I just saw The Menu (very good) and the military regime-esque sycophantic "YES CHEF" chants repulsed me. Gordon Ramsay has made a career out of screaming insults at his workers. How much of this is true to life and what is the leftist view on it?
I worked as a dish-hand and started and quit in the same weekend. Unbelievably high pressure and aggression from your co-workers. Is the answer "if they're well paid and have adequate time off it's fine"? Can a high pressure environment work with politeness and tact? Is the grotesque heirachy inherent in these workplaces?
I haven't read much so I have no clue.
there is nothing about cooking that should make it inherently high pressure it's not like surgery. they could hire more people, get a bigger kitchen or simplify the menu
But that would require paying more money to workers :porky-scared-flipped:
Yeah I was talking about a post-revolution change in the industry. Capital is unconcerned with the mental health of the workers and so has no reason to improve their conditions. If those workers unionised then maybe we could see real improvement now however
There's a thousand things that can go wrong in a tiny space with lots of people.
Busted water line to the sinks? That affects everybody.
Burned the soup in a 3 gallon? That affects everybody.
Put knives directly into the dish pit when you aren't immediately washing them? You might need a good [redacting].
yes I get that which is why I identified the environment as the source of tension. I maintain if we changed the way restaurants work they could probably be less stressful to work in
I don't know much about restaurants to be honest I have friends who've worked in them and I've sold food at stands but I've never actually worked in a restaurant but I would be shocked if the environment could not be improved in some way to be less inherently stressful
Oh yeah... If you were to design a dish pit, cooking stations, prep stations, fridge/frozen storage areas with the same square footage as the Front of House it could be improved. Then it probably would only need a few extra bodies during the workday to make up for the increased distance between stations.