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Of course a Dunkin' Donuts is open
By adamg on Tue, 01/27/2015 - 11:12am
TrueNE_79 spotted this open Dunkin' Donuts in Downtown Crossing this morning.
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Hey, we're New Englanders.
We don't fuck around.
Essential City and State Worker support?
I wonder if that's why they are open?
Bellingham Square
So is the one in Bellingham Square. (same with Tedeschi's)
You know, this is
You know, this is unexpectedly touching. Lot of homeless hang out there. This is almost like keeping a shelter open.
South Station
Actually it's funny you should say that... There's an article here (warning, paywall) that talks about how they bent the rules and are allowing some homeless to stay in the train portion of the station during the storm.
Makes sense
I'm glad they did it. We are so short on shelter beds, and it looks like we will be for the next few years. Flexibility and creativity can help a little.
they're open at the aquarium
they're open at the aquarium/harborside garage as well; time to eat the donuts...
I wonder if
The white guy that sits with the hispanic janitors from One Boston Place is in there this morning? He is there every day for as long as I have worked in the area (12 years). He claims he is "working his program". Another welfare lifer.
If he is not sitting inside for 8 hours a day, he is across the street stealing sandwiches from Pret.
Yup
Whatdoyouknow. There are scummy people who steal from everyone.
What's your point?
The point?
Why does Dunkin Donuts let welfare whore lowlifes hang in their store 8 hours a day.
Just to piss you off.
Just to piss you off.
Ever work food retail in Boston?
I never needed to get shanked by someone off of their meds for the sake of hanging out too long inside the ice cream store. Not worth the blood.
You know what?
Why don't you stick to what you know: mix yourself a drink and calm the @#$% down.
Oh Mary!
Calm down.
I have a nice Manhattan sitting here on the table.
You sound like you need one more than I.
Lighten up. Its Dunkin Donuts.
Welfare whore lowlifes...
Wow. I see the Blizzard has brought out your humanity towards your fellow man.
I would say thats an apt term
For somebody that does not have a job for the past 12 years and is able to sit in Dunkin Donuts "working his program" on the tax payer dime.
What would you like to call him?
Daddy?
Daddy?
compassion
If this guy is getting some aid from government, then he's either severely mentally ill or disabled. If you've ever had the misfortune of being unemployed, you would know that you can't just collect unemployment for that long. So do you think that mentally ill and disabled people should just stay in their homes all day long and not show their faces in public? or do you think they shouldn't be getting any support at all and should just be thrown out on the street to fend for themselves? and if he was homeless, he might want a warm place to hang out all day, like a dunkin donuts. Have a little compassion for someone who isn't causing you any harm instead of assuming they screwing you over.
Yeah
Yeah. Everyone on welfare is is mentally ill or disabled. I get how it works for people like you.
This guy is not mentally disabled. He is a con man dealing drugs out of Dunkin Donuts for the past 12 years. Everyone who works on that block knows who he is.
People like you enable people like him to live off the system while the rest of us pay for him.
Come down to Dunkin Donuts at 235 Washington street any day of the week. You can meet him in person.
Who cares
Spending 12 years of your life in Dunkin Donuts isn't exactly living large. Would you prefer they arrest him for drug dealing and send him to jail where he can use even more public money? For that matter how do you know he's even getting government benefits and not getting all his cash from drug sales?
Yeah, welfare scammers get under my nerves too but then I think about how much better off I am making far more money the honest way. The real people who get to me are the people who figure out how to scam government contracts for millions. $25k/year in handouts is nothing compared to "winning" a $15mil contact that should have cost $10mil.
You don't see these people in Dunkins. They're in warm houses calling friends in government and asking them to insert language into laws to make it so that only their company will win an upcoming bid.
clarity is key
It would have helped your case to complain about this guy if you mentioned in your original or subsequent posts that he was dealing drugs out of the DD. when you say he says he's "working his program," it sounds like he's joking about sitting at DD all day - there's nothing about that phrase that implies selling drugs. There's a big difference between complaining about someone who's on assistance and dealing drugs and someone who's on assistance because he is disabled. The first is a big problem, obvious. The later deserves some compassion.
If it makes you feel better at all, a very small amount of your tax dollars go to support lowlifes like that.
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3677
http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/14/the-surprising-truth-behind-tax-day-whe...
Also, maybe you or one of the other many people who work there and know about this guy selling drugs should call the police. Stop complaining and take action.
DD
Is it ok to open the snacks I bought?
Need my iced coffee!
DD's workers are essential personnel!
Porter Square DD is open
and had a long, slow-moving but appreciative line when I stopped there this afternoon. As far as I could tell, it was the only place in Greater Porter/Davis Square to get coffee today.
I've heard that Magoun Square DD is also open, but I haven't been there myself to look.
Davis Square's DD is closed.