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Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004


Out here, everything hurts.




Naelyan posted:

Yeah this is the kind of poo poo that needs to stop being normalized. This is extremely hosed up and potentially extremely harmful, to the point of being debilitating for days if a person is intolerant or allergic to capsaicin. Stop loving with people's food. It's not a joke, it's not a prank, it can be a serious loving thing and people, especially those in management, should know better by now.

That's my standpoint too. loving with somebody's food is never funny, and has way too many ways of actually hurting someone.

Grandmas Cookies posted:

I’m sure this has been posted before but: Do y’all ever have kitchen / chef / wait staff:

Nightmares???

I get them all the time... For me it’s some continuous loop of me not being able to help all the customers, chef screaming at me, messing up orders, etc etc.

Until, I wake up sweating and being like what the gently caress...

I haven't worked on a line in ten years and I still occasionally wake up from ticket printer nightmares when I'm stressing bad over something else.

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FFT
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Liquid Communism posted:

That's my standpoint too. loving with somebody's food is never funny, and has way too many ways of actually hurting someone.
A friend of mine has a nut allergy, and attended a birthday party of mostly vegans. All of the dietary stuff for the birthday cake was made explicit and was therefore safe.

Then he got driven to the ER because the ice cream was made with cashew milk.

Thankfully he's fine now, but he's understandably suspicious of food if he didn't watch the prep

FFT fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Mar 15, 2021

Babylon Astronaut
Apr 19, 2012
I only got work nightmares from ups. You'd be having a normal dream, then a conveyor belt would kool aid man in and start burying you in boxes. It was so common that they'd tell people they didn't really have seniority until they had "the dream."

Removing product from the container it shipped in is usually best practice. Most produce packaging is there to ripen the product in transit, so it will spoil your produce faster.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

I haven't worked on the line in 10 years and I still wake up at 6am every day thinking someone called in sick and I have to go in.

Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
Capitol: A building or complex of buildings in which any legislature meets.
Capital: A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.



Babylon Astronaut posted:

I only got work nightmares from ups. You'd be having a normal dream, then a conveyor belt would kool aid man in and start burying you in boxes. It was so common that they'd tell people they didn't really have seniority until they had "the dream."

Removing product from the container it shipped in is usually best practice. Most produce packaging is there to ripen the product in transit, so it will spoil your produce faster.

Kitchen work never gave me the Nightmares, but then despite it giving me migraines from the long hours and frustration it was never frantic enough or stressful in the right way to give me nightmares.

My first peak at Amazon was me working 5x 12 hour night shifts a week between Thanksgiving and Christmas, with a 40 mile commute through rush hour both ways. The end result was me repeatedly having nightmares where my bed would be full of boxes because I'd taken work "home" and I was packing in my sleep. I'd wake up having chucked my boxes pillows onto the conveyor line across the room.

Dimloep
Nov 5, 2011

Grandmas Cookies posted:

I’m sure this has been posted before but: Do y’all ever have kitchen / chef / wait staff:

Nightmares???

I get them all the time... For me it’s some continuous loop of me not being able to help all the customers, chef screaming at me, messing up orders, etc etc.

Until, I wake up sweating and being like what the gently caress...

Mine are mostly scenarios in which I have something I need to do (tickets on a rail, putting out a cocktail reception, a huge prep list, whatevs) and for some reason I leave the kitchen and can't get back. It's frustrating and panic-inducing and I always wake up exhausted.

Mezzanon
Sep 16, 2003

Pillbug

Dimloep posted:

Mine are mostly scenarios in which I have something I need to do (tickets on a rail, putting out a cocktail reception, a huge prep list, whatevs) and for some reason I leave the kitchen and can't get back. It's frustrating and panic-inducing and I always wake up exhausted.

mine are tables upon tables of people constantly changing orders and moving to new seats while the kitchen makes none of the orders i put in

Disargeria
May 6, 2010

All Good Things are Wild and Free!
I have very few nightmares in general anymore after leaving the industry last year, but when I do I can still hear that ticket machine like I'm there.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
Has anyone considered using the ticket machine sound as a ringtone or alarm?

Hauki
May 11, 2010


Discendo Vox posted:

Has anyone considered using the ticket machine sound as a ringtone or alarm?

absolutely not

Guildenstern Mother
Mar 31, 2010

Why walk when you can ride?

Discendo Vox posted:

Has anyone considered using the ticket machine sound as a ringtone or alarm?

Are you sure you're industry?

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004


Out here, everything hurts.




Discendo Vox posted:

Has anyone considered using the ticket machine sound as a ringtone or alarm?

Go back to Hell, Satan.

Naelyan
Jul 21, 2007

Fun Shoe

Discendo Vox posted:

Has anyone considered using the ticket machine sound as a ringtone or alarm?

I changed a friend/roommate's alarm to it once. He was not pleased. Otherwise, no, shut up, no.

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

Discendo Vox posted:

Has anyone considered using the ticket machine sound as a ringtone or alarm?

I had a hard enough time hearing it when I was actually working at a bar, I doubt it's going to wake me up

Now I definitely still have nightmares involving it

Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
Capitol: A building or complex of buildings in which any legislature meets.
Capital: A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.



I dunno, sometimes I think that maybe if I used a sound for work as an alarm I wouldn't have instant Vietnam highschool flashbacks with accompanying adrenaline spike any time a commercial uses the old standard Screeching Alarm sound effect.

Then I realize most of the sounds I remember from my kitchen days were fairly pleasant because were were bulk/batch based and not short-order and most of the alarm-ish sounds from my current job at Amazon are literal screeching, beeping, buzzing alarms anyways.

Also I remember I work nights and I really don't need an alarm currently. It's really not hard to wake up at any point before 7 PM. In fact the usual problem is getting/staying asleep.

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Discendo Vox posted:

Has anyone considered using the ticket machine sound as a ringtone or alarm?

:mods:

fizzymercury
Aug 18, 2011
My early morning alarm is the screaming buzzer they use when your drive thru line time reaches 5 minutes at Jack In the Box. I sleep deep and work too much. You have to startle me awake angry or I'm just going to keep sleeping.

And I only ever dream about peeling stickers off bananas and dropping cambros in the walk-in. Sometimes there's an earthquake and I'm stuck in the freezer.

pile of brown
Dec 31, 2004

Grandmas Cookies posted:

I’m sure this has been posted before but: Do y’all ever have kitchen / chef / wait staff:

Nightmares???

Suddenly the waitress giving me blowies has fangs???

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
I don't have kitchen nightmares ( :haw: ) but I do occasionally wake up in the middle of the night thinking I'm late for work and I start to get dressed before my brain comprehends the numbers on the clock and what they mean.

My only recurring nightmare is that it's the day of the school play and I've completely forgotten my lines and I end up trying to wing it. The funny thing is that I often realize that the reason I don't know my lines is because I'm in a dream. "Aw man. This isn't real. So I have no idea what I'm supposed to say. These imaginary people are going to be mad."

Thoht
Aug 3, 2006

Animal-Mother posted:

[...]but I do occasionally wake up in the middle of the night thinking I'm late for work and I start to get dressed before my brain comprehends the numbers on the clock and what they mean.[...]

One time I did this and got halfway through breakfast before my partner stumbled out of bed and said "What the hell are you doing?" Annoyed because I thought it was pretty darn obvious, I replied "Getting ready for work." They then said "It's 3AM!" I looked at the clock, heaved a big sigh, and went back to bed for a couple hours.

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008
Did it y'all. Finally got out. I'm now a specialty cheese buyer for an artisan grocery chain. It's... bittersweet. :gbsmith:

Sandwich Anarchist fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Mar 19, 2021

Disargeria
May 6, 2010

All Good Things are Wild and Free!
Are you still in Orlando and can I buy some cheese from you?

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

Disargeria posted:

Are you still in Orlando and can I buy some cheese from you?

Yes, and yes

angerbot
Mar 23, 2004

plob
Fancy cheese person is a dream job. Congratulations!

Canuckistan
Jan 14, 2004

I'm the greatest thing since World War III.





Soiled Meat
You should try some cheese from our local creamery. Their apple smoked cheddar is great.

https://www.cowscreamery.ca/pages/cheese

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through
i’ve bought that before

Shooting Blanks
Jun 6, 2007

Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade



mediaphage posted:

i’ve bought that before

Same. Hell, I kind of want some now, may grab some the next time I'm at the store

bloody ghost titty
Oct 23, 2008

tHROW SOME D"s ON THAT BIZNATCH

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Did it y'all. Finally got out. I'm now a specialty cheese buyer for an artisan grocery chain. It's... bittersweet. :gbsmith:

Getting into mongering is the best part of a career in hospitality. I did booze and I’ve never been happier.

RobotCoupeDetat
Nov 3, 2020
I just bailed from high-end catering to working as a "catering chef" making lunch for specialists and surgeons at a hospital. I'm going to feel like I'm barely trying, I think, and they'll be way happy. Any other hospital peeps in here? I'm entering a strange world.

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Yo, sup, I cook half for patients and half for our bistro/employee (and guest when we're allowed to serve guests up front again) facing.

Wastid
Oct 21, 2008
I make patient food at a hospital. It was a good gig til management did management things. Now I spend my days getting shivved by dumb coworkers who (understandably) can't handle the increased workload. Solidarity is a four letter word 'round here.

RobotCoupeDetat
Nov 3, 2020
There's at least three of us, hell yeah! Wastid, I'm sorry your job went to poo poo because of management fuckery. :( That happened at my last gig. I had to quit the best job I ever had and it blows.

I'm waiting on my bg check to clear before I start the new job. I'm working for a former colleague, so at least it's a known quantity.

FishBowlRobot
Mar 21, 2006



I haven't had one in awhile, but I also used to have nightmares about being in the weeds.

Looks like I could be having them again soon, as my startup job isn't going well. I've already applied for one sushi chef position nearby. Could feel like a failure on my part, but money is money I guess.

JacquelineDempsey
Aug 6, 2008

Women's Circuit Bender Union Local 34



FishBowlRobot posted:

I haven't had one in awhile, but I also used to have nightmares about being in the weeds.

My restaurant got featured on the news Friday, so we got absolutely stomped yesterday.

As a result, had my first ticket printer nightmare last night. (Only thanks to my hosed up brain, the printer was in my bedroom, and I had to collect certain colors of like 78 cats running around my house. Guess it could've been worse?)

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

there's like a 90% chance its for some tiktok poo poo.

deedee megadoodoo
Sep 28, 2000
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one to Flavortown, and that has made all the difference.



At least they can say they got to serve a former president.

Mezzanon
Sep 16, 2003

Pillbug
lmao Easter weekend is just ruining my tips. Actually lost money on some tables tonight serving them during a pandemic.

At least the part of the province I’m in is leading Canada in covid cases per capita. RIP

Cant Ride A Bus
Apr 9, 2012

"Batman, Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne, Batman. Or have you met?"

Mezzanon posted:

lmao Easter weekend is just ruining my tips. Actually lost money on some tables tonight serving them during a pandemic.

At least the part of the province I’m in is leading Canada in covid cases per capita. RIP

I had the same experience friday. $1500 in sales and I made under 15% :suicide:

Hopefully tomorrow night will be better

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mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through
ugh really sorry you guys. they just shut down all indoor dining stuff here again.

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