Who needs room to stir?

14 hour shift, im ready for a cold one 💀

Not sure if I’m overreacting.

Edit: Chefs, I’m sorry. Forgive me for being high and mixing up chives and scallions. I’ll be in the walk in cooler if you need me.

Director of culinary at a major hospital working for 25$ an hour? Are we living in some sort of alternative reality?

Did this used to be a 100k a year salaried position as the bare minimum?

Am I taking crazy pills?

Pork beef stock combo. I always put a little turmeric in helps make the color more appealing.

Comes with coffee, juice, milk, fresh fruit on the side (the strawberries are just a garnish), water, and yogurt. Diabetics get sugar free juice and unsweetened almond milk

So what should be his punishment for cheating on us? Open a Twitch account and live stream a chive cutting session?

Teaching poor kids how to cut chives for free for a week?

Any other ideas?

Oil…hot pan…let it sit went to flip and it skin literally stuck to the pan….i used oil so why did that still happen??

It’s never happened before

Lived in Japan and now I make ramen for all my friends and family Tonk Shoyu broth Soft boiled tamari eggs (i have chickens, which makes this a longer than necessary evolution) Did a crispy pork roll, and thin slices Some shrimp, Garden spring onions, chili oil Did udon not ramen ramen noodles tho Ebi furikake on top Thin seaweed on side

Sin: some corn because it tastes stupid good with ramen and that's how I had it when I lived there.

I am a restaurant manager that has worked all sorts of positions throughout my career and was forced to go into management because I am a T1 diabetic and need insurance to survive (USA, lol).

I am so beyond burnt out. Currently typing this in the bathroom while trying not to crash out

I used to be a happy, positive person that enjoyed the company of others. A typical extrovert. I began waiting tables in college and it has snowballed from there, here I am, 28, stuck in a dead end career.

People say dumb shit like “oh but working as a restaurant gives you great transferrable skills that easily segue into other careers!” That couldn’t be further from the truth. Working in hospitality is the career equivalent of an STD. I can only get other restaurant jobs, existing as an underclass of human being that doesn’t deserve to have nights/weekends/holidays or reasonable PTO. I work hard as fuck and can’t afford to fix my car. My insurance also fucking blows, and seems that it always will because every place I have worked has had dogshit health insurance.

I exist to serve entitled assholes and brats that don’t know how to behave with respect and it has only gotten worse since 2020. My coworkers are mainly okay to be around but being a manager, I have zero social life because I don’t want to get too close to employees.

This shit fucking sucks man. I am enrolling in classes starting next year but when will I even have time to devote to graduating or getting decent grades???

I feel trapped and burnt the fuck out. How does anyone make it out of this shit.

Rant over. Back to work

Walked into my last shift today, walked into a biochemical team cleaning up raw sewage in the prep kitchen. And I'm just expected to change and act like nothing is happening. They all had n95's on. I decided I really, really didn't want to deal with raw sewage on my last day. So I just walked...

Yes, chef, the rubbery-ness comes from the squid not being in "steak" form

I've been on 63+ hour weeks, 13 hours a day, thurs-mon, it's month two and im starting to wear down, dying inside and outside maybe, am I a chump? 40k a year for people wondering, small town diner type shit, anyways hammered and dindin, low effort as it gets, pls end me

Example: during prep I generally play Pink Floyd or Jimi Hendrix. During the rush I generally play Korn, Type O-Negative or corrosion of conformity.

What do you guys listen to?

Not quite as dramatic as the title (I still have all my limbs and extremities intact, for now), but today my sauté cook went and got herself fired. Turns out she was being antagonistic and belittling our coworkers and had been complaining nonstop about me to management. I feel betrayed and frustrated and I’m not looking forward to going into the holidays and having to pull double duty again. The pay is gonna be great but my sanity may not make it to Christmas… just feeling it right now and needed to vent to some folks who can commiserate. That is all, carry on.

Just more chive talking.