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I have stress dreams about working in a restaurant all the time! It’s insane. I haven’t worked the line in almost 10 years at this point, yet I still have night
by floppydiskette 4y ago
I have stress dreams about working in a restaurant all the time! It’s insane. I haven’t worked the line in almost 10 years at this point, yet I still have nightmares that the tickets are overflowing.
> Do you do recreational drugs? Are you an alcoholic? Do you have a criminal record? Are you in the country illegally? If no, how are you going to deal with the fact that 75% of your coworkers meet one if not all of those criteria?
This resonates so much. I was never able to connect in any long term sense with my coworkers due to these reasons. Not getting drunk or doing other drugs after my shift meant that I wasn’t bonding with my coworkers.
- curuinor 4y agoticket machine for short-order line cooks is the strongest pure example of operant conditioning in work today, I feel.
- moate 4y agoI think I just hit a point in my life where I needed to grow up to get the things I wanted and restaurants aren't a mature place. I got married and wanted a life with my wife, so when I got a seasonal layoff from a beach restaurant I worked at, I took the chance and switched to tech. I loved the late nights and drinking and partying until I didn't, and then I was mostly able to put it all behind me (I still smoke very regularly but much less problematically). I have always been one of the misfit toys, but luckily not in a self-destructive way.