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Originally Posted by FlameOn
Oi... that's horrible. I wonder if this a product of the working hours or just the available pool of people that are drawn into these jobs?
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monotony, high egos, pressure, lack of respect between employees, bosses that work in the offices that are condescending, claustrophobic hot loud environment. There are people that get into it because they genuinely love to cook/bake/etc but their passion is easily taken when they get yelled at for the most minor mistakes and almost never get any praise.
This one girl I knew was the best baker I've ever seen, she could make you a pastry that made your knees weak but she ended up quitting and working in a farmers market because of the crazy ex-bouncer/dj that screamed at her for the smallest mistakes. That same guy would sabotage my work because I just ignored his craziness, I'd be filling up a sink to wash a big soup pot and he'd empty it when I'm not looking and take all of his stuff in his station and dump it in the pot to make it so I couldn't get the soup made on time. I've got an endless list of stories like this.
The last restaurant I worked for told me they'd cut off my balls and burn my house if I didn't give them their keys back immediately, that was a nice voicemail. I was doing their invoices, some of the accounting and building orders all of which they had no idea I was doing. A workplace environment where nobody had any idea that the worst paid guy was doing most of the organization in the kitchen. I am aware maybe I'm just jaded from my experience but I found most of the restaurants to be very negative places to work.