• longhorn617 [any]
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      4 years ago

      Kenji is against his restaurant being unionized lol.

      • MonteCristo [he/him,any]
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        4 years ago

        Source? That’s really disappointing, he’s my go to source for recipes and cooking vids.

        • longhorn617 [any]
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          4 years ago

          I mean I still use his recipes, just don't lionize the guy is all. This all went down in reddit, there were old posts about his stance on unionizing his restaurant.

          • MonteCristo [he/him,any]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah I wasn’t gonna stop using the recipes, he knows how to cook. Still disappointed, thought he was a pro-worker guy.

            He is petit bourgeois so I shoulda known.

            • longhorn617 [any]
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              4 years ago

              IIRC it was "they don't need to unionize at my restaurant because I'm nice to them" or something like that. I can't find it because they were posts in the old sub that maybe linked to an AMA.

              He's better than others, but I don't really follow him for his politics: https://twitter.com/kenjilopezalt/status/1241262616690847745?s=19

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      It depends. It's common in workplaces like this and similar situations the workers/people lower in the hierarchy have a kind of stockholm syndrome where they actually want the higher ups to be hard and borderline abusive because "that's the way it is/should be" and so they can perpetuate the cycle of abuse if/when they get the rare chance to be the higher up. It's an extreme version of the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" situation. For instance the person that made this post is against unionisation now that they have a restaurant, wonder why???

      Should still try to organise and unionize regardless, you never know if you don't try.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah. Also if the contestants on hell's kitchen or something are very likely to be executive chefs of their own restaurant before going on, which is another added factor.

        • Goovis__young [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          they dont want to stop the exploitation, they want to become the exploiters :quark: