Things I Think About In The Morning
How come you never know how much you are appreciated until you leave?
I think that more people would be satisfied with their jobs if they were told on a regular basis how important they were to the company. Bosses tend to forget this small simple fact.
I’ve had more maintenance guys say they were going to miss me than anyone else. Of course, not one person up here at my building has said a word. Wait! I lied…Jerry made me chocolate chip cookies today. I found them on my desk when I arrived. The others won’t say a word though probably because they know they are the reason. The one supervisor wants to throw a party for me on Friday. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen.
A kid I went to school with back in elementary and high school died yesterday from skin cancer. Brian, you will be missed. I was looking forward to seeing him at the reunion too. Stupid sun.
No lunch today as I “work” through it so I can leave at 3:30pm. I’m going to have to make a small side trip. My body is being stupid.
BTW: Today’s word is Stupid.
Oh, so for the first time I actually sat down and watched a full episode of Hell’s Kitchen last night. OMFG!! Funny. Only on reality TV would a kitchen ever be set up that way. You’re lucky if you only have one person manning a single station. Most places, it’s one person per two stations. And why isn’t the Chef up in the morning for the prep? That part peeved me a bit. If he were a good chef he would be up with his preps making sure it was prepped right. If you aren’t set up for success, then it doesn’t matter that the food was on time or whatever. That poor woman, who was hit upside the head by that chair during the episode, I would have sued. You NEVER carry a chair above your head through a dining room. (If these people actually worked in a restaurant, you would know this.) I think that before you ever become a Chef you need to work as a server and a host first.
That reminds me of that one guy who had a Bleu diploma on our cook line at Outback. He thought he was hot shit and could do everything because he was a Chef. Managers put him on Grill and he quit before the week was over because it was too much work for him. His medium was not our medium. Sorry, until you have your own business, you have to be adaptive to where you get hired. If they have certain recipes, then you can’t change them. That show is hilarious and I think I’ll keep watching it, if only for the entertainment value.
I think that more people would be satisfied with their jobs if they were told on a regular basis how important they were to the company. Bosses tend to forget this small simple fact.
I’ve had more maintenance guys say they were going to miss me than anyone else. Of course, not one person up here at my building has said a word. Wait! I lied…Jerry made me chocolate chip cookies today. I found them on my desk when I arrived. The others won’t say a word though probably because they know they are the reason. The one supervisor wants to throw a party for me on Friday. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen.
A kid I went to school with back in elementary and high school died yesterday from skin cancer. Brian, you will be missed. I was looking forward to seeing him at the reunion too. Stupid sun.
No lunch today as I “work” through it so I can leave at 3:30pm. I’m going to have to make a small side trip. My body is being stupid.
BTW: Today’s word is Stupid.
Oh, so for the first time I actually sat down and watched a full episode of Hell’s Kitchen last night. OMFG!! Funny. Only on reality TV would a kitchen ever be set up that way. You’re lucky if you only have one person manning a single station. Most places, it’s one person per two stations. And why isn’t the Chef up in the morning for the prep? That part peeved me a bit. If he were a good chef he would be up with his preps making sure it was prepped right. If you aren’t set up for success, then it doesn’t matter that the food was on time or whatever. That poor woman, who was hit upside the head by that chair during the episode, I would have sued. You NEVER carry a chair above your head through a dining room. (If these people actually worked in a restaurant, you would know this.) I think that before you ever become a Chef you need to work as a server and a host first.
That reminds me of that one guy who had a Bleu diploma on our cook line at Outback. He thought he was hot shit and could do everything because he was a Chef. Managers put him on Grill and he quit before the week was over because it was too much work for him. His medium was not our medium. Sorry, until you have your own business, you have to be adaptive to where you get hired. If they have certain recipes, then you can’t change them. That show is hilarious and I think I’ll keep watching it, if only for the entertainment value.