• Beangut@lemmy.world
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    7 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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      7 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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      7 days ago

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