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'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.