• @[email protected]
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    165 months ago

    What do you think of someone posting a vague question and not interacting with any of the replies?

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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      45 months ago

      I think someone asking in sincerity and not pushing an agenda will not interact with most replies due to the risk of steering the conversation.

  • Waldowal
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    I have a few friends in the industry. If you are talking about cooking, my opinion of it is mostly negative. Sure, there are many good chefs, but unfortunately, the job is a magnet for people that really wanted to do something else with their life and failed. Those same people are often drug addicts, alcoholics, or just not great people. So, you work with alot of problematic and troubled people. Coworkers being out for prison sentences is common. The pay is not great because there are soooo many people doing it.

    Sure, you could find a job at the nicest restaurant in town and avoid some of that, but think about how many of those restaurants there are in your town - compared to how many people in the world think they can cook. It’s like winning the lottery to get that job.

    • Makhno
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      Damn this reads like it was written by the parent of a 17 year old host that got fired 😂

      You need to go out more if you think kitchen staff are such lowly pieces of shit lol.

      Good chance your lawyer is addicted to xans. Doctors get friends to write them scripts for narcotics all the time. Cops are notorious alcoholics.

      Rehabs are full of white collar druggies. They’re just more palatable to people who like to clutch their pearls

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    75 months ago

    It can be a good job, it can be a great career, it can also be a quick descent into substance abuse.

    Fuck culinary schools, though; those places are predatory and don’t teach you much about actually working in a kitchen.

    • @[email protected]
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      Can confirm. Was a waiter for about 6 months. Everyone there at the very least smoked cigs, weed, drank, and got completely shitfaced almost everyday after the shift. I imagine for cooks they could do it during their shift. Heard meth and crack are very popular too but I never seen it myself.

      I think it’s the combo of the stress, the low salary, and high turnover. The ones that stay develop coping mechanisms. I imagine a few get lucky and get to work at fancy places too.

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    55 months ago

    In theory, so wonderful. I like food and willing to pay to not have to cook and clean.

    In practice, it’s tough like any retail sort of job, if you run a business like that it is your whole life. I worked swing shift at a unionized restaurant, it was fine except for the turnover in management and then paying me less than the men who did the same job but easier shifts.

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    When it is about food, it becomes bad as soon as it grows from one ‘kitchen’ to an ‘industry’.

    They care more about making money than about eating quality. They include poisonous chemicals and think about legal limits instead of leaving the stuff out. They put in stuff that nobody in his right minds would want to eat, just because stuff is cheaper than food.

  • Bear
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    I love food and home cooking. Eating out is expensive and most of the time I want to know my food doesn’t have any unfamiliar ingredients.

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    25 months ago

    I love it. It’s a shame it’s as abusive and shitty as it is, but I love it regardless.

    Unfortunately, my body can’t support it. If it could, that’s what I’d be doing with my life.