• nullspace@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    You learn to get good at peeling eggs when you have another grown man threating to stab you to death if you don’t do it fast enough.

    EHHHHHHHH 😰

    -A chef

    Oh, okay.

    • Beangut@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      I went back to a desk job recently and I’m not used to how cordial and polite everyone is.

      I kinda miss it, maybe I have a masochist side I don’t know about.

      • StickyDango@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        Likewise. I part time health inspect and part time desk job, and the contrast is night and day. In one job, it’s a game as to figuring out how many lies they’ve told me and where things are hidden (found a big knife once wedged underneath a steel prep bench??? Found a toilet cistern once mounted on the walk-in cooler wall to catch the condensate???), and the other is crunching numbers and other money things.

        Kinda miss going in to as many restaurants as I used to finding the weirdest things (male fertility medication in the kitchen???) and hearing the weirdest excuses.

        The best and the worst.

      • Wren@lemmy.todayOPM
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        20 days ago

        Former chef here, too. It’s hard to get motivated without the threats.