u/monolithicbeing

I am American, please forgive my ignorance. From what I have seen/learned via social media, Japanese culture seems to consist of ALOT of cooking, and many small dishes and sides. So why are Japanese kitchens so small? I see massive houses with such tiny kitchens, minimal counter space and sometimes not even an oven. With a culture built around cooking, wouldn’t kitchens be designed to be bigger and offering more counter/prep space?

I’m at a loss I feel like I’ve made every ground beef meal I can think of:
- tacos
- meat balls
- Asian teriyaki bowls
- burgers
- ground beef season various ways to make a bowl of some sort with rice
- lettuce wraps
- added with pasta sauce
- Japanese curry

Like what else can I make with ground beef? I’m getting so bored of it :(

(Edit bc I forgot to add 3 other ways I made food with ground beef)

Edit again: wow did not imagine this many replies!! Thank you everyone for offering great ideas and I will definitely give many of them a try! Very excited to see such variety and from many different cultures!

Many of you mentioned “why keep buying ground beef if I’m sick of it?” - cause I know I’ll get unsick of it eventually and ground beef is cheap enough to get a lot meals out of. It’s very versitile and doesn’t always have to taste like “ground beef” as you all proved here in this thread. I just wanted to expand my horizons and try some new things and wanted to hear other people’s ideas. My bf and I eat many other proteins like chicken, fish, turkey and steak and I buy those as well, we just aren’t sick of them right now (except salmon atm). But ground beef is just a meat that is commonly used in my house!

Im sorry for the length of this post.

I’m so heartbroken. My bf knows my dog is reactive so he has to be very very aware of his surroundings when he walks her. I was at work.

He went to take the trash out and looked away for 3 seconds. My dog caught glimpse of this woman’s off leash dog behind the big trash bin and bolted. He said she tried to trample it basically and almost bit her.

The owner of this dog was cursing him out and telling him he’s a bad dog owner and that my dog needed to be put down. He apologized profusely to her while trying to get my dog under control.

She wears a tight fit harness with a handle on the top which he used to basically almost lift her off the ground to get her under control. He believes the woman had taken pictures of my dog and is going to report her to the police and our apt complex office.

My dog has been a work in progress for a while, but she’s never gone after small dogs, only dogs her size or bigger.

I am fucking devastated. I’m so embarrassed and mortified for this woman and her dog, and I’m destroyed that my bf had to deal with that and feel that embarrassment also. I’m crying again while typing this out. I’m so scared to lose her due to this situation.

Him and I both take a lot of precaution when talking her and making sure she has a VERY VERY safe distance from other dogs if they’re around. We don’t go to dog parks and I walk her at times when people are usually not up (early like 5am, midday, 10pm walks). I keep my head on a swivel every time I walk her to make sure I am aware of the surroundings so I can reactive before she sees a dog.

I understand this dog being off leash is also an issue, but my bf said the dog was minding its business and my dog went after it. So I feel my dog is still in the wrong.

I feel like I failed as a dog parent, as an owner, as a care taker. I feel so much guilt I want to throw up. I feel like I failed my dog by not being able to give her the tools to not react the way she does. I don’t want to give up my dog at all. I love her more than anything. I am now looking into putting her into a dog training program and I’m really hoping this helps her safety and ours.

I’m just so heartbroken and devistated and scared. She could have killed that dog and thank god she didn’t. But I don’t ever EVER want to put her or someone’s dog in that situation ever again. I hate living in fear when I walk her. I feel like I could have done so much more to prevent things like this happening. But I am taking severe action now.

I was reached out by another company interested in my experience, had a phone convo, nailed an interview, nailed the interview and now they’re offering me a job for 20k more pay than my current job.

I’ve been at my current job for almost 5 years and have created some great relationships with my coworkers, but the toxicity here is UNREAL and I have no way to advance my career, I’m feeling very stuck here. I’ve wanted to leave this company for a while, and I’m finally getting the opportunity… but I feel so guilty.

My company is currently going thru a massive change in production and my roll is ESSENTIAL to this change. If I leave, I will absolutely FUCK them. No exaggeration. I feel so bad for leaving during this change and leaving them to deal with everything I do daily. Giving a 2 week notice really doesn’t mean anything given how important my role is. I am the heartbeat to my dept.

I am unable to tell this new company to wait because they are needing someone by end of july, and I don’t want to risk losing this great opportunity for me. I don’t know how to break it to them and what kind of backlash I will get. I feel so bad to truely fucking them, but I gotta think about myself.

Any advice on how to tell them? How to deal with the guilt?

EDIT for more context: I am seeing people are thinking that I am not wanting to leave my current job. That is NOT the case. I am leaving 1000%, I just am expressing guilt about leaving them at a bad time and putting them in a shit situation. I absolutely am taking this new opportunity, just wanted to look for advice on how to approach my boss/situation the best way. Don’t worry guys, fuck this toxic job lol

Hello! My bf 26M (he does not use Reddit) works in a manufacturing facility that gets extremely hot during the summer. He is also constantly around burning foam fumes and hot wires that make the area hotter.

The heat is destroying him, throwing up, close to passing out, dehydration even after drinking 6-9water bottles a day + Gatorade’s.

Anyone who works in the heat regularly, what are some things you do to help yourself not get overheated in the work day? I’ll take any suggestion even the crazy sounding ones.

I am furious.

My job (blue collar) recently got a new janitor who is female. She has been taking roughly 20-30min cleaning the men’s restrooms and some of them have been getting upset that she takes so long. Our old janitor who was male used to clean it in 5ish mins.

Today, a male coworker walked into the men’s restroom while she was cleaning it and WHIPPED HIS DICK OUT in FRONT OF HER at the urinal and said “if I have to go I’m gonna go, I don’t give a fuck if you’re in here”. And basically pushed her (not physically, but behaviorally) out of the restroom.

She was found sobbing and she filed an HR report about him. My company is now launching an investigation.

This is NOT the first time he’s doing something this disgusting and disrespectful. This man is in HIS 40s, and has TWO daughters, divorced from his wife.
- We recently got a new female team lead (now his direct boss) and he REFUSES to listen, speak or interact with her. He refuses to do his job if she asks him to do anything, but will do his job if our male team lead supervisor asks him.
- he is a RAGING alcoholic and has come to work severely hung over where he has numerous times needed to be sent home bc he couldn’t drive a fork lift (sometimes seemed to be drunk still)
- he throws huge fits when people take his stuff or move his tools… to the point where he will walk out and not come back until next morning.
- due to him being an alcoholic, he has sent MY female boss (our PLANT MANAGER) disgusting horrible texts to her while drunk about how she (and women in general) don’t belong in the work place, calling her vulgar names, saying things about her ass, telling her how horrible of a person she is and no one respects her bc woman can’t do anything but cook… he’s done this to her several times to the point where she’s had to block him on multiple occasions..etc… you get the point.

HR is well aware of his behavior and have all of these things (and more but not listed) in his file and some how HE STILL WONT GET FIRED.

He had coworker friends for over 10 years that now do not speak with him because of his view, attitude and how he speaks toward and about women. It’s gross. Not even the men at my job enjoy being around him or speaking with him.

I am disgusted with my company, my boss, everyone in “power” because this guy is basically untouchable. He gets away with it all. My boss “feels bad” bc he’s an alcoholic and she wants him to get better. She’s given him so many alcoholic resources but he refuses. And she believes that if he loses his job, he’ll prob die from alcoholism, so she tries to defend him at HR meetings.

Fucking pissed for everyone at my job. And I’m pissed at my FEMALE boss for allowing this for so long.

My bf recently got injured at work and he was ordered to go to urgent care to get an xray and NO drug test.

He never got the x-ray and got drug tested. The doc took 2 seconds to address his injury, ordered him antibiotics and then told him he needed to follow up with the doc a few days later. He got paid back for his lost time for his first visit.

He went to the follow up and lost an hour of work he thought he was going to get paid back for. And then at the follow up the doc told him he wanted him to follow up again a few days later. He found out that he will not be paid for his loss time because the follow up visit doesn’t fall under workers comp.

Why do follow up visits not count as workers comp if the DOCTOR orders him to do the follow up to check on his injury that got infected. Gas is expensive right now and now he lost money from his check and lost money in gas because they won’t pay him his loss time for the follow up.

Someone please explain how the fuck this isn’t a sitting lawsuit?? Follow ups ordered by docs to me seem like recordable loss time to me…