A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant

Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by QuantumGood on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @01:53PM (#41382209)

I washed dishes in a downtown tower with four restaurants, all sharing one kitchen. The output of the dishwasher took four people, mostly because delivering the dishes across the huge kitchen distances was time consuming. I had a lot of generalized anxiety, and so I liked complex physical challenges. I eventually replaced all four dishwashers. Took a lot of intense speed and strategic dish delivery. I came very close to the dishes coming out going back into the loading area again, and that's where I needed the greatest speed. Over the years I've found other people also dealt with their anxiety by seeking out intense sports or sports-like physical activities that facilitated seeking higher and higher levels of mastery.

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Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by patrickmay on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:15PM (#41383146)

> I came very close to the dishes coming out going back into the loading area again, and that's where I needed the greatest speed.

I had trouble parsing this and got a vision of you meeting yourself coming out of the loading area.

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Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by vyrotek on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:19PM (#41383183)

Dunkin Donuts commercial

"Time to make the donuts"

"I already made the donuts"

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Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by aj7 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:03PM (#41383017)

Very cool comment.

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Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by booleandilemma on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:12PM (#41384994)

Did you feel guilty about the other 4 guys losing their jobs?

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Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by QuantumGood on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:30PM (#41385156)

Three others, and none were lost. One was the nephew of my boss, who was allowed to just go sit in a break room pretty much any time. The other two just hung around looking busy whenever the boss came by. The cooks knew what was going on but didn't say anything. Eventually, my boss figured it out and assigned me to clean pots and baking racks in the bakery. Dysfunctional place for dishwashers.

She told me I could be an assistant baker and get a raise if I learned everything the two bakers could teach. When they day came they said "there's nothing more to teach you" (there was a lot more, but not for an "assistant"). I told my boss and she literally ran out of her office, me running after her, ran into the bakery shouting "he thinks he knows everything!".

No assistant baker job for me. I moved on the next day.

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Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by melagonster on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:24PM (#41385892)

>"He thinks he knows everything!"

God, this is crazy. If she relies on proficient people, she must trust them. I cannot understand her motivation—just for fun or cruel?

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Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by maxbond on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @09:19PM (#41386264)

I've met some employers who dangle these sorts of things in front of people, probably telling themselves that they are being sincere, but when the time comes to deliver there's always a new goalpost. They have the same motivation as any manipulator, to take from you as much time and energy as you can be cajoled into giving.

Obviously I wasn't there, but that would be my suspicion. GP responded to being shamed appropriately. There are times in my life when I have been the sucker who feels compelled to double down. Perhaps it's a form of sunk cost falacy.

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Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant by QuantumGood on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @09:54PM (#41386466)

Her position was due to nepotism, I believe, and so her personality problems weren't disqualifying. The other person who cleaned trays was a kind of diversity hire, an adult with the maturity of a four year old or so. So I don't think "motivated employee does good work" was in her common experience. The bakers and cooks knew to keep their heads down around her. I was playing in the U.S. Open (chess) at the time, so I welcomed some time off (and then pursued other work).

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