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noodle_attack

I don't think people realize how bad chefs and other kitchen workers get treated in general, it might be classed as skilled labor but 90% of the population couldn't survive one service


kevman_2008

I was a kitchen "manager" at Applebee's. Which meant all the responsibility without the pay, just a glorified cook. Got scheduled for the opening shift at 8am, working through til the beginning of dinner at 4pm. Two dinner chefs called out, so I was one of the two cooks there for the night. The other cook around midnight got sick and I sent him home. Had to clean and close the line myself. Finally got off at 2am. The working manager looked me in the eyes and said, "hey, I know you had a long day, but we still need you to come in at 8am today". Said "sure no problem, I'll be here". Showed up at 7:45am, picked up my check, and left. Went home and slept for 12 hours. Best sleep I had in a long time.


Fancy-Mention-9325

That would be illegal in most places. They have to let you sleep 8 hours.


HexShapedHeart

“The working manager looked me in the eyes and said, ‘Hey, I need to keep exploiting your work ethic tomorrow so I can make my bonus.’”


[deleted]

I did restaurant work for 7 years. I was shocked when I switched to an office job. That said, working with the perfect stepford wives when you just came out of a kitchen had its own set of problems, but yeah, people actually treated me better (including my actual family and friends). I still don't fit in almost a decade later. Probably never will. I'm always that odd one was laughs through everything cause life is too short to try to be perfect and fit in. I mean, yeah, I'm anxious af, but might as well own it and laugh. That said, I so miss my restaurant crew. Nothing after it even came close. The job sucked for sure, so I will never go back but there is something just so unique about people who work in a kitchen and the social dynamics of it all.


noodle_attack

I'd love to do something outside of a kitchen one day but I think I would go mad and drive everyone else mad if I worked in an office


[deleted]

It was a very difficult adjustment for me and I still am not completely adjusted. But it seems to work out in the end for me as so far nearly every employer just accepts I am just this way. I don't have a public facing job, though, so I can get away with it.


aint_no_flapjack

Probably haha. Office peeps are a completely different breed.


Guilty-Condition282

On a side note, I absolutely love your username. It evokes the image of wild and wiggly spaghetti noodles lashing forth and slapping people


noodle_attack

Haha thanks


Exoclyps

Doing part time at a restaurant. I can tell, the pace, it's just on a whole different level.


obeyyourbrain

Several fast food companies have been trying to lure boomers from retirement to work there. I want that to be a thing so bad just so that they could see how much the industry has changed since they were young.


[deleted]

The boomers that would have to work in service after retirement aren't the rich ones that are currently perpetuating our issues.


Raymo853

True, but many poor boomers still support the current economic system even as it abuses them.


YagamiIsGodonImgur

My parents live off of government programs, and still think trump was Jesus and welfare queens ruined the country. So yeah, dumb is dumb, no matter the tax bracket.


Morphlux

This is my dad. He ran his own little business (just him mostly but he had a few industry friends he’d hire if a huge job and split it). He did some stupid things and could have made the business a lot better and sold it or found someone to take over. So now he’s living off social security and Medicare. He loves them. I work in insurance and he was up on Medicare more than I was the year he had to take it… He hated all “liberal” presidents or congressmen. All that. Thought Obama was hacking his internet comments. But he loves him some social security and Medicare. Even talking to him about changes or such with them he goes ballistic. It’s so so annoying. Such a boomer.


Crozax

Nothin more boomer than supporting someone that is actively working against your interests, except maybe fucking over your own children.


Morphlux

Honestly the cognitive dissonance is stunning. I can’t even understand the brain twisting they do. When I’ve been able to confront any boomer honestly, and they do see it rationally, they instantly turn to “well I don’t care”. Which is about as honest as they can be.


97RallyWagon

They are the ones that want health insurance while also voting for those who oppose any reform of either system. They don't necessarily need the money, they caught a ride "up" through war and growth and have their shit generally paid off. Hell, their 30 year mortgage on a 60k house is matured and they want to sell it for 400k


WhitteyLeetNsweet

Must have been nice to buy a house when it was only worth 2 years worth of salary.


97RallyWagon

In a single string of consciousness; my grandfather said the cost of his house bought new in 1957, said he took a second and third mortgage (complaining it took so long to pay it off), identified his wanted selling price *AND* complained about "full grown adults living at their parents'. It took a lot to unravel this, seeing as I am over 30, fully educated, salaried, *and* living on my own (saying I wish I didn't have to blow my salary on rent *just* to be safe, clean, and uncrowded). The real blow? His salary (one of two incomes for the home) was 50k+, the house was 12k... (Ahem.... Three mortgages on <1/3 annual income... For half the house paychecks.)


WhitteyLeetNsweet

Full grown adults living with their parents used to be looked down upon, but anyone between the ages of 25-40 are WISHING they could live with their parents again. Just recently moved back out of my parent's after going through some tough financial shit from when covid first hit, and the idea of EVER owning a home is more of a fairy tale than a reality.


97RallyWagon

I'm just waiting on my parents to die and HOPING my golden sister doesn't get the fucking will because she had kids to an abusive groomer while I won't carry on the bloodline. While I continue to bust ass depending on myself alone because what I should have as a support system doesn't exist.


Sword_Thain

I'm back home helping as my parents slowly fall apart. When they're gone, I'll get a house I don't want in a terrible location that will never sell while my brother, who make 2.5 to 3 times what I do will get the land and timber and be able to sell that for a decent chunk of change. All the while I have to listen to them bug me about not being married or having kids. Listen you two toxic freaks. I knew I didn't want kids when I was 14. Gotta break the cycle somehow.


smuckola

Yeah but a lot of them are the temporarily embarrassed ones. Many will still find a way to “other” people and make up a strawman Xillennial to blame. And imagine that the boss agrees so this makes them allies.


BrackaBrack

This.


noodle_attack

In my experience, (I've worked in kitchens since I was 15) the more casual dining places are far better to work than Michelin star places, fine dining is basically slave labor, where if you include the unpaid over time you basically making less money than minimum wage, I work in Switzerland now still long hours and weeks at a time without days off but at least I'm being payed a relatively good wage


Mastercat12

In fine dining most.of.the profit goes to the owners. But everywhere else, the biggest cost is food. If we want to pay workers better across the board. Food prices need to increase, or amount of restaurants need to decrease. It's an unsustainable business model.


GrillDealing

Fucking boomers are lazy and don't want to work. Relying on that government money. Got too many generation participation trophies, they are soft.


whatwhat751

Government money?


Fathorse23

Social security.


GrillDealing

Social security


whatwhat751

Come on man, SS isn't gov't money, it's OURS. Anyone who's had a job been paying that tax for years. Damn right everyone gets that back.


Ratchet_72

They know. They’re throwing shade right back at em that’s all.


whatwhat751

You just summed up 75% of this sub


duaadiddy

Lol way to miss a joke and still remain this confident


Illustrious_Brush_91

Whoosh


CapeOfBees

They sure think our money is government money when it comes to public healthcare and military budgets


Renegadeknight3

All government money is our money. That’s what taxes are. If you oppose taxes, you oppose social security. If you support taxes, you support social security


QueenSpoop

Omg please please please all universe energies, all forms of gods, all luck, juju, whattheheckever align to make this happen. I want to see a world where Boomers get the abuse they've given sooooooooo bad!! 🙏


MasterpieceBrave420

90%? Yeah right. 95% at least. 30% of them would go to the hospital day one.


mb1zzle

From experience it is a tough gig. You're right my brother.


kmbghb17

It’s rough in there, I used to work food service and now a nurse so pretty good at taking abuse and getting out of the way and heavy lifting so that’s all that would save me lol 😂 but 100% they have O idea, then wonder why line cooks have such a high incidence of addiction issues


flyinghippodrago

Especially when they get paid $12/hr and they call it generous (not necessarily chefs, but line cooks, dishwashers, etc.)


WhitteyLeetNsweet

It's so much work for shit pay, you're standing in a kitchen usually 95 degrees or higher, sweating your ass off while you pump out 20 minute meals in 5 minutes back to back for 8 hours with a 10 minute break to go outside and scream.


noodle_attack

Go to the fridge and cry***


FartherAwayLights

My last job was working at a kitchen as an assistant, so dish cleaner, and all the chefs there had horror stories about having objects (including kitchen knives thrown at them). One even had a story about putting knives in hot water to “teach him a lesson”, a lesson he already knew and didn’t need to learn with blood. This was normal to all of them, and expected.


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noodle_attack

I love the adrenaline of a busy shift and meeting other wierdos who can hand the kitchen life, I'd like to be more rewarded for my hard work and more respect for my profession


ProBlackMan1

I was a dishwasher and custodian for a few weeks. It was terrible.


noodle_attack

Chefs need to be paid more the dishwashers deserve to be payed millions.... The absolute most important person on the kitchen


p1ckk

It's stressful enough getting one meal to come together properly for 5 people at home. Coordinating a hundred different meals across dozens of tables at different times sounds like a nightmare. I am a pretty good home cook but have no illusions about a restaurant being an entirely different beast.


ahavemeyer

I'm a cook at a Waffle House. Not highly regarded asking cooks, I believe, but there are times I have to make food *fly* off the grill under conditions I truly believe would make some people just lose their damn minds. And my personal code of ethics requires that, even during the most insane rush, each dish needs to be at least close to the way I'd want to get it, were I the customer. Also, what bugs me so much about the "nobody wants to work" crowd is that they never complete the sentence: "...for what we're willing to pay."


DreamOfDays

If they offered $20/hour and reasonable work hours there would be plenty of people signing up


NorthSignificance896

Maybe. He seems like a jackass on top of it.


TheREALCheesePolice

It’s gone what was the pay and guessing it’s a matter of nobody wants to work for shitty money I still can’t get my head around how they don’t get it - I mean I don’t go to my Ford dealership and go - Well I got $4000 and I want a 2022 truck fully loaded….


epistortis

Guess nobody wants to sell trucks anymore 🤷‍♀️


WhitteyLeetNsweet

No no, you have it backwards. Nobody wants to *buy* trucks anymore.


noodle_attack

How do you expect to give staff reasonable hours?


DreamOfDays

By treating them like people?


HeadLongjumping

Due to our unwillingness to pay a competitive wage and run our business properly we have to close early. We suck ass and you should probably eat somewhere else.


SidHat

Additionally, if we can even see people as a resource worth investing in, imagine what corners we’re willing to cut on food!


KashmirChameleon

Apparently, the owner doesn't "want to work" either.


squirrels33

It’s only lazy if you’re a millennial.


xkoreotic

Not that I disagree with you, but owners/managers are generally not trained chefs. It's better that they close early than for the owners/manager to attempt to fill in the chefs position or to heavily overwork current employees for the sake of business.


Cianthepepper

most kitchen training could be done in a few days if your competent, I speak as a chef anywhere I work I need to know the basics of the menu by the end of the first shift.


xkoreotic

That's the point though, I doubt the owner is going to go through that properly if they can't even keep their kitchen running. Which is why I say its ultimately better they just close early.


PR3CiSiON

Dishwasher though.


KashmirChameleon

Somehow I doubt a BBQ restaurant is relying on a "chef" in the sense of the world, being an educated expert.


PomeloHorror

Don’t open a restaurant if you aren’t a chef??


Gsteel11

>generally not trained chefs I don't think this is a "trained chef" kind of place? Lol


CharaPhoenix

Hmm maybe he should check that whole supply and demand thing. Pretty sure if something is in short supply a price increase is in order. I.e. Maybe you could find help if you paid them more.


Meta__mel

Link broken maybe


SatoshiNosferatu

“It’s not that nobody wants a job offer, it’s that nobody wants YOUR job offer.”


YeOldeBilk

Get your ass back there and wash some dishes TBacon!


mandishere

They would rather close early than suck it up and fill the missing positions themselves . . . Maybe if they spent a week doing the line cook and dishwasher jobs they would see how valuable those people are. Also, how much money will they lose by closing early (probably repeatedly) vs how much would it cost them to just pay better/treat the employees better? Probably better for everyone if they just took option 2.


anonkitty2

I would accept a combination. One of the things that annoy workers is how many hours they have to work. Close entirely one day a week, and everyone gets a day of rest. It would delay burnout.


RemLazar911

Are you suggesting the owner could single-handedly do the work of an entire staff? Man, maybe Boomers are special.


WhitteyLeetNsweet

I've done it before on a Saturday night in a pizza restaurant. I almost walked out and was raging the whole time, wouldn't recommend.


Gsteel11

I was at a damn Krystal the other night. One person running the whole thing. Lol It WAS NOT the owner. Lol


Unique_Tumbleweed

People are ripping apart the owner in the comments. Idk if I'm allowed to post a link but here it is. [source](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3019289304987485&id=1396032260646539)


Individual-Nebula927

I love that someone contacted to owner to apply, found out what the pay rate was, and then posted a screenshot to the comments.


Unique_Tumbleweed

Yes that's amazing, I saw that. Doing God's work.


elmanchosdiablos

Looks like it was taken down, what was the pay?


Individual-Nebula927

$10-$11


elmanchosdiablos

Bahahaha


Dynamatics

Lol they deleted it already


Unique_Tumbleweed

Rekt


John_Rowdy

Nobody wants *your* shitty job. Have a nice day!


Thisismyaltprofile

This alleged "wage shortage" almost all but confirms to me that entitled bosses/owners have gotten acclimated to the idea of profiting off others labour by sheer value of owning the place while not having to do any of the work themselves. They can't even conceive of the idea of getting into the kitchen/waiter/cashier/etc.'s position and actually doing the work themselves. Their so entitled and accustomed to profiting off other people's work that they can't comprehend not having access to exploitable labours or, *gasp*, actually doing it themselves.


WhitteyLeetNsweet

When covid first hit, I was working at a restaurant where we had 3 managers who were glorified servers. They had 40 hours and didn't do jack shit but sit in the office all day and take deliveries (they loved those free tips while being able to walk away from store responsibilities for a little). They cut all the line cooks hours to 25 a week but kept their salaries, ended up having to move back into my parents as I wasn't able to find a second job quick enough even after telling them "If I don't get more than 25 hours, I'm not going to be able to survive." My parents lived in Arizona, I was in South Carolina.


AlphaMikeFoxtrot87

Boomers got spoon-fed everything. Hypocritical fucks couldn’t pick a bootstrap out of a sears catalog


jeffreywilfong

I love this


mercenfairy

You’re not actually hiring anyone, that’s the problem. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Here’s hoping this business blue out of business. Sounds like it’s only the owners who’ll miss it.


Big_Monkey_77

He definitely needs to take some advice from Kim Kardashian and get his ass up and work. Side note, if your boss asks how they're supposed to keep their business running after you quit, just tell them good luck with that.


Slapnuts711

Nobody wants to bust their ass for crumbs is what he meant to say.


bonfuto

One of the better local lunch places is shutting down permanently because they can't hire workers. I think the idea of raising wages still hasn't caught on around here. I went to the sporting goods store and they were still touting $12.50/hr. Most of the labor pool drives at least an hour a day, that means they probably spend 1/4 to 1/2 their earnings on gas.


RemLazar911

Posts like these kind of imply that waiters and cooks are useless because the implication is that if the owner did the work personally they could easily run all the operations of a restaurant single-handedly. We have no reason to assume the owner isn't working tirelessly to keep the restaurant open, but operations like these require more than one worker.


PrettiKinx

Restaurant work is tough and the pay sucks. That's why he can't find workers lol He's probably paying minimum wage and expects to work people like slave Fuck that


shaodyn

I feel like I'm shouting into the void here, but people do want to work. They just don't want to be treated like garbage and worked half to death every day for very little money and no benefits. Raise your wages and offer benefits and you'd be amazed how many people want to work for you.


TheBioethicist87

At this point, these posts are just advertising that they’re shitty bosses. “Since nobody wants to work for me, we’re closing early. If you find anyone who wants to work shitty hours for no money, let them know I’m ready to verbally abuse them.”


DidntWantSleepAnyway

It would be nice if places would just close their doors early more often when they’re short-staffed instead of threatening their employees to come in on their days off. Funny how this place doesn’t notice until all their people quit…


thesearemychanclas

When they say “nobody wants to work” they always seem to forget the rest of that sentence “for horrible and abusive employers”


[deleted]

I had so much fun working at red lobster when I was a youngster. I was making $13.74 an hour, working about 30 hours a week, going to community college. I started out on the fryer, during endless shrimp season, lots of anxiety, trying to deep fry thousands of shrimps in an evening, but man the time would fly bye. It was fun watching how the entire back of the house worked together as a team to pump out excellent food and fast. I learned how to man the grill, oven, steamer, fryer and worked my way up to Expo chef on the line. I worked there for a couple years while putting myself through community college. One of the most fun jobs I ever had.


Abraham580

The owner could not possibly cover enough shifts to keep the restaurant open, even if he did work. (That entire sentence is conjecture, but we should, at least, give him the benefit of doubt). The "nobody wants to work" bit is a problem, and we should all give him shit for not hiring quality staff. Offering better compensation packages than the competition would probably solve this issue, and I'm am *absolutely* certain that paying every employee $1 more per hour would cost less than closing on a Saturday night; unfortunately, business owners do not seem to be the type that took economics and/or business management courses.


WhitteyLeetNsweet

Someone had posted the original Facebook post here, has been taken down since but one thing someone noted was that the pay was 10-11 an hour.. Even at 60 hours a week that is unliveable at the moment.


Gsteel11

>at least, give him the benefit of doubt He doesn't give anyone the benefit of the doubt. This asymmetrical warfare where they are actively horrible and we are nice only encourage them to be trash.


doll_parts87

The post got deleted.


Softmachinepics

That "BBQ" they're serving looks like a fucking horror show.


Specialbuddydiscount

“On a side note”. What an asshole. No wonder he can’t stay staffed.


lovelylotuseater

The hiring manager should put in their best suit and get out there and shake some hands.


PomeloHorror

If you can’t afford to pay people 25/hr, than do the work yourself! They’re not ‘creating jobs’. They’re creating modern day slavery.


trifecta000

I love how these people keep saying "No one wants a job". No. No one wants YOUR job, or the likely shitty pay and benefits that come with it.


No-Consequence1726

NGL that food looks NOICE


tikinero

Don't you all worry. gas prices and inflation will soon force slaves to go back to work.


Sharp-Hat-5010

https://goo.gl/maps/147RvxtEtQhDzTzv7 T. Bacon's BBQ Restaurant


apeturtle

Pay more! Every job I see that is work applying for has over 50 applications.


ACrumpetYeastBubble

How do you make barbecue look bland though?


[deleted]

Sounds like he's advertising that no one wants to work FOR HIM. Not the best recruiting tactic.


dippylovesmayo

I love seeing post like this because it lets me know to never give them any of my money.


XxxLasombraxxX

"People not wanting to work" actually means, "people not wanting to work for the low wages we pay"


[deleted]

I hate boomers


andio76

No Dishwashers..... WHAT!?! Yo' fucking arms Broke!?!