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My brother, when he lived in a America for a year, ended up on a Kitchen Nightmares type of show. He was told to cook a meal for the host to try and my brother was coached to say that the meal was shit, bland, etc. They made up lies about roaches/rats being in the kitchen but my brother… Read More

Number 4 is a reference to the game Silent Hill 2.

Customers who expected the chefs to be able to serve them. I would be stopped multiple times when I happened to be walking through the restaurant to grab something from the dry storage where we kept extra product that didn't fit in the kitchen. People never seemed to clue into the… Read More

Mars Attacks scared the hell out of me as kid. My family pitched it to me as a comedy movie and most of them laughed a lot while watching it while I was freaking traumatised by that shit. I still get freaked out thinking about those aliens and never want to watch it ever again. Also,… Read More

I had a male coworker who I was on pretty friendly terms in the workplace but I never talked to him outside of it. Never wanted to, I wasn't interested in so much as being his friend but remained civil within the workplace because we worked pretty closely together. Once I'd had a… Read More

Eh, not really all that broken up about First Kill. When I first heard the premise of the show I was excited but when I actually watched it I thought it was not that good. It could've been and I really, really tried to enjoy it but the terrible dialogue really put me off in the end… Read More

Worked in a restaurant where damn near every server was sleeping with each other. One of them was a chick who had a long-distance fiance but said she was so in love with the bar manager and that he was her soulmate. I never had the heart to tell her that this guy she's so in love… Read More

but to me this is a really job. I get paid and have the time to actually have a life outside of working. I'm genuinely happy with how things are and I wish people weren't so fixated on me changing that because to them working in a supermarket is demeaning, I guess? I don't get the… Read More

I really wanna double down on #2 and how it literally saved my life. I went from working in a restaurant to working in a supermarket, at the restaurant my mental health tanked because I had no time to do any kind of self-care or therapy and it was basically a 24-7 grind. I had negotiated… Read More

My old boss wanted me to eventually get promoted to a chef de partie and I'd been working as the dishwasher for months and barely had any restaurant experience as my only experience back then was one job at a small cafe as a kitchen hand, which is a much different ballpark compared… Read More