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Dark_Star
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Malcolm_Xtasy said: Why are you washing dishes mouse? Didn't you just graduate college with your CS degree?
After I graduated with a degree in a medical field, and was licensed to practice it was a process getting a job in my field. Once hired, it was still a couple months until my start date. I didn't work the last year of school, so I needed money & found a cooking gig on craiglist. Real nice place too. That job was a lifesaver getting me though those months. The people that worked there also owned the place....all them had pooled their money to buy it. Awesome people, incredible food, great drinks. It was sweet. I need to go get dinner there again one of these days. It's far from here though.
Washing dishes blows, but is a good starting point. Easy job to get too. I started out as a dish washer when I moved to CO, and worked my way up to line cook. Worked at a few different restaurants, including when I moved back to PA. At one, wound up running the line & doing dishes, as the recession that hit the restaurant hard. That sucked. Especially when someone came in right at closing. We'd be stuck there mad late. I had a day job in a warehouse at the same time, and was technically making decent money. I was a dope fiend & booze hound at the time though, and every penny went to supporting my habit. In some respects I enjoyed the kitchen atmosphere, but it was so unhealthy for me. The last one was cool, but my act was cleaned up by then.
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Repertoire89
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RJ Tubs 202 said: I find that Mexicans don't hate the jobs that whites hate.
I think there's a psychological reason, far beyond having a home in Mexico.
Sounds pretty racist to me, offer a Mexican a decent job vs a shitty dishwashing job.
Accepting your shitty circumstances doesn't mean you prefer it, as a natural born citizen of the US there are more opportunities than there are for a 3rd world immigrant (in the short run), we don't have to come to terms with shit jobs. Acknowledging that its a shit job no one could actually like outside of a Stockholm syndrome situation, or very short term, is also a prime motivator for acquiring better work.
You're grasping at straws if you need someone to outline why such a shitty job is objectively shitty.
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ForestHeart128
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All too true in the resturaunt business!
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RJ Tubs 202


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Repertoire89 said:
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RJ Tubs 202 said: I find that Mexicans don't hate the jobs that whites hate.
I think there's a psychological reason, far beyond having a home in Mexico.
Sounds pretty racist to me . . .
I'm white and for about 10 years of my career I refused to hire whites and only hired Mexicans to work in the tissue culture lab I ran because white people usually hated sitting in front of a laminar flow hood all day with 20 stacks of petri plates to transfer.
Over many years, I found Mexicans were content with the job that whites usually disliked.
So yeah, I guess I'm racist.
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Enjoywho
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They'll do shit repeatedly for money. As they ship it all back to Mexico. They're generally back of house. I speak Spanish because of it. They all have huge houses back home as I'd listen to there stories. I work here and send it all back home. Where my families have maids.
If your ever in Mexico hit up (insert family name) you will be fine. I'm entitled white so I don't particularly like working for below what I'm worth. As my money is spent just putting a roof over my head and maybe having fun once and a while. But American dollars are worth far more in Mexico.
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Repertoire89
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RJ Tubs 202 said:
I'm white and for about 10 years of my career I refused to hire whites and only hired Mexicans to work in the tissue culture lab I ran because white people usually hated sitting in front of a laminar flow hood all day with 20 stacks of petri plates to transfer.
Over many years, I found Mexicans were content with the job that whites usually disliked.
So yeah, I guess I'm racist.
Its amusing that you double down on being racist, but didn't address anything else.
Like I said, you're shoveling shit jobs to these people and expecting them to enjoy it, they're content because they have to be, as this is all they can get their hands on.
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ModestMouse said: Restaurant backline is like a finely tuned orchestra. I spin and duck past someone with dishes stacked to their chin as the man behind me shouts "6 coming in!" There's sauce freshly spilled all over the floor, because somebody fumbled an enchilada - captain and coke does not a steady hand make. My boss yells my name and I look nervously over only to see him smiling with his middle finger held in the air, that's how our team of misfits shows affection.
The ladies of the night are a chosen few, more or less. They perk themselves up but play their game down; adorned in make-up donning shirts that show just enough of their back tattoo. Someone's getting a tip tonight. They know it too - only the girls who make the man at the table second guess his marriage make any money in this industry. The below-average looking waitress is forever butthurt, and her attitude makes her even less likely to please her dining clients.
mouse you write more brother, this is good
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Enjoywho
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Connoisseur said:
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ModestMouse said: Restaurant backline is like a finely tuned orchestra. I spin and duck past someone with dishes stacked to their chin as the man behind me shouts "6 coming in!" There's sauce freshly spilled all over the floor, because somebody fumbled an enchilada - captain and coke does not a steady hand make. My boss yells my name and I look nervously over only to see him smiling with his middle finger held in the air, that's how our team of misfits shows affection.
The ladies of the night are a chosen few, more or less. They perk themselves up but play their game down; adorned in make-up donning shirts that show just enough of their back tattoo. Someone's getting a tip tonight. They know it too - only the girls who make the man at the table second guess his marriage make any money in this industry. The below-average looking waitress is forever butthurt, and her attitude makes her even less likely to please her dining clients.
mouse you write more brother, this is good
There's an entire language associated with working in restaurants. I could have a full tray and spin. No worries my friend I should have said I was gonna slip behind. I love restaurant work it's incredibly fun talking pretty girls out of there money.
-------------------- "I don't give nothin' to nobody, I just pay the cost to do business." - Riley "Young Reezy"-Boondocks "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." "In the days of kings and queens I was a jester." "And then the great lord created bears... too many bears... shoulda really dialed back on the bears." Squidbillies "Can you start speaking words instead of your damn filthy lies!"- Louise "Bobs Burgers"
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Connoisseur

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Re: Shitty dish job [Re: Enjoywho]
#23722395 - 10/09/16 02:13 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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i didnt follow any of that...
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Malcolm_Xtasy
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Enjoywho never makes any sense. I wouldn't sweat it.
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Connoisseur

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the quotes of his sig really show what kind of role models he has
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Enjoywho
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The fact that it's like a finely tuned orchestra. We are all here to make money. BoH has the shit jobs. I'd much rather be front of the house. I can make you some money. I'm very good at it.
You become perceptive about people around you. And there's an entire restaurant language. But I learned to speak Spanish. It's the same thing but I can talk to them. I'd throw away 30% percent of my tips to the back of house and I was a busser. I didn't make this happen by myself. Even if it's 10 bucks that's food or pot or whatever.
Pay the cost to do business.
-------------------- "I don't give nothin' to nobody, I just pay the cost to do business." - Riley "Young Reezy"-Boondocks "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." "In the days of kings and queens I was a jester." "And then the great lord created bears... too many bears... shoulda really dialed back on the bears." Squidbillies "Can you start speaking words instead of your damn filthy lies!"- Louise "Bobs Burgers"
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Re: Shitty dish job [Re: Enjoywho]
#23722443 - 10/09/16 02:27 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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due to the fact I've never worked in the restaurant business i have barely any idea what you mean nor do i care
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Enjoywho
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OK then why are you commenting?
-------------------- "I don't give nothin' to nobody, I just pay the cost to do business." - Riley "Young Reezy"-Boondocks "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." "In the days of kings and queens I was a jester." "And then the great lord created bears... too many bears... shoulda really dialed back on the bears." Squidbillies "Can you start speaking words instead of your damn filthy lies!"- Louise "Bobs Burgers"
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Re: Shitty dish job [Re: Enjoywho]
#23722479 - 10/09/16 02:39 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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in case you had any important point you wanted to get across that i couldnt grasp
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theRealrollforever
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Re: Shitty dish job [Re: Enjoywho]
#23722481 - 10/09/16 02:39 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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sunshine said: The order has to be secret and no one is sure.
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Bodhi of Ankou
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ModestMouse said: Restaurant backline is like a finely tuned orchestra. I spin and duck past someone with dishes stacked to their chin as the man behind me shouts "6 coming in!" There's sauce freshly spilled all over the floor, because somebody fumbled an enchilada - captain and coke does not a steady hand make. My boss yells my name and I look nervously over only to see him smiling with his middle finger held in the air, that's how our team of misfits shows affection.
The ladies of the night are a chosen few, more or less. They perk themselves up but play their game down; adorned in make-up donning shirts that show just enough of their back tattoo. Someone's getting a tip tonight. They know it too - only the girls who make the man at the table second guess his marriage make any money in this industry. The below-average looking waitress is forever butthurt, and her attitude makes her even less likely to please her dining clients.
You almost make minimum wage sound appealing.
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Dish washing was a fun first job when I was 14-17. That's when I was first introduced to the magic of psychedelics given to me by my co workers and later got a nice shroom connect where I was able to buy QPs to Half Ps.
Every single person who worked there did drugs of some kind, most were also alcoholics. We partied after work by the pool every night and smoked a shit ton of weed.
The job itself wasn't so bad, there were always 2 dishwashers on weekends and Wednesdays (which was wing night at the bar). Once you get into a good rhythm it's not overly demanding. We got to cook a little and do easy stuff like help the groundskeeper.
The owners were cool and smoking weed on the job was allowed. The job got me into smoking cigarettes because that was the only legit way to get to take a break.
There were a few hotties my age working as bus girls who I got to party with, one is still a very good friend to this day.
The bartenders gave me alcohol while I was working on New Years Eve.
The real downside was that I worked much longer hours than everyone else on night shift because I had more cleaning up to do including my own station. Especially on buffet nights there would be quite the stack of dishes by the time the place closed down.
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Conrad is either a compulsive liar or the worlds luckiest line cook. His parents won the lottery and his wife is smoking hot... neither of which has been confirmed or denied, but Id like to believe him. He routinely tosses fried Mozzarella balls to the other cooks as we try to catch them in our mouths. After a few misses I finally catch one - "Touchdown!" shouts Ray in his thick Mexican accent. It's raining something steady outside and our dishwasher busts in from running the trash, soaked from head to toe. He's sweating like a whore in church and he's got a big splash of mustard on the top of his rotund belly. "Hey Conrad I've had enough, I'm gonna go get stoned" he shouts down line. "Alright Andy try to hurry back", Conrad says in a mock-motherly voice.
The waitresses are waiting on their food and listening to the bizzare rumblings of a slightly intoxicated backline. When our dialogue becomes boring, they'll occasionally start their own, but it's mostly confined to gossip and mixed drink recipes.
The man who's training me, Jay keeps repeating "Cat scratch feaver!" As if he's gonna sing the song, but he only knows those three words. I join him a few times in the tune, Conrad shakes his ass as he assembles an overpriced burger for an overweight Bills fan. Every now and then one of us steps off line for a smoke break, which is either a legitimate cigarette, a joint, or a few gulps from the box of Franzia in the walk-in.
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Needs refinement. Some of it is clumsy, like how you splice in that mozzarella ball toss. Thats a shift in style from narrative to first person, and you flip flop throughout it. It gives it a bit of a literary stutter.
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