Being a cook at a diner in my twenties, in a horribly mismanaged kitchen. I started just as the cook for colder items. Making salads and simple appetizers. It

Being a cook at a diner in my twenties, in a horribly mismanaged kitchen. I started just as the cook for colder items. Making salads and simple appetizers. It was perfectly fine. However it quickly became like Darth Vader's super-star destroyer with people being fired or quitting. So I moved up to expiditing (calling out, tracking, and gathering all the dishes in an order). Then finally to grill cooking hamburgers to order, etc. All in a very short amount of time (within a month) The amount of multitasking needed to work in a chaotic kitchen is insane. Lots of shouting and angry wait staff and customers. Needing to actually cover multiple stations (grill, fryer, etc). Difficulty tracking the status of everything. Eventually I also walked out.