**** manager. Then I'm the enemy who has to choose between employees and the company. I refuse to be that ****.

agree, management sucks

It's impossible to be management and not choose between your own job and someone else's livelihood, and that can not be justified.

same at my job but a little less pronounced maybe

my immediate supervisor takes it up the ass so hard and never refuses any order no matter how devastating physically or emotionally

he’s currently in the middle of 12 days straight 10-12 hour days he’s older than I am and he’s constantly moving heavy cases of fish and dairy products around in the walk-in

both his feet have collapsed and he’s constantly in agony- back feet knees

there’s ribbing in the kitchen, you know, but I’ve said some ****ing cruel jokes

I like the guy but other cooks under him especially the morning crew hate him

He gives everybody **** and people just take it 90% of the time

He’s a good dude but he’s so overworked that he gets frustrated and then lashes out

The sous chefs the managers they’re all so willing to drop dead on the job - I feel sorry for them, they’re so cowardly- I mean I’ve been fired from so many jobs- but they’re terrified of it

if you’re sick of your restaurant job here’s what you do: every time it’s absolutely mad crunch time and your absence ****s them up - go to the doctor and say you have bad diarrhea. They’ll have to fire you because you leave them in the lurch every time. You’ll be let go without cause because it’s illegal to work with food when you have the runs. Let go without cause then go straight to the unemployment office. You’ll get a check for doing absolutely nothing for a few months. And you think you can’t get another **** job? I’ve done it probably 20 times. I haven’t collected unemployment that many times but I’ve abandoned that many jobs. I mean, I get it if you want to move up but if you’re just stuck in a miserable hot ass kitchen for so many ****ing hours a week all you do is go home and sleep and it has no chance of going anywhere what the **** are you afraid of? Without hyperbole I would rather kill myself than be my manager. And I’ve told him that lol

cue dwv calling me a loser

I refuse to take a management job. Both because I'd be horrendous at it and because I'm morally opposed to being in a position where I have to either lose my job or fire someone and make them lose their livelihood. It's just a **** position. But around where I live if you're not working for the Navy shipyard in some respect you're working for the tourism industry, or some kind of strip mall minimum wage ****. I guess there's a better job out there but it's all kinda the same ****.

I've been seriously thinking about that lately.

The trick is to play the academic jerkoff game long enough so that you can get a job where you make a good salary but do fuck all all day long.

Too late.

Yeah

The college system in the us is super ****ed now. Adjuncts are the wave and they’re badly exploited. It’s not much better than subbing at high school.

Have been visiting my dad at the hospital. He has been unwell for a few weeks and had an ultrasound scan. I took him to hospital yesterday because something came up in his blood test and he was told to go to A&E ASAP. They have found a lump and the scan showed inflammation on his bowel. He is being kept in and may need surgery. Me and my dad are very close and obviously I'm worried. He has lost weight and looks exhausted and is quiet even though he's trying to keep it together around us.

We will know more tomorrow I think. Don't like seeing him like this and it breaks my heart.

Will do everything I can to support him and my mom.