/ck/ - Food & Cooking

It's boring

>>18082653
gay and boring until it’s gay and busy

It's just like that show "Th Bear", except none of the minorities have a redemption arc or the ability to feel positive emotions.

working in a restaurant kitchen is hard mode. working as a chef in a dining hall is easy mode.
>40 hours with 1.5x overtime only when you want it
>spend day prepping or spend day cooking, never both
>medical, dental, vision, life insurance

>>18082653
You're gonna get laid but you'll also be low key depressed and will chain smoke your way to a bad case of early 40s lung cancer.

>>18082795

>>18082795
This pretty much.

I saw a line prep straight shoot dope with the health inspector in the building

>>18082653
It takes a special breed. I don't get them, kitchen working conditions (at least in my experience) are hell. I got hired in at bun&fry at a frisch's and I lasted one day. It's just not for me, I could only imagine what it's like for cooks at more formal locations.

>>18083072
I’d take a “formal location” any day of the week; I used to work for a Michelin Star restaurant and even though it’s hell at least it’s regimental as hell, so you don’t ever have to worry about some lazyass not doing prep and you also don’t have to worry about working in a filthy kitchen. Everything is extremely systematic and you don’t ever get the impression that it’s a chaotic environment. Sure, it was extremely stressful, but it was very organised and while it was an *extremely* tight ship I did appreciate it a lot. Whereas the typical fast food kitchen is a fucking filthy mess and I absolutely do not ever eat fast food anymore (it’s been over a decade since I’ve been to McTrash or any other fast food chain, once you’ve seen how the average fast food kitchen is run it’s hard to ever stomach eating at one). I’ve also done banquet at a five star hotel and again it’s tough work but the regimental boot camp-style environment does make things a lot more manageable.

>>18082653
It's honest work with a sort of fulfillment you would never get from an office job. But it's also ran by terrible people who don't give a shit about you and somehow it became an american meme to shit on people who make food so no one will ever give a damn about you.

>>18082653
Awful, life-consuming occupation
Go back to school and do something more fulfilling
Cooking is only fun when you do it for yourself and people you love

>>18082653
It’s hot and sweaty, you come home stinking like fryer oil, you make chump change for wages, your coworkers are mostly stoner drop outs, and the longer you do it the worse your resume looks.

The one good thing is there is plenty to hot girls to be fucked.

Chinese work you on 60 hour weeks at 9 an hour.

Western ones go for 13 at 25 hours, then get pissed when you work second jobs. I've been fired for having people call me begging to take their shift because their parent died.

Servers will pocket your tips, then get pissed when you tell them to fuck off for their special customers.

Management will look at your workload, crack addict calling out every Saturday, and conclude you should make a special.

>>18082653
How tolerant of drug addicts are upu

>>18082653
Either gay and boring, gay but cool when talking about random shit with coworkers, or fucking miserable during rushes and cleaning

I'm a full blown alcoholic and I've started getting grey hair at 29 after ~8 years in the industry.
Also I'm too old to fuck servers without it being a scandal and getting labelled as a creep. I'm probably too old to be doing the job full stop, I feel like I have full body RSI after a shift.

>>18083956
29 isn't too old to be fucking waitresses you wimp that's just an excuse you tell yourself.

>>18082653
Just do construction instead

there is literally no reason to work in a kitchen unless you're ESL/socially retarded/on lots of drugs

But if you're good at it you can eventually make a middle-class living working way harder for longer hours than any equivalent job

>>18084149
>socially retarded
Yep, that checks out

>>18082653
sounds like my faggot cousin lol

>>18083956
God I'd kill myself if I had grey hair as a fellow 19 year old

>>18084265
Grey hair is based faggots. No hair is cringe though.

>>18082653
More interesting and fun than other entry level jobs you can just get, but also more difficult and tiring. Depends a lot on your coworkers and how you interact with them since nothing ever goes perfectly and you will deal with others mistakes and your own.

I was a dishwasher for a little while. That was nice, peaceful. They made me bus and give water once, that sucked.

>>18082653
Illiterate immigrants and barely functioning legal burnouts can do this job and fuck dumb underage waitresses. Think about it they didn't even have to take on student debt loans to work on the line. The profession is barely one step above roofing. Your hero Bourdain hated running kitchens and only escaped because his mommy got him a book deal after all his fiction was rejected.

>>18082653
you might develop an amphetamine habit. you might become an alcoholic if you stay there long enough. it's kind of cool cus at least you get free meals working in a restaurant

I'd suggest being a busboy instead of linecook. preferably at like a pub or bar that also has a kitchen. it's faster paced and you work harder but getting a share of the server's tips can be some serious dosh, and it's all cash right. But I mean thats supposing you don't want to actually work with food because you want to make a career as a cook

>>18083235
How would that guy get out without breaking all the eggs?

>>18082658
Best post

>>18082653
Stressful, real bro-tier coworkers, lots of drugs.

Bad Wages
Bad hours
When you're cooking the same things over and over again it becomes boring.
asshole owners/managers
asshole coleagues.

As a career it will chew you up and spit you out with nothing to show for it.

>>18083956
Daddy kink is a thing anon, go smash those hoes.
And ditch the booze, a /fit/ daddy gets pussy but a fat alcoholic doesn't.

>>18082653
When your neurologist tells you part of the reason you've started having grand mal seizures is because you only get 3-4 hours of sleep because of closing the kitchen at 1-2 AM and showing up 5-6 AM, you realize it's more of a health risk than the worst parts of the military.

>>18083956
Dude, I was 33 when I started fucking a 19 year old server and three years later we're still together. It's only creepy if you're a creep.

>>18082653
Unless you're an ex-convict, a junkie, an illegal or fifteen you've got no business working in a kitchen.

>>18082653
Worked at a local chain in Michigan called Olga's Kitchen. It is a sit down restaurant and the food was almost fast food tier but not quite.
I got hired in at 24 as a waiter. I was one of three male waiters so it wasn't too weird. I stayed there for a little shy of 5 years. I loved it, I enjoyed the customers and my coworkers/bosses. I didn't care if I got tipped or not, I was surrounded by good people and free food. Waitresses varied from ultra hot jailbait to 40 year old chain smokers.

We all hung out after our shifts, there was a lot of camaraderie. We would all go to the local bar in the next parking lot, drink there till midnight and then head to the other local bar and hang out till 3am. Hanging out with a lot of female coworkers at the bar helps you not look like a creep, worked in my favor a couple of times.

The dishwasher was some 40+ year old 5ft skinny dude with neck tattoos and loved Skillet and Seether. He would bitch and moan about trust and loyalty and then never pay you back the 5 bucks he owes ya. Constantly hit on jailbait waitresses, constantly smoked. Lived in one of the shittiest areas in Metro Detroit (River Rouge) and would bang the ugliest Ogre looking chicks just to get a place to sleep at. Truly lived life on the edge.

The cooks varied as well. On one hand we had Tyrone the other 40+ year old guy. He was a smooth talker and 'always had you'. You'd call out for a sandwich that was missed, and he had ya, but he didn't. He had a list of names on his forearm of all 12 of his kids with different baby moms. He would walk out of a shift every 3-4 months. Sold shitty weed. Truly a character.
The other cooks were around my age and hella fun to work with. We would make jokes all day and shit talk each other. One instance in particular still makes me giggle:

>>18087374
It was a busy service hour, we have spinach pies that are made to order and take around 16-20 mins to make at least. Me being a waiter lost track of time and noticed it was at the 20 minute mark. The cook also forgot. I yell out to the cook to get the jew out of the oven. He looks confused, then a smile. He's like oh shit! He grabs his oven mitts and watching this dude contain his loud as fuck laughter and get this huge ass fucking tray out of the oven was hilarious. I just kept telling him to get the jew out! They were so close to being sent back but they were not quite burnt but close, very close.

Overall the restaurant business is hella fun with the right people. This goes for just about any job there, but the service was something different. The unknown of what type of people come in and sit down have a lot of different stories and things to say. Some days it was fun, some days it was hard to think. Overall I loved the people I worked with and it was a lot of good times there, I learned a lot of people and customer service skills there and has helped out my career overall.

Thanks for listening to my blog post.

>>18082795
What exactly is a dining hall? What examples are there in america?
Can I get in as a baker?
>>18087399
Got the recipe for the spinach pie?

>>18082653
>short staff on a friday night
>no real social life

>>18087449

>>18082653
It's like factory work in a really small, shitty factory, with real-time supply/demand feedback. If you're going in expecting a sane, safe work environment where you get to express your creativity, maybe apply to a test kitchen?

>>18087449
>no real social life
this so much, worked at a restaurant for 8 years, Fridays and Saturdays were absolute must work days. It killed my social life completely

>>18087302
>you realize it's more of a health risk than the worst parts of the military.
it's me again (>>18087503) not only did I spend 8 years in a restaurant, it was so miserable I yolo'd into the Marines for 4 years and I can confirm. The restaurant was way fucking worse and requires significantly more discipline, mental capacity, and physical endurance, it made the military look like a joke.

>>18086325
He doesn't. Why do you think the kid looks so nervous?

>>18087512
>when you have to maintain a mirror-shine on one of your pair of shoes
>when I'm talking about the kitchen, not the military
You can't force me to go back. I'd rather die in an alley.

>>18087529
That's exactly what I meant, you don't even need to shine your shoes in the military anymore because of the shiny plastic coating on the dress shoes and suede on the boots. I'd rather die in an alley than go back in the restaurant

>>18082653
picrel hits the mark well enough. also you will fuck yourself up on a mandoline at least once.

>>18087319
t. actual creep

>>18082653
you better befriend your fellow cooks, otherwise you're not gonna enjoy the long busy hours if you can't joke around with them

>>18087652
t. Angry virgin

>>18087733
Literally anyone will tell you a 12 year age difference gives massive creep vibes. My parents were 7 years apart and some people even thought that was a little weird. You are in denial.

>>18087319
Don't listen to em my man. Tons of parents have a pretty significant age difference between then. My grandma and grandpa had about a 20 year age difference on the and had a bazillion kids to make our huge family

>inb4 minorities
They're white. The older generations could fuck and produce large families because they were wealthier.

>>18082653
Prep cook is me

>>18087757
Age is just a number, only actual pedos realize the age gap. Who cares as long as she's a mature adult

>>18087893
the line cooks are always angry because you're a carefree fuckup who never preps the right amount and fucks shit up constantly. fuck you. takes you an hour to prep a dozen onions because you're gossiping with consuela and listening to nikki minaj on your phone instead of doing your job. you spend the first 15 minutes of your shift looking for one of those gay cut proof gloves nobody uses.

>>18087896
>19
>shes totally mature for her age bro
lol, lmao even. get a grip you fucking creep.

>>18087757
I dated a 19yo I worked with in fast food. I was 31 and a fat loser in a shitty apartment with a drug problem and got 19yo pussy and a few threesomes out of it. got drunk once and woke up in the back of her car in the parking lot of work because she didn't know where else to take me and my regional manager got mad and called me in for a meeting and called me a creep.

didn't care, got laid

>>18087319
>>18087896
>>18087958

based

>>18087896
>Who cares as long as she's a mature adult
She may be but you are not, as exemplified by your shitty, childish, low skill job and chasing after the teenage girls who work there. 30+ year old men who go after these girls are low value manchildren effectively ostracized by actual adult women who know better and so they prey on young impressionable girls who tend to mistake their lack of ambition and pithy, sarcastic, borderline nihilistic outlook as confidence and wisdom.

Either that or they are rich and famous. But you're not rich and famous. You're just a loser. And when your child gf grows up a little bit more, she will realize it and dump your pathetic, creepy, loser ass.

>>18087980
>be a loser
>be a loser getting young pussy

the choice is clear, anon.

also, that's pretty misogynistic to deny these women their agency and to frame them as naive and exploited, you hateful chauvinist.

>>18087980
I mean, what you posted is true but you seem really angry about it. Let the two idiots have their fun for a few years before it catches up to them. Hopefully they don't fuck up and have a kid, though.

>>18087997
how dare you. the poster you're responding to is the absolute model of mental stability and morality. that's why he's sperging on 4chan because men like to have sex with women in their physical prime. duh. he's a defender of women, don't you get it??

>>18087997
I'm just pointing out that you (or that anon, if you aren't him) are living a lie on borrowed time. Your relationship has an inevitable expiration date which is fast approaching, and when it comes you will be almost 40 which is far, far too old even for impressionable young girls who may have otherwise been fooled by you a few years earlier.

So you will be stuck in limbo, with successful, high quality adult women your own age already married, and young girls being absolutely, undeniably creeped out by your advances. The only people who will bother with you are ugly, defective almost-but-not-quit-middle-aged women who could never attract a man willing to propose to them or maybe divorcees, but even then the only divorcees willing to touch you with a 30 foot pole will be low quality ones who married a loser in the first place. Oh, and single moms.

Dating is like a job. Don't date for a long time? Looks bad on your dating resume. Date only girls almost half your age? Looks really, really bad on your resume. Once this little teeny bopper dumps your lame ass, girls are going to wonder why you're almost 40 and never married and why your ex was an actual child. They will very quickly identify you as a low value male.

Reflect, and reconsider your life's trajectory.

I don't get the boring thing said in this thread. my line cook job was way more exciting than IT. I would not go back because shit pay no benefits but unless you have your actual dream job, most office jobs are gonna be way more boring than cooking.

>>18087905
The line cooks loved me because I'm goofy
>listening to nikki minaj on your phone
I'm actually listening to mirrai niki op but you're spot on, on everything else

>>18088033
I'm handsome and charismatic, women like me. They'll always be around, because I'm fun and a nice hang. I'm sorry you have to put in so much effort to find one. You seriously overestimate how picky women are, probably because that's been your personal experience because you repulse them. Sorry, bro.

Anyway, I've been in a long term relationship with a woman my age for the last few years. So all your typing has been for naughty. Thanks anyways.

>>18087997
>frame them as naive and exploited
Also, I'm not framing women as naive and exploited, I'm pointing out that young people are naive and are routinely exploited which is pretty much always the case when a 30+ year old grown adult enters into a relationship with an actual teenager. It can happen to young men too, something which is famously depicted in The Graduate..

>>18088061
I bet they get real wet when you start quoting 50 year old Dustin Hoffman movies to make points about social justice, lmao

>>18088054
>I was 33 when I started fucking a 19 year old server and three years later we're still together.
I'm talking to this guy who is about to get booted off his free ride and have his face smashed in on the cold concrete of reality.

>>18088065
>social justice
You hear that whooshing sound?

>>18088033
I'm not really seeing an issue with anon dating her as long as she's of legal age. Anon gets to have his fun for a few years and the girl eventually learns not to date old losers and then dumps his ass or cheats on him and then dumps him. As long as they don't have a kid together, it's not a big deal. Also the dating field you described is basically what both genders have to look forward to at 30+ regardless if anon dates a young girl for a year or two. It isn't going to change shit.

>>18088066
Free ride? We're talking about fucking, bro, not having a kid pay your bills... what are you even talking about? lmao

They're drawn to older men precisely because we have our own cars and apartments, unlike the majority of men their age who still live with their parents. You crazy dude.

>>18088070
Was it the sound of you masturbating alone, without the aid of porn because it objectifies women?

>>18088033
You know your wife or girlfriend fucked a bunch of older men when she was young, and probably enjoyed every moment of it, right?

>>18088074
I'm just illustrating that having a 22 year old girlfriend at 35 is absolutely creepy, sends massive red flags out to every woman in your social circle, it won't last forever, and when it ends he is going to be pretty well fucked because actual, desirable, high value women aren't very kind to 40 something males who have "low value" effectively plastered on their forehead. It's about understanding and making the right choices is all.
>>18088079
Nope, it was the sound of the point flying straight over your head as you continue to believe anything I am saying is about some vague notion of "social justice".
>>18088081
I met my wife in our first year of college and to my knowledge was never with an "older man", unless you are now prepared to suggest and defend the idea that all 18 year old girls undoubtedly fuck dozens of 30+ year old guys.

>>18088090
I think you're a very out of touch person. Young women typically enjoy fucking older men, older men typically enjoy fucking younger women. People tend to eventually settle down with someone nearer their age because it's easy to bond with someone you can more closely related to. Simple as. Always has been, always will be. Making a huge issue of it is really bizarre and makes me think you're a lonely larper.

>>18082849
I didn't chain smoke when I was a line cook.
I just developed crippling alcoholism and typically drank a minimum of four bourbons and coke a night, eight or more after a function.

>>18088090
>I'm just illustrating that having a 22 year old girlfriend at 35 is absolutely creepy, sends massive red flags out to every woman in your social circle, it won't last forever, and when it ends he is going to be pretty well fucked because actual, desirable, high value women aren't very kind to 40 something males who have "low value" effectively plastered on their forehead.

Yeah, I 100% agree with you here but I get the feeling that anon probably doesn't have a social circle to send a red flag out to (this is 4chan) and was probably lucky to trick some young woman into fucking him to begin with. Like you said, that relationship is on borrowed time and it'll teach the young girl how to better weed out losers when she outgrows the relationship. It would be really fucking shitty if they ended up having a kid, though.

>>18088096
I think you are blurring the lines of what "younger women/older men" really means to fit your own wildly misguided understanding of sex and relationships. I know that people tend to settle with people around their own age. What I am saying here >>18088033 is that a 35+ year old line cook who demonstrates low value through his shitty, low skill job and then further demonstrates that low value by only being able to attract naive young girls is going to have a really hard time settling down with anything close to what anyone would reasonably consider a high value woman, which can easily be described as really any woman worth marrying and having children with. If he grows up and quits pretending he is still in his twenties he can still find a woman worth settling down with. If he carries on for much longer playing a stupid game with a girl half his age who will certainly bail on him once he pushes 40, he's going to have a way harder, shittier time trying to lead a happy life.

>>18086323
>it's all cash
You've still gotta pay taxes on it though right?

>>18088127
only if you declare it all which only a fucking braindead retard would do

>>18088122
Line cooks don't just turn their lives around and become successful people. They're line cooks for a reason. The lifestyle is literally being poor and having a series of failed relationships until you find someone who is as horrible as you, and you both settle and stick it out until death. Stop pretending you have any actual advice for poor retards.

>>18087652
t. post-wall barren woman

>>18088133
Suck a fucking dick. I went to college for business management and got stuck in this hell. The idea that every cook is a fucking slave because they're ex-criminals or something pisses me off. I swear to god entering this industry, even to survive, is suicide, and a black mark on your record so you can never leave for anything decent.

Fuck yourself with box-grater. Shove it all the way up there. Then forget to call 911 because I don't want your opinions burdening society anymore.

>>18088133
>Line cooks don't just turn their lives around and become successful people. They're line cooks for a reason. The lifestyle is literally being poor and having a series of failed relationships until you find someone who is as horrible as you, and you both settle and stick it out until death.
This.

>>18088145
Triggered.

and your wife definitely fucked older dudes in college.

>>18087980
30+ women are of precisely zero value other than as mothers to their children. If they have no children to raise they are of no value.

>>18088149
You think that's going to bother me? Cook. Can't afford a wife dumbass.

>>18088133
No place to go but up for a lot of these people if they just get their head out of the gutter and think about the future for one second. Not gonna do that with a 22 year old pocket pussy balancing on his cock every night. It's important to help people like this realize it won't last and maybe it will convince them to better themselves. At least I think so. Either nothing will happen and he will carry on being an immature, ineffectual waste inevitably aging into another bitter, depressed, low value burden on society, or he grows up before it's far too late and everyone benefits.

>>18088145
this nigga got a degree and is salty as fuck because he's still to stupid and unqualified to do anything but run chicken breasts through a conveyor oven at Chili's, holy shit I am laffin

>>18088090
>sends massive red flags out to every woman in your social circle

>>18088161
The immense irony of this post is completely lost on you I'm sure. Roger Sterling doesn't care because he is rich and already married with children. Anon is a fucking broke ass line cook, sending red flags out to women is a huge problem for him.

>>18088151
it appears your jimmies have been rustled. I'm not even a cook, I learned a trade and left that hellscape.

what are you? An applebees manager? Lmao, we probably make the same salary, except I never work nights, weekends or holidays, don't have to manage criminals and zoomers and have wayyy better benefits and 401k matching, Mr
community college white knight


And I got to fuck a bunch of young restaurant bitches

Kek

>>18088161
Oh, and if you actually couldn't tell, Roger is a fucking manic depressive.

>>18088168
>Oh, and if you actually couldn't tell, Roger is a fucking manic depressive.

>>18088122
go back to r/femaledatingstrategy legbeard

>>18088171
Anon should be making the schedule for next week and figuring out which shifts he has to cover because Schaquanda wants to go to see Lil Boosie, but instead he's defending the honor of young adult women on 4chan and pretending he's superior to everyone

Lmao this thread made my evening

>>18088171
lol, ok retard. Carry on idolizing your fictional anti-heroes who are so much more successful than you will ever be that literally nothing they do could ever be successfully applied in your own life.

>>18088127
nigga how would I know
you declare your income at the end of the year for wha
they already rape you on every paycheck and everything you buy

>>18088175
I'm not a cook, and I'm not defending anyone's honor.

>>18088181
They're retards that can't tell anons apart.

>>18088181
Do cooks make schedules now?

You're a chain restaurant manager. You think that's a lofty position or something?

>>18088186
I'm not a restaurant manager, I don't even work in the service industry.

>>18088188
If you're the guy who posted the soyjack, I know you're not the guy I was arguing with. I was talking shit about him to you.

If you're the white knight, well.. why have such strong feelings about service industry jobs being dead ends if you don't even work in the industry?

Working in a woke inclusive kitchen is based. Same easy work but no one yelling at me calling me a cockeyed tweezer, whatever that means.

>>18088190
>white knight
I'm not white knighting for anybody,
>why have such strong feelings about service industry jobs being dead ends if you don't even work in the industry?
I don't have very strong feelings for it. I worked as a line cook immediately before and during college though. I do have strong feelings for illustrating to people that they are failing really hard and that they can achieve greater successes in life. Behind every truly successful man there is a great woman, and the slutty 19 year old waitress anon was able to convince is no great woman and can actually be thought of as just another vice holding him back. More importantly though, she will inevitably dump his sorry ass and he will be older and less valuable still, with fewer opportunities to turn that around.

>>18088198
I banged a lot of young restaurant bitchea and did fentanyl until I was in my early 30s. I make 80k a year and am paying off a mortgage on a house whose equity has nearly doubled in the 5 years since I bought it, so I'm not sure if you even know what you're talking about. Young pussy didn't hurt me none.

>>18088198
You need to realize that a lot of people don't give a shit about becoming successful and are meant to kind of slide along the bottom of society until they eventually grow old and die. They're as content to live that kind of life as you are to live the way that you do. Most 30+ year old line cooks fall into this category. Let anon enjoy his young pussy while he can. He was lucky to score it to begin with.

>>18088206
Anon is 36 and in a long term relationship with a girl he met when she was a teenager, I think most reasonable people can agree this isn't the same as "banging a lot of young restaurant bitches". And just because you have achieved some success, that doesn't mean it's the norm. You can't seriously say that railing lines of fentanyl into your thirties is a good thing or that it won't dramatically reduce your odds of lifetime success and happiness. But you also talk like a fucking retard so maybe you do believe that.

>>18088215
>You need to realize that a lot of people don't give a shit about becoming successful and are meant to kind of slide along the bottom of society until they eventually grow old and die.
That doesn't mean we should be content with people scraping the bottom of the barrel and just generally being a low effort loser. Some people when they hear some cold hard truths they actually do change for the better.

>>18088216
My point was to negate your claim that you're sabotaging your life irreparably by having some flings with young women, samefag. lol

>>18088225
>samefag
You don't even seem to know what that means. And a 3+ year relationship isn't a fling, especially when each year brings you closer to 40.

>>18088216
I know you're a lying samefag because you didn't mention your age until now, retard. lol

>>18088228
>he lacks basic comprehension
That isn't my age dipshit. It's >>18087319 age.

>>18088090
>my wife to my knowledge was never with an "older man"

>>18088221
Why does it fucking matter? Society will always need losers to flip your burgers and pump your gas. Your image is dumb and so is your argument. Let anon enjoy his young slut while he can.

who knew a bunch of retarded low value losers on 4channel would be so vehemently opposed to becoming productive and successful, mature adults

>>18088231
Oh well, this is boring now anyway. You win the argument, white knight.


If I had it all to do over, I'd still chase young pussy.

Jannies gonna ban us for all this autistic arguing.

>>18088237
You don't know what white knight means.

>>18088236
If anon's own family can't convince him to change some obnoxious, anonymous dipshit isn't going to. How stupid are you to waste your night doing this shit?

>>18088240
>hurr men and women can be equally exploited by older sexual predators soooo technically I'm not a white knight

Very woke.

>>18088243
It's Sunday evening for me. And maybe it will wake him up a bit, who could say? It's really no skin off my ass explaining this.

>>18087442
cafeterias. hospitals, nursing homes, schools/colleges

>>18082653
Get out. Do literally anything else. Trust me, it's fucking awful. Ten years of my life, down the drain, made no real money, wrecked my body for nothing, for some false sense of accomplishment because I did the exact same smear on a plate ten thousand times a night. I quit for good a few months ago and have been working as a groundskeeper ever since, I actually enjoy it and I have a lot of good bennies and vacation time and whatnot. Do ANYTHING else.

>>18088248
He's a 30+ year old line cook in a relationship with someone over a decade younger. You're farting in the wind, man. He spent his entire life fucking up and countless people closer to him assuredly wasted more time worrying about his choices than you have.

Wow, this thread.. I can't believe there are "men" out who are actively trying convince other men to not fuck 18 year old girls, "for their own sakex, and do so from a smug position of moral authority.

Shameful, low test behavior.

working in a restaurant is like participating in an unethical psychology experiment

>>18088246
You're operating under the misapprehension that I think it's some kind of moral wrong for anon to have effectively exploited this girl. I don't care about the girl and I've repeatedly labelled her as slutty and low value. All I said was that the only reason anon is with this girl is because young people are naive and immature, so his faults can appear as good qualities in their eyes (self-immolating nihilism appears as "depth" and wisdom, for example). He resorts to young, immature women, because high value women nearer to his age immediately identify these faults and ditch him. The young girl he is with now will very quickly get older and realize this as well, which is when she will dump him and he will be a dumb fucking retarded 40 year old loser with even fewer prospects than he does today. You have fundamentally missed the point out of a burning desire to post nothing but gotcha buzzwords and "win" an argument that only exists in your own head.

>>18088263
>another retarded, facile post promoting the humiliation of women, the failure of man, and the degradation of society
surprise

>>18087893
I did this when I was young and I was fucked up on drugs the entire time
>>18087905
This guy works in a kitchen

>>18088234
>Society will always need losers to flip your burgers and pump your gas.
society doesnt need grown ass men doing this and they shouldnt be doing this. teenagers and immigrants do this and maybe college kids. society shouldnt be happy with producing middle aged men who flip burgers.

>>18088296
Why shouldn't society allow "grown ass men" to work as line cooks? If people want to work those jobs and they're as qualified as people younger than them, they should be allowed to do it. If they have to resort to that, either they already have enough money saved up to coast through life doing what they want or they're in a desperate situation.

>society shouldnt be happy with producing middle aged men who flip burgers.
Society produces homeless people, rapists, murderers, and dopeheads. People flipping burgers are what bother you? For fuck's sake.

>>18088307
>People flipping burgers are what bother you?
no all of those other things suck too and society hates them all. should hate 40 year old burger flippers too.

>>18088312
What if someone just enjoys cooking because it's an easy job and they have money saved up? What a stupid thing to be bothered by when there is so much fucked up shit in the world and your own issues to worry about.

>>18088315
Correction, I didn't mean to imply that it was physically easy so don't jump my ass, line cooks. It was just wasn't that bad when I was young working those types of jobs but I didn't stick around long admittedly.

>>18088315
>how dare society place greater expectations on it people
maybe youre a 40 year old burger flipping loser and thats why youre so mad. it makes perfect sense to encourage people to become better. i like how you add the "if they have money saved up" qualifying statement to make it seem more normal and ok to be a middle aged dead end retard, even though the fact that they have money saved up suggests they arent as useless as a retarded burger flipper to begin with

>>18088329
I've done that type of work before when I was younger and I don't understand why you look down on people that fix your food just because they might be middle aged. You come off as insecure if shit like that bothers you.

>>18088333
>insecure
this is a massive cope you projecting fag. there is nothing wrong with encouraging a middle aged man in a dead end job from making something more of himself. kys.

>>18088337
Do you even have a job? You type like you're underage.

>>18088340
>cope
>deflect
>cope
>deflect
>cope
kek dont @ me ever again

>>18083197
>it became a meme
Niggers have been well documented and shown to see anyone being nice to them or serving them as honorary slaves. You cannot fraternize with them, they will only drag you down and devour you.

TLDR, only a nigger is stupid enough to belittle the person making their food.

>>18088342
>ask if you're underage
>replies in memes
lol

>>18088343
Sometimes I kind of wish I stuck with being a cook instead of working in a factory but then I read shit like >>18088329 and realize that society would consider me on par with a child molester for doing it. Being a press operator is miserable work and I at least had fun when I was a cook.

I feed on human suffering so I enjoy working in a kitchen more than most. Even if you're ugly as sin you're probably guaranteed to have a waitress or two gush over you. The other chefs I work with (with 1 exception) are actual drug addicts. They all seem to hate their job on some level and I enjoy listening to them moan about how their work as a chef is the one thing fucking up their lives. The other chefs are all highschool dropouts. They think i'm some sort of scholar when in reality i'm just a normal dude who didn't habitually smoke weed since I was 13.

>>18088145
>. I went to college for business management and got stuck in this hell.

You're a fucking clown

Fucking awful and shit pay. Some of the most stressful jobs I've worked was back of the house as a linecook at a family owned place and chain restaurants. Managed to get laid a lot and free booze/drugs though.

>>18082653
I did it for 17 years.
will never work in another kitchen for the rest of my life.
will never eat out either.

>>18082795
all chefs are fat lazy fucks with messiah complexes.

>>18089062
where did you have sex?

>>18086323
that's a weird restaurant. the one I worked at the customers would pay and tip with cards most of the time.
we were lucky enough that boss cashed us out at the end of the night though

>>18087512
what did you do in the marines

>>18087374
>On one hand we had Tyrone the other 40+ year old guy. He was a smooth talker and 'always had you'. You'd call out for a sandwich that was missed, and he had ya, but he didn't.
this would make a great voiceover

>>18089282
I just did it as Morgan Freeman... it does. It absolutely does.

>>18089276
I sucked a mean cock

>>18087980
>Low value men
>Fucking the highest valued pussy
I don't get it anon, seems like they're doing something right. Why are you so upset?

>>18089553
Because "he" is a butthurt middle aged woman. Remember which board you're on.

>>18089563
>Women on the internet
Hah! What's next? Are you going to tell me they can vote and own property?

>>18089598
Bitter 4chan catladies get as angry as incel neckbeards when others are getting laid.

It's cool to fuck girls younger than you. Also cool to fuck girls older than you. Just don't fuck fatties or radfems

I swear i was the only person at every kitchen I worked in who didnt do any of the following:
drink alcohol
smoke weed
do cocoain/heroin/any "harder" drugs

I work as a cook in a pretty expensive steakhouse in a casino. The hours can be pretty rough and the weekends are brutal but time goes by pretty fast and you can talk shit to the other cooks and banter the whole time. You can get mad and throw shit at the wall and the chef will rarely even comment on it. Very high energy and crazy

>closed tonight
>opens tomorrow
Haha. AHAHAHA. I think I'm going to quit my job.

>>18083122
t. prissy faggot that pretends he doesnt push mcdoubles up his bum

>>18088051
I love you because you let me fuck your bussy during break behind the dumpster at the back

>YOU FUCKING PEDO CREEP SHE'S ONLY NINETEEN YEARS OLD!

>>18089700
But I prefer fatties. Then again, I never gave much of a shit about seeming cool.

Why do Americans treat the people that cook their food like lepers? It's so bizarre

>>18089700
I'm trans too sending you love sister
>>18089874
It's a mutual contempt

>>18089902
When American media makes jokes about people having their food spit in, it makes more sense now. If everyone hates you for making their food, why not spit in it?

>>18089874
obligatory Waiting reply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okNc-9Txjdk

holy crap i laughed so hard at the guy clutching his pearls over some throwaway story some anon told
fucking great, thanks for the laugh lads

>>18089972
that was a disgruntled femanon

>>18088133
I was happy to be a line cook at first, then the stress kicked in and vowed to never enter the field again. 4 years later I'm doing way better than at that time. Shit will motivate you

>>18082795
I also work as a chef in a dining hall.
As long as you have a union it can be pretty decent.

cooking is fun
the crush of the line is fun
pulling off a busy night with coworkers that fast become your comrades is fun
the hours suck
the days off suck
restaurant owners are 99% snakes

>>18089801

I worked in the kitchen two summers as a summerjob when I was 18. Never drank that much alcohol.

Downed at least one bottle of rose wine after every shift on company costs.

>>18082653
Work agency. You get paid more, get to choose your hours, don't get sick of working in the same place, and don't have the stresses of if it was your own kitchen.

Head chef at a small independent. I work 40 hour weeks, get to finish at 10, and can do whatever food I want. Getting to here is the reason I became a chef.

>>18090313

The owners of the restaurant I worked two summer at we're quite allright. Paid good, and they were open for ideas.

Also they let us get wasted after every shift.

>>>/wsg/4621561

>>18090705
reading this whole cunting thread and this is what I wanted

thanks!

>>18083122
No one's impressed

It's hot and pretty hectic but it's kinda fun at the same time. The pay sucks

>>18091100
yeah the pay really does suck. its easy to romanticise the job but the office chair jockeys we all make fun of work less hard for less hours and make more money than us. sure their job is soul sucking clown world nonsense, but at least they get the weekends off.

>>18082653
I was only a dishwasher, not a line cook when I worked in restaurants but:
>hot
>humid
>everything is filthy
>waitresses hate you
>cooks are insane/high/both and hate you even more
>80% chance you boss will be a pajeet

>>18082849
Smoking is the only time I ever got a break working back of house

>>18082849
I hate how smoking is like stress eating but it keeps you skinny but it also makes your body blue screen

>>18091235
>waitresses hate you
>cooks are insane/high/both and hate you even more
why does everyone hate you, anon?

>>18088327
You didn't answer the question, fool

>>18088329
Neither did this angry shitstain

>>18088066
Say what you want, chief, but the simple fact is you don't know shit about me, apart from that little tidbit about my relationship.
I'm a decent guy, I use my manners, I'm not some stereotypical line cook. I'm creative, I enjoy cooking, I enjoy creating new dishes, and I am fucking good in a professional kitchen. It's been my chosen career path for fifteen years now, I've done everything from prep cook to head chef, currently working at a place as a sous.
In terms of the age gap between my girlfriend and I, again, you don't know sweet fuck all about either of us. Our relationship is stronger than it's ever been. Planning on moving across the country soon. I didn't start fucking her because I'm some low value male, we simply clicked for all the reasons that any relationship should click.
Don't be mad because a dude older than you is getting young pussy and you're not. :(
So that being said, take your projections and stereotypes, and fuck right off, bud.

You get to bust in a lot of waitresses

>>18091235
>dishwasher
>hot
>humid

I wonder how this came about

It is worth mentioning that line cooks still dominate the hierarchy of the restaurant, they get waitress pussy and busboy bussy

But the inevitable lung cancer and shitty pay may not be worth it

>>18087958
>old enough to vote but not old enough to fuck

>>18091100
Pay's getting better. Most places around here start at $18-19/hr because it's so hard to find good cooks. So many people switched careers during lockdown.

>>18091742
Both of those posts are mine, idiot. You can't edit posts on 4chan so I had to respond to myself.

>>18090705
Honestly that was better than some short films I've seen

does being a line cook really get you laid by hot waitresses? even if you arent attractive and exude ultra incel vibes?

>>18092406
it just means you're in close proximity to young girls during a whole shift. youll be chatting with them, getting to know them, laughing with them, having smoke breaks with them, from there its very easy for two people to end up having sex.

>>18092461
so the answer is no, because said young girls would not willingly chat with you if you were an unattractive autistic incel

>>18092601
That's correct

>>18092601
lol, they have no choice.

>>18091235
nobody hates the dishwasher unless he's a complete piece of shit

>>18082653
I worked in a kitchen for a while. It's fine.
It's better than manning a till or working a call-centre or whatever. I'd put it about on par with my time as a gardener, I figure most 'trades' (food, building, beauty, etc) are basically on a similar level.
I had some shitty gordan-ramsay wannabe bosses, but they still somehow managed to be less terrible than the suits I worked for in retail.

That said, these days I'm working in the arts and don't intend to go back. Shit was exhausting and I like being my own boss.

>>18091752
any guy pushing 40 insisting that he just "clicked" with a teenage waitress is either lying or really is a major fucking creep in denial desu. its like those 20 something bimbos that get with an 80 year old billionaire and insist it really is all about his personality, they have so much in common. nobody believes that bs for one second lmao

>>18093369
>Don't be mad because a dude older than you is getting young pussy and you're not. :(
this single sentence right here basically confirms creepy dude. i thought age was just a number and you really click? who cares about her "young pussy"? thats not what your relationship is about surely...

>>18087757
>>18087319
>>18087757
>>18087938
>>18087958
>>18087980
>>18088090
>>18083956

"creep vibes"
zoomcels are so worried about looking like a creep that theyll spend most of their life sheltered, alone, and unable to get pussy
they cant get pussy themselves so they obsess over what other men are doing
the internet has fucked up your natural ability to pull

I'm glad im from the generation where i can approach and have sex with women i find attractive without being scared of labeled "creepy" by virgin zoomers

you guys literally cockblock yourselves and its sad

>>18093369
>>18093372
You act as if we don't use the age gap to make things more fun while we fuck.

>tfw no hot, young girls work at your restaurant
It fucking sucks. Every other restaurant I worked at I managed to get laid. I should go somewhere else

>>18093379
>mass reply
>reddit spacing
>le ebin zoomer and incel buzzwords in one go
>"pull"
>cringe LARP boasting

you will never, ever have sex you fucking obvious permavirgin.

>>18087896
The Carl Benjamin approach: It depends on the child.

as long as you get to drink it's fun
no drinking is a BIG red flag that the chef sucks

>>18087896
i can tell you are a big stupid retard because no well adjusted man in his thirties would ever call a 19 year old waitress a mature adult

>>18093520
I mean that kind of applies to all women lol

I just got hired as a food runner, I never worked in the industry what should I expect or how should I prepare?

>>18087285
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

>>18093380
Not those anons but she will leave you once you hit the wall (it does happen to men eventually despite what you read on 4chan) for some younger dick. As long as you're alright with that, enjoy the slut while it lasts.

This thread has confirmed my long held suspicion that /ck/ is 75% women. Not a single rational person would suggest slaying 19 year old pussy as an older guy is anything other than based.

>>18093520
Post your tits you fucking hag.

>>18094035
>implying implications
Go be an outraged female somewhere else.

>>18094101
She is going to fuck someone else when you're all wrinkly and grey and she's still in her early 30s. Cope and seethe.

>>18094122
She probably will. I highly doubt we're going to be together forever, most relationships don't last.
What I don't understand is why you're so upset over a complete stranger's relationship. It sounds like you're the one who's seething, young lady. Again, go be outraged somewhere else. Twitter is a more woman-friendly platform.

>>18094143
I'm not upset, idiot. It's quite the opposite. I told you to enjoy yourself while it lasts and then you started sperging.

>>18094088
>Not a single rational person would suggest slaying 19 year old pussy as an older guy is anything other than based.
It is if you're successful. Not if you're objectively a huge loser with exactly zero prospects, because it isn't sustainable. That's rationality. He will become older and undesirable. He'll be alone, that creepy old 40 something reject in an industry populated with 20 something rejects, trying to fit in but just being "that guy" they all work with, and eventually he will probably kill himself. He has routinely demonstrated a complete lack of self awareness and intelligence and so society is probably better for it honestly.

>>18094149
>sperging
Miss, if you think that was sperging, you haven't been here very long.

ITT: creepy loser in denial is convinced he is super based and everyone with common sense is just a hysterical woman

>>18094172
You can call me a female all day if it makes you feel better. I said a very benign comment and you're losing your mind over it because you were retarded enough to get emotionally invested (enter a relationship) with a teenage slut instead of just fuck her. She'll find some other daddy that is older than her but not too old once you become a withered old raisin lol.

>>18094149
I bet youre the mind of guy who listens to classical music and drink brandy from a snifter in your apartment.

The strait dope is... It will get you no closer to landing a elementary school girl.

>>18094185
>oh no, my life won't end like a fairytale!
Grow up, kid. I'm done arguing with someone who is younger than my girlfriend.

>>18094171
Lmao you are the definition of a midwit. I'm in a good mood today so out of pity I'll give you a (you).

>>18094185
>you were retarded enough to get emotionally invested (enter a relationship) with a teenage slut instead of just fuck her
kek this is the whole point. this fucking goober thinks he is some based ladykiller for getting into a fucking serious long-term relationship with a teenager half his age. you would have to be just a complete fucking retard who has given up any hope of a normal happy life to be this stupid.

the irony is that the fact that he has entered into this kind of relationship with this girl is what basically proves he isnt a fucking pussy slaying champion. if he was he would have fucked her and moved on to another or just kept her as a little fuck buddy. im 31 years old and i cant fucking STAND being around anyone her age for very long. the only reason he is with this broad in the first place is because he feels has no other option.

Wtf middle schoolers are great for intimacy.

>>18094187
I had to google snifter just to see what you were talking about. I think just knowing what one is says a lot more about you.

>>18094252
he is a 36 year old boomer after all. i wonder if his gf knows what a snifter is. she is very mature for her age i hear

>>18094212
I've been in this career path for fifteen years, and have been fucking servers for thirteen years of that prior to this relationship. Fuck, you guys project a bunch of shit.
I'm not gonna bail on a relationship with a wonderful young lady who fucks like a champ, is open to doing new things and going new places, and shares and an astounding amount of interests with, just because there's an age gap. I have no doubt in my mind that she'll probably leave me at some point, but for now I'm happy with what we have.
Like, fuck, you pissy virgins need to chill when it comes to other people's shit. What a bunch of touchy pussies you are. If you're not happy, then nobody else here can be?

Imagine being a 35 year old fry cook boomer and going over to your 18 year old gfs house (which is her parents house) for dinner. Everyone just uncomfortable and awkward, trying to be nice but not really nice, just fake politeness because your very presence just creeps them the fuck out and they are just hoping their daughter grows the fuck up and bails on your lame ass. Pineapple Express tier cringe. And that guy was only supposed to be 25 lmao

>>18094268
You seem to be unravelling a bit.

>>18094268
>one guy who resents the fact that he settled down at 18
>assorted older women
The anons hounding you are quite the bunch.

Let's get back on topic.

>>18094268
>Like, fuck, you pissy virgins need to chill when it comes to other people's shit. What a bunch of touchy pussies you are.
you certainly communicate like a teenager so i can see how you feel you have a lot in common with this girl

Well, her shift is done, and I'm not working today, so I'm gonna go pick her up from work, drive out to the lake, and pound the shit out of my twenty two year old girlfriend in the back of the Pathfinder.
Cry some more.

>>18094289
Ok cool. Reminder that cooking is not a "career path" and you are a failure.

>>18094270
Jesus man

>>18094289
imagine still thinking this sounds cool when you are like 40. holy shit grow the fuck up dude.

>>18094286
>>18094291
>>18094309
Let's get back on topic, ok? I'm asking nicely for now, but you won't like it when my patience starts running thin.

Literally sounds like one of those fucking tools from an MTV dating show
>Hey whats up MTV, I'm anon, I'm a fry cook, I drive a pathfinder, and I'm ready to rock and roll
but instead of being a college kid he's a 35 year old man with a receding hairline

>>18094323
Yes. Very nice and all, but this is not the topic of the thread. Let's circle back, shall we?

>>18087980
>ostracized by actual adult women
made me fucking lol

>>18091235
Who hates the dishwasher?

>>18094419
No one. He's usually the guy people cop drugs off of (at least he was when I worked these types of jobs when I was young).

>>18087503
>work on weekends
>get home at 11
>too tired to even talk with friends
this sucks

>>18083235

>work in a one star michelin restaurant
>70 - 80 hours a week getting abused by the head chef
>hehe at least my resume is good now
>go to a 1 star michelin hotel
>work 60 hours a week with no bullying but still destroyed from the hours and working fucked up hours
it never ends

>>18086325
You're done when the eggs are gone.

>>18094289
keep on featherin' it brother hell yeah trump 2024

>>18091916
Where do you live? That's actually really good pay around here but I live in a small midwestern town.

>>18091235
The only time everyone where I used to work at hated the dishwasher was because he was a lazy negro that would disappear for hours, leaving the dish washing station empty and dishes stacking up. The managers couldn't find him and then he would show up out of the blue, clearly high on weed or something

>>18082653
It's definitely not for everyone.
Personally, I love it, but I can see why some people hate it.
>pay isn't great
>weird alternation between slow repetitive drudgery and GO GO GO SANIC FAST without fucking up during rushes
>weird spectrum of coworkers, some are cool as fuck and are good to work with because you don't have to babysit them, some are fucking useless unless you constantly ride their ass about shit.
>lots of eccentric misfits
>if you're a manager, there's all that plus paperwork at the end of the night after you're brain-fried from the rush, and sometimes you get yelled at by customers over retarded shit like 'they insist we got their order wrong when they ordered online / with an app and what they them self ordered wasn't actually what they wanted', or 'they're blackout drunk and must have been passed out when the delivery guy got there because they never answered the door or their phone, then when they woke up a couple hours later are pissed that their food is cold'
So yea, if that kind of bizzaro world chaos dimension is something you'd like, go for it.

>>18082653
Cooks are not artists

>>18082653
>doesn't want the Dharma

man...ain't that the truth

>>18087642
>you will fuck yourself up on a mandoline at least once
my palm has not been the same since. :/

What a thread

>>18083318
What

>>18082653
it's a lot of work decent as a part-time gig, of if you have nothing else going for you but for the love of god don't do it for the long-term. My job as a cook and dishwasher thought me a great deal about how strong muscle memory is so It kind of transferred over to life skills in a way. If you are attractive plenty of chances to attract waiters, I'm ugly so no luck so far. honestly I highly recommend staying busy as it will make time fly

if the pay was a living wage I would sign on for this with no hesitation. It feels like in reality you have far too much expected of you for the wage

>>18095909
The way I see it, it's one of those things that's only worth it if you get something out of it other than just the money.
The paycheck is enough to barely live on in my case, and I'm happy with that, I don't really need much in life.
The real payoff is more of an esoteric /x/ tier thing for me. If it wasn't for that, there's no way I'd be doing it just for the cash.

if you're going to spend more than 45 hours a week on your feet doing physical labor you're better off doing construction

>>18093510
No idea who that is but if you knew anything about children it literally does depend. Extroverted Chad Timmy = multiple blowjobs by 14, Introverted 4chan chinlet = wondering why women never wanted you when you're 24

>>18082653
i heard everyone is either and alcoholic or does drugs

>>18095960
That is absolutely true.
The only sober-ish people are the high school kids that work at a place for a few weeks in the summer for walking-around money.
My stance on it is just be sober enough to do your job without fucking up a lot of stuff and don't do your drugs somewhere where a customer could walk in on you (like the bathroom. Had a FOH gal smoking meth in the bathroom one time.), and we're gucci.
t. the alcoholic BOH manager

>>18095927
That's what I thought when I was younger, but I came to the conclusion that I don't want to lift more than about 20lbs at a time, and I want to be in out of the heat and cold. Less risk of catastrophic injury too. A few minor burns or cuts is acceptable, but some of the construction outfits I worked for when I was young were straight up Wyle E. Coyote tier retarded bullshit and I saw a lot of people get SERIOUSLY injured. That's just not for me.

>>18092625
chat anon, chat. theyre forced to work with you, not make small talk

>>18095993
20 lbs is not a lot where I last worked. Big ass hotel trays and stock pots full of hot greasy liquid that you'll likely have to lift over your head, the consolidated trash/recycling/compost that you'll have to take out at the end of the day, or that bucket of disgusting mop water that you'll have to tip over the toilet. Burns and cuts are minor until they aren't and you just can't go home or take a rest when you inevitably get a bad injury. Instead of being sweaty and dusty at the end of the day you're sweaty and greasy. Your hands also get absolutely fucked up with all the hand washing you do but I guess you're never really in mortal danger. I don't know how construction is nowadays but at least it has benefits and vastly better pay where I live.

>>18096036
True, there's some things that will end up being over 20lbs, but there's ways to mitigate that.
All kinds of carts to haul stuff around on so the actual lifting isn't but for just a second, there's no lugging stuff all over the place unless you just want to. Also, stuff like the trash can just be emptied before it gets too heavy.
I guess different joints will have different situations regarding all that, but in general there's more ways to work smarter instead of harder, at least compared to the construction I did back in the day.
The construction I did was dog shit, and the pay wasn't actually better than kitchen work, and there were no benefits. And in the summer it gets up to like 110F. I got heat exhaustion so many times that I just can't WORK my body out in that bullshit anymore. It just saps my strength in no time, but in a climate controlled kitchen, I can go all day like a machine. If I start getting overheated in the hot part of the kitchen, I can go to the walk-in to recover.

>>18095869
It's just like a restaurant. Bunch of losers arguing and bad takes all around

>>18096047
At least you get to have a social life working in construction. Being scheduled to close 5-6 days a week is mad depressing. I also have to admit that scrubbing, wiping down every little surface and taking the trash out by myself at the end of multiple full shifts with only one 15 minute break was back breaking work for me. You can do it all smart but at the end of the day it's still a large volume of manual labor. If you're particularly reliable, skilled or hard working you'll just be given more responsibilities and be expected to take up the slack from the lazy fucks that have tenure. At this point I'm just complaining since I'm sure there are plenty of kitchens out there that are well managed. Construction is pretty fucking hard too but if I could do it all again I'd probably just go into construction because it opens more doors. I also hate cooking now. Oops.

LINEY LINEY
LUNCH AND DINEY
HOLD THE ONIONS, 8-TOP'S WHINEY
prep is finished, has free-timey
kitchen dirty, never shiny

prep goes home, has lots of fun
liney's work is never done
prep forgot to mince cilantro,
chef needs you to fix it pronto
wait-staff bitching, expo's mad
a problem prep has never had

>>18096126
The social life thing was never a problem for me.
I didn't have one to begin with, so that's no skin off my back. I never really wanted one. What a waste of time.
As far as more responsibilities, I'm fine with that. I was already doing the actually hard stuff. The rest is just piddly shit like record keeping and whatnot. Being the guy that's actually in charge of the kitchen is great. It used to be so frustrating to see a situation steering toward a bad outcome and not being able to right the ship. Now I can just be like "HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO".
When it comes to the cleaning bit, I'm OCD as fuck to begin with, that's something that comes naturally.
The 'having a gorillion little things to do and having to rush around implementing a complex dance of specific functions in a specific amount of time' part is, to me at least, the exact same sensation as playing fast paced FPS vidya.

>>18096145
Glad you enjoy it friend. Hope you're a good boss. I would have stuck around a bit longer if the kitchen was ran better. The pay still kinda sucks though.

>>18096135
why is gay hentai usually so much more fetishistic than regular?

I work in a (pastry) production kitchen for a fairly big cafe/restaurant in Melbourne, it feels like an intermediate between a service kitchen and regular 9-5 I guess.

Regular set 5 days (not usually weekends), proper HR with no split shifts but early starts.

The work is not peaks and valleys like services though, you're flat out all day with zero downtime but without the fun/rush. Much more specific knowledge/work and sometimes you feel like a factory worker than a cook.

It's alright.

>>18093322
What do you do, freelance.

Working in a bar is a joke compared to the stuff in this thread

lmao

>>18082653
its a kitchen BRIGADE. Full army experience sans the pay and medicals. Maybe you'll be lucky and step on a mine. Maybe you wont.

Anyone have any experience with working at sushi places? There's this franchise store that makes sushi for takeout opening in my town and I'm planning on applying there for a job

>>18095920
>The real payoff is more of an esoteric /x/ tier thing for me. If it wasn't for that, there's no way I'd be doing it just for the cash.
Care to elaborate?

First job I had after dropping out of college. It can be great in helping you understand how shitty low skill jobs are, and push you in a better direction.

Do NOT let yourself become a kitchen lifer. Do it for no more than a year, go back to college, get a trade or join the military.
>>18087512
Are you me?

>>18093322
Uncle Ruckus 10 job having ass nyagga

>>18096079
>bad takes all around
What's your take then since you're obviously so ascended?

>>18097136
>join the military
Why so you can be a cook for 4 years with no way to quit

>>18097136
>join the military

>>18083122
Is working in a kitchen like it is in the movies, the heat, the pressure, the screaming? Or is that just Hollywood theatrics?

>>18098729
>the heat
yes
>the pressure
yes
>the screaming
not really because customers/corpo/hi's hearing you yell can you get you in trouble and most people don't want managers on their ass

>>18088054
haha the absolute cope on this loser.

>>18082653
it fucking sucks and you'll want to kill yourself within 3 months of starting, triple this if you are over the age of 27 and/or working with people who aren't good company or at a corporate place

i'd literally rather overdose in an alley than return to kitchen labor

>>18094193
>G-Grow up kid!!!!!

The deniability is strong on this one, I'll give him that. Gives me peace in mind that your life will undeniably spiral out of control in a few years or so. Lmao.

>>18098729
The screaming eventually becomes nothing because of the tinnitus you will develop. Have fun waking up hearing ringing and mistaking it for the ticket machine going off or someone calling you on a cell phone.

>>18088127
hehe yeah daddy government will eventually fuck you softly if you let them assrape you on tips they'd otherwise never hear or see

>>18099625
>people who literally make below minimum wage are given more money to make up for it
>government taxes it
I honestly have no sympathy for government employees. They're outright tyrannical and in no way representative of what we originally meant the United States to be.

>>18095808
A lot are, and they have to find other means of expressing that creativity. There was a point where I was writing songs on my day off, working at the restaurant 12h/d for the other 6 days, and spending a few hours every night playing with food, mixing fancy drinks, or baking funky desserts for my roommates because I just couldn't deal with how close to soul-crushing factory work my job was.
It's part of my side of the contract on any catering, baking or test-kitchen work I do these days that I get to at least talk to the exec about the menu. Some get shitty about it, and I refuse the gig.

>>18099715
oh fuck. WE GOT A EMO HIPSTER ON THE BOARD. Choko milk with your chicken tendies dearie ? How about some cyanide for dessert ?

>>18088198
Thanks for derailing the whole thread. Get some help and go back to r-eddit, faggot.

>>18082653
Don't

>>18100659
Chances are that if you're in North America, you've already purchased or consumed something I've been involved with. That period of frantic depression got me used to working 100+h weeks. I still use that momentum on set, in the studio, and in the kitchen when someone's really in a bind and I'm not locked into anything.
So I'll dye my hair, put on the makeup, and do my stupid, sad little dance routine behind the scenes, and you guys just keep throwing those dollar bills at me. Ok? Ok!

>>18082849
Yea why is this picture accurate? I worked at a winery with a kitchen and had to drive home one line cook 5 times in the year I worked there, he fit this bill exactly

The other guys did too, I just didn't have to drive them home

>>18096758
It really doesnt sound that different from regular line cooks, anon.

>>18087319
Well congrats on that anon, I'm glad for you

>>18082972
contact agencies who handle catering for offices and museums.

>>18100972
TGFO

>>18082653
The short answer: it depends. The show, The Bear, is honestly a good look at both the good and the bad sides. I'm lucky to be working at a chill place where my chef is the owner and specifically trying to make it not like all the shitty places he worked at. I work in an open kitchen so sometimes I get to have customers come up directly and thank me, which can make it worthwhile on its own at times.

Also no don't bang the servers. You do NOT want to deal with their fucking drama. Don't eat where you shit.

>>18098729
Sometimes, yes, most of the time no. Busy friday and saturday nights can get like that for a sec but usually aren't that bad all night. I only have to yell on the line because I work in an open kitchen and have to compete with customers being loud.

>>18093379
Don't be too hard on em, you only see this sort of stuff with kids who are constantly online. Constant regurgitation, of how any sort of age difference in relationships is bad, has rotted their brain. When they inevitably have to start going outside, they'll start to realize that it's completely normal and nobody gives a shit.

>>18100721
>t. seething creepy loser

>>18082653
I like to cook but I don’t do well under stress, would a prep cook be the job for me?

>>18103432
maybe standup comedian

>>18103432
You'd probably be okay as a prep cook until you get better at handling that sort of stress.
It's a unique sort of stress, so some people that don't think they're good under stress do fine, and people that are good under other stresses don't.