Could involve quitting a job with flair, walking out of an interview, or working around a dumbass boss/coworker during a Zoom meeting.

If anything just make it a "general work stories" thread

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Was washing dishes at a place that was getting very very busy and I was solo in the pit, which was becoming impractical and I needed hand. The hand I eventually got was the owner's 15 year old kid who figured the authority was hereditary, which in the end it kinda was. Dude insisted on being on sink despite being awful at it, I just needed someone to run plates and check the line for pans. That way I could sub in cold side and my homies could smoke/catch up on orders. He would wash each plate completely clean, soap water, scrub it down to the point you could use it for device again AND THEN put them in the machine. A rack took him over five minutes. I told him gently tonlet the machine do the work, just blast a quick spray on em and haul them in. If some come out dirty they just go back in the dirty like but at least we have most of them clean and they can be used by cooks. He tells me that the machine costs a lot to run and the chemicals for it are expensive. He continues telling me who has several years of kitchen experience that I'm wrong about everything for these absurd cost cutting reasons that won't fucking matter when you consider the labor hours and customers that won't come back after dealing with shitty wait times I eventually snap after a few shifts and yell at him to stop having a fucking criticism, he has no kitchen experein and is a child it is MY dish out I am the full time worker and he is my help not my boss or even my fucking equal. He goes and tells his mom, who suspends me for a week. I took all the whippets and activator and filled a duffle bag with booze, took the drain stop for the dish machine and threw it out the window into the harbor and left.