his info out there and all, but let's take a closer look at the places on your map.

Hughes Food Market:

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Alauddin Supermarket:

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Bravo Supermarkets:
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Foodtown almost looks like an actual grocery store, but it looks like the Bronx location may have closed.
Geez. There was a story in the wuflu thread way back when about a little old lady who was determined to build her own stockpile one walk at a time.

I don't remember where she was, but seeing that this is what grocery stores look like in the kind of places where people are expected to walk to them... I feel sorry for her all over again. Also she's a badass for being willing to put in the labor.
 
Anyone in their 20s now who is taking a pension seriously is fucking delusional and needs to be sent back to the 1950s when that actually made sense.
Pensions have never made sense and this has always been known. The only thing that has changed is that the long-term consequences are happening/have already happened so they cannot be dismissed by saying it won't happen. It's always been pinning your retirement on selling some future-person's future. Well, eventually you run out of people's future to sell and you wind up here. They're praying the people whose future was sold before they were born don't realize what happened and try to take it back. What should scare people is that whether his overt reason or not, this is exactly what made the shooter yesterday in HP. Wealthy ancestors, no investment in him, not even time, and look where it wound up. He attacked the rich people where he was born that sold him down the river.
 
The reality is that he gave up god's country to live in a shithole, he deserves to be fired.
Who the fuck leaves a place that literally never runs out of water for a place that will stab you for anything at all?
Michigan is gorgeous and if he wanted to get stabbed, he just should have moved to Detroit.
 
Pensions have never made sense and this has always been known. The only thing that has changed is that the long-term consequences are happening/have already happened so they cannot be dismissed by saying it won't happen. It's always been pinning your retirement on selling some future-person's future. Well, eventually you run out of people's future to sell and you wind up here. They're praying the people whose future was sold before they were born don't realize what happened and try to take it back. What should scare people is that whether his overt reason or not, this is exactly what made the shooter yesterday in HP. Wealthy ancestors, no investment in him, not even time, and look where it wound up. He attacked the rich people where he was born that sold him down the river.

Retirement, as a concept, means living off some future person's work, unless you are personally storing up canned goods and stable fuel supplies to live on after you quit working. Doesn't matter if we're talking pensions, 401(k)s, or gold hoarded in your basement. The main change was after the Great Depression, we rebuilt everything based on the assumption that the future people you lived off would be somebody else's kids.
 
Retirement, as a concept, means living off some future person's work, unless you are personally storing up canned goods and stable fuel supplies to live on after you quit working. Doesn't matter if we're talking pensions, 401(k)s, or gold hoarded in your basement. The main change was after the Great Depression, we rebuilt everything based on the assumption that the future people you lived off would be somebody else's kids.
No it relies on return-on-investment. It can be a future person's work, but only pensions and the government necessitate it. Gold or 401(k) involves trading in the time-value of money. It's subject to market pressures. Things like pensions are trading in a hypothetical person's future. It is carried out by mandate.
 
Aren't "bodegas" literally just corner shops? Is America really such aWall E-esque corporate dystopia that the idea of shopping anywhere other than at a supermarket chain like Walmart is considered foreign and exotic and needs its own special word?
It seems like a petrol station without the petrol to me.
 
I’ve never visited NYC (hell, I’ve never crossed the Mason-Dixon) but from what I’ve learned about the area: can’t you just live somewhere like NJ or something and commute “into the city” for work? Or do the opposite if you wanted to go get groceries at an actual grocery store?


Not excusing what the wokescold lynchmob did here, I’m just wondering if that’s a feasible option if you wanted to live/work in Bughive Mecca
You gotta be making at least >$90k for that.
Housing in the NY Metro area is expensive as a motherfucker unless you wanna live in ghetto rat havens like Kearny, Union, Newark, Paterson, or Jersey City. It also costs you $18 a pop just to enter the city in your own car.
Stay where you are; it's friendlier, cleaner, nicer, and better there.
 
No it relies on return-on-investment. It can be a future person's work,

You can't eat numbers in a ledger or use them to heat your home. It has to be a future person's work.

but only pensions and the government necessitate it. Gold or 401(k) involves trading in the time-value of money. It's subject to market pressures. Things like pensions are trading in a hypothetical person's future. It is carried out by mandate.

You know what a pile of gold or a 401(k) does if no people are around to do work? They buy you nothing. You starve and die. Economies are made of people. No people? No retirement. Pensions don't work, not because other retirement methods rely on magical economy fairies instead of future human beings to provide goods and services, but because the math turns Ponzi-like, and they go bust.

Investment-based retirement doesn't try to hide the fact that if the future people aren't providing you goods & services, you're going to starve.
 
You can't eat numbers in a ledger or use them to heat your home. It has to be a future person's work.



You know what a pile of gold or a 401(k) does if no people are around to do work? They buy you nothing. You starve and die. Economies are made of people. No people? No retirement. Pensions don't work, not because other retirement methods rely on magical economy fairies instead of future human beings to provide goods and services, but because the math turns Ponzi-like, and they go bust.

Investment-based retirement doesn't try to hide the fact that if the future people aren't providing you goods & services, you're going to starve.
Yeah and do you not see where hiding that fact, and hiding the fact that these schemes are not viable is essentially conspiring to trick the future-person into being okay with getting nothing in return for what they give? When it's not-optional, like entire fields with pensions or government programs like social security, they are selling people's future out from under them. It gets to continue to exist because it either hasn't finished circling the drain or the law says it gets to exist.

You're misunderstanding what I am talking about. With an IRA/401(k) or an investment-based retirement scheme, someone is directing where those funds are put to work to earn their return on investment. If they do not get that ROI they will put their money elsewhere. If they fail long enough they lose clients, and cease to exist. They have to perform in order to continue to exist. There's alternative options when individual players go rogue.

An average American employee has no say in paying in to social security. It's gone before you even get your paycheck. The administrators have no obligation to prudently invest that money. Hell there isn't even a safekeeping obligation. They can and have allowed the government to "borrow" funds paid into it. When it was implemented as it is now, before I was even born, the actuaries knew then that the program would be insolvent decades before I am even retirement age. Reality and the people that planned this said this would happen. Why in the fuck would I believe people now who tell me it will be fine, cannot explain to me how it will be fine, and are heavily incentivized to get me to believe it? Literally anyone else doing a fraction of this would get raided by the SEC so fast it would make your head spin. Pensions are an attempt to apply these same principles to private employers. They were devised, planned, and implemented by the same people.
 
This is the dumbest cancellation ever. Like he literally just said that things inconvenienced him and to some degree it is a valid point. There also wasn't a racial undertone as far as I can see.
I sort of get why he had a large social media presence because he was a sales and marketing guy. However, he was unfathomably dumb for accepting an offer for $43k in NYC. It should have been twice that or he just should have looked elsewhere. I've never been to Jew York City, so I'll defer to others if he had a valid point or not. The only thing I can get was that because he wanted a Kroger or something in the neighborhood, that meant he had white privilege or even expecting such a thing. Which is a whole Nigga Wat? argument to make given that vast majority of blacks live within a reasonable distance to a Wal-Mart or Kroger or whatever. There are plenty of black grocery haul vloggers on YT and not all of them are rich...at all...and they still manage to haul their asses to big boxes for food. They just have at least a few brain cells to rub together not to live in a shithole like NYC.
 
Ya know, if I suddenly moved from here to NYC, I'd be saying the exact fucking thing, it's a culture shock thing.

And when you factor that KF considers me a Nigger Loving Race Traitor, that oughta tell you how it's impossible to be pure enough for Wokes.
 
Ya know, if I suddenly moved from here to NYC, I'd be saying the exact fucking thing, it's a culture shock thing.

And when you factor that KF considers me a Nigger Loving Race Traitor, that oughta tell you how it's impossible to be pure enough for Wokes.
Kaczynski wrote about this disease of the Left. There will never be enough for them. They win one victory, so they push the goalposts back even further down into the absolute depths of degeneracy which will lead to social collapse.
 
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