um.... I know how to read hot dog....

[Explosive Misanthropy]

Okay...so I have a slight problem at work....

Half the the people I work with think I am illiterate or just plain ole stupid....

(I work in a retirement home, in the kitchen...well...as a cook.)

 

 

Example:

I am working and the sandwich of the day was hotdog with sourkrout. Well, I put the hotdogs into a steamer in order to cook them, as I have been shown by many other cooks there. Now... I have to send food upstairs to assisted living, and they have to be up there by 1:00, so I a little pressed for time when I have no help...which is usually everyday.

Now, what I did was used the steamed hotdogs for the regular hotdog orders for upstairs....which is what I was shown by other cooks... including the head chef there.

Now, this lady, her name is Kettie, if that is of any importance. She's this selfish Haitian lady, and she's mean sometimes.

Anyway, she pulls aside another cook, and tells him something about the hotdogs. then Greg is like (the cook) "you were supposed to grill these"

I was like, "What? you want me to re-cook 8 hotdogs?"

"no, just next time grill them"

"okay, but I was just doing what I was shown, and told."

and the guy goes away, then Kettie, comes up to me and holds out this paper and is like, "This says hotdog..."

I look at her like, "duh..."

then she says it again... and again....and again... and I think one more time for good measures.

I am pretty pissed off my by now, and I start yelling at her, "I cant flockING Read! I am so sick and flocking tired of you people thinking I am stupid!"

 

That is one problem I had a few days ago....

 

Today, I was making eggs....with toast...and bacon, and you know how I knew all this? the ticket. The server saw me putting it on the plate and was like, "dont forget the toast....oh and that has bacon"

"um....I can read that...." I didnt yell at her....but i wanted to....

 

 

 

Another time I was making some grilled cheese, and it had some ham on it, and 3 people came back and asked if I had made it yet....

I said, "what the hell? I am not as stupid as you guys think I am..... I know that I was supposed to make it...."

 

 

 

I dont understand, whose more stupid, me or the people I work with??

[L.S.D]

ummm, it shouldn't be a big deal.

 

Sandwiches and breads and all these can be made into any kind.

what's the fuss whether you steam the hot dog or grill it?

 

i would still eat it.

[Explosive Misanthropy]

You would think.... but I've already been written up once over club sandwiches.

[Fatal Rose]

You should put poop in a sandwich and feed it to a co worker.

Seriously though, I know how you feel, just try to stay level headed.

[Explosive Misanthropy]

I try everyday...these people are gonna give me an ulcer.

[Weirdy]

add feces into the food

[Sybarite Paladin AxL]

In order for other people to feel good about themselves, they have to put down others. Now, just because you're younger than them and/or a little airheaded or whatever (making assumptions here), you're the prime target. People are and will always be complete cretinoidic morons. Don't mind, in the end they're the retards for going "oh, she can't read so I better explain it to her because I'm such a hot crap"...

[alexis]

Sunrise FL? haaa I was there a couple of months ago...

 

You are working in the kitchen? cool!!! really cool, odn't worry about what people they say, anyway it is a retirement home so they will always be like that, I am 26 and when I visit my home my grandmother still tells me things like "wear a sweater or you are going to catch up a cough", they do not think you are stupid, everyone tends to be like that at that age, it will happen to you too

 

All the other stuff is normal when you work in a kitchen, but all in all it can be very good, even if you feel frustrated don't give up and you eventually will see the reward

[Ryuken]

the hot dog thing, i think that lady was being a biatch about it and over reacted but the grilled cheese thing, maybe u were taking too long so they want to make sure u got it. and maybe ur thinking too much about it. i kid around at work and tell people to hurry up all the time

[Krosigrim]

Well perhaps she is over thinking it... I do the same thing in general, over thinking that is. But there are some issues in that kitchen... First off they see her as a new girl, who is going to college for culinary arts. She doesn't have a uniform for the retirement community, so she wears her chef outfit she wore to the school. There are a few who have shown their colors, and take it out on her, like for instance, she was told to clean this mess, she didn't do, as she was done with her work. (she is only required to clean her knives, and work platform) and so many times various people will bark retarded nonsense, like that hot dog thing. Or say she didn't make sandwiched properly all day, to the boss, when there was only ONE sandwich made incorrectly... This happens more than once a week now, various things, from salads, to soup, to whatever someone wants to blame her for, as to take the blame off them....

 

Thats the problem, they get bitched at everyday, as the Elderly pay 3000 dollars a month to stay there, and they are picky as hell. So the servers get bitched at, if the toast, isn't exactly the particular shade of golden brown they desired. So what do the servers do?! Take it out on the new girl.... But there is one girl in particular, that needs to chill the flock out... Anyway, they biatch at her, when all she is doing, is what she was taught to do in the first place sometimes.....

 

But that is what you get alot in the workforce. What can you do...

[someboddy]

Another time I was making some grilled cheese, and it had some ham on it, and 3 people came back and asked if I had made it yet....

I said, "what the hell? I am not as stupid as you guys think I am..... I know that I was supposed to make it...."

 

They didn't think you are dumb, they've just lost their patience...

[Explosive Misanthropy]

Well, I dont want to quote everybody here.... So... A. I am not airheaded, thank you very much....

B... The servers and other cooks think I am stupid.

C....I do everything at my own pace, which isnt that slow....I am new and I am still learning a lot.

and D. I work for Brookdale

 

Well.... Explain this one:

The salad of the day was Waldorf Salad, and We ran out at dinner time. I had nothing to do, for the sandwich was super easy and no one wanted one for dinner anyway... so I had a lot of free time on my hands. So, they tell me that they're out of salad.... Now, what they LOVE to do to me is tell me when they're out of salads, not before they're all gone....Maybe they like telling me I didn't make enough?

Anyway, I am like, "okay, I'll make some more salad, but you're going to have to wait, cause you told me too late about them."

So I go in the back and I tell them that I have run out of salads and need to make more... Well, this guy Greg, is like "No. I'll make it, you're too slow and I need it done today, not tomorrow." (he said this VERY mean and rudely)

I go in the back and theres no mayo, and what not.... and he freaks out about that, then pulls some out of somewhere else...and they start cutting apples and what not. Well...Just for those who dont know what a Waldorf Salad contains, let me enlighten you....

Apples

Pecans, or walnuts

Whipped cream

Mayo

 

Well, after I am standing at my sandwich unit, for maybe 45 minutes, doing nothing....they come out with the salad... and Greg says to me, " Can you clean this up for me, I need you to."

I say, "uh....I guess so...."

I go back there and look at the sink and work place.....

 

The spoons were covered in crap, they didn't even rinse them, they didn't throw the apples cores away they had strewn them all over the counter, the cutting board was a filthy mess....and the sink....oh god, the sink....there was a film of mayo and whipped cream, coating the whole entire sink.

Now, I am cleaning this mess, and yes, I am pissed off....I am slamming the apple cores into the trash can, and throwing all the utensils into the sink, and mind you, we close the kitchen down at 6:30, and it was 6:45, anyway, I get called into the front of the house, very meanly by one of the serving managers, and she says that they need me up there. SO I go and ask what she needs....."I need salad dressing" I go and get it out of the fridge...because they were too disabled to do it themselves, and I go back to washing up their mess...then she calls me again, and said that she still needed me up there...She say "I said I needed you up here.....[i am standing there looking at her in awe]...What are you doing?? [ I am putting a rag down **it's 6:50**]... Well, if you're going to give me attitude then clock out and go home!"

WHAT? ATTITUDE? I said nothing and looked at her, with a face of awe, I didnt roll my eyes or anything....

I was like, "fine" and turned around and left.

 

 

then the girl who yelled at me wanted me to get fired....they also lied and said that the hot side of the line was busy, and I should have helped instead of standing at my unit.....They lied to my boss, so they wouldn't get in trouble, also they never said anything about that mess they made. Even the head chef was surprised, and it was because of her that I didn't lose my job.

 

 

SORRY FOR TYPING SO MUCH!!!! this just pisses me off to no end....

 

Another time we had club sandwiches, which have 3 pieces of bread on them and we have to toothpick them together.

This other girl, had come up to me at 5:00, and told me that I was doing the sandwiches wrong, then walked away...

At 6:30 she comes back up and someone said, "this sandwich looks like crap" (the bottom piece of bread was askew)

And she says, extremely loud and mean as hell "Well talk to her about it! She's been doing the sandwiched wrong all night, I even came back here and showed her how to fix them!"

I said "F*ck off" she's like, "what? dont talk to me like that"

I tell her" you did not come back her and show me how to fix them, you told me they were wrong!" and she just bitched at me and bitched at me, and I had enough, and said flock you and left.

 

I got written up. She didn't. My bosses way of justifying this was saying that she had to deal with the residents complaining.... I didn't mention this, cause I was in too much shock from being written up, but I was there for 12 and a half hours..... Working the F*cking line all by myself the whole day, and I don't have the right to biatch at someone whose being a cvnt?

 

whatever...I am honestly on the verge of suing them for discrimination. It's not only one person there, it's more than half the staff. And I still have my job because the manager left and we have a new guy now...

[L.S.D]

Just leave and find a new job. I would not be that patient to take craps from people.

[Rawrthness]

Just leave and find a new job. I would not be that patient to take craps from people.

 

Exactly... I'd be like you people keep thinking I'm some kind of flocking retard... why don't you do it then have fun and walk out.

[Skythe]

Cut them up and serve them. Hannibal style.

 

I got written up once for safety hazard, work negligence and insubordination because I wore shorts and both my work trucks were dead as a door knob. My department head found me sitting at the shop waiting on the mechanic and though I was fvcking off. He found out cuz someone took a picture of me sitting in the shop and emailed it to my department head making it look like I was sleeping. Anywho. He refused to listen to what I had to say about why I can't go to work and put me on probation for 6 months (I finally got off of it on christmas day) which pissed me off for the fact that I didn't get evaluation during the summer time like I should have thus not getting my crappy yearly raise. So now I'm working at getting my next job, I'm currently waiting. I know I'm getting it just have to wait for the position to finally be open.