https://twitter.com/Brian_Riedl/status/1391086956583530498 it's actually really fucking funny how many people are callin his bullshit
https://twitter.com/Brian_Riedl/status/1391086956583530498 it's actually really fucking funny how many people are callin his bullshit
My last fish job was at a super small vegan place, the owner was still small business tyrant but worked as a cook for a long time beforehand so she was a lot more reasonable than most. I was out of town and she covered my job for a week, when she actually had to do it and fully knew how much I actually did I was given a three dollar raise and was third in command of back of house, basically in charge at night. Before and what I'll probably go for when I have to work again was catering or prep jobs for grocery stores or what have you.
hell yeah, sometimes people legit only learn when they put themselves in someone else's shoes. Some still wont ever learn, but it's good you had a boss who did.
I'm only laid off because they're too small for even limited seated dining with covid. Also there's only one bathroom and it's in the very open kitchen. The main thing that sucks with it is my EI may run out before I'm necessary there again and I was getting a way bigger wage than anyone else will offer and tips were split evenly between front and back of house and we cleaned up hard in tips. During slow times it still averaged $200 a week. There was also a staff of about ten people, four of us were commies the rest were decent radlib folk. I was also personally allowed by the owner to help myself at the bar while working, my pot dealers door was in the alley by the restaurant where i had smoke breaks. Me and the owner did whippets in the stock room on slow days and I could make paying customers listen to anarcho punk and of they complained servers could tell them to piss off. I legit miss that job.
Edit: also I think maybe I just live in a pretty based town generally. The average person is a socdem so our small vegan restaurant people who have all gone through the working in kitchen gauntlet are usually pretty radical or literally Joe Rogan
Yeah, i do feel for the good places that suffered through this like that, it can't be easy. I mean, i'm biased caused I'd love to do a foodtruck/eventual hole-in-the-wall type deal, so I think about it a lot.
Overall sounded like a good gig though, I mean at the very least, sounded like you were happy there and to me i'll take small pay cuts to just be happy where I work, ya know? I've worked for too long in too stressful places that extremely unappreciated me and my co-workers and always kept me drinking at night or just being grumpy asshole. I don't want to be that kinda person.
My second job ever was at a mom and pop burger place and that shit was so fuckin awesome. It was just the cook and me as server/cashier/fryer whatever needed to be done. But we got paid alright cash but I never had to deal with the boss, and the cook was the dopest dude ever and bought me beer when I was like 19/20 and we'd always crack a beer near closing time and just got along. Good food, always got a big ass serving for my free meals and overall just no stress. Even when a ton of people would come in I knew that job like the back of my hand so it never really got to me. I appreciated when it was busy actually, day go by so fast like that