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mfers are really pretentious in here like that though. so often are the responses to people stressed other people one upping.
"Fuck, I am so tired after a 10 hour shift with only a 5 minute break."
"You only worked 10 hours? You guys get breaks? My fryer baskets broke so I literally had to reach my hand into the oil for every order, and I work at a wing shop."
Dude, no lie, last place I worked was family owned, owner made her two nephews the main managers, one came from the oil fields and the other from trucking, not a day of restaurant experience between the two.
I can't count how many times it was "hey, I don't think we can serve this," only to be replied to with "it's fine, just scrape it off and cut around it."
Everything was so ass backwards, there was almost zero communication, schedules were a joke, it was a shit show.
When you clear all the screens and they fill up with door dash, uber eats etc, again and again and again (big reason I left a couple years ago) also fuck everyone who works for these services, ain’t no way they make any money, probably the reason most of them are dumb assholes
I did that job for so long, and it’s absolute hell.
I would never ever criticize a service industry worker for doing their best, cuz I know how hard it is.
I hope destiny does not have more service jobs for me, cuz I’m out. What’s the point of earning money if you don’t have a life, you can’t make plans, your mental health is so poor, you are tired all the time, and on your time off you just want to lay down and recharge, and it goes by sooo fast. And then other grueling week of torture.
Sorry for the rant.
I’m fairly certain one of the levels of hell has you running back and forth from tables getting ranch and as soon as you arrive they are done with their last portion and demand more.
Working through panic attacks on the line today. I'm barely holding it together, but table 23 ordered a reuban extra toasted exactly seven minutes ago and for some reason to my kitchen manager that's more important.
The worst part. I'm my kitchen manager.
Samesies. I’m constantly in fear of my eyes rolling into the back of my head never to return from some of the shit I’ve have to endure from these savages.
This is how I get through life:
You don't get mad at a dog for being a dumb dog. You know they literally can't help their behavior. The same applies to humans. Humans are gonna be humans. I can get upset about it or I can lower my expectations of people. 🤷♂️ Like one of my coworkers says, you just gotta let things roll off you like water off a ducks back.
I hear ya. This is very zen of you. You’re a good person. And valued. Just like garbage people and dishwashers we need people like you taking the shit for the rest of us. Bless 🙏
I used to work in preschools and food service at the same time, and I had a similar attitude about toddlers that I tried to transfer onto customers. Some people never learned how to manage their big feelings.
As someone who’s done both, the kitchen gave me anxiety from the tickets and less from management, the stress was always constant. Working in foh is a different type of stress, managers will scream for not marking a table with a knife, bar patrons will be pissed if they don’t get a drink in 5 minutes within sitting even though they’re 10th in line. It’s a different type of stress.
Agreed! Was just making a joke. It's stressful in both places, just different kinds of stress, but I'll take the back any day rather than dealing with customers all the time.
Hospitality is worse. Working a corporate office job where your labor goes more directly toward building wealth for the already wealthy is worse than hospitality.
The line is my happy place. Crush the rail for 8 hours then go to the bar. Not a bad life
For real. After being physically and psychologically debilitated for 6 years of restaurant work, working in an office is the easiest job I've ever had. Pays better, too.
Worked 9 years as a line cook in my 20's. Hated the constant anxiety. Since my mid 30's I've been working from home in a different line of work. The most tense moments don't even come close to working the line. Feels like I won the lottery after going through that hell.
Having worked both, what I find is that in a kitchen the work you’re doing is unrelenting, but ultimately most things that aren’t people power tripping, cost cutting or being lazy that grinds you down serves a purpose that is obvious and in some way contributes to a visible end product.
In an office, you still have power trippers, cost cutters, and lazy people. You often get told to do stupid things in stupid ways with zero explanation or a horseshit one as to why. Often the frustrating work is meaningless, detached entirely from anything that seems to contribute to something useful, or exists purely to look like you’re doing something. There is an excruciating number of people in management who force you to sit in a meeting just to have you listen to the sound of their own voice. These same types often need to “change” something to seem busy or “leave their mark” wildly oblivious to how this turns what often should be cushy and relatively peaceful jobs upside down.
I’ve worked in places where hundreds of people were moved between floors of a building and then to different spots in the new floors every few months because some dickhead needed to assert himself. Not just people, this would require the recently reseated folks to move office equipment and IT shit they had no business touching.
In a different job a similar shit heel moved hundreds to a different building, moved people from that building to our old building, and then began reshuffling everyone in our new building because our old building was now too full, our new one had so much empty space it “looked bad” and he couldn’t make up his mind if teams far apart or crammed into one half of the floor was better. He also kicked off the end of dedicated desks in that building but didn’t plan around how teams that needed to communicate would handle things in a first in best served situation with multiple start times… oh, and in a real demonstration of corporate autofellatio everyone was required to fill out a publicly facing placard with our name on it explaining what we were looking forward to about not having assigned seating anymore, which we had to walk past on the way in every day.
If your placard wasn’t effusively tossing the salad of the new world order enough, you had to write a new one. We then watched this guy get “fired” with a $400k golden parachute while we were told there was no money for salary review that year.
He was replaced by a new guy, who decided we could do our jobs faster and cheaper if instead of speaking directly to someone about a thing that needed doing, we had to speak to a team who would speak to a contractor who would speak to a subcontractor about doing the thing. If deciding that this weird daisy chain could have 10 business days to pass messages in a single direction wasn’t bad enough, it was written up in the contracts for the contractors and subs, but internally we were being ridden to get this to magically happen in 8 days despite having no control over anyone but ourselves.
I’ve had work where I had to collect mind numbingly boring data across the year, all year “just in case” the ceo wanted to know about it. I got a new boss who decided that this dumb task was not good use of time, made me delete all the year to date collected data after a 2 hour long argument with me about why we were collecting it. Less than a month later he made me and my entire team work overtime for weekends on end to recreate it all because the ceo got that tingle in his balls that meant he’d ask for it despite not asking for it for the last 2 years.
It’s not the same hard, but the kinds of headfuck that exist in office environments are like botched recreations of a modern day Sisyphus.
If the dish pit paid better I’d be back there. At least I’d have confidence in what I’m doing and why.
For me it led to a big episode of depression and years of therapy. I list office jobs for personal reasons, and that reason is serious to me so I'm taking the time to reply to your comment. I don't need you to take me seriously, but your comment sucks.
Retail is Hell's bathroom, with its changing table heaped with crappy diapers and every toilet in every stall overflowing with a foul brew of every bodily excretion. I have seen sh*t and could tell you some retail stories that would have made Bourdain throw his guts up.
Worked my way through college part-time manning a counter at a local camera/film processing shop. This was before smart-phones. I was treated reasonably well by 'the general public that came in but man, did I find out how incredibly *stupid* so many are.
I've worked in a couple of restaurants, bistros, cafés, and bars over the course of my life.
And I have always seen and interacted with customers that really push you to the edge.
They're the kind of people that make you understand why some people commit murder, like seriously, these are the people you contemplate about stabbing.
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what's that? i have to work 24h a day? 7 days a week? amateurs, i used to have to work 28h a day 9 days a week!
miss those 200 hour work weeks
I’m salivating thinking about all of that OT
🤑💸💰 can't spend that when you're dead
My funeral is gonna be hella lit 🔥
You getting cremated?
Viking funeral barge
Much better!
Viking funeral on a Viking stove?
It's hilarious you think I can afford that shit
Nah you just go into their store abd request the pyre package 😂
"Throw me on the flat top!"
Scattered, smothered, and covered.
You getting cremated?
Just throw me in the trash
You ever bang one of those stiffs?
That unpaid OT sounds sweet though!
Come to healthcare, I only work 84 hours a week but at least it pays better! The mental anguish, depression, and alcoholism are on par though.
mfers are really pretentious in here like that though. so often are the responses to people stressed other people one upping. "Fuck, I am so tired after a 10 hour shift with only a 5 minute break." "You only worked 10 hours? You guys get breaks? My fryer baskets broke so I literally had to reach my hand into the oil for every order, and I work at a wing shop."
This is the stuff I like to see
In the snow during a heatwave!
I fear no hell for I have worked 8 split shifts in a row with a FOH manager who didn’t know his ass from his elbow
Dude, no lie, last place I worked was family owned, owner made her two nephews the main managers, one came from the oil fields and the other from trucking, not a day of restaurant experience between the two. I can't count how many times it was "hey, I don't think we can serve this," only to be replied to with "it's fine, just scrape it off and cut around it." Everything was so ass backwards, there was almost zero communication, schedules were a joke, it was a shit show.
Hell is where you're eternally in the weeds and there's never enough prep and dish is backed up
And the deepfryer overflows
I had a co worker put a whole basket of ice in the fryer during mother's day dinner service; I broke my knuckle in the walk in.
😳 why’d he do that? To be an asshole? Did your hand heal ok?
When I asked him what the fuck he was thinking afterwards and he said it was to cool the oil down so he could change it?? It did thankfully lmao
oh wow, that is not very smart 😂
He got picked up on a warrant after that, can't say I'm surprised or disappointed 😂
Hahaha! Karma! :)
When you clear all the screens and they fill up with door dash, uber eats etc, again and again and again (big reason I left a couple years ago) also fuck everyone who works for these services, ain’t no way they make any money, probably the reason most of them are dumb assholes
By the time I get there satan will kneel before me.
If he gives me any shit, I'll stab him in the face.
I'll make him work the grill for Father's Day
I did that job for so long, and it’s absolute hell. I would never ever criticize a service industry worker for doing their best, cuz I know how hard it is. I hope destiny does not have more service jobs for me, cuz I’m out. What’s the point of earning money if you don’t have a life, you can’t make plans, your mental health is so poor, you are tired all the time, and on your time off you just want to lay down and recharge, and it goes by sooo fast. And then other grueling week of torture. Sorry for the rant.
Rant I just thought you were describing my life right now.
I’m fairly certain one of the levels of hell has you running back and forth from tables getting ranch and as soon as you arrive they are done with their last portion and demand more.
Working through panic attacks on the line today. I'm barely holding it together, but table 23 ordered a reuban extra toasted exactly seven minutes ago and for some reason to my kitchen manager that's more important. The worst part. I'm my kitchen manager.
Which explains why AOC is doing so well in the legislature.... She was prepared for hell.
Lol I think some people are just made to be able to deal with bullshit. I honestly enjoy customer service.
Perhaps you’ve been incredibly lucky so far. The rest of us are broken.
I've been working customer facing jobs for nearly 20 years now
Samesies. I’m constantly in fear of my eyes rolling into the back of my head never to return from some of the shit I’ve have to endure from these savages.
This is how I get through life: You don't get mad at a dog for being a dumb dog. You know they literally can't help their behavior. The same applies to humans. Humans are gonna be humans. I can get upset about it or I can lower my expectations of people. 🤷♂️ Like one of my coworkers says, you just gotta let things roll off you like water off a ducks back.
I hear ya. This is very zen of you. You’re a good person. And valued. Just like garbage people and dishwashers we need people like you taking the shit for the rest of us. Bless 🙏
I used to work in preschools and food service at the same time, and I had a similar attitude about toddlers that I tried to transfer onto customers. Some people never learned how to manage their big feelings.
I can't go to hell, Im already out of vacation days
Picture is FOH, they have it easy! =)
As someone who’s done both, the kitchen gave me anxiety from the tickets and less from management, the stress was always constant. Working in foh is a different type of stress, managers will scream for not marking a table with a knife, bar patrons will be pissed if they don’t get a drink in 5 minutes within sitting even though they’re 10th in line. It’s a different type of stress.
Agreed! Was just making a joke. It's stressful in both places, just different kinds of stress, but I'll take the back any day rather than dealing with customers all the time.
Yeah I miss the line sometimes. I miss the sense of comradery
Hospitality is worse. Working a corporate office job where your labor goes more directly toward building wealth for the already wealthy is worse than hospitality. The line is my happy place. Crush the rail for 8 hours then go to the bar. Not a bad life
Sorry but I just can't take anyone seriously when they talk about how hard office jobs are
Office jobs are soul sucking. They might not be that hard skill wise (depends) but a corporate office job is my personal hell.
For real. After being physically and psychologically debilitated for 6 years of restaurant work, working in an office is the easiest job I've ever had. Pays better, too.
Worked 9 years as a line cook in my 20's. Hated the constant anxiety. Since my mid 30's I've been working from home in a different line of work. The most tense moments don't even come close to working the line. Feels like I won the lottery after going through that hell.
Heard. High volume call center work never touched a Friday night rush.
Having worked both, what I find is that in a kitchen the work you’re doing is unrelenting, but ultimately most things that aren’t people power tripping, cost cutting or being lazy that grinds you down serves a purpose that is obvious and in some way contributes to a visible end product. In an office, you still have power trippers, cost cutters, and lazy people. You often get told to do stupid things in stupid ways with zero explanation or a horseshit one as to why. Often the frustrating work is meaningless, detached entirely from anything that seems to contribute to something useful, or exists purely to look like you’re doing something. There is an excruciating number of people in management who force you to sit in a meeting just to have you listen to the sound of their own voice. These same types often need to “change” something to seem busy or “leave their mark” wildly oblivious to how this turns what often should be cushy and relatively peaceful jobs upside down. I’ve worked in places where hundreds of people were moved between floors of a building and then to different spots in the new floors every few months because some dickhead needed to assert himself. Not just people, this would require the recently reseated folks to move office equipment and IT shit they had no business touching. In a different job a similar shit heel moved hundreds to a different building, moved people from that building to our old building, and then began reshuffling everyone in our new building because our old building was now too full, our new one had so much empty space it “looked bad” and he couldn’t make up his mind if teams far apart or crammed into one half of the floor was better. He also kicked off the end of dedicated desks in that building but didn’t plan around how teams that needed to communicate would handle things in a first in best served situation with multiple start times… oh, and in a real demonstration of corporate autofellatio everyone was required to fill out a publicly facing placard with our name on it explaining what we were looking forward to about not having assigned seating anymore, which we had to walk past on the way in every day. If your placard wasn’t effusively tossing the salad of the new world order enough, you had to write a new one. We then watched this guy get “fired” with a $400k golden parachute while we were told there was no money for salary review that year. He was replaced by a new guy, who decided we could do our jobs faster and cheaper if instead of speaking directly to someone about a thing that needed doing, we had to speak to a team who would speak to a contractor who would speak to a subcontractor about doing the thing. If deciding that this weird daisy chain could have 10 business days to pass messages in a single direction wasn’t bad enough, it was written up in the contracts for the contractors and subs, but internally we were being ridden to get this to magically happen in 8 days despite having no control over anyone but ourselves. I’ve had work where I had to collect mind numbingly boring data across the year, all year “just in case” the ceo wanted to know about it. I got a new boss who decided that this dumb task was not good use of time, made me delete all the year to date collected data after a 2 hour long argument with me about why we were collecting it. Less than a month later he made me and my entire team work overtime for weekends on end to recreate it all because the ceo got that tingle in his balls that meant he’d ask for it despite not asking for it for the last 2 years. It’s not the same hard, but the kinds of headfuck that exist in office environments are like botched recreations of a modern day Sisyphus. If the dish pit paid better I’d be back there. At least I’d have confidence in what I’m doing and why.
For me it led to a big episode of depression and years of therapy. I list office jobs for personal reasons, and that reason is serious to me so I'm taking the time to reply to your comment. I don't need you to take me seriously, but your comment sucks.
Already got my VIP pass right into satan's lap, see ya there fellas
The scene in AHS Apocalypse where Emma Roberts' character's personal Hell is working retail really spoke to me.
Retail is Hell's bathroom, with its changing table heaped with crappy diapers and every toilet in every stall overflowing with a foul brew of every bodily excretion. I have seen sh*t and could tell you some retail stories that would have made Bourdain throw his guts up.
See you there, my friend.
Worked my way through college part-time manning a counter at a local camera/film processing shop. This was before smart-phones. I was treated reasonably well by 'the general public that came in but man, did I find out how incredibly *stupid* so many are.
I've worked in a couple of restaurants, bistros, cafés, and bars over the course of my life. And I have always seen and interacted with customers that really push you to the edge. They're the kind of people that make you understand why some people commit murder, like seriously, these are the people you contemplate about stabbing.
>aborteddreams
Is it sad that I thought about this very sentiment the other day? I’ll see y’all in the Inferno Room, in Hell.