hey look i am back on tumblr typing things. don’t read further if u don’t give a shit about me complaining about Work!
today i’m gonna type about how tired i am of working food service jobs. i always try to bust my ass and give 100% when i work in a kitchen (after i get over the awkward learning phase in the beginning). This often turns into me being completely walked on by everyone because they expect me to do everything because i do it right like it’s nothing and don’t bitch about it so it must not bother me, right?!! It’s been this way almost everywhere i’ve worked since five guys in 2013. i’ve experienced this a bit at mosey’s, but honestly that job was very chill and we had a ton of freedom so i couldn’t complain too much there. since mosey’s has been closed due to the hurricane, i had to get a different job which ended up being a line cook at a newer spot downtown. it’s definitely given me a taste of what it’s like to work in a normal kitchen w/ basic fuck heads again. i had it way too good at mosey’s as far as co-workers go. lots of cool mostly like-minded folks. when i got my new job back in november, it was literally just me and 2 other people running the kitchen all week. it was an absolute fucking mess w/ no system whatsoever. slowly i started trying to implement very basic things that i knew from working at mosey’s & five guys but no one really pays any attention or gives a shit. i do at least 75% of the prep there. i run out of things and have to prep in the middle of a rush literally every night. then on top of that, they hired a complete asshole disguised as funny and nice good chef a little while after they hired me and now he’s become manager just because he supposedly has 18 yrs of experience and doesn’t ever stop talking himself up. he constantly has to find something to beef w/ the servers about, like he thrives off conflict w them. today he bitched at them for “stacking tickets” whenever there was just a 7 top and a 4 top back to back at the same time and then we had some other smaller tickets soon after. no one was stressing but him but he kept going on about “this is how y’all fuckin end up with long-ass ticket times stacking tickets like this”. He literally decided he was going to take his time to spite them so I worked circles around him so I could get everyone’s food out in a timely manner because the shit’s not hard to make and honestly between two people those tickets shouldn’t have taken long at all. this dude’s supposed to be my manager and pretty much every time there’s a rush he always proves to me that he can’t handle it. he keeps trying to add shit to our menu but so far no one at that restaurant has proven that their competent enough making what’s on the menu already. anyway, it’s been really tiring doing most of the work and not really ever getting much in return for it but Whatever Man. They just re-hired an old cook and also hired my buddy from mosey’s so hopefully they no how to work and things will be better. If you made it this far, u didn’t really have to read this, my man. i just needed to get this shit out
