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A local tech-bro manager has been left puzzled as to why there is still one employee who isn’t impressed with his discovery of the miracles of fasting.
Kyle Van Weenkir (38) is one half of a tech startup, mainly sponsored by his business partner’s dad.
The 38-year-old, who pretty much ticks every annoying tech-bro trope, finally decided to tick off the last untapped trope: intermittent fasting and telling people he works with how much it has changed his life.
“Yeah, did the ice baths, did Joe Rogan, did the Patagonia vests.”
“I just thought it was time to tick this one off,” Kyle explained.
“It’s challenging as hell, but not eating for the first 10 hours of my day keeps me focused, disciplined, and it does wonders for my weight.”
Despite receiving much-needed praise from his employees trying to ride the gravy train of his overfunded startup for as long as possible, there is one employee he can’t quite seem to reach.
“There’s something about one of my developers, Mustafa Dulaimi, a programmer from Iraq, that doesn’t really seem to be fazed by my fasting… I can’t quite figure out why…”
Mustafa (30), a Muslim guy from Iraq who migrated to Australia in his late teens for university, has gotten quite used to keeping his religion fairly private in his all-Anglo-Australian workplace.
It seems his religion and the holy month of Ramadan, which includes a month of abstaining from food and water while the sun is up, have made him hard to impress when it comes to his superior’s meager 10-hour fasts.
“Wait, so you’re telling me he can drink water, and he’s saying that it is challenging?” Mustafa asked.
“Surely I’m missing something.”
Mustafa, who has done Ramadan fasting since he was 11, including during scorching Iraqi summers, finds the fairly recent intermittent fasting craze in the West amusing but also a tad annoying.
“I mean, it’s great that they are enjoying the benefits of long-term fasting, but would it kill them to give us a little bit of props?”
