Watching Hell's Kitchen, right now.

@cherokeepatti Yeah, there is a fine line between constructive criticism and just being a dick.

@cherokeepatti It's the way of the commercial kitchen, I miss cooking for a living, the shouts, the screams, insults back and forth, the occasional fist fights.

@NativePortlander1970 You loved the drama of it?

@cherokeepatti I actually did

@NativePortlander1970 Indont hve enough adrenaline to deal with a job like that

@cherokeepatti We thrived on adrenaline, it's what helped us get through rushes.

@cherokeepatti This movie is so accurate
https://youtu.be/HJEsNjH3JT8?si=kkgo7YOcEC7-5nk1

@NativePortlander1970 I am always polite to the workers in restaurants until they serve me a meal so bad that I will never return ever again or the service is lousy. Like the IHOP near here that we used to enjoy. It got ugly and I walked out. The dippy waiter told me he couldn’t let me leave until I paid for my food. I yelled loud in front of all the customers that I only drank water and you never brought my salad and then went to the car and waited for the others to finish.He brought the other food and not mine and then lied and told me they ran out of salad The boy said he heard the cook asking him why he lied to me, apparently they had salad.

@cherokeepatti Sounds like a shitty server that couldn't handle the life behind the scenes, a loner that hopped from joint to joint, unable to find a place that was different from all the rest. I worked at an IHOP 31 years ago as a busser/dishwasher, the servers and cooks loved me because I'd help them whenever they needed it. When a new manager with a stick up his ass fired me, roughly 85% of the staff walked out their next days when they found out.

@NativePortlander1970 This was right after the quarantine when such places were having a hard time finding workers so many were getting unemployment and not wanting to return to the work force. Someone mentioned that it looked like they were hiring people, not just him, from the nearby meth camp to work there. I never wanted to go back there. That restaurant had such a family friendly and a good ambience and good service before Covid and it changed completely that last time we went.

@cherokeepatti Add on top of that the younger generations lack of work ethics, when Millennials started entering the job market the vibes started getting really off kilter. Yeah, the Boomer and my fellow X'ers had a few lazy now and then, with them it was like an epidemic, with the hard workers becoming the rare ones.

@NativePortlander1970 this young guy was a flake and a little lying dipshit, not gonna mince words

@cherokeepatti I think that would be par for the course with his generation.

@NativePortlander1970 I retired in 2008 and we had to workwith these young people every summer when the students left. It would test the patience of angels to work with a group of them. I threatened to walk off the job if they didn’t stop their crap after the supervisor left them with me one day and she chewed their butts.They wanted to play games to evade work and chitchat flirt around and thought they were cute for doing it. And get paid for doing that

@cherokeepatti Michael and Gabriel would have definitely drawn their flaming swords.